My Halloween gift to you.

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I’ve read a lot of Stephen King’s books, but Misery is the one that my eyes burned through in less than 24 hours. The day went by in a white-knuckled blur as I carried the book from bed to armchair to kitchen table to toilet to armchair (etc) until I was slamming the back cover shut. Annie Wilkes terrified me in ways I’d never been scared before, because Annie Wilkes felt REAL.

I’ve been obsessed with watching video essays ever since I got turned onto thenerdwriter1’s work, so this is my first stab at digging into that world. I've found an unexpected thrill in writing via editing. Trying to craft a narrative or argument with mostly outside sources wound up feeling surprisingly liberating. (Except for the part where I had to venture to the dark side of the internet and watch most of the Nightmare on Elm’s Street/Friday the 13th/Halloween/Texas Chainsaw Massacre kills to try to find footage that I thought fit with my aesthetic. I felt like I was trapped in an Antonin Artaud play.)
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Nathan Wellman - Performer, Writer, Director, Editor (@LightningWOW)
Phoebe Kuhlman - Hair Monster, Camera operator

With special thanks to David Haverty and Devon Kenneth Lee for editing advice. Premiere Pro has proven to be a teasing vixen which confounds me at every turn.

Sources:

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Working with the best. Fo free.)

Misery (1990)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Saw (2004)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Halloween (1978)
Nightmare on Elm's Street (1984)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
The Exorcist (1973)


Happy Halloween, y'all