#Guillermo Hill

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey in good company at the 2024 Disney Upfronts!

[imdayyydreaming]

and when nandor practices his confession to the guide on guillermo... what then?

wwdits has followed this structure in a way in season 4, before the wedding when the only real vows exchanged were between nandor and guillermo. so like this isn't unfounded.

it follows that nandor could totally start talking to guillermo like he's the guide but then accidentally slip into painful honesty and not realise until it's too late and then... BAM guillermo knows and the viewers know but nandor will NOT acknowledge it

aaaaaand this is how we can still win

[teamsilenthills]

[gerandor]

[velinkthorn]

Silent Hills | P.T (2016)

[thebennsofdallas]

I am so disappointed in all that I'm hearing about the final season of our show. And the trailer just deepened my dread. So I went back and looked at the trailer for season five and hmm. Well, we got a hint from the online articles that Nandor was going to be jealous of Laszlo's interaction with Guillermo. But in the S5 trailer, there was not ONE HINT of what was in store for Nandermo. IMHO, season five was the most Nandermo of all seasons. It was very nearly the Nandermo of my dreams so I wonder if I ought not get control of myself and wait and see (even though panic and anxiety is my first instinct)

But a quick list of observations

Laszlo as Dr. Frankenstein - hell, yes

Nadja as Working Girl - fuck yeah

Guillermo as a working guy - adorable

Nandor putting together an army of invaders - funny

New character, Jerry? Fucking JERRY? - no, no, no, he's taking up space that we need for our beloved characters to have adventures and fall more deeply in love with each other

[mask131]

There's still a haunt on the hill...

In my previous post, I dug through the ghostly chain of adaptations of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" starting by its various movie incarnations. But I am not done...

Because in 2018, Mike Flanagan released on Netflix his massively successful television series, "The Haunting of Hill House".

Flanagan's television series was strongly influenced by "The Shining", another major haunting-story of the 20th century, first marking American literature under the pen of Stephen King...

... Then marking American cinema by the movie adaptation of Stanley Kubrick.

Mike Flanagan never hid his passion and love for "The Shining", both the Kubrick and King versions, and it is for this reason he was the man behind the 2019 movie "Doctor Sleep"....

... an adaptation of Stephen King's sequel-novel to The Shining.

And fascinatingly, a lot of details and ideas of Flanagan's "The Haunting of Hill House" (or its sister-series, "The Haunting of Bly Manor") were reused for his Doctor Sleep movie...

But, speaking of Stephen King, did you know he made his own "The Haunting of Hill House"? Well, almost... He and Steven Spielberg worked on a project in the 1990s: a remake of The Haunting/a new movie adaptation of "The Haunting of Hill House". Unfortunately this movie never came to the light of day, as the two men split apart due to creative differences...

However this did not stop Stephen King from reusing the unused/unfinished script/concept for his "Haunting of Hill House" adaptation, throwing in a lot of elements from his own "The Shining", with several nods to the real-life Winchester Mansion, and tadaa! The result was 2002's mini-series "Rose-Red".

Stephen King has very often praised Jackson's novel. In fact, in his eyes it is one of the two greatest ghost stories of American literature... Alongside Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.

Do you recall Henry James? Sure you do! From the previous post... He wrote the "Ghostly Rental" story, that itself got adapted in 1999 into a horror movie called "The Haunting of Hell House" - confusing Jackson's "Hill House" with Matheson's "Hell House".

Do the links stop here? NOT AT ALL! Flanagan's "The Haunting of Hill House" was supposed to be the first season of an anthology series about ghost stories. This project got cancelled, but not before a sister-series to "The Haunting of Hill House" was made... a second season called "The Haunting of Bly Manor", which is a loose adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw".

AND THERE'S MORE! Because you see, before being re-adapted by Mike Flanagan, "The Turn of the Screw"'s most famous adaptation was a 1961 movie called "The Innocents". A movie which also became a classic of black-and-white haunted house horror movies, just like "The Haunting" that was released two years afterward... Film critics, cinema theoricians and movie enjoyers all agree that the two movies have to be compared, with something of a sibling relationship to each other.

"The Turn of the Screw" - and more specifically the 1961's "The Innocents" movie - also had a huge influence on one of the greatest Spanish moviemakers of the 21st century: Guillermo del Toro. In fact, it was to pay homage to both the classic of Gothic that was "The Innocents", and the behemoth of the traditional horror that was Kubrick's The Shining, that he decided to create his own Gothic horror movie... The wonderfully horrifying "Crimson Peak", released in 2015.

And not only does Crimson Peak unites The Turn of the Screw with The Shining (Guillermo also invoked the influence of other massive horror movies, such as The Omen or The Exorcist) - but this movie also is the final union, the ultimate blooming of Jackson and James' works. Because del Toro's original intention for this movie was to pay homage to the "two grand dames" of the haunted house movies... 1961's The Innocents, and 1963's The Haunting. The two ghostly tragedies finally united in one Gothic movie...

Well... To be fair, the uniting of "The Haunting of Hill House" and of "The Turn of the Screw" had already happened long before del Toro's Crimson Peak, but with a much less famous and successful movie: 1971's Let's Scare Jessica to Death... A cult piece (despite its lukewarm reception), it was created with only one goal in mind: recreating a psychological horror story with ambiguous implications, in the style of James' The Turn of the Screw, and Robert Wise's The Haunting.

(Think we're done? FOOL! Just you wait...)

[godtrauma]

8 years ago and i will never be over this

[videogamepolls]

[singt0me]

nandor found the djinn lamp when he was human

nandor used the djinn lamp when he was human

nandor doesn't remember ever using the djinn lamp before finding it again centuries later amongst his gold

the djinn went back into his lamp sans one wish and slept for centuries until his master woke him up again (finally)

nandor can't remember which wife he loved the most

nandor forgot which wife he loved the most

nandor met guillermo for the first time when he was human

guillermo left nandor for the first time 700 years ago in Al Qolnidar 

nandor made a wish to the djinn when he was human, heart broken, and wished he would forget guillermo. and if he sees him again he will forget him, again

the djinn snapped his fingers and guillermo was gone from nandors heart and memory

the djinn's magic made it so that every hundred or so years guillermo turns up again

and nandor loves him and forgets him, over and over, as was his wish

guillermo was the wife nandor loved the most.

[officialboredom]

It endlessly pisses me off how P.T. remains one of the most influential games, and is regarded as one of the greatest horror games of all time, despite being a free “demo”, and not only was the main game canceled, but you can’t even play the fucking thing anymore.

[brokehorrorfan]

Joey Spiotto's "Creators" exhibit at Gallery 1988 includes tributes to Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Hideo Kojima, Edgar Wright, and Jordan Peele, among others. 8x10 prints are $20.

[teamsilenthills]

[ayyyvivi]

Vicetober day: 15 (Disturbing)

sorry if this one is bit more simple than the others I think I’m getting sick so I didn’t have that much energy to go all out today

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

If the new “Indiana Jones” game ends up being amazing and considered on par with the original trilogy, then there’s really no excuse for people not considering video games as a respectable form of media. Obviously, gamers have been saying this for years. But for non-gamers/people who don’t consider games as “art”, just consider this:

1) One of the most successful shows on HBO, both in viewership and critical acclaim, is “The Last of Us”, which is mostly faithful to the original game.

2) You have modern games being treated as if they were movie/TV productions (example: “Until Dawn”, which pulled in high-profile actors such as Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, and Peter Stormare).

3) Creators not usually associated with video games have been crossing over. Off the top of my head, Guillermo del Toro was supposed to be a co-creator in the cancelled “Silent Hills” game. He then got involved with “Death Stranding”. Then there’s James Gunn who wants to produce video games that’ll be important to his new DC universe. (EDIT: Also want to add, George R. R. Martin was a writer for “Elden Ring”!)

4) Video games are inspiring creators outside of the gaming industry. For example, the Duffer brothers cited “Silent Hill” as an influence for “Stranger Things”.

Now if the Indy game is a success, then we’ll have a video game sequel, along the lines of “Alien: Isolation”, that is potentially superior to the actual movie sequels (only talking about 4 and 5). And who knows, maybe this might lead to more creators believing that video games could be the right way to go to continue a franchise, especially if their recent movies have been flopping. I can definitely think of a few franchises that would benefit from this (coughTerminatorcough).

I feel like if you were to say “the video game sequel is superior to the movie sequel” a few years back, you would’ve been ridiculed to death.

[bloodybellycomb]

"To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex. Our rejection or acceptance of a particular type of horror fiction can be as rarefied or kinky as any other phobia or fetish.

Horror is made of such base material–so easily rejected or dismissed–that it may be hard to accept my postulate that within the genre lies one of the last refuges of spirituality in this, our materialistic world."

—Guillermo del Toro, Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors