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FUTURE SHOCK was reviewed (and praised) by Joe Bob Briggs in his (snail mail) newsletter way back in the early 90s.

Kids today (...) often appear unaware of things that have been major cultural phenomena in their own lifetimes/even in the past 5-10 years. I had some HS students this week claim to be unaware of Thanos and Beyonce. Okay, maybe Beyonce isn't a thing right now, but they know Jay-Z still and they know Kanye - they don't know Beyonce? Even ten years ago an ignorance of Thanos would be expected. You don't read comics, you wouldn't know Thanos. But he was the centerpiece of a few of the biggest grossing motion pictures of all time within the past 4-5 years. Goes to show the monomyth is dead. We can't take anything for granted as being universal anymore.

Also I watch obscure movies pretty often. Watched one called DARK ARC last night. Anyone ever see that one? 

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Because of insomnia the previous night I slept an incredibly long time last night/this morning and slid through long cycles of dreams, and the last one I remember was a semi-recurring dream I have about going back to my school, but in my dreams the school is much larger in size than it was, with fantastical wings that would make no sense in a real world setting. Well in this dream the school had been given a living coelacanth which was in a massive aquarium just inside the school's entrance, and I was there to see that unveiled. It was one of those almost astral dreams where you feel yourself thinking and making decisions inside the dream. Beautiful, really, and I wish every sleep could be like that.

Holy Moly- ok-! I'll give it a whirl-

1. HALLOWEEN (1978) of course.
2. NOSFERATU (1922)
3. DRACULA (1931)
4. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
5. HAXAN (1922)
6. VAMPYR (1932)
7. WHITE ZOMBIE (1932)
8. the RAVEN (1935)
9. BLACK SUNDAY (1960)
10. the HAUNTING (1963)
11. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
12. BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
13. KILL, BABY, KILL (1966)
14. DEEP RED (1976)
15. TOURIST TRAP (1979)
16. the EXORCIST (1973)
17. the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
18. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1963)
19. the SHINING (1980)
20. REPULSION (1965)

more later!

[September 23, 1994]

September 23, 1994 It was day one of the best three-day weekend of my teen years.

Dana picked me up that evening to spend the night with her, and when we got to her college town an hour away, we walked right into a party, and had to get past a wall of frat boys, whom Dana said were sketchy so don’t make eye contact. It’s funny now but The X-Files was such a big new thing that it was being watched right in the middle of this multi-apartment Dionysian revel.
 
A couple hours later we got into Dana’s Nissan and drove down to see her friend Scott, whom I instantly liked, and after we settled into the blessed silence at his place, Dana said to him, “I been promising my cousin for years I’d get her stoned, and it seems like a good night.”

I declined, though she and Scott definitely didn’t, and I was soon feeling the ambient effects for the second time in a month, because Scott went from seeming a little funny to coming across as downright hilarious, and I thought, my gosh, Dee has actually gotten me stoned after all. (But in the same vein of logic some Catholic girls have long applied to matters sexual, I told myself it didn’t count.)

Scott teased me about laughing so much, and I said sorry, I had a problem with laughing unintentionally at the wrong times, and he said, “Then I pray to God you never give a blowjob, hon.” Which set me off laughing even harder.

I was figuring out that Scott was probably gay, but I didn’t find out til later that there was more to that equation than gay alone. He microwaved us a frozen appetizer platter he stole from a Friday’s where he worked as a server, and fixed us tropical punch, and left the bottle of rum on the table, and Dana got toasted and Scott was pretty giggly drunk too on top of the joint they’d split. He showed me he waxed his legs and even his arms, and I asked, “Are you like a cyclist or a swimmer or something?”

He laughed and Dana goes, “Tell her.”

Turned out Scott was a drag performer! Wow, coming from my suburban world it was like meeting an eskimo, or a cowboy, or a Republican college professor, something you’d heard of but hadn’t verified actually existed.

Scott told me about his ardent love for Mariah Carey and sang along to every song that came up on her CD, and showed me pictures of himself in drag, and he truly did make an attractive woman, not the campy sort, but realistic.

Dana announced we were sleeping there because she’d had a huge fight with her flatmates and I told her I thought that sucked because one of them had beautiful king snakes in a terrarium, and I’d looked forward to seeing them. She told me to buy myself one, and I said my mom wouldn’t let me, to which Dana said, “Tell her Saint Patrick miracled it to your room.”

Scott was asleep in minutes but Dana and I laid on the foldout bed in his living room for what must have been half an hour, talking. In this dreamy, sleepy, intoxicated tone she told me when I was eighteen and she was twenty-two she’d take me around the Caribbean and we’d get drinks bought for us by dark men and British ex-pats. She held up her hand and so palm-to palm we swore we would.

She fell asleep, I didn’t yet, the pull-out mattress was too thin and in her sleep Dana kept rolling on me to the point I was going to sleep on the floor til I saw waterbugs scooting across it in the dark. (It wasn’t a very nice place, tell the truth.) I did pass out, kind of, but it wasn’t a sleep that was in danger of winning any awards.

And we never did cruise the Caribbean and get bought drinks by British ex-pats, and dark-skinned men.

Huh! If I see if on streaming I may give it a go. I've long thought a good story for either print or film could arise from the little King tantalized us with about the Micmac peoples and their history with the "pet sematary."

Truly, our weather has been so pretty the last week it's been almost....dare I say perfect? It makes everything in life that much happier. (Oddly I don't remember there being so many fall colors showing up this early on leaves. Not sure why that is.)

Don't tell me there's a f**king Superman movie with Brainiac in the title!

IMDb lists a couple of Kid Brainiac animated features.

I looked it up. There are actually all sortsa movies with that in the title!  
So- scratch that one!
What number are we on now?

EDIT: M's last 3 posts appear to be 101.
Should we continue? I'm having fun with this!

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20th Century only:

 1. The Exorcist (1973)
 2. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
 3. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
 4. Nosferatu (1922)
 5. King Kong (1933)
 6. Freaks (1932)
 7. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
 8. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
 9. Frankenstein (1931)
 10. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
 11. The Innocents (1961)
 12. Halloween (1978)
 13. Evil Dead II (1987)
 14. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
 15. The Fly (1986)
 16. Repulsion (1965)
 17. The Invisible Man (1933)
 18. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
 19. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
 20. The Crow (1994)
 21. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
 22. The Wicker Man (1973)
 23. The Omen (1976)
 24. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
 25. The Evil Dead (1981)
 26. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
 27. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
 28. Dracula (1931)
 29. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
 30. The Haunting (1963)
 31. Curse of the Demon (1957)
 32. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
 33. Suspiria (1977)
 34. House (1977)
 35. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
 36. Village of the Damned (1960)
 37. The Changeling (1980)
 38. Re-Animator (1985)
 39. The Wolf Man (1941)
 40. Horror of Dracula (1958)
 41. Them! (1954)
 42. Cat People (1942)
 43. The Frighteners (1996)
 44. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
 45. Don't Look Now (1973)
 46. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
 47. Cemetery Man (1994)
 48. Fright Night (1985)
 49. The Mummy (1932)
 50. Carnival of Souls (1962)
 51. House of Wax (1953)
 52. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
 53. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
 54. Hellraiser (1987)
 55. Stir of Echoes (1999)
 56. The Monster Squad (1987)
 57. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
 58. House of Usher (1960)
 59. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
 60. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
 61. Tales from the Crypt (1972)
 62. Ginger Snaps (2000)
 63. Creepshow (1982)
 64. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
 65. Christine (1983)
 66. Candyman (1992)
 67. Prince of Darkness (1987)
 68. The Stepfather (1987)
 69. The Entity (1982)
 70. Night of the Creeps (1986)
 71. The Last Man on Earth (1964)
 72. The Legend of Hell House (1973)
 73. Event Horizon (1997)
 74. The Blob (1988)
 75. From Beyond (1986)
 76. Demons (1985)
 77. The Beyond (1981)
 78. The Company of Wolves (1984)
 79. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
 80. Pet Sematary (1989)
 81. Halloween II (1981)
 82. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
 83. Flatliners (1990)
 84. The Howling (1981)
 85. Inferno (1980)
 86. Dead & Buried (1981)
 87. Brain Damage (1988)
 88. Silver Bullet (1985)
 89. Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
 90. When a Stranger Calls (1979)
 91. Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
 92. Burnt Offerings (1976)
 93. Idle Hands (1999)
 94. The Amityville Horror (1979)
 95. Pumpkinhead (1988)
 96. Frankenhooker (1990)
 97. City of the Living Dead (1980)
 98. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
 99. Night of the Demons (1988)
 100. Waxwork (1988)

Since we mentioned BRAINIAC, there's also a low-budget horror titled DRAINIAC that should count.

CRINOLINE HEAD
Early oughts slasher/comedy. One of the worst slashers I've ever seen.

HESHER starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt seems to be a unique hit on imdb.

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^ Love that movie!

 to my surprise MOONRAKER, OCTOPỤSSY, and GOLDENEYE were all used in other films that came out before their respective Bond flicks

...Whaaaaaaa? MOONRAKER and OCTOp***y are not unique?! Show your work please, sir!