MerryeMel's SpiderBabyBlog

Long time – no posts

merryemel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:09:36 +0000

I started this blog with the intention of posting regular updates on on the creepy, halloweenie new stuff I know of or encounter as the season of falling leaves and horror movies approach…. Instead, I’ve been sidelined by work, unexpected foot surgery (minor but debilitating) and more work/life issues and changes. SO – this post is an effort to get me back on track.

So over the last few months of stress and trauma, I’ve been treating myself to revisiting my boxed set of the Carnivale series originally aired on HBO a couple of years ago. Only living two seasons, Carnivale is an incarnation of all things I love – creepy, symbolic, filled with great, fulled-developed characters with incredible flaws, carnies and carnality, human oddities, an epic battle between good and evil, and mysticism. It’s all set (you guessed it) within the lives of a carnival troupe, their hangers-on and an evil (?) preacher a la Night of The Hunter meets The Exorcist during the The Great Depression.

Slightly Victorian, very dark, deep and completely engrossing – Carnivale is a must for fans of Ray Bradbury, David Lynch, Cormac McCarthy, Patrick McGrath, Tim Burton, the Coens and Elias Merhinge.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be making more suggestions on October-esque viewing and reading. But rent Carnival and pick up a copy of Bradbury’s October Country to get yourself set for the season.

The inspiration – the movie intro

merryemel — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:01:02 +0000

Quick taste of what you're getting into...Spider Baby intro clip on You Tube.

Hello darkness!

merryemel — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:49:11 +0000

Hello to all of those who know what I’m talking about….darkness is a frame of mind and a passion for the macabre that takes many forms. This blog is for those of us who get excited when the leaves begin to turn, love both the creepy and campy, and wish in our little black beating hearts that Halloween was a promise we could escape to more than once a year.

Dubbed after the Jack Hill masterpiece of twisted camp horror of the same name, Spider Baby will explore the darkest corners with equal parts humor and love, never veering into the too-too-easy gorefest of slasher/CSI muckfests and keep to the quaint obfuscation of Victoriana, innuendo and old fashioned creepiness.