Watched Martin Campbell's HBO TV movie called Cast a Deadly Spell, a 90s hard-boiled film noir pastiche set in an alternate dark fantasy occult-horror LA. Here's the scene of Fred Ward's Detective Phil Lovecraft stealing the Necronomicon from a gargoyle & kicking him in the nuts.
College+ showed me a lot of mfkers weren’t parented or even raised. Just housed, fed, and tolerated until it was legal to unleash them on the rest of us