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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 1d

Now me, I'm always fully stocked up on fog machine fluid, fake blood and sexy pirate wench costumes, but I understand that not everyone has my homemaking skills, so you might need to place an emergency delivery this month.

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know who needs to hear this but on Instacart you can get 1 hour delivery from Spirit Halloween.

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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve officially launched! Lots of ways to support this new initiative that supports street vendors from 🧊 we keep us safe!

Interest form and flyer below! #BikeChi

forms.gle/dY931Sxzs6V9...

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 1d

Still alive and kicking and showing NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD tonight, is that just the best

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 1d

grandview theater, st. paul, minnesota, 1978

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 1d

Pour out the Malört for a real one

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 1d

RIP actor & Chicago native Ron Dean.

He interrogated Dr. Richard Kimble in THE FUGITIVE, he dropped Andy off at detention in THE BREAKFAST CLUB, he was shot by Harvey Dent in THE DARK KNIGHT, he was Marty Crane's poker buddy on FRASIER, and so much more.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3d

Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas,
94.3 × 84.5 cm (37 1/8 × 33 1/4 in.), Art Institute of Chicago

"Morris Kantor drew inspiration from the material culture of historical New England—ladder-back chairs, colonial portraiture, marine painting, wallpaper—in this fantastical rendering of a supposedly haunted house in rural Massachusetts. A shadowy figure lurks at the composition’s darkened right edge, an unknown presence encroaching on the comforts of the sitting room. Kantor later recalled that such a setting, with “its peculiar moldy smell, the fading beauty of old plaster discolored by time and living … turned my imagination to the past, to the people who had lived there and gone.” A Russian immigrant, the artist engaged with the stories and objects of American history as catalysts for his Surrealist, dreamlike musings." -AIC

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sure it’s a fine movie, but there’s no way you’re getting me to watch a horror movie with a main character who is a dog who is constantly in peril. I almost walked out of the theater in the middle of ANATOMY OF A FALL (this is not a joke). I cannot do it. You cannot make me.

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 3d

I like it because it works either way as a log costume or the cat's own Log Lady costume.

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 3d

Seconded, "unglamorous and disturbing" is the perfect description for that film and I find it far more compelling.

Dracula’s Dog’s Groomer (1979) @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · 4d

the reviews are out and it seems like the new Ed Gein series is real bad, so I feel duty bound to recommend 1974’s DERANGED instead. It’s as close to a Gein biopic as we’ve ever gotten, it is unglamorous and disturbing, and it is a fine film tbh

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 3d

Ordered a pair of glasses for a Log Lady Halloween costume so I'm locked in now. I originally wanted to dress up my cat as the log but so far my attempts to find a log pet costume have proved fruitless (please do not suggest that I make one, I assure you that will not happen).

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 5d

Watching MAC AND ME in 4K because it proves God doesn’t exist. It’s an affront to God so heinous that he literally can’t exist if it is real. God isn’t dead, death presumes life. We are the result of infinite possibilities not grand design. Death is not celebrated because we are afraid of our truth.

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 5d

Made it

Sign reading “WAKE IN FRIGHT” over the entryway to a dark, vintage theater.

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 6d

Heading home from São Paulo tonight and a few hours after I land at O’Hare I’m planning to get to the Music Box for WAKE IN FRIGHT, what better state than delirious from an overnight, cross-hemisphere flight in which to watch a hallucinatory descent into Australian madness, love this plan for me.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity

MESA, AZ—Gleefully describing the inevitable day when society would collapse and digital files would become unusable, local physical media collector David Campbell confirmed Wednesday he was “absolute...

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 6d

We laugh about Carpenter being in his weed and video games era (and good for him) but there are very good reasons he might have gotten sick of the industry. It screwed him over repeatedly and even though he eventually got his genre flowers, he is still obscenely underrated as a serious filmmaker.

caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 7d

Just thinking about how THE THING came within shouting distance of ending John Carpenter's career.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 9d

let the gourd times roll

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9d

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely harrowing. What a picture.

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 8d

Literally not one single thing has changed

Ben 🏳️‍🌈 @bvigeant.bsky.social · 9d

Filling out my certificate of awareness from 1927.

Certificate of Awareness

I AM a Chicagoan.

I DO know my Chicago.

I HAVE been to the Art Institute.

I have NOT seen the Union Stock Yards.

I WILL stick with Chicago if Illinois secedes.

I MUST have my fortnightly copy of The aware Chicagoan delivered to me regularly by mail, at your absurdly democratic price of $3 for 26 issues, and my name IS:

(Address).

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 11d

Bom dia from São Paulo, where the the most pressing question is how much coffee and pão de queijo can one woman consume in one week, let’s find out

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▲▼▲▼▲▼ @arajay.com · 15d

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

a boxcar with graffiti parody of the nine inch nails album cover art for "pretty hate machine" but it says "nine inch rails pretty freight machine"

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 14d

1. I love this film.
2. I love the Criterion edition of it, which is gorgeous.
3. The Criterion edition also has a doc of the 1989 cast/crew reunion, where director Herk Harvey (pictured) speaks on a panel in full ghoul makeup alongside the rest of the cast who look totally normal and it's terrific.

Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 14d

On this day in Horror History, CARNIVAL OF SOULS was released in 1962.

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S.H. C🎃🎃per @pippinacious.bsky.social · 14d

Hey, guys, bad news. Just been to the void and it's closed to any new screams. Apparently it's overflowing so we've gotta find somewhere else to unburden ourselves into the ether. I might try the abyss next, but I hear if you scream long enough, it'll start screaming back, which, y'know, fair.

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 15d

“You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.”

HBD, Mark Rothko ...

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Jen Myers @antiheroine.bsky.social · 16d

As far as I know, the only Chicago movie that features, however briefly, shots of Carol's Pub, the Philadelphia Church "Jesus Saves" sign, and the 22 Clark Street bus. Northside icons, all of them.

Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 16d

On this day in Horror History, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1986.

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