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This Week in Horror History | IT, Hellraiser & True Blood
Key Takeaways
- Clive Barker made his feature-directing debut with Hellraiser, adapting his own novella The Hellbound Heart to introduce the iconic Cenobites and the infamous Lament Configuration puzzle box.
- The original 1987 Hellraiser film was shot on a modest budget of roughly one million dollars and went on to gross over 14 million dollars worldwide, successfully launching a massive horror franchise.
- Frank Cotton solves the puzzle box in Hellraiser not by accidental curiosity, but out of a deliberate desire to seek extreme sensations beyond ordinary human limits.
- September horror anniversaries also spotlight major milestones like Stephen King's blockbuster adaptation of It, HBO's vampire hit True Blood, and the survival horror game Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Start the Halloween pregame with IT, Hellraiser, True Blood, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and The Loved Ones as major horror anniversaries return from September 7 through September 13. This Week in Horror History heads into spooky season with Stephen King's Pennywise and Derry, Clive Barker's Lament Configuration and Cenobites, HBO vampires, no-combat survival horror, prom-night terror, and The X-Files' paranormal conspiracy.
This weekly horror release-date and anniversary roundup revisits the movies, television, games, creators, and cult classics that shaped the genre while building an early-September Halloween watchlist: vampire horror, Stephen King adaptations, supernatural horror movies, survival-horror games, giallo legends, prom-night horror, monster-of-the-week television, and fall horror listening.Inside this episode:
- September 7, 2008 - True Blood - Alan Ball's HBO vampire hit brings Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Bon Temps, and supernatural politics out of the coffin.
- September 8, 2010 - Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Frictional Games turns Brennenburg Castle into a landmark no-combat survival-horror nightmare built on darkness, sanity, running, and hiding.
- September 8, 2017 - It - Andy Muschietti sends the Losers Club into Derry's sewers to face Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise in a record-breaking Stephen King blockbuster.
- September 11, 1987 - Hellraiser - Clive Barker opens the Lament Configuration and unleashes the Cenobites in his feature-directing debut and the start of a horror franchise.
- September 13, 2009 - The Loved Ones - Sean Byrne's Australian prom-night nightmare premieres internationally at TIFF, where a rejected invitation becomes a private dance no one should attend.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When was Clive Barker's Hellraiser released?
Hellraiser opened theatrically in the United Kingdom on September 11, 1987, before expanding to North America a week later.
What is the puzzle box called in Clive Barker's Hellraiser?
The puzzle box is known as the Lament Configuration, a mysterious artifact that summons the Cenobites when solved.
Who directed the 1987 horror film Hellraiser?
Hellraiser was written and directed by Clive Barker, serving as his feature-directing debut based on his novella The Hellbound Heart.
What is the main premise of Hellraiser?
After a man named Frank solves the Lament Configuration in search of ultimate sensations, he is mutilated and torn apart by the Cenobites, later attempting to regenerate using human blood.
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September has crossed the threshold. The calendar still says summer,
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but Halloween is leaking into the room. Store aisles glow orange,
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dusk arrives earlier, and every invitation feels like something you
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should read twice. This week, vampires announce themselves, and Amnesiac
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wakes in a castle that wants him to remember. Children
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follow a voice beneath dairy, and a puzzle box turns
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curiosity into a contract. Then, for our deep-cut spotlight, we
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accept a prom invitation from an Australian nightmare where pink satin,
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power tools, and one devoted father share the dance floor. So,
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check who invited you, leave the red balloon in the gutter,
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and if a tiny brass box begins... Rearranging itself in
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your hands. Put it down. Welcome back to This Week
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in Horror History. Your weekly time machine through the creepiest
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anniversaries in film, TV, books, comics, and games. I'm your host,
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Enrique Couto, and not only is our window September 7th
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through the 13th, but it's my birthday week. Coming up,
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HBO introduces a world where vampires have stopped hiding and
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started demanding a place at the table. Frictional games take
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away your weapons, your memory, and eventually your confidence in
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every dark hallway. Pennywise returns to Derry and makes one
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red balloon into a city-wide warning, and Clive Barker opens
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the lament configuration for anyone who still thinks curiosity is harmless. Then,
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after the break, a rejected prom invitation, a homemade dance floor,
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and a father-daughter tradition, nobody survives gracefully. September 7th, 2008.
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True Blood premieres on HBO and vampires officially come out
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of the coffin. Created by Alan Ball from Charlaine Harris'
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Southern Vampire Mysteries, the series imagines synthetic blood, allowing vampires
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to reveal they've always lived among humanity. Anna Paquin plays
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Suki Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps. When Stephen
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Moyer's Bill Compton enters, he brings romance, danger, and a
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supernatural society with laws all of its own. True Blood
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mixes mystery, gothic romance, body horror, southern melodrama, and dark comedy.
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Its sharpest idea is monsters don't become safe because they
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can appear on television and order a drink. Going public
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only gives hunger. new politics. So if you've slept on
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True Blood or you need a really solid revisit, it's
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available on Hulu, HBO Max, and, of course, you can
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buy or rent seasons through Amazon Video, Apple TV, and
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Fandango at home. Who's thirsty? September 8th, 2010. Amnesia, the
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dark descent, releases four computers, and a castle full of
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darkness takes away the player's usual protection, the ability to
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fight back. Daniel wakes inside Brennenberg Castle with almost no memory.
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A note in his own hand says he erased it, deliberately,
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and must descend to kill Alexander. Frictional games removes combat.
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Daniel survives by running, hiding, and closing doors. Darkness conceals
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him but erodes his sanity. Light steadies him but also
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reveals him and consumes resources. Even looking at a monster
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can hurt you. The player must know where it is
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without truly watching it. Amnesia turns seeing into punishment. and
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knowledge into something the mind might not survive. So if
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you're ready to spend an evening in the dark, it's
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available on PC through Steam and GOG. The Amnesia Collection
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is also sold digitally for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.
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September 8th, 2017. It opens in U.S. theaters. and a
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red balloon rises from the sewer like dairy itself is
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sending out a little warning, a festive one, but a
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warning nonetheless. Andy Muschietti adapts the childhood half of Stephen
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King's novel, moving The Losers Club to Summer of 1989,
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which fit perfectly with Stranger Things being so popular at
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the time. Bill Denbrough and his friends already face bullies,
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abusive homes, and a town that rarely protects its children. No, really.
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The history is nerve-wracking. Then Bill Skarsgård' s Pennywise gives every
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fear a different face. The creature is frightening, but the
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film works because the losers realize isolation is part of
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the attack on them. Pennywise can tailor a nightmare to
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one child. but friendship forces it to face down seven.
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The sewer is where Derry sends everything it refuses to see.
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Missing children, buried history, and a hunger the adults have
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trained themselves to ignore. It was a unmitigated phenomena when
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it came out. I remember I went to see it
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early by myself on opening night. Actually, it was the
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preview night. And I was just floored. I expected it
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to be good and fun, but I didn't expect it
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to be kind of generational the way it was. It
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really blew my mind and made me feel bad for
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Chapter 2 because how can you compare? At the box office,
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it opened to a historic $ 123. 4 million in the U.S.
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and Canada. and finished its original run at about $ 702. 8
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million worldwide against a reported $ 35 million budget, making it
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a bonafide studio blockbuster. And if you haven't watched the
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original in a little while, I really do recommend you
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check it out. It's currently streaming on HBO Max with
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your subscription, or you can rent or buy it through
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Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at home. September 11th, 1987.
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Hellraiser opens theatrically in the United Kingdom, and a small
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brass puzzle box makes desire look like a door with
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no handle on the inside. Clive Barker adapts his novella
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The Hellbound Heart for his feature directing debut. Frank Cotton
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solves the lament configuration while searching for sensations beyond anything
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ordinary life seems to be able to offer. What answers
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him are the Cenobites. After Frank escapes in an incomplete
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body beneath the floorboards, Julia brings men home so their
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blood can restore them. Meanwhile, Doug Bradley's lead Cenobite, later
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famously known as Pinhead, waits for the debt to be settled.
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Hellraiser isn't about opening the wrong box by accident. Frank
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knows it promises experiences without limits, and limits are exactly
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what he's sick of. Emphasis on sick. The Cenobites simply
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take that desire more literally. Its North American run opened
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one week later with $ 4. 5 million and finished at $ 14. 6
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million against a reported $ 1 million budget. enough to establish
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Barker's debut as a franchise starter. And what a franchise
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it is. Varying so very, very much. But the original
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is a classic, and rightfully so. It's perverse, bizarre, disgusting, and,
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at times, shockingly simple. A lot of the film seems to,
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in a weird way, take place in a staircase. But
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it works in context. If somehow you've never seen it,
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that's Bizarre, and we have such sights to show you.
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It's available streaming on Prime Video with your subscription, free
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with ads on Tubi, the CW Plex, and Prime Video.
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And of course, you can rent or buy it through
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Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at home. Tomorrow on
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Weekly Spooky, everybody... gets angry. Danielle Boyd turns into a werewolf,
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and at Strickfield High School, there are a lot of
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of reasons to get angry. In Anger Issues by Rob Fields,
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Danielle's curse doesn't wait for the full moon. A shove,
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an insult, a hand where it doesn't belong. One bad
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moment is all it takes. The rage hits, her bones change,
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and suddenly... A massive silver werewolf is tearing through the
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hallways of Strickfield High. But Danielle isn't a mindless monster.
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She knows exactly what she's doing. She just has one
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serious problem. She really, really likes being angry. And someone
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has finally come to put her down. The hunter's mission
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is simple. Find Danielle Boyd. Kill the werewolf, then move
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on to other monsters, hiding in plain sight. But the
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deeper the hunter gets into Strickfield High, the stranger things become.
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A vampire walks freely in the daylight. A cheerleader radiates
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an unnatural cold. Another new student may be hiding something
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monstrous of her own. And then the full moon rises.
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Hunter and Werewolf are about to collide with something neither
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of them expected. Because Danielle may be cursed, but she's
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not the monster. Everyone seems to think she is. Don't
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miss this brand new scary story tomorrow right here on
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Weekly Spooky. Make sure you're subscribed, and while you're at it,
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watch your temper. All right. Quick breather. But when we
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come back, we're headed to September 13th, 2009 for the
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international premiere of an Australian film at the Toronto International
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Film Festival. Brent turns down Lola's prom invitation. Lola's father
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decides rejection is not an acceptable answer. We're back. Let's
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get into it. On September 13th, 2009, The Loved Ones
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has its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival,
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and one teenager discovers that declining a dance can be
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more dangerous than attending one. Sean Byrne's Australian feature debut
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stars Xavier Samuel as Brent, a high school student carrying
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guilt after a car crash killed his father. He plans
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to attend prom with his girlfriend, Holly. Then Robin McLeavy's
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Lola asks him to go with her. Brent politely says no. Instead, though,
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Lola's father kidnaps Brent and brings him to their house
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where the dining room has become a private prom. There
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are decorations, formal wear, crowns, photographs, and restraints at the table.
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The design is cheerful enough to become obscene. Lola wears pink,
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pop music plays, her father treats torture like party planning.
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The black comedy never makes Brent feel safe, though. It's
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like Carrie turned inside out. The dangerous girl brings the
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dance home, straps her date to a chair, and crowns herself.
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The scariest relationship, though, is between Lola and her father.
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He's built a sealed world where every desire becomes family
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law and every refusal becomes a problem needing correcting. His
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devotion has made monstrosity the household tradition. Brent's grief gives
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the survival story weight. He begins by treating his life
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somewhat carelessly. Once somebody else decides to take it, though,
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He discovers how badly he wants to keep it. The
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Loved Ones won TIFF's 2009 People's Choice Award for Midnight
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Madness and remains a vicious collision of teen melodrama, black comedy,
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and captive house horror. Dressed for the dance that no
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one should attend. And this one was a mind-blower for me.
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When I finally watched it, I was mad. It had
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been a couple of years since it came out. I
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was upset I had waited so long because, man, was
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it a solid flick. And if you've never seen it
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or need a revisit, it has been a while. It's
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available to rent or buy through Amazon Video, Apple TV,
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and Fandango at home. Now it's time to get out
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the creepy cake for some horror-related birthdays. First up, born
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on September 7th, 1940, is Dario Argento. Master of the
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Jolly and Supernatural Color, director of Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Phenomena,
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and Opera. I think he's kind of one of the
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most overrated directors of all time, but that doesn't mean
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that his films aren't interesting and exciting and stylish, as
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well as being pretty good overall. So a happy birthday,
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Dario Argento. Born on September 8th, 1971, is David Arquette.
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known for Dewey Riley across the Scream series, with genre
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turns in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ravenous, Eight-Legged Freaks, and
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the bizarre but underrated The Tripper. Happy birthday to former
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WCW World Heavyweight Champion, David Arquette. Born on September 11th, 1940...
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is Brian De Palma, director of Carrie, Sisters, The Fury,
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Dressed to Kill, and Body Double. That doesn't even scratch
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the surface of how many classics the guy's directed. He
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turned split screens and voyeurism into a weapon aimed squarely
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at the audience. A very happy birthday, Brian De Palma.
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And born on September 13th, 1916, Roald Dahl. The macabre
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storyteller behind The Witches and Tales of the Unexpected, where
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cruelty and wicked reversals arrive dressed as bedtime stories. And
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it's a little misleading, maybe. A very happy birthday to
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Roald Dahl and all of our horror birthdays. This week,
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for our then and now, horror turns invitation into a
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steel trap. 1987 gives us a puzzle box that opens
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because somebody wants whatever waits beyond. 2008 invites vampires into
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public life and discovers visibility does not make hunger civilized.
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2009 turns a rejected prom invitation into abduction and ritual.
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2010 sends an amnesiac deeper into a castle by following
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instructions written... in his own handwriting, and 2017 lets Pennywise
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call children toward the places Derry refuses to acknowledge. And
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for our weekly recommendation, September 10th, my birthday, 1993, not
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so much my birthday, The X-Files premieres on Fox. For
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an early autumn watch full of wet forests, motel rooms, flashlights,
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and things the government insists are not happening, it really
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is perfect. Chris Carter's pilot premiered on Fox, introducing David
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Duchovny as FBI agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as
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Dana Scully, assigned to evaluate his unexplained cases. Their first
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case takes them to Oregon, where young people are dying
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with Strange marks and missing time. Mulder sees a pattern.
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Scully demands evidence. Somebody is already removing it. The series
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engine is present immediately. Belief and skepticism are not simple opposites.
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Each keeps the other from settling for the easiest answer.
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Evidence appears and disappears and raises a worse question. The
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X-Files made fluorescent offices... Cornfields and anonymous roads feel connected
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by one hidden current. Some weeks chased conspiracy, others opened
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the door to a new monster. The best episodes made
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the impossible feel close enough to change how you looked
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at your own window. After dark, I always loved me
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some X-Files, and I think anybody could use a refresher watch.
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It's streaming on Hulu with your membership, free with ads
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on Pluto TV, and of course you can buy or
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rent whole seasons on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango
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at home. Because the truth is out there. Well, my spookies,
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that was your trip through September 7th through the 13th
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in horror history. Don't miss a brand new weekly spooky tomorrow.
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It's going to be damn good. And on Thursday for
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Thursday Thrills, my birthday episode, I'll be talking all about
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the Bill Manor in Fremont, Ohio. and the new HGTV
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reality show all about it and I want to say
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thank you all so much for your kindness and birthday
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wishes I really do appreciate it sent to weekly spooky
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at gmail.com anything you want to say I'm happy to
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listen Maybe I'll regret saying that, but not for now.
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But now it's time for me to get back to
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it because I'm hoping to take a birthday off of sorts.
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We'll still be publishing, but you know. So until next time,
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my spookies, remember, our days are numbered because that's how
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we tell them apart. See you next week.
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