Day: January 13, 2023

Nightmare 2 star Mark Patton asks for help amid AIDS battle

Mark Patton, who played Jesse from Nightmare on Elm Street part 2, was diagnosed with AIDS on his 40th birthday in 1999..

Today his manager has set up a go fund me to help pay for his medical bills as the virus takes on Patton..

The 63-year-old’s manager, Peter Valderrama, made a GoFundMe page for the actor Thursday, claiming Patton has “been ill for quite some time now” in Mexico, where he lives, with what was initially thought to be side effects of COVID-19, but has since been deemed “quite clearly AIDS-related ailments.”

Valderrama continues, “Mark is currently in a Mexican hospital where they speak very little English- and they are completely overcome with covid cases there. He needs to be transported to an American hospital down there where he can be receive more specialized care in a safer setting. For this, we humbly need to ask for help.”

Patton writes in his own words, “I just want to be healthy and at home with family. I need to move to American Hospital in Mexico where they can give me the treatment I desperately need. The American Hospital is $300 dollars a day with nurses, doctors and meds. The Mexican hospital are overwhelmed with Covid and I am too compromised to remain here.

“I have faced these medical challenges before and I know I have a lot of fight left in me- but the last few years have been crippling for me financially. I have always lived month to month and I have been struggling with medical visits since October. If anyone is able to contribute it would mean a life saving option for me to be recovering in a place that can cater to my condition.”

If you’re able to help out, you can donate over on Go Fund Me now.

January 13, 2023
Praise for low budget SKINAMARINK

The film SKINAMARINK only cost $15,000 to make.. it has been receiving high praise from various reviewers and a cult following in the internet..

From VULTURE:

Schoenbrun’s feature takes place almost entirely in the home of its young lead as well, but when it does head outside, it never shows another human being in its tableaus of big-box stores and multilane roads. Similarly, Skinamarink pushes its few human characters to the corners of the frame (when it shows them at all), shooting them from behind or in fragments. The house is the point, this bustling domestic place turned into an eerie limbo. Those unhurried shots of the upstairs hallway, the craggy Lego landscapes across a stretch of carpet, and a dining-room chair mysteriously attached to the ceiling all recall, more than anything, the liminal-spaces aesthetic that sprang out of message boards like 4Chan and Reddit a few years ago and has since spread across the larger internet.

An article from Variety offers high praise for the mundane and most actorless horror flick..

The film was released today in very select theaters.. it’s apparent popularity will determine how many other theaters eventually show it..

January 13, 2023
Covid booster Friday night safety news dump

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that there is a possible safety issue with the bivalent Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech..

The CDC said one of its vaccine safety monitoring systems – a “near real-time surveillance system” called the Vaccine Safety Datalink – detected a possible increase in a certain kind of stroke in people 65 and older who recently got one of Pfizer’s updated booster shots.

“A rapid response analysis” of that signal revealed that seniors who got an bivalent booster might be more likely to have ischemic strokes within the first three weeks after their shots, compared with weeks four through six.

Ischemic strokes, the most common form, are blockages of blood to the brain.

They’re usually caused by clots..

Officials continue to say that people should be vaccinated and boosted against Covid-19, while media outlets largely downplay any safety issues regarding the vaccine..

Developing..

January 13, 2023