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Who You Gonna Call?: Villains Profile: The Grundel
October 5, 2026 in Blogs
We are now looking at our second villain from the Ghostbusters cartoons. The Grundel is one of the creepiest creatures I’ve seen from this franchise and it honestly it comes down to simplicity.  The Grundel is a creature that is best described as a metaphor for a child groomer/predator.  It’s on the nose yes but that is truly what he is.  Even down to his design and how he makes himself known to naughty children. The fact that he wishes to lure children away from their families and turn them into Grundels is horrifying as he wishes to strip these children of their identity and make them a clone of him.
The Grundel is the only villain to appear in the sequel series, Extreme Ghostbusters and the sequel show makes him much darker than his original appearance. His appearance in The Real Ghostbusters while good, the story comes off as more of a PSA special in how it is presented and that in a sense makes him less threatening than he should be. Whereas Extreme Ghostbusters realized how threatening a creature like The Grundel could truly be and tapped into that to make him such a horrifying villain.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Dean Hardscrabble (Monsters University)
October 4, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
This second entry into our look at antagonists of the Monsters universe is interesting as we come to Dean Hardscrabble. This is a tricky one and I waffled back and forth on whether or not to cover as she’s more an antagonist than a villain.  Not every villain is an antagonist and not every antagonist is a villain. Having said that, I did cover Anxiety from Inside Out 2 a few years back and she is more an antagonist than villain. Yet, I would argue that she acts in a more villainous manner than Hardscrabble.
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Monstrous Musicals: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
October 3, 2026 in Blogs
We’ve now looked at the two original productions of The Rocky Horror Show and now we are looking at The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is obviously a case where the movie eclipsed the source material.  Whenever people think of Rocky Horror, it’s the movie that comes to mind.  The movie has endured for over fifty years and every year a new crop of weirdos find their home at the Frankenstein Place.
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Monstrous Musicals: The Rocky Horror Show (Original Roxy Cast Recording)
October 2, 2026 in Blogs
We now are at our second production of Rocky Horror and it’s first in the States. Stateside, the first U.S. production of Rocky Horror was at the Roxy a year after it opened in London.  The Roxy production only lasted for nine months but in that time, it had already built up quite a fan base. This is when you were slowly starting to see the chokehold that Rocky Horror could have on people.
 From what I understand however, many of the creatives that worked on Rocky Horror were not happy with this production s it seemed to go against what they wanted the show to be. With that outta the way, let’s take a gander at the songs.
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Monstrous Musicals: The Rocky Horror Show (Original London Cast Recording)
October 1, 2026 in Blogs
Monstrous Musicals started as a celebration as musicals that were fun for the Halloween season and it still is that and to many, the ultimate musical for this season is Rocky Horror. However, it is more than just that. Rocky Horror whether it be the movie or any of the stage productions gave a home to those people who felt they never belonged in what the so called polite society has set up for us. If we don’t align with what they expect, we are tossed to the side. Â
In August of this year in a brutal week of triple deaths, we lost the man so many saw as the one who heralded in the weirdos and gave them a home when Tim Curry passed away.  So this year for Monstrous Musicals, we are going to the Frankenstein Place.
I had already planned on doing a Rocky Horror event this year long before Curry’s passing as last year marked the 50th anniversary of the movie and there is a new revival currently running on Broadway. However with Curry’s passing, this has taken on so much more meaning. I listened to his performance of I’m Going Home from the movie three times in a row the day the news broke of his death and silently cried at work.  For some reason, the news of his death was the one that broke me that week. Tim Curry is an icon who can never be forgotten. If you know my favorite series, Villains Profile, you’ll know that I’ve covered three of his villainous roles in the past and I’m sure that I will cover many more including his most iconic role this year.
As I said Rocky Horror is something that has been with this series since its inception as I looked at the movie the very first year I did this event and I will be doing that again. I also looked at the godawful Fox remake where Curry played The Criminologist. I believe that was one of his live action roles.  I do know he was getting back into voice acting before his passing and will appear in the Netflix remake of Barbie in the Nutcracker after this year. Tim Curry is an actor who had so many different roles that meant so much for so many different fandoms and generations, he was beloved by musical fans, Muppets fans, and Barbie fans, and Scooby-Doo fans just to name a few.  Knowing that he was loved so much for these various roles makes knowing that he’s gone so very difficult to process.
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Who You Gonna Call: Villains Profile: The Boogieman
September 30, 2026 in Blogs
Everyone is afraid of something, that is just a fact. No matter how much people pretend they aren’t afraid, fear is an inevitability. Fear is part of life and we need fear as a way to show how strong we are. Why am I bringing this all up?  What is one of the biggest childhood fears, the boogeyman.
The Boogeyman is one of the USA’s creatures of terror. Through looking at places online, there doesn’t seem to be one set origin for the boogeyman. At best he is a creature of no form and usually takes n appearance meant to scare children. And much like the original Brothers Grimm fairy tales, he was meant to make children behave. Somehow adaptions of him have lost that element overtime.
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Villains Profile: Carrigan Crittenden (Casper (1995))
September 29, 2026 in Blogs
Casper The Friendly Ghost while not a beloved character in today’s world was at one time a pretty big name. He debuted in shorts in 1945 titled The Friendly Ghost. Starting in the fifties, Casper would be one of the stars of Harvey Comics alongside Richie Rich.
Harvey Comics would develop many things associate we with Casper to this day. While there have been many various takes on Casper, I’m going back to the nineties as in 1995, a live action adaption of Casper was released to theaters and for people of a certain age, it is a beloved cult classic. It may not be on the level of The Addams Family movies I looked at last year but for what it is, it’s a quaint little movie with a lot of charm.
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A Look at Disney Halloween: Villains Profile: Johnny Worthington III (Monsters University/ Monsters At Work)
September 28, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Ah Halloween time, one of my favorite times of the year to blog. And yes I am returning to looking at Disney villains (I know I really only look at villains nowadays but it brings me the most enjoyment). As you’ll know from past from Villains entries, I typically either stick to a theme or villains of a franchise. Well, you’re getting the latter this year with not one Pixar series, I’ve wanted to cover and there’ll be another more traditional Halloween esque series.  Starting today, I’m looking at the villains of the Monsters Inc. franchise. This something I’ve wanted to cover for a while as the first Monsters Inc has two of the best Pixar villains. Now I’d typically look at villains in a franchise in release order but considering that the second Monsters movie is a prequel, I’ll be starting there while at the same time skipping to the Disney+ sequel series as an antagonist from MU returns in Monsters At Work as a more sinister version of himself.
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Villains Profile: Reverend Mother/Clarissa Cabot (Paddington in Peru)
July 13, 2026 in Blogs
Alas we are at our final Paddington villain of the series and I’m kinda sad about that as it has been fun looking at these villains. Something I noticed while working on entry for Cabot is how the villains of the third movie in many ways share a lot of similarities to the villains from 1 & 2.  Like Phoenix, both Cabot and Reverend Mother are obsessed with treasure. The comparison to Millicent is a bit harder to pinpoint though as we will see her comeuppance is almost a beat for beat carbon copy of Millicent’s comeuppance. Â
Reverend Mother is an interesting villain in how everything even down to her identity is a farce. This is something that Mrs. Bird even points out as Reverend Mother gets e of the most famous lines about God wrong.  Everything about her persona is farcical and we will discuss this more when looking at her personality.
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Villains Profile: Hunter Cabot (Paddington in Peru)
July 8, 2026 in Blogs
We’ve now reached our second to last villain as of now in the Paddington film series. I do not know if there are plans for a fourth one but in some ways I hope not. Also this third movie feels the most different. I’ve mentioned how Paddington as a character and a series is a celebration of London and its culture, that is lost somewhat in this third movie as we move the location from London to Peru.  Now, I get this as Paddington is an immigrant and Peru is his original home.
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Villains Profile: Phoenix Buchanan (Paddington 2)
July 1, 2026 in Blogs
Paddington as a series is a celebration of London and it’s culture. And one of the biggest cultural touchstones of London is its theatre scene, the West End. The West End much like our Broadway is a celebration of stage. The theatre scene might be different there based on the type of shows they embrace versus what Broadway embraces.
Yet at the same time, both of these theatre scenes can chew up actors and spit them back out as washed has been that are only whispers to generations that never got the chance to see them preform onstage. This is what we get with the villain of Paddington 2, a sequel that is often argued to be the best in the trilogy and one of the best movies made. Again much like Nicole Kidman as Millicent Clyde in the original movie, Hugh Grant as Phoenix Buchanan is such a delicious camp villain that makes this movie so fun.
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Villains Profile: Millicent Clyde (Paddington)
June 29, 2026 in Blogs
Oh it’s good to be back to blogging.  I know I’ve abandoned my Cars villains series but heh. Anyways, I was just recently in London and I fell in love with that city. I’d love to go back there one day. One of the biggest things I noticed about the city is they love Paddington Bear.
 Kinda in the same way that America loves Superman.  Now, I know Paddington has never been as popular stateside but he’s always been something of a critical darling.  His film trilogy imo is on the same level of the first three Toy Story movies.
I’ll be honest and say that I’m Paddington brained due to my trip and the excitement of the musical coming to Broadway. Returning to what I was saying the Paddington trilogy is an interesting case where it is one of the few live action films based on a classic children’s character that is beloved. The two Peter Rabbit movies while having positive reception are nowhere near as beloved as the trilogy starring the marmalade loving Peruvian bear. Or comparing it to a movie based on a classic character I love, the 2021 Clifford movie is just not great.
