“Skull-splintering spikes shatter my calm!”

54. Throwback – Mark Manley

So, you start menopause and suddenly a creature is growing out of your spine. I wonder why there aren’t any commercials about that. They’re so focused on hot flashes, but there are so many kinds of body horror for women. Anyway, the spinal creature growing symptom of menopause in this 1987 weirdie is a genetic condition specific to at least the one family in Wisconsin, the family of Arleen Lucas; who previously only showed emotion through her paintings and now just radiates the white hot urge to kill. The last time it happened, the Boulder Creek sheriff didn’t want to let the local doctor “pack her in ice and send her to Madison” and so, it’s happening again. But this time it gets to the point where Arleen is going to run amuck in Madison. Like seriously amuck. Even in the mall (just to note, there are actually two malls in Madison and I noticed that they did not specify which one, but maybe 1987 Madison only had one). She kills police, she steals a baby, she’s becoming one with the rat-like creature that grew forth from her spine, it’s ridiculous and not so bad.

 

Salem, even in 1987, was totally incapable of running amuck.