It’s been a while since I did one of these, and more than seven years since I did a Beach House song, so here’s “Space Song,” featuring footage of a science fiction film I bet you’re familiar with.
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Shoegazer Sunday: Beach House’s “Space Song”
Sunday, January 8th, 2023Halloween Horrors: The Backrooms
Sunday, October 30th, 2022The Backrooms are a liminal space CreepyPasta setting where you’ve “no clipped” out of reality into and endless office maze of office corridors decorated in ugly yellow wallpaper and brown carpets illuminated by buzzing florescent lights.
Several video creators have run with this idea and produced some pretty convincing depictions of it. In the ones below, YouTuber Kane Parsons, AKA Kane Pixals, has filled in background lore where the Async Corporation has created (or possibly tapped into) The Backrooms as a potential money-making project, documenting their work as bland, 1980s-corporate speak promotional videos and handheld camera footage that have come down to us as grainy VHS copies. It’s a pretty-inspired mating of presentation format and subject.
And the people exploring the Backrooms start to realize that the deeper you get, the weirder things seem to be, and that there’s something else wandering those yellow hallways…
Evidently he’s doing all this in Blender, which you can download for free.
And there are lots more YouTube creators doing their own versions of the Backrooms…
Halloween Horrors: Transworld 2022 Halloween Show
Saturday, October 29th, 2022Here’s video from the 2022 Transworld Halloween trade show, where there are lots of high end props, animatronics, costumes, etc., for the haunted house trade.
This year: Lots of monsters being electrocuted, and some rather good dinosaurs.
Halloween Horrors: The Dark Watchers
Friday, October 28th, 2022It’s not often hear of legendary American creature previously unknown to me, but I hadn’t heard of The Dark Watchers before I stumbled across this
“The Dark Watchers are described as tall, sometimes giant-sized featureless dark silhouettes often adorned with brimmed hats or walking sticks. They are most often reported to be seen in the hours around twilight and dawn. They are said to motionlessly watch travelers from the horizon along the Santa Lucia Mountain Range. According to legend, no one has seen one up close and if someone were to approach them, they disappear.”
Here’s a page of firsthand accounts.
Halloween Horrors: Underground Car Graveyard
Thursday, October 27th, 2022Less scary than weird and curious, here’s some people exploring a water-filled “Cavern of Lost Souls” with “1000” (probably an exaggeration) old cars mysteriously dumped there. But there are an awful lot there, and it looks like a genuinely dangerous exploration.
This is evidently in north Wales.
Halloween Horrors: The Book of Cosmic Horror
Tuesday, October 25th, 2022If you like some Hieronymus Bosch, maybe you’ll enjoy this freaky medieval book of prophecy.
With a nod to H. P. Lovecraft.
Halloween Horrors: Wasparama
Sunday, October 16th, 2022Keeping the creepy crawly theme from yesterday going, here’s a video of a wasp and hornet expert removing a yellow-jacket nest from a wall in a woman’s basement.
A really, really, really big nest.
If that doesn’t freak you out enough, this guy has dozens more nest removal videos on his channel…
Halloween Horrors: House of Scorpions
Saturday, October 15th, 2022We haven’t done any creepy crawly horror yet this holiday season, so “enjoy” this abandoned house absolutely filled with scorpions.
Guy finds thousands of scorpions in an abandoned house pic.twitter.com/NglMZwA9y9
— OddIy Terrifying (@closecalls7) August 28, 2022
Sweet dreams…
Halloween Horrors: Welcome To AI Hell
Friday, October 14th, 2022Man tells an AI to generate visions of Hell. Here are the results:
Of course, AI Hell is different from Robot Hell. For one thing, there’s less singing:
Halloween Horrors: National Museum of Funeral History in Houston
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022This should be a Halloween non-horror, as this actually looks like a pretty cool place to visit:
The museum is open seven days a week at 415 Barren Springs Dr, Houston, TX 77090.