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maplemood...but I do have a Lydia Deetz icon, which is pretty much the same thing!
October weather has...very much not been a thing so far (even though we're only two days into the month, so I shouldn't complain, but also I should and will complain, because ninety-degree weather past September is ridiculous); I'll have to jury-rig myself some October/Halloween spirit.
I did rewatch Coraline the other night, and even though I'll always think the book is scarier (not by much, to be fair), the movie is also incredibly creepy in a way that gets under my skin. The intro sequence with the mechanical spider hands and the doll! The landlady's long-lost twin sister who disappeared in the same house! The Other Father, who actually loves Coraline in his own way (and how he eventually transforms when the Other Mother doesn't need him anymore always breaks my heart, in both the book and the movie). The mice-rats! The buttons!
The buttons.
I've been putting together a (short) list of other horror and horror-ish movies to hopefully watch in the lead-up to Halloween. Not promising myself that I'll get to them all in time, but here are the ones I've been thinking of:
Beetlejuice (see above)
The Witch
Little Shop of Horrors
Midsommar
The Suspiria remake
Beetlejuice and The Witch I've seen before, and all the rest are movies I've been meaning to watch for ages--I love horror in theory, but in practice I haven't seen a whole bunch of it. With any luck, I'll try to write up at least a couple thoughts on each movie, too.
October weather has...very much not been a thing so far (even though we're only two days into the month, so I shouldn't complain, but also I should and will complain, because ninety-degree weather past September is ridiculous); I'll have to jury-rig myself some October/Halloween spirit.
I did rewatch Coraline the other night, and even though I'll always think the book is scarier (not by much, to be fair), the movie is also incredibly creepy in a way that gets under my skin. The intro sequence with the mechanical spider hands and the doll! The landlady's long-lost twin sister who disappeared in the same house! The Other Father, who actually loves Coraline in his own way (and how he eventually transforms when the Other Mother doesn't need him anymore always breaks my heart, in both the book and the movie). The mice-rats! The buttons!
The buttons.
I've been putting together a (short) list of other horror and horror-ish movies to hopefully watch in the lead-up to Halloween. Not promising myself that I'll get to them all in time, but here are the ones I've been thinking of:
Beetlejuice (see above)
The Witch
Little Shop of Horrors
Midsommar
The Suspiria remake
Beetlejuice and The Witch I've seen before, and all the rest are movies I've been meaning to watch for ages--I love horror in theory, but in practice I haven't seen a whole bunch of it. With any luck, I'll try to write up at least a couple thoughts on each movie, too.