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Lucy Comes To Stay
In the shadowy underbelly of 1970s psychiatric care, stories like that of Barbara Clemmens—a fictionalized yet eerily plausible figure from the era’s horror narratives—highlight the grim reality faced by countless women deemed “incompetent” by a patriarchal society. Committed to asylums for what were often labeled as incurable insanities, these women were stripped of autonomy, their […]
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Batdance
Prince’s “Batdance,” the lead single from his 1989 soundtrack album for Tim Burton’s Batman film, is a wildly eclectic funk-rock track that mashes up samples from the movie—including dialogue like “Oh, I got a live one here!” and references to characters like the Joker and Vicki Vale—with Prince’s signature grooves, synthesizers, and chaotic energy, creating […]
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Too Late For Love
And there’s a lady over there, she’s acting pretty cool. But when it comes to playing life. She always plays the fool.
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The Shining
In Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, both young Danny Torrance and the hotel chef Dick Hallorann possess a rare psychic ability known as “the shine,” a form of telepathy and clairvoyance that allows them to read thoughts, sense emotions, communicate mentally across distances, and perceive past or future events. Danny’s shine is exceptionally powerful, enabling him […]
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The Cat Lady
People shuffle through life like they’ve got an expiration date printed in Comic Sans on their forehead, blissfully convinced death is some tidy future event involving caskets, urns, or at least a dramatic last breath. Meanwhile, the grim punchline is already in the rearview: you actually croaked years ago—maybe 23, maybe longer—and nobody sent the […]
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Mother’s Day
A truly devoted mother will move heaven, earth, and the occasional ribcage to give her darling boys whatever their twisted little hearts desire—toys when they were tots, bikes when they were teens, horror comics when they were bored, R-rated slasher flicks when they were hormonal, and enough cheap beer to drown a small fraternity when […]
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Tron Ares
What was once confined to the machine escapes into reality, turning Tron from a digital legend into a real-world threat.
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