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2024 + HORROR

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drew musical!juice into a movie screenshot for funsies

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💚🖤Funny Beetlejuice pictures/behind the seeds🤍🖤

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Skeleton Crew finale (mild spoilers)

So we never found out what happened to Tak Rennod which is pretty frustrating for me because I was so SURE that would be covered in the finale, but we did meet the Supervisor and I appreciate him as a character. No dummy was he. In fact, all the security droids on At Attin always had this amusing, somewhat strained tone of impatience with the citizens when they were trying to hide their violations, like slightly exasperated parents herding a bunch of children. Anyway I hope they all got fixed. I actually pictured 33's head being hooked up to the control tower and him becoming the new Supervisor at one point, which woulda been hilarious.

I found Jod's ridiculous greed very irksome. The planet had already produced more money than his whole crew could spend in 1000 lifetimes, but he wanted to take over the place so they could keep making him more. If he'd just loaded up the frigate and f*cked off, he woulda been fine. I doubt they actually caught him though. He's friggin slippery and probably pulled off a Cad Bane escape.

I wish we got just a wee bit more resolution at the end, but overall it was pretty satisfying. I'd love to get a S2, though I doubt we will.

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i just think it's important to understand that love is not the antithesis of horror in fact it's often the catalyst

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predictably i love skeleton crew. i love annoying children

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Sometimes I wonder why it turns me on to think about having a partner who tells me to call him Daddy, and frankly I think it's because I've never had a "daddy" in any sense before. I called my father "dad" or sometimes by his first name when I got older, but we were never close. Well when I was 5-10, maybe, but even then there were issues and conditions. He had what was referred to as a "type A" personality back then, very authoritarian and easily angered. We had what I would call a professional-style relationship, and he was a boss who was hard to please. At this stage I could use some loving adoration and protectiveness in my life.

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One of the small joys of Tumblr is coming across an unintelligible DNI post that reads something like this:

“DNI if you ship Bleep Blorp and Flippity Boo! And DO NOT think of touching my fucking posts if you’re a Lord Slippyslop fan.

Blabbity Bloo fans can interact if I interact first, BUT YOU’RE ON FUCKING THIN ICE.

NEUTRAL/PRO/COM DNI I WILL STOMP YOU TO DEATH”

Truly incomprehensible and needlessly aggressive, thank you

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(person who physically cannot care about a character unless theyre hot and can be shipped yaoi style voice) no you don’t understand it’s not that I don’t like women it’s just that all of them in every piece of media are horribly written mary sues who are evil and bad. not my epic male blorbo who I ship with some guy he interacted with once and has every superpower, committed war crimes, and had 3 lines though. he’s awesome and well written and if you really think about it he’s the best character in the series

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after seeing so many people bring up Drop Dead Fred in the comments of my bj & lyds comic, i decided to finally watch it last night and oh my god. i get it now. that's literally them, it's crazy???? i mean not 100% but i'm still shocked at how much they reminded me of both beej and lydia in looks, personality and dynamic (i gotta say though, i'm surprised that fred is more chaotic and infuriating than beej lol. fred makes him look tame in comparison)

it's interesting that tim burton was offered to direct this movie. i can definitely see how that would've turned out. the dark humor, the aesthetic of the imaginary friends and the inside of elizabeth's head already felt pretty burtonesque as they were in the movie, so i don't doubt he was a source of inspiration regardless.

fred and elizabeth though...it's crazy how much this feels like a spiritual successor to the beetlejuice cartoon. obviously it has its own identity so it's not like it's a beetlejuice ripoff or anything, especially since elizabeth is an adult dealing with adult problems and fred's existence is kinda vague in the sense that you don't know how much of him is actually imaginary/part of elizabeth's mind, and how much of him is an actual entity separate from elizabeth. i think by the end he struck me as some type of fucked up guardian angel that only manifests to those who need him. his purpose and reason of existence are directly tied to elizabeth (or whoever needs an imaginary friend) due to her needing some sort of coping mechanism to deal with abuse from her mother and her ex-husband. so like...part of her brain (her taking special pills weakens him until he disappears) but also not. he just exists with the sole purpose of helping her get back on her feet.

which is why i'm baffled at this letterboxd review i saw when i logged the movie:

girl what the FUCK are you talking about.

(spoilers: there is one kiss. one very non-sexual non-romantic goodbye kiss between elizabeth and her living coping mechanism/figment of her imagination/guardian angel of sorts after she managed to heal her inner child thanks to him. i am straight up stupefied that someone would interpret this whole thing as grooming. what movie were you watching)

i'm surprised in general at how so many people completely missed the point of the movie. people taking the gross out immature humor at face value as if that's what the movie is about has me worried about people's media literacy for real lol. this perception of the movie made it flop in the US and even had david letterman condescend to rik mayall when he interviewed him back when the movie came out in 1991. man.........don't piss me off lol

anyway. weird but ultimately lovely movie, it makes so much sense that this is a comfort movie for many and now i totally get why my comic reminded people of it. i understood what they were going for and it's tragic that general audiences did not. it's a movie that's hard to market for sure, because it looks like a kids movie at first glance but the themes and humor are very adult; but then an adult might look at this movie and go "why am i watching a movie where an imaginary manchild calls this girl snotface and makes all these crude gross out jokes" so i'm just. pinching the bridge of my nose in frustration at how misunderstood this movie ended up being

so yeah if you like beetlejuice and lydia's friendship in the cartoon, definitely watch this movie. just know what you're in for lol

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happy new year happy new year happy new year!!

2024 kicked my ass supremely but at least i got to reconnect with the beetlejuice franchise, which pulled me out of a very bad place 🪲 so this one goes out to them. thank you for saving me and all that sappy shit

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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On female sexuality in Robert Egger's Nosferatu (2024).

On the one hand, Ellen's sexual desire is what condemns her. Count Orlok answers her call, a call born out of loneliness and desire for touch, and she becomes his mistress. Her recounting of the dream of her marriage to Death emphasizes that their connection filled her with happiness, happiness in spite of the havoc and destruction it was to bring. A love like a corpse-flower, drenched in the stench of decay but beautiful none the less to Ellen. In this sense, female sexuality appears uncontrolled and threatening. It is selfish and damning. It is part of a primal animal instinct, the existence of which is precisely what makes Ellen susceptible to the Count's dark call, at least according to Professor von Franz.

On the other hand, however, female sexuality appears as the final salvation. Only through their bodily union can Ellen defeat Count Orlok and prevent further deaths. A sacrifice that can only be made by her. Notably, their union has to be consensual. Ellen can not be taken, despite her husband unknowingly signing her away to the Count . Ellen has to be the one to renew their initial dark oath and to consumate again the union she once sought out. The final shot of Ellen, naked, surrounded by dried flowers, cradling the withered Count at least partially subverts a demonization of female sexuality and sexual agency, I would argue.

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Nosferatu (2024)

Ok. So Robert Eggers has either just made the ultimate monsterfucker film OR the ultimate criticism of that genre. Not all monsterfucker films are created the same, but I think it's safe to say that the majority of them strongly romanticize the human/monster relationship to make it erotic and appealing to a mainstream audience. But no beautiful, sparkly, eternally young and fashionable creatures inhabit this film.

Oh no, on the contrary, only a waxy, twisted corpse with reflective, demonic eyes stalks the protagonists from the shadows. It most resembles a giant, undulating leech while in naked, monstrous action, and in most other shots, it can only be dimly perceived as a hulking, disfigured form with elongated features covered in fur. Unlike every other version of Count Orlok, we never see his full face or the trademark, rat-like fangs, but their presence is definitely felt through the gruesome sounds he makes while feeding and the diseased marks he leaves on his prey. This Orlok is definitely animalistic in every sense of the word, an amalgamation of rat, bat, and wolf. He's a literal plague. Bill Skarsgaard pulls off a miracle of acting by disappearing completely and creating a completely unearthly performance behind his impressive makeup with an equally impressive voice that sounds as large and demonic as he looks. He's also sexual, but in a completely unnerving way. More animal than human, desperate and violent.

Lily Rose Depp has impressed me in the past, but she's surpassed herself here. She's fearless and transcendent, throwing her whole body and soul into her portayal of a solemn, pale waif of a heroine. Her character is fragile and pure and yet also spiritually powerful, drawing the darkness to her with her own insatiability.

And guys, let me just again point out that it's been a pretty amazing era of women in horror for the last several years. We've got legends in the making like Lily Rose Depp, Florence Pugh, Maika Monroe, Margaret Qualley, Sophie Thatcher, and many other young female actors making serious waves in this genre, not to mention all the women filmmakers working in horror.

But I digress.

What Eggers and his top tier cast of performers achieves here is almost the final, definitive word on the classic vampire tale of a monster stalking a girl from leagues of time and space away. It removes the modern stylization and sexiness we're used to from films like Coppola's Dracula, and breaks the story down to Reason vs superstition, the seen vs the unseen.

I love the sense of authentic folklore Eggers gives to his creatures, and it feels especially rich and historically accurate here. As always, Eggers is spotlighting the fears and concerns of a specific place and time from the past. 19th century Germany has many great scientific advances being made in it, and yet bubonic plague is still very much a concern, bringing along with it ancient, primal fears and beliefs. The lesson of the Dracula/Nosferatu story has always been that we modern folk neglect spiritual matters and scoff at superstition to our own peril, and the stubbornness of rational men pretty much dooms everyone in the cast in this version.

But make no mistake, there's still definitely erotic elements in this film, they're just more brutal and terrifying than titillating. You're not going to see Gary Oldman as a wolf creature humping a girl in a red fringe corset nightie here, is what I'm saying. In fact, this vampire might be the most nasty, corpsey one I've ever seen. Necrophilia is a recurring theme here, as well as many orgasmic fits of possession. Bodies are violated repeatedly and in various ways. The final, naked shot of the film inspired uncomfortable laughter from a woman in my audience because of how grotesque a tableau it was. So how much this turns you on will depend on how hardcore you are into the monster thing.

It's a movie that sticks with you, even if you're not sure if it's hot or horrific. I give it 10 screaming demonic fits out of 10.

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Okay so I was thinking "it's been said before, I know it in my heart:

Nosferatu Beetlbebabes.

I started tryna gather details to support my insanity idea and found an article about the new Nosferatu movie and....well... Maybe Eggers is a Babe too, somewhere deep down...

ig spoilers for Nosferatu (2024) if you a bitch or whatever

I AM LITERALLY SALIVATING WHAT THE FUCK I DIDN'T THINK I WANTED THIS

Don't talk to me, this is the only thing I'm going to be able to think about all day