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KharBevNor:
There's a really egregious reference to MLWtTKK in the Hunter: The Vigil 'Slasher' sourcebook (the one with rules for playing as a supernatural serial killer).

De_El:

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--- Quote from: De_El on 14 Apr 2011, 18:56 ---Johnny, you're looking at the picture without reading the caption.

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you posted the band name PWIN ▲▲ TEAKS i only did what any reasonable human would do

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I mean, okay. I suppose we do have several threads made specifically to point and shout about bands w/ ridiculous names, poses w/e.

But on the real. Yeah, Khar, it occurred to me that a lot of bands draw heavily on other cultural influences for their music.  The relationship between metal and fantasy fiction, especially Tolkien, is a pretty interesting example.  The thing about psychobilly and b-movies is a good comparison, as well. You're definitely on the right track.

I guess what really makes the case with witch house stand out to me, quibbles about the quality or validity of the genre aside, is the singular focus of its cultural obsession. Sure, the Misfits were all about horror movies, and TKK were all about b-movies, but with these witch house characters there's a lot of very direct reference to just this one show.

KvP:
It's odd, because I'm going through it again and there's not a lot that Witch House is evoking about it, for me. A few of the bands take after Badalamenti, sound-wise (as I said earlier, most seem to be going for some variation on John Carpenter), but the visual and iconographic aspects of the genre don't seem all that Lynchian to me. It seems more... I don't know, Giallo.

David_Dovey:
Hey nobody said they were any good at evoking Lynch. Witch house is nothing if not a dilettante-magnet

De_El:
It's true, witch house is very Giallo. You may be right, though.  I took a cursory look around at some witch house groups' myspaces and did a GIS, and it's not as extensive as I had made it out to be.  Silver Strain has a lot of stuff like this



and then there's Cosmotropia de Xam stuff like this



A lot of groups throw a few owls into their images and videos, though that's a bit more of an oblique reference. And, granted, it's entirely possible that some of them just like owls or something. Part of what threw me off is that a lot of them will say, post a screen shot from Twin Peaks on their facebook wall, but that's not the same as actually incorporating it into what they do.

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