The Problem With Uncle Charlie: "Stoker", Savile, and the MK-Girls Revisited

The poster for the movie "Stoker" - pay attention to that key around her neck

I have started reading the Illuminati/MK-Ultra epic "Thanks For The Memories" by Brice Taylor. There is a whole genre of conspiracy-lore that I call, for lack of a better term, "MK-Girls" -- narratives concerning women who are allegedly born into/recruited/exploited/abused and otherwise turned into sex slave assassins by a secret society/Illuminati/warlocks/CIA/etc.

 

While my description of such narratives sounds rather flip, these stories are on the whole harrowing tales containing every sort of horrible thing that can be done to another human being that one can possibly imagine. They also often feature the name-dropping of celebrities and/or detailed descriptions of "satanic" rituals -- two factors that usually lead most media, as well as the ordinary Joe, to dismiss such claims as the fantasies of a disturbed mind.

I've always viewed stories such as Brice Taylor's with a very heavy grain of salt. She claims to have recovered her memories of being a Hollywood/political sex-robot (I'm saying this literally) after having a vehicle accident that gave her a head injury -- this is very similar to the circumstances to which Roseanne Barr, who also claimed to have been sexually molested, experienced when she was 16. So the "easy" answer here is to "blame" all these claims of abuse (and more fantastic-sounding things, like being "owned" by late comedian Bob Hope) on some sort of organic brain anomaly.

But there are two things that have had me revise this initial assessment to be, if not completely credulous of all these claims, at least slightly more open-minded about them.

Jimmy Savile

First thing: the Jimmy Savile scandal at the BBC. This fucker pulled off shit that is on-par with Taylor's narrative -- beloved celebrity involved in massive serial underage sexual abuse, within a pedophile "ring" of other celebrities and persons involved in the entertainment industry. So for someone to write off "Thanks For The Memories" based solely on the claim that Bob Hope was involved...we can just take one look at the Savile case and revise that particular criteria.

Here is what one victim of Savile's told her doctor had happened; imagine if someone like Brice Taylor had said the same thing:

She recalled being led into a room that was filled with candles on the lowest level of the hospital, somewhere that was not regularly used by staff. Several adults were there, including Jimmy Savile who, like the others, was wearing a robe and a mask. “She recognised him because of his distinctive voice and the fact that his blond hair was protruding from the side of the mask. He was not the leader but he was seen as important because of his fame. “She was molested, raped and beaten and heard words that sounded like ‘Ave Satanas’, a Latin­ised version of ‘Hail Satan’, being chanted. There was no mention of any other child being there and she cannot remember how long the attack lasted but she was left extremely frightened and shaken.”

Again, it has to be emphasized here: this is a real investigation that is still going on in Britain and has been taken extremely seriously. This is not a self-pubbed book or a YouTube slideshow. And yet the stories of Taylor, this girl in the Savile case, and countless other women all seem to have similar elements. Is this the result of some sort of mass mental delusion? Is this the result of confusing reality with pop-culture? Or is pop-culture merely mirroring -- almost "confessing," if you will -- what is really going on?

I have no firm answer here. I am merely asking questions.

Second thing: I wrote an entire comic book for Marvel Comics, "Punisher MAX: Butterfly" that featured pretty much EVERY MK-Girls theme and symbol in it -- including a big fucking monarch butterfly on the front cover -- without any idea I was doing it. Every symbol: butterflies, kitten alters, doll imagery & porcelain face, Delta "assassin" programming, being "thrown off the freedom train," incest, dissociation, multiple personalities, etc. It was only in retrospect, after encountering MK-Girls lore, that I realized this comic was essentially one more (albeit unconsciously written) such narrative.

It should also be noted that the comic was targeted for a massive campaign against it in the comics "media" (such as it is) in an attempt to "bury" it (including one reviewer quaintly suggesting that I have my hands chopped off at the wrists to prevent me from ever writing again). This encompassed an intense round of cyberbullying (even directed to those who dared give it positive reviews) and anonymous threats of violence and death emailed directly to me -- the latter of which I took so seriously as to never appear in public signings again.

(Of course, what was the plot of the comic? A woman who, through a book, exposes a conspiracy -- and literally gets hounded to death to keep silent. So the irony of the situation was just bloody brilliant.)

 This all begs the question: is the MK-Girls mythos, and its symbology, some sort of archetypal thing? Was I tapping, in some shamanic way, into some bigger Thing by writing this book? Are these symbols and situations so ingrained in the history of humankind and its rituals (my comic book references Sumerian mythology at the end) that it was merely a case of "channeling" these ideas as soon as the fingers hit the keyboard? Is pop-culture to blame, putting strange ideas in people's heads? Or again, is pop-culture -- of which, by writing this mass-produced bit of fiction, I now belong to -- unconsciously/consciously mirroring some dark corner of our society?

Again -- I am merely asking questions.

All of the preceding is a rather large and perhaps unwieldy prologue to the synchromystic post at hand, about a strange, recurring figure in pop-culture: "Uncle Charlie."

We start with the trailer for the upcoming Nicole Kidman starrer "Stoker," a Hitchcockian (or Brian dePalmian, take your pick) thriller featuring a teenager played by Mia Wasikowska whose strange, emotionless "Uncle Charlie" comes to visit after her father dies:

As we see in the trailer, Uncle Charlie appears to be a complete predatory psycho, who not only acts seductively to his so-called niece, India, but seems to indoctrinate her into the art of killing and violence culminating with the girl handling an assassin's rifle:

Coincidentally enough, Brice Taylor had her own Uncle Charlie, a strange emotionless man who indoctrinates her into the world of sex slavery and political intrigue:

"Uncle Charlie was very distinguished looking and wore formal clothes...in a compete nightmarish horror, I watched as my grown father looked retarded and became very childlike when this relative, Charles Lilley Horn, spoke to him. And when the talk turned to subjects I could not fathom, and Uncle Charlie held out a paper for my father to sign...Uncle Charlie further directed my father where to take me for early programming that involved machines and told him about the arrangement with Bob Hope and the connection to the government."

Following up on the line in the "Stoker" trailer about Uncle Charlie looking very much like India's dad, we get this passage from Taylor:

"...Uncle Charlie very secretly and with great import informed me that he was my real father and that dad wasn't my real father...when I asked Uncle Charlie who my real mother was he just nodded quickly and said "You don't gave one, it doesn't matter."

Taylor's Uncle Charlie then allegedly introduces her to Henry Kissinger, which starts her down the road of political intrigue/prostitution.

In "Stoker," Wasikowska is very much portraying the MK-Girls narrative of the underage innocent who is seduced, possibly involved in incest, corrupted, manipulated and even driven to violence. If we want to find another thematic link to the actress and the subject matter, it is interesting to note that her most famous role to date is the title role in Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland":

Note how the symbol of the keyhole leads back to the key she is wearing in the "Stoker" poster

Taylor cites the figure of Alice as being very crucial to her programming. From a scene in "Thanks For The Memories" taking place in Disneyland:

"Next, the man took me to scary rides and poked me with needles in my waist and legs while he said things during the Alice in Wonderland ride, like, "This is not really happening. I am not really sticking this needle in your leg. You are just like Alice. You also ate the large mushroom and feel funny -- this is not real."

But as any film buff knows, the "Stoker" Uncle Charlie is far from the most famous. That honor would go to the Uncle Charlie played by Joseph Cotten in the 1943 thriller "A Shadow of A Doubt" (originally titled, "Uncle Charlie"). You will be shocked to know that this U.C. is also a creepy, semi-incestuous criminally-minded individual who manipulates his teenage niece.

Uncle Charlie in 1943's "Shadow Of A Doubt"...

...and Uncle Charlie from 2013's "Stoker"

So here you have this archetype of "Uncle Charlie" -- the corrupter, the "real dad," the indoctrinator, the metaphorical or literal perpetrator of incest.

Did Brice Taylor "misremember" her Uncle Charlie from the plot of "Shadow of a Doubt"? Is "Uncle Charlie" a bit more than that -- a predatory boogieman/tulpa haunting the lives of exploited teenage girls? Is it a "code word" of some sort for an actual operative that infiltrates families and indoctrinates these young women into some horrible type of MK-Ultra/cult type situation?

Psychopathic Eyes: The "Uncle Charlie" Archetype

I wanted to take a look once again at the cast of "Stoker" before I end this post. Nicole Kidman plays an ineffectual mother who is unable/unwilling/blind to the conspiracy that surrounds her and that involves her daughter -- a role much like the wife in the Stanley Kubrick "Illuminati" classic "Eyes Wide Shut":

And while Matthew Goode may not seem like a household name, he looked naggingly familiar to me. Looking him up on IMDB, I realized why:

He played Ozymandias in "Watchmen."

In the end, it could just be that Brice Taylor was indeed the sufferer of childhood abuse who created a "fantasy" world where that abuse included celebrities and political figures in a ring of pedophilia and odd rituals culled from a Hammer film. It could be that the figure of "Uncle Charlie" is nothing more than something used in a film in the 1940s, then "homaged" in "Stoker"...with Taylor, as suggested, being influenced by the former.

And perhaps all the supposedly significant and strange symbolism I loaded my story with was unconsciously "absorbed" from a few dozen films and TV shows; or maybe I am lying to you now and purposely added the symbolism to jump on the "Britney/Rhianna is a mind-controlled MK-slave bandwagon" (an action of which, I assure you, I made a tremendous amount of cash on and can now live a life of leisure).

But if all that is potentially true -- what are we to make about the case of Jimmy Savile? Was Savile a lone mutation, a metaphorical "Uncle Charlie" who floated into children's hospitals and the like, leaving a broken, twisted trail of abused children in his wake?

As I said and will continue to say -- I merely ask questions, here.