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NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE dir. Werner Herzog, 1979

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people really just walk into horror movies and expect them not to deal with uncomfortable things despite the genre being dedicated to discomfort.

i saw so many people complain that lisa frankenstein, a movie where one of the leads is famously a rotting corpse, was too gross for them. when i walked out of nosferatu, i heard people say that the nudity was uncalled for... in a vampire film. nudity? in MY gothic horror?! unheard of!

a LOT of people really need to accept that maybe some genres just aren't to their taste, idk. not every movie needs to be cookie-cutter clean. sexuality is a staple of gothic horror, if not the wider genre horror in General. you don't need to enjoy it, but it doesn't make these things uncalled for.

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Gustave Moreau - Study for Lady Macbeth (1851) Brian De Palma - Carrie (1976)                                                                               Alexander McQueen - Joan (1998)

insp.

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

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Laura (1944) // Leave her to Heaven (1945) // Dragonwyck (1946)

He would fumble her in every universe

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#same

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Took a risk and it paid off

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Nosferatu. Does this word not sound like the midnight call of the Bird of Death? Do not utter it, or the images of life will fade - into pale shadows and ghostly dreams will rise from your heart and feed your Blood.

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau

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“The absence of love is the most abject pain.” ↬ Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) | dir. Werner Herzog

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young frankenstein, 1974 (dir. mel brooks)

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"from that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "i am man.", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. but tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. tonight, we shall ascend into the heavens. we shall mock the earthquake. we shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself." | young frankenstein (1974)

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The Wicker Man (1973) | dir. Robin Hardy

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(source and credit)

Judy Garland (Dorothy Gale), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch) and Jack Haley (Tin man) bts on "Wizard of Oz" (1939)

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THE WICKER MAN (1973) dir. Robin Hardy