T-shirt with a black logo, abundant beard, tattoos covering his arms, rings and ear jewelry, we can say that Philippe Soares is looking for the job. “I like the dark side,” he says. However, this forty-something, less gruff than introverted, worked for a long time in banking and insurance, really not enough to engage in a passion that he always had deleted for his professional activities. However, since last August, as a rebirth after a mass shooting, Philippe Soares opened “The Dark Eyes Shop”, his own shop near the center of the city of Reims: a dedicated shop, as the name suggests praise, for horror and horror. esotericism!
Already the creator of the young “Fèis Frissons” dedicated to horror literature, the first edition of which was held in Reims in 2023, used to the stories about witches that he was told as a child there the hometown of his parents in Portugal, Philippe Soares’ pages here provide free relief to a long-held desire for something else. “When I was a kid,” he admits, “I used to hide and watch horror movies. I must have been 8 years old. i saw The ExorcistI was in 6th grade and I loved it. When you like that kind of stuff, you don’t get a lot of attention so I found myself alone a lot. »
In his new cabinet of curiosities of about 50 m2, between old cherry wood furniture and very appropriate frames – like this poster for the movie “Christine”, a bloody story of a fatal car released in 1983 – there are clothes , mostly self-published books but also second-hand classics, masks (Michael Myers and “Halloween”, “Ghostface” and “Scream”), films, figurines, objects related to esotericism, the paranormal and “wicca” (a religious movement of nappies)!
“I have everything as clients”
“We are not involved in Satanism either,” warns Philippe Soares. We can’t find any books on black magic, but we can’t find anything to do purification rituals with Palo Santo, a sacred wood that is supposed to ward off evil spirits. » In total, about 500 references from movies and books and objects have been combined to amuse (or scare) a diverse audience. “The crazy thing is that I have all kinds of customers, enthusiasts from the beginning, young people, old people, curious people passing through, teenagers who are a little lost with me taking time to drink coffee and chat… » Imagined as an open and welcoming place, between plaques of tombstones, jars with snake rattles, bloody tarantulas, the landlord Philippe Soares is preparing for his first Halloween. “I got Ghostface masks,” he announces. Besides, they are bloody. »
The Dark Eyes Shop @thedarkeyes_shop19 rue Hincmar, Reims (Marne)
2024-10-01 10:11:08
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