{"id":2141,"date":"2008-12-22T07:59:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2008-12-22T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T14:59:17","slug":"creepy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/santaclaws-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Claws\" title=\"Santa Claws\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I&#8217;m a bit late to the party on this one, but I just found it yesterday.*  Fortunately, it&#8217;ll be fun to play catch-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creepychristmas.net\/\">Creepy Christmas<\/a> is a site featuring short films by indie fright directors like Larry Fessenden, Voltaire, Sara Driver, and David Goldin.  They&#8217;re all inspired by a huge holiday diorama built by Beck Underwood, and allow you to &#8220;peer into the secret, unsettling world hidden behind the doors and windows of traditional Christmas dioramas.&#8221;  It&#8217;s kind of like a big advent calendar only instead of candy you get blood.<\/p>\n<p>A new film is premiering every day from December 1st to the 25th; you can go to the calendar page to view past entries.  (I&#8217;d link directly to it, but the navigation is all Flash.  Boo, hiss.)  They&#8217;ve also got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/creepyxmas\">shop<\/a> featuring ornaments decorated with creepy dolls, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glasseyepix.com\/adventures\/dolls.html\">purchase<\/a> all of the films on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an antidote to warm-and-fuzzy holiday feelings, this oughta do it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>*I hate stumbling upon seasonal countdown features when they&#8217;re nearly over.  I didn&#8217;t find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/\">Gothtober<\/a> until October 30.  Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late to the party on this one, but I just found it yesterday.* Fortunately, it&#8217;ll be fun to play catch-up. Creepy Christmas is a site featuring short films by indie fright directors like Larry Fessenden, Voltaire, Sara Driver, and David Goldin. They&#8217;re all inspired by a huge holiday diorama built by Beck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}