Witchery

HOKUM

Saw this gem of a horror film on Saturday and I keep finding myself thinking about it.  Saying this movie has atmosphere is an understatement.  I was already in love with the film by the time I spotted some delightfully crabby jack o'lanterns above a hotel entrance.  Turns out the film is set during the Halloween season (an added bonus).  Carved turnips and small squash abound.  

Adam Scott was brilliant and I can't imagine another actor in the role.  So glad I saw this in the theater too (was planning to wait for it to stream).

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Walpurgisnacht

Walpurgis Night was when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad–when the graves were opened and the dead came forth and walked. When all evil things of earth and air and water held revel. This very place the driver had specially shunned. This was the depopulated village of centuries ago. This was where the suicide lay; and this was the place where I was alone–unmanned, shivering with cold in a shroud of snow with a wild storm gathering again upon me! It took all my philosophy, all the religion I had been taught, all my courage, not to collapse in a paroxysm of fright.

- Bram Stoker, Dracula's Guest

Happy Birthday, Antonio Bay

Another birthday for that special little town founded on the deliberate sinking of a ship of (wealthy) lepers trying to better their lives.  In their defense, the lepers DID plan to move only a mile distant to their cozy little village.  I mean, sure they could have rejected their offer and told them to move elsewhere.  But there was all that gold in their ship.  And that would have helped their village form a charter and blossom into a real town.  

John Carpenter's THE FOG is still the most perfect Ghost Story.  And April 21st will forever be honored as the birthday of the fictitious town of Antonio Bay.  Founded on the principles of deception and murder.  

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Now Playing: Weird Statistics

By The Great Vorelli.

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Southwalk Ritual 2025

Southwalk Cemetery...

Loads of beautiful photos here.

Trailer: Backrooms

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A Haunting

It was known as the "Spook House." That it was tenanted by evil spirits, visible, audible and active, no one in all that region doubted any more than he doubted what he was told of Sundays by the traveling preacher. Its owner's opinion of the matter was unknown; he and his family had disappeared one night and no trace of them had ever been found.

- Ambrose Bierce

Now Playing: Labyrinth

By Lennon Hutton.

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Purgatory Swamp

Been wanting to get a big photoshoot done before I started to repurpose my corpses from Halloween 2025.  This past weekend a friend and I headed into a marsh with seven bodies, seven posts, and a lot of smoke bombs.  It was muddy and wet, and a load of fun.  

As we were going through the photos we took and watching the video at the link below, my friend said the first word that popped into her head was 'Purgatory.'  And I think that fits perfectly.  An in-between place that's silent and still.  Where danger isn't necessarily imminent, but where safety and comfort are most likely miles and miles away.

Click here for a short video.

Haunted

Now Watching: The Tape Library

Been enjoying this youtube channel thoroughly.  Beautifully produced and delightfully creepy.

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