Ann Laabs 🏳️‍🌈

a group of clowns are gathered outside of a party store ALT: a group of clowns are gathered outside of a party store

Ok, now I'm trying to remember the title of a horror novel I read recently. A brother and sister reunite to clear out their parents' house. Said parents did clown/puppet ministries and the house is full of creepy props.
Hope my subconscious data bank kicks out the title!
#Horrorsky #Booksky

Join us for our 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple watch party this Friday, March 13th. Starts at 12pm PT/3pm ET! Link to join our Discord in our bio!

Rook stands in science lab examining a contained facehugger.

'Rook'

One year ago today I posted this miniature Alien Romulus phot I created practically using real lighting, figures and miniature sets.

#alien #alienromulus #xenomorph #synthetic #android #facehugger #photography #scifi #horror #rook #ash #miniatures #visualart #art #lighting #practicaleffects

A beautifully kept copy of the 1920-ish Grosset & Dunlap edition of "The Haunted Bookshop" by Christopher Morley. The jacket is freshly covered in a protective sleeve, and the book came professionally wrapped in brown paper and bubble wrap, with a free (and very striking) bookmark. This was a very well packaged book!

Just want to give a shout out to our neighbors Source Bookstore in Davenport, Iowa, who sent this surprise package to us.

This is so thoughtful! I love that my colleagues are so kind 📚❤️

A ★★½ review of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) I was really hoping it was going to work for me this time, and it actually started out that way. But after they disappear I still find it more plodding than inducing dread. The 4K on the criterion cha...

📽️ I would simply not picnic at the evil rocks

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Goodnight from Lewis Bramwell, comforted by the thought that if he dies due to tripping on one of the hundreds of books on his staircase at least his ghost will have a lot to read. Goodnight from Gemma Cross, scrabbling to make a chalk circle around her bed. Goodnight from Hookland.

Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease By watching Alzheimer’s-related protein clumping unfold second by second, researchers have uncovered new clues about the role of metal ions.

This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...

#nowwatching
Black Sunday (1960) aka The Mask of Satan
Okay I am back on the Bava train. The first Italian horror film, opening the floodgates of an iconic era of film history
Black Sunday has Barbara Steele as a dual role of the witch and the victim, as well as zombies and vampiric rites. Let's go!

Tonight's dinner is courtesy of
www.realcajunmarket.com
In these trying economic times it's more important than ever to support your local mom and pop businesses! Hands down this is one of the greatest sausages I have ever eaten

Anrealage "GHOST" (Paris Fashion Week FW/2026).
Fashion designer Kunihiko Morinaga paying tribute to Mamoru Oshii's "Ghost in the Shell" movie.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELF8...

This Classic Pot Roast is giving “I cook like it’s Sunday even on a Tuesday” energy. Fall‑apart tender beef, buttery potatoes, sweet carrots, and onions that melt right into the gravy like they were born for it. It’s savory, it’s cozy, it’s nostalgic
www.loulougirls.com/classic-pot-...

'Hoppers' Pops With $46 Million At The Box Office As 'The Bride' Is Ready For A Divorce Hoppers gave Pixar and Disney a massive win with $46 million at the U.S. box office, while The Bride inevitably scared up just $7.2 million

Hoppers dominated at the box office with the biggest opening for an original animated movie since Coco in 2017, with $46 million. Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride bombed with just $7.2 million. And did Scream 7 have a 72% drop? You bet it did

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Opinion | What Christian Nationalism Has Done to My State and My Faith Is a Sin (Published 2023)

My last free article from the New York Times for the month.

www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/o...

It's a cult. The Great Leader Cannot Fail, He Can Only Be Failed.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition
Manchester.
📷 #photography #urbanphotography
#shadows #highrise

Netherworld (1992): Where a bird cult resides in a cathouse YouTube video by Dark Corners Reviews

New bad movie review out tomorrow! Here's last week's again, NETHERWORLD! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNPV...

Mini Stay Pufts mess around a blender whilst one stands in the glass jar sticking its tongue out.

"If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood, Who you gonna call?" ☎️

All shot practically using real lighting, figures, a blender from the kitchen and a price tag I designed and printed out.

#ghostbusters #marshmallow #minimarshmallowman #miniatures #movies #scifi #visualart #photography

If there's one thing I like even more than receiving a book from a New York Times bestselling author - it's receiving a book from a New York Times bestselling author with a painting by me on the cover. @danielkraus.com

Its 20 after 11 on a Saturday night and my feed is nothing but racing.

Bluesky. THE SPORTS APP

Three bins of envelopes full of books

Yo, Book Club subscribers! Your first quarter shipment of KAYAK, OLYOKE, + goodies are on their way to you 🖤☠️

Red Riding (2026) - Projected Figures Chris Conway's feature debut RED RIDING makes a contemporary coming-of age folktale of bad genes, class clash and the bestial stain of family

"makes a contemporary coming-of-age folktale of bad genes, class clash and the bestial stain of family": Chris Conway's RED RIDING (2026) just had its world première at @frightfest.bsky.social for @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social
projectedfigures.com/2026/03/07/r...

Try not to paint GenX as a solid MAGA cohort.

Beloved Lower East Side dive 169 Bar could be destroyed by bizarre battle between owner and landlord "I trademarked the name [of the bar], so if I go, it goes," the 169 Bar's owner Charles Hanson said.

Beloved Lower East Side dive 169 Bar could be destroyed by bizarre battle between owner and landlord

Does anyone have a gift link for The Atlantic review of #TheBride to share?
Thanks

‘The Bride!’ Is a Failed Experiment Maggie Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to “The Lost Daughter” is an incomprehensible movie mash-up.

In “The Bride!” the director Maggie Gyllenhaal goes for maximalism but ends up with a mess, David Sims writes:

Watch The Last Drive-In the see The Bride! at a matinee and/or bargain Tuesday.

Far-from-the-edge cases

Back in 2025, I posted a list of science fiction edge cases, narratives in various media that were either science fiction (but which might be something else) or things not normally regarded as science fiction, but which have some elements. An extreme example (suggested in…

Evening views of Bamburgh beach and castle from across the rocks. Partially cloudy sky gave some muted sunlight colours in the clouds

Evening stroll and dog walk at Bamburgh Beach, Northumberland. Started off relatively cloudy but the clouds started to break up a little aand give some lovely soft light in the sky across the beach and rocks. A worthwhile wander.

#Northumberland
#sunset
#uk
#evening
#Castle

IMO, #TheBride! would've been helped immensely if Maggie Gyllenhaal had followed Chanel's advice re accessories and removed a subplot or two.

Bonnie & Clyde + Frankenstein? Cool 👍🏻

And Mary Shelly AND a mob boss AND a movie star AND a pair of bickering detectives? Plot overload.

#Horror #Filmsky

After seeing The Bride! yesterday, I came home and told my husband I realized that's my go-to damning-with-faint-praise description for movies that are an "interesting mess".