Eldridge & McCobb

Long-forgotten Great Lakes shipping line. Purveyors of history, horror, and the supernatural.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

We asked #Grok3: "What are the Top Ten Horror Movies someone should watch?" This was its answer. What do you think of this list?

1. The Exorcist (1973)
2. Halloween (1978)
3. The Shining (1980)
4. Alien (1979)
5. Psycho (1960)
6. Jaws (1975)
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
9. Scream (1996)
10. Hereditary (2018)

Spot on? Way off? Comment so loud @elonmusk will hear you.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@unknown_th81973 Nothing west of the Mississippi, eh? A little dubious.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@FinalGhou1x We hate to agree — but are almost forced to. Every time we think of them critically, we realize how incapable they are of thinking of themselves critically. It’s…breathtaking.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@FinalGhou1x I guess the attempt at humor’s not coming through on our part. In our defense, though, we weren’t looking to martial an army. 😆

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@FinalGhou1x Yeahhh, but not the cool ones. (Also: I’m just kidding around. I find generational fights mostly absurd. Except for actual Boomers. Those guys have it coming.)

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@FinalGhou1x We knew a time where Pee-Wee and Cosby were family friendly icons and not just guys you should probably avoid in a public park at night. That’s experience, mkay? That’s earned wisdom.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@wired4wonder “It’s playing the piano!”

“It’s playing the piano!”

“It’s playing the piano!”

>it’s not playing the piano

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@wired4wonder We’re just flat-out going to say no. Whenever investigators pull this thing out, it’s eye-rolling time.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@RetrovaniaLand SOTL has the GOAT as Lecter, so it edges out Manhunter for us. Brian Cox isn’t bad, but he’s no Hopkins. Demme made a perfect film there. But while Red Dragon has Hopkins, Norton, Fiennes and Philip Seymour Hoffman — unreal cast — I prefer Manhunter telling the same story.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

#nw If you haven’t, you should.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@RetrovaniaLand One of our favorite directors. Watching this for the first time years after seeing SOTL blew our minds.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@FinalGhou1x Gonna go with Nightbreed.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@RetrovaniaLand

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@AlexShepard45 @Azum56 @EberdeenJoseph We’re on it, too!

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@aparanormalgeek Interesting. We really enjoy and appreciate the perspectives of those actually conducting investigations.

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

“I generally find psychic mediums in my #paranormal investigation content…”

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@paranormal_leo Congratulations!

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@unknown_th81973 Indeed it was. And with some limited success, as we understand it. It raises a fundamental question with the scientific method itself: just because something isn’t repeatable, does that mean it doesn’t exist?

[Eldridge & McCobb @EldridgeMcCobb]

@paranormal_leo The phenomenon has some credence, of course. The FBI has used mediums in cases, and both the Soviet and U.S. militaries maintained programs during the Cold War, but herein is the trouble: it’s not scientifically repeatable, therefore hard to tell a real one from a fraud.