Jerry Lee Lewis Scares Us!

Dick Miller, not Dick Smith.  RIP, Mr. Futterman.

Here is Dick Smith, applying makeup to Jonathan Frid to age-ify him on Dark Shadows and House of Dark Shadows:

Ryan at the piano.

Yeah, so the Israel Keyes video is on youtube.  It's really disturbing so I'm not going to put it here.  You can go find it yourselves, you sick mohfohs.  (I DID NOT SEND IT TO KATYA!  SHE IS MAKING UP MADE UP THINGS!!!)

Here's the Ted Bundy television movie I remember from my childhood.  Mark Harmon ... huh!  Who'da thunk.

Oh my god!  My memory was real!!!!!  HERE'S THE BODY IN THE SNOW!

The real Jerry Lee Lewis, and ...

...Dennis Quaid, arguably hotter than the real deal.  He's got crazy face in that picture, though, so ...

...Dennis Quaid how I remember him as a child in Innerspace, when I thought he was hotty hot hot.  And oh yeah!  He was the lead in ...

... Jaws 3 (otherwise known as Jaws 3-D because the 80s).

Ah, what the hell. Here's the most amazing moment from Jaws 3:

Oh, you should watch it too:

There.  Don't you feel better now?

Dreamgirls!!!!

The Pied Piper of Lost Souls.

Jerry Lee and his 13 year old cousin, Myra Gale Brown.

Noners as Myra Gale Brown in Great Balls of Fire.

Shawn Stephens on her wedding day to the Killer.  (Um.  His nickname.  Not his alleged homicidal activities.)

Follow this link to read the excellent article about Jerry Lee Lewis and Shawn Stephens from Richard Ben Cramer at Rolling Stone.

Horror in the Daylight Scares Us

 I teach a film studies unit for my Intermediate Theatre class, and this year I replaced The Dark Knight, which I had grown excruciatingly exhausted teaching, with Jaws, which I never get tired of ... anything.  And while I was teaching it, I realized how much of it follows the "horror in the daylight" trope that Katya and I have spent much time discussing, and that Davey loves so much.  (Someday Katya and I will do an episode on the entire Jaws quadrology -- which is totally a word I just now invented and plan to use forevermore -- all four of 'em ... even Jaws:  The Revenge.  Especially Jaws:  The Revenge.)  It's bad enough that something horrible lurks beneath the surface of a place we treat as a recreational toy, waiting to explode from the water and chomp us to death in a horrible fountain of our own blood, but for it to happen in broad daylight, when we can actually see, and should be able to defend ourselves ...?  Unacceptable.

I started considering this post when I found this "deleted" image from an earlier trial of the Alex Kintner death scene (you know, the poor kid who finds himself on the wrong end of the shark's serrated titular teeth).  Now, I love me the original scene (you can see it in gif format below), but there is something really, truly horrible about the maw of this leviathan beast just looming over doomed little Alex and his soon-to-be-tattered yellow raft. 

In broad daylight.

Ohmygod.  You can totally see his awful little eye and the top of his snout.

The schlub in the pond, otherwise known as "the estuary victim."  The first time we get a pretty good look at the shark, and it's unnerving as hell.