#american psycho coded Patrick Bateman girl

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[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

Patrick Bateman:

OK OK OK LOOK. I KNOW YOU SAID CIS MEN PROBABLY WOULDNT GET IN BUT I HAD TO SUBMIT HIM BECAUSE HE IS VERY GIRL-CODED. first off if a woman did his long ass morning routine no one would bat an eye (the amount of people that both didnt get the reference and were completely cool with it being serious when margot robbie recreated it proves it) all the tiktok/instagram influencer girlies are him like thirty years in the future and genderswapped. 99% of the issues he has throughout the story that make him lose touch w reality are things that women have to go through every day without losing their minds (although we *should* snap and start killing people. we deserve it) as a privileged cis white dude he cant handle the #girlstruggles and goes crazy so yeah. he is only a girlboss in his imagination and more girlfailure in practice so point against him there but american psycho is a girlboss movie and i had to submit him ok???

Sucre/Sugar:

Just look at her! She’s a secret boss fight. Possibly a trans girl. Has an ungodly amount of health; the most in the entire game. Was chained up in a basement for years by someone who is ambiguous left as either her brother or lover. Before she starts beating you up she calls you a “little ducky”. One of the only two female characters in the game. This game was super influential to tons of other games (including Undertale) and it turned 15 this year let’s show Sucre some respect.

[hannibal-abo]

HERE STANDS YOUR LAMB.

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ybfdlT

by cowboybatman

"Unnatural, mummy? You tell me, what’s nature’s way? If poison mushrooms grow and babies come with crooked backs, if goiters thrive and dogs go mad…and wives kill husbands!? What’s unnatural? Come, here stands your lamb. Come cover him with kisses. He's all yours!" - Richard I, The Lion in Winter

After Will orphans Abigail, she is committed to a sterile corner of New York state called the Ichabod Centre. There she meets Artemis, a precocious eleven year old arsonist prodigy recently suspended from her boarding school in Amsterdam. Mere weeks later the girls find themselves taken under Will and Hannibal's wings, and find knives and matches there.

Five years on, they're pinned to boards like moths in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. This is how they got there.

Words: 3677, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Hannibal (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, Gen, M/M

Characters: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Original Graham-Lecter Child(ren), Original Female Character(s), Jack Crawford, Patrick Bateman (mentioned), Franklyn Froideveaux, Dr. Frederick Chilton

Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham & Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham & Original Character(s), Will Graham & Abigail Hobbs & Hannibal Lecter & Original Character(s), Hannibal Lecter & Original Character(s)

Additional Tags: Murder Family, Murder Husbands, Original Graham-Lecter Child, you'll like her tho i prommy, Arson, pyromaniacs, Established Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Adopted Abigail Hobbs, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Pretentiousness, no beta we die like men, basically hannigram were together before s1, But Not Married Yet, also the oc is vaguely related to patrick bateman from american psycho, cos i thought it'd be funny, Everyone Is Gay, Crack Treated Seriously, Sort Of, Swordfighting, eventually, No Smut, Self-Indulgent, like very, fun fact this used to be called 'arson prodigy babey', in fact this is the millionth rewrite, Dialogue Heavy, artemis is antigone-coded, will probably include dreadful attempts at dutch which i very vaguely understand, Dark Will Graham

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ybfdlT

[dariaslore]

Tag Game

rules: tag 9 people to learn more about them!

tagged by: @darkpoisonouslove Thank you darling <3

music

♡ fave genres: no preference.

♡ fave artists: Madonna, Lana Del Rey, Maneskin, Beyoncè, The Weeknd, Lady Gaga

♡ fave songs: Frozen- Madonna, Alejandro- Lady Gaga, The Hills- The Weeknd, Cherry- Lana Del Rey

♡ songs most listened to recently: La paura del buio- Maneskin, Glory and Gore- Lorde, Caribe- VillaBanks, good 4 u- Olivia Rodrigo, Ocean Drive- Duke Dumont, Stay- Justin Bieber, Voce- Madame, Luna- Madame, Gaia

♡ song currently stuck in your head: Voce- Madame (italian song, she’s dope and a great songwriter, she won the Tenco’s prize at Sanremo for her lyrics. Voce is breathtaking, poetry full of literary references).

♡ fave lyrics: I don’t have an absolute one, currently I’m obsessed with Voce’s lyrics. Let me see if I can translate them.

‘’Negli occhi, delle serrande si stenderanno e io sparirò/ L’ultimo soffio di fiato e sarà la voce ad essere l’unica cosa più viva di me /Voglio che viva a cent’anni da me, voglio rimanga negli anni con me /Fumo per sbarazzarmi di lei, ma torna da me’‘

‘’In the eyes, shutters will close and I'll disappear /A last breath and my voice will be the last thing alive of me/ I want it to live for a hundred years after me, I want her to stay with me for the years to come / I smoke to get rid of her, but she comes back to me’‘

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or quiet volume | slow and fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio music on

books

♡ fave writers: Philip Roth, Donna Tartt, Elena Ferrante, Oriana Fallaci, Dan Brown. 

♡ fave genres: Realism.

♡ fave book series: ‘My brilliant friend’- Elena Ferrante

♡ comfort book: Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown

♡ perfect books to read on a rainy day: Memoirs of a Geisha-  Arthur Golden

♡ 5 fave characters: Dorian Gray (The portrait of Dorian Gray), Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), Boris (The Goldfinch).

♡ 5 quotes from your fave books that you know by heart: 

I don’t really go looking for quotes when I read, sorry.

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | book series or standalone novels | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | music while reading or reading in silence | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or the summary | rereading or just once

tv + movies

♡ fave tv / movie genres: don’t have one

♡ fave movies: Mean Girls, Maleficent, Hercules, Easy A, Pirates of The Caribbean, Interview with the Vampire, The Black Swan, The Wolf of Wall Street, Midnight in Paris, Chicago

♡ comfort movies: The Devil Wears Prada, Pretty Woman, 10 things I hate about you.

♡ movies you watch every year: Easy A, Harry Potter, Disney, Mean Girls, The Devil Wears Prada, Spiderman

♡ fave tv shows: Dr House, Lucifer, AHS, The Crown, Prison Break, The Young Pope

♡ most rewatched tv show: Dr House.

♡ ultimate otp: Griffin x Valtor

♡ 5 fave characters: Jack Sparrow, Dr House, Valtor, Lucifer, Prince Philip (The Crown)

tv shows or movies | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off  | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watching online

Tagging @sparxshipper

[forthegothicheroine]

Grand Guignol adaptations

Several Grand Guignol plays were abbreviated adaptations of popular movies and books- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Eyes Without a Face, No Orchids for Miss Blandish.  Having now read summaries of over 100 Guignol plays, I have compiled a list of modern horror films I think could be adapted as such, with descriptions of how I think it would go.  

Why am I doing this?  No reason.  Maybe it’s to see if I can boil down horror plots to the Guignol’s “Bad thing is threatened, then it either happens or doesn’t” structure.  Maybe it’s because I overthink things.  Who knows.

Spoilers for various horror films behind the cut.

Hard Candy: A play in two acts.

In act one, a grown man, Jeff, takes a young girl, Hayley, into his house.  She expresses fear at first, due to the recent murder of another young girl, but he is charming and quickly assuages her fear.  He acts seductive, telling her how mature she is for her age, and suggests they drink together.  She mixes the drinks, saying it is safer for her to do so, and when he drinks he falls unconscious.

In act two, he awakens bound to a table.  Hayley reveals that she drugged him, and believes him to have murdered the other young girl.  Jeff tries to convince her of his innocence, but searching his house she finds child pornography and proclaims that he must be prevented from ever hurting another girl.  Taking a knife, she appears to castrate him.  He admits to having loved another young girl once, though he still denies any violence, and Hayley finds the former victim’s phone number and calls her.  Jeff escapes from his bonds, finds that he has not in fact been castrated but simply bound in a painful fashion.  He threatens to kill Hayley, but she tells him that his former “love” is on the way over, and she will run out screaming rape and have him arrested.  On the other hand, if he kills himself, she will leave and let him seem to have an innocent and tragic death.  He confesses that he watched the murdered girl being killed while another man did the act, and Hayley says that is exactly what the other man said before she made him kill himself.  Jeff commits suicide, and Hayley forges a suicide note stating his acts for the woman he loved to find.

American Psycho: A play in three acts.

In act one, Patrick Bateman, a businessman, is at a party with other colleagues.  He expresses violent hatred of them, but they are too drunk and self-centered to notice.  They exchange business cards, and everyone praises those of another man, Paul, while Patrick seethes with jealousy.  Besides the business cards, Paul reveals he was given the business account Patrick wanted.  As the party winds down, Patrick invites Paul to get a drink elsewhere.  Paul believes Patrick to be another businessman, Marcus, and agrees to go.

Act two has the men at a bar, where Patrick drugs Paul’s drink.  Paul continues to think Patrick is Marcus, and thus insults “that douchebag Patrick Bateman” to his face.  Patrick tells Paul that he is insane and has killed people before, but Paul does not register what he says.  With his victim only half-awake from the drug and the drinks, Patrick takes him home.

In act three, Paul is sitting on Patrick’s armchair, around which has been spread paper magazines.  Patrick puts on a cheerful voice as he brags about having drugged his guest, and Paul does not understand.  Patrick turns on the record player, and rhapsodizes about his favorite singer as he dons a clear raincoat.  In one last moment of calm, he opens up to Paul about his despair that the world does not need or notice him, and the constant impulses he has towards violence, but Paul laughs him off.  Patrick brutally murder Paul as the happy music plays.

Reservoir Dogs: A play in one act.

A gang of thieves and a policeman they have taken hostage arrive in a warehouse.  One of the thieves, with the code name Orange, collapses on the floor, having been shot during a fight.  The policeman is tied up and left to be guarded by a thief with the code name Blonde, despite Blonde acting odd and volatile.  When his compatriots (expect for the dying Orange) are gone, Blonde reveals himself as a sadist and tortures the hostage, culminating in cutting his ear off.  Just before he can finally kill the policeman, Orange manages to reach a gun and shoot him, revealing himself as a fellow policeman.

Psycho: A play in one act.

A pretty young woman named Marion arrives at an out of the way hotel run by a handsome but shy man named Norman.  They have dinner together, and he reveals that he is under the thumb of his cruel and controlling mother.  When Marion retires to her room, she can hear Norman arguing with what sounds like a woman, about allowing such “tramps” into their establishment.  She goes to take a shower, and the old mother comes in and stabs her.  The mother turns to the audience, revealing herself to actually be the sadly crazed Norman.

The Wicker Man: A play in three acts.

In act one, a policeman arrives at a small island in response to a letter saying a young girl disappeared.  The people of the island are pagan and practice public sex, which shocks the prudish Christian policeman.  No one will admit that a girl is missing, and all seem preoccupied with their upcoming summer festival.

In act two, the policeman goes to the local library and reads about the religion.  It seems the people of the island burn a wicker statue as a sacrifice to ensure the coming harvest.  He comes to believe that, as the crops failed the previous year, they have imprisoned the local girl and intend to sacrifice her.  When he returns to his room at the local inn, the innkeeper’s daughter attempts to seduce him, but he resists.

In act three, he disguises himself and follows the festival down to the seaside.  There he finds a bound girl and attempts to rescue her.  She calls out, and the citizens of the island seize upon him.  It turns out the girl was never in danger, and the whole thing was an attempt to lure and capture him.  Their leader explains that “the right kind of adult” is a more powerful sacrifice than a child, and the virgin policeman proved himself worthy of the ‘honor’ by resisting the previous night’s seduction.  He is burned alive in the wicker man as the islanders sing.

The Shining: A play in two acts.

In act one, a family- father Jack, mother Wendy, son Danny- arrive at an isolated hotel in the mountains, to watch over it through the winter.  Danny has bad premonitions about the place, and a worker at the hotel warns him that it is haunted.  Other hotel employees reveal that the previous caretaker killed his own family with an axe, but Jack accepts the job anyway.

In act two, Jack is shown to have become increasingly erratic during the winter.  He is abrasive and violent when his wife tries to talk to him and his son pleads to leave.  He can be heard having conversations with someone who is not there, presumably a ghost.  Danny contacts the worker who warned him, and the man comes back to rescue him, but Jack kills him with an axe.  Either driven mad by the mountain isolation or possessed by the previous caretaker, Jack chases Wendy and Danny with the axe.  They escape with the car, and he freezes to death in the mountain snow.

A Clockwork Orange: A play in one act.

Alex, a young delinquent, is the subject of an experimental treatment to cure the youth of their criminal tendencies.  He is tortured while people enact scenes of sex and violence, so he will forever associate those things with pain.  The bourgeois doctors congratulate themselves on their success when Alex cannot manage to raise a hand against them without being sick.  He pleads that he will now be vulnerable and unable to fight back against other criminals, but the doctors throw him out in this state nonetheless.

Byzantium: A play in one act.

(Modified significantly because the Guignol didn’t really do outright supernatural horror.)

An innocent young girl is paid for and taken from her orphanage by an older man.  He reveals that her mother, whom the girl thought had died, is actually alive and has been sending money for her upkeep.  The man, a criminal, had previously forced the girl’s mother into a brothel, but she proceeded to use her charm and cleverness to rise higher in the gang than he himself, and he is now on the outs with them.  The man says he will now punish the daughter for the mother’s transgressions, and attempts to rape her.  Suddenly, from the shadows, a woman leaps out with a knife and stabs him repeatedly.  She reveals herself to be the girl’s mother, and takes her daughter away from the orphanage that did not protect her, so she may instead be raised as a criminal and heir to the gang.

[ao3feed-chilton]

HERE STANDS YOUR LAMB.

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ybfdlT

by cowboybatman

"Unnatural, mummy? You tell me, what’s nature’s way? If poison mushrooms grow and babies come with crooked backs, if goiters thrive and dogs go mad…and wives kill husbands!? What’s unnatural? Come, here stands your lamb. Come cover him with kisses. He's all yours!" - Richard I, The Lion in Winter

After Will orphans Abigail, she is committed to a sterile corner of New York state called the Ichabod Centre. There she meets Artemis, a precocious eleven year old arsonist prodigy recently suspended from her boarding school in Amsterdam. Mere weeks later the girls find themselves taken under Will and Hannibal's wings, and find knives and matches there.

Five years on, they're pinned to boards like moths in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. This is how they got there.

Words: 3677, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Hannibal (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, Gen, M/M

Characters: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, Abigail Hobbs, Original Graham-Lecter Child(ren), Original Female Character(s), Jack Crawford, Patrick Bateman (mentioned), Franklyn Froideveaux, Dr. Frederick Chilton

Relationships: Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham & Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham & Original Character(s), Will Graham & Abigail Hobbs & Hannibal Lecter & Original Character(s), Hannibal Lecter & Original Character(s)

Additional Tags: Murder Family, Murder Husbands, Original Graham-Lecter Child, you'll like her tho i prommy, Arson, pyromaniacs, Established Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter, Adopted Abigail Hobbs, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Pretentiousness, no beta we die like men, basically hannigram were together before s1, But Not Married Yet, also the oc is vaguely related to patrick bateman from american psycho, cos i thought it'd be funny, Everyone Is Gay, Crack Treated Seriously, Sort Of, Swordfighting, eventually, No Smut, Self-Indulgent, like very, fun fact this used to be called 'arson prodigy babey', in fact this is the millionth rewrite, Dialogue Heavy, artemis is antigone-coded, will probably include dreadful attempts at dutch which i very vaguely understand, Dark Will Graham

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ybfdlT

[creative-salem]

Salem Horror Fest launches in fall 2017 #knowfear

#KnowFear

To overcome fear, we must first understand it. Salem Horror Fest * Sept 21 – Oct 15

Salem Horror Fest examines American fear with a month-long celebration of terror and social justice partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum

  SALEM, Ma. – Salem Horror Fest, in partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum and CinemaSalem, today announced four weeks of screenings, parties, concerts, panels and exhibits that explore societal themes of fear and anxiety in horror at the Halloween capital of the world; Salem, MassachusettsAmidst the notorious backdrop of the 1692 Witch Trials, the festival will feature a city-wide program set to kick off at the Peabody Essex Museum on Thursday, September 21 as part of the PEM/PM evening party series in conjunction with their upcoming exhibit “It’s Alive” Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection.

“We live in fear. Fear of failure, commitment, each other and beyond. It’s one of the few things that unites us all. Salem knows this more than most,” said festival director Kevin Lynch. “The cinema is a graveyard of cultural reflections trapped in time like a celluloid ouija board. If we are to overcome fear, we must first understand it.”

Following the Opening Night Party on Thursday, September 21, Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead) will accept the first-ever Salem Horror Award on behalf of Duane Jones for his cultural contribution to the genre as one of the first positive representations of a person of color on the big screen in George A. Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead.

A concert performance by queer, negro-gothic soprano M Lamar will be held at Ames Hall on Friday, September 22 featuring a program The New York Times called an “otherworldly, goth-tinged projection into the distant future of our violent, racially and sexually charged present offering a space of melancholic, alluring, ultimately stirring reflection.”

Four films will be screened in the PEM’s Morse Auditorium with panel discussions exploring subtextual themes of cultural fear found in Night of the Living Dead, Matinee, Gods & Monsters, and The Haunting.

We live in fear. Fear of failure, commitment, each other and beyond. It’s one of the few things that unites us all. Salem knows this more than mostKevin Lynch

Following the Haunted Happenings Parade on Thursday, October 5, CinemaSalem will host Wicked Shorts, a free evening of short films in consideration for the first annual Orlok Award, named in honor of Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery’s 10th anniversary.

The second half of the festival will screen seven double features at CinemaSalem that feature social themes such as racism, misogyny, gay panic, media manipulation, and xenophobia in films like Get Out, People Under the Stairs, Tragedy Girls, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, American Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Mist, They Live, Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Cruising, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, Videodrome, Let the Right One In, and Fright Night.

All these events can be found on Eventbrite and Facebook. (Creative Salem members receive $50 off a VIP all inclusive pass! Please look for an email with your special code!)

The October 7th screening of Tyler MacIntyre’s Tragedy Girls will be the New England premiere at Women With Guts, a celebration in partnership with Rue Morgue Magazine. The event will also screen Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood followed by a Q&A session with its stars Lar Park Lincoln and Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees) moderated by The Faculty of Horror podcast.

For more information, visit salemhorror.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Opening Night PartySalem Horror Fest partners with the Peabody Essex Museum to bring you the ultimate kickoff to the Halloween season! Featuring PEM special exhibition It’s Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection, come haunt our inaugural Horror Fest with this night of live music, and interactive programming as part of the PEM/PM evening party series.

Thursday, September 21, 6pPeabody Essex MuseumM Lamar This “otherworldly, goth-tinged projection into the distant future of our violent, racially and sexually charged present offers a space of melancholic, alluring, ultimately stirring reflection.” – New York Times

Join us for this very special performance, featuring Queer Soprano M Lamar, who will perform an assemblage of old spirituals, in the “gothic-devil-worshipping-free-black-man-blues-tradition” in recognition of the 156th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Friday, September 22, 8pAmes Hall at the Salem YMCA

Wicked Shorts Wicked Shorts celebrates independent filmmakers with a timely showcase of terrifying horror shorts. Submitted films will be curated and considered for the first annual Orlok Award, named in honor of Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery’s 10th anniversary.

Thursday, October 5, 8pCinemaSalem

Women With GutsSalem Horror Fest partners with Rue Morgue Magazine to celebrate women in horror for the New England premiere of SXSW hit Tragedy Girls! The screening will be paired with Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood followed by a post-credit Q&A with the film’s stars Lar Park Lincoln and man behind the mask, Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees) moderated by The Faculty of Horror.

Saturday, October 7, 6pCinemaSalemSCREENINGS

Night of the Living Dead Director: George A. Romero

America: The year is 1968. The Cold War is approaching détente, the Civil Rights Movement is winding down, Vietnam continues to escalate… And then come the zombies, creeping in through the cracks in American life. Taking shelter in an abandoned farm house, seven strangers must navigate their differences before the walls give way to a ravenous zombie horde.

Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead) will accept the first-ever Salem Horror Award on behalf of Duane Jones for his cultural contribution to the cinema as one of the first positive representations of a person of color on the big screen.

Thursday, September 21, 9pMorse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

MatineeDirector: Joe Dante

The escalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis collides with the premiere of a new atomic-age monster picture, MANT. This comedic homage to legendary producer William Castle celebrates the joy of horror cinema and theatrical gimmicks in one of Joe Dante’s (Gremlins, The Burbs) most underrated films. Panel discussion to follow.

Sunday, September 24, 2pMorse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

Gods & Monsters

Director: Bill Condon

The last days and career of renown gay horror director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) are explored in this biographical drama set in the time following the Korean War. Panel discussion to follow.

Saturday, September 30, 2pMorse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

The HauntingDirector: Robert WiseA scientist, skeptic, psychic and lesbian question reality as they explore a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of death and insanity in this 1963 horror classic. Panel discussion to follow.

Sunday, October 1, 2p

Morse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

Get OutDirector: Jordan Peele

Slavery is a zombie in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out, which falls somewhere between Alfred Hitchcock and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Chris is preparing to meet his girlfriend Rose’s Caucasian family for the first time. What could go wrong?

Friday, October 6, 7pCinemaSalem

People Under the StairsDirector: Wes CravenUS, 1991Gentrification and racism are among the topics of socioeconomics tackled by this 1991 Wes Craven offering. On his 13th birthday, young Fool attempts to burglarize the house of his family’s evil landlords, before making a horrifying discovery in a tongue-in-cheek tale set in a post-Reaganomic, urban apocalypse.

Friday, October 6, 9pCinemaSalem

Tragedy GirlsDirector: Tyler MacIntyre

Salem Horror Fest presents the New England premiere of Tyler MacIntyre’s Tragedy Girls, following the unanimously positive response at the 2017 SXSW Festival!

Named “one of the freshest, funniest horror-comedies to emerge in ‘Scream’s’ long wake,” by Variety, the film stars Alexandra Shipp (X-Men Apocalypse) and Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) as two social media-obsessed high school serial killers who use their online show to turn their small town into a frenzy.

Saturday, October 7, 7pCinemaSalem

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New BloodDirector: John Carl BuechlerJason Voorhees has been imprisoned at the bottom of Crystal Lake for years, until a troubled, and telekinetic teenager unwittingly sets him loose upon the camp, once more. This installment of the franchise steps away from the classic elements of gore, and takes a more supernatural turn.

Saturday, October 7, 9pCinemaSalem

American PsychoDirector: Mary HarronDo you like Huey Lewis and the News? You never know if it’ll be the last thing you hear. Grab your Walkman and unsettle yourself for this cult-classic interpretation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. Patrick Bateman is an Alpha Male, CEO/psycho, whose murderous, misogynistic fantasies begin bleeding into his reality, in this dark-comedy directed by Mary Harron.

Sunday, October 8, 7p

CinemaSalemTexas Chainsaw Massacre

Director: Tobe HooperWhat you are about to see is true. Who’s to say, really? First released while America was struggling with the realities of an oil embargo, the impeachment of a president, and what seemed like endless war, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a direct response to the horrors of its time.

Sunday, October 8, 9pCinemaSalem

The Mist

Director: Frank DarabontA supermarket becomes a petri dish in this film inspired by the Stephen King novella of the same name. A group of strangers are forced to confront the unknown as a unit, as a mysterious mist rolls in around them.  Are they human enough to survive? Or are they too human for their own good?

Monday, October 9, 7pCinemaSalem

They Live

Director: John Carpenter

In a world where the media is flooded with subliminal messages constantly making demands of humanity to conform, obey, consume, and reproduce, it would seem the only thing left to do is throw on some shades, and see the true horror that is our ruling class. John Carpenter’s 1988 commentary on the state of American democracy, society, and consumerism.

Monday, October 9, 9pCinemaSalem

Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

Director: Jack SholderThis 1985 camp classic explores the homoerotic horrors of high school when the man of Jesse’s dreams, Freddy Krueger, claims his body as a portal into the world of flesh.

Friday, October 13, 7pCinemaSalem

CruisingDirector: William Friedkin

Al Pacino stars in this controversial crime thriller from 1980. When human remains begin washing up in the Hudson River, the NYPD sends an undercover officer to investigate a string of murders in the Meatpacking District, in which gay men are targeted specifically.

Friday, October 13, 9pCinemaSalem

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

Somewhat of a departure from the slasher genre and Halloween franchise canon, though nonetheless produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Season of the Witch delves into the supernatural as terror takes root in the themes of commercialism, media manipulation, and the superstitions and traditions of All Hallows Eve.

Friday, October 14, 7pCinemaSalem

VideodromeDirector: David Cronenberg Director David Cronenberg serves up this chilling and surreal gauge at media consumption. James Woods stars as Max Renn, President of a Canadian UHF television station known for its outrageous programming. After coming across a disturbing broadcast from far away, Renn is inspired to deliver high levels of violence to his viewers in ways previously unimagined.

Saturday, October 14, 9p

CinemaSalem

Let the Right One InDirector: Tomas AlfredsonPart vampire movie, part coming-of-age film, Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In is a refreshing visit to an otherwise well-trod genre. A young teen, frequently the target of schoolyard bullies, makes a new friend in a mysterious neighbor who has just moved in next door, in what Roger Ebert called “the best modern vampire movie.”

Sunday, October 15, 7pCinemaSalem

Fright Night

Director: Tom HollandCharley Brewster enjoys the rather simple life of a 17-year-old horror fan. He watches the movies, and really digs the late-nite horror show, “Fright Night.” But things start to get a little strange when two guys move in next door. They spend a lot of time alone together, and seem to be quite… close with each other.

Sunday, October 15, 9p

CinemaSalem

EXHIBITIONS“It’s Alive” Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art From the Kirk Hammett CollectionKirk Hammett, best known as the guitarist of the rock band Metallica, is also an avid collector of classic horror and sci-fi movie posters. This exhibition features 90 works that provide insight into the evolution of horror and sci-fi films and how they have played upon contemporary societal fears. Hammett acknowledges his poster collection as a source of inspiration for his own musical creativity. The exhibition features film posters as well as collectible electric guitars, monster masks and sculptures.

Saturday, August 12 – November 26, 2017Peabody Essex Museum

Count Orlok’s Nightmare GalleryPrepare for a delightfully creepy journey down the eerie exhibit halls as you discover characters from the darker side of cinema. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, demons, madmen (and women), and all things that go bump in the night are all represented here by life-sized reproductions made by Hollywood Special Effects Artists.

Hours: 10AM – 6PM (More hours added as the season approaches!) More details here. 

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[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda: "OK OK OK LOOK. I KNOW YOU SAID CIS MEN PROBABLY WOULDNT GET IN BUT I HAD TO SUBMIT HIM BECAUSE HE IS VERY GIRL-CODED. first off if a woman did his long ass morning routine no one would bat an eye (the amount of people that both didnt get the reference and were completely cool with it being serious when margot robbie recreated it proves it) all the tiktok/instagram influencer girlies are him like thirty years in the future and genderswapped. 99% of the issues he has throughout the story that make him lose touch w reality are things that women have to go through every day without losing their minds (although we *should* snap and start killing people. we deserve it) as a privileged cis white dude he cant handle the #girlstruggles and goes crazy so yeah. he is only a girlboss in his imagination and more girlfailure in practice so point against him there but american psycho is a girlboss movie and i had to submit him ok???"