Doors closed, lights out, and lights off … this spin-tingling tale that became the cornerstone of The Conjuring 3, and a real-lie murder that started with an exorcism. True Crime Recaps: Exorcism Meets the Paranormal: David Glatzel’s Scary Story, Youtube 14.48, 2023
In 1980 19-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Debbie Glatzel find a great house to rent near Brookfield, Connecticut. ibid.
Debbie’s youngest brother, 11-year-old David Galtzel, is alone in the bedroom when something pushes him on to a waterbed the previous tenants left behind. Then he sees this something – it’s an old man in jeans and a plaid shirt ripped at the elbow, and he looks at David and says, Beware! ibid.
When the old man appears to David again he looks different. ibid.
Mysteries cuts and scratches appear across his [David] body. ibid.
Talking dinosaurs aside, is there a rational explanation for the way David’s acting? ibid.
After that [exorcism] David seems to get better and Arnie, well Arnie gets weird. ibid.
Alan’s [Bono] death … It was the devil that made Arnie do it …. Arnie … pulls out a 5-inch pocket knife and he stabs Alan in the chest 20 times. ibid.
In 1981 satanic panic was at an all-time high. ibid.
Defense: Arnie taunted the devil by inviting him into his body. ibid.
A verdict: Guilty of manslaughter … Arnie gets 10 to 20 years … but he gets out after 5 for good behaviour. ibid.
In the dead of night on a moonless Halloween a group of adventurous friends decide to test their courage by visiting the infamous Bunny Man Bridge in Clifton, Virginia. True Crime Recaps: What Draws Thousands of Visitors to Clifton, Virginia, Each Year? Youtube 6.44, 2023
A bone-chilling laugh echoes through the night making everyone’s blood run cold, and out of the darkness a figure emerges. It’s the Bunny Man. He’s dressed in tattered bloodstained bunny fur clutching an axe in his gloved hand. He stares at them with lifeless hollow eyes, his furry bloody ears smeared with blood and grime. The friends freeze in fear. They can’t move a muscle. The Bunny Man raised his axe, and in one swift motion, he swings it down but it passes right through them. ibid.
Clifton, Virginia, hosts thousands of visitors during spooky season. ibid.
It’s like a black shadow that forms a hood. Amityville: An Origin Story I, 1976 news report, BBC 2024
Hordes of flies that would appear in two rooms. ibid. Mrs Lutz TV interview
The true tragedy of really what happened: I lost a whole family in one night. ibid. woman
A young man murdered in cold blood, his father, mother, four brothers and sisters, because voices told him to do it. ibid. news report
November 13th 1974 3 a.m. There’s one person alive: Ronnie DeFeo, the sole surviving son. Amityville: An Origin Story II, reporter
He did admit he hated his father and mother. ibid. rozzer
This is as close to hell as I ever get. Amityville: An Origin Story III, woman
George and Kathy [Lutz], whatever happened to them in the house, they left all their furnishings, all their clothing, everything in the house and just ran. ibid. family friend
The Exorcist: $193 million original release. ibid.
Someone is trying to cash in. ibid. house visitor
The Amityville horror or the Amityville hoax. ibid. TV reporter
I think it was just a concrete wall painted red. Amityville: An Origin Story IV, house visitor
George became obsessed with this money-making venture. ibid. son
Hi. Do you like being afraid? Fed up with order and harmony and the world all making sense and being the right way up, want a lot of sudden noises and horror and obscenity? Try modern art. Matthew Collings, This is Modern Art II: Shock! Horror! Channel 4 1999
Modern art is obscure, it’s elegant, it’s strange, it’s interesting, but more and more it’s shocking … The grim-stream has become the mainstream, and most people think shocks are pretty much all that modern art ever was. ibid.
Of course you want to see disgusting sex mutant children and cans of artist’s shit and rotting cows’ heads. ibid.
Madrid: This is where the Spanish artist, Francisco Goya, lived and worked. He was an artists of the Enlightenment but he lived through an appalling war. The result was the first big shock art of the modern era. ibid.
The real father of modern art … Goya: the father of shocks. ibid.
They [pictures] seems to mirror from two centuries ago the weirdness and randomness and blackness of the world we live in. ibid.
Damien Hurst’s shark seems at home with Goya, just swimming in a different direction … Now it’s an icon. ibid.
How blank can you get? Art asks. How shockingly vivid and vile can you be? ibid.
Sarah Lucas: I like the shock of this artist because she had the idea of trying to put feelings back into alienated modern art. ibid.
Tracey Emin: Real shocks and staged shocks … Britain’s best known young British artist behaving badly: here she is plunging a polite modern art chat show into chaotic darkness. ibid.
Or her painful autobiographic subject matter of harrowing abortions, teenage rape, and broken-up tortured love affairs. ibid.
Edvard Munch: The Scream. ibid.
Francis Bacon: Britain’s best-known artist of frightful horrors … He was always completely outside the official modern art story. ibid.
He’s just goes straight for it – the big hits one after another. ibid.
The spooky world of Gilbert & George. This Morecambe and Wise of existentialism, alienated middle-aged visionary gay guys imitating repressed 1930s bank managers who call themselves living sculptures and who have made their nutty image permanently identifiable with the sites and atmosphere of London’s East End began their act 30 years ago. ibid.
Gilbert & George chose annoyance as their main material. They had real lives before but from now on they would always be artificial – because it was more real. Their whole lives would be art even when they were drunk which was every day on gin. Everything they did they called a sculpture. Sculpture included singing or falling over but also taking photographs and writing and making up slogans. ibid.
More America: It’s a modern art road movie. ibid.
Jake & Dinos Chapman: The stars are two actresses, and a third participant – a disembodied head with a penis nose. ibid.
The Chapmans’ film is an offshoot from the works they are notorious for – their children’s mannequins, hyper realistic, hyper horrible. ibid.
It wasn’t just a search for rare plants, was it, John? The Abominable Snowman 1957 starring Forrest Tucker & Peter Cushing & Maureen Connell & Robert Brown & Michael Brill & Arnold Marie & Wolfe Morris & Anthony Chinn et al, director Val Guest, her to him
We’re going to find that creature they call the Yeti. ibid. Tom Friend
John Rollason: It’s like the canine tooth of a ape, say a gorilla. ibid.
Tom Friend: But three times as big. ibid.
This animal you only imagine to exist. ibid. The Lama
You’re nothing but a cheap fairground trickster! ibid. Rollason to Friend
They came at me. The two of them. ibid. Ed
Listen, there’s a warning. It’s strong, intelligent. It may have powers we haven’t even developed. It might have inherited the Earth. ibid. Rollason to Friend
Friend: Ed!
Rollason: He’s dead. ibid.
It isn’t what’s out there that’s dangerous as much as what’s in us. ibid. Rollason to Friend
‘Hammer was successful because of a certain alchemy and a certain magic.’ Hammer: Heroes, Legends & Monsters, Sky Arts 2024
‘Hammer Films gave us this amazing brand of spooky castles and vampire.’ ibid.
A small British film studio born in the 1930s came to define the whole genre of horror cinema. ibid.
This is the story of the heroes, legends and monsters of Hammer. ibid.
‘We started to a make a series of radio-orientated characters.’ ibid. Hammer man