#needful things

[dutchs-blog]

First things first

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies by year:

1993

[freetheshit-outofyou]

Who is the best Devil in the movies?

There are so many great portrayals of the Devil, what one is your favorite?

Tim Curry, Legend 1985

Max von Sydow, Needful Things 1993

Viggo Mortensen, The Prophecy 1995

Al Pacino, The Devil's Advocate 1997

Gabriel Byrne, End of Days 1999

Peter Stormare, Constantine 2005

Voting ended onOct 23, 2025

There were so many great who played the Devil but not everyone could make the poll. Big shout out to:

Bob Obenkirk, Hell and Back (2015)

John Ritter, Wholly Moses! (1980)

Lon Chaney Jr., The Devil's Messenger (1962)

Dany Elfman, Forbidden Zone (1980) A personal favorite.

TV devil actors will come a little later.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, perusing the Creepy Shop: hmmm

The Creepy Shopkeeper: we have anything your heart desires… for a price! Heheheh…

Me, placing my hand on an Object: shhhhh

[leitmotif shifts to a minor key]

Me, snatching my hand back: nope!

Creepy Shopkeep: What

Me, placing my hand on another Object: hmmm

[leitmotif shifts to major key]

Me: I’ll take this one!

Creepy Shopkeep: out! OUT! I don’t know what you’re on about but I don’t like it one bit OUT I SAY!

[mask131]

"Needful Things" stands out among the many horror pieces criticizing and caricaturing 80s American materialism in that... It is one of the rare ones that doesn't have a case of people getting it massively wrongly and the piece retrospectively becoming material for the most toxic ideas.

It is not the only one, far from it, but I looked in a row at "American Psycho", "They live!" and "Needful Things", and the latter just stood out a lot in term of "audience reception".

Mind you, it might be because nobody remembers or caught that the book was written, per Stephen King's word, as a hate-book denouncing the 80s' consumerism. Nowadays people just take it as yet another "Devil wrecking havoc and buying souls" story.

[mumblelard]

the one in the well or umswelt

last night was filled with nightmares i still feel but can't remember. at the end, i dreamt that i was in wooden walled basement, eating a lime, skin and all, like an apple, and through the square hatch to the floor above, i heard a chorus of plaintive voices calling me, almost wailing, and when i accepted that i was going to them, i woke up

this morning when i turned on the lights, i found that the fallie sewn lambeopard of the apocalypse that lives on my nightstand, had (been) turned to face the corner, sometime in the night

day before yesterday, when i was out rambling in the woods, i found myself deep in the vision of an entire future that i might have, a way that the pieces of my life might combine and transform into something completely different than what i live now. i try to stay out of the future, but this was nice. i saw all of the big and little details of a life. i saw myself wearing clothes that i wouldn't wear, but might, with friends i wouldn't have, but could. in the moment, by the river, it felt like epiphany, then yesterday i found myself tearing it down into little pieces of reverie and scraps of fantasy, but this morning, after a worry of nightmares, i woke up feeling like the epiphany can still be saved

[vampirecorleone]

Horrorween Day 25 / 31: Needful Things (1993) dir. Fraser C. Heston "The young carpenter from Nazareth? I know him well. Promising young man. He died badly."