Paul Merrill

Someone please make this movie IMMEDIATELY.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Creepy cartoon fun! 👻🎃
In THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1929), #MickeyMouse faces a swarm of skeletons who make him play the organ — with some animation from THE SKELETON DANCE! 💀🐭

More spooky season ⤵️
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#Halloween #SpookySeason

Day 28 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge This is jeopardy (must solve clues)— A GAGGLE OF GALLOPING GHOSTS (Scooby Doo, Where Are You? 1969) No ghosts OR galloping, but lots of cool monster designs in this episode from the great first season of Scooby Doo.

Day 27 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Trancing and Hypnotism —ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) “I’m something of a wolf myself!”

Our all-16mm SECRET VAULT OF TORMENT is this Tues Oct 28 @ 7pm at NW Film Forum. We’re showing a bonkers secret mid-‘30s horror feature + a bunch of spooky shorts. Our feature’s an orig “SHOCK!” TV print. Here’s some pgs from the series’ 1958 pressbook. Tix & info: sprocketsociety.org/coming-soon/

Day 22 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Wreck Tangle (features a car crash)—THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1962) One of our favorites, I’m still amazed how gruesome (and horny!) this is for its time. A lot of bang for your buck, which is also how much this cost to make.

Day 21 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Twinners Circle—BLOOD RAGE (1983/1987) Might be the first horror movie I’ve seen without a single moment of mystery or suspense. Louise Lasser is fantastic, though. I would love a supercut of just her weird improvised scenes.

Tell the backhoe guy he's getting arrested in 2029.

Big hairy beast with a mustache standing next to the Mariner Moose.

Calling in the big guns today. Go #mariners !

Day 19 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge The Abandoned Place—THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973) Is this a ripoff of the far superior The Haunting? Yes. Is it still awesome to see them try to kill a ghost with a giant computer? Hell yes!

Day 18 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Video Store Day!—LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (2023) Rented from the legendary Scarecrow Video in Seattle, where my wife and I met as co-workers about 100 years ago. Saw lots of old friends there today—and the movie was pretty good too!

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

King Friday XIII from Mister Rogers Neighborhood

No Kings includes this asshole

Day 17 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge The Watchening (title must end with “ing”) —THE HAUNTING (1963) One of the few times that a perfect book was adapted into a perfect movie (which later inspired a shitty remake and an even shittier Netflix series, but I digress).

AI is like cheating off the guy next to you on a test, then realizing they are even dumber than you.

Day 16 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Sequelar Subtitular (sequel with a silly name) —THE HOWLING II:YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF (1985) The title is the least crazy part of this jaw-dropping wackadoodle trainwreck/masterpiece.

Or position 3: Fuck off with your bad faith arguments meant to make yourself feel better

Day 15 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Goes Without Saying (little to no dialogue) —THE SKELETON DANCE (1929) + SKELETON FROLIC (1937) Needed to keep it short tonight so we went with a couple of classics from cartoon genius Ub Iwerks.

Day 14 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Shut the Face Up (TV cut of an R-rated movie) —THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957) Ok, this one was really hard so we sorta cheated and watched the MST3k version which, while not technically rated R, did contain a nearly nude giant?

Day 13 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Hollywood Back (made by or starring indigenous people) —CLEARCUT (1991) Graham Greene is magnificent in this Very Canadian horror movie.

A comparative breakdown of professional wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino and all around piece of shit Christopher Columbus

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Day 12 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Morose Code (gothic) —THE OTHERS (2001). Beautiful and absolutely terrifying. Nicole Kidman genuinely seemed like she was losing her mind, probably because she was still married to Tom Cruise! (That would have killed on Leno 24 years ago)

around two years ago i made the point that genAI technologies were a fascist project designed to undermine facts, truth and history and so here is some slop machine humiliating a hero of the american civil rights movement

Day 11 of the @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social #SCVpsychochallenge Dystopian Future—LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964). Like COVID, except with vampires, and Vincent Price as Dr. Fauci.

But at least we got to see A-rod talk about how great this was for the city of Seattle 😳