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Stormfront: We know Stormfront can regenerate, so she could return. The "girls get things done" fight was not expected! How did Becca poke out Stormfront's eye with a knife?? She seems bullet proof.

Ryan seemed oddly okay at the end. I am guessing we don't know how much time had passed.

The "Decapitator" was NOT who I thought it was, and I'm not sure her agenda, but it does not seem to be Voight's agenda.

I just hope that Love Sausage makes another appearance.
 
Yeah not too sure about what Head Popper's goals are. A lot of what she did helped Vought but I doubt it's as simple as that she's working for them.

Wouldn't be surprised at all if Stormfront is brought back in some manner.

The stuff with Ryan could be a mix of things. Time having passed, also child actors can have a hard time summoning the appropriate "depth" for certain scenes.

The only real flaws for me this season are that the Deep did very little beyond the initial episodes and I feel Lamplighter had a very nonsensical death for such a well portrayed character. Not the suicide, just it seemed odd that he was willing to testify and then break into Vought and then just suddenly kills himself. It might have been the shock of seeing his statue gone, but it didn't ring fully true for me. I might be missing something though.

The psyker girl was unusually powerful and was obviously a red herring for the head popper. Curious to know what will happen to her next season.
 
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I saw Lords of Chaos. (/snip)
I got around to watching this last week. I was never really into Black Metal and was in my early teens when these events went down, so it was just something I vaguely heard about. I did watch the documentary Until the Light Takes Us a couple years ago, so knew the general story going into it.
It's a hard movie to recommend. Tonally all over the place. Like the scene where Varg is being interviewed had me laughing out loud, but the violence was uncomfortable and there weren't really any characters to cheer for much. Rory's performance as Euronymous was sympathetic enough. But Euronymous and Varg were really the only characters developed at all. I think it would have been interesting to give a little more context the scene in general, more insight into why Mayhem mattered and drew a gathering. More insight into the development of the Black Metal genre.
So the movie sits in a weird place where it's not fun enough to watch for entertainment and not informative enough to watch for historical relevance. It's not a bad movie, I just don't see much audience for it.
 
Got a chance to talk about Bride of Frankenstein with Joel and Adam: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-9wq7g-eef67d

Fun, campy, tragic and still a bit scary. But mostly just a fun horror movie.

I was blown away when I saw this film, it was one of the first 'old' films that made me realize how clever and modern films from the 30s could feel. And the last 10 minutes are perfect.
 

I grew up along the Pend Oreille river. It's derived from the French name for a local Native American tribe the Pend d'Oreilles or Kalispell. I don't know French but I've been told it means Hanging ears and had something to do with the large shell earrings that they wore.
Most folks outside of the area pronounce it Pend (like bend) Oriole (as in the Baltimore Orioles).
Everyone in the area pronounces it as Ponder Ray.
For those who don't know their PNW history, a lot of French fur trappers were the first Europeans to visit the area and thus you get random French names for places scattered about.
 
I grew up along the Pend Oreille river. It's derived from the French name for a local Native American tribe the Pend d'Oreilles or Kalispell. I don't know French but I've been told it means Hanging ears and had something to do with the large shell earrings that they wore.
Most folks outside of the area pronounce it Pend (like bend) Oriole (as in the Baltimore Orioles).
Everyone in the area pronounces it as Ponder Ray.
For those who don't know their PNW history, a lot of French fur trappers were the first Europeans to visit the area and thus you get random French names for places scattered about.
The name Pend d'Oreilles (literally: hanging from ears) is indeed the name the French gave the natives in reference to the seashell earrings they wore. :thumbsup:
 
Last night I saw some of The Last Man on Earth, the first film version of I am Legend by Richard Matheson. It stars Vincent Price, but otherwise has an Italian cast and was filmed in Italy, near Rome I think--I had always assumed it was shot near L.A. I have never seen the entire film, but really ought to--it may be a better movie than either The Omega Man (with Charleston Heston) or I am Legend (with Will Smith), which I have seen.

Richard Matheson is one of those writers whose work I know almost entirely through film adaptations. I think I've read some of his short fiction over the years, but none of his novels.
 
Yeah, I really enjoyed Price's Last Man on Earth.

The novel is definitely worth a read - and it's incredibly short, very much an "afternoon at the beach" book
 
On the topic of pronunciation, I spent a year living in Ames, Iowa, which is near Des Moines, Iowa, which is pronounced "Dee Moin." So later in life when I moved to Chicago and saw that there's a town nearby named "Des Plaines," I assumed it was pronounced "Dee Plain," but nope, it's "Dez Plainz."
 
As for what I've been watching, last thing was a really bad low budget sci fi movie called R.O.T.O.R. It's kind of a rip-off or Robocop, if Robocop was the villain. A whole lot of bad acting and non-sequitur dialogue. Also, I was going to say the plot often forgets what happens in the previous scene, but it's worse than that: it sometimes forgets what happens in the same scene. In one scene, immediately after two scientists were talking about how the two of them made major scientific breakthroughs that allowed for the creation of R.O.T.O.R., one of them says "You're the brains, I'm just the brawn." What???

Fortunately, the movie was bad enough to be entertainingly bad and not just boringly bad.
 
Would have been even better if they kept the original ending by Matheson.
 
I just started watching the Sharpe's series starring Sean Bean... apparently he doesn't die?!?!?
They are a treat, I have a massive backlog of Sharpe's books that I should get back to. I bought them on the back of the TV series and find Bernard Cornwell to be a real page turning author.
 
On the topic of pronunciation, I spent a year living in Ames, Iowa, which is near Des Moines, Iowa, which is pronounced "Dee Moin." So later in life when I moved to Chicago and saw that there's a town nearby named "Des Plaines," I assumed it was pronounced "Dee Plain," but nope, it's "Dez Plainz."
At work I occasionally encounter towns with classy French names that the locals pronounce like, well, hillbillies the disenfranchised white proletariat. Minot they call My-not. Versailles they call Ver-sally. Drives me nuts.
 
After finishing Marianne, we've now started watching The Haunting of Bly Manor. Really enjoyed the first episode.
 
Watching Undone on Prime, a really good animated sf series.

 
Just finished watching Bone Tomahawk. First Western I've seen since The Hateful Eight, and like that one, it was Kurt Russel that enticed me in. What I found is exactly the sort of cross-genre horror that I love, one that echoes The Witch in it's devotion to presenting a believable historical reality.

I was left wanting more after that, so googled up some lists of similiar films, and settled on The Burrowers, which I'm just geering up to watch now.
 
Welp, that was a mistake. The Burrowers was definitely not up to the quality of Bone Tomahawk. It was kinda like Tremors, if you took out all the character, comedy, and life. Going to try and scare up a copy of Ravenous instead. I haven't seen it since the theatre, but I recall regarding it rather highly.

I'm kinda surprised horror-western isn't a more exploited genre. The two seem to go together quite well, but it's hard to find examples that don't look like exceedingly low budget and trashy.
 
I'm kinda surprised horror-western isn't a more exploited genre. The two seem to go together quite well, but it's hard to find examples that don't look like exceedingly low budget and trashy.

If you find some good Horror-Westerns, I would love to know about them.
 
I thought Ravenous and Bone Tomahawk were good, The Burrowers so-so.
 
I thought Ravenous and Bone Tomahawk were good, The Burrowers so-so.

Burrowers definitely suffered in direct comparison - I might have enjoyed it more if not watching directly after Bone Tomahawk
 
Welp, that was a mistake. The Burrowers was definitely not up to the quality of Bone Tomahawk. It was kinda like Tremors, if you took out all the character, comedy, and life. Going to try and scare up a copy of Ravenous instead. I haven't seen it since the theatre, but I recall regarding it rather highly.

I'm kinda surprised horror-western isn't a more exploited genre. The two seem to go together quite well, but it's hard to find examples that don't look like exceedingly low budget and trashy.

That is kind of odd. I kind of get it not being a thing in the 1940-60s, but in late 60s and 70s when westerns were still fairly popular and more graphic horror films were coming along you, or even the 80s and 90s when there was a bit of a comeback for the western, and horror was really getting popular and begining to move on from the slasher flicks of the early 80s.

You would think there would have been more serious western horror than Jesse James meets Frankenstein's Daughter and Billy the Kid vs Dracula. There is also The Valley of Gwangi which is sort of a toss up between horror and lost world adventure (cowboys vs dinosaurs). Few have anything good to say about any of them. It isn't like there is an absence of potential material, tons of legends out there to mine, real horrors committed, and themes of solitude, vast unexplored lands and the like which lend themselves to horror themes.

Anyone know of any print horror / western fiction, pulp era or later? I'm trying to think if RE Howard had any, he did wrote western's and horror but I'm drawing a blank if he did any western horror.
 
Anyone know of any print horror / western fiction, pulp era or later? I'm trying to think if RE Howard had any, he did wrote western's and horror but I'm drawing a blank if he did any western horror.

It's definitely been explored in print. Howard one I know of is Valley of the Lost. There was also Algernon Blackwood's The Fur Trappers.

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is simultaneously one of the best Westerns ever written and one of the most horrifying books of all time.

And Joe Lansdale wrote a ton of horror westerns

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