Happy Halloween! The borked Lyla Grunt face template reminded me of an old horror movie that scared me a lot as a child… you know, it’s based on a novel, but THAT scene was the SCENE))
He played solitaire that night until long after midnight.
He was just dealing a fresh hand when he heard the back door open.
What you buy is what you own, and sooner or later what you own will come back to you, Buzz Grunt thought.
He did not turn around but only looked at his cards as the slow, gritting footsteps approached. He saw the queen of spades. He put his hand on it.
The steps ended directly behind him.
Silence.
A cold hand fell on Buzz’s shoulder. Lyla’s voice was grating, full of dirt.
The second episode of my vlog, Diary Of A Slasher is now live! I go in depth about all the versions of Pet Sematary as well as an update on school and pics of my first haircuts!
director: Mary Lambert starring: Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby, Brad Greenquist, Michael Lombard rated: R synopsis: Behind a young family’s home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable. tomatometer: 45%; 63% (critic/audience split)
“‘- but it’s not such a bad idea to be on nodding acquaintance with it. These days…I don’t know… no one wants to talk about it or think about it, it seems. They took it off the TV because they thought it might hurt the children some way - hurt their minds - and people want closed coffins so they don’t have to look at the remains or say goodbye… it just seems like people want to forget it.’
‘And at the same time they brought in the cable TV with all those movies showing people - ‘ Jud looked at Norma and cleared his throat, ‘- showing people doing what people usually do with their shades pulled down,’ he finished. ‘Queer how things change from one generation to the next, isn’t it?’
‘Yes,’ Louis said. 'I suppose it is.’
‘Well, we come from a different time,’ Jud said, sounding almost apologetic. ‘We was on closer terms with death. We saw the flu epidemic after the Great War, and mothers dying with child, and children dying of infection and fevers that it seems like doctors just wave a magic wand over these days. In the time when me and Norma was young, if you got cancer, why, that was your death-warrant, right there. No radiation treatments back in the 1920s! Two wars, murders, suicides…’
He fell silent for a moment.
‘We knew it as a friend and as an enemy,’ he said finally.
'My brother Pete died of a burst appendix in 1912, back when Taft was President. He was just fourteen and he could hit a baseball farther than any kid in town. In those days you didn’t need to take a course in college to study death, hot-spice or whatever they call it. In those days it came into the house and said howdy and sometimes it took supper with you and sometimes you could feel it bite your ass.’”
