We’re entering the last week of October, and that means the end of #UndeadOctober is coming. @ninjamonkey.bsky.social and I have already decided on the theme for 2026 - folk horror and cults. It’ll be all dark fairy tales, old gods, witches, things in the woods, devil worshippers, and the like.

If only everyone could have predicted this

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#UndeadOctober movie 24: Day of the Dead (1985). Scientists and soldiers clash in an underground zombie refuge. It’s a classic, and while the characters are thin and the acting is amateur, the plot is solid and the gore is fantastic. Also, no sarcasm - the character with the best arc is a zombie.

This year’s watchlist can be found under #UndeadOctober.

2024 is tagged with #HorrorAlphabet

And if you search for “Kingtober”, you’ll find 2023’s films.

My partner @ninjamonkey.bsky.social and I just watched this as part of our October horror movie suite, so this is wonderful timing. :)

#UndeadOctober movie 23: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). A skateboarding vampire stalks the streets of Bad City. Don't let the black-and-white footage, deliberate pace, sparse dialogue, and subtitles put you off from this movie. It's a solid vampire film with romance and tragedy thrown in.

#UndeadOctober movie 22: The Innkeepers (2011). Hotel workers experience a haunted inn’s last weekend. This movie exists solely to waste time. There’s no narrative arc, the action of the last few minutes comes from nowhere, there’s wasted character bits, and worst - no tension build at all. Skip it.

I will repost this forever.

#UndeadOctober movie 21: Cockneys vs. Zombies (2012). A family of Eastenders face a zombie apocalypse. It’s like if Temu Guy Ritchie made a version of Shaun of the Dead. Is it good? Maybe not, but it’s not bad, and importantly, it’s fun. Decent gore effects, decent laughs, and the best chase ever.

I really honestly think there's something very beautiful about telling your daughter she doesn't have to defend you. To be that confident in accepting that you were wrong and that it was shitty of you, and to do better. That kind of vulnerability moves me. And it's from one of the dorks in ICP.

Short list of things that are incredibly easy to do as a man in America:
- Not ever wear black or brown face
- Not get an SS tattoo
- Not sexually assault anyone

SUPER easy

Last Saturday's No Kings marches has given me a new hope that we will prevail.

this is what we could have

#UndeadOctober movie 20: Nosferatu (2024). A remake of an off-brand Dracula. This movie is excellent. Not a shot is wasted, and every single one is framed, lit, and acted beautifully. It’s gothic, darkly sexual, and grotesque. Not just a great vampire film, but a great film in its own right.

#UndeadOctober movie 19: Kwaidan (1964). An anthology of 4 classic Japanese ghost stories. The pace is slow and deliberate, and the sets are artificial like a stage play, so it might not suit everyone, but the tales are dark and eerie, and the directing is wonderful. Just set aside 3 hours for it.

Davinci Resolve: Great interface, tons of effects, uses GPU acceleration when rendering video.

KDEnlive: Can generate a waveform of entire audio feed without paid plugins.

Winner: KDEnlive.

I’m just spitballing here, but if he’s a millionaire, he can probably do better than zero thousand dollars.

#UndeadOctober movie 18: Warm Bodies (2013). A zombie falls in love with a survivor. A post-zombie-apocalypse take on Romeo and Juliet, it’s a surprisingly human movie, and while it’s not the most horrific film in our watch list, it has the most heart, and more than a little bit of brains too.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

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#UndeadOctober movie 17: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) A pair of crooks take their hostages to the worst strip club ever. It starts as a gritty crime story, and then does a hard shift into a grindhouse vampire cartoon. It’s joyfully over the top, but the moments of tonal whiplash can be jarring.

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced

we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”

what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

Bringing this thread over from the stupid place. You know the place.