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Daniel liked Halitosis Jones's post in the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

My parents just got from vacation in Maine and brought me back Maine candy. Needhams, which is a mixture of coconut and potato covered in chocolate. You can't really taste of the potato, but it defintley has a mashed potatoey texture. It's like a thicker mushier Mounds.

Daniel liked chewbacca110's post in the thread TV Show IT: Welcome to Derry (HBO Max).

Like this Fear Street approach. [MEDIA]

Daniel replied to the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

The first 20 minutes is so cozy. I want to drive around town and smoke a joint with Annie.

Daniel liked xkaylinh's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

watched Halloween for the first time! i kept thinking, wow, this would've been so scary if it was 1978 and this was the first slasher I ever saw. in 2025, tho, it's just really cozy. iconic music, iconic final girl. some really cool cinematography, how the camera would sometimes follow closely behind Michael or be from his perspective. i can see how this influenced every newer slasher i've seen before

Daniel liked Halitosis Jones's post in the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

Trader Joe's frozen Papa Rellenas also rocks. Especially in the air fryer.

Daniel replied to the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

Probably just because Five Guys has like 10 times more locations than Shake Shack and not that many people have tried it comparatively.

Daniel liked Aaron Mook's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

Having trouble posting photos from my phone right now but in the meantime, here's a report on Eerie Horror Fest 2025 since I haven't been in here in like four days: - Lots of people stepping away this year, which could be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. I think it's an opportunity for some new blood to jump in -- and I've been approached about taking over main event programming, which I would love -- but we have to figure out how to navigate funding moving forward (we lost 10k in grants this year) - Josh Ruben was very cool, very funny, and very nice. There was some concern when there was a mixup picking him up at the airport, but we've since determined . I had my friends do the podcast with him in my place since I would be doing 90 minutes of Q&A with him, and it all went amazingly. Packed house for Heart Eyes, lots of laughs and reactions in the crowd, and he loved watching it with them. Q&A was a ton of fun and when I ran out of questions, the audience kept him the full time. Plus, it was all really engaged horror questions - I don't know if anyone asked about Dropout. tbh. He signed my copy of Scare Me and our driver said he was gassing me and the event up all the way back to the hotel (he told several of us he would be happy to come back anytime) - The new space we had to pivot to very last-minute was actually fantastic and fit our attendance much better - 250 people look better in a room made for 300 than it does in a room made for 1,000+. Good way to save on rental and AV costs, too. - Not as many kids as we expected this year, a decent amount showed up for trick or treating and storytime but we can probably save money on a kids' movie next year. We dressed up my baby as Dracula (pics to follow) - @Shakriel helped save our ASS this year because of some file formatting issues with the licenses we purchased this year, and shoutout to @wisdomfordebris for also offering to assist - I did not stick around for Severin's Midnight Madness on Friday night because I had to be back at 9am on Saturday, but they showed Rats: Night of Terror, which I'm excited to check out (on Tubi). - Adrienne Barbeau was incredibly sweet and took care of all staff and volunteers, even offered free posters to folks if they didn't have something to sign. Interviewing her was a treat. It's really wild to consider that she worked with so many greats (Craven, Romero, and Carpenter). She got choked up talking about Romero and his daughter and attending her premiere for Queens of the Dead. She's also incredibly progressive. In addition to us showing The Fog (decent attendance) and doing a Q&A with her, she screened a short she's in, Oddities (link below), which has been adapted into a feature that just wrapped and her and John's son, Cody Carpenter, is doing the score. - My favorite submission this year was The Fright Stuff, a documentary about the haunt industry and haunted house workers. Any fans of similar docs, including The American Scream, are really going to love this one when it's released. Wormtown was another major highlight and it's hitting AppleTV or whatever on November 7th, so definitely check that out for a queer/political body horror flick about Amish folks and a worm cult (trailer below). - Merch pickups this year were Mardi Gras Massacre from Severin, Game of Pleasure and a Dawn of the Dead VHS from VHShitfest, and a sick pride flag/skull shirt from Octopuss Design that says EXIST OUT OF SPITE. Seriously have no idea how I didn't realize VHShitfest was based out of Erie - I shot Dan a message to try and get in with them helping out with press or whatever. Would love to be a part of that. Game of Pleasure was insanely goofy and horny and fun. ...and I think that's it. I'll post pics when I can. Really happy with and proud of everything this year. I busted my ass and I'm pretty sure almost everyone -- guests, filmmakers, vendors, attendees -- left happy. I really, really hope we get the opportunity to keep it going next year (especially because I already have a tentative plan for programming), but if not, I'll be doing my best to at least keep small events going while we restructure for (hopefully) 2027. [MEDIA] [MEDIA]

Daniel liked jkauf's post in the thread Absurdist Xwitter.

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Daniel replied to the thread The Theme Park Thread.

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park : KISS Productions : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This is also a lot of fun. Six Flags Magic Mountain was only 30 minutes away from me growing up and I spent a lot of time there. We'd basically spend all summer there because you could get a season pass for like $30 and a can of coke. My dad's job would have family days there where it'd be only people from his work and we'd get ride everything multiple times without lines. This Kiss Halloween Special was filmed there and it's cool to see it in the late '70s.

Daniel replied to the thread The Theme Park Thread.

[MEDIA] 2002 TV Special about HHN.

Daniel liked Contender's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

The Gate is a movie I wish I would have seen as a child. Fun entry level horror with fun practical effects.

Daniel liked cj's post in the thread Food 2: Chew Harder.

Daniel liked sam_might_say's post in the thread The Theme Park Thread.

Going to the parks tomorrow for my wife’s birthday. We have Din Tai Fung reservations and it’s gonna rain. I’m excited

Daniel liked Matt's post in the thread The Spooky Scary Halloween Thread.

Haunted Overload was even better this year than last year! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]

Daniel liked Halitosis Jones's post in the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

My parents are on vacation and they told me to help myself to their freezer full of frozen Trader Joe's meals. Had the Spinokpita last night and just had the Summer Squash Lasagna for dinner. Shit is good as hell.

Daniel replied to the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

[MEDIA] Chris Angel Mindfreak Halloween Special is too good.

Daniel liked AP_Punk's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

I watched Malum on Shudder recently. Few minutes in I started thinking, "This sounds a lot like that other rookie cop/haunted police station movie, Last Shift, from years back." Turns out the director of Last Shift remade that movie with a bigger budget, resulting in Malum. I don't think I've seen that done before, and I couldn't help but compare the original with the remake as I watched the latter. There are parts of the original I like because of its low-budget nature. With Malum, there was a lot going on that just didn't land with me. The over-developed storyline was - well, overbearing, along with the shoe-horned in audio commentary. Maybe I've just grown too used to the original and come to appreciate it for its limitations. That said, it was cool to see the practical effects and costumes in Malum especially when it goes off the rails in the third act. Other Shudder watches that I enjoyed a lot more: Clown in a Cornfield, Dangerous Animals and Candy Land.

Daniel liked wisdomfordebris's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

If you have a chandelier that doesn’t have a little monster guy on it, what’s the point?

Daniel liked OhTheWater's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

Doing Coppola’s Dracula. So fucking campy but it looks incredible. I love this

Daniel replied to the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

Don't have a cow, man.

Daniel liked imthegrimace's post in the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

fuck off loser

Daniel replied to the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

Rewatched Late Night with the the Devil and Trick or Treat with Reed Richmond while doing laundry today.

Daniel replied to the thread The Spooky Scary Halloween Thread.

Hell yeah

Daniel liked oakhurst's post in the thread The Spooky Scary Halloween Thread.

Baked melting ghost oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Daniel liked angrycandy's post in the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

just added that quote to the first post of this thread you made it @Daniel

Daniel replied to the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

Butterfingers aren't very good and are only popular because of Bart Simpson.

Daniel liked chewbacca110's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

It’s been a long time since they sucked someone off.

Daniel liked I Am Mick's post in the thread Your Controversial Food Opinions.

Just scorched the fuck out of a hot dog over a camp fire. Hard to beat a charred dog

Daniel replied to the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

What's this now?

Daniel replied to the thread The Streaming Thread+.

We always wait til after Halloween to start GBBO, but I'm excited to start it.

Daniel liked Nyquist's post in the thread The Horror Thread: Part 3D.

Watched all four I Know What You Did Last Summer movies earlier this week. That was something. I’ve never actually watched them before so I did enjoy the 90s teen slasher vibes of the first two. That’s a cozy place to live generally, but also Kevin Williamson is pretty 50/50 for me so a lot of his dialogue tends to take me out of whatever I’m watching. Chuckled and rolled my eyes pretty hard at “Dawson’s Beach.” I also found the killer’s motivation a little…muddled? Confusing? So he killed his dead daughter’s ex-boyfriend and then got hit by a car while standing in the road? Some of the audio in that first film was a little tough to discern so I was struggling to understand why exactly he killed his dead daughter’s ex? And what exactly did that have to do with the teens we were following, if anything? That direct to video third film was full of an awful lot of choices wow. Whoever their location scout was at least got them some beautiful locales, but said locale had absolutely nothing to do with a fishing town and a killer in a slicker. I also had no clue they’d chosen to turn the killer into a supernatural being so when that very sudden reveal came in the third act I let out a literal guffaw and sat there kind of speechless through the rest of it. The hook is his weapon, but also it’s the only thing that hurts him? Huh? And then they shove him into a thresher to kill him anyway? The legacy sequel was about what I expected it to be. I’ll give them credit though for pulling the trigger and doing the thing people have been speculating about with the Scream series for years. Silly movie, but I’ll admit I was all in on the Brandy teaser.

Daniel liked Orla's post in the thread Tiny Things That Annoy You.

Didn’t have the energy, I hadn’t eaten

Daniel replied to the thread Movies That Didn’t Actually Happen.

I was literally just thinking about the time when I finally got to sit my large son Jarnold down to show him my favorite film, The Electric State. Core memories were made that day.