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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 5h

...and I think the killer agrees with me because the big reveal of his identity comes about when he's struggling with the final girl and *he* snatches his cowl off.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 5h

Mostly I'm wondering how the killer can even see in this get up.

Close up of the killer in THE PROWLER. He's man dressed in WWII military garb and his face concealed beneath a camouflaged cowl that honestly looks like he can't see out of.

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Bavacado Ghost @bavacadotoast.bsky.social · 1d

Posting a picture of John Carpenter every day until I forget challenge #horrorsky

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 5h

HA! Was just thinking that.

Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 5h

The killer bushwhacks somebody in a swimming pool and now I'm picturing him getting out of the pool and having to waddle around and drip dry for a bit.

Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 5h

oh hey it's the nearby dude Alice Cooper kills with the bicycle in PRICE OF DARKNESS.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 5h

anyway, reminded of this idea I had for an 80's set summer camp slasher where the villain and the hero were both Vietnam vets who had a hard time re-adjusting to life back in the USA.

...the former certainly more than the latter.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 6h

I think this the second or third time? But iit's been so long it's fun rediscovering the weird details.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 6h

also his main weapon is...a pitchfork, which really doesn't go with the whole soldier theme.

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 6h

I think i might have to mute various permutations of "this is bad / very bad / horrifying" because god bless you but some of you share this shit like it's pornography

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 6h

watching THE PROWLER now on Tubi and this slasher has the quasi-military themed villain do a locking and loading up montage like an action hero.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, pretty much BAD TASTE-era Jackson Lite but you see horrible rich people get mangled by rubbery demon grannies and it clocks in at a fairly swift 70 minutes.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 8h

watching RABID GRANNIES, the craziness hasn't started yet but I'm getting an early Peter Jackson vibe offa it.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 8h

Look, I’m a dirty anarchocommie fringe weirdo, but even I think it would be healthier for most regular Americans who aren’t and will never be to at least realize the difference between “worked hard and was prosperous enough to be free from want” to “has enough money we have to hear from him always.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 16h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 16h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 12h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 11h

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, another "God checked out" movie. Or any McCarthy adaptation realky.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 11h

Lol. I once joked that NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was a TERMINATOR movie but...apparently that was the inspiration for Chigurh? Interested to see if that's true.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 12h

And Sorcerer! Friedkin double shot!

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 13h

letterboxd.com/billsmiley/l...

Godless Movies

Movies - not all of them horror - that feel like the Almighty went for cigarettes and never came back. You meet true evil, true madness and you're on your own.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 13h

oh no. that poor atv.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h

Doug Lebda, the founder and CEO of LendingTree, died following an all-terrain vehicle crash. He was 55.

LendingTree CEO Doug Lebda killed in ATV accident, Charlotte fintech says

Doug Lebda also founded LendingTree, which offers online tools to connect borrowers with lenders. The board has named a new CEO.

www.charlotteobserver.com

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 13h

APOCALYPSE NOW, duh. Especially helps that everyone was going insane making it.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 13h

COME AND SEE, perhaps? Been a while since i saw that.

Funnily enough, there is something biblical about the horrors in those kinds of stories.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, thinking about other works that have that "The Almighty Went For Cigarettes and Never Came Back" feel to them. Somebody mentioned NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, I'd throw THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE in there too but I don't think it has to be just horror.

Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 14h

BLOOD MERIDIAN or THE WEST IS A GODLESS HELL YET STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 13h

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Book cover: When Darkness Loves Us by Elizabeth Engstrom

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