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What scary movie made a big impression on me? It's not a horror movie. I never watched horror movies growing up. Even the commercials for the Freddy 1-900 number were too scary.

The movie that kept me up at night was Brazil. It's nihilistic ending, particularly the part where the agents come through the ceiling, was absolutely chilling to me. I stared up at my ceiling at nights because of it!

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The Blair Witch Project made a lasting impression on me. I was pretty young when I first watched it, and I had never seen anything like it before (in terms of content and the way in which it was filmed). The end scene still spooks me out to this day! 😱

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As a kid, Leprechaun and Candyman had big impressions on me. They were the first movies that made me scared to go to sleep. I go over those fears and started liking to watch horror movies, but as a younger adult Event Horizon was it for me. I found it disturbing and won’t watch it again.

I recorded so many Reels from the monster party.

With unlimited funds I’d have to plan for Halloween 2024 so I could be Rouge from X-Men, complete with a modest BBL and breast lift. I’d get a mad scientist to destroy the melanocytes in a strip of my scalp so I could have a permanent white bang, then dye the rest a warm auburn. Custom costume and boots, too.

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It's comforting to know that I suck at hosting even imaginary parties. Oh well...

The scary movie that made the biggest impression on me is also not a horror movie. It was Deliverance. My adult self thinks I might actually appreciate it now, but i was so disturbed by it as a kid I can't bring myself to watch it again.

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Oct 14, 2022Liked by Geoffrey Golden

Yes, I love the entire concept. Great job, pretty cool.

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Oct 14, 2022Liked by Geoffrey Golden

Very interesting!

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a case of La Croix made me lol very hard.

If you had infinite time and budget for a Halloween costume, who (or what) would you go as this year? I think I would go as one of my best friends in (full prosthetic to look exactly like him) who was going as me for halloween.

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The first horror movie to ever have an impact was Poltergeist. I was probably 9 or 10 the first time I saw it, and the scene where the guy peels his face off gave me the heebie-jeebies for a long time. When I was in college I worked at a video store, and their horror section was to die for... I lived, though, so I must not have watched the right ones.

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Ha, I knew the key to artistic success was felines. I'd like to thank the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca for my award.

For the actual adventure today, my first ending was exploiting my party guests for content and meme material. Now that I have some dead (and undead) man's triggers set up I can blackmail my way into ruling the monster community.

Right now I'm thinking of a very mundane costume, Jonathan Harker from Dracula, in honor of Dracula Daily. So basically just an English realtor, possibly with an 'I was held prisoner in Dracula's castle and all I got was this stupid T-shirt' T-shirt. Never been too into Halloween and dressing up honestly, cosplay is a bit tempting though.

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