Music
Dear John Goblikon, Volume 2
Dan from Chicago, IL asks: Dear John, Aside from your childhood home movies, what are your favorite horror movies and if you could star in a horror movie how large would the body count be?
Hello Dan, It’s me John… ya know John Goblikon. First off, you’re from Chicago?!? I saw a horror movie a couple of months ago in your city, it was called THE WEATHER CHANNEL! …Get it?!? It was cold. No thank you! As a smaller goblin I got a lot of good horror movies to my planet from Earth. “Home Alone”, “Jingle All the Way” and my favorite “Christmas Vacation”. Nowadays I just watch that one horror show with all the zombies and and that kid who’s always complaining to the dad… “Keeping up with the Kardashians”. if I could start a horror movie it would star Kayden Kross, Jenna Haze, Amanda Cerny, Kat Von D… oh man the body count would hopefully be HUGE!
Kevin from Vermont asks: My girlfriend left me to go find herself and I don’t know how to get back in the game. Any suggestions?
First off Kevin, Vermont is made up, correct? Nice try! I’m sorry to hear you got dumped, I’ve been dumped a few times, they didn’t even know we were dating in the first place! Now the cops are involved because apparently goblins aren’t “allowed to break into a lovely ladies house to say hello”. Luckily Kevin, getting back in the game is easy! All you have to do is start making tons of money, get famous, wear gold and diamonds, get carried on a body guards shoulders, fly around in a helicopter with your name on the side and then the ladies will come a running. Works… every… time!
Marvin from Wolfsburg, Germany asks: I got my dick stuck in the ceiling fan again. How do i prevent this?
No idea!!! If you find out PLEEEEEEEEEASE TELL ME ASAP!!!!!!!! (asking for a friend)
Love Wolf from Wetumpka, AL asks: I am currently in Aotearoa, where the majority of women are obese and all have terrible New Zealand accents. The only plus I can see is their weight means they move slowly and are easily hunted. Should I shame myself? Or remain sexually pristine?
“Obese” makes them sound delicious AND they’re easy?!? Can you tell me exactly where you live so I can book a flight?!? My advice is… save some for me! We are going to be kings of the kangaroo women!!! That’s what the proper name for woman in New Zealand, correct?!?
Synthwave outfit GUNSHIP has released a new official music video this morning for their cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” featured on the soundtrack to Corin Hardy’s (The Nun, The Hallow) supernatural horror film Whistle.
To bring it full circle, Corin Hardy directs the music video himself, incorporating previously unseen footage from Whistle. More specifically, the new music video features an extended sequence from the film.
This collaboration builds on GUNSHIP’s longstanding relationship with Hardy, who previously contributed vocals to the band’s track “Cthulhu.”
“Working with Corin is a total dream,” said GUNSHIP. “He’s an old friend who we bonded with over our love for cinema and music, and we were honored to have our song featured in the film. After the Whistle premiere, we were chatting over a pint, and he told us about a beautiful pseudo ‘one shot’ sequence he was heartbroken to lose in the final film. We suggested resurrecting it and using it as a music video. Corin got it immediately, and the result is perfect. It’s heartbreaking, haunting and pure 80s noir soaked.”
Corin Hardy added: “I wanted Whistle to feel like a horror movie I might have watched around the late 1980s, alongside films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, and The Breakfast Club. Films steeped in teen-angst and heightened feelings. Music was such a huge part of creating the romance of those cinematic worlds. Gunship’s synth-drenched cover of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’ was always top of my list. Their unique heart-on-your-sleeve sound was the perfect choice for a key moment in the movie. To come together post-release and create this extended music video is simply the cherry on top. Dan, Al & Al (Gunship) have provided the film a real companion piece in the world of Whistle… it makes me want my MTV again!”
It’s a fitting collaboration, as music serves a narrative purpose in Whistle. Music, the director told Bloody Disgusting, was a means of immersing viewers in this world and its characters’ perspectives. Hardy even touched on this particular track: “So in a way, the music you’ll listen to is effectively what Chrys is listening to, which is her dad’s record collection. Then there are other songs like the Gunship track, which is a Cyndi Lauper cover, which is more like Rel’s [Sky Yang] music. It comes in when we have a sequence in Rel’s romantic heartbreak moment. So yeah, I made a character list of who might be listening to what.”
Whistle sees a misfit group of unwitting high school students confronted with mortality when they blow a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, setting a terrifying chain of events in motion.
Dafne Keen (Logan, “The Acolyte“), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (Grizzly Night, “Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
The supernatural teen horror movie is available to stream on Shudder now.