In this episode of The Flop House, we review the number 23, the scariest of all the base 10 integers.

And now, the special Halloween remix of The Flop House theme.

When I was working in my laboratory, two skeletons came in and a money was also dancing.

Later on, vampires came in and the vampires had a friend and it was this creature from the Black Lagoon.

And there were other Frankenstein's there. One of them was a serial killer.

Is that enough?

Wikipedia has this to say about the number 23.

Walter Sparrow, Jim Carey, is an animal control officer, married to a cake shop owner, Agatha, Virginia Madsen.

They have a son Robin. The film opens with Walter narrating the events of his recent birthday.

He begins by describing how he received a call to catch a dog named Ned.

Walter is late meeting his wife and she enters a bookstore where she leaves through the book called The Number 23 by Topsy Cretz.

When Walter arrives, Agatha announces that she is going to buy the book for him for his birthday.

Walter starts reading the book, finding odd similarities between himself and the main character, a detective known as Fingerling.

The book details Fingerling's meeting with the Suicide Blonde, whose obsession with the number 23 drives her to murder her boyfriend

and commits suicide. The viewer sees Walter as the main character in this novel, while the real Walter becomes obsessed with the 23 phenomenon.

He shows his wife and son his own calculations, written on their walls, in which his name, house, and social security number all add up to 23.

Walter visits Dr. Isaac French, Danny Houston, a friend of Agatha's whom he hopes will be able to explain what's happening.

As Walter is drawn ever deeper into Fingerling's story, he begins to suspect Dr. French has romantic designs on Agatha, in parallel with events in the book.

His paranoia makes him dream of killing Agatha, after which he drives off in the middle of the night, winding up in the King Edward Hotel, and requests Room 23.

The book stops on chapter 22 with Fingerling on a balcony, trying to decide whether or not to jump after murdering his lover, Fabrizia.

Walter sees Ned the dog again, and follows him to the grave of Laura Talons, who died on her 23rd birthday.

Her body is still missing. Walter looks into her death and discovers Laura is sleeping with her professor, like Fabrizia in the book.

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