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Movie Review: Midnight Mass (2021)
Letterboxd link: 5 stars Moral: Be careful whom you allow to get between yourself and God. People who need to control everything and always be involved terrify me. I know someone like Bev, and she is actually a church person. I love the metaphor of “Crock Pot” Island; a crock
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Movie Review: The Lost Boys (1987)
Letterboxd link: 5 stars, of course Saw this on the big screen for the first time since it came out—then I was 15, Sam’s now I am the age of his mom, Lucy. But no! My friend that accompanied me looked up Dianne Wiest’s age at the
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Episode 72: What’s Your Motivation, Heather?
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What's Your Motivation, Heather?: 72
Show notes: In which Carla explores the horror subgenre found footage, and its subgenre internet horror Creepypasta + r/creepypasta CreepyGaming, NoSleep Ted the Caver: CreepyPasta, original site Slender Man: CreepyPasta My Letterboxd My Letterboxd “found footage” horror tag My Letterboxd “internet horror” tag My Letterboxd There Might Be Cupcakes Movie
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Movie Review: Spell (2020)
Link to Letterboxd review: No spoilers. Five stars. An almost entirely black cast explores the racial politics within the black community through the lens of hoodoo. Beautifully done and terrifying. Loretta Devine’s best role by far; she was stunning. I am really looking forward to seeing what the director
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The One in Which Carla Shares All the Trivia
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Movie Review: Candyman (1992)
Spoilers included. Link to review on Letterboxd: five stars. Amazing transition from the terror in the black Cabrini Green’s mother’s voice about Candyman to the rich white man’s laughter at an expensive dinner. Brilliant and haunting choice. Helen is also dressed in blue, like traditional depictions of
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Movie Review: ‘Salem’s Lot (1979)
Link to Letterboxd review: 41/2 stars The music is dated and a little overwhelming, and tags it as a television production, but other than that it’s still horrifying. Stephen King understands that it’s people that are low and dangerous and scary better than any other horror author.
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Movie Review: The Prophecy II (1998)
Religious horror with research
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Movie Review: Parasite (2019)
Link to Letterboxd review: 5 stars The horror of always wanting more than you have. The horror of greed. (That giant bowl of ramen and sirloin.) The horror of not just letting other people live (and the audacity of being disgusted by their taking up space). The horror of having