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[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/27/2023: NIGHT VISITOR (1989)

Definitely not to be confused with the 1971 Swedish film starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ulman, 1989's NIGHT VISITOR is a bizarre horror-comedy that's half-pilfered from FRIGHT NIGHT, and the other half is just...something that is not under control. A hunky teen with a "boy who cried wolf" problem witnesses a horrific murder while spying on his neighbor Shannon Tweed, and then he and his goofy friend and their "cool" gal pal endeavor to out their mean teacher as a devil worshiper. The appearance of Mme Tweed and a variety of streetwalkers from central casting seem to suggest that this is going to be really sexy, but it is not, unless you get off super hard to women tossing their hair and winking at the camera. And on that note, I must point out that the teen's mom, played by Brooke Bundy, looks so much like the neighbor he's obsessed with, that like...well if I had a friend in high school who was sexually fixated on someone who looked just like his own mother, I would never, ever let him live it down. I would be calling that poor jerk on Christmas to remind him of it every year for the rest of his life.

The circulation of the above exciting image suggests a much gnarlier horror movie than what this actually is, part of which is partly a domestic comedy between Allen Garfield as the teacher and his live-in uh companion Michael J. Pollard, who plays a deranged moron as per usual. Hardboiled cop Richard Roundtree is along for the ride for some reason; at the end he asks the kid where he got his shotgun, and upon hearing that it was his father's, Roundtree goes, "One-man vigilante, huh?", which makes no sense whatsoever. Elliot Gould plays the grizzled detective who the plucky teens convince to come out of retirement to help them, and like, they go to his house which is pretty decent-looking except there's a couple of loose shirts out that he performatively removes from a chair so they can sit down, which seems like is supposed to indicate that his life is a wreck--but if you come to my house unannounced at some random hour, I can pretty much promise that there will be a couple of loose shirts out. There are plenty of legitimate signs that I'm deteriorating into reclusivity, but I don't think that's a very good one.

Anyway I really want to spoil the end of the movie, which might help if you're short on time: After all the drama is resolved, the teen takes his friend-turned-girlfriend on an extremely long date. There is no dialog, because this was obviously never in any version of a script, and drives her around to various fun couplesy activities that you might see in a chewing gum commercial, and then finally they kiss in an astonishingly long freeze-frame. This is sort of fascinating because the movie is over an hour and a half long and it doesn't seem like they should have been so desperate for extra minutes, but you're going to get them anyway! The End.

PS My favorite part of the movie is when the satanic teacher sits on a stink bomb, or something, and all this yellow smoke comes billowing out of his ass and he starts screaming at the mischievous teen "YOU ARE TERMINATED! YOU ARE TERMINATED!", which is such a funny and meaningless thing for a teacher to yell at a student, I would never recover if this happened in my class. All I could think of is:

[nazura]

Mike Shapiro is a legend. From the awesome 20th anniversary documentary with Tyler.

[100sofaliens]

Post cancelled look at husband

[lyril]

actually tbh people who are attracted to bojack horseman and feel insane about it, don't even sweat it man. straigh t up don't even worry about it. at least he's still charming and funny and cute on occasion. y'know. he's got so much time to still be endearing in-between all his crimes and we spend the whole show getting to know him cus he's a lot more than just the awful things he does. after all, it could Easily be worse. for instance, (guy who likes flip mcvicker voice)you ccould like flip mcvicker ☝️ so be grateful,

[pybun]

YELLING

[casserolecremator]

I genuinely need everyone to watch this video RIGHT NOW

Through datamining, Tyler and his team previously have been able to find details regarding a single player FPS game that’s in development at Valve with the code name “HLX” and they had reasons, earlier this year/late last year, to believe that it was going into out-of-company/external bug testing. (Which is notoriously where a lot of valve games either die or completely change/start over, especially around the time where staff take a holiday break and come back w/ fresh eyes)

HOWEVER, if you watch that video, you’ll find that not only did “HLX” make it PAST that external playtesting phase BUT, through skimmed datamining of a recent engine update, they found information that HEAVILY implies that “HLX” is in its FINAL phases of development, like, optimization levels of final phases- or at least nearing that point.

MEANING on top of Deltarune and Silksong, we could POSSIBLE MAYBE get a real actual announcement for Half Life 3 from Valve later this year.

[princessmo]

[angels-heap]

I'm going to break this to y'all as gently as possible...

The "Half-Life Alyx NoVR" twitter account is not a reliable source for updates about future games.

I'm more optimistic about the potential for a new HL game than I've been in a while, but I'll believe it when I see it, and I suspect that speculation of Barney's importance to the plot will prove to be wildly overblown.

[mikejudge]

random question but im curious on everyones thoughts

[krissiefox]

Speaking as a Half-Life appreciator, a big part of my love for the games (especially Half-Life 2) is the immersive and amazing world. So all of these detailed game features sound cool. And if the does indeed have "a more elaborate and open world setting with smart NPCs, cool vehicles, and brand new gravity mechanics” that would be a dream come true for me! Ever since I played Half-Life 2 and fell in love with its world, I always dreamed about getting to explore beyond the level boundaries because the games world feels so huge and alive and mysterious. That's part of why I'd even attempted a Half-Life 2 Minecraft survival/adventure Minecraft map at one point. To have a new Half-Life game that plays like Fallout 3 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would be fucking awesome.

All that said, I'm still pissed there still is no drm free non-vr way to play Half-Life Alyx. I know I could just watch a longplay but I want to experience the game first hand without having to cave to valve's shitty DRM.

[tootern2345]

Some model sheets and color art from the Beavis & Butt-Head episode, No Laughing

[singeratlarge]

SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “Christmas Song for All Year Around” by Samuel Bowen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7T_L9IXJ68 A Christmas song for those who don't like all the hullabaloo. I made this video (in 2023) for Samuel Bowen, my old friend and musical compadre. On the track he is joined by his steadfast studio band with special guest Mitch McVicker on vocals. The video has cameos from The Grinch as well as Charlie Brown and his friends. It's a jazzy pop song to wish you all Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7T_L9IXJ68

#samuelbowen #christmas #happynewyear #holiday #mitchmcvicker #grinch #charliebrown #snoopy #johnnyjblair #douglas #massachusetts #bobevarts #vincedepolo

[dongslinger--420]

🔥 Flip

He's clearly intended as a Herb antithesis and works perfectly as such but as a result the effect that seeing the "created by herb kazzaz" credit has had on me lulls me into a false sense of security then IMMEDIATELY makes me feel sick whenever I see the "created by flip mcvicker" credit, so that's my life

[100sofaliens]

Collab with @toddianuzzi

[boxbrained]

if gwoman not canon... then explain this??? huh??? 🤨🤨 checkmate, liberals..... get owned

(here's the full video since it's unlisted)

[hypocritic-trash-baby]

Dude I think Sam Levinson might just be dollar store Flip McVicker

Their obsession with disturbing people

Their weird focus on nudity but in like a just unnecessary way

EVEN THE DAMN APPEARANCES

There’s no way these aren’t just the same dude im sorry no

Look me in the eyes and tell me this isn’t Sam