“And now the weather…” Continue reading Hear ye! Hear ye! The Day Thread is Now in Order!

“Only YOU can capture the escaped demons and return them to their chest!” Continue reading The Day Thread Has Accidentally Released The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo!

Marvel Zombies 3 is a superhero/horror miniseries written by Fred Van Lente and drawn by Kev Walker with covers by Greg Land. Earth 2149 was ravaged by a zombie outbreak that turned everyone into zombies, including the Marvel Super-Heroes of … Continue reading Marvel Zombies 3 Day Thread

Swedish artist (1862-1944) Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed. She created incredible paintings years before more famous practitioners in the movement such as Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Klee; and whilst their steps towards abstraction were timid … Continue reading The Hilma af Klint Day Thread (October 26)

My friends and I usually hold a simulcast of old episodes of Raw and Smackdown once and awhile via the WWE Network and a text group chat. My friends wanted to view an old WCW Halloween Havoc and the decision … Continue reading Halloween Havoc 1993 Day Thread

Good morning and Happy Saturday to you and yours! I have shared some synthwave mixes with you previously in other Open Threads. I came across this one earlier in the week. There are some samples from Halloween (1978) and John … Continue reading October 198X Day Thread

BOO! is the terrifying debut triller written by Canadian novelist Donald Dane. A virtual tour-de-force of horror, the novel grips at the fear deep inside the reader’s psyche refusing to let go. Here’s a spoiler-free excerpt: “BOO!” If you’re brave … Continue reading The BOO! Day Thread

The original Zelda meets Goodfellas game, Grand Theft Auto III was released on this day in 2001, having been delayed for three weeks to change the liveries of the police vehicles and box cover art as a nod to contemporary … Continue reading The Grand Theft Auto III Day Thread (October 22)

Three The Hard Way is an awesome socks “Blacksploitation” movie from 1974. It stars Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, Jim Brown, and martial arts legend Jim Kelly, as Mister Keys; named so by his mother so people would always have to … Continue reading Three The Hard Way Day Thread (October 21)

If you’re all alone, pick up the phone, and call… … Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, Ajax Ghost Exterminators! (Phone number: Gooseflesh 9000.) In the cartoon short “Lonesome Ghosts” (1937), ghosts call up our trio because they’re bored and want to … Continue reading Lonesome Ghosts Day Thread (10/20)

Hail to the King, Baby! Today we celebrate S-Mart’s Employee of the Month Ash Williams and his trippy travels through time in 1992’s Army of Darkness. I first watched this entry in the Evil Dead series on USA Network late … Continue reading The Day Thread Summons the Army of Darkness

Clyde Bruckman is a man with the worst power: he can tell the future, but only can tell how people will die. This puts a depressing damper on his career as a life insurance salesman. Bruckman developed his powers after … Continue reading Clyde Bruckman’s 10/18 Day Thread

I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me Continue reading The Spooky 10/17 Day Thread Appreciates Muppets Eating Muppets

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is released on Netflix today, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, so this thread is dedicated to Pigasus J Pig, the 145-pound porcine candidate nominated for president by the Yippies in 1968. The film … Continue reading The Pigasus J Pig Day Thread (October 16)

Today we are spotlight my #1 favorite song of the 2010s. Florence + The Machine’s “Shake it Out” first appeared as the lead off single to their second album Ceremonials. What made this song my favorite is in the closing … Continue reading The Day Thread is Always Darkest Before the Dawn

Is Bubba Ho-Tep an overlooked movie these days? Probably not. It’s certainly the very definition of a “Cult Film”, but what does that mean in this day and age? I can certainly remember it seeming to a teenaged Snail like … Continue reading The Bubba Ho-Tep Day Thread (October 14)

Kitty Horrorshow is an indie video game creator, known for her (surprise, surprise) horror games. Her games have a very retro, low-fi aesthetic, reminiscent of the early days of 3D in video games, and unlike a lot of stuff in … Continue reading The Kitty Horrorshow Day Thread

If you need to chase those Monday Blues away, give this instrumental track a listen. This past Summer, I finally utilized my Amazon Prime membership to the fullest by streaming movies and T.V. shows. After watching the original Friday the … Continue reading Friday the 13th Part 3 Day Thread

Over 60 years ago Timmins, Ontario resident and avid hiker Archie Chenier happened across an unusual sight in the woods: an eight-storey high pile of delicately balanced boulders. While no one can say for sure precisely how the boulders got … Continue reading Archie’s Rock Day Thread (Oct. 11)

David Lee Roth turns 66 today. With the recent passing of Eddie Van Halen, a lot of people are revisiting Van Halen’s music. Roth is one hell of a frontman. Anyway, wash your hands, stay home if you can, wear … Continue reading The David Lee Roth Emergency Day Thread

Directed by Toshiya Fujita, Lady Snowblood stars Meiko Kaji as Yuki, a woman born solely to enact violent revenge for her murdered and brutalized family; she is often referred variously as a mythic Asura demon, a child of the netherworld, … Continue reading The Lady Snowblood Day Thread (October 9)