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Running Up That Hill: If Only Stranger Things’ Characters Could Beat Their Trauma
In Season 4 of Stranger Things characters dealing with mental illness and trauma are targeted and tortured by Vecna, leaving viewers to pick up the importance of getting help.
Interview with Beckie-Ann Galentine: Vintage Curator & Picture Witch
TikTok star and embalming apprentice Beckie-Ann Galentine @mybloodygalentine shares her inspirations for Halloween and cemetery history.
Guilt and Pain Drive ‘The Ritual’ (2017)
From the tragic evening, into the unknown and unwavering forest, the viewer is met with horror-version visuals of what it might be like to live through a devastating experience.
Pet Sematary: Looking at Grief through a Paranormal Lens
A timely & thoughtful look at the 2019 Pet Sematary.
Mortician at the Mütter Museum: Meeting Caitlin Doughty & Reminders of My Own Mortality
In the opening of the talk, Doughty jokingly pointed out that her parents said they hadn’t really “seen the signs” of her inclination toward the morbid as she was growing up. In one instance, she mentioned finding a diary from her childhood in which the sole entry was a celebration of Halloween finally having arrived.
Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (2017) [Movie Review]
The four-act structure and the subsequent slide of one woman, living alone, into the relentlessly grinding maw of social expectations, culture, and the Old High German titular “witch” (Hagazussa) concept was a deeply moving joy.