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Ecstasy of Influence – L’Arcano Incantatore (Arcane Sorcerer) 1996
23/10/2024Finally! The movie people have been DEMANDING! Oops, I mean, finally the movie no one has ever seen. Yes, this is the video that will most likely go the most unwatched! It’s Pupi Avati’s “L’Arcano Incantatore” and it’s really good!
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Ecstasy of Influence – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
07/10/2024Who is the biggest GO-BO-LIN of them all?! The Monster! The Creation! The FRANKENSTEIN! Yes, it’s out BAZILLIONTH version of Frankenstein and we’d like to remind everyone that THE MONSTER IS NOT VERY NICE! It’s “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” y’all on the Ecstasy of Influence!
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Ecstasy of Influence – Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
09/09/2024We’re back with “Tim Burton’s Henry Selick’s Everyone Else’s The Nightmare Before Christmas!” We’ve seen it a billion times! Spooky!
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Ecstasy of Influence – The Age of Innocence (1992)
25/08/2024In 1992, Martin Scorsese directed a movie that is either his magnum opus, or a load of HOGWASH. It’s “The Age of Innocence” and we really get into it!
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Ecstasy of Influence – Defending Your Life (1991)
13/08/2024Welcome to the JUDGMENT ZONE! It’s Phil and Willow and we’re back to talk about Albert Brooks’ 1991 classic “Defending Your Life!” What a weird movie to come back on, I swear. Anyways, here it is!
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The Dark Descent – “A Little Something for Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick
16/04/2024Aaaaaaaand, we’re done! It’s “A Little Something For Us Tempunauts” by Philip K. Dick and “The Dark Descent” is over! PARTY HORN NOISE!
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The Dark Descent – “The Hospice” by Robert Aickman
09/04/2024WE’RE SO CLOSE TO THE END! It’s the penultimate “Dark Descent” story and it’s a whopper! “The Hospice” is quintessential Robert Aickman: it’s creepy, offbeat, weird, strange, chilling and inexplicable. We really loved it and now… only one story to go!
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The Dark Descent – “The Asian Shore” by Thomas M. Disch
30/03/2024What a mystery this story is! Willow isn’t sure if she likes it, or if it even qualifies as horror. I’m enamored of it, but can’t really decide what it’s about! PERFECT! It’s “The Asian Shore” by Thomas M. Disch!
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The Dark Descent – “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood
23/03/2024This week, it’s one of the most terrifying and terribly intimate stories we’ve yet covered. The cosmic horror of “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood!
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The Dark Descent – “Afterward” by Edith Wharton
16/03/2024This week, Willow and I take a look at the creepy effects of UNFETTERED CAPITALISM with Edith Wharton’s “Afterward!”
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The Dark Descent – “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce
19/02/2024Whaddaya get when you take a dead guy, an invisible monster and a heaping dose of post-Civil War Traumatic Stress Disorder? “The Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce! The missingest author in the history of Weird Fiction!
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The Dark Descent – “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson
28/01/2024This week, Willow and Phil take a quick look at a quick story: “The Beautiful Stranger” by Shirley Jackson. We throw out a lot of theories as to the actual nature of this story, but the one thing we can agree on? That stranger is beautiful.
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The Dark Descent – “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien
06/01/2024Sometimes, you don’t even need to ask. “What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien!
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The Dark Descent – “The Beckoning Fair One” by Oliver Onions
30/12/2023Boy oh boy are we ever getting tired of sad men dying for their ghosts. It’s “The Beckoning Fair One” by Oliver Onions! A good story, but jeez, guys. See a therapist or something.
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The Dark Descent – “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers
16/12/2023We’ve got a big one this week! It’s “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers and Willow goes OFF. If you’re looking for her sources, here they are! de Oliveira, Hugo Mendes. “An Empire of Delusion: The Process of Alienation as Expressed by Robert W. Chambers’ ‘The Repairer of Reputations.’” Thesis, Proquest Dissertations Publishing, … Continue reading "The Dark Descent – “The Repairer of Reputations” by Robert W. Chambers"
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The Dark Descent – “Clara Militch” by Ivan Turgenev
09/12/2023This week, we’re heading off to jolly ol’ Russia for a bit of nineteenth century whimsey titled “Clara Militch” or “Klara Milich” or any number of permutations. It’s by Ivan Turgenev and it’s a real cracker! By which I mean, we were utterly confused by it.
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The Dark Descent – “Seaton’s Aunt” by Walter de la Mare
26/11/2023It’s another headscratcher! “Seaton’s Aunt” by Walter de la Mare might not be the scariest story we’ve ever read, but it sure does make me feel sad!
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The Dark Descent – “Night-Side” by Joyce Carol Oates
18/11/2023Yes, I sing Hall and Oates at one point. It’s “Night-Side” by Joyce Carol Oates!
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The Dark Descent – “Crouch End” by Stephen King
11/11/2023We’re back in Lovecraft Country, this week! It’s Stephen King’s “Crouch End” and it’s a modern CLASSIC!
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The Dark Descent – “The Signal-Man” by Charles Dickens
04/11/2023When is a ghost not a ghost? When it’s a SIGNAL-MAN! It’s “The Signal-Man” by Charles Discken and Willow has NOTES on the story! NOTES!