Boob Tube.

Hello creeps and welcome to day 16 of the Candy and Corpses Strychnine Awards. I talk about it all the time but damn I miss those days of walking into a video rental store and spending forever looking at all the VHS boxes in the horror section. I pretty much always rented movies based on how cool the cover looked. Lots of gore and sexy ladies and monsters sign me up! They just don't make movie posters and dvd cover art like they used to with 80s VHS. It all looks the same now. Okay now I just made myself sad. At least I'm just glad there are companies like Shout Factory and Vinegar Syndrome and Severin films that continue that horror shock art tradition.

Anyways, on to the awards!

October 16th, 2021: The award for best Lipstick Magic Trick goes to...  

Night of the Demons (1988)
Directed by Kevin Tenney

My adoration for Linnea Quigley is no secret. She is definitely one of my all time favorite 'scream queens'. So imagine if you will young teenage me watching Night of the Demons on VHS late one night and Linnea Quigley's Suzanne draws all over her face with lipstick, removes her blouse, then shoves the tube of lipstick right into her boob until it disappears. My mind was blown and I remember rewinding to that scene over and over again just to see if I could see how it was done (not just to look at tits). That's some spooky weird shit Linnea. Thank you for being you.