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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃

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Imagining a boot stamping on a human face forever and easily rotating it in three dimensions with my high IQ. Still up and moving around, taking nourishment.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 6d

WE'RE BACK BABY! Horror in the real world can't stop the horror on the screen! My October festival returns! I'll be trying to keep the movies in one thread so if you don't want to follow along with me then miss out and mute the ghoulies! Last year I believe I made it to 99! Suggestions welcome!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Isk @iskaudiir.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think about this all the time

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 14h

19. Dance or Die (1987) - Despite a horror tag, this one turned out to be more action thriller. The hero wants to dance and choreograph but he gets wrapped up in a cocaine and corruption scandal and must fight off assassins while trying to stage his blood-soaked dance show. Pretty fucking funny.

This is the hero's cocaine dealing roommate and he has incredible drips every time he is on screen.

1987 Las Vegas, or at least the strip, is pretty much a character in the movie.

There was way more dancing in this than I expected.

The director apparently discovered a shotgun that can shoot fake blood at people and uses it to knock off about 20 people in the movie.

👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 14h

18. Under the Shadow (2016) - Set in Tehran in the 80s, a mother contends with the Islamic guidance patrol and sharia judges as well as Iraqi missiles and a ghostly entity haunting her missile damaged building. The creature in this was very cool and genuinely scary at a couple points.

Never lose track of your daughter's favorite doll.

Movie monsters that change shape and exhibit a variety of powers can be lame but this one worked with the omnipresent double oppressions of war and conservative religion in a very effective way.

A little girl screams as she looks up into a beam of light shining down through a hole in the ceiling.

Shideh's love of Jane Fonda workout videos is one of her recurring acts of rebellion.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 22h

a cowboy with a six shooter in front of a trans flag with the text "WHOA THERE PARDNER! round these parts we don't stand for that there kind of TRANSPHOBIC NONSENSE"

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 3d

10. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) - Osgood's Satanic "The Holdovers" with two girls alone with a couple nuns at girls' school during winter break as dread and evil worms its way among them. This is intercut with a girl escaping from an insane asylum and hitchhiking. A few grisly moments.

This is one of the bright and cheery scenes from the movie.

Our two stranded girls waiting to see the priest in charge.

Somebody slumps in a dark hallway next to a standing figure. Probably a slip and fall accident.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 3d

9. WNUF Halloween Special (2013) - A perfect recreation of a VHS tape of a 1980s Halloween local news broadcast and haunted house special complete with SO MANY commercials. Barely tries for horror, but perfectly recreates the TV stuff. Sort of the opposite of Late Night with the Devil.

The Halloween news broadcast hooked me from the first minutes.

The haunted house/seance stuff sacrifices any possible tension or creepiness to an endless cavalcade of commercial breaks.

And the commercial breaks are usually worth it, even when they repeat commercials a couple times.

About a third of the commercials are Halloween themed and about two-thirds are just random and totally spot on late night local TV commercials.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

When a cop does something like this people should appreciate it because this his how civil wars are averted sometimes. The soldiers and police standing with the regime decide they can't take it and cross over to stand with the protestors.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 3d

8. Strange Invaders (1983) - A riff on 1950s alien invasion films featuring Paul Le Mat and Nancy Allen. Some great New York stuff in this, great supporting cast including Wallace Shawn, and lots of good goopy alien mask ripping, and a "monster kills a kid" scene only topped by 1988's Blob remake.

The giant alien mothership hovers over rural Illinois.

Imagine a kid deflating to this while screaming in agony.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 4d

7. 28 Years Later (2025) - Boyle returns to his zombies, using iPhones and making an EXTREMELY British version of a zombie movie all about islands and isolation. Beautiful, cheeky, but it never forgets it's a gory horror movie. In an overcrowded subgenre, it brings some new things. Great head rips.

Erik the Swedish commando prepares to board a train where no problems will occur for him.

Our child protagonist Spike and his dad flee from some rage zombies.

Ralph Fiennes shows up to take over the movie and hands out skulls as gifts.

Lots of little details like this mask show the culture that has formed over the 28 years of a Very British Apocalypse.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

I knew it had a crazy tumultuous production with the producers fucking it all up. I will try to watch the doc that Vinegar Syndrome put out about it after October.

👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

17. Spookies (1986) - Plays out like a bad game where a pasty vampire(?) guy with weird henchmen uses a chess board and a ouija board to move his monsters around to kill off a group of interlopers in his creepy mansion. This borders on nonsense, but it has some great and/or hilarious monsters.

The mastermind commanding his spookies to spook or whatever it is he is doing.

Our heroes, I guess. You will not care if any of these numbskulls die.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

16. The Burbs (1989) - Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher lead a great cast in this suburban paranoia horror comedy with emphasis on comedy. Joe Dante mixes the wacky with the creepy again but it lacks the madcap energy of Gremlins and never quite pays off. Looks fantastic and is quite a bit of fun.

Tom Hanks with Theodore Gottlieb. Gottlieb is a really odd character, used to go on Letterman and do this intense monologue that he also repeats in Massage Parlor Murders verbatim.

The ladies get relegated somewhat as the guys are the ones doing all the snooping but they have a couple good scenes.

The gang deals with the garbage men. It's character actor heaven.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

No, but it sounds neat! I'm adding it to the list!

👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is and yeah I loved this one. I watched it like three times last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_z...

Betty Boop - Bimbo's Initiation (1931)

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 1d

Bimbo's Initiation

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky engineers when their website is successful

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 2d

I would have liked to see more of the Russian stuff, because the idea of her getting these creepy instructional videos is pretty compelling on its own, but I think if we saw much more it would probably end up making the movie worse.

👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 2d

15. Bring Her Back (2025) - After watching Talk to Me, this was my #1 draft pick for this Halloween season and it did not disappoint. Sally Hawkins and the child actors are incredible in this tale of loss, foster parents, and watching DIY youtubes. There are some real gruesome scenes in this.

Of course when you search for a how to video it was filmed on a potato.

Let's have some fun! Returning home for a good time!

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 2d

14. I Saw the TV Glow (2024) - Synthwave horror of outcast teens smothered by the life-draining normality of the world struggling to escape their lives with a TV show called Pink Opaque. Reminded me of the Matrix by way of Channel Zero. Great appearance by Connor O'Malley. The end is devastating.

Best use of an ice cream truck since Assault on Precinct 13?

Did Fruitopia really have vending machines this dope?

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 2d

13. Beware! The Blob (1972) - An insane sequel to The Blob directed by Larry Hagman. Parts feel improvised, other parts feel like terrible ideas. Bonkers score. Not the slightest bit scary but also not intentionally funny. You'll know if this is worth watching from the first two minutes or so.

The lead couple desperately needed to become blob chow.

No joke this guy died from sitting on the blob.

Not even the lord can save us from this movie.

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👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃 @frownt.bsky.social · 2d

12. The Monster (1925) - More like "the guy" but the guy is Lon Chaney so it's still pretty good. He's a mad scientist waylaying travelers in the most Looney Tunes way imaginable (scaring them in their cars by lowering a mirror onto the road) and then taking them for his weird experiments.