ACT 6, SCENE 1 INT: GARAGE – LATE AFTERNOON AMED is looking out onto the horizon. He follows the sounds of sirens in the distance. REV (O.S.): Are those for me? AMED: They’re headed for Caniff Park. REV (O.S.): Good. There’s still time. I think I should go to…
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ACT 5, SCENE 1 INT: TRAP HOUSE – AFTERNOON LOCO stares at the mural which no long has the image of the GOATMAN. DISEMBODIED VOICES call out to LOCO his follows them. He stumbles over RICKY’S body. He looks down at RICKY, but feels nothing. GOATMAN (O.S.): More. Blood. LOCO looks up, but…
Read more#Day29 #31DaysOfHorror Astro City: Series Finale Act 4
ACT 4, SCENE 1 INT: GARAGE – AFTERNOON AMED is standing outside of the car and near the garage railing. He is at the top floor overlooking the HEIGHTS and the streets below. AMED looks below and contemplates. He starts to sway. Behind him the car window rolls down and REV pokes his head out….
Read more#Day28 #31DaysOfHorror – Astro City: Series Finale Act 3
ACT 3, SCENE 1 INT – SISTER’S HOME OMAR BUTLER and SISTER NETTA BIRDSONG both standing over LEIGH. OMAR’S phone rings, but he sends it to voice mail. OMAR: I can’t believe you did this. SISTER: I got scared. She found the body in the basement. OMAR: Explain that part…
Read more#Day27 #31DaysOfHorror Astro City: Series Finale Acts 1 & 2
TEASER ACT 1, SCENE 1 INT: HOSPITAL – ICU MS. COLE gently caresses JAMAL COLE as he lies in a coma. JAMAL starts to convulse and the heart monitors go crazy. MS. COLE starts screaming for him. DOCTORS rush in and kick her out the room screaming. Without sound, the doctors and nurses move to…
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#Day26 #31DaysOfHorror; My American Horror Story
We are arriving towards the final days of the year’s 31DaysOfHorror. I appreciate anyone who’s followed along and read the reviews. To round off the end of this run, I invite you all to revisit my American Horror Story series called Astro City, where nothing is as it seems. Earlier this year, I released weekly…
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#Day25 #31DaysOfHorror “His House” Movie Review
Premise: A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface. (Google) What I LOVED: I’m ashamed it took me this long to watch this horror/thriller. Not only is it acted to…
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#Day24 #31DaysOfHorror Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) A Review
Premise: A remake of a German Silent Horror movie classic, Nosferatu the Vampyre keeps many of the elements of the original and gives us the dialogue and performances that make it a cult classic. Streaming now on Tubi, Peacock, and some floating around on Youtube, Nosferatu is a must see. What I Liked: Before the…
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#Day23 #31DaysOfHalloween BET’s Karen
Premise: Wikipedia defines Karen as “a pejorative term for a white woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal.” At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement and rise of camera activism, the world began to see what a Karen in action looked like, in all her rage-filled privilege…
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#Day22 #31DaysOfHorror Candyman (2021) A Review
Jordan Peele and friends invite us to their take on Candyman this year. I reviewed it this Halloween season, because the original Candyman (1992) scared me as a child. The atmosphere in that film felt oppressive (even though I didn’t know what that word was then) and it never let up. I remember directly after…
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