What is it about basements that give us the Hebe-Geebies?

Some of the scariest horror movies of our times always feature a creepy basement.

Think of the McNeil residence from the exorcist.

Silence of the Lambs, the evil dead psycho, the people under the stairs,

and there's literally even a movie called The Basement. I was personally traumatized by my first

basement in the 1990 blockbuster Home Alone which had a basement scene that has kept me above ground since I was four years old.

But it's not just movie producers that see the basement as more than a spot to toss next year's Christmas lights.

In fact, Freud thought of it as the receptacle of his subconscious and Joseph Campbell

relates the basement in his hero's journey as the abyss,

the unknown the belly of the well, the threshold the underworld, and even the death a

protagonist must face while fighting off demonic forces of Satan's hell before emerging

victorious in the final transformation.

However, unlike Campbell's hero, tonight's victim isn't sent to the basement to fight off the

demons and monsters from the underworld, but instead to resist the wicked and vile torture and her eventual death from the evil lurking above the floorboards. So Jen, what are we drinking tonight? It's called a dangerous girl.

Dangerous. It is tequila,

Aperol, orgot syrup, and lemon juice.

I kind of like it actually.

It looks kind of like a guava flavored something, I'm excited but at the same time

because it's like that's that orange color of guava you know I'm talking about I

know that it's not going to be guava but my mind keeps thinking it's going to

be guava so I know I'm going to be disappointed.

It's very, the lemon feels like a little bit of a lot,

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