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“Death comes in threes.”

Repetition of this phrase adds a constant, thrumming dread

Aunt Haddie was in movies, limited to servant and maid roles as a black woman, but used the money she made from acting to buy 724 Hartford Street on her own

All characters connected by way of grief

Lewis’ grief is so heavy, so disorienting and he isolates himself in his denial, disconnecting from the reality of his loss and the physical (rotting) proof of it

Delilah becomes increasingly protective of the house, seemed to be “some other person, some other entity”

This is historical and gothic horror but really explores manifestations of grief, too, through denial, avoidance, estrangement, and isolation

1910- white hospital refuses to help a black, dying pregnant woman

“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”

13 year old Malcolm X ordered to go to a reform school

Makes me think of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida and The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

“If you want something, you better make some noise.”

Malcolm X learned at an early age that using your voice and shouting out in protest could accomplish things

Malcolm X knew he’d die by violence, two of his uncles did, so did his father

“No wonder people made dumb choices in slasher movies. Anticipation reduced you to a quivering mess.”

"Slasher movies were nothing. The real horror was not being able to escape who you were in high school."

"There was no exciting drama around dying, despite what movies showed. Only the limp pathos of a life on its way out."

Even though Black Americans only made up 10% of the U.S. population during Vietnam War, 24% of American casualties overseas were Black

Many Black soldiers feared that they were being put on the frontlines for genocidal purposes

Only 2% of psychiatrists in the U.S. are Black

Limiting the available treatment and therapy options available to Black Americans seeking mental health care

Rodney Barnes’ aunt disappeared into Crownsville Hospital

I follow this guy on IG. He does horror film commentary and has written several comic books and for television

“what if tearing down that house woke something up?”

“This entire goddamn country is an Indian burial ground.”

“When you swallow your pain, it never does digest.”

“We’re gonna die here. You took control of the wrong ship, dumb f*ck.”

The infamous “Red Room” of the Amityville Horror House

- a playroom for the DeFeo children

Black Marylanders had to earn their access to “mental healthcare” through hard labor. Patients built the hospital from the ground up with the doctor as their overseer

Many physicians believed that the end of slavery “had created a kind of endless vagrant who needed to be concealed and incarcerated in a new form of institution”

Carlos is such a dickhead

Kumakatok - three shrouded figures that knock on the door in the middle of the night signify an impending death in the family

“Every one of us will love the dead, at some point or another.”