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Not horror, but genre-weirdness and the smartest thing I’ve seen in ages - absolutely check out Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes when you get the chance. It made my head spin a bit when it clicked what the director was doing and just how damn difficult it must have been to pull off. Absolutely wonderful.

I did not realize this was them. I don’t know why, but nothing I’ve seen of theirs has had much of an impact on me. I didn’t dislike any of them, I just never thought about any of them ever again.

I’ve not heard one positive thing about this movie so far, which is pretty impressive as I typically see at least some split of opinions in the community with almost all horror movies.

A few things of late: Ghoul - Indian limited event series based on Arab folklore. A little odd that this was made as a series since it’s only 3 episodes and totals right around a 2.5 hour run time, but other than that note this was great. Each of the episodes fly by, the cast and script are solid, it feels actually original vs derivative, and I am of course a sucker for folklore based horror. I don’t see a ton of talk about this ever which is a shame, as this is one of the better original horror offerings up on Netflix. Dr Brain - this one is over on Apple+ which sucks - I’ve got a free one year subscription from when my work upgrade my iPhone (😂 - it’s because the phone is tied to my Apple ID) - because this is super great so far, but will likely have only a limited audience due to channel. It’s a mystery/detective show with some horror/paranormal (/sci-if) elements written and directed by Kim Jee-woon who made I Saw the Devil / A Tale of Two Sisters / a number of other films I haven’t seen that I need to remedy. It’s only 3 (of 6) episodes in so far, new episodes come out each Friday, but it is great as of the halfway point. Other movies I saw recently: Hall (good but too short / more a good idea than a fully fleshed out movie); Found Footage 3D (pretty basic found footage movie with a handful of meta elements that work to various effect; the climax is a bit bonkers as it’s pretty slow burn until the last 15 minutes and then it just abruptly goes nuts); The Gate (dumb + fun 80’s horror - Steven Dorff’s acting debut! - that is tame enough to be a decent family film / kid-intro to horror); Alone (not the awesome/tense-AF American film from last year, the Thai follow-up film from the directors of Shutter. Shutter was better but this was still fun). Hope y’all have a great holiday and eat yourselves dumb on Thursday! Got my vegan meal on order and am looking forward to making pumpkin pie and eating the entire thing + a whole tub of coconut cream cool whip all by myself (which is my thanksgiving tradition 😂)!

I guess the blue variant sold out? It doesn’t appear to be listed at all any more.

The Pop Unknown reissues are up on both Thirty Something (https://thirtysomethingrecords.bigcartel.com/) and New Granada (https://newgranada.bigcartel.com/) now.

Oh, cool, so you read Hogfather right before Jingo; Death's monologue towards the end of that book is one of my favorite passages across all of what Pratchett wrote. I think I read Good Omens first as well (for me it was '98, so 23 years ago), but I was working at a bookstore at the time and remember that I'd bought a couple Discworld novels along with it, so I just dove right in from there.

I love David Lynch but not random gross stuff. I'm tempted, but i think this probably not for me. 😂

Honestly my favorite series of all time. I think i've read every one of them like 4-5 times and they really never get old for me. If you're reading in order you've got some really amazing stuff in front of you!

Ugh I want this so bad but I’m only seeing $45 as the cheapest shipping and nope.

This was basically mine as well. The couple local warehouses around here always overkill the vinyl packaging, which I of course appreciate.

We watched Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil last night. It's a Basque-language folklore-driven (based on the Basque version of the Smith and Devil story) quasi-horror flick. It's a lot like Tummbad where it overlaps way more with fantasy than horror, but it does frequently get slapped with the horror descriptor whenever i read about. It was a good watch, definitely entertaining, but I liked it from the folklore/mythology angle (i love cultural mythology as produced by members of the actual culture), as it really only ends up horror-adjacent.

Looks like a bunch of delays: https://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/9878 WILL BE COMING TO RECORD STORES ON DECEMBER 10, 2021: Dave Davies - Kinked Emoi - Willy's Wonderland Freeze - Rabid Reaction Gladiators -- 1983 The Nighthawk EP Chuck Prophet - No Other Love Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson - The Bottom Line Archive Series Spoon - "Wild"/"Wild Remix" Sun Ra - Omniverse [CD] Sun Ra - Omniverse [LP] Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons WILL BE COMING TO RECORD STORES ON DECEMBER 17, 2021: Tank and The Bangas - The Big Outside WILL BE COMING TO RECORD STORES FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2022: Angelo Badalamenti - Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition) Souren Baronian - The Middle Eastern Soul of Carlee Records The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy (Deluxe) Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet The Grouch - Show You The World High Pulp - Mutual Attraction Vol. 3 The Jacka - Tear Gas The Jackson 5 ABC LA Guns - Waking the Dead Night Ranger - Somewhere in California Rockness Monsta (of Heltah Skeltah) - He's On Fire b/w Faith Gavin Rossdale – WANDERlust Twiztid - I Tried 2 Warn U Various Artists - Stubbs The Zombie: The Soundtrack WE’RE STILL WAITING ON FURTHER INFORMATION: Clairo - Sling David Crosby & Graham Nash - Wind On The Water Foo Fighters - Making A Fire (Mark Ronson Re-Version) b/w Chasing Birds (Preservation Hall Jazz Band Re-Version) Thelonious Monk Septet - Monk's Music Poison - Flesh & Blood Puscifer - Existential Reckoning: Live at Arcosanti Tesla - Mechanical Resonance Kali Uchis - Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios) Various Artists - Latin Legends Live

Checked out an Argentinian slasher from 2020 called The Last Matinee last night. Really well put together flick, production is top notch, doesn’t mess around with an overly complicated plot or backstory, just a dude killing people in a theater. Looks great, entertaining, and just generally a lot of fun if you’re a slasher fan.

Hell yeah, got that green and white variant!

Went ahead and hit that re/visit this morning. The original remains one of the best of all the found footage genre.

Yeah, I’ve heard nothing at this point that makes me want to check out the others, but I’d seen positive feedback around the second one — glad I checked it out! I loved the first one so much like 15 years ago. It occurred to me while I was watching 2 that I really need to revisit it.

I like that one! Now I’m intrigued as to what Amazon will deliver to me tomorrow…

I’ve been sitting on the sofa all day with “day after Covid-vaccine” malaise. Watched: Lamb - solid as hell. Firmly weird fiction as opposed to horror though. Really enjoyed it. Haunted Mansion - the 2015 Filipino horror flick, not the Disney one. it was not good! [REC]2 - never saw this even though I loved the first one back when it came out on DVD. This was pretty decent; I really like horror sequels that pick up immediately after the original (especially because *so damn many* horror movies, even good ones, end with some stupid jump scare / haha this isn’t over) and this did that well.

Man, I don’t know anything about early Ween - so Buckingham Green was bouncing around way before The Mollusk?

yeah, that was really the only one i felt i had to have; grabbed it quickly!

Had a fairly ho-hum spate of viewing here recently. Watched that Korean flick The Clsoet that recently popped up on Shudder - it's a pretty average k-horror movie. Not bad but not really recommended either. Watched a few Koji Shiraishi movies due to how amazing Noroi is, but found them all underwhelming - A Slit-Mouthed Woman and Shirome are both pretty skippable, and Occult is fine but falls apart in the final third. Also watched a tawdry/trashy late-80's Giallo called Too Beautiful to Die which was basically as good as expected (not very, but it was entertaining enough).

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Mine doesn’t show shipped but it does show it is expected to be delivered Friday.