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The Victorian Picnic started out as a historical fashion meetup, but gradually began to involve more gothic, fantasy, and steampunk outfits. Anyway, this year's edition happened yesterday so you can find pics on social media and traditional news.

Link to pic stream: https://www.mdr.de/kultur/wgt/viktorianisches-picknick-zweitausendsechsundzwanzig-100_showImage-wgt-viktorianisches-picknick-510_zc-a756b83f.html

link to story (in German): https://www.mdr.de/kultur/wgt/wgt-leipzig-viktorianisches-picknick-fotos-104.html

more about the Victorian Picnic: https://www.viona-ielegems.com/vionas-victorian-picnic

The Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT; German for "Wave Gothic Meeting") is an annual world festival for "dark" music and "dark culture" in Leipzig, Germany. 150+ bands and artists from various backgrounds (gothic rock, EBM, industrial, noise, darkwave, neo-folk, neo-classical and medieval music being examples) play at several venues throughout the city over four days on Whitsuntide. The festival also features multiple all-night dance club parties, several fairs with medieval, gothic, and related merchandise, a variety of cultural exhibitions and performances, large themed picnics, and a number of unofficial fringe events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-Gotik-Treffen

https://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/

The Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT; German for "Wave Gothic Meeting") is an annual world festival for "dark" music and "dark culture" in Leipzig, Germany. 150+ bands and artists from various backgrounds (gothic rock, EBM, industrial, noise, darkwave, neo-folk, neo-classical and medieval music being examples) play at several venues throughout the city over four days on Whitsuntide. The festival also features multiple all-night dance club parties, several fairs with medieval, gothic, and related merchandise, a variety of cultural exhibitions and performances, large themed picnics, and a number of unofficial fringe events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-Gotik-Treffen

https://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/english/

The next two are in German, but if you read them thru a web browser, most automated translators do a good job:

https://www.mdr.de/kultur/wgt/wave-gotik-treffen-leipzig-highlights-ueberblick-100.html

https://www.mdr.de/kultur/wgt/index.html

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. He came to prominence as the founder, lead singer, multi-instrumentalist, and primary songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Reznor

cross-posted from !weird_art@lemmy.world

Gothic rock, 2010

https://www.discogs.com/master/291634-Merciful-Nuns-Lib-I

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0udmYstSNlY

Cross-posted from !ClassicFilms@lemmy.world - check out that community for lots more images from films of all sorts!

Industrial, 1997

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterk%C3%A4lte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Pit

industrial / EBM, 2023

https://www.recordturnover.com/2023/10/15/survival-paradox/

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Sci0DprQw

Industrial / power noise / techno, 2003

https://www.discogs.com/master/225046-Soman-Sound-Pressure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soman_(band)

cross-posted from: !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world

Son of Dracula (1943) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 12 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/565125/son-of-dracula
• fawesome: https://fawesome.tv/movies/10411378/son-of-dracula
• uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for those tubi and fawesome links
• archive: https://archive.org/details/son-of-dracula-1943_202604
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/son-of-dracula

The film is set in the United States, where Count Alucard (Chaney Jr.) has just taken up residence. Katherine Caldwell (Allbritton), a student of the occult, becomes fascinated by Alucard and eventually marries him. Katherine begins to look and act strangely, leading her former romantic partner Frank Stanley (Paige) to suspect that something has happened to her. He gets help from Dr. Brewster (Craven) and psychologist Laszlo (J. Edward Bromberg) who come to the conclusion that Alucard is a vampire.

...

Rhodes declared that initial critical reception to Son of Dracula was "varied".[37] From contemporary reviews, The Hollywood Reporter declared that Son of Dracula was "a topline entry" as a horror film as it was "well made" with "intelligent direction by Robert Siodmak" and that "Chaney's Dracula is an outstanding job, accomplished without the gobs of makeup with which he is generally smeared".[38] Irene Thirer of The New York Post ranked the film as "Fair to good", finding it "is neatly turned out [...] and is certainly guaranteed for goose-pimples—and we might add, laughs".[39] A. H. Weiler of The New York Times found the film as "unintentionally funny as it is chilling" and concluded it a "pretty pallid offering".[39] A review in Harrison's Reports noted that Son of Dracula was "extremely weird, fantastic, and morbid, but because the theme has been done many times, it fails to attain the terrifying impact of the original".[39]

In their book Universal Horrors, Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas stated that Son of Dracula is "often lumped together with the rest of the Universal monster pictures of the '40s in the early years of horror scholarship, it has incrementally been seen as the product of a more sophisticated mindset" and in the canon of Robert Siodmak's career, Son of Dracula was "still regarded as a footnote, a stepping stone to his later highly regarded film noir works".[40] Bob Mastrangelo of AllMovie referred to the film as "strictly minor-league, harmless entertainment that never reaches its potential", finding Chaney was "not doing a very good job" but that "the problems with Son of Dracula are beyond Chaney, as the script never really takes advantage of the juicy potential of the story and lacks the dark humor and beautiful atmospherics that make the best Universal horror films so timeless".[41] Sean Axmaker wrote in The Seattle Times that Son of Dracula was a "moody minor horror gem" that was held back by "clumsy antics of the skeptical cops and the plodding exposition spouted by an old Carpathian doctor".[42]

In an interview with Starlog magazine in 1990, Curt Siodmak reflected on Son of Dracula stating that the film "became a classic through Robert [Siodmak]'s handling of light and shadow. He was wonderful on mood, characterization, atmosphere, the psychology. He could make marvelous scenes. But he couldn't write".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Dracula_(1943_film)

Another cross-post from !smorgasbordbizarre@lemmy.world

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