#stephen tompkins

[luthorcorp1313]

I finished The Angel of Indian Lake recently and there were so many feelings. I was originally just going to say a couple of things and it got away from me so I just did it this way. If you want to read my rambling, cool, if not, long story short: Stephen Graham Jones is fucking awesome, Jade Daniels is 100% my Final Girl of all final girls, and the Indian Lake Trilogy is such a good read on so many levels so everyone should read it.

There is an amazing amount of depth and heart to it that you just don't usually see in horror fiction and on top of that, the trilogy starts out as a total love letter to 80s slashers and final girls, with the real surprise being the protagonist, half-Blackfeet and full outcast Jade Daniels, the rebel girl who is always in trouble for something and has memorized everything about every slasher film (up to that point) while praying for a real slasher to hit her town of Proofrock, Idaho, but be careful what you wish for, right? Love her!! Lots of subplot about the colonization and takeover of Native lands, as SGJ is a Native American writer and that figures into his work. So much depth. Anyway, did I say this was the short version??? Just read the books! 😂🔪🖤🫀🩸

[peerless-cucumber]

has anyone else read stephen graham jones don't fear the reaper yet

[therealmrpositive]

DAG (2000-01)

In today's review, I find the Secret Service detail might make for some comedy. As I attempt a positive review of the short lived sitcom DAG #DavidAlanGrier #DeltaBurke #DavidRasche #StephenDunham #MelJackson #EmmyLaybourne #LaurenTom #PaulFTompkins

The Secret Service, the ever-vigilant guard of the President, is tasked with holding the launch apparatus of nuclear annihilation, fighting the foes of the treasury, and more notably, protecting the President from imminent doom. You would imagine the stoic faces of the sun-glassed guards to be almost robotic, with their tireless devotion, forgetting that they are humans, with real flaws and…

[talmagemoorehead]

First Peer-reviewed Paper on UFO Materials

From the first peer-reviewed scientific paper analyzing UFO related materials: "The lessons from this specific investigation are applicable to a wider range of issues in reverse engineering of complex, esoteric materials, and aerospace forensics."

I was listening to a frustrating interview of Ryan Graves, a retired Navy fighter pilot and UFO witness who has much to say, but was frequently interrupted by tangential questions when things got interesting. After an hour of this, I wondered if there might not be someone else who had recently interviewed this highly intelligent and credible UFO witness, someone with the rare talent of…

[virtualdavis]

2007 Thanksgiving Remembered

2007 Thanksgiving Remembered: Boulder, Randy, Doug (Photo: Geo Davis) Nine years ago I sat in Rosslyn’s front parlor on Thanksgiving morning and started drafting a blog post. I’m sitting in the front parlor (aka the “green room”), drinking coffee, scratching Griffin behind the ears, and allowing my mind drift to back to that first Thanksgiving we celebrated at Rosslyn. It was actually one day…

[astro-vogue]

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PLANETS: part I - The Personal/Inner Planets [Sun-Mars]

● In astrology, there are 10 celestial bodies commonly considered "planets": Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

● Planets act like the roles a character [see the 12 zodiac signs] interpret in a movie, and each of them represents specific characteristics, that will eventually adapt to the zodiac sign they occupy

⎯ The Sun & Moon are called "LUMINARIES", as they're the brightest ones, they define the fundamental traits of a chart/personality and all the chart moves around them.

● Planets are divided in 3 categories: PERSONAL, SOCIAL & GENERATIONAL

⎯ Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, & Mars are called PERSONAL/INNER PLANETS and they are the most important in a chart as they are the fastest moving ones in the sky and can change more rapidly than Generational/Outer ones. They are the roots of one's personality, the core of each individual.

⎯ Saturn & Jupiter are the SOCIAL PLANETS as their orbit is neither slow or fast and are intermediaries between personal and generational, they represent both individual and social themes, such as morals, values ethics and ideals, as well as society structure and boundaries.

⎯ Uranus, Neptune & Pluto are the GENERATIONAL/OUTER/SPIRITUAL PLANETS and can be considered as secondary to the Personal Planets due to being way slower and can take years to change from sign to sign, indicating characteristics of entire generations/that apply on a larger scale.

⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯

The following descriptions are based on some books I've read, written by professional and experienced astrologers:

(¹) "The Contemporary Astrologer's Handbook" by Sue Tompkins

(²) "Hellenistic Astrology" by Chris Brennan

(³) "The Twelve Houses" by Howard Sasportas

(⁴) "Saturn: a New Look to an Old Devil" by Liz Greene & Robert Hand

(⁵) "On The Heavenly Spheres" by Helena Avelar & Luis Ribeiro

(⁶) "Exploring Jupiter" by Stephen Arroyo

(⁷) "The Jupiter/Saturn Conference Lectures (Lectures on Modern Astrology)" by Liz Greene & Robert Hand

(⁸) "Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice" by Demetra George & Chris Brennan

♄ SATURN (I discipline) - control, inhibition, limitation, restriction, lack, sense of responsability, discipline, pain, patience, calmness under fire, frustration, hard work, self-denial, "right and wrong", fears, deny, delay, opposing development, the cold harsh reality of things, realistic attitude, prudent, boundaries, limits, rules, regulations, the father and authority figures (along with the Sun), strictness, authority, difficulty, the area where we are fearful and experience pain/anxiety especially at a young age, where we feel we're not good enough, where we inhibit ouselves, time, the shadow, "areas of our chart can feel awkward, graceless and clumsy – in early life at least", the voice of our conscience, punishment, inferiority complex, ironically also the area in which we excel, inadequacy, work vocation, harsh lessons, skin, bones, aging process, old age, teeth, deficiency, nails.

♃ JUPITER (I expand) - wisdom, ethics, morals, luck, gambling, larger-than-life attitude, exaggeration, opportunities, optimism, faith, blind confidence, generosity, abundance, ecxess, benevolence, charitable spirit, prosperity, wealth, abundance, joy, growth, expansion, buoyant attitude, entertainment, greed, "I want more and more", constant dissatisfaction and wanting more, urge to explore, long travels both physical than mental, higher education, beliefs (both religious and not), search for meaning, society and its laws/administration, "getting away with murder", hypocrisy, god-complex, grandiosity, politicians, salesmen, clergy, false appearence of virtue, arrogance, affluence and influence, extravagance, indulgence, aunts and uncles, body fat, the liver.

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MASTERLIST

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WQBY

Top 140 for the week ending November 26, 2023

Other Boys -Marshmello, Dove Cameron -1/10weeks ''peak 1x2 the weeks of 11/19, 11/26''

I'll Be There -Robin Schulz, Rita Ora, Tiago PZK -3/6weeks

See You Again -Vicetone, Anna Clendenning -2/9weeks ''1x2 the weeks of 11/5, 11/12''

Spend the Night -BJ the Chicago Kid, Coco Jones -7/10weeks

Strangers -Kenya Grace --4/6weeks ''peak3''

Diamond Therapy --Diplo, Walker & Royce, Channel Tres -6/8weeks

One Last Dance -Imanbek, Ali Gatie -8/9weeks

Go Off -- Mike Candys -5/9weeks ''peak5''

^Good Morning --Timmy Trumpet, Alie Farber, YOU -12/7 weeks ''peak4'' ^

Summertime Friends --The Chainsmokers -10/10weeks '' peak1x2 the weeks of 10/22, 10,29''

More Baby --Chris Lake, Aluna -13/10weeks ''peak5''

Hangin' On - A R I Z O N A -11/13weeks ''peak1x4 the weeks of 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15''

Wanna Dance --Alie Farber, James Carter, VARGEN -9/8weeks ''peak9''

Nevada -Vicetone, Cozi Zuehisdorff -14/6weeks

AEIOU --PNAU, Empire of the Sun -28/6weeks

At Your Worst--Calum Scott -18/12weeks ''peak5''

Living In A Haze--Milky Chance -22/21weeks ''peak2x2''

Sorry Now --A R I Z O N A --15/7weeks ''peak5''

Jungle --Alok, The Chainsmokers, Mae Stephens -25/10weeks

One With the Wolves --Robin Schulz -23/13weeks ''peak7''

Stress You --Lucas Estrada, SUPER Hi -21/9weeks

Dark Skies --A R I Z O N A -31/7weeks

Dreaming --Marshmello, Pink, Sting -26/4weeks

Drums --James Hype, Kim Petras -24/7weeks

***Waiting --LP Giobbi, Redfield, DJ Rae - (new)

Dreamteam --Galantis, Neon Trees -64/3weeks

Get Dirty --Return of the Jaded, Tommie Sunshine -27/3weeks

Tension --Kylie Minogue -99/3weeks

Boyfriend --USHER -17/13weeks ''peak10''

Light On --Markus Schulz, Sarah de Warren -34/18weeks ''peak10x2''

Tied to You --Elderbrook -19/9weeks ''peak2''

Your Hired --NEIKED, Ayra Starr -140/7weeks

Strangely Sentimental --Anabel Englund -16/24weeks ''peak1x1 the week of 9.3.23''

Jealous --Pascal Letoublon, IZKO, Jordan Rys -113/2weeks

From this Day On --Andrew Rayel, JES -30/22weeks ''peak1x2 the weeks of 9/10, 9/17''

Following The Sun --SUPER Hi, NEEKA -32/17weeks ''peak4''

Elevator Eyes --Tove Lo -33/13weeks ''peak9''

Body Count --Jason Derulo -35/13weeks ''peak12''

De Selby Part 2 --Hozier -36/17weeks ''peak5''

Moon --Locklead -41/12weeks ''peak26''

Lost & Found --Gorgon City, DRAMA -39/18weeks ''peak8''

Stranger On A Train --SUPER Hi -42/13weeks ''peak25''

The Beautiful Letdown -Switchfoot, Jonas Brothers -43/12weeks ''peak17''

It's In My Head --Provoker -44/8weeks ''peak19''

Smiley Water --Mike. -46/10weeks ''peak24

***You --Svidden, Seeb -(new)

We Could Be Love --Hayden James -47/11weeks ''peak38''

Dressed For A Funeral ---Groupthink, Sunday Scaries -38/25weeks ''peak 16''

eMtunzini --Muzi -37/15weeks ''peak12''

Jacare --Sofi Tukker -49/28weeks ''peak2''

Why You? --Adam Melchor -40/11weeks ''peak20''

Heat Rising--Pete Tong, Jem Cooke, Jules Buckley -117

Hip Trumpets ---Yolando Be Cool, KVISION -53/11weeks ''peak20''

Die For A Night --A R I Z O N A -55/27weeks ''peak1x3 the weeks of 8/13, 8/20, 8/27''

In My Zone --S.O. GIDI -122/11weeks

We Should Get Married --Dan & Shay -56

It's Euphoric --Georgia -45/29weeks ''peak19''

Vogue --NOIZE -58/8weeks ''peak35''

What We Know --Lucas & Steve, Conor Byrne -65/7weeks

All Night --Charlie Houston -60/9weeks

Padam Padam --Kylie Minogue -50/21weeks ''peak2''

Champagne Shit --Janelle Monae, Latto, Quavo -63/5weeks

Bite Marks --Ari Abdul -62/4weeks

Makeba --JAIN (Ian Asher remix) -48 /10weeks ''peak42''

Down Like That --Bryson Tiller -61/11weeks

What Do You Do? --Jess Glynne -124

Waiting 4 U --Laidback Luke, Ralphi, (Jake Silva Remix) -118/12weeks

Weird & Bizarre --Posh Chocolates -123/6weeks ''peak30''

Phone--MEDUZA, Em Beihold, Sam Tompkins (Lili Chan remix) -68/2weeks

Dress Code --Mau P -66/7weeks

Just Think --Video Age -72/3weeks

In The City --Charlie XCX, Sam Smith -70

Dare--Gorillaz -29 (throwback comeback)

Midnight Zone --Astrality, TAPE ANGEL -69

The Tower --Future Islands -97/2weeks

Run Free (Countdown) -- Tiesto, R3HAB -71

If Only I --Loud Luxury, Two Friends, Bebe Rexha -51/17weeks ''peak9''

Motive--Armin Van Buuren -52/19weeks ''peak8''

The Feeling--Lost Frequencies -54/7weeks

The Worst Person Alive --G Flip -57/15weeks ''peak38''

Subterranean --Miss Monique, AVIRA, LUNA -81/7weeks

Moonlight--Laidback Luke, GATTUSO f/Antrex -5915weeks ''peak15''

Joy (Up the Street) -Joy Anonymous -73/3weeks

Fight My Demons --Yung Bae, Barney Bones, Levan Kali -74/4weeks

Feel It (Club Edit) -Jazzy -75/7weeks

Ohh LALA --Idris Elba, Sasha Gigi -76/4weeks

Save My Love --Destiny Rogers -93/4weeks

To Love Someone --Benson Boone -20/2weeks

Blur ---KREAM, Marlo Rex -77/7weeks

Heartbeat Highway---Cannons -78/2weeks

Made Up My Mind ---Jonah Kagen, Lily Meola -79/2weeks

Killing Me ---Conan Gray-103/2weeks

Cheap Thrills --Walker & Royce, Barney Bones -100/2weeks

Fall Again ---Hayla -82/2weeks

Never Trust A Liar----Bae & Her Business -111/2weeks

Turn You Up ---Kaskade, Winn Winn -83/4weeks

Jaguar --Yaeger -98/2weeks

Stranger ---Thomas Day -106/2weeks

On My Way ---SIDEPIECE f/ Faouzia -88/7weeks

Overdrive ---Ofenbach, Norma Jean Martine -94/2weeks

Directions --Biskuwi -61/2weeks

Rinse It -Devault -80/3weeks

Rescue Me -Andrew Rayel -84/3weeks

Forever Gold -Siskin -85/7weeks

Can't Take It Slow -Citizen -86/4weeks

Shades -Andrew Rayel -87/2weeks

The Greatest Thing Alive --Mark Knight, Green Velvet, James Hurr -89/4weeks

Desire -Nicky Romero, TELYKAST, Linney -90/7weeks

It's Gone -Kaskade, Crayskool -91/4weeks

Alone -Andrew Rayel, Amanda Collis -92/4weeks

Heart Still Beating --Nathan Dawe, Bebe Rexha -95/2weeks

Bigger Than the Song -Brittney Spencer -96/8weeks

Guarantee -Black Eyed Peas, J Rey Soul -101/8weeks (off next wk)

Alcohol -X Ambassadors, BRELAND -102/2weeks (off next weeks)

The Little Mushroom that Got Away -Sultan+Shepard, Lane8 -104/7weeks

Fever -Lewis Thompson, PUNCTUAL, HIGHT -105/7weeks

Collide -Nightlaspe, FABER -108/2weeks

Talk -Elly Duhe -109/2weeks

Houdini --Dua Lipa -110/2weeks

Memories -Sam Feldt, Sofiloud -112/4weeks

Closer -Fetish -114/2weeks

Stardust -Jazzy -115/3weeks

Strong Enough -Jonas Bros. & Bailey Zimmerman -116/2weeks

Simulation -Showtek -119/2weeks

Lighter -Steve Aoki, Paris Hilton -120/4weeks

Bitter -Freya Ridings -121/11weeks

Ecstasy -MEDUZA, GENESI -125/5weeks

My Own Advice --William Black, ILLENIUM, Aluna Springsteen -126/5weeks

Sad Forever -Lauren Spencer Smith -127/6weeks (off next weeks)

You're So High -Eli & Fur -128/7weeks

Preacher --Ownboss, Outflux, No/Me -129/4weeks

Better Off (Alone Part III) -Alan Walker, Dash Berlin, VIKKSTAR -130/5weeks

Me & My Guitar -Jax Jones, Fireboy DML -131/11weeks

Heard It Like This -ACRAZE, Joey Valence & Brae -132/4weeks

Sunday--Dermont Kennedy -133/4weeks

On My Love -Zara Larson, David Guetta -134/9weeks

One Of the Girls --Troye Sivan -135/4weeks

It Takes Two --Camila Cabello, Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake -136/4weeks

Location -Lost Frequencies, A7S -137/5weeks

Dancing at the Disco -J Worra, Cherry Tooth -138/6weeks

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Meet the Competing Voice Actors!

After the preliminaries and days of deliberating, here are you VOICE ACTORS COMPETING! One will take home the spot of Tumblr's Favorite Voice Actor!

A note before they are introduced! If you would like to support any of them send in an ask or make propaganda, any propaganda you make and post yourself should have me tagged! As well using the tags #favevabracket or #favevabracket2023!

And a quick reminder about the two rules that will be staying active!

No harrassment, hate, or vitriol will be tolerated. We are here to celebrate the work of voice actors not tear each other down

This is all for fun! Do not take it super seriously!

Good luck to all of our competitors!

Kirby Morrow

Rob Paulsen

Robbie Daymond

Tiana Camacho

Alex Hirsch

Khoi Dao

Megumi Ogata

Ray Chase

Sungwon Cho

tara strong

Yuri Lowenthal

Alejandro Saab

Billy Kametz

Billy West

bryce papenbrook

Cree Summer

Grey DeLisle-Griffin

Kevin Conroy

Phil Lamar

Zach Aguilar

Zeno Robinson

AJ Michalka

Alex Brightman

Allegra Clark

Ashley Johnson

Christopher R. Sabat

Daws Butler

Eartha Kitt

Erika Harlacher-Stone

Frank Welker

J. Michael Tatum

Jack De Sena

Jason Griffith

JK Simmons

John DiMaggio

June Foray

Kristen Schaal

Mark Hamill

Richard Horvitz

Steve Blum

Tom Kenny

Wendie Malick

Aaron Dismuke

Aaron Paul

Aimee Carrero

Alison Brie

Ami Koshimizu

Angela Bassett

Ashley Ball

ashly burch

Avi Roque

Ayumu Murase

Ben Schwartz, baby!

BETH MAY

bill farmer

Bill Scott

brandon rogers

Caitlin Glass

Casey Kasem

Cassandra Lee Morris

Cecil Baldwin

Christine Cavanaugh

Clark Duke

Colleen Clinkenbeard

Daman Mills

Dan Castellaneta

Dan Provenmire

Dani Chambers

Dante Basco

Dave Fennoy

David Tennant

Deedee Magno Hall

Deven Mack

Doris Grau

Doug Boyd

Dylan Marron

Elizabeth Maxwell

EG Daily

Elijah Wood

Ellen McLain

Eric Vale

Erin Fitzgerald

Josey Montana McCoy

Greg Chun

Gu Jiangshan

Guilherme Briggs (brazilian)

Haley Tju

Harry Shearer

Haruka tomatsu

Helen Gould

Hynden Walch

Jack McBrayer

Jackson Publick

Jaime Lynn Marchi

Jason Griffith

Jason Liebrecht

jason marsden

Jennifer Hale

Jerry Jewell

Jim Cummings

Jim Ward

John Burgmeier

John Swasey

Johnny Yong Bosch

Julie Kavner

Justin Cook

Kaiji Tang

Katey Sagal

Kdin Jenzen

Keith David

Ken Sansom

Kent William

Kevin Brighting

Kevin R Free

Kieran Reagan

Kimberly Brooks

Kimiko glenn

Kyle Igneczi

Kyle McCarley

Laura Bailey

Lauren Tom

Leah Clark

Liam O’Brien

Lorenzo Music

Lucien Dodge

Lucille Bliss

Lydia Mackay

Lydia Nicholas

Maddie Blaustein

Mae Questel

Mae Whitman

Maggie Robertson

Mara Wilson

Mark Oliver

Matthew Mercer

Matthew Zahnzinger

Maurice LaMarche

Max Mittelman

Mel Blanc

Melissa Hutchinson

Michael Adamthwaite

Micheal Sinterniklaas

Mike Judge

Monical rial

Natsuki Hanae

Nicole Tompkins

Olivia Olson

Olivia Wilde

P.M. Seymour

Parker Simmons

Patricia Ja Lee

Patrick Pedraza

Paul Castro Jr

Paul Frees

Penny Parker

Pete Gustin ( i think thats how it's spelled)

Peter Cullen

Phil Harris

Phil Hartman

Ricco Fajardo

Roger Craig Smith

Roz Ryan

Sandra Oh

Sarah Miller-Crews

Sayaka Ohara

Scatman Crothers

Scott Adsit

Scott Mcneil

Stanley Tucci

Stephanie Beatriz

Stephen Merchant

Steve Whitmore

Tabitha st Germain

Takaya Kuroda

Tom Kane

Tress McNeil

Veronica Taylor

Vincent Tong

Will Arnett

Yasuo Yamada

Zach Callison

Bobbie Moyinhan

Josh Brener

Andrew Francis

Brent Millar

Sebastian Todd

Kestin Howard

Lizzy Hofe

Andy Cowley

Todd Haberkorn

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Russi Taylor

[docrotten]

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1960) – Episode 171 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“Sterile?” Yes, sterile! And they weren’t talking about surgical instruments. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they blast off to the distant future of… 2024? The movie is Beyond the Time Barrier (1960).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 171 – Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

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ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

In 1960, a military test pilot is caught in a time warp that propels him to the year 2024 where he finds a plague has sterilized the world’s population.

  Director: Edgar G. Ulmer

Writer: Arthur C. Pierce

Produced by: Robert Clarke (produced by); Robert L. Madden (executive producer); John Miller (executive producer)

Casting by: Baruch Lumet (uncredited), Sidney Lumet (uncredited)

Music by: Darrell Calker

Production Design by: Ernst Fegté

Makeup Department:

Corinne Daniel (hairdresser) (as Corrine Daniel)

Jack P. Pierce (makeup creator) (NOT the mutants!)

Special Effects by: Roger George

Costumer: Jack Masters

Selected Cast:

Robert Clarke as Maj. William Allison

Darlene Tompkins as Princess Trirene

Arianne Ulmer as Capt. Markova (as Arianne Arden)

Vladimir Sokoloff as The Supreme

Stephen Bekassy as Gen. Karl Kruse

John Van Dreelen as Dr. Bourman (as John van Dreelen)

Boyd ‘Red’ Morgan as Captain (as Red Morgan)

Ken Knox as Col. Marty Martin

Don Flournoy as Mutant

Tom Ravick as Mutant

Neil Fletcher as Air Force Chief

Jack Herman as Dr. Richman

James ‘Ike’ Altgens as Secretary Lloyd Patterson (as James Altgens)

William Shephard as Gen. York (as William Shapard)

John Loughney as Gen. Lamont

Russ Marker as Col. Curtis (as Russell Marker)

Arthur C. Pierce as Mutant Escaping from Jail (uncredited)

Malcolm Thompson as Guard (uncredited)

While testing the latest and greatest airship just above the atmosphere, Major William Allison (Robert Clarke) accidentally travels to the apocalyptic future of… 2024! Little did they know. Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) is a low-budget, sci-fi B-picture from director Edgar G. Ulmer (The Black Cat, 1934; Detour, 1945) and writer Arthur C. Pierce (The Cosmic Man, 1959; The Human Duplicators, 1965). To Chad’s dismay, the plot includes a lot of walking and talking across a set filled with inverted pyramids. Oh, and the mutants… sigh. Check out what the Grue Crew has to say about this B&W, time-travel trainwreck. Also, stick around for the usual batch of feedback from past episodes. 

You might also want to check out these Decades of Horror: The Classic Era episodes:

THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON (1958) – Episode 41: w/Robert Clarke as writer, director, producer, and star

THE BLACK CAT (1934) – Episode 67: directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff

At the time of this writing, Beyond the Time Barrier is available for streaming from the Classic Sci-Fi Movie Channel, Amazon Prime, and Tubi. The film is available on physical media as a Blu-ray from Kino Lorber in the Edgar G. Ulmer Sci-Fi Collection, a trio of films that also includes The Man from Planet X (1951) and The Amazing Transparent Man (1960).

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by guest host Michael Zatz, is The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), another silent scream starring Lon Chaney! Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Incidentally, this will be the Classic Era’s tenth discussion of a silent film.

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”

Check out this episode!

[byneddiedingo]

Matt Damon and Tony Hale in The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009) Cast: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Thomas F. Wilson, Tom Papa, Rick Overton, Tony Hale. Screenplay: Scott Z. Burns, based on a book by Kurt Eichenwald. Cinematography: Steven Soderbergh. Production design: Doug J. Meerdink. Film editing: Stephen Mirrione. Çomposer: Marvin Hamlisch. Both Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) and The Informant! are based on true stories about people who exposed corporate malfeasance. But while the former movie was a solid piece of entertainment showcasing a star turn for Julia Roberts, it was also one that could have been made by any good director. The Informant! is the work of an auteur, a director with a distinct, even idiosyncratic style and a clear point of view, a measure of how Steven Soderbergh has grown in technique and confidence. You can sense that from the gratuitous exclamation point appended to the title and the clunky font, redolent of rock posters from the psychedelic era, that has been imposed on the screen credits. Soderbergh is out to play with our expectations of what a film about a whistleblower cooperating with the FBI should be like. The cast is full of comedians and actors who usually play comedy, such as Joel McHale, Tony Hale, Scott Adsit, Patton Oswalt, Paul F. Tompkins, and both Smothers Brothers -- Tom is a senior executive at Archer Daniels Midland and Dick is a judge -- all of them playing it straight. Their presence creates a kind of tension in the film: We keep expecting them to break out into familiar comic shtick -- for Tony Hale, for example, as Mark Whitacre's continually surprised lawyer to turn into the busybody political factotum he played on Veep -- but they don't. Soderbergh's ironic tone is designed to fit the facts: Mark Whitacre may have been out to expose the crookedness rife at ADM by cooperating with the FBI, but he was a crook himself. We begin to sense that Whitacre may be a little bit off when we start hearing his thoughts in voiceover, meditations on polar bears and butterflies and anything else that crosses his mind, a delicious stream of consciousness that doesn't begin to hint at the complications of the character. Matt Damon gives one of his best performances as the chubby, cheerful, and morally unhinged Whitacre, and Scott Z. Burns, who had previously written a very different character for Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass, 2007), gives him wonderful things to say and do. Under his pseudonym, Peter Andrews, Soderbergh is his own cinematographer for The Informant! and he chooses slightly faded colors and casts a soft haze over many scenes, creating a subtly dated atmosphere for a film set in the early '90s, the era before ubiquitous cell phones and laptops. 

[marcmarcmomarc]

Kingdom Hearts IV predictions

Kingdom of Corona (Tangled)

Takes place after the movie.

Is visited by Donald and Goofy.

The inhabitants are, of course, thrilled to see Donald and Goofy again, but are sad to hear about Sora’s sacrifice.

Starring the voices of

Bob Bergen as Pascal

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Kelsey Lansdowne as Rapunzel Fitzherbert

Zachary Levi as Eugene Fitzherbert

Chris Marlow as Big Nose

Ron Perlman as Sideburns Stabbington

Stephen Stanton as Attila Buckethead

Paul F. Tompkins as Shorty

Kari Wahlgren as Queen Ariana

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FRANCO PASCALI from Jacob Rosenberg on Vimeo.

When I met Franco Pascali, I was struck by how much I felt like I was meeting and hanging out with a young street skater. However, instead of witnessing skate tricks he destroyed me by his usage of cards. Much like the world of skateboarding that I was raised in, magic and cardistry are intensely personal and individually orientated in terms of the endless practice that is required to master them. Tricks are performed with decks and each person embodies a style that is distinctly their own. That style is reflective of the influences they devoured when they were coming up and their intrinsic sensibility that they develop as they mature. As I spent time with Franco I immediately wanted to point my camera at him to capture the way he dressed, the way he talked, the breathtaking way he moved cards and the feeling I had in encountering such raw talent. This is our first film.

Franco Pascali is 19 years-old and lives in Los Angeles. He is a director of magic at Theory11.  IG - @francopascali

Director - Jacob Rosenberg Director of Photography - Logan Triplett Editor - Chris Amos Composer - Steffen Thum Colorist - Tom Poole Sound Mixer - Matt Miller Additional Music - Tomas Pascali Assistant Camera - Matt Tompkins Stylist - Emily Nagrecha Producers - Ari Palitz & Kevin McMahon Executive Producer - Ryan Slavin Production Company – The Reserve Featuring - Franco Pascali, Fatty Dabs, Alexander Hansford, Simon Black, Chris Mitchell Editorial Services Provided by Final Cut LA Color Correction provided by Company 3 Music Provided by 14th Street Music Sound Mix provided by Lime Studios Cameras provided by 2020 Camera Rental

Special Thanks: Queenie Li, Lorne Balfe, Hana Leshner, Tim Hanaseth, Suzy Ramirez, Jeff Buchanan, Eric McCasline, Alexandra Lubrano, Jenny Montgomery, Chris Adams, RVCC LA, Stephen Vanasco, The Smog Check Center, Canter's, Dena Stein, Tierra Caliente.

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Psycho Analysis: Halloween Special Villains

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

Ah, Halloween, that magical, spooky time of year where ghosts and goblins come out to play and children dress up in the hopes of getting some delicious Halloween candy. But what about all of us who are trapped at home on the night of this pagan costume and candy festival? What do we have to keep us entertained?

Why, Halloween specials of course!

If there’s one thing Halloween delivers on almost as well as Christmas does, it’s spooky Halloween-themed episodes of cartoons, where the show is allowed to get darker and more disturbing than it usually does in some cases. And what is any special without a special one-shot villain? Gotta have someone stirring up some Halloween trouble on this spooky night. And since these characters are usually one and done with little in the way to go super in-depth about, I’d figure we’d look at five of them at once! They are:

Jack O’Lantern from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Pumpkinator from The Fairly OddParents

Bun-Bun from Underfist

Fright Night from Danny Phantom

Ron Tompkins from Toy Story of Terror!

I’m sure some of you feel there are some glaring omissions. Where’s the Flying Dutchman? Where’s Stickybeard? Well, I decided that this time around I’d go with characters whose major appearances and debuts are Halloween episodes; both those guys had major roles in non-Halloween episodes as well, so I’ll be saving them for full reviews at a later date. Also of note: I am aware the story of Toy Story of Terror! does not take place on Halloween, but it is aired as a Halloween special, so I’m counting it.

Actor: So if there’s one thing these guys aren’t lacking in, it’s the actor department, and this isn’t a huge shock since when you’ve got a holiday special you want to splurge a bit, you know?

Jack has one of my favorite actors ever, the always-awesome Wayne Knight. Knight just has that sort of voice that’s perfect for smug jerk characters like Mr. Blik or Dennis Nedry, so really it’s pretty fitting for a pranking trickster like Jack, though I will say that it’s hard to match Knight’s voice to the human version of Jack when you see him in a flashback.

Ron Tompkins isn’t too far behind in the impressive VA department, being voiced by none other than Stephen Tobolowsky, who you may remember as the overbearing Ned Ryerson from GroundHog Day (and how can you forget him? You see him repeating the same scene about thirty times). He does a great job at making Tompkins cartoonishly evil and mostly enjoyable, a tall order for a character who steals toys from children to sell online.

And if you thought the list of awesome actors was done, boy were you wrong! Star Trek’s very own Michael Dorn voices the Fright Knight, and Dorn’s voice is absolutely perfect for a cool, evil, undead knight.

Bun-Bun is voiced by Dave Wittenberg who is an insanely prolific VA, playing characters such as Henry Wong from Digimon Tamers (AKA the beast season of Digimon) to none other than Kakashi from Naruto. I think it goes without saying a VA this versatile manages to make the role work.

And finally, we have the Pumpkinator, who is played by Dee Bradley Baker, and if I sat here listing all the notable roles this man has played we’d be here all night. But here’s a small sample: Appa, Momo, Squilliam Fancyson and Bubble Bass, Klaus the goldfish, Cow and Chicken’s dad, Cinderblock and Plasmus, the Alien and Predator in Mortal Kombat, Lion and Frybo, Numbah 4 and the Toilenator, Remy Buxaplenty, most of the animals in The Legend of Korra… you get the picture. This guy’s a legend. He’ll do any sort of role, big or small, so even if he’s not playing the most complex character here, he’s at least giving it a unique spin with his voice because man, this guy has RANGE.

Motivation/Goals: Jack has a rather simple motivation: revenge. You see, ages ago he managed to steal Grim’s scythe when he was about to be reaped, and bartered for the scythe’s return, asking to be made immortal. Grim reluctantly gave him this, but, as Grim is not someone who likes being tricked, also cut his head off. As anything cut off with Grim’s scythe is permanently cut off, Jack had to replace his head with a pumpkin (of course). This lead to him being shunned as a freak, which just made jis desire for vengeance even stronger; I mean, wouldn’t you want revenge if you could only go to the ding-dong grocery store to get pudding once a year?

If you want to get even simpler, the Pumpkinator is your guy! He exists simply to blow up planets. Tat’s it. He’s very much just an obstacle Timmy needs to overcome so that he can undo his wish for every Halloween costume to be “real and scary” before the consequences end up destroying the world.

Bun-Bun is rather simple as well: he just seems to be a jerk. But they don’t just make him a simple jerk, no, this is a Billly & Mandy spinoff so things have to be taken to their ridiculous extreme. Bun-Bun turns out to be behind numerous extremely petty actions that affected the lives of the main heroes, having haunted Hoss as a child and made him afraid of monsters, made Billy afraid of spiders which estranged him from his son Jeff, and, uh, sawed off Fred Fredburger’s tusks. The fiend! As you might guess, there’s no real rhyme or reason to this, it’s just goofy absurdist over-the-top sort of thing you’d expect from Maxwell Atoms.

Ron has a relatively simple motivation, but frankly it might be the most evil out of all of these: the man steals toys from the children who stay at his motel to sell them for monetary gain. Yes, this is more evil than attempting to blow up the planet, you heard me. I have no idea how sick and twisted you have to be to think that stealing toys from children is acceptable. Funnily enough, this is the same sort of motivation Al (who was played by Wayne Knight, funnily enough) from Toy Story 2 had, though Ron takes it above and beyond.

And finally that brings us to Fright Knight, Much like most of the ghosts on the show, Fright Knight seems to just want to cause a ruckus after he’s released, attempting to take over Amity Park when Danny foolishly releases him. Later in the show he is freed to serve Pariah Dark, and after Dark is beaten he joins up with Vlad. In his final appearance of any consequence he is seen serving the Ultimate Enemy in the bad future. Basically the guy is just a really cool overhyped henchman.

Personality: So let’s get the easy one out of the way first: The Pumpkinator doesn’t exactly have a personality, because it is a big generic doomsday villain meant to act as an obstacle for Timmy to overcome. However, when it returned later in the episode where Timmy goes to Unwish Island, it did have one notable personality trait: an undying hatred for Timmy Turner, It’s a pretty relatable trait the more into the series you watch.

Bun-Bun is also rather evil and simple. He’s just a petty jerk, as can be seen by his crimes listed up under motivation. There’s not much else to him, same with Fright Knight who, again, is mostly just an overhyped henchman who acts as the hardcore badass serving whatever big bad of the week is out to get Danny (or he would have, but more on that later).

Out of all of these, Ron and Jack have the most personality. Jack is an unrepentant prankster who, at least when alive, was heavily implied to just not get he was taking it too far with his pranks (“too far” in this case being tricking people off of cliffs, at the least), and simply morphed into a bitter, jaded, vengeance-seeking supernatural entity after hundreds of years of rejection by society and isolation. Jack’s honestly pretty tragic in that regard, though it obviously doesn’t excuse his actions.

Ron is just a straight-up jerk, putting up a facade of being a charming, friendly motel owner while stealing toys from under his guest’s noses. As the truth comes out about him, he becomes more cartoonish and hammy, which really doesn’t help his case at all, and in his final scene he actually does something so cartoonish he almost feels like he doesn’t belong in the Toy Story universe.

Final Fate: Funnily enough, Pumpkinator actually gets the happiest ending out of anyone here: after being unwished by Timmy, he goes to Unwish Island and, after Timmy eventually journeys there, gets to have fun tormenting Timmy clones for the rest of time.

Ron probably has the second happiest ending, for a given definition of “happy.” Bonnie’s mother calls the cops on him for his theft, and when they show up, he somehow manages to trick them, run away, steal their car, crash it into a telephone pole when backing up, and then run off before they even move a muscle. It’s ridiculously cartoonish, and there’s no way this guy is gonna be getting off easy after that little display.

Onto Bun-Bun. Bun-Bun made one simple mistake: he put any trust at all int Skarr. For those not in the know, Skarr was the “Starscream” to Hector Con Carne, always hoping to overthrow him and take over his world domination schemes for himself before he ended up retiring from that life and becoming a reoccurring character on Billy & Mandy. So, when he joins up with the villain by betraying Underfist, what do you think he does? He betrays the villain, pushing Bun-Bun into hot cocoa and melting him, using his power of treachery and backstabbing to help his team save the world. It’s pretty amusing in that classic Billy & Mandy way.

Good ol’ Jack ends up getting sent to the underworld this time since Grim wasn’t putting up with his crap anymore, and it seems Jack still hasn’t learned his lesson about pranking. When last we see him, he’s now tormenting demons, who all start moving in on him while he laughs at his dumb pranks. The screen cuts to black and we hear a squishing noise. It’s safe to say he won’t have to worry about that pumpkin head causing him problems anymore.

Fright Night is easily the most tricky one to talk about because his entire intended purpose in the show got aborted. After he was brought back to serve Pariah, he ended up under Vlad’s control by episode’s end, but for some reason, nothing ever came of this and it was never mentioned again – well, except in the “Ultimate Enemy” special, in which the Fright Knight cameos at the beginning, acting as something of the hype man for Dan Phantom, softening up Amity Park for Dan’s attack. After that, though, he’s basically out of the series, save for a couple of brief cameos here and there.

Best Scene: Jack has the flashback to his origins, because not only is it perfectly dark for a show’s Halloween episode, you have to give props to anyone who managed to outwit Grim, even if he did end up paying a steep price for it.

Ron has his aforementioned escape from the police. I do think it’s a bit too cartoonish and silly for Toy Story, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t pretty hilarious either way.

The Fright Knight has the aforementioned scene where he mentions he’s serving The evil future Danny. Considering that’s his last real role in the series, at least he got to go out on a high note, though it still sucks nothing ever came of the plotlines set up for him.

Bun-Bun’s best scene is when he revealed that he was the architect of most of the protagonist’s woes. Again, it’s just classic over-the-top Billy & Mandy silliness, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

The Pumpkinator… just doesn’t have one. Sorry.

Best Quote: While most of these guys aren’t exactly a goldmine of quotes, Jack has one of my favorite quotes from anything, ever, and I even already referenced it above: “Three hundred and sixty-four days a year, I can't even go the the ding-dong grocery store to buy pudding! And do you know why?" The why, obviously, is the fact he has a pumpkin for a head.

Final Thoughts & Score: Frankly, this batch of Halloween hooligans is a very mixed bag. We didn’t fare quite as bad as Charlie Brown did on Halloween, but we only got one King Size candy bar out of this lot.

I guess let’s just start with the black licorice of the bunch: Fright Knight. God, I wish I could love Fright Knight, I really do, but considering the overwhelming quality of most of Danny’s rogues gallery and just the fact this guy was totally shafted and everything set up for him was ignored there’s just no excusing how lame this guy looks, Michael Dorn or no. He has a great design and a cool concept, and the ideas for interesting stories with him were there, but he ends up being a 3/10, saved only by his cool first outing, great voice work, and awesome design.

Worse still is the pile of weirdly flavored candy corn that is the Pumpkinator. He has a cool design, but he’s not much of an antagonist to be honest. He’s just a cool-looking robot who wants to blow up the planet. That’s about it. There’s really not much to say about this guy, and his only other appearance doesn’t really add much. I suppose he serves his purpose, but I have to wonder, why even bring him back if he wasn’t going to do anything remotely interesting? I don’t like generic doomsday villains at the best of times, but if you’re gonna bring one back, at least try and do something interesting with them to justify their existence, otherwise they’re just gonna end up getting a 2/10.

Finally, we get into the good candy! Let’s start off with the tasty marshmallow bunny we got, Bun-Bun (isn’t that more of an Easter candy? Weird). Bun—Bun is a funy, goofy, cartoonish villain, perfect for the first (and sadly, only) outing for Underfist. The fact they went above and beyond to cement him as this ludicrous mastermind who just screwed with everyone’s lives for no apparent reason other than the fact he’s a jerk is pretty funny. I don’t think he’s gonna win any Villain of the Year awards, but I think a 6/10 is good enough for this above average nuisance.

Oho, what’s this? A… candycane? Well, it’s a bit out of season, but it’s still tasty! And that’s kind of where Ron is. I do like just how unabashedly scummy he is, and there is precedent for people like him in the Toy Story universe, but I feel he takes things to a cartoonish extreme. For crying out loud, the guy has a trained iguana that acts like a dog! He feels like he belongs in a different series than this one, but again, I don’t really think that’s a bad thing, because at the very least he is funny. He gets a 7/10, a bit higher than usual just because I love how ridiculously nasty his whole scheme is. Stealing from kids, what the actual hell.

YES! A King Size candy bar! Just what I was looking for! It’s just a generic Hershey bar, but hey, that’s a lot of chocolate, so who’s complaining? And that’s Jack, he is simply put a perfect Halloween special antagonist. Most of this comes from his voice work, since Wayne Knight is a national treasure, but his backstory and concept are worth praising too. His origin story is something of a twist on the old legend of “Stingy Jack,” the origin story of the Jack-O’-Lantern appropriately enough. While obviously there are liberties, such as substituting Grim for the devil, it’s a mostly accurate retelling, something that would go over most people’s heads unless they’re really into classical folklore. Jack’s a lot of fun as a character, earning himself a nice big 8/10, only being held back from a higher score because despite being rightfully beloved by audiences, he never really had a major role again, getting a minor shout out in Big Boogey Adventure and… that’s it. I think Jack could have been a really entertaining reoccurring antagonist in the same vein as fwllow ensemble darkhorse Eris, but alas, it was not to be. Maybe if Underfist had been picked up he could have been brought back for that, but the fact is it just didn’t happen. Oh well, might as well appreciate what we got.

And that’s it for this batch of Halloween goodies. Halloween specials seem a lot less prevalent than Christmas specials, but they’re no less important or fun, and as you can see, they do produce at least mildly interesting villains, sometimes. If only they could produce a villain so devilishly Halloweenie that he could perfectly embody the spirit of the holiday…

Hey, what’s that at the bottom of the bag…

Wait… is that…

OH NO.