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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

I had that fear, too. I'm nine hours away from Chicago, and if it had only been playing there, I might still have gone. But probably not.

Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

This is that John Collier story, Evening Primrose, that Sondheim turned into a musical TV special in the 1960s, isn't it?

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

Bought my tickets for Del Toro's Frankenstein at the Hi Pointe in St. Louis on Friday night. It's a three hour drive and, believe me, I'd rather not, but my local theaters have all failed me.

(When @realgdt.bsky.social posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).

Still from Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein in which Victor (Oscar Isaac) sits by a window and writes. The shot takes after one of Bernie Wrightson's illustrations for Frankenstein.

Pen and ink illustration from Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson in which Victor sits by a tall window writing.

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

(why, yes, I WILL delete posts in order to correct their grammar.).

Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

Skylark or Yellow Dog? They both support trans authors (though Yellow Dog is mostly used). Our local comics store is owned by a trans masc enby, too. Columbia is kind of a hotbed of trans activity

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

the thing that really floors me is taking the mark of the beast onto one's forehead. It's just too easy.

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

I'm shocked, SHOCKED! that gambling it going on here!

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 2d

I'm the least religious person you know, but I swear the current president continues to tick the boxes of the antichrist. This week's evidence:

"They that are filthy let them be filthy still, Let them reach the throne of filthiness with all their might,"

Revelation 22:11'

Cue Johnny Cash.

Johnny Cash-The_Man_Comes Around

YouTube video by TheJohnnyCashChannel

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 3d

Thought the fighter jet dropping shit on protesters thing was made-up. Then I saw it. Everything about it is the worst thing our civilization has ever produced, including the administration who posted it.

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Trans Ferdinand: Robot Princess @emdashreed.bsky.social · 5d

Long live the king of the monsterfuckers and a true hero

Euronews @euronews.com · 6d

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 5d

Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote a few thousand words on Corman's version of The Pit and the Pendulum over at my movie blog this week. I'm running out of the Corman Poe movies at this point.

The Pendulum Swings

“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.” ― Edgar Allan...

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 12d

Wrote about Tremors (1990) for my October blogging project. Long overdue, it seems.

Shakin' All Over

I originally saw Tremors (1990, directed by Ron Underwood) when it was in theaters and then never afterwards. I may have seen bits of it ...

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 13d

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 16d

I haven't seen Tremors (1990) since it was in theaters. Maybe it ought to be in rotation as one of my horror comfort movies? I love the characters and I love the monster and I love that it's not hiding some deeper allegory in the subtext. It's just fun.

The cast of Tremors (1990) shelter on top of a rock. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are in the forefront.

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 16d

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) remains evergreen. Vivid and angry. The Sawyers, I am reminded, are economic monsters more than anything and their grievances remain in the body politic.

Leatherface dances with his chain saw as the sun rises behind him at the end of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 16d

My horror movies this weekend. One evergreen classic. One fun romp. (1/3)

A dead armadillo lying on its back by the roadside. The opening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward strike a manly pose against a desert backdrop in Tremors (1990)

One of the graboid worm monsters in Tremors (1990). It's entirely above ground in this shot, with the mountains in the distance.

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 17d

There are 23 Parker novels and ALL of them are better than this piece of crap. I can't spot anything they took besides the name.

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 17d

Notorious
Strangers on a Train
Lifeboat

maybe

TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.social · 17d

OK, what's everyone's top 3 Hitchcock films? Mine are:
PSYCHO
VERTIGO
SHADOW OF A DOUBT
#TCMParty #RearWindow ^JW

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 17d

I haven't seen an episode of Friends or Love Actually, either. I don't feel like there's a hole in my education, but those are pretty big cultural touchstones.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 18d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 18d

I wrote about the Korean horror movie, H, at my movie blog this morning. It reallllly want's to be Kurosawa's Cure.

Look Into My Eyes

H (2002, directed by Jong-Hyuk Lee) appeared right at the crest of the K-horror boom of the early aughts, so it found its way into relati...

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 19d

How was I not following you?

Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 19d

I don't believe that Aaron is on bluesky, but here's tonight's episode of his excellent YouTube channel. I'm not saying that because he keeps inviting me on the show, either.

Ep 135 - Mario Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY (1960) Unmasked – The Italian Gothic Horror Boom Begins!

YouTube video by HORROR 101 with Dr. AC

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 19d

So, I'm on my blogging bullshit again, with a look at T-Blockers for the October Horror movie challenge and for Aaron Christensen's Scare-A-Thon in support of the International Rescue Committee. This had a fast turnaround because I had a bug up my butt about it. Blame (waves arms around) all this.

Waiting on the Worms

For some incomprehensible reason, my local Pride celebration was held this year on the first weekend of October. The organizers and the lo...

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Christianne Benedict @krelllabs.bsky.social · 20d

Also, I hope I don't have to drive nine hours to Chicago to see this on a big screen. Grumble grumble netflix grumble grumble...

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