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Some Cool New Features, and Other Community Updates
We’ve added some cool new features to the Infected horror network here at BD, including social groups, revamped profiles, and upgraded user galleries. One small bug to report is that your avatars in comments posted under news and blogs don’t show up, but that should be fixed shortly. Read on for a brief description of the new features!
First feature to note is the addition of Social Groups.
You guys can create groups for anything you want, make them public or invite only, then post pictures and comments with group members. Like Saw? Start a group to talk about all things Saw related. Hate Saw? Start a group to bash with others who aren’t a fan.
We’ll be featuring the biggest and best social groups on the front page, and you can see which groups you’re a part of in your profile.
Get started with Social Groups now!
We’ve also added new user image galleries.
Now you can organize your photos into different albums. Make one for conventions, one for personal pictures, or whatever you want. To create an album just sign in and start uploading!.
User profiles have also been revamped
We updated and re-organized the user profiles to be easier to navigate and make finding and communicating with friends quicker and simpler than before. Your profile contains your “status” directly underneath your username so you can let everyone know what you’re up to. It also contains all of your user info, (public) albums, your user reviews, and recent activity in the forums and news comments. You can view your friends, and read comments left for you by other members.
If you have questions about how to use any of these new features, suggestions, or (hopefully constructive) criticism feel free to send me a message. You can also read our FAQ here which covers all the basics,
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/forums/faq.php
Again, sorry about the user avatars in news comments. We’ll be taking care of that asap.
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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