SUNDAY CHALLENGE

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Sunday challenge time! Your prompt for this week is:

"This is no dream."

Eerie, Indiana Arc Numbers Challenge

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It's the sixth of the month, and per deifire's brilliant suggestion during the 2017 Advent Challenge, which gave us two awesome fics of exactly 666 words each, the aim here is to do exactly that: tell a story in 666 words.

Don't Push Pause Podcast on Darla

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She was in the biggest movies of her day, and her natural talent only showcased her range and depth for an actor’s craft. She’s Darla the Dog, and we pay tribute to her in Episode 38: The ‘Burbs (one of her finest performances).

I'm Just Like This on Eerie Indiana

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Sunday AMs are for waking up to quirky shows. Haven't seen an ep. of this since it was on. and I have to say, it is fucking fantastic. And dig this, ep. 2 has Darla.

RSKBMTS on Eerie Indiana

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Eerie Indiana kiedyś wydawało mi się lepszym i dłuższym serialem, a prawie skończyłam, zostanie mi Inny wymiar.

— Mion 🌺 (@RSKBMTS) October 6, 2019

AidanHalfTroll on Eerie Indiana

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💀⚰️🥀 #31FeralFrights 🥀⚰️💀

𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟱: 𝗧𝗩 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 (𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬)

Which old #horror TV shows did you enjoy? (Post-2000 video coming soon!) 📺 pic.twitter.com/lA9oCkKEbL

— Farrell the Feral 🎮 🎲 🕹️ 🎬 (@farrelltheferal) October 6, 2019

Eerie Indiana

— Aidan Half-Troll (@AidanHalfTroll) October 6, 2019

Omg! I'd forgotten about that show!!! Good one!

— Farrell the Feral 🎮 🎲 🕹️ 🎬 (@farrelltheferal) October 6, 2019

Good pull!

— Briarcastle🕹️ (@Briar_Plays) October 6, 2019

RebootThese on Eerie Indiana

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Reboot Eerie Indiana as a 10-part musical vlog series, featuring the voice-talent of the two sisters from Sister Sister.

— Reboot These (@RebootThese) October 6, 2019

Reddit on Eerie, Indiana/Are You Afraid of the Dark

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I spotted Zeebo the clown from Are You Afraid of the Dark in an episode of Eerie Indiana!

BoxOfficeProphets on the new Addams Family movie

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3. The Addams Family (October 11th)

Previously in glorious, ghoulish live action, The Addams Family have been enmeshed down into CGI animation, trapped behind the screen by thousands of tiny little hands (they'd like that description). The brood was created in 1938 and popularized in cartoons by by Charles Addams (no relation), and in their third big-screen film eighty one years later continue their understandable pre-occupation with death and the macabre, emburdened with a deeply piercing sense of black humour (in other words, theirs is a lifestyle we should all aspire to).

As with much of our pop culture, since their inception all those years ago the Family has not ever quite gone out of sight, having inspired not just the two previous theatrical films but also video games, a musical stage show, TV and video sequels, and at least four television series (evenly divided, two in live action and two animated, about one for every decade between the 1960s and '90s). An Addams Family pinball machine exists as well (you were about to ask).

The 1960s live action series so wildly popular that its presence helped set-up its future glories on the movie screen. The first film The Addams Family was one of the big winners of winter 1991, grossing $113m as a PG-13 alternative for families tired of weeping to Beauty & The Beast. The sequel, set by Thanksgiving and released on it in 1993, divided the spoils about in half ($48m). These films along with the likes of Batman Returns (1992) and Casper (1995) and the show Eerie, Indiana established the early 1990s time period as a haven of the dark, hyperstylish, wittily macabre for then-children such as myself.

As household heads Morticia and Gomez Addams, the films starred Angelica Juston in what is perhaps still her signature role, and Raúl Juliá, a witty and charismatic star of the 1980s and early 1990s who died in 1994, less than twelve months after the release of Addams Family Values. Christopher Lloyd delivered another remarkable character performance as Uncle Fester, festooned under creaky, nasty whitemask makeup (as he was, in fact, for much of of the screen time of his most famous character, Doc Brown. What does the man really look like?).

In 2019 in Addamsworld, Oscar Isaac branches into comedy in the Juliá role, and Huston is replaced by Charlize Theron (!), who doesn't look like anyone, ever, named "Morticia." In the 1990s, Christina Ricci had perhaps "her" signature role as their daughter Wednesday (damn, this was an iconic film). Now, she is Chloë Grace Moretz. Son Pugsley is voiced by Finn Wolfhard, in his third and what I can only assume second biggest film of the fall (doomed to fall in between It 2 and, oh boy, The Goldfinch). Nick Kroll is in the Lloyd role. And Bette Midler follows in the footsteps of Judith Malina and Carol Kane as the family's grandmother, an ancient crone they dug up somewhere cold.

The family must remain frozen in time forever, as do all iconic pop culture broods, with the parents trading cynical, detached black humour and the children never aging from their pre-occupations - Wednesday with death and poor Pugsley the subject of her experiments, which are never all the way lethal. The Addams have not had too much impact on pop culture since roughly 1998, when their television show ended (they died). Do they still have a hold on the imagination of children, and of their relatives? Do the names Gomez and Morticia Adams command that same sense of ghoulish recognition and admiration?

The film has the visual look of Coraline among other Laika films, or of some of the animation Tim Burton has helped spearhead (The Corpse Bride is a spiritual cousin). The live action Addamses indulged in make-up, special effects, and set design, with a bleak, black and white world of comedic horror pulp. In animation, the clan have now been made to look even more curvy and angular, with eyes black and sockets protruding further into your soul. The air is funereal. If there's sufficient critical accreditation, The Addams Family may wallow in atmosphere for three good weekends and plus. Perhaps they find death so fascinating because, after eighty one years up there in their mansion, waking up every evening just the same way, they know they'll never die.

Opening weekend: $28 million / Total gross: $90 million

Estella on Eerie Indiana

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They don't make em like this anymore.....

My sister and I saw Eerie Indiana when it was first screened on UK TV. We became instant fans of this funny quirky show. It's a rare kind of kids programme in that it is one that adults can enjoy. My sister and I were 13 or so when it was first aired, and now at almost 23 we're still huge fans! It was repeated a few years ago, and we made sure we recorded them all. They don't seem to have aged a bit, and certanley are not 'childish' at all. Omri Katz is just brilliant (come out of retirment Omri!!) and Justin Shenkarow and Jason Marsden are fab too. I recommend this to anyone, kid or adult. A gem that they just don't make anymore.....

Eerie, Indiana rewatch 2019: episode four, the Losers

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Hold on to your loose change, take a tight grip on your socks, and accept that your ball point pen caps are gone forever, because tonight we're taking a trip behind the numbers seven and eight dryers at the Eeriemat, and visiting the Bureau of Lost. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to watch... the Losers!

todayinscifi on Eerie Indiana

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First Broadcast in the US #OTD in 1991 "The Losers" - Eerie, Indiana

Marshall and Simon investigate a string of disappearances when Marshall's dad loses his briefcase...#scifi #sciencefiction #Television #drama #series #cancelled #fantasy #Onthisday #adventure #comedy pic.twitter.com/yhpw5W3Td7

— OTD in Scifi / Fantasy Film and Television (@todayinscifi) October 6, 2019