#food horror

[skullingwaydraws]

Screamcones!!

I haven’t been posting the progress on this project here, but I started one weird drawing of an ice cream cone and… here we are. Click through for descriptions 🍦🍦

[virgin-martyr]

More specifically, Poltergeist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), and Psycho focus on the concept of food as a critique of the family and the dominant ideology of bourgeois patriarchal society. Not unlike the steak that terrorizes the Freeling family in Poltergeist, the monstrous families in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho are theoretically defined by the failure of industrial food and animal production to maintain a standard of living that is commensurate with the values of consumer society and cultural commodification. Ultimately, the concept of food as Other in the above-mentioned films acts as a critical intervention that focuses on the monstrous family and their opposition to the terrorizing force of the status quo epitomized in the gated community of Cuesta Verde in Poltergeist.

In addition, each of these films’ representation of the connection between the killer and victim establishes food as a pictorial trope that underscores the crisis and disintegration of bourgeois consciousness and the nuclear family. Both Hooper’s reactionary horror film and the more progressive Texas Chainsaw Massacre expand upon a concept that I refer to as the free-range stalk-and-slash narrative popularized in Psycho. As a result, the distinction between the progressive and reactionary — as well as the classic and modern — horror film is complicated and improved upon by the shocking representation of food and the collapse of the farm-to-table ethos, which imagines a renewed embrace of the land as a source of nourishment and well-being that overlooks the problems of economic hardship and social inequality.

Hans Staats, excerpt from "Let Them Eat Steak: Food and the Family Horror Film Cycle," What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen

[shrimpathizer]

i don’t remember the whole thigg by but i saw a post that was talkinn about how boring a trope it is for characters to be fed mysterious meat and for it to turn out to be human meat.

i don’t remember what they said but like. imagine. you bite into a piece of arm. and it tastes like cabbage. you bite into an eyeball and it falls apart, tasting like brussel sprouts. in the middle is a small rock. a pebble even. or maybe its a seed. you take a bite of intestines and out comes whole peas. you look at the wall of the intestine and its a pea shoot.

[bambiraptorx]

content warning: horror, gore, blood

[I.D. A loaf of bread and a glass of wine sitting on a table drawn digitally in a lineless style. The space behind them is black. The wine is dark red and opaque, like blood. The loaf has had one end cut off to reveal intestine like organs inside, dripping blood that pools on the table. End I.D.]

something something the body and the blood transubstantiation cannibalism gore idk

[rrover]

my Evil Meal.

[idleducks]

There’s something mildly terrifying about opening the fridge to see raw, unpeeled potatoes in there.

They are so very out of place

[dominostodoomsday]

Theoretically one could make a mac n' cheese burrito with all the fixin's but I'm not high enough for that endeavor yet

[alastor-assists]

Cringetober 14! Candygore!

We switched day 13 and day 14 around! We're gonna try 13 tomorrow but wanted to wait till tomorrow. And also rather than candygore we decided just to do gore and horror food!

x x x | x x x | x x x

[hotdoghottakes]

Prediction twenty-three: Camilla tries Boiling Isles cuisine...and likes it.

[bringbackgoth]

Okay so first clue they would not be good is that the eggs were cut like this

Instead of the correct way which is

And second of all they used MIRACLE WHIP and I’m not sure they used ANY mustard.

They were BAD.

[eldritchcircus]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/68247976

Hey! For those of you who might not know, I'm also a writer! I have a free-to-read short story called "The Gloriana Diet" that I published today and I'm really proud of it, so I'm hoping some people will enjoy it. Especially folks who might not have read my original fiction before!

"The Gloriana Diet" is a 3300 word horror story. There is a content warning at the beginning of the post: it contains themes related to eating disorders, fitness/diet culture, and orthorexia, as well as more common horror themes like animal death/animal cruelty.

If you like this story, I will also say here that the 5$ patreon tier unlocks several other short stories, and that I'm currently working on a collection of 9-10 short stories - including The Gloriana Diet - that I'll be putting out at the end of summer/beginning of fall!

Hope you guys like it!

[skullingwaydraws]

Screamcones!!! A whole new line of inedible icecream flavors to die for! 👻🍦 Do you have a favorite?

special thanks to my partner @tato-potat for writing the adorable copy for the flavors 💕 close ups of each

[virgin-martyr]

Furthermore, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho represent the countryside of America — like the planned community of Cuesta Verde in Poltergeist — as imperiled by industrialization and the concomitant threats of economic hardship and social inequality. Indeed, all of the films in this essay represent these processes as greater threats than the monsters that plot against the suburban and rural communities that function as sites of unfettered simplicity and ideological stability. 

Hans Staats, excerpt from "Let Them Eat Steak: Food and the Family Horror Film Cycle," What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen

[psiotechniqa]

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's vomit on his sweater already, cum spaghetti

[desolatus]

Maggie Taylor

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me