Harum Scarum
by Anna Elena
What causes chills to thrill spells up your spinal binary child?
What metaphorical you might you transform into after a parade of costume?
Here’s a list of films to reel you phantasmagoric:
Let the Right One In (2008)
Suspiria (1977)
The Haunting (1963)
Session 9 (2001)
The Host (2006)
Rec (2007)
Jesus Camp (2006)
Wicker Man (1973)
Costumes to question interactivities:
The Suggestion Box (Wear a box, ask for suggestions)
The Kid Who Doesn’t Fit In (Stick protruding shapes onto your clothes)
Unicorn On the Cob (Tape a corn on the cob to your forehead)
My Self in Twenty Years (Spooky)
A Cloud (Wrap yourself in web netting—get cumulous yo)
My Self Stuck In Adolescence (Creepy)
Super Obvious (Tape an O to your chest, Say obvious things, Obviously)
Hot & Dog (Two people: One is hot: One is a dog: blur the boundaries—woof!)
I know you are but what am I? (You just have to say this—?)
Gerard de’Nerval (walk your dog, who’s dressed as a lobster, with the queen of sheba’s garter around your neck)
Sylvia Plath (Oven box on head)
Virginia Woolf (Rocks in sweater pockets)
Anne Sexton (Sexy bob, Inebriated confessions)
