#genuinely the most gory experience I've had with my own body.

[emsloe]

mildly graphic medical content warning

had a very harrowing visit to the surgery center today during which my surgeon had to get a bunch of 4-day-old coagulated blood out of my pecs via massaging them aggressively, reopening an incision, and stuffing some gauze into said incision. Most disturbing part to me right now is that I can feel the gauze under my skin, and he wants me to rip it out tomorrow... was informed complications like this are more common if you have more muscle, and if it doesn't resolve by wednesday he will have to operate on me again.

he also put the wrap back on so tight that my ribs feel bruised. augh

he told me i was very stoic during the whole thing but frankly it was pretty gross. Ended up with apparently ~200ccs of clotted blood out of my problem side. This was a complication from a few hours after surgery, but I was too out of it to call them about it, and wasn't able to get it looked at til today due to the holiday, but it had been slowly reducing til today so I'm optimistic - fingers crossed I don't need that second operation.

I have extra aftercare instructions for now and will be back in the center on Wednesday so he can see how it's going

I know it's gonna be so so worth it in the end, but man I hate recovery. This sucks supremely.

[captaincolossal]

So I was looking at this *sigh* listicle of 20 movies that are so bad they're good, and I thought - of the ones I've seen - that their choices were...debatable. (I will argue, vehemently, that Cats (2019) doesn't somehow loop back around to being good, nor is it "camp" and clearly this was written by someone who doesn't get camp.) Anyway, I was like "I will go make my own list, thanks".

So, limiting the options to the...223 films I've seen for Hashtag Franchise Binge 2k21, what are some (maybe not 20) films that are so bad they're good?

Alien Vs. Predator (2004) This film has so much going on. Is it good? Eh. Does it make sense? Not really. Is it fun? Hell yeah. Like do not take this seriously, but enjoy the ride, the goth Indiana Jones aesthetic, and Alexa's burning desire to fuck a Predator.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) The thrilling conclusion to the original Apes series, which I would be willing to lump together in a "bad but good" list on the basis of the rubber ape masks alone, but I'm singling out this one, which is set in the distant future of 1991, where everyone wears black turtlenecks. This one is the most heavy handed with the racism/civil rights allegory, but includes a surprisingly optimistic - if cloying - ending.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) The real tragedy of this cheesy teen slasher is how underutilized Sarah Michelle Gellar is. Her final chase scene was genuinely good, and she showed up so hard for this role. This is cheesy fun, with an odd premise and characters that make more or less inexplicable decisions.

Friday the 13th Part IV: Jason Lives (1986) I chose this out of all eleven Friday films because this actually does a few interesting things with the otherwise formulaic story. It puts a teen boy in the role of the final girl, which alters the story in an interesting way and I don't want to give it too much credit and say it's intentionally subversive, but it's definitely got that element and it's more self-aware. Also features a soundtrack that is heavy on the Alice Cooper.

Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987) Listen, I unironically love this movie. It's cheesy, it's gory, it's ridiculous. It's one of those movies that, like, if they'd made it as A Serious Horror Film, I don't think it would have worked, but it was obviously fun and pushing what they could do with practical effects on a shoestring budget.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) This one not only puts a boy in the role of final girl, but has the first male scream queen and is accidentally (but totally not accidentally) incredibly gay. It's peak 80s camp with lots of homoerotic body horror. And it's just. Homoerotic in general.

Final Destination 5 (2011) I admit I had some fatigue going in to this one, but somehow they pulled off a really clever bit of storytelling that actually tied the whole series together really well. I'm not saying that Final Destination is a great series of films, but they were fun and it's always cool when a series manages to wrap up coherently.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) So. I would say that this one is An Experience. Like is is good? No. But it is an absolutely relentless ride that is packed with over the top violence, cheesy gore, and boomer humor.

The Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985) This is the first one that I thought of for a "so bad it's good" list, honestly. Like it's cheesy and stupid and the effects are hokey and yet. It has a bitchin' new wave soundtrack (with an original song that is actually a banger), it has just the wildest 80s fashion, there are tiddies everywhere, oh and Christopher Lee is a werewolf hunter.