#gothic film

[degenderates]

Eve's Bayou (1997), dir. Kasi Lemmons

[noahsartt]

Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan

[gothyween]

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖉𝖉𝖆𝖒𝖘 𝖋𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖞 ; 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖆 & 𝖌𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖟 🖤🥀

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cr. nonalimmen

[gothic-thriller-dawn]

The Crow {1994}

[horrorcigs]

me and who

[fatalforesight]

something about gothic deaths… sickness that lasts for weeks and ends with blood stained sheets, days and days of being shut away from everyone that loves you. drowning (perhaps even by choice) in the waters you played in as a child. heartbreak so deep, so sudden, so chilling that it stops the blood flowing in your veins long enough to begin cardiac arrest. mysteriously found stabbed in a haystack. impaled on the spiral tower of a mansion you found on a foreign moor. hypothermia in the woods in the middle of winter, starvation in the streets of an English ghosttown, cut to death on the thorns of a hedge maze, struck down by a monster of your own making. idk. i just think they’re neat

[70svampyre]

Lust for a Vampire

1971

[the-watcher-in-the-sky]

[snowrassa]

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

Usher, Part 1 from Ghost Quartet (2014) by Dave Malloy

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber

Usher, Part 1 from Ghost Quartet (2014) by Dave Malloy

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) directed by Jean Epstein

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) directed by Jean Epstein

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

Usher, Part 3 from Ghost Quartet (2014) by Dave Malloy

La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) directed by Jean Epstein

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

Usher, Part 3 from Ghost Quartet (2014) by Dave Malloy

La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) directed by Jean Epstein

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

Usher, Part 3 from Ghost Quartet (2014) by Dave Malloy

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) directed by Jean Epstein

The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) created by Mike Flanagan

[lillithfallenangel]

‘Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp on Edward Scissorhands’

[vorpalfae]

[succhiatore]

Anjelica Huston as Mortícia Addams (1991)

[gothyween]

𝖈𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖐 ; 𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖈𝖚𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 🖤🕯️

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[g0thiclygh0ulish-diaries]

if I die and your soul isn't brought back by a crow so you can avenge my murders in goth make up and a long leather jacket then I don't want it

"I'm coming home"

[lbeblog]

Panna a Netvor (1978), de Juraj Herz.

[positively--speculative]

Okay, but when I think of that dumb-dumb take on the book version Louis Pointe du Lac and his ownership of Black slaves that was all like, 'You all are dumb and media illiterate because clearly the point is to challenge you to be sympathetic towards awful people!'

And it's like, it's clear who is media illiterate because such a take reveals the lack of ability to understand the concept of *framing.* Rice framed slavery in a very neutral light and made Louis an obvious racist in the way he described his slaves. At no point is this ever challenged. At no point does Louis suffer any social consequences for it even in the present day. I mean, again, it very much illustrates how white audiences are not horrified by the atrocities of slavery, which is probably *why* this person can so easily pat themselves on the back for being able to sympathize with Louis while insulting the intelligence of Black people who prefer Jacob Anderson's Louis.

Like, if you want a better example of a gothic story that challenges the audience to be sympathetic towards horrible people, you need only look at Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak. I remember when watching it for the first time, I was able to figure out really fast what the twist was going to be because I am pretty familiar with the kind of thing that goes down in gothic stories. And I think that made the movie an interesting experience for me because I wanted so badly to be wrong. I wanted Thomas to be good. I didn't *want* to have a crush on someone who I was pretty sure was having an incestual relationship with his sister and who was trapping wealthy women into marriage with the intention of murdering them. But the harsh reality of the story is that Thomas and his sister are bad. Thomas loves Edith, sure. Thomas tries to protect her from Lucille, yes. But he is still guilty. Lucille and Thomas are tragic characters. They were isolated from the world and abused by their mother. In different circumstances, they could have grown up to be good people...but they are also not blameless. The framing of their relationship is not good, nor is it neutral. Any reasonable person is as horrified as Edith is at the reveal. This man who she is DEEPLY in love with should not be kissing his SISTER that way. It's very clear the point isn't to walk away with the mindset of "incest isn't that bad actually" just because we're in love with Thomas and *want* him to be good.

The problem with the way Rice handles Louis is that no one, not even Daniel, is horrified that Louis not only owned slaves but did not even view them as *people*. And Daniel was the *perfect* opportunity for that. I mean, for fuck's sake! It was published in 1976. Daniel wasn't at all uncomfortable with this? I mean, perhaps he was enthralled at the idea that he's sitting across from a literal vampire, but that's the thing right there. That right there is the missed opportunity to do what Crimson Peak did so brilliantly. Maybe it's easy to be drawn to a handsome immortal, but his lack of remorse for owning slaves should, at the very least, make him UNCOMFORTABLE with his attraction towards him. And that's the problem with white Rice fans. She didn't challenge your own ideas. She didn't challenge your biases. If anything, she validated them, because CLEARLY none of you are uncomfortable with your attraction to white Louis despite his misdeeds. Despite his blatant racism. Despite his treating his Black slaves as disposable but is conflicted about taking WHITE human lives.

And this is not me saying that any of you have to like Jacob Anderson's version of the character. But the way some of you act so smug about your preference for the book version or even Brad Pitt's version and want to accuse Black people of having a lack of media literacy when you barely have a good hold on FRAMING is laughable. And the way a lot of you are acting like you have a better understanding of the gothic genre than anyone who prefers AMC IWTV is straight-up embarrassing. Read a different author besides Anne Rice, please.