This week we talk a fair bit of gaming, then a bit of other junk, and then we raise Azuretalon’s kid for him. Overall, I’d say it was quite heroic. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Hat Demoniacs, What are some classic horror films roughly appropriate for a 13 year old? –Azure-Ma-Talon (I should’ve been calling myself Saxampaphone)
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I can’t believe that we didn’t mention Alfred Hitchcock.
Just testing here to see if I can respond to this comment as my attempts to directly reply to the post have seemingly vanished.
It appears that you cannot. Although you can probably see your test posting, none of the rest of us can. I regret that you apparently can’t reply directly to the post, either.
Wait, what?
I was with Tony in thinking 70s and 80s. She’s seen Krampus, Creepshow 2, Beetlejuice, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the three Poltergeist movies. She was a fan of the “kids” horror stuff like Monster House, ParaNormam, and definitely Coraline. She was Coraline 3 years ago for Halloween and my wife was the Other Mother. She’s also a fan of horrorish stuff like Gremlins and Ghostbusters.
It never occurred to me to move the universal horror or Hitchcock but that’s a great idea. I watched Alfred Hitchcock presents as a child on Nick at Night all the time.
Wow, your kid’s gone through a lot already! I’d say you can jump into Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th, if you want, based on what she’s already seen.
But is she ready to “graduate” to The Exorcist, The Omen, and Rosemary’s Baby???
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I saw the Exorcist at 8, that was too young. The Omen is probably my all time favorite horror movie, she probably could handle that. And I have yet to get around to seeing Rosemary’s Baby.
Rosemary’s Baby is definitely one she could handle, but might be bored by. Although it IS a supernatural tale, a lot of the horror is psychological.
That being said, highly, highly recommend it.
I have a different response about Rosemary’s baby than Tony or Azuretalon. I find it very scary. I would say this is because I just generally find horror movies too scary to enjoy, but my son, who is a big horror movie buff, think this is one of the scariest movies ever. He saw it first at 18 and I think it gave him nightmares. I think responses must be pretty individual.
For the record, I DO think Rosemary’s baby is very scary, personally. I just don’t anticipate a 13 year old would. But then again, I haven’t been a 13 year old in almost 15 years… 🙂
Trying this one more time. Yes, I dabble in game design as a hobby. Most of what I’ve released to date have been adventures for a range of systems but I’m running my first kickstarter at the end of February as part of zinequest. That is for Project Cassandra, my game of psychics during the cold war.
If you wanted to look at my existing games search for LunarShadow Designs on drivethrurpg or itchio
Will check.
Also, post the Kickstarter here, or let us know and we’ll post it, when it’s up!
And yes, that was for sure a Simpson’s joke. One of my favorite Simpson’s jokes ever was Homer was sad about Lisa, I think when DHFS places the kids with Patty and Selma, and he picks up the sax while crying and sobs “Saxamaphone, Sax A-Ma Phooooone” into the mouthpiece like he’s playing it.
Oh, and Hat Demoniacs was actually a New Testament reference to the Demoniac, the dude possessed by a legion of demons that Jesus jammed into a herd of suicide pigs. I just thought it was a cool word.
Oh yeah! He uses the saxophone kind of like a giant kazoo, singing “sax a ma phone!” to the tune of Beethoven’s 5th!
Ah yes… I should’ve assumed it was ultimately biblical demon pigs, not old French exploitation horror…
Also, you GPSed me good. I do live in Illinois but when you said “You’re in Iowa” I was on 61 on my way to Dubuque.
William was skeptical, but I told him paying for the deluxe implanted tracking chip would pay off!
Why do I ever doubt you regarding such things? I just don’t know…
I’d recommend the Frank Langella Dracula over the Coppola one. I didn’t like the way Coppola made the women (especially Lucy) knowingly sexual. I remember the scene where they are reading the Richard Burton erotic version of the Arabian Nights. The Langella Dracula has a much stronger Mina character.
Another good kid horror movie is “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” This is about my speed when it comes to horror. 🙂
At first when I saw the title and read that the episode was heroic, I had a completely different Homer in mind.
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I just remembered a story about the first time I watched Bela Lugosi’s Dracula. I was 10 and my brother was 6 when we watched it together. That night, I woke up and heard someone in our bedroom closet. A figure emerged that seemed to be wearing a cape. It bent over my brother’s bed as if to drink his blood!
I reached for my bedside lamp and turned it on at the same time as I drew back to throw it.
It was my brother who had gone into the closet for a blanket, draped it around his shoulders, and was bending over the bed to put it on.
I didn’t go back to sleep for at least an hour. (My brother went right back to sleep.)
The common bedside lamp (lit, of course) is a little-known but indispensable piece of anti-vampire ordnance. Someone had read her Van Helsing.
I assumed it was going to turn out to be Bella Legosi in the closet, and turn out that Bella Legosi was Jas’s great-uncle’s cousin. 🙂
Well… it was someone related to Jas, at least.
I hope someday she’ll tell us how she coped with realizing that her brother is a vampire.
He often used to accuse me of being one, but this is probably a vampiric trick.