Musings of an Inkd Geek

Halloween is finally here, my all-time favorite holiday. As a kid who grew up on a stready diet of monsters and horror films, the creepy, ghoulish nature of All Hallow's Eve has always appealed to me. I spend the month watching horror movies, carving a jack-o-lantern, and the day making yummy drinks and food to eat. Here is some Halloween silliness I did... Here’s some festive photos that I found from various places and sites online…. I used to love buying Mr. Bones as a kid. I recall I had a collection of the different colored plastic coffins the candy came in. Who remembers wearing these masks as kids? I recall they were hot, uncomfortable, and you could barely see in them. I remember one year I went as the creature, another as a monkey, and another as Dracula. Those were fun, magical times of trick or treating. Here’s a video I made… Another one…. Some more festive photos…. Happy Happy Halloween 🎃!

From the Godfather of Gore, Italian director Lucio Fulci, comes this ultra gory horror fest from 1990. Fulci plays a fictionalized version of himself. As he's filming a movie, he finds himself plagued by bloody, violent visions of death that become increasingly disturbing and disruptive. He seeks the help of a psychiatrist to help him make sense of it all and put the visions to rest. It turns out that the psychiatrist is insane, and he hypnotizes Fulci, causing the director to believe that he himself is the one responsible for murders around that area that the crazed doctor is committing. As more killings occur, Fulci's visions continue to grow more and more horrific.  This movie was outrageous and over the top. The plot was paper thin, the entire thing playing like a surreal sonata of death, with lots of gore, blood, brutality and depravity, with the occasional brush of Grand Guignol style humor. I became a fan of Fulci’s films in the 90’s, when I first watched his classic Cit...