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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 7h

That would be awesome.

Side Note: I know Never Hike Alone dabbled a little in found footage for Friday the 13th, but could you imagine a whole movie like that?

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 15h

We even made up episode ideas like someone stealing Pamela’s head causing Jason to rampage from the forest to the town square or or one where one of the bullies at Crystal Lake circa 1959, now an old man, is forced into encountering Jason when he targets his granddaughter and her friends.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 15h

Jason acting as the monster that comes out every now & then when he’s disturbed by an outsider or someone from within who tries to end the violence, & he represents the failings of the town. They failed Pamela and Jason, created an unstoppable killer, and have tried to bury any accountability since.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 15h

Me and my wife have a Friday the 13th show pitch:

“What if Jason meets Twin Peaks?”

A whole town that knows about Jason and because they have no way of actually stopping him, they treat him like a territorial animal to be left alone, and come to terms with that and the dead he’s left behind.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 16h

Also apparently Jason almost looked like this under the hockey mask.

I kind of dig it.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 16h

If Jason Goes to Hell established that Jason got his powers from the Evil Dead’s Necronomicon, what if Freddy had a secret origin connected to another horror series too?

Maybe he’s a runaway from the Cenobites like Frank.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 17h

It’s one of the best looking films in both franchises, there’s an almost tongue-and-cheek flavor to the cliched characters & slasher tropes, the deaths are creative, the metal soundtrack shreds, Robert Englund/Ken Kerzinger are in top form as the killers, & the final title fight is savage.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 18h

Revisiting Freddy vs Jason tonight as I’ve been in a strong Friday the 13th mood this month.

And, even though the characters were a little more layered and I do wish the dreams were more creative, not adhering so much to the scaled-down style of the first NoES, this movie still kicks ass.

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晴晴 @sachinteng.bsky.social · 1d

One last thing before I clock out for a couple weeks. Frankenstein 科学怪人 poster I did a few months back for CODA's Universal Monsters Gallery Show opening tonight in Los Angeles, CA and in Austin, TX. Check it out if you're in either city! Thanks as always to CODA for having me~

A black and white screen printed poster of Frankenstein (1931). The Monster carries the lifeless body of Maria, a little girl he befriends and tosses daisies into a river with her. He accidentally kills her by throwing her into the water where she drowns. Now he walks with her body in his hands through the forest at the riverside, as her body slowly disintegrates into daisies. All of the poster's text is in Traditional Chinese.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

He’s the Ash Williams of scifi

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

…ok, how is it that Audition and Ichi the Killer didn’t do much for me, but THIS is the Miike project I clicked with?

This was BRUTAL, and I really dug it, way more than I expected to.

Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

Right now I’m on Takashi Miike’s Imprint.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

Before that it was Argento’s Jenifer.

Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

Right now I’m on Takashi Miike’s Imprint.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

Finn was shown how a place like Canto Bight, a type of place he’s never been to because he was stolen as a kid, accrued its luxury, relating to his past, & Rey was attracted to the idea of him being like Vader, someone she could redeem, only to have reality throw that in her face (until TROS).

Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

“…that is unless we get cold feet, throw out the original draft and all of its ideas for the third film that would’ve been a natural coda for this trilogy to end on, and go to Reddit for answers on how to ‘fix’ it, then it is going to go the way you think…only dumber.”

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

TFA and TLJ I felt complimented each other well. The first being the crowd-pleasing return to form with familiar elements to the OT, and the second being the meta rug-pull that’s there to say “This isn’t going to go the way you think, but that’s ok because we’re trying to forge a new legend.”

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

Which kind of sort of has that theme going for it, but in a far more cheap, pandering way that just does Return of the Jedi with a little bit of Empire but unfathomably dumber.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

The thesis I’ve stuck to is the line from Maz in TFA:

“The belonging you seek is not behind you, it is ahead.”

Character’s fixated on the past, coming off the heels of legends, trying to carve a new path forward.

And what might’ve emboldened that theme with DotF, we instead got TROS.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

Another I’ve seen, just now in fact, is John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns.

Didn’t quite like this one as much as Black Cat, but I still unexpectedly enjoyed it as a piece of modern Carpenter that felt like his older work, specifically In the Mouth of Madness and its elements of Lovecraftian horror.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

Just an entertainingly gothic and darkly comedic spiral into madness that only Gordon and Combs could’ve delivered.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the Black Cat episode of Masters of Horror that starred Jeffrey Combs as Edgar Allan Poe & was directed by Stuart Gordon.

I only found out about it this past week, &, after seeing it, I wish this got to be feature length instead of a 50 min episode because damn was this near perfect.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 2d

No problem.

There are some ew writers in the mix, so be aware.

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Revenge of the Man-Thing’s Menagerie of Malevolent Monsters @adventurin2fear.bsky.social · 2d

I collected a lot of Riddler comics in 2022.

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