#midwest horror

[prairiedeath]

illinois

[neaature]

More Midwest Gothic for you all!

Can you hear the cicadas screaming and feel your head pounding? Have you slipped into a horror movie? How did you get all the way out here?

[thelostandfoundproject]

Character heights

TV: 6"8, 6"6 when he slouches

Movie: smallest band member at 5"6

Cammie: 6"0

Tele: 5"8

Tost: 6"2

8ball: 6"4

Era 2 Gizmo heights

Rhythm guitar "historic horror" Gizmo: 5"6-5"8 tbh

Lead guitar "femme Fatale" Gizmo: 5"9

Jester/Jack of all trades Gizmo: ???

Grim reaper Gizmo: 6"2

It's a running gag that TV will just pick up Movie by the arms when he tells a bad joke and will place him in a time out corner.

[oliviarampaige]

“Borealis”

Day 25 - Dangerous

The ol’ North Wind starts to howl.

[spiritofthebackroads]

unknown graves

[cruzdelcastillo]

amarillo, texas.

[mother-lee]

cr. brendan burton (@burtoo)

[paranormeow7]

“analog horror ruined internet horror” “the mandela catalogue is overrated and dumb” “kinemaster vhs effects jerma sus face ass” “the walten files is a shitty fnaf knockoff” “internet horror used to be way better” “analog horror is for middle schoolers” SHUT UP!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! CLEANSE YOUR BRAIN OF MASCOT HORROR HATE SLUDGE!! WATCH THE MONUMENT MYTHOS!!! WATCH MIDWEST ANGELICA!! WATCH VITA CARNIS!!! STOP GENERALISING A UNIQUE GENRE FULL OF HIDDEN GEMS INTO ITS WORST EXAMPLES!!!

[h0rifix]

"𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔶 𝔟𝔬𝔡𝔶

𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔴𝔥𝔬 𝔦 𝔲𝔰𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢."

- 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐢𝐧. (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐). 'family tree’

[homemadehorrors]

✨️Hazel-rah✨️

[prairiedeath]

[cultofcreatures]

fences

[at-the-depths]

They tell me I am full of sin. Tied down, forced to watch as their crosses etch into my skin. Their holy water burns and blisters.

"We are saving you. HE is saving you."

[thelostandfoundproject]

A brief explanation on the character outfits

Each LAF band member has a different costume based on a different horror trope or horror aesthetic.

TV: modern horror. Very satanic panic inspired. TV dresses in a lot of threatening looking red and black punk clothing. His costume is more to resemble metal and punk horror bands and the panic that surrounds them. TV appears effortlessly cool on stage thanks to the Engineers filters but off stage he's a goofy bubbly golden retriever of a guy. His boots also follow the lace codes. The left boot is purple and yellow, anti fascist and queer, and the right boot laces are blue and pink, pink for feminist, blue because he probably killed a police officer while under the Engineers controls. Also lots of sun and moon imagery. Primarily the moon for him, sun for Movie. TV head mask of course with a variety of different screen settings. Project messages from the Engineer to the band. Red static when blushing. When Tv is being controlled by the engineer directly the screen will fill with static with the Engineers logo. TV is the usual lead singer but he does have a lead guitar that he'll play when Cammie is singing. He also has a guitar pick box that feels oddly familiar to him and a paper rose from Movie that he wears sometimes if the Engineer doesn't notice it before he goes on stage.

Movie: 80's slasher killer boyfriend aesthetic. His character is very much inspired by cheesy 80's horror movies. Movie is very much the tiny weak nerd who goes through a super natural event and becomes this strong handsome protagonist. Movie is also heavily inspired by Orpheus from Hadestown in a lot of regards like being a hopeless romantic fueled by love. He wears his heart on his sleeve. Lots of sun and moon imagery. Analog projector head. A slow turning gear motor spins the magazines and a button running along the sleeve of Movies jacket controls the magazine and the lens so Movie can use his head as a flashlight or a "projector" which would really be a projector from somewhere off stage. The magazines spin when he's thinking. The light also turns red and the magazines spin when he blushes which is a lot. Movie himself also doesn't fully understand the 80's outside of the movies they've found in various lost and found bins or movies that they've "found" so a lot of the clothes that he wears at the asylum and in general is more of the cheesy fake 80's vaporwave aesthetic. He has multiple button ups with movie theater carpet/arcade carpet patterns on it that feel oddly familiar to him.

Cammie: Gothic witch horror. Lots of black and pagan imagery (done respectfully). Painted nails. Occasionally pastel goth when the mood strikes her. Very inspired by movies like the Blair witch project, mark of the witch, The Others. Etc. She's also very tall even without the black boots. Cammie's stage look would also be pretty similar to her off stage look back at the asylum, (with the filters,) just a lot comfier. Polaroid camera head with a circular screen that "shutters"

Tost: Toaster is Midwest Emo. The poor guy went through so much physical torture and is the most resistant to the filters and therefore is constantly freaked out by the horrors that they see in the asylum. They wear a lot of emo clothing of course and would have dyed hair if they still had their head. Tost is also the bass player of the band and sometimes tapes guitar picks to his arms or to their guitar so they don't lose it during a show. Toaster mask with red LEDs and a spring mechanism to pop up fake fabric toast. The slots of the mask turn red when they're embarrassed or angry instead of blushing.

8ball: 8ball's stage outfit is very whimisgoth inspired. 8ball is the genderfluid piano player for the band so his costume varies the most in terms of gender expression. Lots of celestial imagery, lots of purples, 8ball is incredibly flirtatious and loves to make everyone else flustered. 8ball would love things like Sabrina the Teenage witch, Return to Oz, and other cheesy light horror things but he would have no idea what your talking about. 8ball is also very muscular due to the fact that he was a stripper in life. Has a very impressive shoe collection that he's hiding away in the asylum from the lost and found bin.

Tele: absolutely adore her. Supernatural fae horror. Tele is the drummer for the band and the second smallest band member from Movie. She wears a lot of ethereal beautiful clothing on stage inspired by nature and faeries. As the series gets darker so do her outfits however. She's super sweet and soft and beautiful and would never harm a fly... When she's not being controlled. Very much a soft cottagecore gal back at the asylum when she's not on stage. She loves painting her nails with Cammie. But her aesthetic is based on a mixture of environmental horror and Celtic fae horror. She's very much based on the idea of a character being soft and ethereal and beautiful and luring people into the woods with her innocence and kind nature only for them to be killed by their own greed. Some of her later looks are inspired by the idea of nature itself taking over and fighting back with lots of natural elements showcased in her costumes. Definitely the most fun to design for.

The Engineer: cybernetic body horror/mad scientist. With the filters the engineer appears to the band as a silly mad scientist with a big white labcoat, big white hair, and a very silly skeleton mask with scientist goggles over the eyes. Without the filters (and how the audience at stage shows would see it) the engineer is a tall threatening figure in a dark room illuminated by a wall of TV's. The engineer wears a dark black cloak, a terrifying demon mask, and has a much more threatening voice. The engineer also has part of his face caved in. Some of the scarring around his left eye can be seen if he gets too close to the camera.

I'll explain the Gizmo's costumes in a later post. Sorry that this is very messy but I'm writing this in a hurry and just want to get it out as soon as possible before I have to go back to work.

[thomastesreau]

photos i took on the drive back home from the lake of the ozarks. missouri is the pennacle of midwest-rural-horror-core. need to go back asap.

[spiritofthebackroads]

America the beautiful