happy halloweeeeeeen

Your coffin or mine?



Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Forever...and ever...and ever.

it's friday, friday

I came across this on tumblr yesterday and not even seconds after I reblogged it, Doxey sent me this message.



And he was right. Following yesterdays Shinning post, please enjoy this 8-bit version of the movie.



And follow me on tumblr.

i will just call this post the shinning because i also do not want to get sued

It is no surprise that The Shining is my favorite movie. What I love almost as much as the movie itself is all of the references out there within movies and television. Here is my list of some of the best of them.

As written recently here, small obsession with Treehouse of Horror, and probably the best of all-time is The Shinning. Obviously a classic and deserved it's out shout out so moving on...

I don't watch Supernatural. I'm sorry. Doxey watches Supernatural so I am sure at some point I will get there. One thing I am aware of regarding the series is their multiple references to The Shining. Just a few of my favorites that are a little more thought out than just dialogue: A not so obvious reference to the nearest city of Sidewinder, a few apartment/room numbers being 237, and basically the entire season 2 episode Playthings. Seriously, why am I not watching this again?

Sid's carpet in Toy Story looks a bit familiar.


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The South Park episode A Nightmare on Facetime loosely follows the plot of the movie where Stan's family purchases an abandoned Blockbuster video only for Stan's dad to be haunted by ghosts and turn into a Jack Torrence-y like maniac.


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One of my favorites is so extremely subtle I did not catch it until the re-watch. Breaking Bad pays a small tribute in season 3. The Salamanca twins murder a police officer with an axe. Minutes before on the police radio you hear a call to KDK-12, the same call letters of the Overlook Hotel.


This 30 Seconds to Mars music video.



Gilmore Girls has five of them (and also has my heart). Mainly verbiage including axes, "here's Johnny" and crazy people.

Crawl Space, one of the earlier episodes of one of the best animated shows ever Bob's Burgers, takes place in a crawl space. Obviously. But with Bob being trapped within the crawl space he starts to hallucinate...about a bar...


PHOTO FROM MY NETFLIX.

And probably the most well-known from Friends.



And this photo because hello obviously.


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be my victim - a victim of scary movies aka how i spent my weekend

Creepy, right?

So this weekend I did what any normal girl would do. I sat myself in front of my laptop and watched countless horror movies, some of which I've seen and some of which embarrassingly I haven't. It was an emotional event for me being that I often pride myself on being a lover of that genre of cinema but I came to the realization that I haven't seen a lot of movies that some would consider "classics". I hadn't seen Poltergeist or The Amityville Horror. Upon reading some lists about some of the best of the horror variety I was told I should watch The Strangers. I also gave my old childhood terror Candyman another shot, though it was daytime because there was absolutely no way I was watching that at night. I watched a few minutes of Cujo as well but decided early that there is no way I will put myself through sad dog movies, even for the sake of this blog post.

As for Amityville I would say of all I watched this weekend it was probably the best. The acting was fairly good and for a movie made in the 70's the cheese was definitely minimal (with the exception of that glowing-eyed pig thing that they never really did explain). It left me feeling the most uneasy which is a very good thing. There was a lot of really awesome bell bottoms and middle hair parts which I will not complain about either. And Josh Brolin sure can rock a beard.

I had much higher hopes for Poltergeist. Honestly, I was disappointed. I love me some Craig T. Nelson but this movie was the epitome of cheese and not in a good way. The little girl was really adorable though. Maybe I didn't pay attention enough honestly losing interest about halfway through, so it is possible I should give it another shot, but it will probably take some convincing and also, a shot. Of something strong.

The Strangers wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. Imagine a fictional world where Ben from Felicity and Cory from Empire Records meet, probably during Ben's summer vacation in Boston (it just seems like he would go there) and get engaged and hang out at his summer house only to be attacked by random, ahem, "strangers" that just picked them to prey on "...because you were home." Tell me where that makes sense? It did have quite a few jumpy moments but not enough to call it good. It was just...done. And I like awful scary movies but this would not be one of my favorites.

I watched Candyman during the day, and that in and of itself is a feat, I must say. That movie scared (scares?) the holy mother of lordys out of me, I kid you not. As an adult (and by the light of day) I have come to appreciate the fact that it's actually a really well-made movie. The plot is hardly cheesy which you wouldn't expect considering it's about a dude with a hook for a hand that appears when you call out his name five times and turn out the light. This was the only urban legend I believed in as a kid and you will never get me in front of a mirror repeating his name, I don't care how grown up I claim to be, it's not happening ever in this lifetime thankyouverymuch. That being sad, I survived and would like to give it a try at night time with several of my friends around me to be sure he doesn't come and gut me.

Now The Shining! THERE'S a movie.

And Cujo? Don't get me started. I remember it devastating me as a child and it devastates me now. Seriously a rabid dog? I have too much of a soft spot for animals, even the sick, infested ones, I watched about 10 minutes and realized that I will never watch that movie again.

I have a feeling in the upcoming weeks leading to Halloween (ONLY THE BEST HOLIDAY EVER) I will indulge in some Blair Witch Project, multiple viewings of The Shining and maybe Psycho because it's been an obscenely long time since I have seen it. Recommendations are always good as well considering I tend to just re*watch movies that I've seen a bunch of times, hence me really only paying attention to a few of these. Hey, I tried.

Last year I wrote a post basically about this same thing but it was more about movies I've seen. Like effing Candyman. Take a look, won't you? And the year before that, there was this gem.

I like scary things a lot, you guys. Even the ones that are lame.

can we skip september

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I love October. I don't hate September but when this time of year rolls around (back to school, hooray for Target commercials) I would be fine if I could skip most of September, or better yet just have two months of October. That would be fine.

I love fall, I love Halloween, I obviously love to watch The Shining on repeat (I do this even in the summer time...and Christmastime, and all the time) so why can't we just have a really long October? I don't think that many people would be opposing.

It's the kick-off to the holidays which a lot of people love, I kind of don't love a whole lot but I don't mind the holidays. You have autumn and leaves and Halloween and all the scary stuff and then it's November and oh the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade that Aadi and I watch every year. Then food and Rebecca Black Friday and hopefully buying a Dyson pet vacuum. Then comes December, the month of my birth (and then the birth of Jesus as well, not that I'm trying to steal anyone's thunder or anything) and Santa and reindeer and snow (I HATE SNOW but I love snow until it SNOWS).

And then the new year. And then it's really boring until next back to school when I start to remember that IT IS ALMOST OCTOBER.

*Shoe photos from last year, all via my instagrammy.

room 237

It has been decided that my favorite movie is The Shining. Mostly Kubrick terrifies me which is surprising that I adore this film as much as I do, but there you have it. Its essentially on repeat every day in October, though I can throw it in the DVD player any day of the year and find it fitting. I've never once been tired of it. I'm still not even sure I understand it, but I know it is love.

That being said, I heard about the documentary Room 237 about a year ago and forgot about it. I figured I'd find it in time when it surfaced, but this weekend, a little bird named Michael Doxey told me that it was available to stream online and that was it. What a way to lose a few hours.

It tells other people's what I like to call, theories, on the production behind the movie. What was Kubrick going for, if anything? There are so many perspectives that these different individuals take that it's beyond interesting. Some of them seem a little far-fetched, and some I felt were "reaching" but there were some theories that made me take a step back and go "yeah, maybe that is why this and this happened. Okay."

So if you're into theories or the movie or any of the above, check it out. If not, Jack Nicholson will haunt your dreams.