It’s amazing how coffee awakens the morning monster from a half-dead slumber. It’s hard to believe that I once despised it.
Author: thorens
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Box of Chocolates
It’s not difficult to appreciate the winsome innocence that is Forrest Gump. His ongoing accidental celebrity against the backdrop of American history is amusing to watch.
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The Far Side of Lumberjacking
I just thought that if lumberjacks work with chainsaws all day, the apparent danger of using such a tool to commit murder wouldn’t make a very gruesome story. A crosscut saw on the other hand…
My apologies to Gary Larson.
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Field Ghoul
Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s ‘ghost with the most’, sports some official-looking attire, so why not have him throw a few flags?
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The Pheasant
A twist on a familiar season. Happy hunting.
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Equipment Upgrade
Imagining Jason Voorhees in a new goalie mask is not quite as intimidating. At least he’d be better protected from head trauma.
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Nightmare
Do you think Tim Burton pulled any inspiration from Wes Craven’s knife-fingered murderer when he created the misfit Edward Scissorhands? There’s actually more of a connection than one might think, considering Johnny Depp starred in “A Nightmare on Elm Street”.
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Grandpa
Al Lewis’ Grandpa was one of the most beloved characters from the Munsters. To really play up that elderly look the makeup artists really exaggerated the runaway eyebrows and sideburns/ear hair and seldom had grandpa’s fangs in.
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The Shivering
Context changes everything.
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The Legendary Great Pumpkin
“Despite the constant ridicule he endured year after year, Linus continued to wait vigilantly in that pumpkin patch until eventually…
the Great Pumpkin came…
with a vengeance…
and a bag of toys.”