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Behind the scenes of IT (1990)

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X-Files Season 6 behind the scenes

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Hooptober X

For those of you who use Letterboxd (or who just want something semi-structured to distract you for at least 31 days), Hooptober is on again--31 Horror movies in 31 days, initiated originally by Cinemonster. It is a challenge sort of deal, and I have transferred-over the list criteria from their updated post below. Click-into the link to Cinemonster's list description on Letterboxd to retrieve the Screambox link for a complimentary channel trial. I am starting early, as well, since I have a lot on my plate. Plus I get to start my Halloween celebration early. Again.

Here's the list:

"There must be 31 films 6 countries 8 decades 2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films

1 film with Robert Englund 1 something is underground film 3 Satan/Devil centered films 1 Amicus film. The worst Dracula film (by Letterboxd rating) that you haven't seen and can access. 1 LGBTQ+ connected film 5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson. 2 Peter Cushing films 1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker 1 film based on a Clive Barker story 1 film that was released the year that you turned 10 1 Mario Bava film. 1 film with an 'x' in the title 

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Zodiac Killer and 10 Rillington Place. Like last year, there is a third film: Shaky Shivers."

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“For Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry, as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond consciousness, of the empirical ego.”

— Kathleen Raine, “Yeats, the Tarot and the Golden Dawn”, in Yeats the Initiate (via coroebus)

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The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies (1781) John Downman (English, 1750-1824)

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From The Magical Man of Mirth by Elbridge H. Sabin and illustrated by Abbott & Knipe, 1910.

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“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered natural clowns; they were elected to fulfill a comic role which could allow others to see them as ludicrous rather than as terrible reminders of the forces of disorder in the world. But sometimes a cheerless jester was required to draw attention to this same disorder, as in the case of King Lear’s morbid and honest fool, who of course was eventually hanged, and so much for his clownish wisdom. Clowns have often had ambiguous and sometimes contradictory roles to play.”

— Thomas Ligotti, from The Last Feast of Harlequin

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The Thing by Les Edwards

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Horror Films are Fun

(ABC Film Review Magazine, March 1970)

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Vincent Price as Roderick Usher - The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) dir. Roger Corman

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Julie de Graag (Dutch, 1877–1924)

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Jan Uldrych — The Magician (oil and acrylic on canvas, 2017)

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Run Away Together by Ben Wooten

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Today’s boxing coyotes are from Nebraska Wesleyan University’s 1909 yearbook.

Who will win in these vintage animal fights?.

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The dark hedges, Ireland

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Temperance by s-subIime