Wafflings of a Cozmonaught

In the Hills, the Cities (1984) written by Clive Barker "Want to fuck?" What an amazing line. I first read this story in 2018. At the time, I remember thinking it was just OK. And yet, something about this short story continues to eat away at me nearly a decade on.  There's something distinct here. Something so strange. So disturbing. So disgusting. I can't put my finger on it. In the Hills, the Cities  follows Mick and Judd, two gay English boy toys traveling around the Yugoslav countryside. As they wind through dirt roads, past farms and cottages, they come across a startling discovery. A battlefield. Not of armies, but of colossuses. Two giants made of thousands of humans. Men, women, and children strapped and harnessed together in a feat of grotesque engineering. Stephen King famously categorizes horror into three buckets.  Terror. The psychological. Horror. The shocking. Gross-out. The repulsive. On the surface, In the Hills, the Cities  falls distinctly into ...

   Spiral  (2019) directed by Kurtis David Harder I had reserved this slot for Leviticus by Adrian Chiarella, but that plan fell through. Also I got sick so this is a month late. Whoops.  Today we are taking a look at a 2019 Canadian horror thriller  named Spiral that  I pulled straight from  Wikipedia's hairy behind . And, oh boy,  I got bad vibes in the first five minutes.  "This is one of them insufferably pinky-out films for Disney Adults, isn't it?" Mhmm. Yes. Let's continually spout platitudes about how society is scared of differences.  But don't be afraid to be yourself! The bravest thing you can do is live out and proud! All that same, tired old shit that your lefty aunt shares on Facebook before stumbling into yet another flamewar with your righty grandpappy. Lord have mercy.  I think I gotta take the old man's side on this one, Auntie.  This movie f eels very much like a product of the mid-to-late 2010s. Like it...