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Dear Festividder! (2016)

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:12:49 GMT

First of all, thank you for making me a vid! Festivids has been the highlight of my fannish year 3 years running.

I’m actually the WORST person to make things for. A lot of times I don’t have any specific requests in mind: I just want to see what people will do with the source. So even “guidelines” are hard for me to come up with. Honestly, just make the vid of your heart.

My requests:

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane,
Cabin Fever film series (2002-2014)
Event Horizon
Ghostbusters (2016)
Lights Out (2016)
May (2002)
Re-Animator series (1983-2003)
The Shallows (2016)

( Fandom-specific details below the cut! )

If anything I’ve said intimidates you, please don’t worry! I just love all these fandoms and want to see what you do with them. HAVE FUN!

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My vids

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:08:04 GMT

I'm making more vids now, so here's a list of all of them.

( List of vids under the cut )

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VID: Rainbowland! (Body Melt)

Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:00:28 GMT

title: Rainbowland!
fandom: Body Melt (1993)
music: Rainbow Brite opening theme (2009 relaunch)
summary: Vimuville wants to lend a helping hand.
length: 34 seconds
content notes: body horror, body horror involving a pregnant woman, quick cutting, food, blood, snot, smoking, hypodermic needles (the non-needley part, anyway)

lyrics:

Will you lend a helping hand? Then take a trip to Rainbow Land!

Catch the next rainbow into space, and help make the universe a brighter place.

You can brighten someone's day... Adventure's just a rainbow away.

A new world awaits you, so hold on tight! And join the adventure with Rainbow Brite.

notes:

This isn't the first time I've made a horror movie vid to a Rainbow Brite song; I can't promise it'll be the last. (It is the first time I've just thrown the whole source into iMovie without clipping in MPEG Streamclip first.)

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VID: Be Not Afraid (Ninja Scroll, for inkstone)

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:29:43 GMT

title: Be Not Afraid
fandom: Ninja Scroll
music: Lullabye for a Stormy Night
artist: Vienna Teng
content notes: physical triggers, graphic violence, nudity, bees, snakes, tryptophobia
length: 3:53

( Lyrics )

( Notes )

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VID: Ay, Nuestro Morena (The Book of Life)

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 05:19:20 GMT

Fandom: The Book of Life (2014)
Music: Canción del Mariachi by Antonio Banderas and Los Lobos
Ship: Joaquin/Maria/Manolo, La Muerte/Xibalba
Summary: For the woman of their hearts.
Content notes: Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, “stuttery” cuts between 2–3 stills)
Length: 2:05

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( Lyrics )

( Notes )

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VID: Great White Cat (Hausu)

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:15:59 GMT

Fandom: Hausu (1977)
Music: Theme from Jaws by John Williams
Summary: You’re gonna need a bigger appreciation for surrealism.
Content notes: Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, “stutters” cuts between 2–3 stills), gore, surreal violence
Length: 1:44

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VID: A Happy Song Where Everybody Dies (Hausu)

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:13:05 GMT

Fandom: Hausu (1977)
Music: The Irish Rover by Djazia Satour
Summary: Seven girls, one killer house party.
Content notes: Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, “stutters” cuts between 2–3 stills), nudity, violence, spoilers
Length: 2:00

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( Lyrics ) ( Notes )

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VID: Bitch Puddin's Fuckin' Theme Song (Robot Chicken)

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:10:09 GMT

Fandom: Robot Chicken
Music: TiK ToK by Ke$ha
Summary: Tonight (and every night) she’s gonna fight.
Content notes: Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, “stuttery” cuts between 2–3 stills), graphic violence
Length: 2:16

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VID: O Death (Babadook)

Sat, 13 Feb 2016 04:05:30 GMT

Fandom: Babadook (2014)
Music: “O, Death” by Jen Titus
Summary: I’ll open the door to Heaven or Hell
Content notes: graphic violence, insects.
Length: 1:59

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( Lyrics ) ( Notes )

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VID: 'Til I Go Home (Cheryl Williams, The Evil Dead)

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 20:58:05 GMT

title: ‘Til I Go Home

fandom: The Evil Dead (1981)

song: I’ll Tell Me Ma

artist: Sinead O’Connor

summary: A study of the Williams who didn't live. Let them all come as they will.

content notes: violence, blood, flashes of light

length: 2:24

( streaming vid and lyrics under the cut )

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Guess what I made: Festivids 2015 edition

Sun, 31 Jan 2016 02:03:05 GMT

This year I made 5 vids in 4 fandoms. If you guess one correctly, I'll make you something special!

The Festivids masterlist

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Someone take iMovie away from me

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:58:55 GMT

Title: Fly Creek is a Mighty Fine Town
Fandom: Squirm (1976)
Music: "The Fox" by Nickel Creek
Summary: They never had such a supper in their lives.
Warnings: worms, body horror involving worms, forced kissing, violence, corpses, flashing lights
Length: 2:36

My first thought was to pick JP Simon's Slugs: The Movie for this vid, and maybe I should have. For a movie about worms eating people, Squirm doesn't have a lot of worm-related footage. (Most of it is Useless Love Triangle footage.) But Squirm has a special place in my heart. I first saw it on Mystery Science Theater 3000, where I was so intrigued I kept wanting Mike and the 'bots to shut up so I could watch the movie.

Unfortunately, MPEG Streamclip decided it didn't want to play nice with my copy; it played nicer with the one I downloaded off the Internet, but *that* version was missing the end, for some reason. The end result isn't what I hoped for--I had to cut up a lot of the same footage at different places, because the worms aren't in the movie very much.

But I did it, and it's not a complete disaster.

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I saw "Cooties" and hated it. Learn from my mistakes

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:33:48 GMT

( Spoilers for Cooties )

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Dear Festividder (2015)

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:19:43 GMT

This is a placeholder!

fandoms:

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) [SAFETY}
Dope (2015) [SAFETY]
Empire (2015)
Event Horizon [SAFETY]
Gun Woman [SAFETY]
May (2002) [SAFETY]
Sinister movie series (2012-2015)
Tales from the Crypt

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Festivid: "The House is Rockin'" (Beetlejuice)

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:07:45 GMT

Title: The House is Rockin'
Fandom: Beetlejuice (1989)
Music: The House is Rockin' by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
For: tam_cranver
Length: 2:25
Contains: No standard notes apply.

Beetlejuice is one of my favorite movies--not least of all because it was the best metaphor for my navigational disability I had seen at, like, 9 years old. Which sounds weird when you consider that the movie is about ghosts who want to get a familiy of yuppies out of their house. But see, the ghosts haunt the house because, if they try to leave, they end up in a desert with no landmarks (which also might be on Saturn) full of giant worms that will eat them and make the afterlife beaurocracy start over again.

Even as a kid, I was struck by how, although Adam and Barbara were frustrated by being stuck in their house (they can't clean anything because the vacuum is in the garage), the house still was where they were safest. (Which is ironic, considering that, when they were alive, their realtor kept trying to get them to move because she thought the house was too big for them. Or maybe not ironic at all, since she was pretty obnoxious.)

So when tam_cranver asked for a vid about Adam and Barbara's frustrations with the afterlife or about Lydia and her relationships with them and her family, I knew that the house was essential to all of those things. I also knew I wanted to focus on all the fun and affection everyone ended up having (especially between Lydia and her ghost friends), so, like, "Two Story House" by George Jones and Tammy Wynette didn't work.

So, basically, this vid is a bunch of things about Beetlejuice that I've wanted to say for 25 years. In dance party form.

Also, I'm very proud of this vid, because I'm used to working in iMovie 6 HD which came out a million years ago, but Mavericks broke it and my new computer is so new I can't put Snow Leopard on it. Long story short, I used iMovie 10 for the first time ever.

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For the record (Thanks, TVTropes!)

Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:24:25 GMT

( tw: reference to suicide )

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I am an accomplished video game critic

Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:42:21 GMT

me: I don't know how to beat this boss. (Goddammit, Bayonetta, why did you have to piss it off?)

me: Obviously the answer is to replay earlier stages, make tons of money, and buy the bigger guns.

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Deliver me from linear video editing

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:21:31 GMT

Since Mavericks broke iMovie HD for real and my new computer broke Snow Leopard for real I'm making my Festivids assignment in iMovie 10. Which doesn't let you place clips exactly where you want them if there's nothing behind them so I have to vid IN ORDER.

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In honor of Halloween, have a stupid disability-related metaphor that got away from me

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:08:36 GMT

Teachers: Wow, Halloween III? I love Michael Myers!

Me, who is John Carpenter in this metaphor, I guess: Uh…

Teachers: Wait, why is there robots and evil Druids and Tom Atkins? Oh my god how could you record over this movie, you asshole?

Special education teacher: I, Dr. Loomis, know everything there is to know about Michael Myers, unlike you Miss Strode so stop talking nonsense about evil Druids stealing Stonehenge and accept that Michael is behind everything.

Researchers: ‘Evil Druids’ is basically another word for ‘Irish gangsters.’

Me: You just compared Irish gangsters to a list of things evil Druids do without actually studying real life evil Druids.

My mother: They’re like Irish gangsters.

Some psychologist: Oh, I’ve heard of Irish gangsters!

Me: Except with Stonehenge and human sacrifices.

Some psychologist: Wow, I’m lost. This one Irish gangster I heard speak one time never mentioned anything about Stonehenge.

Researchers, many years too late: Now that we thought to study real life evil Druids we think they’re different from Irish gangsters. LOL, oops.

Me: So, Mom, can we talk about the coming Halloween mask apocalypse because it could kill millions of people.

My mother: I know about the evil Druids and I guess they’re not Irish gangsters because science said so but OH MY GOD I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT DYING. The Halloween mask apocalypse will work out for the best if you stop wanting me to plan for it in advance.

Me, who is still John Carpenter: Fuck it, I quit this franchise.

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Dear Festividder (2014)

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:48:04 GMT

Dear Festividder,

First off, apologies in advance: I don’t really have prompts for any of these. Music-wise, I’m most familiar with country music and oldies but I have no musical preference and would rather leave that up to you.

Basically, this whole letter is: “Here’s why I like this source. Make the vid of your heart! I’ll love it!”

( Archer, The Bad Seed (1956), Fargo (1996), From Dusk Till Dawn (2014), Halloween Film Series (1978), Heathers, How to Get Away With Murder, Spider Baby )

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I complained about this on Tumblr, but I'm still annoyed

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:55:08 GMT

Dear horror movie,

That line in the first letter of John that "many antichrists have come" doesn't mean "the devil can have lots of demon babies."

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Trick or Treat Exchange 2014 letter

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:01:11 GMT

Dear Trick or Treat Exchange Pumpkin,

Hey! Thanks so much for writing/drawing for me! I’m sure I’ll love anything you make.

All levels of violence/gore are A-OK with me and my only squicks are incest and underage sex. I like characters interacting with each other in any way. I also dig character studies, horror, adventure, interdependence (characters helping each other out), and humor.

(I kinda rambled on. Feel free to ignore this. Like I said, I’ll be happy with anything).

( fandoms, etc., )

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Dear New Yorker plague vampires:

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:22:29 GMT

( The Strain-related nonsense. No spoilers )

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Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:33:20 GMT

Now that I got a new job* writing horror movie/TV reviews, there are even more things I can stress out about not writing.
Related: The Bad Seed makes way more sense if instead of the psychopathy-is-a-recessive-gene nonsense there is a little bit of Rhoda in her mother.

* My psychiatrist would remind you that this isn't really a job because I don't make money. But I call it a job.

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Festivid: Standing Outside the Fire (Wreck-it-Ralph)

Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:15:50 GMT

Title: Standing Outside the Fire

For: pipsqueaky
Fandom: Wreck-it-Ralph (2012)
Song: Standing Outside the Fire--Garth Brooks
Length: 1:45
Contains: light flashes, spoilers
Summary: It's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

( vid & lyrics under the cut )

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