so. Just finished watching “Strange Behavior” all the way.

Took me some time because horror movies aren’t my thing, I’m here for the Dan Shor cuteness… had to take the gory parts in small, spaced-out doses.

Also, I make no secret of having the hots for Dan Shor as Ram… but I’m mainly into aliens and machines, so Dan Shor as this particular human character doesn’t set off quite the same responses for me. (Though I did of course still find him sweet and pretty, and did occasionally feel the urge to take clips and adjust hues into an Encom-glowy color scheme so I could pretend he was Ram.)

Anyway, I’m gonna ramble on about scenes from this movie in no particular order, from the viewpoint of being a Fan of Dan, Especially as Ram, and not a horror movie person at all.

I’m still gonna warn you, there’s references to horror-movie-type things in here… but I won’t go into TOO much detail or post gifs of the very worst bits.

Still, there’s gonna be SOME gifs and discussions of some creepy-ass scenes, so viewer discretion is advised. For both some disturbing horror movie plot elements, and spoilers about said plot elements.

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The character of Pete is a young man finishing up high school… for his age I’d guess 18 since he says at one point that he’ll be going to college next year. In true Hollywood tradition he was played by Dan Shor at age (I think) 25.

(side note. apparently Dan Shor’s first major role was in “Equus,” which… HOLY FUCK. Only read the wikipedia for that if you are prepared for some WEIRD SHIT. Storyline is… strangely in tune with my view of Encom Programs as having a sexual connection with their gods? but takes it off on the most utterly fucked-up tangent. I’m sorta almost glad this was a stage play and there isn’t a film readily available for me to watch.)

(also, random little side note that his character in Equus was named Alan. Which probably means nothing. And is NOT AT ALL connected to Alan Bradley’s actor and how he feels about horses.)

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Anyway.

Pete’s mother died long ago and he’s like, really sweetly close with his dad– to a degree that I suppose some pervs might interpret as weird (like, the one time he gets, uh, just naked enough that I wouldn’t put the gif on tumblr? is when he’s hangin out alone with his dad.) Initial sorta-conflict of the story is that he wants to stay in town where dad is, and dad wants him to go to college somewhere else and see more of the world (which is influenced, we find out later, by stuff his dad knows about fucked-up shit going on at the local college Pete wants to attend).

(Dad’s name is John Brady. Brady, not Bradley. Pattern recognizer has to strain again to see connections there. Also there is an Alan in this movie, but he’s a bartender who appears for a couple seconds in the last scene. Moving on.)