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books we love

Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued by the police as the incarnation of evil, as he makes his way through a nightmarish realm of angels and gravediggers, hermaphrodites and prostitutes, lunatics and strange children. Delirious, erotic, blasphemous and grandiose by turns, this hallucinatory novel captured the imagination of artists and writers as diverse as Modigliani, Verlaine, Andre Gide and Andre Breton; it was hailed by the twentieth-century Surrealist movement as a formative and revelatory masterpiece.

Although MALDOROR's most immediate pleasure is its naked nastiness - rape, murder, torture, blasphemy etc. - the truly unsettling nature of the book is its textual instability, the violence of its language, the horrible, concrete, surgical beauty of its images, the haunting effect of its descriptions, its foregrounding and destabilising of slowly compelling narrative, its clashing of tones, moods, viewpoints, narrators, targets, sympathies. French literature produces a lot of books like this, wherein a madman shouts the reader out of his complacency (e.g. Rimbaud, Corbiere, the Gide of FRUITS OF THE EARTH). This is better than most because its disgust is funny and a thrill.

Really cool haunt on someone’s yard

 

Horror Flick

WOW this movie sucked. What is happening with horror these days???????? 

10% on www.rottentomatoes.com :(

Maria Rubinke

The Possession...eh

Anyone else getting tired of bad horror movies? What is up? Guess they bank on us just going anyway, knowing we wont likely leave once we sit down in the theater. 

 

The script, credited to Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, adheres so closely to formula that it's possible to predict not only which characters will end up dead, but in what order.

Lou Lumenick

New York Post

  There may be need for an exorcist, but the power of Christ isn't going to compel the Jewish demon wreaking havoc in this competent but shopworn horror film.

Keith Staskiewicz

Entertainment Weekly

Director Ole Bornedal doesn't add a single idea of his own.

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Another horror movie about a little girl possessed by a demon? Seriously?

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

 RoTTonTOmatoes

Ram me off the road

I'm not sure why, but there is something spooky about this video of a Ram chasing a car. He is cute, but also a little sabbath in your face.

 

Paranorman

So one thing we love to do here at October Boys is watching a good horror flick, and that doubles for horror stop-motion. So needless to say we had been anticipating Paranorman for like ever. We thoroughly enjoyed the film, although we felt it got a wee slow near the end, and did wish the witch had been a bit more gnarly, but all in all, it was another classic from Laika.  

Below are some of the swag that we got, and didn't get, from the film. Drool time!

 

 

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