Behind the scenes of IT (1990)
Hooptober X
For those of you who use Letterboxd (or who just want something semi-structured to distract you for at least 31 days), Hooptober is on again–31 Horror movies in 31 days, initiated originally by Cinemonster. It is a challenge sort of deal, and I have transferred-over the list criteria from their updated post below. Click-into the link to Cinemonster’s list description on Letterboxd to retrieve the Screambox link for a complimentary channel trial. I am starting early, as well, since I have a lot on my plate. Plus I get to start my Halloween celebration early. Again.
“There must be 31 films
6 countries
8 decades
2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films
“For Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry, as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond consciousness, of the empirical ego.”— Kathleen Raine, “Yeats, the Tarot and the Golden Dawn”, in Yeats the Initiate (via coroebus)
The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies (1781)
John Downman (English, 1750-1824)
“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered natural clowns; they were elected to fulfill a comic role which could allow others to see them as ludicrous rather than as terrible reminders of the forces of disorder in the world. But sometimes a cheerless jester was required to draw attention to this same disorder, as in the case of King Lear’s morbid and honest fool, who of course was eventually hanged, and so much for his clownish wisdom. Clowns have often had ambiguous and sometimes contradictory roles to play.”— Thomas Ligotti, from The Last Feast of Harlequin
Vincent Price as Roderick Usher - The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) dir. Roger Corman
(via starrywisdomsect)
Julie de Graag (Dutch, 1877–1924)
Jan Uldrych — The Magician (oil and acrylic on canvas, 2017)
Run Away Together by Ben Wooten