Showing posts with label Halloween gifs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween gifs. Show all posts
Monday, October 26, 2015
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Just in time for Halloween. . . creepy, icky gifs!
The rotten skulls and hanging strips of flesh make this mini-version of Murnau's Faust especially icky. In a previous post I compared this snippet with a similar bit from Disney's Night on Bald Mountain from Fantasia. The ghostly horsemen images are practically identical. Disney only stole from the best.
From Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Everything is more-or-less OK until she opens her eyes.
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Here you have to ask yourself: why? Why would a giant bottle of castor oil chase two characters (cats?) around and around the moon, until the cats jump off?
You know I hate clowns. I even wrote a poem about it once. I was going to include that master of the macabre, Milky, but somehow this tiny clip of Enrico Caruso performing Pagliacci was creepier. I have it on reverse here to make it extra creepy. What's really weird is that he's singing it silently.
I want you to pay close attention to this one. It's the "reveal" from the Lon Chaney silent version of Phantom of the Opera. It reverses, so that in a couple of seconds he's "unrevealed", which is the important part. Just before she puts the mask back on, for a nanosecond you see that Chaney's face looks completely normal. This means that almost none of the macabre effect is done with makeup. It's all done from the inside.
I don't understand this - any of it - and it's so bizarre and grotesque as to be almost unbelievable. It's a pig dance, but the pig looks carnivorous, or perhaps rabid. Where did this come from? The devil knows.
I wasn't going to post two from the same source, but you have GOT to see this.
It's Willie, the Whale who Wanted to Sing at the Met! This is an unfortunate mistake Disney made in the 1940s. Willie has his mouth where his belly button should be (if whales have such a thing - hey, they're mammals, so maybe they do). This means he has a giant head that careens around like one of those bulky 1940s cars going out of control. Bambi he ain't. Nor Pluto. He looks like a foam rubber toaster. Here he combines TWO of my creepy fetishes - make that three, I don't like foam rubber toasters much either - clowns (especially sperm whale clowns) and Pagliaccio. The outfit is a bit femme, too, don't you think? Maybe he's Pagliaccio's girlfriend Gnocchi or something.
Friday, October 11, 2013
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Squick-Fest: weird and creepy Halloween gifs
Everybody's talkin' at me. . .
Speechless
"Did you run out of kleenex again, Morgus?"
"No, Master. I'm trying to solve the crossword puzzle with my nose."
(Do you think they know I'm gay?)
"I dropped my flute down the sewer. Again."
A strange medieval dance called the Playing Card Shuffle.
The horror couple of all time:
Elsa Lanchester as Bride of Frankenstein and
Charles Laughton as Quasimodo,
who first uttered these immortal words:
"Hand over the Sour Patch Kids, or I'll egg your windows!"
Visit Margaret's Amazon Author Page!
Friday, October 26, 2012
I give up: what is this cat saying?
CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK (or the end of the week):
What is this spooky pussycat saying?
Can you translate?
Is it possible to lip-read a creature
that has no discernible lips?
Give it your best shot.
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