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Villains Profile: Rameses
April 5, 2026 in Blogs
I promise I will get back to the Cars villains eventually. I’ll just need to rewatch the sequels, but I also wanted to branch out, and I think this is the risk DreamWorks villain I’m covering. Admittedly, I am not a religious person by any means. I’m not an atheist either, as I’m more agnostic, and I started questioning my beliefs and if there is truly a higher being when I had so many seizures during my high school days. That’s also when I got tired of people saying “God only sends us challenges he knows we can handle.” To me, that sounds like a load of bullshit.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Chick Hicks
February 3, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
It’s been a while since I’ve covered some Disney villains. Been getting that itch and I like to cover villains of franchises I’m a fan of around my birthday. Last year, we looked at two antagonists from the Inside Out franchise. Which to me is still the greatest thing Pixar has ever done. This year tho is kinda special as this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the first Cars movie. Oh sure back in the day, when those movies came out, they were considered the punching bag of Pixar. I’ve always enjoyed them (well 1 and 3 anyway). Now admittedly, the Cars villains aren’t as iconic as say a Sid or even a Hopper. Which is fine and tbh, the first Cars movie didn’t even really need a villain considering how little he was in the movie. I get the idea with Chick Hicks though as he is meant to serve as a contrast to Lighting McQueen and show this is how Lighting would’ve been if he hadn’t had his experience in Radiator Springs.
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Classic Christmas Villains Profile: Mr. Potter
December 4, 2025 in Blogs
I’ve made it no secret that I love covering villains. Villains are my favorite thing to cover and I love Christmas. It’s my favorite holiday, in the past I’ve covered Disney Christmas villains. To be honest, I am starting to run dry of Disney Christmas villains. So, I’ve decided to look at a classic Christmas villain. And we are perhaps starting with no more classic a movie than It’s a Wonderful Life. Not only is this movie considered one of the most beloved Christmas movies, it is often heralded as one of the greatest movies ever made. And with good reason, even so many years on from its release it holds up. This movie has been parodied by so many other franchises, the first time I remember seeing this parodied was by the Muppets (oof is that not a good Muppet movie).
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Death (MCU)
October 31, 2025 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Death comes for us all, we cannot escape death no matter how hard we try. Sure, we can try to prolong our life but at that point, we have to ask are we living on borrowed time?
This is what we see in Agatha All Along, a sequel series to WandaVision. Which as I have said time and again is my all time favorite MCU thing, I’ve rewatched that show three times. WandaVision is easily in my top ten of favorite television shows. Needless to say, I was amped o se a new series from the same creative team behind that show and I was also curious but apprehensive when I learned that this new series would focus on Agatha Harkness.
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Monstrous Musicals: Carrie: The Musical (2012)
October 30, 2025 in Blogs
Stephen King is easily the most prolific horror author of our time. He has written many horror books that range from genre to genre. And there a plethora of adaptions of his works mostly in the film and television departments.
His first book and admittedly only book of his I’ve read, Carrie has perhaps been adapted more than any other work of his. There was the 70’s movie by de Palma, a tv movie for NBC which was meant to launch a show, a movie produced by MTV starring Chloe Grace Mortez. However, knowing what this series is about, you’ll see that we are looking at a musical adaption of Carrie.
Stephen King and musicals are a combo that sounds odd on paper and when this musical debuted Broadway agreed. Carrie was one of the biggest Broadway flop of its time. There’s a reason that when a book about Broadway flops in the eighties was released, it was titled Not Since Carrie.
Carrie was an infamous flop during its original run. Something we wouldn’t see again until at best, the likes of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Yet, this musical eventually developed a cult following who loved the musical for its cheesiness and there would eventually be a reworked revival that removed some of the wilder aspects and streamlined the story. This is what we will be looking at today to close my look at musicals focused on the horrors of high school. I don’t know if this true for most of my generation but I was first introduced to the musical of Carrie when season one of Riverdale did a tribute episode to the show.
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Monstrous Musicals: Death Note: The Musical (with Jim Bevan)
October 28, 2025 in Blogs
Moviefan12: Frank Wildhorn is a composer who has often dabbled into the realm of horror with musicals such as Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula. From what I know of his work, he has mixed reception.
Today’s musical which fits this year’s theme of high school horror is the musical adaption of Death Note. Let me make this clear, I do not have much familiarity with anime or magna. The only magna I’ve read really was the first volume for a Disney Princess magna. Now I knew of Death Note as it is one of the most popular anime and magna series. And from what I understand, musical adaptions of anime is quite popular over in Japan. And this is one is rather popular overseas as well but I don’t think it really ever took off here in the States.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: The Queen of The Dead (Zombie Wanda)
October 27, 2025 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Marvel Zombies is a comic series that was published from 2005 – 2006 and in the first season of Disney+’s What If… we saw an episode based on Marvel Zombies. Zombie Captain America also has made appearances at California Adventure during Oogie Boogie Bash
The world of Marvel Zombies i a world is where things after the events of Infinity War had gone awry and we now have a world where Avengers are now zombies and our heroes can’t be trusted.
While Marvel Zombies is perhaps the most popular example of putting it beloved characters in a world run over by zombies, we’ve seen it many times since such as with the good, Afterlife with Archie where Riverdale is run over by a zombie horde. Here with this one, the zombie apocalypse is accidentally set off by Hank Pym trying to save his wife from the quantum realm and becoming infected.
This is the zombies episode of What If… which I did not rewatch for this as I didn’t feel the need to. I did read up the Wikipedia article for this episode to remember what happened. This was a limited miniseries with all four episodes released on September 25th. This is a fine miniseries but I have one minor…. Major complaint.
Wanda is my favorite MCU character, I love the depth that was given to her in WandaVision as that is favorite MCU thing ever. I was fine with her being the villain in Multiverse of Madness as it made sense considering her arc as a fallen hero. But dear lord, please please please please stop making Wanda a villain. I get it, this isn’t the same Wanda as the one from the original MCU timeline as the Zombie world is it’s own place showing how things could’ve gone differently but Wanda being a villain once was fine as she was shown as as a tragic figure. But here, there really isn’t much of a tragedy to her as she is just shown as a manipulative. Which yeah, I get but why her? You couldn’t have used different character and instead had to use one of the Avengers who had been through the most Hell. I’m just so tired man, I love Wanda and her character means a lot to me. So seeing her as a villain again is frustrating. One time, I get it but twice is really pushing it. I’ll still use the typical categories I use when covering villains but FFS Marvel stop making her a villain
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: The Hatbox Ghost
October 24, 2025 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
It almost seems like every other Halloween, I find myself returning to the Haunted Mansion in some aspect. And well, that’s makes sense considering that it is perhaps the attraction with the most characters and the most adapted of any Disney Parks attraction.
Again, this goes back to how easily adaptable this attraction is for other media. There have been numerous books both text and comic based on the Mansion. Yet, having said that it seems adapting it for screen is always tricky. The Eddie Murphy is godawful and I stand by that. Alas I feel my review of that movie is somewhat tarnished knowing what I know now about an ex-friend. The Muppets special is great and a classic as it understood the balance between spooky and silly. And then we have this movie from 2023, the second big screen attempt at adapting the Mansion. I do like this movie but in many ways, this movie has the opposite problem of the Eddie Murphy movie. That one leaned too hard into comedy that it undercut the scares whereas this one takes itself bit too seriously.
I understand that you don’t want to repeat what came before but this movie at times felt a bit too somber for a Haunted Mansion movie but that does make sense for the story the movie is telling as grief is a major component of the story and that is something our villain feeds off of.
Speaking of, I think this and Muppets Haunted Mansion is the only time we’ve had attraction characters as villains. Which honestly I prefer, obviously not every attraction lends itself to having a villain but this ride does. It’s also interesting how the movie chose The Hatbox Ghost to be the villain as he is an iconic ghost from the ride who originally was removed not long after the ride opened as his effect didn’t properly work. Overtime, Hatbox built up a cult following of fans and eventually he was returned to the Mansion. Now, again The Hatbox Ghost has had other media appearances including in the excellent Disney Kingdoms miniseries .
This movie however was his most prominent role with him serving as the main antagonist of this movie. I was mostly excited to see him in this movie and then found out he was being played Jared Leto. Which yeah, not getting into that can of worms but Disney loves working with this guy for some reason as he’s also the title character in the upcoming Tron threequel (Tron fans, I’m sorry). There’s a reason I don’t really talk about actors when looking at villains anymore and people like him are why.
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On The Case: Villains Profile: Temperance Hudson
October 23, 2025 in Blogs
The CW Nancy Drew show isn’t what one would think when you think Nancy Drew as it leans more supernatural and magical. Having id that, if we have seen anything it’s that mystery solving characters work well in horror settings. For our generation, we saw that with the Scooby gang in Zombie Island. An all time classic and to this day, one of the best Scooby movies ever made.
If we go back further, we have Hercule Periot in Hallowe’en Party later adapted as A Haunting in Venice. So why not throw Nance in with the supernatural and spooky. As in many cases, the mystery genre is a cousin to the horror genre and they often overlap. When you think about it, many modern slashers that were birthed with Scream are just much more murderous whodunits.
I’ve been wanting to cover this villain that I am looking at for quite a while as it’s a tie-in to two things I love, Nancy Drew (my favorite detective) and witches. I’ve always been fascinated by the history of witches, both fictional and real. Salem is a place I hope to visit one day in the future. I’ve covered many villainous witches over the years of covering witches.
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Monstrous Musicals: Nerdy Prudes Must Die
October 22, 2025 in Blogs
Team Starkid is massively popular musical theater company who first rose to fame with A Very Potter Musical. They are best known for their parodies but they have also dabbled into the world of the horror with their Hatchetfield series. These contain three stage musicals plus a web series, and while these do have a loose connection to each other, they can be watched in any order. From what I understand, each of these shows is set in its own universe.
The last Hatchetfield show which is the one I’m looking at today fits the narrative of high school horror. What do you do when you get fed up with the bully being a monster? (heck one of the songs is called Literal Monster). This show looks to that question as a bunch of losers and outcasts get fed up with how their bully has Ben treating them and ruling the school with an iron fist.
Well, they decide to prank him at an old abandoned house and for once the bully seems scared. Yet in a tragic moment, he thanks the geeks for scaring him as it’s the nicest thing anyone has done but then he dies from falling through a creepy floor.
Weeks pass and the town seems and is much happier without his presence. That speaks volumes to how bad this bully was. Yet in death, he’s even worse as he returns from the dead seeking revenge against those that had wronged him. This is what puts our nerdy friends in danger as the bully is now much more powerful in death than he was alive. How will they stop him? Well, let’s find out!
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On The Case: Villains Profile: Nate (Nancy Drew and The Hidden Staircase (2019))
October 21, 2025 in Blogs
The Hidden Staircase is one of the most iconic books from the original Nancy Drew series. That says something it is only the second book in the series and what would we come to expect of the famous girl detective hadn’t yet been set in stone. Now like most of the yellow bind books, there are two version. First published in 1930 and then revised in 1959.
Being one of the most iconic books from this series, it is understandable that it would be adapted. There was an adaption in 1939, Her Interactive who makes the Nancy Drew PC games used elements of this book in Secrets of the Old Clock. The Nancy Drew television show that aired on The CW made reference to the staircase from the titular book in the pilot and later episode borrows the title.
Then we have this movie which came out in 2019 and adapted the book. And ooh boy I do not like this movie. It’s so funny, this is probably my fifth or sixth time watching it and every other time, I thought it was fine. It’s an okay adaption of the books I guess. The last few times I watched it though I wasn’t the huge Nancy fan I am today. And that is where my issue comes in. This movie doesn’t seem to understand her character as they made her a rebellious skater chick punk who is on the wrong side of the law. That might seem like an exaggeration but the Nancy in this movie doesn’t feel like Nancy Drew.
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The Brick Theater: Villains Profile: Lord Garmadon (The LEGO Ninjago Movie)
October 20, 2025 in Blogs
We’ve now reached he final theatrically released LEGO movie I’ll be looking at rom Warner Bros. Animation as the next LEGO movie to be released in theaters would be a documentary about Pharrell told using LEGO released from Universal. I do hope we get more LEGO movies at the quality of the original and LEGO Batman.
I can’t say that I am the biggest fan of those movie, however. Admittedly, part of that is on me as I know next to nothing about Ninjago which is LEGO’s most popular original IP. Ninjago, at the time of this writing is one of if not the longest running LEGO line. Unfortunately, this is a line that never grabbed my attention.
This movie suffers from a problem I’ve noticed with big budget movies based on toys or tv shows that are niche. This movie tries to please longtime fans of Ninjago while also introducing the world to a wider audience. Yet the problem there is with introducing the world of Ninjago, it expects people who don’t know anything about the franchise to go along with the ride while at the same time for longtime fans is a turnoff as apparently this movie mischaracterized everyone and was retelling of the stories from the first two seasons and by the the time this movie came out, the show was on it’s seventh or eighth season. So for fans, this movie was retreading material the show had long moved on from while not giving them the characters they know and casting celebrity voice actors instead of using the voice actors from the show.
