Just what it says: Places people went into but never came out. Three are in the U.S., one of which, Jacob’s Well, is in Texas.
Some of these (like the Paris Catacombs) are well known, but others are fairly obscure.
None sound like enticing vacation destinations…
Kris Straub, the creator of Candle Cove, has a series of creepy mock, late-night found horror UHF TV segments edited together from public domain footage.
Here’s one for a weather alert:
Here’s an infomercial on “Real Sleep”:
Here’s one from earlier this year that asks what AI would look like in the 64K era.
More can be found here.
This is less “Halloween horror” that “Halloween comedy,” namely Dog 1, Creepy Japanese Ghost 0:
Get the hell out of my neighborhood!
Go be a ghost somewhere else! https://t.co/tg4o4BQKSR— The Figen (@TheFigen_) May 14, 2026
The Halloween Season is upon us again.
I’m not particularly a fan of the “thinly animated scary story,” but this one stands out quite a bit, as the military details are what make the entire thing more plausible.
These feature “pale crawlers.”
The first story doesn’t do much for me, but the second, featuring a national guardsman on nighttime land navigation (“lan nav”), which means moving around in the dark and navigating by landmarks and a map.
While out there he spots something.
Then the thing starts tracking him on a parallel course…
Nicely creepy.
“Earthmover” is a song from have a Nice Life’s debut album Deathconsciousness, reported be be among the top feel-bad albums of all time. But this song, about giant stone golems who destroy the earth and then, faced with existence without purpose, long to die, is simply too silly a premise to get depressed over. Instead, I’m posting it here for the surging noisecore wave of sound that kicks off after 5:30 into the song.
After decades of failed attempts to film it, an adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer is finally coming to Apple TV.
My first reaction to the trailer is: I don’t hate it. It hits a lot of the right notes. And Gibson is an executive producer on the show, so presumably it won’t drift too far from the book. (Then again, Gibson wrote the screenplay for Johnny Mnemonic, so he’s not exactly infallible…)
Maybe it was fate that delayed a media adaptation until there actually were wild AIs running around lose in cyberspace.
30 or even 20 years ago, this would have been big exciting news, but a lot of water has flowed under that bridge. People that were blown away by Neuromancer in college are entering Social Security eligibility. Many of the ideas of Cyberpunk have already been woven into the fabric of science fiction as a whole, and classic high tech/low life tropes have been around so long that they’re just another flavor of nostalgia now.
Not to mention a whole bunch of the younguns what never lived under Communism, or even the 1970s, claiming we already live in a Cyberpunk Dystopia.
Obviously I had to do the meme.
So it’s hard to say how it will land in January 2027.
I don’t have any streaming services, so I’ll have to wait for others to let me know if it’s any good.
Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor of Star Wars and wife of George Lucas, died at the end of May.
Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor who first took audiences to a galaxy far, far away with 1977’s “Star Wars,” has died at the age of 80, her family confirmed.
Marcia, part of the editorial team for both “Star Wars” and “Return of the Jedi,” was married to the franchise’s founder George Lucas from 1969 to 1983. She died after a battle with metastatic cancer.
“Marcia will be remembered as a brilliant storyteller, a trailblazer for women in film, a loving mother and grandmother, a generous host and a loyal friend whose humor and sparkle filled every room she entered,” the family said in a statement. “Her influence on film is indelible, but those who knew her best will remember the way she made life feel more vivid, more beautiful, more fun and more full of love.”
Snip.
She won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for her work on the original “Star Wars” movie, an award that came four years after she was nominated for editing George’s previous film, “American Graffiti.” She additionally edited his debut feature, “THX 1138.”
Beyond these collaborations with her then-husband, Marcia worked as an editor with other acclaimed filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. She was credited as sole editor for Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” and served as supervising editor for “Taxi Driver” and “New York, New York.”
Marcia served as part of a three-person crew editing both “Star Wars” and “Return of the Jedi.” On the first film, she worked alongside Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew and was personally responsible for editing the Battle of Yavin — otherwise known as the iconic “trench run” sequence near the end of the film.
I wanted to do this obit because the attack on the Death Star is one off the greatest, best-edited action scenes in all of film history.
The swift inter-cutting between different shots does a great job of ratcheting up the tension. Indeed, the state of the film when Marcia Lucas started working on it included two Luke trench attack runs, the first where he used the targeting computer that was unsuccessful. She had a huge role in salvaging a film that George Lucas thought was a failure upon viewing the first rough cut, helping turn it into a masterpiece.
As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
Merry Christmas!
Night Tapes are a UK-Estonian band, and “Helix” sounds a bit like Mallory to me.
Once upon a time, there was a great little web series called Making Fiends that turned into a swell TV series. Both versions told about the dynamic between Vendetta, an evil little girl that makes fiends, and Charlotte, who thinks Vendetta is her best friend despite the latter loathing her.
Here’s a video of the Halloween episode.
Alas, Nickelodeon cancelled the TV show after only one season. I’m glad I bough the DVD when it was available, as its now out of print and people are asking ridiculous amounts for it…