Whether you’re a horror aficionado or your scary threshold is at a level 2, you’re bound to be familiar with at least a couple of iconic horror movies. The horror genre is a huge part of our culture, allowing us to explore the darkest depths of the human psyche within the safety and comfort of home—or a theater, if you dare.
As counterintuitive as it might sound, watching horror movies can be more than stimulating entertainment for some people. It can act as a form of exposure therapy, helping reduce anxiety levels. Of course, this is not the case for everyone, but it certainly helps explain why the genre is so well loved and continues gaining popularity. Even in 2020—arguably an anxiety-inducing year for everyone—horror movies were the only ones to actually see a surge in ticket sales. Sometimes it’s just more cathartic to see an actual monster wreaking havoc in a fictional world than it is to think about all real-world worries that haunt our imaginations.
Still, not everyone can shake off that scary feeling that a horror movie elicits, and therefore might not partake in watching. Nonetheless, they might enjoy seeing the edge taken off with a bit of lighthearted humor. After all, it’s often recommended to watch a little comedy after a horror flick to clean out the heebie jeebies.
Jimmy Fallon asked folks to “take a horror movie and add one word to change the plot and tag it with #AddAWordRuinAHorrorMovie for his ever-popular Hashtags segment on “The Tonight Show.” Granted, some people took liberties with the rules—occasionally replacing a word in the title, for example—but nonetheless, grammatical fun was had. And well-known horror movie plots did undergo hilariously drastic changes.
Below are 23 of the best ones. Enjoy, because even those who can’t handle anything too scary deserve a little spooky entertainment.
1. “The Blair Witch Project Manager” – @ ite_mumma
Fall, with its cooler, sometimes rainy weather(depending on where you live) is a great time to catch up on all of that TV you missed while you were out enjoying the sunshine all summer. And while you’re covered in blankets, catching up on what Netflix, Amazon, and other streaming services have to offer, why not do it with a fall beer in your hand? What’s better than finally finishing Stranger Things with a malty, sweet Marzen-style beer or a smoky Rauchbier by your side?
Today, we’re highlighting some of the most underrated, underappreciated, and downright undervalued fall beers. And nobody knows more about fall beers than the brewers who make them. So we asked some well-known craft beer experts and brewers to tell us their picks for the most underrated beers for fall. Keep reading to see all of their picks.
Anchor Porter is surprisingly underrated. Porters are usually a bit lighter than your typical Stouts. They are a bit thinner, with a lighter mouthfeel. They are balanced beers that are more malt-forward and don’t have the hop bite of an IPA. There are often notes of chocolate, dark bread, and coffee with a little sweetness making porters easy drinking and still satisfying.
First brewed in 1972, Anchor Steam’s Anchor Porter is a classic; deep, dark, and roasty with a thick, creamy dark head. There are notes of roasted coffee, dark chocolate, and berries. At 5.5% ABV, it is still a sessionable beer with plenty of flavor.
Obertrumer Märzen
Trumer
James Bruner, director of production at The Bruery in Placentia, California
ABV: 4.8%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Trumer, an Austrian brewery with an outpost in Berkeley, California, is known for making one beer, a Pilsner, but every so often they will add a Märzen to their lineup. Their version of the Oktoberfest staple leans more towards the light and crisp festbier than the typical malty melanoidin heavy Märzen you will find in the United States, but Obertrumer Märzen is just as clean and crushable as its Pilsner cousin.
When I was attending UC Davis, you could find this on tap throughout the bay area fairly consistently in the fall, but I will admit it has been increasingly difficult down here in SoCal. Maybe the fact that it has minimal ratings makes it underrated, but I think it deserves way more attention if you can find it.
ESB. We did make one – Motor Boat. But people aren’t drinking styles like this much anymore. I blame TikTok. Luckily, there are still a few out there. A great example is the very underrated Redhook ESB with its notes of caramel, bready malts, and sweet fruit esters.
Black Husky Elderberry Gose
Black Husky
Garth E. Beyer, certified Cicerone® and owner and founder of Garth’s Brew Bar in Madison, Wisconsin
ABV: 4.2%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Underrated fall beers for me tend to be beers that use seasonally harvested ingredients like Black Husky Brewing’s Elderberry Gose, which uses elderberries that got picked in mid-September. This beer, like spring, brings with it a unique cold crispness and feelings of transition.
Smoked beers will always be underrated because they are mostly excellent and no one seems to realize that but me. One of the very best is Smoaktoberfest, a beechwood-smoked version of Live Oak Brewing Co.’s brilliant fall seasonal, Oaktoberfest. It exhibits the toasty malt and crushability of a festbier but is elevated to superstardom by well-integrated smokiness. It’s like if you baked a loaf of bread over a campfire.
Without a doubt, it’s Schlenkerla’s Marzen Rauchbier. The worldwide industry standard of smoked beers produced in Bamberg, Germany the way it has been for centuries. Malt that’s smoked over beech wood fires creates a brew that pairs perfectly with friends around a warming campfire, with anything off the tailgate grill before the big game, or with a cigar as you ponder the beauty of the changing of the seasons. Don’t knock it before you try it.
Idle Hands Brocktoberfest
Idle Hands
Matthew Steinberg, head brewer and co-founder of Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing in Framingham, Massachusetts
I would have to say that Idle Hands Brocktoberfest is that beer. Not sure how it’s rated, but I don’t ever look at ratings. This fall classic has everything a proper Marzen should have like notes of caramel, bready malts, and light hops. More people should know about this American take on the Marzen-style fall seasonal.
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Rodenbach
Morgan O’Sullivan, co-owner of FlyteCo Tower in Denver
Rodenbach Grand Cru, I love me some Flemish red. It’s a really pleasant blend of fruit flavors mixed with a nice sourness. Aged in oak foeders, this tart, fruity, oaky fall beer is the reason so many sour beers are on the market now. It’s highly underrated.
Genesee Oktoberfest
Genesee
Chris Spinelli, co-founder and brewer at Roc Brewing Co in Rochester, New York
Genesee Brewing’s Oktoberfest is a hard-to-beat fall beer. It’s always great to visit the brew house on a fall day to have that tasty Marzen-style beer while looking at the falls. Even if you’re nowhere near Western New York, this rich, malty, well-balanced Marzen-style beer is a highly underrated fall beer that should find a place in your refrigerator as soon as possible.
Valley River Nottely Cru
Valley River
Adam Cranford, lead brewer at Left Hand Brewing in Longmont, Colorado
ABV: 9.5%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
Nottely Cru from Valley River Brewery and Eatery in Murphy, North Carolina is a very underrated fall beer. You probably wouldn’t necessarily associate a sangria-inspired Belgian-style wheat ale with fall, but this beer can pull double duty. It’s made with locally sourced Chambourcin grapes, spiced to emulate a sangria flavor profile, and fermented to a whopping 9% abv, allowing this beer to quench your thirst and cool you off on the roasty days of late summer/early fall in the Appalachians, but heavy enough to keep you warm when those temperatures start falling.
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“We have to turn our taste into politics to delude ourselves into thinking our consumption can change the direction of the ship of state.” -Matt Christman
This is a mid-aughts HBO prestige crime drama, so the crime guys have to have a strip club to use as a clubhouse. Fitting that The Sopranos’ dumbest character, Georgie, was running the Bada Bing, because The Wire’s dumbest character, Orlando, is running this show’s Balta Bing. As Vince points out, everyone in the aughts was trying to ball a little, and Orlando, tired of being the steady, nondescript hand behind the front, gets flipped by the detail after trying to buy heroin from a cop.
Things don’t end well for Orlando, or anyone else related to the Barksdale crew who tries to cooperate with the detail (poor Wallace). Don’t talk to the cops! Not even lovable, scampy, irish f*ckboy TV cops.
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It’s happening: Two Uproxx cover stars — Latto, who graced our December 2021 cover, and Chlöe, who graced our August cover this year — have a collaboration on the horizon for a song called “For The Night,” which has been a highly anticipated release from Chlöe.
The two icons took to Twitter to make the announcement, which immediately prompted excitement from fans. First, Chlöe tweeted a screen recording of a wholesome FaceTime with Latto in which Chlöe says, “I’m so excited. I cannot wait for everyone to hear what you did on ‘For The Night!’” The video also came with a pre-save link of the track, which you can find here.
Latto shared the message in all caps: “CHLOE BAILEY X LATTO THIS FRIDAY,” and she added lots of emojis — fires, peaches, hearts. Chlöe then quote-tweeted to build the anticipation: “purrrrr THEY AINT READY,” she wrote, and added the release date of Oct. 28.
“For The Night” is something Chlöe has been cryptically teasing for a while with videos and hashtags. The singer first previewed the single in May alongside two other songs, asking fans for their help in deciding which one would follow up “Surprise” as her fourth solo single.
The Crown may be one of Netflix’s most unstoppable hits, but it has its critics. Members of the Royal Family, as one can imagine, aren’t terribly keen on the show, especially as it gets closer and closer to perhaps their biggest scandal: their treatment of Princess Diana and her subsequent violent death. Then there’s Dame Judi Dench, who recently penned a blistering takedown for The Times U.K. Now the same publication is reporting an odd twist in the story.
As caught by The A.V. Club, a source tells the publication that they were a little confused about Dench’s stance, and for good reason: She had reportedly been in talks to join the cast. Dench was courted to play Queen Elizabeth II’s mother, Queen Elizabeth, in talks that “went on for a few weeks.” The insider said, “Both sides were taking it seriously.”
The role eventually went to Marcia Warren, with Dench turning it down partly because the part was too small. But she was also, as a friend of now-Queen Camilla, “concerned that taking the role could compromise her relationship with the royal family.”
Among Dench’s complaints was that the show was heavily fictionalized, which would be fine if the show had a disclaimer saying as much, which they didn’t. That has since changed, perhaps in part due to Dench’s blistering open letter, but also perhaps in part due to the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who is currently being played by Imelda Staunton. There’s some additional signs that the show will take a less lurid portrayal of The Firm. For one thing, they won’t actually be showing Diana’s grisly car crash death, which occurred just over a quarter century ago.
For 31 years, Jim Nantz has been the voice of the men’s Final Four on CBS (and Turner), but this year will be his final one, as the legendary play-by-play man will make his homecoming to Houston his last time on the call with Bill Raftery and Grant Hill.
Nantz confirmed to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post that he will make his 32nd Final Four on the call his last one, ceding the lead play-by-play role in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament to Ian Eagle after this season.
“I’ve been very fortunate,” Nantz said. “I’m going to take Brent’s torch and pass it on to Ian. I’ve had the greatest seat in the house and it’s time for someone else to do it.”
Nantz cites his desire to spend more time with his children as the reason for stepping out of the March Madness booth, as he stays plenty busy with NFL and CBS’ coverage of the PGA Tour — where he will continue. However, an interesting wrinkle is that Nantz will still go to the Final Four and act as the trophy presenter, he just won’t call the games and will instead enjoy them from the stands.
“I would like to sit in the stands for the great majority of the game with my kids,” Nantz said. “And tell them that their dad used to call this game. ‘Now, if you’ll excuse me for a few minutes, I’ve got to go down to the floor and give the trophy away.’ That will be a lot of fun.”
Not a bad gig if you can get it.
As for Eagle, he has plenty of tournament experience himself, works with Hill and Raftery during the college hoops season, and is a fan favorite, so him being selected as the successor to Nantz is of little surprise and also figures to be met with support.
It’ll be a bit odd in 2024 when we aren’t greeted to the Final Four with a “Hello, friends,” but sometimes it’s important to also know when to say goodbye.
Brown said he doesn’t “condone any hurt, harm, or danger toward any group of people or individuals whatsoever,” but said he will remain with Donda Sports and tried to separate the agency from West. As for his personal relationship with West, he offered this statement to Washburn about why he will continue to offer “unconditional love” to West.
“He’s someone who’s obviously dealing with a lot of adversity that’s in front of him right now and everybody can see it and it’s public. But a lot of people in the world are dealing with adversity and things that are going on that’s in front of them and they need help. It’s a lot going on right now.”
“It’s tough to speak on because everybody is going to form their own opinions about what you have to say, but I look at people that I’ve been around, family, friends that you love,” he said. “To me, it’s unconditional. To me, as they’re working through problems, we’re working through it in unison.
“I don’t agree with everything that everybody does. Like I said, I don’t stand for any hurt, harm, or danger toward anybody, but sometimes people need unconditional love and help to get them through the situation.”
Brown doesn’t provide any specifics on the “adversity” that’s in front of West, which seems to all be self-inflicted by doubling and tripling down on spewing hate speech, and one could argue that what West needs is people who love him to call him out for being in the wrong rather than insist he’s just going through something and trying to brush it aside.
Today McDonald’s announced that its seasonal sandwich, the McRib is returning to the menu on October 31st, but in the same tweet announcing the return, the Golden Arches also revealed that this time it’ll be the sandwich’s “farewell tour.”
Generally, the McRib hits menus in late fall — because nothing says ‘autumn’ like processed meat with fake bones molded into the shape of some ribs right? — but this announcement is a bit surprising. Is McDonald’s actually going to ditch the McRib for good?
the mcrib is coming back 10.31 but this is its farewell tour
Before you start hyperventilating, relax, because there is a high chance we’ll see the McRib again. According to McDonald’s corporate website, it seems like the McRib is just going to be taking a bit of a break after three consecutive years of hitting menus nationwide between fall and winter. This isn’t the first time the McRib has gone on an extended break either, the McRib wasn’t available nationwide between 2012 and 2020, though it did appear in a more limited capacity.
“Like any true farewell tour, we’re hoping this isn’t a ‘goodbye’ but a ‘see you later.’ Because as our McRibs Stans have experienced time and time again: you never know when — or if — the McRib is coming back,” says the Mcdonald’s website.
So the McRib going on a farewell tour means just about as much as Jay-Z announcing he’s going into retirement. It’s just a thing being said to move more product. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that McDonald’s isn’t planning on actually axing the McRib considering they released an NFT of the product last year and have been selling the sandwich off and on for over 40 years. Clearly, McDonald’s is following Taco Bell which also has a habit of ditching fan favorites only to bring them back again and again.
Here is how people responded to the stunt on Twitter.
people acting like this gonna stop me from absolutely demolishing 20 nuggets
If you don’t continue to bring it back yearly I will have nothing to look forward to in my life anymore and will have no choice but to end my own life You will have my blood on your hands instead of the sweet yet tangy bbq sauce I know and love
Why would you take away one of your best & favorite sandwiches? Instead of removing it, you should be adding it to the menu full time. Should’ve done it 20 years ago.
It’s really the only sandwich you have that can rival any other sandwich & stand atop of them all.
The Mc rib is one of the most exciting parts of your otherwise drab, boring, and lifeless menu. You might want to reconsider. Or at least start innovating.
Responses seem to be mixed but hopefully, it’s given McDonald’s some insight into fan favorites that have yet to make a return. Also, here is to hoping McDonald’s never brings back the living horror that is Mac Tonight.
On Monday, the world lost a longtime staple of television, film, and social media: Leslie Jordan, the diminutive performer whose exuberance and Southern drawl made him a favorite regular of the screen. He was 67.
Jordan’s life came to a sudden conclusion: As per The New York Times, Jordan crashed his BMW into a building in Los Angeles after suffering what’s been called a medical emergency. Details on what befell him have yet to be made public.
Before he took a bus out west to L.A., Jordan wasn’t sure what to do with his life. His tiny frame led him to become a jockey in his 20s. He eventually gave that up, pursued a theater degree, then redirected his life to performing. He started in commercials before landing a flurry of guest spots on shows like The Fall Guy, Murphy Brown, and Newhart. He became a recurring figure on the early ‘90s D.C. show Hearts Afire, alongside John Ritter, Markie Post, and a pre-fame Billy Bob Thornton. He also made a welcome appearance on American Horror Story.
It was perhaps his 17 appearances on Will & Grace, the pioneering sitcom featuring an out gay co-protagonist, for which he’s best known. He won an Emmy in 2006 for playing Beverley Leslie, the sardonic socialite who stole scenes.
But Jordan’s biggest hit may have been what amounted to one-man shows. During the height of the pandemic, quarantining in Tennessee near his family, he began posting quickie videos on Instagram, showing him doing silly things, like twirling with a baton. The world needed distractions and Jordan did just that. Soon he’d amassed millions of followers, turning him into the star he’d always wanted to be.
Jordan’s sudden passing prompted an avalanche of tributes, from fans and colleagues alike. Many who worked with him over the years — he amassed some 130-plus credits starting in the mid-‘80s — publicly mourned his passing.
Crushed to learn about the loss of @thelesliejordan, the funniest & flirtiest southern gent I’ve ever known. The joy and laughter he brought to every one of his #WillandGrace episodes was palpable. Gone about thirty years too soon. You were loved, sweet man.
My heart is broken. Leslie Jordan was one of the funniest people I ever had the pleasure of working with. Everyone who ever met him, loved him. There will never be anyone like him. A unique talent with an enormous, caring heart. You will be missed, my dear friend. pic.twitter.com/RNKSamoES0
Just devastated at this news. I worked with Leslie as an actor back in the 80s when he and I were in Ski Patrol together and he was just the best. A true sweetheart and such a funny person. The world is a much sadder place without him in it. RIP Leslie. https://t.co/1V6la8cMYE
I am stunned at the death of Leslie Jordan, who delighted us with his many roles on television and film. The cause of death was a car crash after he suffered a medical emergency. Leslie, we are heartbroken at your loss and will miss your mirth and your inimitable spirit.
My heart is breaking. Just learned that my brilliant old friend, LESLIE JORDAN, is no longer with us. Rest in peace my sweet southern sister. Your boundless joy will be deeply missed.
I was saddened to hear of Leslie Jordan’s passing. I didn’t know him personally but I enjoyed his work & his fab quarantine videos. A few years ago he contributed this sweet clip to a video a friend put together for my birthday. Godspeed, Leslie. Thanks for the laughs & the love. pic.twitter.com/ij3cwHk0Yf
The rumor mill is abuzz with speculation that Travis Scott has been stepping out on Kylie Jenner, but Travis made it a point to shut it all down in no uncertain terms. According to E! News, an Instagram model by the name of Rojean Kar shared a video of Travis from the set of a shoot, prompting Travis to react on his own account.
“It’s a lot of weird sh*t going on,” he wrote. “An uninvited person was sneaking photos on, what was supposed to be, a closed set while I was directing a video. I’m saying this for the last time. I don’t know this person. I’ve never been with this person. So please stop with the continuous cyber games and the fictional storytelling.”
Kar returned fire on her account, writing, “Saying you don’t know me and you’ve never once been with me when you’ve definitely been with me, when f*cking everybody’s seen you with me, when I have pictures and videos of you with me, come on. Come on, Sir. This Valentine’s Day, I saw you. I ran out the door and you had every single girl I know blowing me up, like, ‘Trav’s asking for you, come back.’ Are we pretending that didn’t happen too? Like, come on. You cheat on that bitch every single f*cking night. The whole f*cking city sees it.”
Travis had a response to that as well, posting a photo of a dinner table covered in a festive spread and writing, “If u wasn’t at this table on V day then u wasn’t with me.”
Of course, there will always be fans who will keep speculating about any potential infidelity but until there’s solid evidence, it’s probably best to consign this one to the realm of rumor.
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