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In one of Chucky’s many calls to Denny’s answering machine, he tries to entice her by saying “I've got great tickets tonight for the command performance for Lady Di and Prince Charles at Carnegie Hall. It features Sylvester Stallone doing Dickens, Baryshnikov dancing and the twin piano magic, of Ferrante and Teicher“. This begs the question, what role do you think Stallone was playing? Scrooge? Oliver Twist? David Copperfield thinking he’d be performing magic? I don’t care how creepy Chucky is, if you’re Denny you can’t pass up going to a show like that, right?

I was thinking about all the undesirable aspects of the Kaz character and I was curious how this young guy ended up homeless. The more I thought about this all the little throwaway lines of the movie just added up and painted this truly sad and tragic backstory for Kaz that does make him more sympathetic. As the best as I can make it based on what we know (homelessness, demon origin, stolen doctor's stuff, etc.) this is what I imagine Kaz's backstory is. Kaz met Bibi when he was in his early to mid teens. Due to the follies of youth and not seeing the red flag that is this girl wanting to make out with him for his friends to watch, he fell into her trap which got him cursed by Bibi's Romanian grandmother. Being in his early to mid teens and at the height of puberty and his body changing and hormones rushing he began to turn into the pozatski and odd times and was unaware of what was happening to him. He would wake up in strange locations and have fits at school and home. This odd behaviour caught the attention the teaching staff. When he spoke to the school counselor he told him of foggy memories of being a demon. Not knowing about the curse, they saw this combined with his new erratic behaviour as a sign of mental illness and after talking with his family sought to have Kaz committed to a mental institution. Kaz being of sound albeit cursed mind didn't really fit in at the mental institution. He was counselled by doctors, attended group meetings and was misdiagnosed with a mental illness which they started treating with drugs. This would get him hooked on this drugs which he thought he needed but was just an opioid addiction. Eventually due to the behaviour of his fellow patients and the drugs, kinda like McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (shout out to Unspooled) he became a changed man and actually went a little mad. Around this time is when Ronald Reagan repelled most of the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 which caused mass numbers of institutionalized mental patients, like Kaz, to be released only to end up homeless and on the streets. So now he has a pill addiction, is homeless and believes himself to be crazy. He spends his days unable to get proper treatment for his psychosomatic mental illness, which he now believes his demon state is part of, but to feed his addiction breaks into and robs the homes and offices of doctors so he can get at those sweet prescription pads. It is at this low point, victim of the system and a family and school that didn't know about pozatski's that we meet Kaz.

They definitely need a lot of individual and joint therapy and counseling, and even then with work put in, there's still the potential for feelings to fizzle out naturally. It doesn't look good.

I think there is one potential serious character flaw with Kaz that is a lot worse than everything else. How long had he been thinking he might be the Mangler before he declared to Denny that he was going to turn himself in? The bodies had really been piling up by the time he said that. I'd say as soon as you have the idea that there is a 50/50 chance that you are a fugue state serial killer go ahead and take some action to get yourself out of the game. With how fast the Mangler seemed to be going Kaz wouldn't have had long to wait to find out it wasn't him. I'd call it criminally negligent to bet these women's lives that you aren't the Mangler and stay on the streets. Speaking of how fast the Mangler was killing women I got the feeling that his murder spree hadn't started all that long before the movie picks up. But presumably Charles has been a pozatski since he was a teenager like Kaz. So what was the inciting incident that got the Mangler going?

Fezziwig Incidentally ... in Rocky, at one point you can see Rocky and Adrienne sitting around watching A Christmas Carol on TV.

That’s quite the backstory! Careful, you’re dangerously close to making the plot coherent!

This is why I didn't by the ruse that Kaz was the killer. Why would he just start killing now despite being a lust demon for a good ten years or so. Seems weird for the character to finally snap this late. As to why Charles snapped, we don't know how long he'd been a pozatski. He could have met Bibi later in life and she was the one person that understood him and his weird hobbies. Seeing as her grandmother wouldn't let her get close to any boys she got as sexually frustrated as Charles and also developed weird hobbies. He meets her at the bar one night, and surprise she actually is interested. Not only is she interested but they have so much in common. It's a perfect match. Charles is over the moon and sees this as his chance to lose his V card. They go back to her place and start making out but turns out she still lives with her grandma. Charles is cursed and instead of fighting his demon he embraces it and that's why he's go more control over it and why the murders only just started happening.

Given her supposed track record and his history, how long do you give their relationship? I say 72 hours.

UPDATE!!! After this weeks mini the Minis + Movies + Episodes Total Runtime (or the MME runtime if you like) will be 35 days!!! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fNUxhVbJf9FOIHnE1yorJj383JS51T0cjF6XsaE8tA4/edit?usp=sharing

So the idea of a topic like this was brought up in a recent discussion that took place in a mini-ep where we realized that many of us have a love of comics, but our recommendations get lost to time in the middle of other discussions. So I figured why not go with the idea and start the topic. Basically it's about sharing a love of the comic medium and giving others ideas for series we may not have heard about or on the fence on for reading. Couple things: If it's a specific run of a series, like with a superhero, try your best to list the writer to make it easier to find Just give a brief pitch of what the series is about or why you like it, otherwise be sure to use the spoiler covering Since I'm now back at work a bit more, albeit still under a modified lockdown, I've been reading into my backlog of paperbacks and have really been lucky with some good series. DC Doomsday Clock - a fantastic blending of the mainstream DC universe and Alan Moore's Watchmen universe Mister Miracle by Tom King - very interesting blend of psychological look at a hero riddled with trauma/PTSD and having to deal with the fallout of his upbringing as the adopted son of Darkseid Marvel Spider-Man: Life Story - a Spider-Man tale with now sliding timeline, so Peter Parker is aging realistically and is dealing with real world events like the Vietnam War and other societal landmarks Image/Dark Horse/Etc. Deadly Class - solid high school story where the school specializes in creating the next generation of criminal and killers, where cliques are made of groups like the Yakuza and cartel rather than jocks and preps A Walk Through Hell - a dark psychological horror story involving two FBI agents who are forced to combat their sins and their ramifications while searching a new crime scene

I saw a baseball sized spider, it was terrifying, then I saw a spider sized baseball; equally terrifying.

I LOVE this movie. I know parts of it don't hold up but I'm hard pressed to remember exactly which ones. Oh, I guess the cheap homophobic jokes are a turn off, and some of the dialogue is too corny to be funny, but by god, does that part with the milkmen disguises bring me right back on board. My favorite fun fact is that Mr. T left partway through filming and they had to get a fake T.

Casting my vote for this turd

Yeah, there are big collections of Xaime's stuff out there called Locas and Locas II as well but I think those are out of print. If you can find it, the bros also worked on a miniseries of Dean Motter's Mister X that was pretty good.

M. Night We're Gonna Party Like It's Shyamalanty-nine!

If twisted metal for PlayStation was a movie. The film revolves around the story of a man called Jensen "Jason Statham" who "a driver in his immatured life" lives with his wife and daughter and works hard to make both ends meet. He is falsely accused of his wife's murder and deported to prison for life sentence. In that prison the warden called Henessey "JoanAllen" holds a death contest between prison inmates through a race and broadcast it live(online) to its viewers "those who subscribes for a little fee".Jensen is given the place of Frankenstein "a previous driver who is loved by the audience but is killed in the race". Jensen agrees to race in order to gain his freedom which is offered by the warden herself. He takes part in the race but during the game learns the truth that Henessey killed his wife in order to bring him to the race as Frankenstein so that she could continue her evil game. Jensen when became aware of the fact decided to escape from it and succeeds in escaping with his one of his inmate by developing a plan.

I dunno, this IS an 80s movie. He could have become a wolf of Wall Street and fit right in!

That’s what he claims. We’ll see....(in our imaginations, at least)

I know it won't be for everyone, but this is straight up one of my favorite Musicals. It could be because I was shown it in history class at an impressionable age, but it really hits a lot of sweet spots for me.

Ha! Yes I think I am! Either that, or it's because I started watching Cats last night, and I stopped at "Gus the Theater Cat." Probably a combo of the two To your other point, Kaz doesn't seem to have much control over his lasciviousness. The demon makes him leer, cat call, and goose women uncontrollably. I don't think there's any way he's going to be hired if he's constantly ogling his co-workers. He has Human Resources Violator written all over him.

Are you now confusing this movie with Boyfriend School? And I would say the homelessness can definitely be attributed to him. There’s nothing about becoming a demon when you’re horny that should prevent you from being able to get a good job and being able to afford a place to live.

But none of those character traits are Gus fault, right? I have to hand it to a Rom-Com that’s willing to play the game on Hard Mode.

Shit... I forgot that was a straight up thief as well. Seriously, between the criminal ways, the lust demon, the homelessness and the constant sexualization of women, why are we suppose to like this guy?

I’m a scat man. And by “scat” I mean animal feces. Skibbity be bop dip dap. I love shit.