Fandom Promos

[galerian_ash]

Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing a little promoting? :D

We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. But by posting here you might be able to entice someone else to give it a try — or perhaps you'll even run into a fellow fan, who can't wait to read your coming fic.

Your promo can be long or short, and contain whatever you feel like. Want to post a couple of intriguing screencaps from a movie? Quote a few paragraphs from a book? Rec the best episode of an anime or a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character and/or pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!

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Dark and Stormy Night (Movie 2009)

[fleetsparrow]

You know those "old dark house" movies that were so popular in the 1930s? The ones with at least two murders, fast-talking reporters-cum-detectives, suspicious staff, and lots of comedy (plus a gorilla somewhere in the mix, because there's always a gorilla)?

This is an homage/parody of those movies.

(I say it's much more an homage than parody, despite parody being perfectly justified as its classification, as it's a very loving spoof of "those old dark house pictures".)

The plot is pretty standard: On the eve of a will-reading, the lawyer is murdered (along with several other people later on) and everyone is trapped in the house cut off from the outside world. There's a missing addendum to the will, a ghost, a 300-year-old witch's curse, The Phantom of Cavinder (the name of the estate), The Cavinder Strangler, secret passageways, some more murders, a psychic, mystery inheritors, and, of course, the gorilla.

It's one of my favorite movies of all time and pretty much nobody knows about it. Like, this is the kind of movie I put on to relax.

8 O'Clock Farraday and Billy Tuesday are dueling reporters vying for the scoop of the decade, who end up roping their taxi driver Happy Codburn into solving the mystery of the murders and missing addendum to the will. All Happy wants is the 35 cents 8 O'Clock owes him from the fare.

The patter is fast-paced and fun, the non-sequiturs are ridiculous and golden (the line "Feeding things will keep them alive!" can be surprisingly menacing with the correct delivery), and it's just a wild romp of fun.

It's available to purchase on Google Play (and probably others) in black and white. The DVD has the "special never-before-seen colorized version", which I prefer if only because the colors are so amazingly over-the-top yet very '30s. There's also a Blu-Ray version, I believe, but I think it's very expensive (they only released it through Kickstarter, so the resales are ridiculous). But the DVD isn't too expensive, like from Amazon or Shout! Factory if you want the colorized version. (Also, like, if this seems up your alley, just DM/PM(?? I come from twitter, sorry) me and I will absolutely hook you up because I just need more people to feel this with me.

I will end this wall of text to say, honestly, I just majorly ship 8 O'Clock/Billy/Happy and want a lot more adventures with the three of them.

Re: Dark and Stormy Night (Movie 2009)

[flo_nelja]

Oh, seems cool, thanks for the rec!