ROX-TV dips back into the “Part 2 Series” in an attempt to complete the loops. Check out the madness before it’s too late.
Welcome back to the ROX-TV website. As always or at least starting this week, we pledge to bring the readers the very worst in up-to-date theories about movies no one has ever heard of or seen. That’s right, the creative team over in the lab have been planning all hour to bring forward the very best of the basic. Using the latest stranded practices, the team has really cooked up something sweet to get the crickets talking. What will it take to get this show started? Not much. The speed may be off and the humor might be a little stratospheric if at all, but it’s mostly in good fun. I needed a smile today and this piece of shit is what finally gave me one. A little not so serious dialogue with someone who barely cares…what could be misunderstood? Fuck it.
As this is the first in what could be several half-finished articles, I really want to send the ship down in style. I figured at this rate, most readers will give up long before getting this far down anyway. If your still with me than I thank you. We just had to shake off the people who skim. I’m sure once the content started to sound a bit like a shit sandwich, the exit door came alive. I was kind of joking about the movies but not really, horror movies…with a super focus on poorly financed but “still tried” pieces are what I want to kick around tonight. I have some in the can, ready to go, and I have others that have been half written for over two years. The good news is that I never throw anything away and if I really dig something, you can bet your last shilling that I will return someday. That goes for music, books, people, food, Krylon…you name it. If I dig something, it’s good in my book forever.
So back to the reason we are here tonight…probably. Oh yes, it’s about tying up some loose ends, closing a few loops, and starting a few more. I will try to stay focused on the task at hand, although the Chem Dog has been getting in the way. I’m into Flower Power for real. When I’m on a good run, I cannot do without. I would rather die than go dry, at least for the first four or five days. I don’t like it, so I stay connected you dig. I know I said in the first paragraph that I was going to focus on shit you never heard of, but tying up loose ends also appeals to me. For the loyal reader or readers (plural hopefully), you may remember when I started writing for ROX-TV in 2021. I harnessed some manic energy and started blasting out all kinds of articles on a range of topics. Some of those movie deep dives were so long that I had to start completing the articles in parts. Which is easier to start than finish…I can assure you. I used to write massive 8,000 word articles but after a nasty computer crash and the loss of about 9 hours of work on the Willy Wonka Movie, I said fuck it…never again. By that time I was balls deep into Willy’s bizarre chocolate party and had been rolling out a giant. The article fucking crashed like a cheap Fiesta falling off the Mackinaw Bridge in a wind storm. Fucking gone baby. I lost enough work to say no thanks, but had salvage enough not to give up. In the end the quality fucking tanked and if you read those Wonka articles, the blip should be noticeable.
Returning to the Cornfield
“The long lost episode featuring Part 2 of the Children of the Corn article”
First Time Airing: July 10th, 2022 (Part 1)
cont.
Oddly Burt finds no responsibility in this and in turn places blame on the unknown. I’d put my money on Vicki’s actions just prior to the accident as being the most harmful for good old Joseph. I must say that the initial reactions are pretty ridiculous when you consider what these dick heads just did. Vicki is flopping around like she hit her face somehow but shows no sign of injury. And yet she turns on the dramatic machine in high fashion. Now, I’ve watched this fucking scene at least four hundred times and it really doesn’t work for me.
Vicki: Burt look out!
Burt: Hang on, let me check…let me check
Vicki: —
Burt: Where? Right there?
Vicki: Yeah….
Burt: It’s just a bump…. try and relax (a bump alright, in the road)
Meanwhile the dude in the street is pretty dead or expiring during this strange back and forth. Two people completely removed from the fact they just smoked someone. Sure, he was bleeding out and probably would have choked on his own blood over the course of a minute or so, but when they zapped him, he was still very much alive, wanting to be alive, and it’s obvious by his attention to his wound. Both hands trying to stop the life force from spilling out onto the hot pavement of that lonely two-lane road.
Vicki: That was an animal right?
Holy shit, even I got a good look at the dude and Vicki did too, she seen a guy standing in the road remember. If it wasn’t a man, she probably wouldn’t have noticed the shape. Holding a map up to your nose would probably only allow you to see Joseph’s upper torso. She wouldn’t have seen anything on the ground.
Where the fuck did this animal horse shit talk come from? Maybe the real trick is that they each dropped some low grade acid on the way across the corn country and things just slipped away. Possible? You bet your ass. Probably? Judging by this guy’s profession, given the nature of America in the 1980’s, and how they conduct themselves…it probably wasn’t a piece of paper, a sugar cube, a gel tab, or a drop in the eye. No sir. Just self absorbed yuppies going from point A to point B. I’ve always said stupid is more dangerous than most “drugs” except the powder family in certain situations.
So, Joseph is gone…. southbound and down. It sucks because I would have had so many questions for him. I wonder why it took him three years to build up the courage to leave Gatlin anyway? What did he do during that time? Did he participate in the murder of the Blue Man? Surely, he would have helped the other kids kill all the parents in town. I guess by continuing to live in that town, especially after all the adults were killed, he must have been pretty good with it. I mean, he wasn’t starving, someone was feeding him. He seemed to worry about the kids following the rules when he was gone. If he really thought the place was bad, he would have took the two kids with him. But he didn’t. Joseph opted to save himself and leave two vulnerable kids behind with a group of murderers. In that light, I feel like Joseph may have gotten what he deserved. There is no honor in leaving the women and children behind. Perhaps the Gods were sick of this guy, and it was time to cash the check. The kid from murder town has to say good night and Burt has just the place for him. The trunk.
Granted, this was the 1980’s and cell phones did not exist. A pay phone would have been the only way to get help, and at least from my memory, this pre-dates 911 (police line) so you would have had to know the phone number to the station and then prayed to God that someone was in the station house to answer the call. This doesn’t happen and that’s ok I guess considering the decade limitations. He wraps the kid up in a shitty jail blanket and puts him in the trunk.
Burt: Something is very wrong here…
It’s around this time that Vicki decides that this is as good a time as any to take a nap. I’m pretty sure the bouncing routine didn’t cause an actual concussion so sleeping isn’t forbidden here, but the optics are really bad. I have trouble taking a nap when no one is around, and I need the sleep. This chick just kicks back like she’s at an old style hash house and browns out. Burt decides to switch hats from doctor, to investigator, before going into the corn for a closer look. He finds the dead kid’s suitcase a considerable distance from the road. This tells me nothing other than Burt got lucky and found the suitcase in the corn stack. Meanwhile Vicki wakes up and starts wandering around. This isn’t the best idea and Burt did tell her to stay in the car. She walks around and then for some unknown reason is pulled into the dead zone. Joseph leaps from the blanket with both hands out….and then Burt wakes up Vicki. What good is a nap if it’s going to trigger some crazy ass dream guilt. Oh well. We shall keep moving. Don’t forget that the kid is now in the trunk and probably for good.
To be continued…
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Liminal Vagrant
Ghost Ship 3
