the deadly swamps of sadness.

i am rewatching one of my childhood favorites "the neverending story" right now. i guess, around this time it was still ok to turn great books into movies and nobody complained. ;) or did they? however, i am enjoying this watch a lot and would like to share some of its great moments here:

Stone Eater!!

Don't let the sadness of the deadly swamps affect you!

I remember i was so afraid of this creature when i was little!

Can you scratch my ear, please, Atreyu?!

The slooooww talking and sneezing Morla!

I know you wanna watch it, too, now! i am also thinking about re-reading the book!

danse macabre.

ever since i've known the the tradition of halloween, i always wanted to disguise and walk around at night and celebrate. the fact that this day also happens to be my birthday makes it even more special. but this tradition only slowly slopped over to german realms, so halloween parties and costumes over here were always kind of lame to me and no one out of my circle of friends ever really felt the same fascination to join and celebrate. but! this year i found my halloween soulmate and right now i am already making plans for a costume. first i thought about dressing as a certain well known character, but i couldn't decide out of too many options, so i made some researches on the web and stumbled upon the term DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. i really love everything about the style and its possible to be a lot more creative and adjustable than with having chosen a certain character. so DIA DE LOS MUERTOS basically is a mexican tradition, celebrated from 31st of october to 2nd of november, similar to the halloween tradition and it looks like this:

so there is about one month time to plan and i already got some ideas. if everything works out as i imagine it, it's going to be awesome!

more inspiration and resources on my DIA DE LOS MUERTOS pinterest board.

the friendly ghost.

this is a new british tv series about a haunted house called marchlands. it tells the story

of three families that lived in the same house over several decades, the 1960ies, 1980ies 

and in 2010. they sooner or later all get connected by alice, the little daughter of ruth 

and paul, who resided in marchlands in the 1960ies. they loose their daughter due to a 

tragical accident where alice gets lost in the woods and drowns in the nearby lake.

i recently started to watch the series, by now there are 3 episodes and although i expected

a bit more spookieness, the show still gets me in line. lets see how it develops.

unfortunately i couldn't find an official trailer, but here's a tv feature that should do it, too!