Blade Runner By Ridley Scott.

True scary story:

In 1800s London, a surgeon named Robert Liston became somewhat of a local celebrity through his use of brute force and speed when performing operations, skills that were vital to the survival of a patient before anesthesia was discovered. Liston could remove your leg in less than 30 seconds and to keep both his hands free, he would hold the bloody knife between his teeth while working (tasty).

But just because Liston was good didn't mean he was perfect. One time, he accidentally sliced off his patient's bollock along with the leg he was amputating. Legends say his biggest mess up though happened when he worked so quickly, he cut off three of his assistant's fingers and while switching blades sliced through a spectator's coat. Both the assistant and the patient later died of gangrene and the unfortunate bystander died on the spot from fright. If the stories are true, that would mean this is the only surgery in history with reported 300% fatality rate.

So yeah, this surgeon killed three people in one operation.

Connection/Fate

The Eternals (Volume 1) #10.

"Mother!"

Mythic stories fall into several categories. There are sagas, epics, and fantasy stories called "märchen." These stories depend on something difficult for us to conceive these days: Simplicity or the "Logic of the Fairy Tale." In other words: things are just what they are, because that’s just the way they are.

These stories frequently examine or teach a moral lesson, exalting it or exposing a particular flaw. If the story is a parable or doctrinal, one of its goals is to delineate the characters as "types" in order to illustrate this basic lesson, characters which make the story whole and who are also contained by it. The lives of these "types" can and must have links with the past and the future but their role ends with the story.

In a magic story, the flow is more important than the logic. Man invented monsters to explain the entire universe (Norse and Greek mythology, for example). Once man began to live in an organized way, with a "social contract," an abyss was opened up between his instincts and his thoughts, and monsters started to REPRESENT another universe altogether: man's inner universe. The pagan prefigures the social and offers us a glimpse of the deepest reaches of man's soul, articulating a primordial, savage universe, populated by elves, fauns, ogres, faeries, trolls, and demons.

Artwork for paperback cover of "Death Dealer Book 1: Prisoner of the Horned Helmet" by Frank Frazetta.

Apparently, the ancient Greeks had their own take on the werewolf legend.

On the slopes of Mount Lykaion, worshipers of Zeus-Lykaois (Zeus-the-Wolf) would conduct a ritual in his honor. A ritual that supposedly involved cannibalism and human sacrifice. Inspired by the well-known myth where King Lycaon kills his own son Nyctimus and tries to trick Zeus into eating his flesh only to be found out and transformed into a wolf, the ritual attendance would gather once every nine years in the dead of night and make their sacrifice consisting of a human volunteer and an animal. And after the deed was done, a portion of the volunteer's intestine would be mixed with the animal's entrails. The cult members would then each take a morsel of meat and whoever wound up eating the human flesh was transformed into a wolf.

The kicker is they would be stuck in their wolf form for nine years and the only way to be transformed back would be to abstain from eating human flesh that entire time. Not an easy task for a wolf.

Our tour begins before we even enter the Mansion itself in the Magic Kingdom, where you can see some of our guests in their corruptible...mortal...busts.

Pictured here, we have the Dread Family. Uncle Jacob Dread, Bertie Dread, Aunt Florence McGriffin Dread, Wellington and Forsythia Dread, and Cousin Maude (Dread, I'm assuming).

They were a family of six who once inhabited the manor before one day they all met their gruesome fate at each other's hands. Uncle Jacob was poisoned by Bertie for his wealth. Who was then shot dead by Florence as an act of revenge. Who was then smothered by bird seed by Forsythia and Wellington, who were then killed in their sleep with a mallet…by Cousin Maude. Who, as the sole surviving member of the Dread Family, burned to death because she liked to use matches in her hair instead of hairpins (really amazing thinking there Cousin Maude…🙄). And now, the Dread Family is no more and haunt the halls of the esteemed mansion.

Dune (aka Dune: Part One) by Denis Villeneuve.

The first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert.

I urge you to see this movie.  

I loved it and admire it.

"Are video games a form of art?"

My answer to this age-old question? YES...

The official movie poster for "Fire and Ice" (1983 film directed by Ralph Bakshi) by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta.