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I’ve tried many times to have a truly great Halloween night. One year my friend’s band was set to play and I made films for their live performance. I had my laptop set on stage linked to a projector at the end of the venue. 15mins before we were set to come on I turned on the smoke machine. We came on wearing our masks and in costume. I hit play and you couldn’t see the films through the mist of smoke. It was like headlights in the fog. I had just smoked the place out too much. It was all very Spinal Tap. After 5mins I gave up and walked off stage. I spent the rest of night being consoled and explaining what went wrong to friends and family who were in attendance
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Last year I was meant to see Om, Shellac, Le Savy Fav, Lightning Bolt and Wooden Ships play at a special Halloween night concert. I got to the door and my name should have been on the guest list. It wasn’t. The event was long since sold out. I rang the guy who was meant to have my name on the list - his voicemail says he’s not in London, he’s flown to LA. He left his US cell number so I bought an international call card and spent the next hour calling him trying to get him to pull some strings and get me inside. He couldn’t get through to anyone. Eventually I gave up and walked home.
This year we're having a Halloween party. My friend lives in a big old house. We're filling the place with candles, jack o' lanterns, plastic skulls, smoke and as many cheap decorations as we can. I’ve got my costume my mp3 player is loaded with a hour party mix. It’s gonna be awesome.
It’s a real privilege to be able to curate this.
Below is pretty much everything I love about Halloween: pumpkins, noise, metal, horror movies, smoke machines, the woods, old houses, creepiness, nightmares, scary stories, crappy costumes and friends getting together and partying.
Hope you readers have a great Halloween - third time's a charm.
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Go out into the streets at night or walk into the woods and listen to this:
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Three new specially made films
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1. Fuck you Captain Howdy!
More than any other film The Exorcist always freaked me the fuck out. The whole movie just has this tone and vibe which really gets under my skin and into my head. But it wasn’t the scenes of the possession, it was little things that I found to be so weird and unsettling.
The whole opening in Iraq, that digger with the weird eye, the dog fight. That horrible muffled sound they keep hearing in the house that sounds like it's coming from the attic. The party where Burke gets drunk. Regan pissing herself and the tests she has in the hospital. Ugghhhh! It all just creeps me out.
Even the magazine Regan is seen reading in bed has some eerie looking dude in big sunglasses on the front. I guess it’s all the signs of a great horror movie a film that really goes to work on you. But more than anything the face of Captain Howdy scares me.
I’ve decided to never watch it again but if you choose to look out for this stuff:
As fans of the film know, The Exorcist is littered with many subliminal images.
NOTE: The DVD time is relevant to The Version you’ve Never Seen edition.
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DVD TIME
0:31:29
Scene description:
Regan’s medical examination. Her eyes open wide as she lays on the bed and this image of Captain Howdy flashes up on the screen for three frames.
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DVD TIME
0:45:01
Scene description:
Father Karras’ dream sequence is where the first subliminal appeared in the 1973 original. Also look for many other great images that aid the story including the stopped clock from Iraq and the running dog, representing the dog fight Father Merrin sees when he goes to the Pazuzu statue.
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DVD TIME
0:56:03
Scene description:
To the right of screen next to Chris’ face in the kitchen. The lights flicker on and Howdy can be seen.
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DVD TIME
0:56:13
Scene description:
Chris is about to open the door to Regan’s bedroom. The face of the Pazuzu statue can be seen against the black just before she opens it. It is very quick and bright, so don’t blink or you’ll miss it!
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DVD TIME
1:00:05
Scene description:
This cross-fade subliminal was very cleverly added for The Version you’ve Never Seen. When Regan is hypnotized and gets angry, an angry face of Captain Howdy blends in with hers on a close-up.
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DVD TIME
1:43:13
Scene description:
Regan is being exorcised. The lights are flickering on and off, and Regan is flinging her head from side to side. At one point, when the lights go down and Regan is turning her head to face us, it is Captain Howdy.
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DVD TIME
Note: The sound on this video is out of snyc. Vimeo has an audio synch bug at the moment. I've tried for 3 days to get them to fix the problem but nothing has worked. I spent a long time making this so I'm gonna share it bad sound n' all.
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p.s. Hey. I thought, since we're in rerun mode, I would rerun long lost d.l. Lux's Halloween extravaganza from a few years back. It still works wonderfully, I think. Happy Halloween! And I will be back to catch up with you and feed you new posts and etc., etc. starting tomorrow. See you then!
I’ve tried many times to have a truly great Halloween night. One year my friend’s band was set to play and I made films for their live performance. I had my laptop set on stage linked to a projector at the end of the venue. 15mins before we were set to come on I turned on the smoke machine. We came on wearing our masks and in costume. I hit play and you couldn’t see the films through the mist of smoke. It was like headlights in the fog. I had just smoked the place out too much. It was all very Spinal Tap. After 5mins I gave up and walked off stage. I spent the rest of night being consoled and explaining what went wrong to friends and family who were in attendance
.
Last year I was meant to see Om, Shellac, Le Savy Fav, Lightning Bolt and Wooden Ships play at a special Halloween night concert. I got to the door and my name should have been on the guest list. It wasn’t. The event was long since sold out. I rang the guy who was meant to have my name on the list - his voicemail says he’s not in London, he’s flown to LA. He left his US cell number so I bought an international call card and spent the next hour calling him trying to get him to pull some strings and get me inside. He couldn’t get through to anyone. Eventually I gave up and walked home.
This year we're having a Halloween party. My friend lives in a big old house. We're filling the place with candles, jack o' lanterns, plastic skulls, smoke and as many cheap decorations as we can. I’ve got my costume my mp3 player is loaded with a hour party mix. It’s gonna be awesome.
It’s a real privilege to be able to curate this.
Below is pretty much everything I love about Halloween: pumpkins, noise, metal, horror movies, smoke machines, the woods, old houses, creepiness, nightmares, scary stories, crappy costumes and friends getting together and partying.
Hope you readers have a great Halloween - third time's a charm.
Note: Click the Arrow Icon on the sidebar to download
Go out into the streets at night or walk into the woods and listen to this:
Three new specially made films
1. Fuck you Captain Howdy!
More than any other film The Exorcist always freaked me the fuck out. The whole movie just has this tone and vibe which really gets under my skin and into my head. But it wasn’t the scenes of the possession, it was little things that I found to be so weird and unsettling.
The whole opening in Iraq, that digger with the weird eye, the dog fight. That horrible muffled sound they keep hearing in the house that sounds like it's coming from the attic. The party where Burke gets drunk. Regan pissing herself and the tests she has in the hospital. Ugghhhh! It all just creeps me out.
Even the magazine Regan is seen reading in bed has some eerie looking dude in big sunglasses on the front. I guess it’s all the signs of a great horror movie a film that really goes to work on you. But more than anything the face of Captain Howdy scares me.
I’ve decided to never watch it again but if you choose to look out for this stuff:
As fans of the film know, The Exorcist is littered with many subliminal images.
NOTE: The DVD time is relevant to The Version you’ve Never Seen edition.
DVD TIME
0:31:29
Scene description:
Regan’s medical examination. Her eyes open wide as she lays on the bed and this image of Captain Howdy flashes up on the screen for three frames.
DVD TIME
0:45:01
Scene description:
Father Karras’ dream sequence is where the first subliminal appeared in the 1973 original. Also look for many other great images that aid the story including the stopped clock from Iraq and the running dog, representing the dog fight Father Merrin sees when he goes to the Pazuzu statue.
DVD TIME
0:56:03
Scene description:
To the right of screen next to Chris’ face in the kitchen. The lights flicker on and Howdy can be seen.
DVD TIME
0:56:13
Scene description:
Chris is about to open the door to Regan’s bedroom. The face of the Pazuzu statue can be seen against the black just before she opens it. It is very quick and bright, so don’t blink or you’ll miss it!
DVD TIME
1:00:05
Scene description:
This cross-fade subliminal was very cleverly added for The Version you’ve Never Seen. When Regan is hypnotized and gets angry, an angry face of Captain Howdy blends in with hers on a close-up.
DVD TIME
1:43:13
Scene description:
Regan is being exorcised. The lights are flickering on and off, and Regan is flinging her head from side to side. At one point, when the lights go down and Regan is turning her head to face us, it is Captain Howdy.
DVD TIME
1:45:24
Scene description:
Kind of like the hypnotized face. Regan spins her head around during the exorcism and we get a close-up of her face with Captain Howdy’s dissolved in. This helps animate the dummy’s head.
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DVD TIME
Scene description:
Kind of like the hypnotized face. Regan spins her head around during the exorcism and we get a close-up of her face with Captain Howdy’s dissolved in. This helps animate the dummy’s head.
DVD TIME
1:56:23
Scene description:
Father Karass demands that Pazuzu enter him. He is possessed and about to jump out the window. There is a shot of the window before he shouts ‘Nooo!” and within the flicker of the curtains, he can see his mothers face
2. Garden Story
About eight years ago an old friend of the family was in our kitchen.
She told us that the night before she heard her dog barking in the night. It got so bad she got up to see what the problem was and she saw a man standing in her back garden.
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I never found out what she did. Did he see her?
Did she freeze with fear? or did the dog scare him away?
This story freaked me out.
To this day I have recurring nightmares:
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People creepy crawling into my garden.
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Forcing their way into my house.
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The last time I had one, it was a really harsh nightmare where the intruders broke in.
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I jumped out the window to escape them and they chased me through the streets.
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The nightmares got worse after I read a biography of Charles Manson. The Manson Family used to break into family homes in the evening, when they'd know people would be home.
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They didn't want to steal anything. They just wanted to see the looks of shock and frozen fear on the families face to see these strangers in their home.
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My video presentation on recommended horror viewing.
Scene description:
Father Karass demands that Pazuzu enter him. He is possessed and about to jump out the window. There is a shot of the window before he shouts ‘Nooo!” and within the flicker of the curtains, he can see his mothers face
2. Garden Story
About eight years ago an old friend of the family was in our kitchen.
She told us that the night before she heard her dog barking in the night. It got so bad she got up to see what the problem was and she saw a man standing in her back garden.
I never found out what she did. Did he see her?
Did she freeze with fear? or did the dog scare him away?
This story freaked me out.
To this day I have recurring nightmares:
People creepy crawling into my garden.
Forcing their way into my house.
The last time I had one, it was a really harsh nightmare where the intruders broke in.
I jumped out the window to escape them and they chased me through the streets.
The nightmares got worse after I read a biography of Charles Manson. The Manson Family used to break into family homes in the evening, when they'd know people would be home.
They didn't want to steal anything. They just wanted to see the looks of shock and frozen fear on the families face to see these strangers in their home.
My video presentation on recommended horror viewing.
Note: The sound on this video is out of snyc. Vimeo has an audio synch bug at the moment. I've tried for 3 days to get them to fix the problem but nothing has worked. I spent a long time making this so I'm gonna share it bad sound n' all.
Polaroid Scrapbook
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p.s. Hey. I thought, since we're in rerun mode, I would rerun long lost d.l. Lux's Halloween extravaganza from a few years back. It still works wonderfully, I think. Happy Halloween! And I will be back to catch up with you and feed you new posts and etc., etc. starting tomorrow. See you then!