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Join me for the ultimate spooky showdown as we rank the creepiest, crawliest, and downright terrifying things imaginable! From haunted dolls to mysterious shadows, we’ll decide what’s spine-chillingly top-tier and what’s more like a spooky wet blanket. Get ready for some unexpected laughs, spooky surprises, and of course, your votes—because what’s scarier than a live chat deciding your fate?!
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A stranded starship, on a Planetoid lost in the immensity of Space, conceals its dead Pilot, and something alive and awaiting, inside of it. One of the key elements of Ridley Scott’s Alien, the former creature was conceived as part of an unknown alien race, which either came in contact with the Alien, or even engineered it for mysterious purposes — something ultimately left ambiguous in the film itself. This character was given various nicknames: labeled as simply ‘Pilot’, ‘StarPilot, ‘Starrider’, or, humoristically, ‘Dental Patient’ (by Aliens director James Cameron); the name it is most commonly known as, however, is ‘Space Jockey’ — a designation inspired by Robert Heinlein’s eponymous novel. Hans Ruedi Giger, the designer of the creature, used it to refer to the Nostromo crew, and it was first used for the dead Pilot in one of the script drafts written by David Giler and Walter Hill, who also changed the alien entity into a human skeleton. Its nature in the final film was eventually reverted to that of an incomprehensible “alien lifeform”, closely to how O’Bannon envisioned it in his 1976 draft for Alien — where the introduction to the Pilot plays out very similarly to the final film. “Suddenly, Melkonis lets out a grunt of shock,” the script reads. “Their lights have illuminated something unspeakably grotesque: A HUGE ALIEN SKELETON, SEATED IN THE CONTROL CHAIR. They approach the skeleton, their lights trained on it. IT IS A GROTESQUE THING, BEARING NO RESEMBLANCE TO THE HUMAN FORM. [Sic]”
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My Mixtape’s A Masterpiece is a weekly feature in which a guest compiles a playlist around some theme. This week, Vito Nusret assembles 13 songs to accompany a tale of a particularly evil Halloween. Read Vito’s thoughts on each song and listen along to the Spotify playlist on top and/or the YouTube playlist at the bottom of the post.
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Suno is building a future where anyone can make great music. Whether you're a shower singer or a charting artist, we break barriers between you and the song you dream of making. No instrument needed, just imagination. From your mind to music.
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Horror movies haven't truly gotten their due as a genre during awards season, but a surprising number of horror films have won Oscars.
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Join us for a spine-tingling twist on the classic game of 20 Questions—where the answers are creepy, the questions are cursed, and the laughs might just haunt you! Tune in live and help me guess what ghastly ghouls, sinister objects, or spooky surprises lurk behind each question. Warning: ghosts, goblins, and terrible puns ahead!
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