[OOC] Ultimate One Universe: Season Two

[Lord Wraith]

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I'm not a fourteen-year-old shut-in, so nah.

@Inkarnate

Yeah, he's a thirty-year-old shut-in.

[Simple Unicycle]

In other news, what's your guys' usual traditions around Halloween that don't involve dressing up and going to costume parties or whatever? Any movies you watch or games you play on this time to get into the spoopy mood?

I've never really had one myself, but I'm looking to change that soon; once I get home tonight, I'll be watching The Shining, and the plan will be to watch that every Spooperween night until I get old and die. Or stay young and die. Whichever comes first.

[Lord Wraith]

In other news, what's your guys' usual traditions around Halloween that don't involve dressing up and going to costume parties or whatever? Any movies you watch or games you play on this time to get into the spoopy mood?

I've never really had one myself, but I'm looking to change that soon; once I get home tonight, I'll be watching The Shining, and the plan will be to watch that every Spooperween night until I get old and die. Or stay young and die. Whichever comes first.

@Simple Unicycle

I've never been trick or treating or particularly celebrated Hallowe'en.

[Simple Unicycle]

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I've never been trick or treating or particularly celebrated Hallowe'en.

@Lord Wraith

What the fuck are you

[Lord Wraith]

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What the fuck are you

@Simple Unicycle

Remember that whole strict religious upbringing lol

[Simple Unicycle]

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Remember that whole strict religious upbringing lol

@Lord Wraith

You poor, poor man.

[Hound55]

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What the fuck are you

@Simple Unicycle

Australian. So me neither...

[AndyC]

In other news, what's your guys' usual traditions around Halloween that don't involve dressing up and going to costume parties or whatever? Any movies you watch or games you play on this time to get into the spoopy mood?

I've never really had one myself, but I'm looking to change that soon; once I get home tonight, I'll be watching The Shining, and the plan will be to watch that every Spooperween night until I get old and die. Or stay young and die. Whichever comes first.

@Simple Unicycle

I have a regular playlist of movies I usually try to get through around the season. I don't usually get all of them every year, but as long as I get at least half, I consider it a success:

Alien (the first movie to give me legit nightmares)
Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead/Day of the Dead (usually just one of the three, not the whole trilogy)
Gojira
The Shining
Nosferatu
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (though any of the Christopher Lee Dracula movies will do)
Dog Soldiers
Suspiria
The Omen
An American Werewolf in London
The Howling
Shaun of the Dead
Young Frankenstein

And this year I'm adding Netflix's Castlevania series to the list, and a re-reading of Kim Newman's fantastic Anno Dracula books.

[mickilennial]

Yeah, he's a thirty-year-old shut-in.

@Lord Wraith

Not a shut-in at all, but ok.

[Supermaxx]

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I've never been trick or treating or particularly celebrated Hallowe'en.

@Lord Wraith

same

We had 'autumn festivals' at the church, though. Bouncy castles, haybale mazes, cotton candy, and barbeque made it all pretty fun so I can't exactly complain.

[AndyC]

While we're on the subject:

Do you have any particular opinions or "hot takes" on Halloween, famous movie monsters, spookums, etc?

'cause I've got a few:

• I have yet to see a version of a vampire that has actually scared me. I've seen them for every other classic movie monster, from werewolves to Frankensteins to mummies, there's at least one version of them somewhere that's actually scared me. But even the most gritty and explicit takes on them (like 30 Days of Night) just kinda make me roll my eyes, because I can never see them as anything other than drama queens in puffy shirts. Despite this, I still love Dracula himself, just not any other vampire.
• I'm still holding out hope for a genuinely good Frankenstein movie that isn't a parody.
• Cthulhu is basically the Metallica of the horror genre: everybody knows him and rips off his stuff, but you feel like a basic bitch if you say he's your favorite.
• I fucking hate it when people refer to the monsters from the Alien movies as "xenomorphs." At no point in any of the movies are they called that; one guy in Aliens says the word as a catch-all for any sort of unidentified extraterrestrial, and everyone just assumed that's their name. If you absolutely have to call them something other than Alien (because God forbid our horror franchise have some element of the unknown), both the old Dark Horse comics and the Alien Legacy DVDs have way better species names for them. The Legacy DVDs gave them the name Internecivus Raptus (meaning "murderous thief"), and the Dark Horse comics called them Lingua Foeda Acheronus ("the Foul Tongue of Acheron"), both of which are substantially cooler than "xenomorph," which just means "different shape."
• I refuse to acknowledge any iteration of Scooby-Doo where the monsters are real. The thing that makes that series interesting to me is it's the only children's show that teaches kids that skepticism and critical thinking are good things, that people can be easily led to believing false narratives, and that so many of our fears and fables are spread by greedy people who want to capitalize on everyone being confused and scared. In fact, one of my all-time pie-in-the-sky projects would be to lean hard into that and go full subversive with it, making Scooby-Doo a cross between The Venture Bros. and Penn and Teller's Bullshit!
• I want more goofy Halloween novelty songs. There's only so many times you can do the Monster Mash.

[mickilennial]

I refuse to acknowledge any iteration of Scooby-Doo where the monsters are real. The thing that makes that series interesting to me is it's the only children's show that teaches kids that skepticism and critical thinking are good things, that people can be easily led to believing false narratives, and that so many of our fears and fables are spread by greedy people who want to capitalize on everyone being confused and scared. In fact, one of my all-time pie-in-the-sky projects would be to lean hard into that and go full subversive with it, making Scooby-Doo a cross between The Venture Bros. and Penn and Teller's Bullshit!

@AndyC

The only time it was good was in Zombie Island.

Don't @ me.

[Hound55]

But it was a graveyard smash!

[Hound55]

There's Thriller as well... that's pretty much the two.

[HenryJonesJr]

In other news, what's your guys' usual traditions around Halloween that don't involve dressing up and going to costume parties or whatever? Any movies you watch or games you play on this time to get into the spoopy mood?

@Simple Unicycle

Movies:
-Trick R Treat
-Halloween
-Alien
-Young Frankenstein

Cthulhu is basically the Metallica of the horror genre: everybody knows him and rips off his stuff, but you feel like a basic bitch if you say he's your favorite.

@AndyC

I love Lovecraftian themes, but am not a fan of Lovecraft himself.

I fucking hate it when people refer to the monsters from the Alien movies as "xenomorphs."

@AndyC

I refuse to acknowledge any iteration of Scooby-Doo where the monsters are real. The thing that makes that series interesting to me is it's the only children's show that teaches kids that skepticism and critical thinking are good things, that people can be easily led to believing false narratives, and that so many of our fears and fables are spread by greedy people who want to capitalize on everyone being confused and scared. In fact, one of my all-time pie-in-the-sky projects would be to lean hard into that and go full subversive with it, making Scooby-Doo a cross between The Venture Bros. and Penn and Teller's Bullshit!

@AndyC

*throws out Scooby-Doo concept for the Independent Game*

[AndyC]

Additional Halloween Hot Take:

Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" beats the shit out of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" any day of the week.

[AndyC]

I love Lovecraftian themes, but am not a fan of Lovecraft himself.

@HenryJonesJr

I'm that way with Bob Dylan-- love listening to other bands cover his songs, but I can't stand the guy's voice.

[Supermaxx]

While we're on the subject:

I fucking hate it when people refer to the monsters from the Alien movies as "xenomorphs." At no point in any of the movies are they called that; one guy in Aliens says the word as a catch-all for any sort of unidentified extraterrestrial, and everyone just assumed that's their name. If you absolutely have to call them something other than Alien (because God forbid our horror franchise have some element of the unknown), both the old Dark Horse comics and the Alien Legacy DVDs have way better species names for them. The Legacy DVDs gave them the name Internecivus Raptus (meaning "murderous thief"), and the Dark Horse comics called them Lingua Foeda Acheronus ("the Foul Tongue of Acheron"), both of which are substantially cooler than "xenomorph," which just means "different shape.”

@AndyC

Do you call your dog a Canis lupus familiaris too, ya nerd?!

[HenryJonesJr]

So that post is shorter than I originally intended, but I wanted to get something up, and didn't have it in me to write a fight scene. Will have that up Friday

[Byrd Man]

While we're on the subject:

Do you have any particular opinions or "hot takes" on Halloween, famous movie monsters, spookums, etc?

@AndyC

My only hot take is I don't really give a flying fuck about Halloween. I get the appeal, candy and getting to dress up makes sense, and I enjoy scary movies from time to time but it does nothing for me.