Danse Macabre: The 2025 Halloween Horror Thread

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Marve's very good and rarely discussed horror mag Tales of the Zombie

 

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Witchcraft #1 1952 Pre-Code Horror Classic.

 

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Before he created Spider-Man Steve Ditko made a name for himself in the horror genre, debuting on "The Thing" #12 1954

 

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Today is Clive Barker's birthday

On a side note. I read an article a while back on the Horror Syndicate (Which might be defunct now? I'm not sure but the site doesn't seem to be working.) that went into the idea of Julia Cotton being the actual villain of the movie, and I absolutely agreed. In my humble opinion, she is one of the best horror movie villains, too.

 

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Today is Clive Barker's birthday

On a side note. I read an article a while back on the Horror Syndicate (Which might be defunct now? I'm not sure but the site doesn't seem to be working.) that went into the idea of Julia Cotton being the actual villain of the movie, and I absolutely agreed. In my humble opinion, she is one of the best horror movie villains, too.

She was killing people for Frank and the one that came back in part 2, so I think she was meant to be seen in that light even though Frank started it all and was pushing her to kill.

The first two were great, anything after that is ass

Always pisses me off Nightbreed was wide the fuck open for a sequel and nothing, but decades of awful Hellraiser sequels.

 

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She was killing people for Frank and the one that came back in part 2, so I think she was meant to be seen in that light even though Frank started it all and was pushing her to kill.

The first two were great, anything after that is ass

Always pisses me off Nightbreed was wide the fuck open for a sequel and nothing, but decades of awful Hellraiser sequels.

Agreed, but a lot of people saw her as sympathetic and being manipulated by Frank. She was ultimately the driving force behind it all and went fully into selfish mode once she realized Frank was back. Most horror fans agree that she was a major villain in the story, but people outside of the horror realm often see her as a victim to some degree.

And agree on the first two. But three holds a special place for me because it's the movie I fought to get to watch using logic and my mother had to admit she had no legitimate reason to not let me watch the movie. So, the movie is ass, but I fucking love it because of a petty childhood triumph, lol.

I would love to see more Barker stories told. He had a real gift and was a huge influence on the horror side of my writing. And the erotica side, come to think of it.

 

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Agreed, but a lot of people saw her as sympathetic and being manipulated by Frank. She was ultimately the driving force behind it all and went fully into selfish mode once she realized Frank was back. Most horror fans agree that she was a major villain in the story, but people outside of the horror realm often see her as a victim to some degree.

And agree on the first two. But three holds a special place for me because it's the movie I fought to get to watch using logic and my mother had to admit she had no legitimate reason to not let me watch the movie. So, the movie is ass, but I fucking love it because of a petty childhood triumph, lol.

I would love to see more Barker stories told. He had a real gift and was a huge influence on the horror side of my writing. And the erotica side, come to think of it.

I'd like to see more adaptations as well. Lord of Illusions is insanely under rated.

Would like to see McCammon get any of his books into a movie

Instead we get every freaking dribble that ever drooled onto King's keyboard.

 

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I'd like to see more adaptations as well. Lord of Illusions is insanely under rated.

Would like to see McCammon get any of his books into a movie

Instead we get every freaking dribble that ever drooled onto King's keyboard.

Yeah. I like a lot of King's stories, but some were just complete ass that didn't need a big or small screen adaptation, lol.

There are so many novelists out there to choose from within the horror genre.

But as for Barker, the entire Harry D'Amour series would be amazing to see adapted into a long-form mini-series. Lord of Illusions was an exceptional adaptation, but that character had so much more to him than was portrayed there. (And I'm due for a rewatch on Lord of Illusions. I just need to find my fucking movies...)

 

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Yeah. I like a lot of King's stories, but some were just complete ass that didn't need a big or small screen adaptation, lol.

There are so many novelists out there to choose from within the horror genre.

But as for Barker, the entire Harry D'Amour series would be amazing to see adapted into a long-form mini-series. Lord of Illusions was an exceptional adaptation, but that character had so much more to him than was portrayed there. (And I'm due for a rewatch on Lord of Illusions. I just need to find my fucking movies...)

I always wonder is D-Amour and Moore's Constantine were some type of influences on each other, lot of similarities

 

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I always wonder is D-Amour and Moore's Constantine were some type of influences on each other, lot of similarities

I could see that for sure.

 

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Black Sabbath debuts with their self titled album in 1970. Most people consider this the first heavy metal album. But for the thread, the tone, 'doom' style sound and lyrics gave it a solid horror vibe.