#it is women who love horror

[allthebestnamesweretaken]

So I know Lisa Frankenstein is about more than the romance, there’s so much to be said about Lisa’s relationships with those around her and how she was treated and how that parallels how wider society treats women, young women in particular. But the fact that the Creature loved her completely, to the point of searching for her when he “came back to life”, killing those who harmed her, using the body parts of those same people to please her, and always listening to her even though he couldn’t speak (even when it hurt him) just hits me in all the right places. The people who were supposed to love and cherish her didn’t (Taffy loved her of course) yet he did. Idk guys, seeing a girl being loved for all that she is after almost everyone else has rejected her for no reason other than she’s different just means so much to me

[anavie-12]

…I think I may have a type

[werewolfclaws]

I dunno I think if multiple women told me that a character from a show I used to previously love was a disgusting hateful caricature of them and everything they love, I don’t think I’d like the character anymore.

[from-beyond]

How come discussing film with men always turns into “who is right and who is wrong”?? It’s fucking EXHAUSTING like believe it or not king movies aren’t objective

[picklepie888]

I did some thinking about it, and I realized that the new Velma show gave Daphne the Lucy Westenra treatment. In which the makers of a modern adaptation of a pop cultural horror franchise saw a female character who was hyperfeminine and loves fashion and romance and decided that that must mean she's a shallow slutty mean girl while also ignoring literally all other aspects of her original character.

[ladamarossa]

The Fantasist (1986)

[dramarants]

binged 14 eps of my dearest in one sitting. jang hyun the man that you are, the love you've grown to be capable of. gil chae the love that you are capable of, the woman you've grown to become.

[cantsayidont]

March–April 2024. A very strange, frequently tasteless, mostly inexplicable black comedy political satire from the creator of SUCCESSION — though more strongly reminiscent, presumably on purpose, of the 2017 THE DEATH OF STALIN — THE REGIME is a six-part miniseries starring a self-consciously frumpy-looking, outrageously hammy Kate Winslet as Elena Vernham, the egomaniacal authoritarian chancellor of an unnamed Ruritanian state somewhere in Central Europe.

As her hapless husband (Guillaume Gallienne) and self-dealing underlings tiptoe around her growing list of neuroses and increasingly erratic mood swings, a soldier named Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts), notorious for his role in a brutal massacre of striking mine workers, is recruited to play a hard-to-define, ever-shifting supporting role in Elena's ongoing psychological breakdown and various political confrontations.

Winslet seems to have been having fun, although she overacts shamelessly, and what accent she thinks she's doing seems to vary from moment to moment; the median could best be described as "Margaret Thatcher, very tipsy, trying to pretend she's not sucking on an Everlasting Gobstopper." Schoenaerts, for reasons that are never clear, plays Zubak like a punch-drunk boxer trying to walk off a life-threatening concussion, leaving his character a perplexing cipher throughout.

Like THE DEATH OF STALIN (which I thought wildly overrated), THE REGIME is more often crass and uncomfortable than actually funny, and its smug misogyny would be offensive if taken seriously (which is admittedly very difficult). Also, given the current state of the UK, watching the largely British cast mock the political instability of a fictitious "Middle European" autocracy causes some seasickness. (Whistling past the graveyard, perhaps, but still.) CONTAINS LESBIANS? No! VERDICT: Much more "funny strange" than "funny ha-ha," and because it's basically a one-note joke, it becomes like one of those terrible SNL skits that just won't end.

[juodojimirtis]

Yes, most of my posts lately are about either The Nun, or Warrior Nun. Someone may ask, what's with you and nuns? I then must say, it's not about nuns, not really, it's about devils. And nuns running away with devils. It's always lovely to see a holy heart grow horns. Or, an angel embrace a demon.

And, it's about beautiful women. Look at the leads in Warrior Nun, and in Conjurverse. It's always about beautiful women. And devils...

[1800duckhotline]

ahahaha oh god i just realized i accidentally did sumiko and jutta the same problem hence with them both being cannibals, being strong, and having SHIT charisma

[gideonisms]

the magician's apprentice is my favorite by far of her shorter work but I think we should all be talking about floralinda too bc it really does explore one of muir's favorite themes which is women struggling to free themselves from the societies in which they are deeply entwined/making questionable choices while doing so

[metanarrates]

I was so tempted to tag you in the princess poll lol I was like does meta know????

Number One Fan Of Weird Reincarnating Princess Goddess Women already on the case good anon

[henryclharries]

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 🫶

here a collage of some of my absolute idols in pop culture that have really showcased how influential they were and are for me

The Charmed Ones, Xena , Buffy, The Spice Girls, Madonna, Kate Bush, Kylie Minogue, Grace ajones, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Rihanna, Doctor Who ♀️⚧️

To all female identifying humans today celebrate your inner goddess

[horrorknife]

amanda is like an abused guard dog to me. loyal and fearful and doesnt know how to communicate past growling and barking and gnashing teeth

[moe-broey]

Me, losing my absolute mind over the fairies and the greater implications of it all and the intricacies I swear to fucking god are there I swear to fucking GOD there's way more to them than meets the eye and I'm going to fucking get all the alts I fucking can so I can study The Lore and I'll fucking get to the fucking bottom of it all --

.............. you know what. A nap does sound nice.

[devilsskettle]

idk if you care about the Academia views on horror but for a long time there was the idea pushed by second wave feminists that horror was and will always be inherently reactionary and misogynistic because the act of viewing could only be enjoyed by a sadistic male viewer who liked to watch men suffer. but in the 90s that view began being disputed by people like eve kosofsky sedgwick who pointed out how essentialist and flat that view was and horror studies has bloomed since then to include the queer viewer (benshoff 1997, “monsters in the closet”) and expand beyond the simplistic view that horror is inherently bad and “low art” because of its violence. so basically this is all to say that anon is stuck in 1990

fuck yeah. that's really interesting