The 5 Boys Who NEVER CAME BACK!!! (Scares Us)

We're back, batches!  Follow along as Katya and I tackle the tragic tale of the 5 Boys Who Never Came Back ...

We start out the episode shouting out to our Suspiria episode ... check it out ...

Katya suggests that we use our episode about "The Lottery" to teach the children ...

We push my play (some more) ... (Click here to buy one of your very own!)

Someone needs to compile all our potential band names that we come up with for us.  That someone is not me, and probably not Katya either. #theimpericalbetters

Then, leading into our reader-chosen topic (shout out to Joanna!), we reference our episode on the Dyatlov Pass and the film adaptation we haven't seen ...

Huh.  It was giant glowing-eyed ice monsters all along.

All right; buckle up, kitty cats.  Here ... we ... go!!!

THE DISTURBING TALE OF THE 5 BOYS WHO NEVER CAME BACK ...

Follow this link to Strange Outdoors, a blog about "mysterious stories" (and this one qualifies ...) -- it has maps and photos and some videos that will shed a bit more light on the story for you.

Here's the link to the original story in the Washington Post.

The cover of the Night Creatures volume from The Enchanted World!

Rawhead and Bloody Bones.  This is the worst!

Black Annis, the hag who skins children!

Nadilla, the vampire ghoul!  This book was advertised  on television a lot when I was a child, and I vividly remember this particular illustration.  It's freaky as hell that she isn't even looking at him as she attacks him!

The Suspiria Remake Is Coming!

But it looks good, I promise.  Tilda appears especially disturbing.  Plus hair and fingers, fingers, fingers.

(And if you want some Suspiria background -- for y'nerves -- check out our episode discussing the ins and outs of dance school, iconography, and what it means to be in an undercover coven: click here.)

More About Why Suspiria Scares Us

Allow this post to accentuate your experience listening to Katya and me as we wax hilarious about the not-so-much-with-the-dancing ballerina witches and the exploits of the undercover coven (undercoven?) in Argento's Suspiria.

Let's start with the creepy-ass theme song by Goblin.  Check it out:

The stained glass that so impressed Katya.  With poor dead Pat.

Suzy by the irises.  I want to live in this room.

Why does this witch have to work in the kitchens?  Where'd she get that magical prism?  What's the deal with Joan Bennett's spooky nephew?  Plot points ... doesn't matter ... DOESN'T MATTER.

The girls in their makeshift dormitory.  Such red. All red.

More irises ("Turn the blue one!") and Joan "Madame Blanc" Bennett.

More Joan Bennett, looking amazing.

Check out the pins in Sarah's creepy dead eyes!

Witch stab!  (Look at those fingernails!)

Witch Stab, Part Deux.  Sayonara, Black Queen, Mother of Sighs!

WIIIIIIITCH!