This is Alisons Bechdel's memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family.It reminded me the movie The Squid and the Whale,where you laugh and cry at the same time....
Looking for Santeria dolls in the web i found this scary blog by Carolina Gonzalez (don't look at her twice i didn't) on how to make your own charm doll.
Worshiping African-origin religions means : Vodun, Hoodoo, Santería, Umbanda, Kimbanda, Candomble, eating corn and chicken wings daily, stalking your boyfriend and cutting his nails and hair when asleep, and maybe being a proud member Of Pagans of Etsy Street Team?
GLIMPSE at some photos of santeria dolls and totems (for hoodoo ance-stores)
Documentaries are moving pictures that usually encapture some aspect of reality.Documentaries in the 40s were propangandistic films, cinema verite in the next two decades and a very powerful political weapon against the upocoming capitalism in the 70s. Modern documentaries can be narrated or without words, animated, realistic, mockumentaries (fictitious, or pseudo-documentaries) ethnografic, rockumentaries and in several other forms depending on the theme, budget and the directional makers' aesthetics.
The list of documentaries by topic in wikipedia are endless but do not include the ones I'm proposing you to watch...
First one is a photo-animated documentary narrated by 10 people who knew the iconic American stand up comedian satirist and musician Bill Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994).Bill has been listed as the 19th most succesful comedian form Comedy Central and was famous for his own style of dark comedy often criticized as 'inhuman'.He died prematurely of pancreatic cancer near his closest friends and family with the ending words..
"I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit".
It took 3 years for Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas to make the AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story (2009) that describes the twists and turns in the life of this talented comedian.
Official trailler of the film AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)
No silver linings and no lemonade. The elevator only goes down. The bright note is that the elevator will, at some point, stop.
2) The future isn’t going to feel futuristic
It’s simply going to feel weird and out-of-control-ish, the way it does now, because too many things are changing too quickly. The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn’t feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.
I have gathered a small list of less known or forgotten horror movies that you can enjoy this Halloween. Some are old B&W psychological thrillers like “The haunting” and some are cult classics i.e. “The vanishing”.
The haunting 1965
Welcome to Hill House, one of Scorceze’s favorites, this psychological horror film sets the standards on paranormal movies. The guests of Hill house are gathered to investigate if the gothic mansion is really haunted or not. (I say it is, run for your lives. )Once It get’s dark the fun starts, the last 30 min of the movie did it for me as I didn’t expect such an old movie to be so damn scary. Do not watch the crappy 2007 remake go for the original that some brave soul has uploaded in YouTube.
Enter Hill house:
The innocents
If you are into old movies my next choice is “the Innocents” taken from the classic horror book “The turning of the screw”, this atmospheric masterpiece features all the ingredients for you to shit bricks.
Disturbingly scary children, gothic mansion, deep atmospheric feel, chilling music.
You can also imagine Nicole Kidman trying to copy Deborah Kerr‘s performance for “The others”
So you want to apply for a job as a governess to scary little children? Apply here
The vanishing 1988 Dutch film
The vanishing has all these little details that make it one of the best horror movies ever made. First of all it makes you sit comfortable and not take it so seriously, it has a subtle humor, and it makes you enjoy the ride, until it hits you with a hammer in the face. I always say there is nothing scarier than people. Saskia and Rex are a lovely couple on a road trip to France, at a gas stop Saskia mysteriously disappears and Rex devotes his life to find her….
Are you sure you want to look for Saskia? Start here:
Exte エクステ 2007 japan
This cult Japanese horror movie is one that will stick to you for some time.
I had no idea hair can be scary until I saw this film. It’s the story of a man that has a hair fetish; some aspiring hairdressers and a corpse with a hairy grudge. Watching it will make you laugh, freak out and develop new phobias on top the usual.
I am now afraid of spiders open closets and hair.
卐 ACHTUNG! 卐 We found this great game where you can run a "concentration camp"!Test your nonexistant skills and knowledge of the Geneva convention to run a War prison Camp...The best part is that the game is hosted in the nobelprize.org site. Go torture some POWs nao here.
this is what your poor prisoners look like... For info on that guy Liu Xiaobo http://nobelpeaceprize.org/
