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That is not at all what the song or video is about, and all the ways Jezebel stretches and flat out makes up things just to hate on Swift is getting way out of hand. And sidenote: if that is what the song was really about, would all those LGBTQ icons be in the video? You think they wouldn’t see that a mile away?

They were just odd. At one point in Killing Mr. Griffin, Besty put a DVD on the stereo. And the way they mention cell phones in Locked in Time, but then at the end someone has to drive to town to make a call- it was just an odd choice when they republished the books a few years back.

Yeah, I think those coincidences, creepy or not, are why she ultimately went back to writing books like Hotel for Dogs.

That’s “Summer of Fear” yo - it turns out the cousin bewitched her into buying a fabric for the dress that wouldn’t flatter her coloring (not to mention giving her terrible hives just before the dance so she couldn’t make it). Avoid the made for TV movie with Linda Blair though.

I love Lois Duncan, and got a bunch of her audiobooks last year from the library- Daughters of Eve was a particularly fucked up one. But the audiobooks had been updated to include cell phones and stuff which actually made them seem more dated- because the references were clunky and cell phones made some of the plots…

The 90s were a great time for this type of horror movie. IKWYDLS, Scream, Urban Legend, The Craft, all the Freddy/Jason/Michael Myers movies. 

It’s not at the top of anyone’s list, but I think Urban Legend might vie for that title (admittedly I have a soft spot for the film). It had Tara Reid, the Noxzema girl (Rebecca Gayheart), Jared Catalano (Jared Leto), Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson - with a terrible bleach blonde look), the daughter from the Cybil TV…

Very dark. After her daughter’s murder in ‘89 she only wrote one other YA novel as well as a non-fiction book titled “Who Killed My Daughter?” which she hoped to write a sequel to after the murder was solved, but it never was....

I loved Lois Duncan books when I was a teenager.  My favorite was ‘Locked in Time’.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more 90s cast than IKWYDLS.

Lois Duncan was a staple of my teen years and I loved her stuff. Her daughter was murdered around that time, too. Very dark stuff.

Way to make me feel super old ladies. I was the age of the kids in the movie when it came out in 1997 ) and my friends and I saw it in the theater more than once. The scene with Ryan Phillipe boxing with Bush playing... lol, I loved that. I thought it was scary and liked the psychological aspect but never loved the…

“What are you waiting foooooorrrrr???” The ghost of Lois Duncan asked me when I only found out this spring that this movie was based on her novel of the same name that was written a bit before I was born (and I’m not a young). After watching “Down the Dark Hall” on Netflix earlier this year I jumped into looking into…

I always found it funny that the MSCL cast included a Devon Gummersall and a Devon Odessa, and now she’s the Countess of Devon.

I think RL Rayanne became a baroness, or something? A countess! Wikipedia:

Oh, I’d recommend a rewatch. It’s amazing how your perspective changes the experience. I was exactly the same age as the characters when it was on the air. Watching as an adult, all my teenage nostalgia was still there, and there are tons of moments that are even more poignant when you know what’s coming. The only…

I get most of the authors here are young and come at things from a different perspective, but please don’t discount us “olds” who saw this show in real time and really wished something like it existed much earlier. Had I seen this type of show when I was 14 (1982) my life might be much different now.

I remember reading an interview with Amaya just a couple years after that season aired, and she was so, so, so embarrassed, haha.