#tempestt bledsoe

[moviesludge]

it's my grotesque appearance isn't it

[cosmicretreat]

Winter 1986

[mikyapixie]

13 ¥êår§ ågð †ðÐå¥ þåråñðrmåñ rêlêå§êÐ ïñ †hêå†êr§!

[fitsofgloom]

"Dottie has a week off from college! If she doesn't wanto kill zombies or protest zombie killers, she doesn't have to!": "My Zombie Lover" from season one of TV's "Monsters," my favorite show. This was only the series's fifth episode, darkly comedic in tone, about town organizing to battle the annual rising of the undead, a family microcosm as its focus.

I think even as a kid I picked up on the sly casting of a black family in the paraodic role of the cliched, Rockwellian nuclear family, and one of the Cosby Kids playing the lead had to be achieved by design. Dad is sturdy and forthright, Mom is ultra-chipper to the point of seeming medicated, lonely daughter Dottie finds herself conflictedly attracted to a former dead classmate come to call, and the little brother is a contrarian pain in the ass.

Prejudice is the clear theme, a citizen army forming to combat an external, uniform threat, Dad fulfilling the superficial (and ultimately tragic) protector role, the college-educated daughter entering into what amounts to a transgressively interracial relationship that mortifies her family, and little brother hollowly advocating for zombie rights only to completely abandon his stance when his sister joins their ranks and grosses him out. The mother in particular is my favorite, revealing her own hidden darkness in a hilariously macabre conclusion that I like to think would've played out for real in my own family if the circumstances were just right.

[akonoadham]

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

mama's family, tempus fugit |1987|

[loveboatinsanity]

[110789angle]

Zombie meets Frankenstein

Lisa Frankenstein resembles a TV series called Monsters: My Zombie Lover.

A story about a nerdy teen named Dottie (Tempestt Bledsoe from The Cosby Show) who lives with her parents and brother in the house during the zombie apocalypse with no fear just surviving and staying home. After the parents and brother left to kill more zombies for the night shift. Dottie decided to stay home and relax. Suddenly someone knocked on the door and voices who claimed to be Dottie's old classmate. When Dottie opened the door and saw a young zombie teenage boy with a flower. Dottie screams and closes the door. The harmless zombie boy named Paul Nichols just wanted to see Dottie. Paul Nichols died in a car accident 6 months ago. Dottie begins to remember that Paul Nichols is a very shy and funny classmate. Paul's example is that he wanted to date Dottie but could not have the courage. Dottie begins to have feelings for Paul and shares a kiss.