Who Do You Look To?

Most people are inspired by someone who lives or who died, someone real. This is not the case for me, real people, living or dead do not inspire me. I am inspired by those created… More

Dante’s Encounter’s: April

April 2024 Hey there ! 👋🏾 A very warm welcome to all who have decided to come on this journey with me. This is the first edition of Dante’s Encounters and we are – hopefully… More

Introducing: Dante’s Encounters

I spoke about my plan to craft a newsletter and such. Let me delve deeper into that.. I’ll actually copy what I wrote on Substack. As I was on my journeys I came across a… More

Inner Child 302

As us teaching you would only confuse you, we have asked one we found on your planet to assist. He is one of the few to have some grasp on reality

Mad Blogger, over to you:

Apologies and What’s Been Going On

I know, I know, I have sorely neglected this place. For that my reader, I deeply apologise. This is me trying to do better. So let me explain what’s been going on with me and what I have lined up.

What’s Been Happening

So, about me…

Of Horror Old and New

For 30 days you came, for 30 days we went over 30 movies from across the years.

Some good, others excellent, others not so much.

Those that have followed this series would have noticed something different about this year….

As I mentioned at the beginning, we would tackle horror from across the eras. ( The creatures had to be fed)

Thank you for coming on this journey and next year we will return to the regularly scheduled viewing and scare the pants off you.

Until next time

Dante

Day 30 – SAW X – #D30DH

Hello reader, I want to play a game…

I am not even telling you about this one. Go watch it, go.

I know my rules but go watch it.

It’s good, I enjoyed myself, so so much.

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My verdict

People who know me know I love the SAW movies. From the intricacies of that story to the traps. And how the actual chain of events only makes sense once you have watched all seven of them and have been paying attention.

It’s just in the last two offerings they forgot those apects entirely. This was a return to form that I appreciate very much, and the fact that they open up the opportunity to do a follow up is very pleasing to me.

Dante

Day 29 – The Night House – #D30DH

Mourning the death of her husband Owen, Beth spends her time drinking and going through his things. Even though she tries to seem like she’s coping, her friend and neighbour are worried about her. She obsesses over the suicide note he left – “You were right. There is nothing. Nothing is after you. You’re safe now.”

Day 28 – Carrie – #D30DH

From the twisted mind that is Mr. King…

Carrie lives with her extremely religious unstable mother Margaret is constantly teased by the other kids. When she has her first period, she is in a panic as she has never been told about menstruation. Her classmates mock her throwing tampons and sanitary pads at her, until a teacher Ms. Collins stops them.

Day 27 – The Ruins – #D30DH

Exploration, more exploration to places one should really not go

A woman is crouched in darkness, she screams for help and is dragged by something…

Day 26 – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – #D30DH

It’s a musical, a bloody musical at that…

1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, lands in London. Years earlier he had been falsely convicted by a corrupt judge and existed to Australia. The judge, Turpin wanted his wife Lucy. Barker takes on the alias “Sweeney Todd” and goes back to his old Fleet Street shop house above Nellie Lovett’s meat pie shop.

Day 25 – Raven’s Hollow – D30DH

They could have left. They could have left when they were warned, they really could have…

Five cadets, including Edgar Allan Poe, take part in a training exercise in a remote location. They encounter a dying man tied up like a scarecrow who whispers the word “Raven” …

Day 24 – The Amityville Horror (1979) – #D30DH

November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murders his entire family at their home of 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York.

A year later, George and Kathy move into the house with her children. Even though George isn’t religious, Kathy asks a priest Father Delaney to bless the house. Delaney arrives at the house whilst the family is out, and is attacked by flies and hears a voice demanding that he leave – making him run away. Kathy’s aunt Helena, a nun, visits the family but becomes il and leaves immediately…

Day 23 – Mara – #D30DH

Back into the dreamscapes, where we have acknowledged you are not safe…

Sophie Wynsfield is awakened by her mother Helena in panic. This is after she allegedly killed her husband. Kate, a criminal psychologist is called to deduce whether to commit Helena or not. Interviewing Sophie and Helena, they both insist he was killed by Mara – a sleep demon. Kate decides to go ahead and have Helena committed.