I was hoping somebody else would mention this before I felt forced to... ☠️

The thing that bugs me re: asthma in movies is how often actors try to simulate an attack by just coughing spastically. When I'm having an attack I can't draw enough breath for all that action! Like was there no one you guys could ask, about what asthma is like? #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I remember this movie being spooky, but last time I saw it we didn't have a bizarrely noisy neighbor who for all intents and purposes behaves like a poltergeist, including occasionally wandering unbidden into somebody else's home. ☠️ #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

This trash taking-out scene is reminding me of another early job of mine, and I am here to say that if you get served coffee that needs a little more room for milk, DO NOT pour it into the cafe's trash can. DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

My first job was in a packaging plant for dollar store perfumes, and that definitely, LITERALLY destroyed many of my brain cells. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

I love how everyone in this movie is primed to divulge huge amounts of personal information to the nearest stranger. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

Man, Pat Healy is in so many great movies <3 #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I can absolutely believe that this particular bolo tie has weird powers. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I love that -- if I've learned nothing else tonight, it's that "everyone everywhere lies about THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE." #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I don't know when it started but I harbor this half-conconscious assumption that Elisha Cook Jr is maybe the grandpa of Henry from ERASERHEAD. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

We literally, arbitrarily, just last night, watched this episode of Columbo.

Have any of you ever withheld rent or argued against an increase, due to conditions in your building? Wanna tell me why and how that went?

Yesterday my eye doctor warned me, "I'm gonna flip your eyelid up, and it's gonna feel REALLY WEIRD. It won't hurt, but it will be VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. Are you ready? Are you sure?" I was impressed that she didn't lie about it, but I did think, "How is she gonna do this with that crazy manicure?"

Since I wrapped up a bunch of projects and have a clean slate for a minute, I have been tearing through unread books on my shelves: Highsmith, Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates. They should give this shit out when you buy women's over-40 multivitamins.

In this weather I feel like I could go around the city with a little hammer tapping on various objects and structures and they would just shatter like the T2.

OK for my first wish, on WUTHERING HEIGHTS replace Emerald Fennell with Andy Milligan. For my second, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Andy Milligan. Third...gosh, I don't know. I guess AGE OF INNOCENCE, Andy Milligan.

When Duolingo starts displaying those expressions of extreme fear and sadness and pain, it makes me want to NOT do my lesson. It makes me want to punish him for being so needy and fawning, even if it means destroying my own streak. This behavior is why you're still single, Duo.

potato roll, schmear of garlic hummus, arugula, salmon salad [mayo, whole grain mustard, Coleman's mustard, togarashi seasoning, black pepper, paprika, chives, diced white onion, lemon juice], slice of white cheddar cheese, surprisingly smoky schmear of red pepper labneh 👌

I thought I had Gemini turned off for Gmail, but I just got an email with the AI summary on top, and I've learned that Gemini can take a perfectly clear and brief one-paragraph email, and break it out into three paragraphs for a summary that is slightly longer than the email itself. Yay, we did it.

*Tex Watson voice* I'm a bad person, and I've come to do a bad job.

The #1 cause of drinking is work.

7-8 people have decided to have band practice for their a cappella/chaotic keyboard group in the middle of my cafe while I am also playing different music over the speakers and trying to hear customers and call out orders, and I must say, I have rarely wished so much that I had a big fart brewing.

I get that this guy is supposed to have kind of a HILLS HAVE EYES apocalyptic caveman vibration, but he actually has something else going on. I mean he has a random sardine can dangling off of himself, that's a symptom of a different mentality. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

The slasher genre is usually so dependent on the gender binary, it's actually peculiar that a lot of DON'T GO IN THE WOODS characters are sort of androgynous -- an impression that is accentuated by the fact that anybody not in uniform dresses like a 13 year old. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I have to admit that it's sort of startling every time a melody emerges from the score of this movie, because there is constantly some kind of abstract noise going on, but it rarely congeals into distinct phrases. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

Usually there's a pretty clear bully/wimp division in slasher movies but, fascinatingly, everyone in DON'T GO IN THE WOODS is somehow a huge jerk and a pathetic dork at the same time. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

Is the child making that warning rattle? #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I try not to be pointlessly mean to #TheLastDriveIn movies, but it really feels like this is everybody's first time talking. #MutantFam

Is that train whistle in the soundtrack, or is it in my mind? #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

A DESERT is really worth while. For about 20 minutes you'll think you've seen this movie a hundred times, and then it starts turning into something you've never seen in your life. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

That sequence's soundtrack could not be more perfect: both emotionally disturbing, and disturbing to your sense of whether the music is diegetic as it vacilates between something playing on a radio, and something playing on the film's soundtrack. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

To other Maciara fans, I strongly recommend FLAVIA THE HERETIC...not of the same quality (though that would be a tall order), but it oughta do something for ya. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

"I noticed her at the funeral the other day" Was it possible to fucking miss her? #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn

#MutantFam folk interested in this movie's transgressive themes should seek out the excellent, incisive, and sadly sold out The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills In Film. Author Erica Shultz is working on Vol. 2, so stay tuned! #TheLastDriveIn thesweetesttaboobook.bigcartel.com

I guess it's because of the quintessentially American vibe of #TheLastDriveIn that it is only now occurring to me, DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING is a very interesting watch in a post-Satanic Panic, post-West Memphis Three world. #MutantFam

That classic "Torture the duckling" face #thelastdrivein #mutantfam

I think it's in the EUROCRIME! doc where Henry Silva recalls working with Bouchet on CRY OF A PROSTITUTE and he seems sincerely afraid of her, remembering how far she pushed him to go in their shared scenes. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I have such a powerful memory of discovering this film because I'd already loved Fulci at the 101 level -- THE BEYOND and ZOMBI -- and then DUCKLING came along and made me realize I'd still underestimated him. This has got to be one of the finest films shown on #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

I really cannot wait for the inevitable rundown on all-timer Florinda Bolkan ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

Really hoping tonight's episode of #TheLastDriveIn features DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE, although I would also happily accept DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT -- or both!! #mutantfam

I wondered why I was getting sick so much lately, and then I remembered it's because I have a money-touching job again. And customers who instead of saying what they want, order "my drink" like I'm their mom, and then open-mouthed cough in my direction, also like I'm their mom.

For any #mutantfam closely following this mailbag saga, CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS is a movie that can literally drive you insane. It is so uniquely bizarre that I don't even know what genre to say it belongs to, but it will change you. #TheLastDriveIn

I just finished hosting my very last horror lecture and I'm having my ceremonial snack and beer + shot special at the watering hole where the workers collect after work, and I am here to report that "willy-nilly with the sawzall" is a very fun phrase. #willynillywiththesawzall

Double whammy on Tuesday, as we close out the year with a look at the Rise of Epidemic Cinema. Join @donnerpartyofone.bsky.social as she bids us farewell. Tickets: billetto.co.uk/e/do-not-tou... Remember, if you can't make it, we will happily send you a catch up link.

One of our rudest most annoying customers came in with her shitty pretentious children and a very expensive-looking puppy, so I assume in a few years our neighborhood will have a new ill-behaved dog who also doesn't tip.

Flytrap I found abandoned on a utility box in the park Oct. 2 vs. flytrap today. Doing pretty good it seems! #Audrey3D

Scanning the crowd at that Pope Leo film thing at the Vatican. Spike Lee and Cate Blanchett sure, but front row seat for Dario Argento 💥...

Recent episode of TDLI is going down as one of my all time favorites (and I thought Splatterween was awesome). I wasn’t sure if I’d seen Blood And Black Lace, but nope, I’m new to it and holy hell it is GORGEOUS. @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @therealjoebob123.bsky.social #mutantfam #thelastdrivein

Dear @miskatonicihs.bsky.social students (and visiting #MutantFam folks!): Nov. 18 is a very special episode of our online series, with Erica Shultz and her book The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills In Film - a title that speaks for itself! miskatonicinstitute.com/events/erasi...