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Hey there, Great article. Put together wonderful...

2018-03-20T22:06:31.142+00:00

Hey there,

Great article. Put together wonderfully. I hope your are still updating it? Here are a few more I have documented. 1998 - Enemy of the State ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMkisgimUMo&feature=youtu.be Also the SDI Video Game ---> http://wolfclanmedia-research.blogspot.com/2018/03/911-space-perception.html

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2017-03-27T21:41:20.462+01:00

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Hey Bingers, check this out! I mentioned Metallica...

2017-03-19T17:36:33.995+00:00

Hey Bingers, check this out! I mentioned Metallica and the 1988 "...And Justice For All" Tour (aka Damaged Justice), sneaking backstage and giving them that "synch" video. The video was their Orion (track) and 2001:ASO. "...And Justice For All" Tour officially began on "Sept 11 1988". WTF? Isn't that just a little bit crazy, seeing as you're aware of my Sept 11 take on Kubrick's 2001:ASO. I only just noticed 'cos I was checking the year I went to the gigs, Hammersmith was Oct' 88. The "Justice" tour main prop and LP cover had a symbolic collapsing/crumbling Statue of Liberty theme. I've related "Orion" constellation to 9/11 in earlier work too, good ol' Orion/Osiris. 2001:ASO - an "Orion clipper ship" takes Floyd to the moon. (Also recall that Metallica's fellow metal contemporaries 'Slayer" did release "God Hates Us All" on 9/11/2001). :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaged_Justice

Bingers, I really liked your Metallica/Heinlein assist on "Master of Puppets and Puppet Masters" - seems obvious now, but thats a really good connect and one I hadn't thought about. Metallica also clearly have a heavy Lovecraft influence and it's scattered thru their work, as we've seen.

I just happened to catch one of those Pirates of the Caribbean films the other day, I'd never seen one before. It was "Dead Man's Chest" - the one I was connecting to "The Thing" and dead man Norris' chest. It had Cthulhu Davy Jones, and also I noted the Cthulhu linked Kraken/Octopus (evoking 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). Some have claimed that Lovecraft may have got inspiration from the mythology of the Kraken. Cthulhu Mythos scholar Robert M. Price claims the irregular sonnet The Kraken, written in 1830 by Alfred Tennyson, was a major inspiration for Lovecraft's story, as both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from its slumber in an apocalyptic age. The Norwegian Kraken, there's Norwegians in The Thing - the name Norris (the dead and 'open chest' man, The Thing) etymologically speaking relates to the Norse. (I noted a huge tarot "wheel of fortune" scene in Pirates "Dead Man's Chest" too).

The Thing's (dead chest man) Norris had a dodgy heart, Davy Jones' heart is in the dead man's chest. I do think though that Carpenter's "thing monster" is more related to Lovecraft's Cthulhu related "shoggoth" monster. The kennel scene in "The Thing" gives us the monster that is closest to a shoggoth (a mass with multiple eyes), they're creatures that can sprout limbs, which is what happens in that kennel scene. :)

Thanks Eugene, hope you're good. Yes, I liked ...

2017-03-18T19:22:55.099+00:00

Thanks Eugene, hope you're good. Yes, I liked that part too. Aspects had been seeping into my mind previously, but I never got around to writing/discussing it. After a bit more thought it just came together. I really did provide that Metallica band with my first ever "synch" adventure (video), although I obviously never heard anything back. The maddest thing is that all this happened in 1988, nearly 30 years ago. :)

Thanks.

I will check it out (Say Nothing), trying to get a...

2017-03-18T19:17:16.150+00:00

I will check it out (Say Nothing), trying to get a decent image. Oh yes, Bochner - "coke head" Ellis from Die Hard, and Supergirl. Yes, I recall writing about him. Thanks for the comment. :)

Thanks for the comment anon, appreciate it. Yeah, ...

2017-03-18T19:14:08.353+00:00

Thanks for the comment anon, appreciate it. Yeah, Heard was in Cat People with Nastassja "mind controlled" Kinski, a very suspect film.

Good stuff HLP! Hope you're well. Love the ...

2017-03-17T16:20:41.388+00:00

Good stuff HLP!

Hope you're well.

Love the Metallica segue with UB in the comments.

You're welcome for all of it, and thank you fo...

2017-03-16T04:27:10.204+00:00

You're welcome for all of it, and thank you for the kind wishes. Good to know you're getting use out of the playlist, too. The comments have been a fun way of keeping interest while indexing, so I'm pleased they go over OK. It's mostly how I've been detecting a lot of old yet new threads. Like how Mimic and the perpetually delayed ATMOM project are both penned by del Toro and and a fellow named Matthew Robbins, who took part in making THX-1138 and writing Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He also made Dragonslayer (1981), a film most memorable for some marvelously enduring visual FX by Dennis Muren, whose first feature "Equinox" was an Evil Dead prototype, bringing things back to the Lovecraft angle with the fabled dark book.

As for my RA, I'm confident I can reverse it as long as I avoid all the usual inflammatory triggers. Raw green vegetables seem to be the most remedial, and 5 months in with a more compassionate diet I am gladly noticing a reduction in pain. Plus I'm pretty good with enthusiasm. Or self-deception. One of the two.

In response to your comment from 14:55. I found th...

2017-03-16T01:07:38.534+00:00

In response to your comment from 14:55. I found this yesterday. :)

[Heavy metal band Metallica released an instrumental track called "The Call of Ktulu" on their album, Ride the Lightning. Their song, "The Thing That Should Not Be", on the album Master of Puppets, was inspired by the short story "The Shadow over Innsmouth". They also recorded a song on the album Death Magnetic called "All Nightmare Long" that was also inspired by Lovecraft. The song "Dream No More" from their 2016 album, Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, depicts the monster itself.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu

It's a mad, but visible and an appreciable connection though. Too many aspects fit and too conveniently for it to be all random, at least imo. Metallica was easy for me, I was a big fan for a few years (1986 - 1990). I even saw them perform a few times (in my teens) before they got really big. Some of Carpenter's "The Thing" promos have an "ice crack" motif that evokes "lightning" - like the "Ride the Lightning" cover. It was through RTL album that I got into liking the band. I guess even "Garry" (The Thing), strapped into that couch/chair could be related to the RTL theme - the title track is "electric chair" based, and where you're literally strapped in. :)

Did I ever mention that I sneaked backstage at Hammersmith (London) on the "And Justice For All" Tour (1988, I think)? This was in the early afternoon and the gig was due to start around 7. Anyway, got backstage with a friend through an open side-door, and just waltzed in. We just acted natural inside the auditorium, only a few people about etc. We had a look behind stage and found Jason Newstead, just wondering around (he hadn't been in the band that long, after Burton's death) and approached him. Anyway, we quickly got on his good side and he kind of took us under his wing and made sure we got looked after - free merchandise and stuff, and tickets for the next night too.

Now here's the maddest thing. Six months to a year before this (probably 1987), I had made this video - a mash-up of 2001:ASO and Metallica's Orion track. I used two video recorders and fed-in a tape deck (for Metallica's track). I sort of "synched/overlayed" the instrumental with the star-gate sequence and got a combined copy, and it worked really well. I didn't need to edit, it just sort of naturally fitted, at least for the most part. I did have a copy on my youtube channel, but they blocked it :(. I had a videotape of that synch on me at that gig, and handed it to them, a VHS copy. This sounds mad in hindsight (even to me), but it's what happened and what I did. :)

Newstead was so generous with his time, and both myself and my friend were taken to the band's dressing room, stayed 30 minutes or so. They were all in there, Lars, Kirk and James. Kirk was very decent, James was indifferent, but Lars was a bit defensive - asking who we were etc. :)

After that we ran a few errands for the Tour Manager and watched the show. We saw them again afterwards for signing etc (in a side-room), again treated really well. I think I was 18 or so at the time, but that was a great day.

Not sure if I told you this above story, but there it is anyway (sorry, if it's a repeat). I thought I had to bring it up, what with that kind of "random" one-off synch that I did all those years ago, and it relating to them, and Kubrick's film! :)

Bingers, I really like that recent playlist thing ...

2017-03-15T16:52:21.806+00:00

Bingers, I really like that recent playlist thing that you put together, I particularly like the little comments that you've written alongside some of them. You mentioned Del "mimic bug" Toro, he wanted to make ATMOM, but thought Scott's Prometheus had already stolen his thunder, I think its now on hold, or been shit canned! Del Toro is seemingly correct, Prometheus is a version of ATMOM.

http://www.trollishdelver.com/2012/06/5-reasons-why-prometheus-is-at.html

I really liked some of the playlist choices too, I enjoyed the O'Bannon ones in particular. Carpenters ITMOM is completely underrated, I rate it very highly indeed. It's a really complex piece and a total mind fuck of a film, one that has been generally overlooked. I don't think there is a comparable film like it, not that I've seen, at least.

Re: Spirit in the Sky. I'm aware of the song mainly through the mid/later 80s and Dr and the Medics, it was a big cover hit for them. Out of all the songs that could've been on that youtube advert, it had to be this one, and linked to space too (like Apollo 13, and Bill).

I send you a thousand good wishes for your health, I hope you've made some progress since you bad turn. Thanks again.

That Metallica link with Carpenter / Lovecraft is ...

2017-03-15T14:55:29.665+00:00

That Metallica link with Carpenter / Lovecraft is too much, and that's not even counting the album that came out after "Ride the Lightning" was "Master of Puppets", with a few fitting track titles of its own:

2. Master of Puppets
3. THE THING That Should Not Be
7. Orion

Not only does it evoke the brain eaters of Heinlein's Puppet Masters, but it cracks me up at how my mind keeps going to "PULL THE STRINGS!" from Bela Lugosi in "Glen or Glenda". Pirate of the Caribbean Depp not only got to imitate crossdresser Wood, but recreate the octopus scene from Bride of the Monster in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" biopic, and Martin Landau ("Paint it Black" 1989) got the pleasure of saying "PULL THE STRINGS!" that time. It comes off more significant when "In the Mouth of Madness" has that one line Trent repeats: "Nobody pulls my strings."

I hope you'll try to make something out of all this. Y'know, if you do make a post for this you might as well go deep and start off with the Davy Jones' Locker odds and ends just to get them out of the way. You could work off of David Bowiman's "Black Star" album and Carpenter and O'Bannon's "Dark Star", from Space Oddity to "the spaced out odyssey", the five-pointed star also being a recurring motif of the star-headed Elder Things. Plus there's a Radiohead song "Black Star" from their 2nd album, "The Bends" (diver's disease). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHaP0YtFNBg

I even had to start my own post as an attempt at straightening some of this Slinky. It's a work in progress, but aren't they all?

http://everythingbutthekitsch.blogspot.com/2017/03/puppet-mastery.html

It's amazing, the synchronicity seems to be se...

2017-03-15T04:14:08.619+00:00

It's amazing, the synchronicity seems to be self-replicating. I built that playlist as a type of containment and already it's starting to buldge at the middle. I'm going to have to add that trailer for Life (2017) now. Too funny how it came up for you, then and there. I have an adblocker to keep that kind of thing at bay, but what better way to find out about it. It does look like yet more of the same Promethean alien bag, but will probably get away with the mimicry when called out on it, saying it's emulation and not imitation.

What really makes that find so incredible for me is the use of "Spirit in the Sky" again. That song became something of an anthem at the end of last year after this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEkjZR-62Fw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m25s got it stuck in my head so deep I ended up buying a download http://i.imgur.com/L8Xd4DU.png . Understand at the time I was closer to death than ever before because of my rheumatic disease, and then I get to hear Bill Paxton in that one interview reveal how he had a rheumatic disease as a kid, which in a way was what led to his career in show business... The story just makes it more sad to hear him talk about how the illness affected his heart, knowing it was complications from heart surgery that lead to his death. And now that song is stuck in my head again...

One more thing Bingers, and it's your fault to...

2017-03-13T18:43:30.775+00:00

One more thing Bingers, and it's your fault too. This post was brought about by Apollo/Aliens Paxton's death and the link to the "Spirit in the Sky" track via Odyssey. One of your (Scott, Alien linked) playlist videos popped out a trailer for a new film release - Life (2017). It's PODS from MARS (a la Body Snatchers - yes, again!) and the alien creature (from what I've seen) does look (Lovecraft) octopus-like! "Is there Life on Mars." Bowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuA-xqBw4jE
That's what I call real synchronicity! I hadn't even heard of the film before today!

I noticed Ryan "Dead-pool(e)' Reynolds in the trailer, notice how they catch the probe/pod using hydraulic arms, just like "dead Poole" and his hydraulic POD arm rescue in 2001:ASO. Gyllenhaal was in Duncan Jones' "Source Code". Jones being David 'Mars/Alien' Bowie's son. The Alien/Aliens/Prometheus overlaps in Life (2017), are clear to see too. Maybe they should sue, as it looks like a total copy. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)

Now that you mention Scott's (Titan) Prometheu...

2017-03-13T17:33:19.012+00:00

Now that you mention Scott's (Titan) Prometheus, I can't believe that I didn't pick-up on the "black oil" substance thematic from that film! The engineer drinking this said substance (which instigated a deathly biological change) is an opening aspect of the film itself. The scientist that ultimately gets dosed (father of the soon to be born offspring) occurs via A.I. (David). Again, this "black oil" theme is all potentially keying into Carpenter apocalypse trilogy, X Files and Twin Peaks type territory.

Yes, Carpenter's "The Thing" was much more like Campbell's "Who Goes There?", although it was likely his exposure to Hawks' film that ultimately inspired Carpenter's film remake. There's a possibility (but we've no way of knowing) that Lovecraft's "At The Mouth Of Madness" influenced Campbell's piece, his "Who Goes There?" came two years after Lovecraft's ATMOM. This following piece claims that The Thing is one of the most Lovecraftian films ever made.
http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/apocalypse-week-column-cthulhu-eats-the-movies-the-thing-1982/

I've noted a Carpenter-The Thing/Metallica link. On their 1984 album "Ride The Lightning" (title taken from Lovecraft-loving King's The Stand) the b-side is listed as follows:

5. "Trapped Under Ice"
6. "Escape"
7. "Creeping Death"
8. "The Call of Ktulu (sic)"

Now apply the storyline of Carpenter's "Lovecraftian icy Antarctica based" The Thing, to the b-side track list! It is virtually impossible not to notice the similarities! The a-side ends with "Fade to Black" a filmmaking concept etc. It was Carpenter who re-popularised "The Sandman" (Chordettes) via Halloween 2 - it was Metallica that made it big with "Enter Sandman". :)

Also note that Scott's (replicant) "Blade Runner" was released on the EXACT same day as Carpenter's (replicating) "The Thing".

Prometheus - the human/alien hybrid born creature that fights the engineer (near the end), actually looks very much like a Lovecraftian old one (Cthulhu, octopus-like). I think a similar Lovecraftian idea is infused into "The Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise via Davy Jones. A Cthulhu link to Pirates, and Davy Jones via Dead Man's Chest - this is where "The Thing" and Norris comes in - via the "dead (norris) man's chest". The man whose head will sprout spider/octopus type legs. Davy "Pirates" Jones would last appear in "At The World's End", and we're back to apocalypse/world ending "The Thing" again!

https://alienseries.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/untitled1.png
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4f45b1d086d0559233e24c4530fc1af1-c

Careful, or I will segue into alien/spider-octopus resonator David "Davy Jones" Bowie, and Monkee Davy Jones, and all the overlaps that go with it!

I noted Lovecraftian aspects in True Detective (season 1) and via the "Yellow King" links to Bierce/Chambers/Lovecraft and "Carcosa" (Yellow Sign etc). This same "Carcosa" theme also found its way into the Twin Peaks universe via Blue Book Briggs. (see link below, and go to bottom of the 2nd page), see my Bowie: Kether to Malkuth post for more.

http://www.enterthelodge.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Document-Briggs-Interrogation-1989-03-18.pdf
http://subliminalsynchrosphere.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/bowie-from-kether-to-malkuth.html

Thanks.

Great stuff Bingers, many thanks for the continued...

2017-03-13T15:28:08.090+00:00

Great stuff Bingers, many thanks for the continued comments on this. :)

The "black oil' thematic is also heavily used in (blue book) Twin Peaks, and via the Glastonberry "portal" to the underworld and the doppelgangers (doubles). The same underworld where "possession" of bodies (in the real world) is a major aspect. David "Dennis/Denise Bryson" Duchovny unites the "black oil" universes of Twin Peaks and X Files, by his presence in both (he's a trans-sexual in TP). Again, Twin Peaks (like X Files) is another example where alien and demonic aspects are fused. Please note, that I've barely watched any X Files content, I just pick-up bits here and there by nosing around etc. Same is true in respect of Lovecraft, I'm not overly familiar with his work, but I know bits and pieces etc.

Anyway, we have Prochnow, Bay and Warner inside both Lynch's Twin Peaks and Carpenter's ITMOM mythos, and linked by "black oil" and "black ink". Recall that the only thing Neill/Trent wants in ITMOM is a "black crayon". It's also easy to forget that David "Omen/Tron/ITMOM/Titanic" Warner was in Twin Peaks (for a few episodes, 2nd season). As was his Titanic sidekick BTTF's Billy "Dead Calm" Zane (who co-starred with Neill). Twin Peaks' Warner/Eckhardt is the one who gets (Dan 'robocop' O'Herlihy) Andrew "Halloween 3/Warlock Cochran" Packard blown-up/killed. Warner really gets about and he straddles so much in respect of this sort of subject area. I will have to have a look at some of the pointers you've provided on Warner.

X Files virtually followed Twin Peaks in terms of US TV programming...early 90s X Files was certainly influenced by the Twin Peaks format.

Twin "black oil" Peaks is also linked to X "black oil" Files by 'star-gating' Don S Davis (Garland Briggs and William Scully). Davis links to UFO phenomena in both of the series' too. Davis/Briggs is also the one who delivers the (underworld/black lodge) "666" message from space to Cooper (the awakened sleeper from Dune). Twin Peaks' Davis/Briggs also keying into the "666" mythos via Omen IV, like Omen actors Neill and (Twin Peaks/Titanic) Warner.

You're right about all this stuff winding around on itself, it's the main reason as to why I find it all so fascinating! From my own POV the real meat of anything is in the interconnectedness of what we call "stand alone" media. Much more is gained and told by the actual interconnectedness, and the relationships between various media (and personnel), than the stand alone by itself. There's a limited amount that can be learned (on a macro scale) from media in stand alone (isolation) form, at least imo.

I am really interested in Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy" as an entire piece, I might even do a separate post on it. Thanks again for this brainstorming on this subject area, much has been (and will continue to be) gleaned. :)

I think you're onto something with that liquid...

2017-03-13T04:09:31.014+00:00

I think you're onto something with that liquid/ ink theme. It's reminiscent of the "black oil" from the X-Files, and the "black goo" from Ridley Scott's Prometheus, the latter being especially connected to H.P. Lovecraft. That's largely due to Dan O'Bannon permanently tying it to the Lovecraft ancient astronaut mythos, pulled primarily from "At the Mountains of Madness." Dan the man even said "Alien was strongly inspired by Lovecraft ... You might say that the alien is a minor or less Old One."
And it was Dan's idea for the Xenomorph's look to come from the creature designs by H.R. Giger's obviously Lovecraft-inspired "Necronom."

Both H.P. Lovecraft and "At the Mountains of Madness" seem to be at the heart of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy. ITMOM gets its title from ATMOM, and the titles for Sutter Cane's books are very similar to those of Lovecraft's stories. And ITMOM super charged the Lovecraft resonance for David Warner, he already starring in "Necronomicon: Book of Dead" the year before, and "Cast a Deadly Spell" (1991). Prince of Darkness borrows the name "Danforth" from ATMOM, and Carpenter claims Lovecraft was an influence on Nigel Kneale. The J.C. version of "The Thing", being a lot more faithful to the John W. Campbell novella than the Hawks version, also bears the same similarities to ATMOM as "Who Goes There?" It's quite likely John Campbell was familiar with the Lovecraft story, Campbell after all having been an editor for a pulp magazine like Astounding Science Fiction, one Lovecraft tried to sell his stories to and where friends of his worked. The biggest influence on Campbell for sure, as well as Kneale, was H.G. Wells. Him, and his promotion of man's insignificance in the face of the superweapon, has had as profound an effect on the science fiction genre as Lovecraft has had on the horror.

The stuff you've been coming up with is great, but so tricky with how much of it winds around on itself, I had to make another playlist to help sort some of it out

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFrUsoFfYr9ZOv74nXrjB9QBJHR_royaM

As for "The Big Sleep/The Big Lie-bowski/A Co...

2017-03-12T00:34:41.087+00:00

As for "The Big Sleep/The Big Lie-bowski/A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" - that's a "Sept 11" trifecta. That's a superb find on that check/cheque. So many Connecticut King Arthur overlaps with BTTF that it's actually stupid! Lebowski Bridges and King Arthur in "The Fisher (911) King", there's also a resonant "tower" theme (yet again). The re-released cut of "The Big Sleep" film now runs for 116 mins! Of course, "The Big Sleep" was from Howard "The Thing From Another World" Hawks. John "The Thing" Carpenter, we already covered his "Leigh (Big Sleep) Brackett" links and overlaps. Mind officially blown. :)

I caught Gremlins again the other night, I noticed that at the moment the VW Sept 11 - 9/11 radio head unit is shown, the announcer makes reference to Orson "alien invasion from Mars" Welles. Welles and (H G) Wells - recall his 'infamous' War of the Worlds radio broadcast that was made on "Oct 30th 1938" - performed as part of a "HALLOWEEN" episode of the series! Hallowe'en, just like Carpenter. Welles would be involved with that "Hallowe'en" broadcast along with his regular sidekick 'Spivey Point' referencing - John "Carpenter's The Fog" Houseman! Hallowe'en Carpenter's alien and spaceship invading film "Dark Star" - had an alien critter that looked like a Hallowe'en pumpkin! Dark Star's O'Bannon would soon go on to make (pod/body snatching) Alien with Scott et al. It was Carpenter's Hallowe'en sheriff, actor Charles Cyphers (aka Leigh Brackett) who played a character called Dan O'Bannon in The Fog. The screenwriter and sci-fi author Leigh Brackett co-wrote "Rio Bravo" for Howard "The Thing" Hawks (The Thing, which features on TV in Carpenter's Halloween), the film "Rio Bravo" would also inspire Carpenter's "Assault on Precinct 13". :)

Hi. Great blog. I've returned to it a few time...

2017-03-12T00:32:32.899+00:00

Hi. Great blog. I've returned to it a few times over the years and am still amazed at all these connections and the time span for which they cover.

I discovered this movie image a few months back and I don't believe I have ever seen it mentioned on any 9/11 programming websites: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_Nothing

The poster (or at least the DVD cover) seems to depict one of the World Trade buildings (at least subliminally). The release date puts it just before Christmas of 2001 a few months after the big day. I imagine the title 'Say Nothing' warns the subconscious about speaking aloud or perhaps even thinking about the 'atrocities' committed, at least critically.

The movie also gives us another rare appearance of Hart Bochner, the yuppie who tries to 'help' out John McLean in the original Die Hard. (Die Hart Bochner? I'm sure you've got a name for him). You have mentioned him at least once before for his appearance in Supergirl.

I thank you and look forward to the next post.

Old Hob - Ho(b)b's End. In past ages it was t...

2017-03-11T22:35:44.445+00:00

Old Hob - Ho(b)b's End.

In past ages it was the custom in Cheshire on All Souls' Day, November 2nd, for a construction known as 'Old Hob' to be carried about the streets. It consisted of a 'horse's head' (hobby horse), plausibly a skull, over which was draped a sheet which enveloped its bearer. (See The Wicker/Wicca Man). Old Hob and his helpers would go from house to house to the accompaniment of song and merriment, something that would continue right through until Christmas. The term Old Hob derives from the Middle English hob, meaning a 'goblin', or infernal spirit (hobgoblin), a familiar name for the devil, linked with the notion that he was also 'Old Nick', a shadow form of St Nicholas.

Sam "Hobb's End" Neill actually mentions "Old Nick" (a lake fish) in Omen 3. Neill was mentored by James "King/Salem's Lot" Mason. Event (Hell) Horizon is sometimes compared to The Shining. Yes, original Gremlins makes reference to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (with a couple of interspersed clips and pod comparisons), Gremlins 2 actually references "Dr Quatermass" in a scene. John "Gremlins 2" Glover (Clamp/Trump) deals with an 'end of the world scenario' (with the CCN tape) in this film, he also deals with an 'end of the world' scenario in "In the Mouth of Madness", and he runs the asylum. Carpenter/Wallace's Hallowe'en 3 (Quatermass Kneale scripted), Kneale's Quatermass and the Pit, Dante's Gremlins (Dr Quatermass) 2, ALL have very similar types of ending.

I've heard that Heinlein was an OTO adept, and he also likely passed through OTO Parsons' Agape lodge too. His Stranger in a Strange Land (where "Old Ones" direct Martian society) is somewhat revered. Mars-linked racial memory also being a large aspect of Quatermass and the Pt, as well as P K Dick's Total (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale) Recall. Alien/Apocalypse Carpenter has also touched on Mars (Ghosts of Mars). Heinlein actually sued Corman (for The Brain Eaters), it was settled out of court. What I find interesting is that Corman's "The Brain Eaters" opens with a scene featuring (an uncredited) young Hampton "P K Dick/Blade Runner" Fancher, he carries the glass globe! Fancher has been involved with Blade Runner 2049 (as a writer) and it's due for release in late 2017. I find Donald Sutherland stuff intriguing too - Body Snatchers and The Puppet Masters (films), the latter (book) of which, seems to have likely inspired the Body Snatchers movie.

I got some decent overlaps with Lynch and "In The Mouth of Madness" too. Prochnow and Frances Bay both featured in his Twin 'blue book' Peaks (Prochnow briefly in the TP:FWWM film, Bay in the series and film). Both also feature in the film's alternate reality resonating "people from another place/convenience store scene" with David "Alien/Life on Mars" Bowie (David "Jimmy Stewart from Mars" Lynch). Frances 'Twin Peaks' Bay in "In The Mouth Of Madness" is shot in a way that totally references The Thing (and the ending Blair monster scene). Prochnow has "Dune" overlaps that revolve around "dreams, sleepers and awakening" - Prince of Darkness has the "brotherhood of sleep" and "dreams".

Lots to think about and consider.

The whole "Alien" mythos is heavily link...

2017-03-09T14:59:26.644+00:00

The whole "Alien" mythos is heavily linked to Dan O'Bannon. The same O'Bannon, who with Carpenter made Dark Star. Carpenter's first 'Apocalypse Trilogy' film "The (body snatching/duplicating) Thing" is very, very comparable to "Alien" (as you know). Ultimately both "aliens" come from a crashed ship and hunt down the crew/camp team. Carpenter's "Hallowe'en 3" is linked to body snatching via (robot peopled) Santa "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Mira, a town which is exactly like his Hobb's End, "In the Mouth of Madness". Hobb's End is from "Quatermass and the Pit" (Carpenter wrote "Prince of Darkness" under a Quatermass pseudonym). "Quatermass and the Pit" is just like Carpenter's "The Thing". Quatermass- a crashed demonic/alien craft, demonics/aliens, and ones that gain control over the masses via mind control. A control that is amplified via TV broadcasting equipment! "Hobb" being an old term for the "devil". "Hallowe'en 3" has TV mind control as a big element. It's popular fiction media that causes a "videodrome" type of effect on the readers of "In The Mouth of Madness", this is the media that "augments" reality. An augmentation that foments widespread ultra-violence and allows the old ones to return.

Sam "Omen3/Event Horizon" Neill plays the protagonist (ITMOM), those two former films also have thematics that TOTALLY overlap. 666, David "The Omen" Warner stars with Sam "Omen3" Neill in "In the Mouth of Madness". Damien/Neill also uses "mind control" on his army of followers aka "disciples of the watch" - akin to mind snatched automatons. There's "celestial phenomena" involved in "Omen 3" and "Prince of Darkness" (both films heavily referencing satan/the devil). Carpenter has fused alien invasion and biblical (666) Revelation in his 'Apocalypse Trilogy' - these biblical elements are most apparent in "Prince of Darkness" - which quotes from Revelation. "The Thing" and the crash of the alien craft (in this context) might be viewed as a type of alien/demonic "fall from the heavens" (a la Revelation and Satan) and the subsequent one thousand year chaining/imprisoning of the entity, as per the biblical tale. Carpenter's "Village of the Damned" (possessed children) is also very relevant in this context. It was made just after (the similar) "In The Mouth of Madness" - which also had a town of possessed children, the ones who spread the problem to the adults.

What's interesting is that in the "final phase" of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy - it is "media" that becomes the ultimate catalyst for the takeover. It's the literal (liquid) "ink on the page" (and a writer being manipulated by the old ones) that is the agent of the final transformation. In "Prince of Darkness", a 'green liquid' is the catalyst for infection/possession (control), one that is squirted into the mouth. In the first of the trilogy (The Thing) we initially see the infected dog "squirting" liquid as a means of infection/possession/absorption. The whole "apocalypse trilogy" is really worth thinking about as a "whole", and I think there is something to this 'liquid' idea being a common aspect of the trilogy.

One of the Red Letter Media guys guesses Heinlein ...

2017-03-09T02:08:57.458+00:00

One of the Red Letter Media guys guesses Heinlein for the third of the three laws, and it was Heinlein who wrote the first of a kind bodysnatcher invasion story with The Puppet Masters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppet_Masters , and was ripped off by Roger Corman who made it into a B picture called "The Brain Eaters." Brain Eaters had Leonard Nimoy, who was in the Invasion of the Bodysnatchers with Donald Sutherland, who starred in the movie version of The Puppet Masters.
Then there's Ridley Scott's original pod people concept for ALIEN shown in his director's cut, where the Necronomicon IV was transforming the Nostromo crew into Alien eggs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALKDhmu6GBM and James Cameron's queen bitch idea has people being body snatched n replaced with Necronomicon IV bugs. Funny to think that it's thanks to Roger Corman we have James Cameron to thank for giving Paxton what should be his most memorable role. Bill Paxton's film debut happened to be for a Jonathan Demme picture, and again it's thanks to Roger Corman for getting Demme started. And again thanks to Corman we have Joe Dante, whose Gremlins movie was actually kind of like a pod people movie as explained here https://youtu.be/UEoTf6w_q9M?t=9m16s

And now there's another track I ought to add to the radio head playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZEpfICFkfQ

I think what it was about Paxton was his source of...

2017-03-07T03:10:51.535+00:00

I think what it was about Paxton was his source of inspiration. I was listening to one of the last interviews he gave, to a masonic fluffer named Marc Maron, and Bill was talking about how much of what he brought to his role in Weird Science ("If I do a thousand movies it'll be at the top of my obituary") was personality handed down to him by his father. The line "How about a nice greesy pork sandwich served in a dirty ash tray?" is verbatim something his dad would say to him and his brother on Sunday mornings when suspecting the two had been up drinking the night before. It was the authentic additions like that to the character that landed him the part, and what then kicked off his career. I think that's why he was such an endearing standout, because even when acting contemptible it all came from a real loving place. I'm still laughing from this one his old man had when having trouble getting the key into the car ignition: "I couldn't find this thing if it had hair around it."

I'm likely going to be thinking fondly of Bill for the next couple weeks or so thanks to his charming Evil Dead 2 story, as it got me revisiting the franchise to where I just found out there's an Evil Dead TV series a few days ago, and which I'm now trying to savor. I went into the thing with much trepidation thinking it'd be like all the other detritus cluttering the airwaves, figuring I'd be turning it off before the first episode was over, but *phew* what a relief to find a worthy installment to the Ash saga that I can actually recommend to friends and family.

What's remarkable is that the show kept up the connection to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It only hit me the week previous while watching the ending of Evil Dead II that that and moreover Army of Darkness both pay homage to Twain, but the new show has Ash known by his legend as "El Jefe," which is an undoubtedly a nod to the main character in Connecticut Yankee going by the title "the Boss."

I was hoping you'd catch that. Also, a couple ...

2017-03-04T22:07:43.059+00:00

I was hoping you'd catch that. Also, a couple minutes after the Clarke quote another of the guys ascribes the skateboard kid suddenly being portrayed by an adult to a portable Zoltar machine. The abounding synchronicity is wild. Both Clarke's and Brackett's take on "magic" is very much like the ideas Mark Twain reflected on in his novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

http://www.shmoop.com/connecticut-yankee/chapter-21-quotes.html

I'm presently halfway through the book, and by more than the lightening struck tower connection to Back to the Future, the protagonist keeps saying "Great Scott!"

Speaking of badass Brackett, I recently watched the movie version of The Big Sleep. Among the multiple parallels between that and The Big Lebowski
https://tdylf.com/2012/03/13/infographic-the-big-parallel/#more-7191
in the film there is a shot that shows a check made out for Sept. 11th.

http://i.imgur.com/NA8gl5y.png

More great stuff HLP Vazquez from Aliens also ap...

2017-03-04T21:03:52.073+00:00

More great stuff HLP

Vazquez from Aliens also appeared beside Paxton in Near Dark- ironically that time they were the creatures in the darkness!

Also Heard was also in Cat People which I think you have mentioned here before
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