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⋆｡°✩ prettiest girl in the morgue ⋆｡°✩

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My favorite inadvertently creepy photography convention from Victorian times actually is the "hidden mother" photograph. As we know, taking pictures of wiggly babies is hard, especially if their mothers aren't holding them. But for some reason people keep insisting on having baby photos taken with only the babies.

The Victorian solution to this...was to just throw a blanket over the mother and pretend she wasn't there.

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SERENAJIN’S FEAR QUEST #2 - Tesis (1996)

oh my fucking god the second entry of this is exactly one year after the first i need to watch more horror movies

It's been forever since a film has scared me. This is my journey to finding one that does.

Tesis is a Spanish horror film about a woman seeking out snuff for her university thesis. The director, Alejandro Amenábar. was a film student when it was made. This was his first feature film.

There will be minor spoilers, deliberately avoiding anything that might affect your enjoyment of the film.

Being about film students by a film student this is inextricably linked to the director's feelings on film as a whole. Amenábar very clearly has a fascination with violence - as do many. The protagonist, Ángela, is writing a thesis entitled "Audiovisual Violence and the Family" - she is staunchly *against* violence, but it's something she finds she cannot look away from. The film opens with her on a train - it's stopped half way as a man jumped onto the tracks. From the very beginning she finds it impossible to avoid the call as she attempts to steal a glimpse.

The majority of the plot revolves around a single snuff film found hidden in a tunnel attached to the university archives in which a missing student is tortured and murdered. A suspect is established fairly early on, which is certainly the right call as it's what allows the themes to be explored to their full potential.

Through the use of a quite handsome suspect Amenábar discusses violence as an object of desire. Violence is never portrayed positively in the film, it's shown to be brutal and harsh, it isn't flavourful it's sour - but the void always calls. No matter how bad and horrific we're told it is, it can be hard not to sneak a glimpse.

I don't want to spoil anything, but the final scene of the film is one of my favourite thematic conclusions I've seen in recent memory.

Despite being *about* violence though, it leaves a lot to the imagination. It shows a few acted out scenes but they're nothing too bad or shocking, at least to me. Violence isn't dished out, this is a subject that's handled with the care it needs and deserves.

Fucking excellent film. Scary though? Nah. Very suspenseful, but I was never scared. The search continues.

FILM RATING: 85/100 SPOOK-O-METER: 2/5

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The show must go on

I feel so happy and oddly calm

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Fabio Verolino

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Garance Marillier as Justine 

Raw (2016) dir. Julia Ducournau

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Raw (2016)

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Lamento Encarnado, sculpture by Emil Melmoth

This artist on Instagram

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SERENAJIN’S FEAR QUEST #1 - Pulse (2001)

Welcome to Serenajin’s Fear Quest. No film has scared me in years so this is my quest to find a piece of media that does! Here I’ll be writing about films, comics, games (which I have woefully little horror experience in), etc.

The first film on this quest was Pulse, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, not to be confused with the western remake that came out later.

Pulse is a film about ghosts and the internet. The 2000s saw the internet growing from a niche to an everyday necessity and here we see the consequences of that - loneliness, lack of connection. As the film goes on the loneliness sets in on the viewer by design, once lively sets are shown with fewer people, until eventually there are none but the protagonists. The emptiness is smothering.

There are various points in the film where a character will find themselves on a website that just shows a person, usually quite still, glitching while their surroundings remain intact. There’s an ethereal feel to it, but in a way not really seen elsewhere. These are beings defined by technology.

There’s definitely more to say here, I’m sure you’re reading this like damn this chick can’t write for shit this aint a review, you’re just putting words on a page

to which i say yeah

Anyway, Pulse is a pretty good film - didn’t scare me though. It was tense and creepy, but not *scary*, although from what I’ve read that seems to be an unpopular opinion

FILM RATING: 77/100 SPOOK-O-METER: 2/5

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No, I’m the real thing.

PERFECT BLUE (1997) dir. Satoshi Kon

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Perfect Blue (1997)

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Perfect Blue

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every time i watch one of those horror erotic movies from the 70s 80s and the women have a full on bush im like thank you god thank you jesus love wins...........

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Blue screens in office n 47.