Just a phone camera. A little older. I keep the lens clean and take about a 1000 pictures and pick out the best few

On the other side of the spike wall in an inner moat. I presume the inner spikes help trap people and creates a kill zone. Also arranging spikes in an X pattern is simple to produce.

No, but it was a good suggestion. I had a whole cache of photos to sort through, and just happened to get to the armor before I saw the comment.

Focused.

I went to Pamela’s Diner and it was super underwhelming.

It was a little bit underwhelming. It was clear the lion’s share of money went the the U.S. Civil War displays, which were decent. From there onward the displays decreased in quality and size. It was obvious this was an overgrown Civil War museum that was trying to cover all eras. The display cards in Civil War exhibits were often lengthy and thorough, but by the modern era there was maybe a single sentence for most items.

The supposed modern displays were showing stuff from 2005 at the latest, and there were small mistakes or mistake-by-implication in the display cards.

I actually laughed when I noticed it in person.

I tried to go to the Andy Warhol museum as well todau, but there was some sort of sportball event happening which just devastated the parking situation.

The Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

The entire experience was alright, though a bit underwhelming. The strength in the displays was their US Civil War content, which was understandably focused on highlighting Pennsylvania’s contributions.

After the Civil War, everything between then and modern conflicts all had much more compact displays comparatively. I’m currently sorting through photos. The lighting in the museum created a lot of reflections that made taking good photos a challenge.

Thank you. This is always in the list of handyman hacks, and using a rubberband has never worked for me either. I’m convinced 90% of the people recommending it are just repeating what they’ve heard and haven’t actually tried it.

Thinkin’ 'bout them beans.

Some productions are always trying to ice skate uphill.

I have a hard time categorizing Stuart Gordon movies as horror (I suppose technically that’s where they end up). They have horror trappings, but everything is so theatrical that it doesn’t really scan as scary. It’s not a failing either but more like the intentional tone.

The closet modern analog would be maybe Slither? It’s incredibly gross and has concepts that would be horrific to experience, but I’m so removed as an audience member that it’s really just more fun being grossed out.

The Shining is certainly a flavor of horror. I think part of the problem of trying to make a list where the only criteria is horror sweeps up such a broad array of movies. Like Hostel, From Beyond, Alien, and Silence of the Lambs are all equally in the same bucket, which doesn’t seem right.

There are a lot of way to sort the distinctions, but The Shining is deserving of a slot somewhere in the realm of supernatural horror. It relies on creepy atmosphere and a descent into isolation with audience along with the characters, more than blood splattering, or some kind existential question to shake the audience. It is, at its core, a haunted house movie.

Movies that actually left me feeling unnerved:

The Witch

Bone Tomahawk

The Babadook

XTRO

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Top “fun” or interesting but not haunting horror movies:

Alien

The Thing

Friday The 13th Part 6

Evil Dead 2

House (1985)

(A lot of runner ups in the fun category, including basically all of the Jeffery Combs catalog, but I’m not even sure those can be considered “horror” instead of comedy with horror trappings. Similar to Dead Heat and the like.)

I’m going to level with you. I watched Madam Web. It wasn’t great and it had a lot of “wait what?” moments, but it still was glued together enough as a movie not to be miserable. I set my expectations center of the earth low, and was pleasantly surprised.