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Writer. Movies. Rock & Roll aficionado. Horror fan. Political genius.
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I don’t know who the latest Fox blonde is—I block Fox—but I saw this excerpted clip and now can’t unsee this:
#fox #election
A blonde on Fox mouth tweeting blonde things. ATweety Bird plush toy looking stylish in a suit. This house has no dog.
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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When someone says we need Christmas during the last two days of Halloween.
November 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Idle Hand stills.
Anton presses his face against his dog Dookies, looking apprehensive towards the ceiling. Anton falls into two pumpkin headed American gothic decorations with a surprise inside. Anton holds up his bloody hands in seeming surrender while admitting fault. His devil’s lettuce inhaler hangs over a blood spattered shirt. Pnub dodges Anton’s murderous hand in a basement but a frosty gets it! Take that, Christmas! Long live Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Day 31: 🎃

1. Jack-o (Splatterween tLDI special)
&
2. Idle Hands

That’s it for the challenge! While I lagged behind, I logged big # s

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Halloween Night Day 31 placard for the 31 Days of Halloween Horror Challenge written over a cemetery silhouette backlit by an orange-tint sunset. My Letterbox Diary. 1. The Halloween Tree bridged Halloween ween and Halloween Day. It was good to hear Bradbury’s voice again. 2. Jack-O. I watched the Last Drive In presentation from Splatterween. Darcy’s right—it’s fun! 3. Idle Hands. Buried by Columbine, this 90s horror comedy masterpiece boasts Jessica Alba at her peak hotness, scream King Devon Sawa doing Lucille-Ball level physical comedy, and Seth Green with the face of 90s kids Elden Henson at their funniest, and true to life, like popeye’s spinach, Anton’s devil spinach saves the day! This is one of my all-time favorite movies that’s a time capsule of the 90s where everything works. I love every frame. Seated on a couch left to right, Zombie Mick with a bottle impaled in his forehead, Anton knits 🧶, Zombie Pnub cradles his severed head in his lap as smoke comes out of his neck. Snack bags and soda cans litter the table in front of them. Jessica alba in an angel Halloween costume dances at the school’s Halloween dance Offspring played.
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Fin
A weredog, Frankenstein, mummy girl, hippie granny, and vampira walk through an airport in Monster Family.
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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It’s curtains for Dracula because he bothered to install curtains. Maybe 🧱 windows if sunlight kills you?
A still of a giant bat form of Dracula being boxed in by sunlight as a werewolf dangles from a curtain draw-rope.
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Day 30: 🧒 👹

1. Something Wicked This Way Comes.
2. The Long Halloween Deluxe
3. Monster Family
4. The Halloween Tree 🌳 🎃

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Kid-Friendly Fright Day 30 placard for the 31 Days of Halloween Horror Challenge 2025 written over a cemetery silhouette backlit by a green tinted sunset. My letterbox diary. 1. Something Wicked this Way Comes. I hadn’t seen this Disney adaptation since childhood but always loved Ray Bradbury’s book more; he kindly signed one for me I own to this day. 2. Batman: The Long Halloween Deluxe Edition. Two 90 minute parts, OLED reactive, and in my top 3 favorite Batman adaptations ever made. 3. Monster Family. Baba Yaga dispatched by Dracula turns a family into their Halloween costumes until they learn self-love and family. It’s a pretty standard contemporary fairy tale—love breaks the witch’s curse. 4. The Halloween Tree. This bridged the end of the day into Halloween. I’d also not revisited this Ray Bradbury written Hannah-Barbara style animated film about a meaning of Halloween since my childhood. A monster costume party invitation from the computer animated Monster Family that coincidentally set on the day I watched it, October 30th! The Halloween tree. Pumpkins and Jack o lanterns dangle from the black gnarled branches viewed from below.
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Day 29: 💵 🏰

1. The Tingler
2. The Old Dark House

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William Castle Day 29 placard for the 31 Days of Halloween Horror Challenge 2025 written on a cemetery silhouette backlit by an orange tint sunset. The director William Castle casts a less impressive shadow than Hitchcock, but stands in a suit in front of a white screen. The cc reads “I am William Castle, the director of the motion picture you’re about to see.” A Charles Addams (of Addams’ family fame) drawn old dark house entrance tinted purple with the super “Directed by William Castle” overlaid. Only two. I appreciate more than I enjoy William Castle. He’s a fascinating movie impresario who created a unique niche. The stories about his movies surpass the movies themselves. I like far more the Bob Clark produced movie Popcorn I watched on Dee Wallace day that mentions Castle as the inspiration by name of the kind of horror gimmick festival the film kids recreate as a fundraiser before getting slashed by the phantom of the theater serial killer, the man behind the masks. I’ve seen William Castle’s the House on Haunted Hill and already watched Rosemary’s Baby this Halloween season, which Castle produced (sadly not on creepy neighbor day). These two—the Tingler and The Old Dark House—I set aside for today. The Tingler almost made weird science day before I settled on mad neurologist scientists, evil brain movies, a mad science sub-genre. Vincent Price elevated that movie. Tom Poston did his best in the Danny Kaye type project, a sort of proto-Clue horror film in the Old Dark House. It’s zany, campy fun and I get why John Waters especially called Castle his “god.”
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Day 28: 👻 🏠 👁️ 🚫 🙈

1. Black Phone 2
2. They Live Inside Us
3. Ghost Team

Hard. I’ve seen most great 🏚️ movies. My favorites ranked: boxd.it/OwIdy

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Haunted House (I Haven’t Seen) Day 28 placard for the 31 Days of Halloween Horror Challenge 2025 written over a cemetery silhouette backlit with a purple tint sunset. A haunted house movie I’ve seen many times that tops my favorite ghost movies list on Letterbox. An illustration of Shelley DuVall, red eyed and crying, holding a baseball bat, in front of the Shining’s famous orange hexagon carpet design. An illustration of 3 kid classic sheet ghosts standing behind an iron gate under a full moon on a snowy night. My Letterbox for Haunted House I haven’t seen day. The problem with this category, is it’s hard to tell if it’s a haunted house movie for sure until you see it. My choices were more defined by a day-long, citywide power outage as Black Phone 2 was the only ghost movies I could see as even the cell tower couldn’t function with a whole city on data. Ghost Team was the strongest movie of these three, and They Live Inside Us was the most on topic, I suppose. Anyway, I’ve seen most of the great haunted house movies already. I’ll put a link to my favorite ghost films in the post.
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Stills from the Crazies
Lee Hess presents Code Name Trixie, written in the red stencil caps of a title card. A crowd of neighbors quarantined in a high school room start to freak out as they become the crazies. White hazmat gas-masked army goons with guns push a virologist with a miracle solution into a crowd of creepy, quarantined, crazy neighbors.
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Stills from Jack Ketchum’s the Girl Next Door.
The title for the movie over a tree lined suburban street with 1960s cars driving over it. A girl sits blindfolded and hands behind her back against a tree as creepy neighborhood kids (banal to see, but trust me—they’re total creeps) sit on a fallen log, about to play hide n seek. The image foreshadows a depraved “game” to come, by suggesting bondage. Two creepy neighbors slither a snake up a scared girl’s blue skirt in a woods. A teen girl dangles by both arms from a basement ceiling as her crippled sister; abusive, murderous Aunt; neighbor protagonist, and sons of the evil aunt face her. She’s blindfolded with her back to us.
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The Sentinel stills.
A black clad priest with icy cataracts seemingly looks out of the top window of an old, ivy grown over building. It’s the Sentinel, a creepy neighbor indeed. A party of creepy neighbors having a birthday party for a cat as the reactionary director probably thought seemed the height of hedonistic absurdity. A tuxedo cat wears a gold birthday cone cat in a high chair surrounded by bohemians in fancy dress. An old apartment’s public hallway starts to swarm with disfigured and deformed demonic representations that seem a bit insensitive towards people with real deformities, tbh. A closer view of some creepy, demon neighbors.
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Day 27:

1. The Sentinel
2. The Girl Next Door
3. The Crazies

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Creepy Neighbours Day 27 placard for the 31 Days of Halloween Horror Challenge 2025 written over a cemetery silhouette backlit by the green tint of a setting sun. My letterbox Diary for Creepy Neighbor movies. 1. The Sentinel. Creepily intrusive neighbors turn increasingly terrifying as we learn of their terrifying backstories. Then there’s the recluse neighbor upstairs neighbor, an old priest always staring down from the top apartment in the building, staring down with his milky cataract stair. Then there’s the hellish neighbor downstairs, a gate to Hell, so Satan and his assorted demon minions also count as pretty creepy. 2. Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door. Bested by only Stephen King and Joe R Lansdale among his generation of horror writers, Jack Ketchum mastered the genre and had a lifetime achievement Bram Stoker award to back up his top-tier bibliography. This movie, while masterful, anyone with a heart will find challenging, and like many of the scariest movies (Zodiac, Silence of the Lambs, the Sound of Metal)—many will say it’s a drama or a thriller instead of horror as if horror only belonged to unserious ghosts and goblins. Ketchum does the near impossible in taking an unthinkable crime and making the abuser behind the torture understandable albeit never sympathetic or relatable. But we learn how the rare psychopathic female thinks and creates, inculcates male abusers. It’s like a tour of the MAGAt factory to find out how rightards are made. This seems like a plausible origin story for a Pete Hegseth type. It walks you through the kind of torture and murder by neighborhood that makes most sane people go “how could that even happen.” Yet Ketchum also brings a sensitivity to it never losing sight of the victim’s humanity. 3. The Crazies. George Romero’s non-zombie horror movie (or living zombies in a way) that while slow-paced still blends Romero’s sadly prescient hippie conspiracy social commentary into a pandemic outbreak thriller about neighbors driven mad by a bio-weapon leak. Living through the COVID pandemic made some choices strain credulity, but still a solid film worthy of reassessment overall. A joker poster with a creepy neighbor looking in a window captioned “creepy neighbors. The reason doors have locks.” The creepiest of neighbors, this peeping tom weirdo. A still of Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window.
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Carved stills.
A messy pumpkin carving competition seen from a pumpkin level view. A mutant pumpkin covered in bumps lashed out with vine tentacles, wrapping around the arms of a kid in a corn costume wielding a butcher’s knife A farmer in a flannel, suspenders and a bowler (seen from back) aims at a corpse in a corn costume puppeteered by a spider like mutant pumpkins’ tentacle vine as a human shield. The mutant pumpkin from carved, often obscured, gets seem in full, save a shotgun sized chunk missing from its rotten, bumpy visage. It hovers, seemingly, albeit supported by spider-like vine legs.
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Pumpkin Karver stills.
A young man bends his elbow awkwardly carving a pumpkin in the foreground. A bare legged woman wears a fuchsia, mini-skirt-length bathrobe A young man in a blue shirt sits next to a woman in black, including a beret; she reaches into a pumpkin set on a hay stack, and a farm sets behind them in the background. A woman in black loses control of a toppling wheelbarrow full of pumpkins next to a haystack at night, a strong barn light overhead. A pumpkin carving contest set up on a long table surrounded by college kids on costumes in a barn decked out with pumpkin and scarecrow decorations.
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Pumpkinhead stills
Ed Hardy cradles son Billy Hardy after a motorcycle accident, in a wood paneled room, seated on an iron frame bed, in front of a window omitting an orange, sunbeam haze. Ed Hardy stands with a shovel on Pumpkinhead’s earthen-alter grave rising above a foggy pumpkin patch that Haggis the witch says covers the bodies of the country-outcast, deformed dead. Pumpkinhead the demon growls at the camera as my OLED reflects a lamp I missed until now…oh well. Pumpkinhead cradles and sniffs a victim.
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Hollow Gate stills
A quaint ceramic pumpkin glows behind a ceramic figurine of a scarecrow in overalls with a Pumpkinhead wearing a straw cap waving in repose. They’re Halloween Knick knacks on a wooden cabinet display. A Halloween party from the 80s with orange and black balloons, a round table with an orange tablecloth with snacks, kids in costumes, and an adult original Annabelle doll costumed adult. A young man with glasses leans on a counter lined with masks as two women face each other evaluating a glitter wig one of the girls wears. They stand in a costume store, full of masks and wigs. A kiddie clown gets nearly drowned apple bobbing by a drunken dad, ensuring the kid grows up to be a killer clown. 3 pumpkin decorations and a black bat, and orange helium filled balloons, also fill the frame.
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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The pumpkin 🎃 posters
A manor arts on a wooded hill in the background. A white ornate gate with a jack o lantern stuck with a vertical butcher’s knife set in front of it has the title Hollow Gate written on it. The poster for Hollow Gate. Two clawed demon hands hold a pumpkin dripping rotten juices. The poster for Pumpkinhead. A Jack o lantern with gritted pointy teeth has a butcher knife stuck in in on the poster for the Pumpkin Karver, written in rough cut caps. A bumpy, warty, pimply pumpkin with green tendril vines coming out of its eyes in close up provides the image for Hulu’s Carved, the poster.
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Day 26: 🎃

1. Hollow Gate
2. Pumpkinhead
3. The Pumpkin Karver
4. Carved

Stay away from Pumpkinhead, unless you’re tired of living— through “meh” movies.

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Pumpkin on the Poster Day 26 placard on the 31 Days of Halloween Horror Challenge 2025 written over a cemetery silhouette backlit by a tinted orange sunset. Evil pumpkins with fangs, rotting pumpkins on the vine, glowing Jack o lanterns, and unlit Jack o lanterns too, from the Factory of Terror Haunt. A Pumpkinhead on a giant skeleton with a glowing light blue mouth and glowing orange eyes at the Factory of Terror haunt. My letterbox diary. 1. Hollow Gate, the gateway joint to pumpkin on a poster day. It’s a Halloween set slasher where we see how abuse during Halloween apple bobbing creates a Halloween themed killer who dresses up in different costumes to kill each kid locked in his electric-fenced-in mansion. A serial killer who kills on Halloween? What will they think of next! 2. Pumpkinhead. I considered rewatching it on fairy tale day since it’s the best American set Fairy Tale I’ve come across in any medium. Stan Winston who normally did creature SFX and makeup kills it as a director. Pumpkinhead is a simple story but everything in it works, especially Lance Hendricks performance as Ed Hardy. His son may be one of the most endearing kids in horror. It’s in my top 3 Witch movies. See letterbox for my complete favorite witch flick list. 3. The Pumpkin Karver. A middling mid-naughties slasher that’s not intentionally funny enough to be a comedy or scary enough to be a good horror, but it does service some good Halloween imagery and slasher kills. It’s a predictable yet also unearned reveal, sort of the worst of both worlds. Weirdly, it’s set in a town called Carver yet the town doesn’t spell it with a K either, making the title even more nonsensical. 4. Carved. Like attack of the killer tomatoes before it, this movie images a mutant fruit as a creature feature. The Hulu logo smeared over it like a booger you can’t flick away, with poorly placed commercials, hurt the viewing experience. There’s some fun kills and a lot of it works, but it’s also a hate crime against potheads. Besides some off color jokes, language, and gore, this feels like kiddie horror. I liked the diverse cast, an Asian girl lead who’s new to me, and they found yet another rat face boy like Timothee Chalamet or Mason Thames as her beau, Corey Fungalmantis who I’ll apparently be seeing in the Cliff Booth Tarantino penned Fincher flick. I liked the progression of pumpkin (head), 🎃 karver, and Carved.
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters stills.
A witch coughed up a blood mess of organs and the second-worst type of maggots. A witch riding a broom sends a fireball down on an olden days Germanic village. Witches being hung in an illustration. Child Hansel and Gretel in silhouette, a witch candy house sets in a dark woods, with a frosting roof and candy façade.
October 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Viy stills
A witch with a broom over her shoulder sits on the shoulder of a brown-robe clad young monk she’s flying through the air dangling. A dead young woman in white with long black hair reaches out both arms as she rises from a coffin surrounded by candles in a church, as a frightened monk standing before an open Bible stares at her from the background. The dead noble lady surfs on her coffin in a scene begging to be immortalized by a Cramps song. Incubi that look like green copper patina block a wooden church’s door and balcony. A dead woman in a white burial shroud stands in the middle center, a monk stands clutching a bible on a stand in a chalk circle.
October 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Krabat: the Sorcerer’s Apprentice* stills (set b)
Krabat drives a flying white carriage by an ornate, palace balcony. Krabat tries to chop apart a reforming coffin with an axe to delay an apprentice’s sacrifice. An owl flies in an evergreen heavy woods. A grey bearded peasant in a hood gathering a bundle of sticks, his boots submerged in thick snow as more falls, motions to halt with his palm.✋
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Krabat: the Sorcerer’s Apprenticd stills (set a)
The warlock master rides on a black horse across a red sunset and blackened landscape Krabat has wings for arms after drinking the Red Bull Koolaid. The eyepatch-wearing master sits behind a thick, open grimoire set next to a skull topped with a candle as ravens (transformed apprentices) swarm around him. A mill sets in the background of a deep blue river. Ravens fill the sky. Silvery-lilac conifers line the horizon.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Krabat stills.
A cloaked figure flies over clouds towards an alpine setting sunset; its Krabat about become a crow. The bone meal mill dispenser where the ground bone meal omits. The mill explodes into splinters among a hazy, snowy landscape. A young maiden with long, brown hair and a green cloak puts the hand of an outstretched arm into the open hand of a tall, black cloaked figure with long grey hair, seen from behind.
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The Hallow stills.
An Irish man in a flannel talks about Fairy tales. This literally feels like a fairy tale as it’s a tale about fairies. A fairies black clawed arm breaks through an attic trap door an Irish woman holds shut in an attic. A swaddled baby is in the far left by a framed picture set on the floor. Other attic clutter sets in the corner. A rectangular window illuminates the scene. A fairy from the Halloween, which looks like a humanoid wood carving, caries a baby swaddled in yellow. Our dude thumbs through the fairy tale guidebook searching its illustrations for answers.
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM