#kinda predictable with its jumpscares and plot and all that

[fuckedupsociety155]

Just watched the fnaf movie, and maybe it was the fact that I watched it at 10pm and had been awake since 5am and was just so fucking tired, but when I saw matpat's name tag said ness my mind just went "YOU NICKNAMED MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE LOCH NESS MONSTER??!?!?!" Before I realized it was because of the sans is ness theory.

[kogameh]

I didn't liveblog the epilogue like I did with Teal Mask since I moved my reactions to twt but my goooooood it was so GOOD 😭 I'm kinda obsessed with it actually. Everyone was so full of personality and there's a LOT you can dissect from their lines and interactions!! The writers really do a lot of care into them oh my god

Again there's a Lot to dissect even if the story is like. what. 1 hour long but fav highlights on top of my head are:

ARVEN BEING JEALOUS OF KIERAN LMAOOOO This is like THE popular headcanon when Kieran first existed and its REAL????

There's just a lot of lines where the gang def hang out a lot off screen like Penny going all "You want to meet Kieran because you want to BATTLE him, dont you?" at Nemona and Arven thinking Nemona is gonna jumpscare them when she went missing bc he predict her all too well augahaghah... I love when it shows that theyre close ya know...

Also some little details easily missable in dialogues like Penny (and Nemona?) having sweet tooth and Carmine's fav food being yakisoba, etc, I'm def scratching the surface here lol

AND THEN HOW ARVEN AND KIERAN BECAME BESTIES SO FAST DESPITE HOW THEY FIRST MET AAAAAAH i REALLY hope they get to play games and watch movies on that tv-

Actually the whole Paldea-gumi got along with Kieran fast like how Nemona is excited (but also scares Kieran) on finding another person to battle with...and Penny vibing with another introvert/shy friend... He deserves it sooooo muuuuuch

Uh. The whole zombie infection thing actually horrifies me (in a way it flinches me to see my favs being put in an embarrassing situation #&@%&@) BUT I will say I like how Kieran is the main tsukkomi here and some parts shows he still have his, uh, unwell side.

Also being a sgao enjoyer they DEF get a lot of moments and I'm so glad they teamed up 😭 It's funny how much people (including me) are expecting Kieran to be under the Momotaro's influence only for him to be the two survivors along with MC £^*@^@*@&

Speaking of, Pecharunt actually didn't get much role here outside of being the mastermind which def disappointed a lot of people wanting more lore on the Pokemon side so yeah....its kinda funny that THE main purpose of this distribution got put in the backburner like that. In fact both Indigo Disk and this event feels more character-focused over the Pokemons? ^#*@^@*^ Which is kinda a risky move considering most Pkmn fans can't rea-

In the end they did implied they hang out off screen but that left me wanting MORE... Can I get an iyashikei with just Paldea-gumi and Kitakami siblings PLEASEEEEEEE

The whole thing feels like a stupid B-movie plot and I LOVE it...a proof that some stories don't have to be a masterpiece if its already brimming with personalities and charm. Why am I seeing fuckers complaining over more buttons to mash just go back to previous gens if you want your bland ass mythical distributions via PokeCen NPCs or some shit!!!

I. would put my overall conclusion here but that means having to accept ScarVio has ended. I'm NOT doing that (inhaling copium). This is probably gonna remain the only mainline Pokemon I'll ever get attached to so...yeah...I'm gonna miss them a lot...

(Anyway I have to yell here because I have no one to talk about this event. Its lonely when you're just exploding by yourself hahhaah.)

[simplylove101]

2023 Horror Challenge: [45/?]

↳“The further you travel, the riskier the journey becomes.“ Insidious: The Red Door (2013) dir. Patrick Wilson

Plot: The Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.

Starring: Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Sinclair Daniel, Hiam Abbass, Andrew Astor & Rose Byrne

Well, I have finished the franchise. lol This was... *interesting*. Not quite exactly how I imagined this conclusion to go down, both bad and good. It's certainly the weakest one in terms of story for me. I very much enjoyed the intent behind making the narrative focused on Dalton and Josh's characters both remembering the forgotten past, it made sense to have those two storylines paralleling off each other as they went along. But at the end of the day, there really wasn't much to grab onto that felt fresh beyond Dalton's college stuff. Which is an aspect I actually was all here for because it was a change of scenery and new faces, particularly Chris. I genuinely appreciated her presence because she brought the needed lightness that you usually get from Specs and Tucker in this franchise (who do make an appearance but it's quite lame tbh, same for Elise). I tried getting more into Josh's storyline because Patrick Wilson is great, (and as someone who truly enjoys both The Conjuring/Insidious universes I'm so grateful he seems to thrive in the horror genre) but his is just kinda okay for me. They try to slowly build up to a reveal within it that is probably the only true twist of the movie but once you kinda think about it, it's quite predictable and they don't do much with it. In terms of jumpscares, there's some. I will say the MRI scene... If you know, you know. It got me a little because that is one of my irrational fears, getting stuck in one of those machines. There's like a middle one that didn't get me at all and part of me was disappointed cuz I'm used to these movies having me on the edge of my seat. It could be a little slow and boring at parts. As far as a directorial debut, I think Patrick did all right but the writing was subpar because where were the twists? But the acting was great from the main cast as always. Really so cool they got back not just Ty but also even just Andrew Astor back as Foster, considering how young they were in the first two movies. But yeah, if you're going into this movie expecting answers for the lore of The Further and The Red Door and everything else, sadly, we get nothing new. Which is just kinda mind-boggling they went to all this effort when they really didn't have anything new to say, which should always be the point of a sequel or reboot. This had so much potential to be an epic conclusion to have the series end on a high note but unfortunately, that was not the case here. It had its moments though so it wasn't all bad as I said before. But it's definitely just a shadow of how good and classic that first movie felt.

Tell me why I never watched a teaser or a trailer for this until after the movie and I noticed how they put all the best scary stuff in it. Like why spoil that??? Ugh I hate trailers that give everything good away. lol

[horrificyaps]

some borrasca yaps

Almost done w ep 2 of Borrasca, interest is definitely peaked. It's slow moving but the way they capture your attention through audio effects and prioritizing certain tone is pretty nice. I'm assuming its a skinwalker/wendigo type of horror, from the plot points they've laid down thus far. It's really weird hearing Cole Sprouses voice in this, my brain hardcore associates him as Cody and I feel like I'm more immersed cuz I'm kinda like why isnt he in a hotel w his twin but that could just be me. The build up is very suspenseful though, I'm enjoying the pace. I'm not getting too distracted by his voice, mostly cause he hasn't yapped too much and it's mostly the flashbacks, or childhood retelling, whatever you wanna call it. But it's like a little jumpscare each time he comes back to talking with the parole officer LMAO - Watched some more - On Ep 8, overall the story has kept my interest peaked, i like the suspense build up, after they foreshadowed sam doing something terrible to kyle, all of their searching and run-ins are making me nervous, the way this is executed is really well done. the uneasiness of being able to trust sams father is a bit dragged out, im genuinely drawn in both directions, cant tell which way the story is about to go. the bed was fucking freaky, all of the handwriting, im assuming sexual assault themes are coming up which creates another feeling of unease. the connections between the prescotts and his boss is very interesting, the dementia aspect is a good touch, mixing crazy supernatural bs with mental illness is one of my favorite things to see in horror media, adds a complete wild card to the situation. i really like how this series has been done, i havent really listened to anything like this before, like idk ive heard creepypastas on youtube but this is like a production, the attention to detail is what really draws me in, all of the different storylines, i do really appreciate the eldritch themes but i do find it a little bit predictable in that sense, i love when people tell stories like a puzzle and this is definitely a good representation of it, having to piece all of it together is the best part, but i genuinely don't know where the story is going because of all the different directions it has foreshadowed, its definitely got me wanting to listen to more stories in this style. im normally not a big fan of sound effects, its a big reason why i prefer eastern horror vs western horror, but the way they add everything in is smooth and genuinely helps build the unease and fear of whats to come. that's my thoughts thus far, im ngl ive had it in the background all day listening in on it and my attention span is normally that of a toddler, so i have to give it some props in the attention grabbing aspect

[weadorebadmovies]

Bad Movie I Adore: M3GAN

When the trailer for M3GAN dropped, I was just as excited as everyone else. A dancing murdering robot was the flamboyant chucky knockoff we all didn’t know we needed. I knew this would be a campy mess, and a campy mess we got! I am excited to say it’s just as terrible as I had hoped. 

M3GAN is a mess- it’s derivative, predictable, and decides to do almost nothing with its awesome concept. It’s a true Blumhouse production in every way- making for a great watching experience.  That being said, do not expect to be surprised, as it’s exactly what the trailer advertises it as and not much more.

Spoilers below!

The good (everything I like!)

The movie balances comedy and horror great. M3GAN’s actress carries it in this fashion- she is at times endearing, creepy, contortionist-y, and a little terrifying! The cinematography helps in this aspect as well- M3GAN is often lurking in the background, most eerie when she’s not active.  

M3GAN herself looks amazing. She’s just unsettling enough, making her home in the uncanny valley. You can see why Cady is able to become good friends with her due to her cheery voice and lifelike movements as well. 

The bad (everything I love!)

M3GAN knows what it’s doing. The camp in this movie is so dense it could be a world’s scouts jamboree. It’s referential, and M3GAN often just kinda... stops doing what she’s doing in order to mess around. There’s absolutely no reason for her to dance as she does, but she does it! 

There’s a little campy horror movie decision making of course. Characters make dumb decisions (resulting in M3GAN blowing up in the first few scenes, for instance) but the main character is surprisingly sound in her decision making. She figures out what’s happening and tries to get M3GAN away from her kid, although for some reason the robot actively disobeying her isn’t quite enough for her to do this. Many of the other characters are kinda just meatbags and irrational, and it’s GREAT. Even kids without dead parents will love M3GAN!

It’s exactly what you’re shown in the trailer- campy fun that doesn’t take itself seriously. 

The ugly 

Unfortunately, it is exactly what you’re shown in the trailer. The death/fight scenes in the trailer are almost all of them, and that’s about it for the goofy fun moments. M3GAN running on all fours, being a contortionist, and dancing as she kills people is great, but that’s about it for the absurdism. I still laughed seeing it happen on screen, but I was never surprised.

And that applies to the rest of the movie- aside from jumpscares, nothing is really surprising. It’s very beat-for-beat and is nearly identical plot wise to all the other evil doll/robot horror movies out there. Every character that dies is someone you could predict dying in the first ten minutes or so, and not a single one is likeable- the deaths hold no weight at all. 

Seriously, almost every plot point is predictable, and it’s a problem. Going into the movie, absolutely everyone knows M3GAN is going to be a murderer and the villain. And yet the movie still takes its time pretending she won’t be and letting her act innocent, meaning the first third will be spent just waiting for her to finally make her move. Hell, we even predicted the final fight would be between M3GAN and the aunt’s old robot Bruce as soon as we saw him.

Despite M3GAN’s flamboyance, she never really perfects the art of murder. Maybe it’s the pg13 rating, but I feel like it could really benefit from a bit more gore or absurdist kills. The campiness feels lonely without some great kills!

Overall

Ultimately, M3GAN is a slight disappointment. The movie never goes beyond the trailer. If you thought the trailer was funny, you’ll have about the same enjoyment you had watching the movie you did watching the trailer. Of course, it’s great to laugh at, point out the flaws in, and ultimately just turn your brain off a bit for. 

A 4/10 movie, but a 7/10 watching experience!

[kk-dirge]

rambling?? NOT about pokeau?? its more likely than you think

putting my thoughts here so they dont get lost in discord (yes i have a design doc no i will not use it because its a hot mess)

gensoSL related - possible perma-story quest stuff

it's kind of low on my priority list cuz i still need to fully roll out battles and redo aya’s quest and maybe add a daily quest but @_@

i had a dream followed by a very interesting encounter with a visitor that got me thinking if i wanted to add a permanent installation of a story quest, what would it be?

the dream was about me building a train in SL and thats about all i remember. the visitor was a very bold person looking for RP who kinda jumpscared me while i was working on stuff, but i did a quick scene with them and learned their character was a dimensional traveler looking for a missing beloved person.

so given the inspo from that encounter and the dream my brain was like......... renmerry?

theres 2 ‘species’ groups players can choose from, being youkai or human. i was thinking that based of which group the player chooses, the story would start differently. human players assist renko in the ‘real world’, while youkai help maribel in gensokyo

the goal is to reunite them and/or figure out why maribel is trapped in gensokyo. perhaps maribel’s abilities backfired on her and she wound up stuck in gensokyo with no way to contact renko. but why would they backfire so suddenly is the question 🤔 maybe something sinister is behind it

the obvious choice of an antagonist would be yukari, and like, she already has a model, but that’s because she’s the october event boss. i don’t wanna reuse her and also its Predictable but also.. there’s really nobody else with ties that major sdfghj

i still need to formulate like. a Plot. but i’d want the stories to intertwine, and the two different starts lead to the same ending

of course the main caveat to this would mean i’d have to make ANOTHER gd layer to the world (for the ‘real world’) but i may be able to get away with making it just a network of skyboxes with the illusion of a larger area.

[jcmorrigan]

What movie or tv show scared you the most?

OH HEEHEEHEEEEEE MY TIME HAS COME

I think this was probably the sign I was meant to be a horror fan, because I'm gonna talk about two movies here and neither one is a standard horror film. Now, I avoided horror films like the plague, but I now realize that's because of my aversion to jumpscares and gore, which have very little to do with actual scary stuff. I feared actual horror imagery as a small child, but basically once I read Coraline it all just turned around because that book gave me nightmares but I actually WANTED those nightmares and kept going back to the book. So what are the movies I just COULD NOT contend with?

First up, I have found that a lot of people have said this one, but really and truly, fuck Chicken Run.

I was...maybe ten when I watched it. Signed up for a goofy claymation adventure. What did I get? First of all, a whole lot of bleak color palette that warned me that this was not going to be a happy story. We are then shown the stakes right away: our entire main cast lives in a dystopian prison and if they do not find a way to escape, they will die. One DOES die. This is where a lot of people say they noped out right away, but actually, the execution of the dinner chicken in the first scene was tame for me compared to what would come next.

The pie machine. It's assembled, it's talked about, and eventually our two leads fall into it in a way that is designed to be fatal. Look, there are a ton of horror tropes in this scene alone. I haven't seen it SINCE THE ONE AIRING and I can still vividly tell you a lot of this. And if I walked into a horror film and asked for this, I'd come out super satisfied, but I was not expecting horror from this. First of all, I remember vividly the shot where you're looking from Ginger's POV falling down the shaft and the divider comes up to shunt her into the "meat" line. It's incredibly claustrophobic and you just get this almost jumpscare reminder that the character through whose eyes you see is regarded as nothing more than meat to be consumed. There is then an array of blades designed for close calls, and dough that essentially glues the lead characters down to a conveyor belt so they have to helplessly watch the death machines that are coming. Sticky stuff that roots you to one spot; that's another thing that just REALLY unnerves me and I love it if I'm reading CreepyPasta but I was not reading CreepyPasta; I was watching a children's film. The leads escape certain death by jamming the gravy system, causing the machine to overload on pressure, and here I feel like I should've been relieved that they escaped but instead I was the most unsettled of all when the pressure meter started climbing. I don't know if this film *gave* me a phobia of industrial accidents or if it just awakened what was already in my OCD little brain, but suffice to say that after this movie, I was hyper-aware of my own fear of things like hissing steam, rising pressure meters, and being in a room where large metal things were clanking. (I'm since over it; I've been exposed to it in enough things.)

Now, I was no quitter. I should have just noped out. But I didn't. I continued to traumatize myself. The next part of the film until the climax I don't remember so well - it wasn't as traumatizing - EXCEPT for the part where Ginger finds and rebuilds Rocky's circus poster. And now, as an adult, I can see how that was kinda supposed to be funny, like, "The goddamn chicken padded his résumé and the way they found this out was a circus poster." But little me was invested in these chickens, I wanted them to be happy, and what I saw was basically their death notice being signed with that scrap of paper with a cannon on it. I FELT that in my bones.

STILL NOT HAVING THE GOOD SENSE TO JUST EJECT THE TAPE ALREADY, I proceeded to the climax, in which what happens to Tweedy might be one of the most fucking awful things I've seen ever? Pinned upside-down in a superheated, confined space with rising liquid from below as the pressure meter starts climbing again. And her husband arrives just in time to see her like this but not in time to actually stop the explosion. Thank God it didn't actually kill her because even though I was already traumatized, that would've absolutely made it worse.

Thing is, ever since this movie scared the absolute shit out of me - and was probably the cause of the weird stomachaches I had for A WEEK after - I've kinda had this thing about reclaiming the scary parts and stomping on them while laughing maniacally. I feel like every time I've done a crossover project, there's been a temptation to write in an arc where the mains go up against THE PIE MACHINE and fucking win. And also there's whump with tons of comfort in my version to mitigate it all. I haven't done any such thing for TBTC...YET. But I know what I must do. I know who must destroy the machine and the Tweedys along with it. Buckle your seatbelts.

My final word before I move on is that as I ascend into adulthood, I think that for the most part, a rewatch of this film wouldn't traumatize me so badly. It'd still be gross and creepy in a way I think shouldn't be sent to children without warning, but I could deal with the imagery, maybe enjoy using it as whump fuel even more, maybe my horror side would really get into the peril this time. But the one thing I've realized is that this premise is fucked EVEN MORE if you're a grown-up, because as a child, you're sympathizing with the chickens. You want them to get free of this death camp environment. But as an adult, you start to realize that all Tweedy wanted to do was be a chicken farmer who sold pie, and her supposedly nonsentient animals ganged up on her in a display of unheard-of intellect among farm stock. This would then lead to her undergoing at least one near-death fate. Think about being a farmer in our world and the animals you keep GANG UP ON YOU LIKE PEOPLE because you're killing them for food. No thank you, no THANK you.

But surely this was a one-of-a-kind phenomenon. Surely, after this...after so many other people agreed with me; "Fuck Chicken Run"...no animation studio would ever pull shit like this again.

I had hoped that was the case until Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

This is one I don't actually see lambasted as often. Maybe because the Chicken Run trauma crew grew thicker skins before this movie. I only sort of did. Maybe because no one ever actually invested in this film, having already predicted how much it would be garbage from the dumb humor in the trailers. Oh, but not me. I was a fool. Also my family picked it for a movie night so my fate was sealed anyway.

The original book is actually pretty frightening on its own. Food falls from the sky in such great numbers that it starts to destroy the world. Okay, that's terrifying. But kind of in the alluring way. I would keep coming back to the one page about the giant pancake on the school because the way it was drawn unsettled me so, with something huge and immovable blocking off the way to a building that usually has hundreds of innocent children inside. The film built on this and made it a thousand times worse.

Let's start with the goddamn Spray-On Shoe. Our main character is a mad scientist (but the good kind, apparently) whose list of bumbling failed experiments dates back to when he was a child and invented a spray you could put on your feet to coat them in shoes. He then gets laughed at because he didn't engineer a way to get the shoes off, and runs home in humiliation. Guys, the teasing/bullying factor is...not the most worrying thing about this story. There's a throwaway line about how Flint wears THE SAME SHOES into adulthood because to that day they simply cannot be removed. This seems like an incredibly urgent medical problem? Having your feet encased in the same rubber for years? The same rubber as when you're a kid? I just found myself thinking "What if my shoes never came off one day" and that terrifies me, okay? It's stupid and it's silly and it scares me. Even more than that, though, is the canonization of a polymer in this universe that can be sprayed on sticky and will literally never break no matter what you do to it, because that goes back to the pie machine dough principle. Being glued to a surface permanently is inherently terrifying and we'll go over this later because this is not the last fuckin time the glue shoes get brought up.

Flint invents a food-spewing machine. It ends up in the sky. He rides his popularity as it rains larger and larger food down upon the town and also the world. Most of this film up until the climax is unsettling but not AWFUL. Where it starts to go to shit is when Flint realizes his machine is too dangerous and shuts it off, only for the town's local greedy politician to switch it back on into an apocalyptic mode. So can we start with "Local town finds out its elected official is willing to sabotage their well-being in order to capitalize on the fame of a disaster-causing object?". Like, the whole film would've been solved so much sooner if there hadn't been a saboteur in the works - not a fun campy villain, mind you, but a saboteur who exists to drive the plot to the scary place. But I guess we need that narrative tension to justify having a film in the first place, so fine, I'll ride it out.

The main crew saddles up to fly out to the machine, which is now encased in a FLESH LABYRINTH of food, and...I'm just gonna rapid-fire the shit that happens at this part:

-The food turns sentient in order to defend itself. The cute animal sidekick brutally dismembers an army of gummy bears that is fully sentient and rips them apart to devour them.

-We enter the flesh labyrinth and it's exactly as much a horror RPG setting as you think it is.

-Now sentient cooked chickens besiege the party. The comic relief character is consumed by one, only to kill it from the inside and decide to WEAR ITS SKIN in what is seen as his defining character arc's conclusion. Wearing the skin of a dead monster allows him to forge his new identity.

-One of our party has to go back because of a tight passage lined with her deadly allergen, causing her to undergo anaphylaxis after an accidental mild nick. In the flesh labyrinth.

-The entire horrific journey is instantly INVALIDATED when it turns out that instead of the kill code for the machine, all Flint has is a file of a cat video. Which he finds out as the town is about to be obliterated off the face of the earth.

-So he solves it by jamming the works with the spray-on shoe and DID I NOT JUST GO OVER HOW HORRIFIC INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSIONS ARE IN KIDS' MOVIES? DID I NOT? ARE WE REALLY DOING THIS AGAIN? Anyway it's canonical proof that NOTHING can break the shoe glue and I should be happy for the town and happy that there's no more flesh labyrinth of living meat but instead I'm just terrified because of the door we have opened. We have imparted the existence of an indestructible sticky polymer upon the world.

-It's later seen used in a credits sequence to repair damaged houses. Which, first of all, given its flexible nature, is fuckin stupid. It won't serve as an actual wall. Second, that got me thinking about construction accidents involving the fuckin shoe glue. If that stuff gets dripped on a person's face -

-So then cue me sitting awake in bed later thinking wide-eyed about Cloudy with a Chance of Fucking Meatballs and realizing that this compound that is essentially a chemical weapon in the making is now in the hands of the mayor who deliberately caused an apocalyptic event over the town because he wanted the food rain. And THAT'S not going to lead to pretty circumstances.

I think you'll see that a lot of my fears with these two movies is "THINK OF THE IMPLICATIONS!" and I think that just shows how my mind works and why I'm drawn to fanfic so much. I'm all about diving into a universe, exploring its corners, analyzing it to death.

And with the industrial horror stuff, I kinda wanna bring it around to two other films that actually really subverted my expectations and made it fun. 102 Dalmatians was a fave of mine through middle school, but I remember when the climax took us to a big ol' factory and I got plumb nervous. After the usual blades and ovens of horror, the fact that it concludes with Cruella basically wearing a cake and a lengthy montage of the dogs kicking toppings onto her is just one of the most wholesome imageries. She survived the thing and now you get to watch her be decorated Lisa Frank style by her victims who are more interested in humiliation than murder, and I love that.

But maybe more prevalent is that I'm well aware that if certain filmography or plot points had been handled in different ways, The Boxtrolls might've actually frightened the ever-loving fuck out of me what with all the industrial stuff and medical horror, but I just...felt like that film was holding my hand the whole way through going "It's okay." The industrial stuff was framed in a way that was just campy enough and yet also taken seriously. Putting a really charismatic villain - ACTUAL VILLAIN, NOT CHICKEN FARMER OR CORRUPT POLITICIAN SABOTEUR - at the wheel was just such a mitigating factor that it gelled the whole thing together and I ended up LOVING what was done with giant machines and garbage crushers and explosions. And as for the medical body horror, I really appreciate how it was so baked in that Snatcher did that to himself - that everyone, EVERYONE warned him "Do not do this, you will probably die, I'm serious, bad fucking idea" up to the point of Eggs trying to plead him during an anaphylaxis attack, one last time, DO NOT continue down this path, we can find a way to heal you psychologically and get you some self-fulfillment. And Snatcher fully chooses hubris over the many, many opportunities offered him to be able to step down onto a safer path and that removes the fear and pulls it more into a tragedy for the villain. Not at all the same thing as "Sam the reporter is trying to save the world and doing her best until a fixture of the landscape accidentally sends her into anaphylaxis."

(Oh, and by the way, can I just - when I do see CWACOM brought up these days, it's always in the context of "This is the one movie where the guy tells the girl it's okay to look nerdy!". Well, no, not the way I remember it. The way I remember it, Sam basically tells Flint "I used to have really tacky style but have since changed it up of my own volition" and Flint is just like "NOOOOO YOU NEED TO WEAR GLASSES AND A SCRUNCHIE. I WANT A HOT NERD GIRL." This could've been pulled off right with some more introspection into female beauty standards, even in a tongue-in-cheek way, but right now it really looks like Sam just wanted to make herself more glam for a new image and Flint bullied her into regressing her style. Which I've also realized meant he bullied her into dressing more like she did as a teenager and normally I think that kind of shit is just "You're overthinking it" but since it's CWACOM and I spelled it out on paper like that, I'm just now realizing how that can be seen as pretty...icky.)

The one saving grace of CWACOM is that I was older by that time, and so it didn't affect me as hard as Chicken Run. But I still hold it dearly to my heart as one of the MOST DISTURBING movies I know, and by "dearly" I mean "fuck this movie, really and truly." I want to extend my thanks to 102D and Boxtrolls for giving me industrial-horror-based climaxes that were actually really comfortable, and again, probably what drove both of these was the fact that we had a campy diva villain in the lead for the potential scary stuff to surround and radiate off. Not a fuckin...ordinary chicken farmer who is just trying to make bank but is somehow passed as a Nazi allegory for trying to live her life as a farmer? I dunno, maybe if I rewatched that film I'd see she has a thirst for human blood too, and if I could fix fic Chicken Run my first order of business would be to give her a thirst for human blood instead of/in addition to chickens.

Anyway. Fuck both these films, EXCEPT for the fact that traumatizing scenarios can always be recast as whump material, and the next time I wanna do some crossover aftercare from a physically and psychologically damaging mission, I have a pie machine and a flesh labyrinth to exploit. REALLY HEAVY ON THAT AFTERCARE COMFORT THOUGH!

[36incheshigh]

haunting of bly manor on netflix review -

i tried not to put big spoilers in it. its about like.. a lady from america who becomes a live in nanny to two young siblings, in a big old mysterious? house in england.

overall - 8 /10 , maybe im just biased cause it had some of my fav parts of scary movies in it/personal fav parts of genres

[cons] -personally - i dont like when supposedly scary movies are about ppl dying sadly/theres characters who are actually nice who you actually get attached to and thenn, they suffer! (although technically i guesss that is what causes “haunting”, in its title. its like, im looking for a Scary which is secretly supposed to be found to be scary[-fun], not scary-Sad!. sad deaths/characters make me sad. like when cute kids in it are also sad and upset and they surely dont deserve it :p. bums me out. i guess i dont mind so much, if, -if youre gonna have to harm someone, that id rather theyre someone im not so attached to in the first place lols. id rather not feel sentimental whilee watching a movie thats also scary lols. too many feelings at once for me lols . also, i appreciate a movie tryingg to explain things well or make it interesting, but sometimes it cann get too complicated . thats where ya lose me. [thats kinda not that personal that can also be a critique in genderal.] its like if you keep it clear enough even if its simple, it could be a better story.

pros objectively - good characters, and gd chemistry between characters - they were all pretty distinct and interesting enough, had their own styles and mannerisms and personality. gd dialogue - relateable enough and realistic enough - heh ilke when the gardener tries to cheer the nanny up, that was like kind of a well thought out specific unique and still funny joke lols. or when the nanny uses her teacher-voice to say relateable things to the kids or to discipline them well and properly and fairly/justly and calmly - those were awesome and accurate like real life, very familiar in a specific, recognizable way. nicely done visually/cinematically - made everything look good, didnt make anything too confusing, clear enough. like it let us explore all the interesting places and no scenes were too dark to see whats going on or anything lols. which is good because sometimes a show takes place in what lookss like wouldd be an interesting setting, but we never really get to use the space much or see its details [well], or look at any of the cool parts about it, very well! plot was good - got stuck a couple times in a few ways, but atleast it did have good closure. thats hard to nail in spooky/scary stories. its also good that there was diversity representation in the characters’ races and kinds of romances so thats always important to diversify in the media so people arent ignorant and plus its less predictable and ^realistic.

cons objectively- really lost me in the episodes w hopping and flashbacks a lot, even though i guess it explained a few things. idk i think we couldve done without the entire dream bit cause it went over my head and i dont see thatt well how it fits with the rest of things very much anyway. i think it couldvee stuck with just the first owner’s story which seems to explain most of the mysteries anyway, and still be a great plot overall. also its not much of a big deal but in the end, that was supposed to be whats her name, the gardener but she wasnt even consistant in her style it was so out of character. like whats that hair style?? its too modern and boring/basic-betch , shes a chill, grounded, rough person so i think she shouldve kinda had a softer wavier hair style at least like she usually had . doesnt have to be the same, but atleast better match her character. i guess there were a few kind of minor plot pieces that i didnt hear/understand their explaination . but maybe if i thought about it more, or figure that those were just idk symbolic details or something lols, then id get it. -atleast the most important plot points have been explained. or if they kept the confusing plotline to help explain things, i wish they couldve made it a bit simpler to be more understandable . aint nobody tryina think that hard about it to understand things in a show ha . idk i think the wind up leading to the end , through the middle of the last episode when we werent sure if the girl was doomed yet or not [is that what it was that dragged on for me?] , dragged on a bit too somehow. or i wouldve been happy too if it ended like 10 minutes into the last episode when everything was at peace, even though thats too peaceful of an ending for a spooky story lols. also the bride in the beginning and ending who hears the story is a kind of bad actress or has awkward lines so it makes things corny lols. which its hard to not cross that line in spooky stories, from believeable and relateable and genuine enoughh to spook ya cause its barely believeable/relateable, - into corny.

pros personally- love big old gothic houses, theyve got character. love love stories, and mixing genres in a show or movie! like love, sad, and spooky. love it being more spooky and a thinker kinda rather than gory which could always be too easy of a scare. and lots of botony heh [in the romance] which i always love. in real life heh. i also dont really like body horror lols even though it couldve been worse here i guess. i know its supposed to be like, symbolic though :p. i like how - there wass a specific message/themes they were trying to be about in this show, but - idk, before we realizedd that, it was kind of amusing how the random suspicious jumpscares/problems that happen aree kinda like, making you/trickingg you to thinkk, that the story could justt be any of the clichee scary stories - but thenn its a pleasant surprise that even though you thought it was gonna be a cliche predictable plot, its actually much more elaborate in a good way lols. i also like “”gothic”“ and kinda spooky but not likeee verY scarY ha. cause gothic is likee, a lookk/mood!!

so yeah, i liked this in general, and would recommend it in general and might watch most of it again in halloween season lols. i like it because its sophisticated and relateable enough, graceful, cute enough - balanced so its not tooo much of anythingg and just enoughh of different things that would make any show enjoyable enoughh, i thinkk . good in all the ways it matters, in all the important ways. generally doesnt get campy in the parts of the show where that would matter lols. i liked it better than the other series apparently also by this director or whatever, “haunting of hill house”. i think “bly manor” was better in nearly  every way lols .

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Oh i kinda understand that mistranslation now! Cos lol i first discovered the entirety of yokai watch through reading a translation comparison of dr maddiman's sad backstory and being like WTF THIS IS THE BEST CHARACTER I MUST IMMEDIATELY LEARN MORE

Okay so i mentioned it before but i always found it cool that the final diary entry makes a resident evil reference, and actually uses a reference as a way to imply slightly darker details than the text itself said. Basically the last entry is a weird pun on "itchy...tasty...", which in the original context was the last entry of another doomed person, and their very memorable last words as they turned into a zombie while still barely clinging to enough sentience to be able to scrawl out some words. And then a predictable jumpscare lol, but one that was very effective! So this was a way of the yokai watch writers to imply 'he became a yokai after dying of overwork/malnutrition/lack of sleep, mid sentence of writing this diary'. Which is kinda dark even for a plot thats already dark, so i can see why theyd wanna be subtle about it.

Buuuuut then the english dub just translated the sentence very literally as "i will eat gruel today", possibly assuming the fragmented sentence structure and lack of punctuation was a mistake rather than a reference. So its just left sort of as a mystery how exactly he died, though it can still be kinda implied considering how the last entry was all 'i have no reason to live' and 'its so cold today'...

Buuuut now watching the actual section i can kinda understand how a train of mistakes all crashed into this one mistake, perhaps!

Cos there's a far more important mistake that the entire timeframe of the diary is done wrong?? Literally just from mistranslating the first line they changed the context, and that misinterpretation probably put them in the mindset to miss the other mistake later on. It seems the dub frames this diary NOT as his last entries before he died, but his first entries AFTER he died, recalling his past as a yokai. The first line is all "i'm dr maddiman" and "i'm a yokai" when the japanese had no such thing...

Apparantly this mistake came about because the diary originally simply had a coy reference to what would eventually become his yokai name, as a sort of dramatic irony. Dr maddiman = Director Yabekabure, which means desperate/reckless/obsessed. So there was a line where he's a bit self depreciating and calls himself "a desperate doctor" instead of like.. THE Desperate Doctor, whose name is literally that. It was just meant to make it clear that this is indeed the diary belonging to him even if he had a different name back then. But the translation has it as "diary of a maddiman, by dr maddiman"

I can absolutely see how this happened! Its a frustrating fact with english dubbing that the team is often given just text dumps without any gameplay footage or descriptions of the context. So this can cause the unique type of error where the non writing parts of the game contradict the text. Or in this case the timeframe of a flashback wasnt made clear because of the context of when and how the player would encounter it. Probably these diary entries were stored in item tables far away from the quest itself so there were multiple levels of confusion! So then we have this mistake and then the knock on mistake of not realizing this is a diary of a guy dying = missing the bit where the guy died. Or just possibly they didnt see the reference because they werent familiar with the japanese script for resident evil. *shrug*

Anyway this is a good cautionary tale for developers that its smart to actually produce a file of translation notes if there's anything important that isnt self evident. Dont let these poor translators fly blind!