Everytime I swipe 'tomorrow', it always shows 'tinnitus'. Makes for some odd sentences.

Wow do I have zero wig game. I've been watching the clip loop for 3 minutes and I can't figure which one is wearing the wig in question.

Are they BOTH wearing wigs?

I don't know if it's a popular app or not, but I've been using Podcast Addict for years and I can't find you guys there. :(

Is that really real? Like they were actively advertising how irritating Bob is? If so, this might be the greatest movie poster ever!

Italian Neorealism Folk Horror: Il Demonio - Flinching with Delight As is regretfully so often the case, it’s been a minute since my last post. There is some kind of irony in the fact that as a horror blogger, I can so rarely successfully publish a post during October...

Falling down a Daliah Lavi rabbit hole and just checked out Il Demonio (1963).

Gorgeous, funny, terribly sad - late Italian Neorealism and early Folk Horror. Super interesting, and Lavi is great in it! More in the link:

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Looked at this so many times and smiled, and then I noticed the "ass juice." Ass juice?

I guess everyone is thankful for different things.

I was solidly impressed with the feat of making the film and managing the dog actor, but at some point, I was like, "this is all just a metaphor, isn't it?" and then all the haunted house stuff lost its teeth.

But, hey, I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

I always felt the original was kind of accidentally great. Can't imagine you can trip backwards into greatness twice...

I never really get mine up till the week of Halloween. Then I leave them until it's time to decorate for Xmas. Then that stuff's gonna be there till Valentines...

I love Lee, but Lavi stole the show for me. I haven't seen her in anything else, but I was really impressed with her.

Working out the Kinks: The Whip and the Body - Flinching with Delight It’s so good to give things second chances. Years ago, I’d tried watching today’s film, having read that it was really worth checking out, and I just couldn’t get into it, couldn’t get past certain od...

Finally checked out Bava's The Whip and the Body and loved it!

Gothic, kinky, beautiful, eerie, and Daliah Lavi is amazing.

But Christopher Lee didn't do his own voice and the English dub is weird, so I really recommend the Italian version.

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I just watched The Whip and the Body and loved it!

I never refused to stop using the word. I do want to be respectful - but I am sad to lose it. It's a good word with a good meaning and a good sound. Which is doomed to carry the taint of a cruel racist use that for some will always resound regardless of a speaker's intent or knowledge of that use.

In the case of an adj that predates its noun being used as a slur, I don't think one is 'adding a y to a slur.' And there are derogatory adjectives out there that negatively say that something is 'like a hated group'. I don't think this has had that use. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it has.

But I would mourn the loss of this word. It seems a shame, if it's negative use has mostly faded into obscurity, to resurrect that meaning and give up all variations, especially given that, for example, the adjective form, so popular to describe this season, I think never had a racial connotation.

Good example with the swastika. If I visited someone's home and they had a big swastika on the wall, I would leave... but, also, if I went into a Buddhist temple, I wouldn't find it offensive. Context is important. And I want to be respectful and not use hurtful terminology thoughtlessly,..
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Question intended in good faith - do racists today still use the word as a slur? It feels old fashioned, like it had solid non/pre-racist origins, a stint as a slur, and then it returned to its original meaning and is widely and positively used. In such a case, does the stink of a slur ever fade?

Return of the Lesbian Vampires (Part 6) - Flinching with Delight I’ve been at this for about 4 years now, having written about 184 horror movies new and old in all sorts of sub genres – slashers, hauntings, monster movies, possessions – I try to cast a wide net and...

Continuing my journey down the rabbit hole of "Lesbian Vampire" flicks, I just checked out The Female Vampire, The Velvet Vampire, We Are The Night, and The Moth Diaries.

Some great, some frustrating, I share detailed thoughts here:

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How does it compare with their earlier work? I've only read 'The Worm and His Kings' and loved the ideas but struggled to stay with it somehow.

A flip side is the looming specter of imposter syndrome- no matter how obsessively you watch, study, and read about films, there will forever be huge, embarrassing blind spots, and it's easy to feel like, 'geez, if I still haven't seen x,y, or z, why should anyone care what I think about anything?'

It's funny. When I first saw the title, I somehow got mixed up and thought it was Sixteen Candles. Then I looked at the pics and was like, "I didn't remember John Hughes featuring much blood...oh...oops..."

Not ‘that’ bad – 90s horror - Flinching with Delight Just as we are forever dissecting the divisions between the generations, prosecuting their comparative strengths and weaknesses in order to passive aggressively complain about millennials, zoomers, an...

Why do we do these things to ourselves?

Set myself the homework of catching up on some lesser liked 90s horror sequels (Candyman 2, Slumber Party Massacre 3, TX Chainsaw 4, Howling 5, Halloween 6).

Some were good fun. Some...weren't. Thoughts in the link:

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And then I just read that he knew he had stomach cancer at the time of filming, informed the producers, and was allowed to improvise his final lines. What a goodbye. I go to these movies for fun deaths. I don't expect grace and beauty.

Since it's on HBO I just caught up with Final Destination: Bloodlines. Damn, that was fun, but I wasn't prepared for how much the Tony Todd of it all was going to make me cry...

While it drags a bit in the middle, it totally beats Scream to the punch in how it draws critical attention to the tropes of its genre at the same time as fully enacting them, and doing it all while the slasher was still young, in its heyday. Sorry for the rant. I just think it's really special. :)

I knew nothing about how the film got made, but I could feel the camera's eyes rolling, asking "this is what you wanna see, huh? Satisfied yet?" And I just fell in love. I agree it doesn't work as parody, but I think it's so much richer than that. It is the very thing it is criticizing.

I've gotta say, I was really surprised on how luke warm to negative the responses were on this one given my deep and abiding love of this movie. I remember when I first saw it, I'd put it on in the background, expecting little and when it got to the shower scene, I was floored by the irony...

Dark Ride - Flinching with Delight I had the absolute best experience recently. I spent the end of May and most of June in Ocean City, MD, where I come every summer to help my family mount their pirate show at Jolly Roger Amusement Par...

I can't recommend the Ocean City, MD Boardwalk Haunted House enough - got to ride it for the first time since I was a kid recently and it blew me away with how great it was! More here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/07/07/d...