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Was gonna take a break from video collage review surrealism whatever it is but then I watched ‘Lost Highway’ and ‘Remote Control’ back-to-back and decided instead to have a crack at creating something with a grainy VHS fuzz overlay, something like a video collage review surrealism whatever it is on ‘The October Film Haunt’ by Michael Wehunt.

Like all Powers of Horrorrrrrr videos I’ve done, this isn’t really a review, it’s more of an artistic expansion on what I think might be the themes of the novel, or at least the themes I wanted to run with i.e. cosy nostalgia, hauntology, transmogrification via supernatural belief, creepy neighbours, Thanatos, the warm attractiveness of grainy VHS fuzz etc. I think the end result is quite good, quite creepy.

The hauntology stuff is obviously from Derrida and Mark Fisher; sadly, they are no longer alive enough to witness me forcing their ideas into the beach scene from ‘Freddy 4: The Dream Master’…but, who knows, maybe they’d like it…the unrealness…the intrusion of one abjection onto another…even the actress playing Kristen is different, which adds something [unintentionally – tbh, I thought it was Patricia Arquette at first; that whole section was supposed to be different faces of her within horror/surrealism].

Death Drive/Thanatos comes from a mix of Freud and Deleuze, plus some guy on medium.com [the social journalism site not a psychic Ponzi scheme].

RE: The October Film Haunt – again, not really a review, but it is by the same author who did ‘Greener Pastures’ [which had a short story that was perhaps the progenitor of this novel] so you know it’s not schlock. I do make one reference in the video to a review I saw on Goodreads where the reviewer [who seems to either not understand or not like contradiction between psyche + behaviour] complained that Jorie [the protagonist] was doing stupid things like going to a graveyard alone at night or not calling the cops, and what is the death drive exactly, how can we writers make it make sense, is a potential death enough to satiate it, does having readers who write nonsense Goodreads reviews make you more likely to want to jump into it head-first?

On the PSYCHO HOLOSUITE YouTube channel now.

[btw, I googled ‘do comments help on youtube’ and it turns out they do, so if you have a channel, let me know and I’ll leave some insight. In return, please get yourself, your family, your friends, everyone positive or nihilistic you’ve ever met, any nearby tree demons, etc. to create at least 10 different accounts and use each one to leave a comment on every single one of mine. Thanks.]

Films/Music used:

Liquid Sky [1982]

Phenomena [1985]

Alice Sweet Alice [1976]

Alice [1988]

Lost Highway [1997]

The Company of Wolves [1984]

The Vampire Doll [1970]

I Like Bats [1986]

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 + 4 + 5

Identikit [1974]

The Lair of the White Worm [1988]

Remote Control [1988]

The Reflecting Skin [1990]

Beyond the Door [1974]

Ed Wood [1994]

Faust [1926]

The Other Side of the Underneath [1972]

The Attic [1980]

Switchblade Symphony // Dollhouse [music video]

Bad Dreams [1988]

The Boy from Space [1980]

Music:

Phenomena OST // The Valley

The Keep [ending audio + Tangerine Dream / Stealing the Silver Cross]

Moondial [theme]

Footprints on the Moon [trailer music]

Derrida // Ghost Dance audio

Carnival of Souls OST // Haunted + Isolation

The City of the Living Dead OST – track 1