InstaPunk Returns

  A good catch by my wife is what started all this. As is our usual habit, we were watching something on TV older than the foul-mouthed, stunt-casted contemporary dreck when it rolled over into another older show called Grimm . I had heard of the series, maybe even seen some of it when it ran originally, and so we gave it a go. In the opening sequence our protagonist sees a young blonde on the sidewalk and as he watches her pretty face changes momentarily into a twisted monster version of her. Then it disappears and she goes to her car and drives away. That’s the premise of a show that ran for six years starting in 2011. The man who sees the transformation is, unbeknownst to him, a descendant of the famous Brothers Grimm who hunted down the monsters found in fairy tales. Here’s the scene I was able to capture later: Clumsy screen grab. Sorry. Don’t tell anybody. When the blonde woman did her quick change and vanishing act, my wife laughed and said, “Who knew that Pam Bondi started ...

  If I’m lucky I’ll still be able to sneak this post in on April 1st. I wasn’t even going to write it until I saw the date this morning. The content had been amassed, but I’d been thinking in terms of fleas and elephant guns and was going to give it a pass, but here we are… Told you before that I keep the TV on all night to bore me to drone me to sleep or drone me back to sleep when I wake up with some harebrained idea in the dark. One of my reliables is a weird ROKU channel called Screambox, which takes pride in showing horror movies that are really gory and edgy in terms of their, uh, inspiration. How I finally saw Re-Animator and the Puppet Master series. Low budget flicks with a cult following but often not easily found on other streaming services. Not recommended films even if they are buried in the searchable archives. Screambox is kind of a Zuckerberg ideal, however, featuring a neo-Victorian prudery that is content to show you decapitations in closeup but blurs offending pa...