Haley Newlin > Recent Status Updates

Stories of lovers, lesbianism, bathing in virginal blood, are ways of making Countess Erzsébet Báthory’s monstrousness appealing. A distraction and bizarre attempt to mitigate her crimes

All of that is easier to grasp than a woman being a heartless killer

“This is an Indian story, I think, ranchman, and you’re on Indian land whether you admit it or not. We all are.”

Pastor: “You can’t stop a country from happening”

Good Stab: “But we were already a nation”

“This, I believe, is the story of America”

“I sit here alone, uncaptured yet captive.”

Eggs spoil and milk turns

“All we have left here is rot and decay.”

“What I am is the Indian who can’t die. I’m the worst dream America ever had.”

I loved that the original screenwriter came back for the new wave of Scream movies

The rebirth, isolation, and how GoodStab is stumbling along trying to figure things out reminds me of Frankenstein and I’m really enjoying it

“I was forgetting how many days were passing. It was all one long night.”

“To be a Pikuni and be alone is to not be a person anymore.”

“I’ve heard our elders and many-faces men and even chiefs say that it’s napikwans who are ruining the world, but napikawns are just what happens when we forget we’re Pikuni.”

“Pikuni fight even when the fight’s over.”

“The depravity of man’s heart knows no floor.”

I really loved chapter 15 which was all about Wes Craven. Such a kind soul who really never quite understood how much he meant to the genre or how much he changed horror filmmaking

“A rolled-up body. Broken, bloodied, mangled. A man who could never hurt a woman again.”

Everyone thought Scream 3 was the end of the franchise and then 10 years later…Scream 4 😄

I had no idea that Danny Elfman worked on Scream 2

“A witch hunt rarely claimed just one victim.”

El bacá - a Haitian spirit that only Haitians can summon and dismiss

Drew Barrymore was originally playing Sidney but she told Wes Craven she thought it would be a shock to audience if she died first, as Casey Becker. He loved the idea

“Confess your sins, or I will confess for you.”

“there is no satisfaction in dealing with the devil, only damnation.”

Wes Craven believed fear and horror were rites of passage

“Demons are crafty.”

Papi Roman used to be a pastor in the Dominican Republic. Not just a pastor—he was an exorcist, a traveling one

“immense change unsettled [Xiomara]. She learned this when she got an official autism diagnosis…once she came to terms with it, change became manageable.”

She didn’t have to like change—she just had to acknowledge it

Family gathers for a reading of Papi Ramon’s will