I don’t pretend to have any genuine insight into into how to interpret art. To me, though, but this seems like such a perfect image to portray love conquering fear and hatred.
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My Halloween costume!!!
My Halloween costume!!! 🙂
I started out with the pod-person Eric Nolan from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (top), but I couldn’t quite breathe in it. So I switched to the T-1000 liquid metal terminator mimicking Eric Nolan (bottom).
Both are pretty creepy, though!
Next year, I’m going with “The X Files'” Alien Bounty Hunter!
“Bone Tomahawk” (2015) was superb. “Wyatt Earp” meets “Cannibal Holocaust!”
I can’t let Halloween go by without at least one movie recommendation.
DO check out “Bone Tomahawk.”
Let’s get something out of the way first — “Bone Tomahawk” (2015) isn’t only a western. It’s a genre-busting … “horror-western,” as other review sites have called it. It pits four protagonists against a tribe of monstrous “cave dwellers” who have kidnapped two people from their tiny frontier town of “Bright Hope.” And the results at the movie’s end are pretty damned horrifying.
This was superb — I’d give it a 9 out of 10. “Bone Tomahawk” succeeds in being scary and enjoyable simply because it’s a quality film. The script is outstanding, with nuanced, occasionally funny, and ultimately quite likable characters. The four leads — Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox and Richard Jenkins — play the diverse quartet perfectly. I could honestly watch another one or two movies about these guys, even without the horror-movie plot device that this flick employs — and that is coming from a guy…
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My off-brand Halloween decorations.
You shop at Walmart and discount stores for Halloween, you get what you pay for. Observe, for example, the glitter skeleton and its backwards feet.
Seriously, it’s not adjustable. The feet are stuck like that, presumably because of a malfunction at … I dunno, the Halloween glitter skeleton factory. (Maybe it’s spookier, like the dude died because he walked backwards into moving traffic?)
My efforts to paint my own glow-in-the-dark skull also met with meager results, as you can see. The “paint,” which I know understand is meant to be only a kind of temporary, washable, spray-on party “paint,” turned foamy and viscous instantly. It flakes off, too, and loses its luminescence within seconds.
Next year, I am going to be a mature adult, and buy my skeleton-related novelties from the Johnson Smith Company.
What the hell — I still think the pumpkin and the cloaked wraith are pretty cool.
Happy Halloween!!!
W.G. Collingwood’s “Vidar vs. Fenrir,” 1908
[Cue the theme song]
I want a crossover between “Hellraiser” and “Sanford and Son” entitled “The Lamont Configuration.”
WHO’S WITH ME?
Thanks to Mean Meme-Makin’ Blog Correspondent Pete Harrison for the pic.
Herman Hartwich’s “Girl With Cat,” circa 1926
“Sherlock” Season 4 trailer!
“Sherlock” Season 4 arrives in just a little over two months?!
Did “The Abominable Bride” Christmas special really appear nearly a year ago?! I feel like I just wrote a review for it.
I keep telling my girlfriend how “fun” and “witty” this show is, and how its banter and one-liners will crack her up. (There are still people out there who associate Martin Freeman primarily with Bilbo Baggins.) But this trailer makes it look like a goddam John Carpenter film.
For a while now, I’ve been saying that the only thing that could make “Sherlock” better was the addition of Tom Hiddleston. And now I’m reading on spoiler sites that fans are theorizing that he will indeed join the cast?!
Edward Robert Hughes’ “Heart of Snow,” circa 1914
I thought I’d never find a painter whose work I’d love more than that of John William Waterhouse. But Edward Robert Hughes might be the one.
Watercolor.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 