#found footage reccomendations

[natescoloringbook]

🎃 Halloween!

We had stayed up a bit late the night before so it was a late start to the day, I took a bath and then we started doing some crafts! It was very un-Halloweeney feeling but we had just done like all of our Halloween celebrations the previous days : P I also saw so many people I follow online going out and trick-or-treating this year, I was very jealous!!

Eli painted a Pumpkin

I painted a spider

We both made Halloween bracelets

We were headed to roller skating tonight so we had decided to make dinner early. Which was making pizzas from scratch ( something we’ve never done before ). The base actually ended up very plain even though we added a lot of garlic to it, we’ll try a different recipe next time!

Before the oven

After the oven

Eli’s after the oven ( he forgot to take a before picture )

After dinner it was time for us to go skating!

We both brought a friend along

We stopped off at ASDA on the way home for some snacks. This particular one used to be the worst but for some reason it had a really amazing upgraded toy section! It felt like we were in a toy store.

Random giant Lego wolf in the middle of all the toys

I LOVED this unicorn and it took so much strength not to bring him home with me…but I am trying to buy less plastic toys so he stayed behind

Once we were home we decorated cookies and watched a couple movies. The first once I can’t remember the name of, but it was Swedish ( I think? ) and it was about a little girl who finds a bird egg and raises the creature that emerges from it. It was really good and I would reccomend it! The second one was called Area 51 and was very boring and garbage. Found footage style about a group of people trying to break into Area 51. We normally have a tradition of going to the cinema on / around Halloween but there isn’t anything playing that interests us! I do want to see the Five Nights At Freddies movie, but having never played the games or engaged with the franchise in any way I don’t wanna go and see it in the theatre ( I also don’t wanna drag Eli to see a kiddie movie either haha )

Hotel Transylvania…very psychological thriller…

I hope everyone had a good Halloween!!!

[slygirlboy]

any good asian found footage horror reccomendations? Noroi is my fave found footage film and i enjoyed Occult too. Cult is on my list still, i also just saw Incantation on netflix, Taiwanese found footage film that was really good and it put me back in the mood for that genre.

[themysterioustaria]

Te Welcome home site update is so, SO GOOD.

You can see the amount of work that went into it it's insane. I want to rant about it here- I heavily reccomend everyone to go check it out, PLEASE! Spoilers under cut!

Firstly, we got the voices of the characters?! Like how crazy is that?!!! The audios all sound so well, I bow my head to the voice actors and to Clown for choosing them and writing the lines.

Secondly THE GODDAMN ENTIRE GALLERY OF PROPS. What amount of time and effort must've gone into making these???? I cannot stress enough how it blows my mind. You can see the dedication and the passion.

Third, the secret videos. For those who don't know, on certain pages (I only discovered two for now) there will appear bug gifs (butterfly, beetle, etc). When you click on them, a FREAKING VIDEO APPEARS. A VIDEO. LIVE FOOTAGE TOO, NOT ANIMATION. Under it there's a transcript of what characters are there and what they say. From the two I found, they seem to be about Frank and that something is happening to his garden and he discusses it with other residents. The videos end/glitch out when he asks Wally about his opinion on whatever they're talking about and to be fair, it scared the everliving hell out of me the first time it happened, I literally got jumpscared- I'm discovering more as of writing this and I found more, this one with Eddie and Howdy, but they seem to be just talking. What is the thing that brings all the videos together is the Wally glitchout.

Also the 8bit gifs are so pretty I can't-

You can't send anymore thigs into the guest book, that is fair, the amount of submissions probably overwhelmed Clown. It was handled so well though, with the drawing os Sally holding a stop sign :D

There are more hidden audios/things about Wally knowing he's being looked at, that's fun :]

The amount of audio now is truly astounding. I'm just- AHHH I CAN'T WORD IT IT'S SO GOOD

Only now have I noticed the amount of bug-themed things in there too! It's very interesting indeed-

I ranted a lot here, huh... Well, it's worth ranting about! Have a great day! Remember: You're just the most!

[analyzingadventure]

You know

I was checking WtW for the first time in a while, and saw they had some info on upcoming Ghost Game episodes, both the titles for a few episodes and even some plot synopsis

So I took a quick looksie to see if there’s anything interesting in there

I am going fucking DIE

So I saw the title “Spiral Beach” for episode 40 and I was immidiately reminded of Uzumaki (lit. “spiral”). For those not familiar with it, it’s an aclaimed horror manga series by the great Junji Ito, about a small town by the ocean where strange things begin to happen surrounding spirals. If you enjoy some S-Rank body horror then I definitely reccomend reading it, if you’re easily given nightmares then stay away from it and Ito’s other works, I can say from experience, I read most of Uzumaki when I was like 13 and I’m still actually fucked up from it.

So when I saw the episode title and then read the synopsis for the episode... Yeah... Yeah... Episode 40 could be a Uzumaki parody/tribute.

So that’s concerning

(I mean this is a kids show, even if they do play tribute to Uzumaki they’re NOT gonna go super hard on the body horror, they can’t traumatize kids like that lmao)

BUT THAT’S NOT EVEN THE THING THAT MADE ME LOSE MY FUCKING SHIT

NO, IT’S THE TITLE FOR THE FOLLOWING EPISODE

THERE’S NO PLOT SYNOPSIS FOR EPISODE 41, JUST THE TITLE

“CLOWN”

Is this real

Is it finally happening

Are we gonna see Piemon (or Jokermon) in Digimon? We haven’t seen him animated since the end of fucking Adventure 22 years ago (aside from a few second cameo in tri. and stock footage flashbacks in Zero Two, and I guess GG’s opening but it’s the silhouette of his head)

I am going fucking die ARE WE GONNA SEE PIEMON

LIKE IT COULD BE A FAKE-OUT CONSIDDERING EP35 WAS CALLED WEREWOLF AND THERE WAS NO WEREWOLF IN THE EPISODE

BUT LIKE

I’m dying, I am absolutely fucking dying right now

You don’t understand how badly I’ve wanted to see my clown bastard in this series y’all, you don’t understand how often I’ve longingly gazed into the backgrounds in Tamers and Xros Wars and Frontier, looking at the massive crowds of Digimon, desperately wanting to see even just a glimpse of that asshole but there was always nothing

Y’all remember how excited I got during Psi’s run when we found out Etemon would fucking show up in there, and how I got excited about the possibilty Psi could maybe speedrun all the Adventure villians- but then they didn’t

And here we are

Ghost Game cave us a Psi-style recreation of Adventure’s Vamdemon

Ghost Game has had all the iconic Adventure villians in the opening since the begining (and then some)

I know, I remember, that Kakudou said he just used the Digimon he was most familiar with when making the opening, and that they weren’t a reflection of which Digimon would end up appearing in the series

But

But

Episode 40 of GG is called Spiral Beach

Episode 40 of Adventure was when the kids return to the DW, discovering the Dark Masters had transformed the DW into the Spiral Mountain

Episode 41 of GG is called Clown

It’s probably just a coincidence. I do not believe GG is going to speedrun a retelling of the Dark Masters arc, I don’t even think most of those Digimon end up appearing, and the “clown” could be a redherring (or reference to Jokermon, which could be more likely, IDK, do they want the first Ultimate level Digimon they introduce to be a clown? Actually I’m a few episodes behind IDK if they have shown Ultimates yet)

But what if it isn’t a coincidence

What if Toei is intentionally trolling me speficially? (A likely scenario)

Or what if it isn’t a coincidence

IDK I am absolutely losing my fucking marbles right now

I am so excited and I probably shouldn’t be (again, it could be some other non-clown Digimon), but I am, and. Like. Yeah

We sure aren’t gonna find out what’s up until at least the episode preview for 41, so like. August 28th. Gotta wait about 20 days. I’m in pain.

Part of me wishes I hadn’t looked at the episode titles because I have now spoiled myself, shame on me. But what’s done is done.

Gonna go watch the latest two episodes now I guess

[signeficunt]

can i hear all u have to say on 9/11 please i am way too interested in it also

omg ofc i'm always happy to infodump about my special interests lol!

(sorry this took a while this post became really long lmao)

i first became interested about 9/11 through the lost media community, when i saw ppl talk about the "LOL superman" video (supposedly an old shock video showing close-ups of the jumpers lying dead on the ground) though i personally don't believe it exists. but it was through that discussion that i found out about r/911archive, which is an amazing resource for anyone interested in 9/11, as it not only mostly factual (speculation does happen there ofc but conspiracy theories generally aren't tolerated) but it's also filled with thousands of kind and helpful people who are just as interested in it as i am lol

recently i've been watching lots of archived footage of the events, mostly news footage but some home videos too, and the naudet brothers who were filming a documentary about firefighters when 9/11 happened (they actually have footage of the first plane hitting the north tower! highly reccomend checking it out on youtube if you have the time!) i actually have a playlist with currently 28 videos in it that i can share if u want! i would say that the absolute best footage of that day comes from eyewitness news. This footage specifically (i hope the link works) is really, really good imo, as they actually caught the collapse of the south tower while standing basically a few meters away from the WTC, absolutely incredible footage imo!

Other footage which i find really interesting is from (i wasn't aware of them before since i'm not american and also born after 9/11), the way you can hear the audiences reaction to the news really hammers home how shocking this actually was, i can only speculate but it really feels like there was this attitude that the WTC, the pentagon and america in general were untouchable, and 9/11 kinda spelled out to people that this wasn't the case at all...

i will add one more video which i found interesting (otherwise this post will go on forever) and that's . i've often heard people who were alive when it happened say that they felt like the world stood still, and after seeing that video i think i understand.

people often trivialise 9/11 by making fun of peoples reactions to it and what not (and i agree that 9/11 has been used to justify awful things) but now that i've seen so much footage from that fateful day i just can't stand that kind of behaviour. and i've joked about it too in the past, in fact if you went through my archive right now you could probably find some post from last year mocking the event, but i really regret it tbh. like nearly 3000 people died (and many more died in the following war) so it's just not funny to me anymore

there's lots of footage which i find interesting but for the sake of this post not being super long i won't go on lol, but u can always send another ask or DM me if u wanna talk more c:

[mtgrndr]

Reccomending movies everyday

Day 4: As above so below

Genre: Horror/found footage/suspense

Director: John Erick Dowdle

Tw: Claustrophobia, death, blood, religiou/satanic themes

[ethicallysourcedhumanmeat]

ok so I'm too lazy to retype this but did session zero for our found footage ghost hunting campaign this weekend posting my tweets with some extra commentary

I dont know how other people run session zero or who is familiar with the kids on bikes rules but kids on bikes is very RP player led, the GM is basically just there to moderate, generate npcs and ask for rolls on things that seem like they'd need a difficulty check, i really reccomend it.

we use that kind of method for session zero, it lets my players get more comfortable in their characters and the world, it lets me see what kind of experience they are looking for and where I am going to see conflict (real and fictional).

we've had enough campaigns fizzle out over character personality clashes that I make the characters now, usually have them roll for the characters tho sometimes I will make a specific character for a player, lyric in this campaign was made specifically for norah

adding the ghost hunting tools was really fun, fir the spirit box the kids would often pick a question asker, a roll maker and someone to make static noises, if they got too lost in banter i could throw out a word or two through the box to get them back in track, sometimes i chose not to answer.

our gnome is haunted by the hat man who made an unplanned appearance, I thought he'd keep this secret but he shared it with the party right away. to his knowledge the hat man is a shadow man that started following him after taking too many benadryl and getting sleep paralysis, but the hat man is actually his warlock patron.

lyric is a fake medium to the players knowledge, what they dont know is that actually they are a real medium and i can wait to play that card. (they're also a 6'9" half orc pastel goth loli van life instagram influencer)

for spirit box answers I used 1-5 word answers, and song lyrics. when i didnt want to answer or didn't have an answer but didnt want a 'no answer' i would make stilted half words or say nonsense ( apple taters is an acceptable answer)

aside from that i am going to make actual item cards for the non-communication tools that will have roll bonuses (going to assign stat/profeciency modifiers i think) but we played them as staight rolls

[dirtmunch]

Ok for starters the absolute tops are ofc Ringu, hausu and ju on the grudge. Ringu and the grudge are the most comparable of the 3, hausu is kind of in its own league. Overall, I think if you want more scares and setups, the grudge is better for That. Every single paranormal scene is masterfully put together and they are really truly creepy. The place where the grudge fails and ringu Excells however is plot and story. There is a looser plot that strings things together, but no real ups and downs or pace. It's more about giving you several vignettes of horror all connected with one back story rather than a comprehensive story. Ringu on the other hand has an amazing investigative plot that focuses on a couple core characters and the paranormal aspects of the film are rich with aspects of Japanese culture. The first time I watched it was in my Japanese culture class and the prof. Was really great and explaining different aspects of it. It's not to say the scary scenes are lesser than ju ons, they're really all excellent and creepy, just less total scenes than the back to back ones of the grudge. That weird otherworldly deep sense of wrong. Between the two, ringu still takes home the cake.

Hausu

Hausu or House is the oldest of the movies I've seen, made in the late 70s versus the late 90s/early 2000s. There is a much stronger artistic direction with it, and the use of lighting is incredible. It eeks on the edge of parody with how they set up the lights in a fantastic way. It has a much sillier tone compared to every other Japanese horror movie I've seen while still maintaining a strong air of horror. Definitely reccomend

Noroi

Noroi is one where I was.... Dissappointed to say the least with how much I heard it being hyped. It's staged as a found footage film, following a paranormal Ingestigative journalist researching a particular curse so the footage is from his shots, as well as some TV segments. My main issue is that they kept throwing different aspects of whatever the curse manifested at the audience, with little reason given. I'm not saying they needed to explain every little thing but it feels as if they wanted to keep adding things to make it mysterious but it actually just gets confusing and hard to follow. And because of the found footage aspect of it, there isn't music or as much purposeful cinematography to enhance what scares there are.

Pulse

Pulse is also one I was somewhat dissatisfied with like noroi- tons of hype what raised my expectations too high. Well, of course besides THAT scene. It has less confusing than noroi, but still somewhat hard to follow. The first half is strong, but reallllyyy starts to fall apart at the end. It follows a couple perspectives but it's not super clean when it transitions from one to another. That being said it's definitely worth it for the one infamous scene near the beginning.

Dark Water

A solid, run of the mill film. Hits a lot of the same troupes as predecessors, which makes it mildly derivative but on its own doesn't harm the movie at all. Not much more to say honestly. Good film!

Goes without saying to watch the actual, original Japanese films instead of the horseshit American remakes

Please recc me more Japanese horror!!! It's my favorite genre. Doesn't have to be film Films either, any paranormal shows or anything like that too

[paralien]

Just finished watching Trolljegeren/Troll Hunter again and 1000000/10 reccomend it it's SO good !! It's a Norwegian found footage documentary about 3 University students that are following a troll hunter around Norway and it's literally the only Norwegian media i rexxomend bc it's just so good and so realistic and I love it so much

[horribletimemanagementskills]

Analogue Horror/ Found Footage Recommendations

These are the main ones that i have watched, still somewhat confused but i really liked how they made it and the parts that I do understand. Im slapping them on here with little or no context, enjoy ig.

These are all on Youtube, (besides Mystery Flesh Pit National Park). 

WARNING - these all contain flashing lights one way or the other, disturbing imagery,  blood and distorted audio,  again, its analogue horror and is not suitable for everyone.

-   Walten Files (full on ARG now - link)

-   Mandela Catalogue (link)

-   The Smile Tapes (link)

-   Eventide Media Center (link)

-   BLUE_CHANNEL: THALASIN (by Gooseworx - link)

 - Crystalview Records (only two so far tho - link)

-   Gemini Home Entertainment (link)

-   Local 58 (link)

-   The Minerva Alliance (link)

-   Surreal Broadcast (link)

-   Rocket Records (there is only one but it is good nonetheless - link) 

-   Monument Mythos (not really horror but an entertaining analogue/ found footage - link)

-   Analogue Archives (link)

-  Mystery Flesh Pit National Park (i only saw Wendigoon’s YT Summary - not really horror nor analogue but really interesting)

-  Marble Hornets (its long i haven’t finished yet - full playlist + yt + yt2)

-  The Backrooms Found Footage (link)

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[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

I've got one episode left but so far I'm pleased with the way Archive 81 has been adapted for television.

They made a lot of (in my opinion) smart decisions when adapting the story from audio to visual. The fleshing out of Dan's background as an archivist was A+. Rather than go purely found footage for the story of Melody, they start with a portion of the recording and then switch the viewer to a full view of past events. Helps keep disbelief suspended when you don't try and sell the idea everyone with a camcorder is a cinematographer.

I feel like the majority of the show avoided Netflix Disease, which is refreshing. There are only 2 instances where I felt was being spoonfed. And even then I'll allow some leniency, since both scenes occurred after Dan + Melody have begun to doubt their sanity and it is framed as them double checking their work. Ymmv of course.

I was at first worried they were re-writing Melody as straight, and was upset since she is our most powerful horror lesbian. But based on recent story developments I think she's just closeted.

Overall I'd reccomend to existing fans and new.

[neproxrezi]

please reccomend your favourite book??!!

hi! sorry for leaving this for a bit, i wanted to think about it

it's time for a read more, unfortunately

my favourite book ever is House of Leaves, but i want to include some more because it's quite... odd? i really do think more people should check it out but it's long, difficult to read to say the least, and just quite odd. gimme a sec to think about this... i think it does deserve some explaining

house of leaves is two stories at once, with two unreliable narrators to say the least:

johnny truant, who checks out an old dead guy's apartment with his friend after said dead dude dies with nobody to inherit his stuff. the only thing they find left in his apartment is his life's work, which makes up the bulk of the book. johnny writes commentary in the footnotes, through which you kind of piece together his life story. it's quite interesting, completely and utterly bullshit, and... really pretty sad. his life falls apart has he reads The Navidson Record, a book by...

zampano, an old man who is almost certainly using a pen name. his life's work is the definitive summary and critical review of a found-footage film / documentary about a pulitzer-winning photojournalist Will Navidson who decides to film his attempt to finally settle down with his family, but then their house starts... growing new doors and expanding on the inside. this second level of narration is strongly about navidson, but you can't really extract zampano from it, since johnny is never able to actually find any evidence the navidson record existed

i really don't know how to talk about the book more without this post becoming a full length essay but it is a very unique read, as well as a difficult one - both in terms of the language it uses and uh, this

i strongly recommend house of leaves, but at the same time i really struggle to explain it!

as i said, i wanted to include some others, but i might say a bit less here:

piranesi by susanna clarke is a nice and strange read! i have a signed copy

i'm going back a bit here and idk if i'd like them any more but as a teen i adored charlie higson's The Enemy series of zombie books - the basic gist is everyone over 14 turned into zombies and the world is now run by kids and teens. it's quite an odd series, though i never finished it - i think i have all but the last book and then sorta grew out of them

i quite liked that book Warm Bodies. it got a film, was it any good? also did they include the skeletons from the book or pass over that bit

okay and last i'm gonna say another i looooved, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by mariana enriquez is a collection of short horror stories with a pretty creepy cover. my favourite was Meat! there's a bit more i could say re: this one but i don't really know if i should get into it - i enjoyed it but it was uncomfortable at times

[transarchivist]

do you have any podcasts recs? I want to listen to archive 81 but I need some backup and I've already listened to the more "famous" ones, like all of them I binge podcasts like they pay me for me it ajsjjshfje

!!!! ok i'm sorry it's taken me a hot minute to get to you BUT i think i have a good amount of reccomendations :o

these first few are kinda "famous" but i thought i'd point em out just in case! some of them ended a few years ago and they were more well known back when they were running

wolf 359: gotta point this one out juuuust in case you haven't listened to it! amazing sci fi... would drama be the right word? it's very intense and has some really interesting meditations on morality and the self But it's also so extremely funny. complete, ended in 2017

ars paradoxica: america during the cold war, the red scare, intense government conspiracies.... And Time Travel! complicated but amazing plot and a big cast- i would recommend not pausing and listening to something else, it gets complex! mischa stanton directed it so you Know it has stellar sound design (added bonus: lgbt main characters) complete, ended in 2018

the bright sessions: people with superpowers go to therapy! plus: shadowy capitalistic conspiracies, amazing romances and phenomenal character development! i'm not a fan of romances and i Loved the ones here (it's not heavily romance focused though!) (added bonus: lgbt main characters + main lgbt romance) complete, ended in 2018. i think a spin off series is running rn tho!

the adventure zone: this isn't an audio drama, it's an actual play d&d podcast! the first season (balance) is amazing- hilarious and heart wrenching! (the heart wrenching takes a while to kick in but MAN it's so good) the first season ended in 2017. i haven't finished the second big season (amnesty) but i loved what i did listen to, same with the currently running season (graduation)

sayer: starts off as sinister night vale but with an ai and in space, evolves into a complicated save-the-world plot concerning several ais. it's in second person and it's Amazing! lots of meditations on the self and personhood. currently on hiatus but will be ending when it resumes

alice isn't dead: from the people who did night vale! starts as a trucker trying to find her wife, evolves to include shadowy government conspiracies and the power of regular people banding together. ending made me tear up it's really good! it's Big on the horror (the first ep is the only podcast that's ever truly scared me and it continues to scare the shit out of me to this day) but its Extremely Good Horror. very americana too! complete, ended in 2018.

ok that's the more well known ones out of the way, i think? i'm not too confident about how well known some of them are nowadays ^^' all i can say is that i heard abt them frequently in 2016. now onto the lesser known ones ! the ones that are complete are generally pretty short listens (relatively- they're still a good handful of hours at the least)

zero hours: by the wolf 359 people, it's a short anthology that released all at once last year. to pharaphrase/quote the official blurb: each episode is a take on the end of the world, whether the apocalypse is planetary or personal. each episode is separated by 99 years, starting in the past (1722) reaching the present and then overtaking it. surprisingly hopeful ending, made me <:')

i am in eskew: you've probably heard me holler about this before- it follows the trials and tribulations of david ward, who lives in the nightmarish and otherworldly city of eskew. 30 episodes long and complete, with a phenomenal ending! i can't rave about this enough i could Keep talking but i'll cut myself short. it's horror and it's damn good horror! does deal with extremely heavy topics, please be careful!

janus descending: sci fi horror with what has to be the most interesting formatting i've seen in ages: the two points of view alternate each episode... but one is chronological and one is backwards! amazingly done, keeps you guessing until the end! complete. follows peter and chel as they undertake a survey mission on an alien planet

midnight radio: made by @/theradioghost! big on the idea that "all ghost stories are love stories". a 1950s radio hostess gets letters from a fan. horror, big on the 1950s aesthetics, focus on the relationship between one and one's hometown. lovely ending! it's sapphic too :]

the far meridian: by the same people who did ars paradoxica! follows peri, a bit of a hermit who has extreme social anxiety, who lives in a lighthouse that suddenly begins to teleport. each morning peri wakes up and the lighthouse is in a different place! there are like... some horror elements? kinda? but it's not intense imo. it mainly follows peri learning to cope with her anxiety & helping others, with each episode usually having a one off encounter (usually pretty strange!) often has wholesome vibes. s3 is currently in production and is the final season. plus: lgbt characters, and kinda spoilers but peri uses a cane later on!

old gods of appalachia: honestly it's what it says on the tin! a collection of short stories set in historical appalachia that deal with entities beyond human understanding. they're good about trigger warnings, but it's Horror. produced by actual appalachians! stellar music, a Lot strong female characters, and a good amount of lgbt rep! killer music!! it's currently releasing but the latest short story is finished. (do listen in order though!)

the deep vault: by the archive 81 team! in an "almost-post-apocalyptic" america a group of friends chase a rumor about a secret hidden vault, only to Find it! follows the group as they traverse the deep vault. horror, actively points out capitalism a Lot, definetly has an interesting ending! amazing sound design, which is to be expected from dan powell!

tides: the official blurb is short and sweet: "tides is the story of dr. winnifred eurus, a xenobiologist stuck on an unfamiliar planet with hostile tidal forces". extremely snarky and endearing main character and fascinating worldbuilding! i don't know the status of s2, but s1 was really good!

limetown: follows one lia haddock, a public radio reporter, as she tries to unravel the mystery of what happened at limetown. all she knows is that 10 years prior, over 300 men, women and children vanished. horror, mystery, and some sci fi elements. presented in a found footage kinda way. i really enjoyed it, especially the first season. complete.

mabel: horror (big on the haunted house type specifically), sapphic romance, fun take on the fair folk/fae! follows anna limon, an in home carer who's trying to get in touch with her client's estranged granddaughter. evolves into a big fae-horror-romance-thing! really interesting romance tbh. amazing imagery and prose- lots of prose + almost poetry, but it's really good i promise. currently on a post season hiatus

spines: horror but it evolves past just horror in an interesting way (keeping the horror bits, of course). follows wren, who woke up in an attic surrounded by the remains of a cult ritual without any memories of who she is or what she was doing. she searches for answers, encountering creepy shit along the way. really interesting take on the super-secret-organization-that's-always-been-there trope! really good ending. one of the main characters is nonbinary + there's other lgbt main characters.

mirrors: by the people who did spines. also starts as horror but evolves past just horror (it's also sci fi). follows three women in three different centuries who are all experiencing the same haunting. phenomenal take on ghosts! like i can't articulate how cool this angle on ghosts is! s3 is supposed to start this year :] one of the main characters is sapphic, and her wife is a supporting character.

the six disappearances of ella mccray: also by the people who did spines and mirrors. evolves past just horror but keeps more of the horror elements? follows the 6 povs of the people who witnessed the surreal disappearance of ella mccray. each saw something different and surreal, and as they search for her, surreal things start happening to them. unsure abt the status of s3 but s1 and s2 are really good! lgbt main characters, including a trans lesbian (played by a trans woman!)

the bridge: horror. follows the crew of watchtower 10 on the transcontinental bridge that spans across the atlantic ocean. i listened to it back in like 2016-2017 so my memory is hazy, but i remember really enjoying it! currently on hiatus.

within the wires: sci fi... horror..? i listened to the first season a few years ago and enjoyed it and i've continued to hear really good things. it's by the people who make night vale! my memory isn't great but iirc the first season is a sort of romance that's formatted as a set of relaxation/meditation cassettes. it's a few seasons in and i think each is generally self contained, im unsure if it's currently running or not

the orbiting human circus of the air: also by the night vale people! again i listened to this a few years ago so im hazy. follows julian the janitor who works at a radio station that broadcasts from the top of the eiffel tower! surreal but in a wholesome way, iirc! i remember tearing up with happy tears at the s1 finale ^^' really good music! i think the second(?) season ended recently

stellar firma: i've only listened to a handful of episodes, but i've liked what i've heard. sci fi improv comedy that follows the newly made clone david 7 and the mess that is trexel geistman as they try and design custom planets. i think it's currently running but i dunno

rusty quill gaming: also another one that i've only listened to a few episodes of. actual play pathfinder (basically d&d) podcast set on an alternate earth. alex newall (martin's voice actor) is the dm. i've heard really good things from a lot of people! i think it's currently running but again i don't know for sure

right! that's. that's what i got.

i mentioned @/theradioghost earlier (shes behind midnight radio) but i would absolutely recommend looking at her rec list tag! she has impeccable taste

[dropssofjupitter]

Movie Recommendations Part One

Genre: Horror/Thriller

If you are new to horror, or easily scared, I reccomend starting with this movie. It does contain jump scares, and some gory elements (if I remember correctly), so watch out if you are sensitive to those! If you genuinely get scared while watching this movie, all you have to think about is that the special effects for Slenderman make him look like a q-tip. The movie doesnt really pick up concerning the horror until around the second half of the movie. Before that it is setting the tone and more of a thriller. Overall I give the movie a 3/10 simply because it isnt my style. There are many different options the directors could have taken with this movie, and I didnt particularly care for the one they went with 🤷‍♀️

If you prefer a documentary take on horror movies, I reccomend this one. Hell House LLC is a 'documentary' of an investigation into the deaths of 15 people who died 5 years earlier in a haunted house attraction. It is a found footage type of film that was executed as best as it could be. In my opinion, it is one of the better found footage horrors that I have seen, but it starts off extremely slow. As the movie continues, it starts to pick up bit by bit. However, I feel like it didnt exactly reach full 'horror' until the conclusion. Even then, it was more of a thriller than anything. The conclusion itself left me slightly confused, and left the movie open. There is a second, but I am unsure if it connects to the first movie or not, since I have not watched it. Overall, I give the movie a 5/10

The Boy is a psychological horror/thriller that I absolutely love. It does contain a 'haunted doll' of sorts, but I still reccomend watching it even if you dont like doll horror movies (please trust me on this one). I, personally, hate haunted doll movies and I LOVED this one. That being said, I reccomend the first movie. Not the second. The second movie contradicts many plot points established in the first, and seemed extremely hypocritical to me. The directors essentially backtracked over many facts they established in the first for the sake of popularity. Overall, I give the first movie a solid 7.5/10. It has a slow buildup but its 100% worth it. There are some trigger warnings for this movie however. If you are sensitive to domestic violence, stalkers, or suicidal themes, I do not recommend watching it. Domestic violence is a main plot point in the movie (the other two are very minor and only mentioned a few times). I give the second movie a 3/10. Again, didnt care for it.

The Invisible Man is an amazing thriller. This movie does deal with themes of domestic violence throughout, so that is another trigger warning. It has scifi themes as well, so I reccomend it if that is your cup of tea. I honestly dont have much to critique about this movie, so I'll skip to the rating. I give the movie a solid 8/10

Ready or Not is another thriller. Trigger warning for gore. This movie is more lighthearted than any other thriller you'd ever see, and honestly I like it alot for that reason. It has comedy throughout which lightens the mood alot. Though it is not much of a thriller, I still prefer to classify it as one due to the later half of the movie. I give it a 9/10

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I will be coming out with other lists of recommendations for different genres and working my way through. If you are curious about a movie and want my opinion/review, feel free to drop an ask in my inbox ✌

[angel-archivist]

Do you listen to podcasts (I think tahts what tma is) if so I'd reccomend the dnd podcast TAZ (the adventure zone) -R

Yeah tma is a horror podcast!! I also listen to a81 which is a found footage horror podcast (vvv good i recommend that!) Ah!! I know a lot about TAZ! However its just...so...long....like the episodes are about like an hour or so long and its just i listened to the first couple of episodes but it was: difficult 4 me to focus!!! I might try to listen to it again but a,, Ive seen a lotta fan content tho!!!