NoirBoneCat

Kitty Prowls Deh Artz

[bogleech]

Just a reminder

Pyramid head is not a guy in a helmet. That is his head. It does not come off and there is no misunderstood animu bishie underneath and sure as hell no “Homecoming” characters underneath.

Love him the way he is!

[combobreakercomix]

I beg to differ.

[silent-epitaph]

Beetlejuice (1988)

i’m so upset

I just realized that the reason ghosts say Boo! is because it’s a latin verb

they’re literally saying ‘I alarm/I am alarming/I do alarm!!

I can’t

[life-of-a-latin-student]

present active boō, present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum

[interretialia]

Recte!

[flightcub]

if it comes from the latin word, they’re actually saying “I’M YELLING!” which is even cuter

[grizzlyhills]

do they speak latin because it’s a dead language

[psychrophile]

[allthingslinguistic]

I looked this up on Etymonline just in case it was actually true, and I found this pretty delightful etymology: 

Boo - expression meant to startle, early 15c., boh, “A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound” [OED, which compares Latin boare, Greek boaein “to cry aloud, roar, shout.”]; as an expression of disapproval, 1801 (n.), 1816 (v.); hence, the verb meaning “shower someone with boos” (1893).

Booing was common late 19c. among London theater audiences and at British political events; In Italy, Parma opera-goers were notorious boo-birds, but the custom seems to have been little-known in America till c. 1910.

To say boo “open one’s mouth, speak,” originally was to say boo to a goose.

To be able to say Bo! to a goose is to be not quite destitute of courage, to have an inkling of spirit, and was probably in the first instance used of children. A little boy who comes across some geese suddenly will find himself hissed at immediately, and a great demonstration of defiance made by them, but if he can pluck up heart to cry ‘bo!’ loudly and advance upon them, they will retire defeated. The word ‘bo’ is clearly selected for the sake of the explosiveness of its first letter and the openness and loudness of its vowel. [Walter W. Skeat, “Cry Bo to a Goose, “Notes and Queries,” 4th series vi Sept. 10, 1870]

So if ghosts are anything like geese, perhaps this means that the correct thing to do is to say boo back to the ghost, to show you’re not afraid. (Or even that ghosts are really just plucking up their courage to face us.)

[tastefullyoffensive]

Price slasher. (via thisjordanperry)

[s1umb3r-party-massacre-deactiva]

The Monster Squad || 1987 || Fred Dekker

“Call them for a monster-ous good time!”

[cousinbarnabas]

#Halloween candy can be kinda gross, y'all.

[noirbonecat]

Marshmallow flavored marshmallows.....

[ladycrawley-deactivated20161204]

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

“Yeah, some of our clothes are from victims. You might bite someone and think, “Ooh, those are some nice pants.”

[alanreedwrite]

It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarum about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Alone™. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for one’s actions and interventions. If it’s a warning, it’s a warning about turning one’s back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.

China Mieville, interview with the Weird Fiction Review (via brotticelli)

HOW TO MISS THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT AND ATTEMPT TO MAKE SOMETHING NEW OUT OF IT: 101

[horrorfixxx]

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

[noirbonecat]

This movie came out when I was a kid. I watched this scene and it fucked me up for years. However, it makes no sense to the actual plot it or of any of the other movies whatsoever. My imagination was far wilder on this subject than they actually were. Yeah, that’s how it was done back then.

[crystolpistol]

[gameraboy]

Super ultra mega Headless Horseman post!  Halloween is coming!

I made new GIFs of all the Headless Horseman segments.  More Disney GIFs.

[talesfromthecrypts]

Trick ‘r Treat (2007) dir. Michael Dougherty

[danisontnonfire]

Tumblr can’t fight it anymore. It’s Halloween.

[kalistacali]

ITS JULY

[danisontnonfire]

[noirbonecat]

[beyonces]

Vampires have had a really bad rep. We’re not these mopey old creatures who live in castles. Well, some of- most of us are, a lot are. But there’s also those of us who like to flat together in really small countries like New Zealand. — What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

[noirbonecat]

PETYR, you rascal.

[spookytreats]

[jellymonstergirl-deactivated201]

What We Do in the Shadows (Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement | 2014)

[hpcollection-deactivated2019010]

Seule la petite fille réussira à faire ce qu'elle veut du Monstre… Lon Chaney Jr., Janet Ann Gallow et Ralph Bellamy dans “Le Spectre de Frankenstein” (The Ghost of Frankenstein, Universal-1942). Source: Doctor Macro, color by Colin

[noirbonecat]

Once upon a time, there was a set up very similar to this at a Halloween shop as we entered to browse. My son cautiously approached to scoot around the big monster, with my careful guidance, and LEAPED OUT OF HIS SKIN when the “fake” Frankenstein’s Monster moved to grab him! He adored “Frankie” since that day. We even found a toy one that he’d sleep with! (Same thing happened with a motion-detected laughing pumpkin which he then called “Boo-ha!”)