#it's the start of a horror film

[prudentfolly]

Day 27: Snow

She's swears she heard something out there...

[offdensen]

Don't you wanna die for something worth dying for? Do you have any idea how long I've waited for this? Longer than you think.

[acapelladitty]

Do you have a list of the horror films you've watched? 👁

[feralsrock]

I’m seeing so many shitty takes about Nope like “iT diDnT mAke ANy senSe” “iT wAs a ComPleTe mEss” “wHaT eVeN waS thE LesSon”

And I’m just reading it like—

Tell me you got bad grades on your reading comprehension assignments without telling me you got bad grades on your reading comprehension assignments.

[emiko-matsui]

so angry at people who see a new horror movie come out and say "oh this is bad" LIKE YEAH OF COURSE IT IS. horror movies have always ALWAYS been considered as bad movies. b movies. trash movies. cheap. just because they've become a little more mainstream now doesn't change anything. get off your high horse and watch horror in the basement with your friends again because that's how horror is meant to be taken in. it's not made for big screens and critics. they have always hated horror. learn your goddamn history and realise that horror should be cheap, b, trash, bad, to be enjoyable. horror movies are GREAT. i LOVE them. don't write fucking new york times thinkpieces about them. horror can't be blockbusters like you want them to be. horror is made with cheap passionate love. go back to ignoring horror movies instead of lining them up to marvel and romcoms and action. it's not the same thing. it's always been considered to be less than. let it fucking be

[therosejamjournal]

thinking about how smile (2022) is every traumatised person's worst nightmare. how the message clearly says "your trauma will always win and no matter what you do, you'll swallow it and it'll inhabit your skin forever." how, even if the protagonist had defeated the monster, she would have still lost - the intergenerational trauma has already spread its insidious wings and would survive in the mind of her sister's child. how traumatised people are so often told to just 'suck it up and smile through the pain,' how laughter is the best medicine until it isn't. how misery loves company. and how sometimes healing comes too late too little - you've let the beast grow too strong, it became an intrinsic part of you, your identity.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

why did he do this (rhetorical) (profoundly affected)

[castieltrash1]

time for a legitimate announcement! i'm starting a podcast, dun, dun dun.... brooklyn and i are putting our fangirl (gn) skills to even more use by interviewing some of your fandom faves (actors, directors, screenwriters, etc.) we're already in the works with a few!

i'd really appreciate if you followed our instagram so we can reach out to even more people and get them on the show!

thank you guys for always supporting me in all of my projects <3

[creamiumsplendor]

I tried to find good critiques about Mandy (2018) on YouTube, because I think it’s a hauntingly beautiful film and I wanted to see who else felt this way, and was instead greeted with a wall of videos with “ENDING EXPLAINED” plastered all over the thumbnails, and this drives me up the wall for two reasons.

Spoilers for Mandy I guess, but if you’re at these tags you already know.

First, the film is really not that complex, the plot is incredibly straight forward and it’s not shy about the primary theme being loss of both someone you love and the stability that comes with that person. If the actual series of events seems confusing, you had to really not be paying attention, like not just occasionally checking your phone, but just missing an entire chunk of the film, in which case you should just start over and not resort to content mill garbage to find out what you missed.

Second, the idea that the ending, an unapologetically abstract and evocative set of images as Red loses himself to The Darkness while still holding the pure image of Mandy in his memory, NEEDS explanation just feels so incurious as a way to engage with media, especially this film. Whatever ending you think happened (Red is just tripping super hard, Red has actually transported to a demonic realm, Red has been dead the whole time), or that there explicitly ISN’T a clear ending, are all completely valid readings of the ending, because it’s not meant to concrete, it’s not supposed to make sense, THAT’S THE POINT. Red has become unmoored from his reality by the shock, the trauma of having his whole life ripped from him, and the line dividing the fantastical and the “real” has blurred even further than it already was at the start of the film. Trying to assign a quantitative solution to “Red + Drugs + Murder=“ misses the point because the emotionality, the way Red is feeling, the way YOU are feeling as you watch the scene, is the important bit. The act of watching and experiencing IS the explanation.

I don’t mean to malign this entire genre of videos, there are definitely movies with complex plots where having someone who does understand it give you a quick breakdown can help one’s own understanding and therefore enjoyment of a film or series. If you watch these kinds of videos, or even one of them for this movie, that’s not a bad thing. I just don’t think it was necessary for this film, where I get a lot of joy just thinking about how it made me feel, and I want to hear how it made other people feel, not just providing a bland explanation to get views.

Anyways if you haven’t yet, watch Mandy and then DON’T go to YouTube to find other takes.

[tenebrare]

Two randomly out of context Hellraiser screenshots

[gayroman]

i was thinking about a movie based on tranquility base hotel and casino but it's a horror. it follows mark, the only man on the moon, left alone running the hotel. he reminisces about the life he used to have and a love he still longs for while going insane on the moon, in the hotel, all alone. the only movie he has to watch is blade runner. being haunted by yourself because you were always your own ghost. kind of a psychological horror.

[mariocki]

A young Roger Delgado works to expose an otherworldly conspiracy, as newspaper columnist Hugh Conrad in Quatermass II: The Coming (1.4, BBC, 1955)

[panicsimss]

creative outlets and burnout

uhh idk where else to put these random oc facts, but Poppy was in a band and Hudson was trying his best to become a horror novelist (and probably failing)

[the-thorburn-braincell]

in that vein: Pact/Otherverse TV show or movie where the framing/lighting/music conveys how a character stands karmically

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

One of the many, many reasons I love Blade Runner is that it doesn't have this Big Epic Final Fight you've come to expect from literally any action film ever.

There's just Deckart and Roy - all others are dead, or not here - and it's just them and one was supposed to kill the other and has become the hunted.

Our main hero protagonist is at the end, he's beaten down, he's at the brink of death, he can barely still walk and is just fleeing as far as he can, as long as he can, and he won't be able to go on much longer and there's really only so far he can run before he's inevitably caught. There's no last minute saviour, no sudden burst of strength, no last attempt to fight. He's terrified. He's running, limping, for just a few seconds more.

And the antagonist - the one who was supposed to be killed, the one who was supposed to be sub-human and is living his life as a slave, in fear - he's going mad. He barely ever had anything, and he lost the few others he had - the only ones who understood when the world was against them. He has only minutes to live, minutes that not even his creator - his god, almost - could drag out, a human god who died by his bare hands. There's nothing left to lose and nothing left to do, but there's the person who hunted him down like a machine or an animal that's one rogue, the one supposed to kill him, entirely at his mercy.

And then they're on that roof, and I don't know what Roy might think, but I know Deckart was done with his life. I know he was convinced he'd die right here - that both of them would die on this roof in the rain.

And when Roy pulls him up? There has to be an explanation. Surely he'll kill him now. What else could he possibly want?

But Roy isn't out for revenge anymore. For as little as he's lived, he's seen so incredibly much. And he knows there isn't anything to be done. He'll die, he'll be forgotten, just another rogue replicant - like moments in time, like tears in rain.

"Time to die." No sadness, no anger, nothing. There's nothing more to it, not anymore. It's a fact.

It's when he's free for the first time.

He's no longer living in fear. He died on his own terms. He's as free as he could ever be, in the only way that was ever even a possibility. And as he dies, as he no longer lives as a slave, that white dove flies away through the rain - a symbol of freedom, finally let go.

And Deckart is left alone on that roof, bleeding, his hand broken, exhausted, still not quite away from the brink of death he's been limping along for the last, what, minutes? (How long was it? Can't have been long. But it sure felt endless.)

There's no winner. No one has been defeated, either. There's just one who died, as he was always meant to, and one who lived, but his world might be in shambles.

What is life worth when you're just waiting for death? Is it freedom when you can never settle down? Could there ever be a different ending?

Also I'm going absolutely insane over the white dove which is a symbol for freedom btw like DAMN!!!!!!! IMPLICATIONS!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[the0retically]

My dad everyday tries to look for new “summer camp horror movies” and at this point I’m just tempted to start recommending Ranboo’s horror game plays or Charlie’s 100 Day Zombie video