#HOSTEL HORROR STORIES

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Haunted Girls Hostel |गर्ल्स हॉस्टल | Haunted Girls Hostel | Hindi Horro...

[weirdlookindog]

Virgil Finlay - Haunted Hostel

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1953)

[savagebynaturecustoms]

BLOODYFACE - SL VIDEO

CHARACTER/S: Callisto + Sif

DISPLAY NAME/S: Savage Beauty + Glass Cemetery

SL BIO: Callisto and Sif are bound in blood and chains. But their captor underestimates them. Beneath the terror simmers a savage rebellion, and soon, the hunter will become the hunted.

FANDOMS: American Horror Story, Silent Hill, Hostel, Resident Evil, Saw, Morbius

PROGRAMS: Several

COLORING: Mine

SONG: Cry Little Sister by Marilyn Manson

KOFi: Support me and buy me a coffee - Click Here

[findroleplay]

21+. She/Her. EST.

We're not that far away from October so the horror bug has begun to bite me. I'm looking for some horror fandom roleplays.

Please be 21+!

I write on Discord (through DMs or servers). I like to stick to Tumblr for plotting, however. I write in third person, past tense and around 2-4 paragraphs. Sometimes more. Never less. Daily replies won't happen because I work full-time during the week. I try my hardest to get them out within 2-3 days. Sometimes it may take me a little bit longer.

Canon x canon (MxM, FxF, or MxF) are preferred but I'm willing to do canon x OC too (only MxM or FxF). I like canon and canon divergent plots the most. By virtue of these fandoms, NSFW topics will likely be a part of this. As for smut, I do lean towards romantic ships and don't mind writing it but it isn't a requirement.

I'll just be listing the muses I'm most interested in writing. I'm open to discussing ships.

American Horror Story: Hotel - John Lowe, Will Drake

American Psycho - Patrick Bateman

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon - Leslie Vernon

Evil Dead Franchise - Ash Williams

The Exorcist (FOX TV Show) - Marcus Keane, Tomas Ortega

Halloween Franchise - Corey Cunningham, Michael Myers, Vicky

Hostel - Josh Brooks, Paxton Rodriguez

The Lost Boys - David

Saw Franchise - Mark Hoffman, William Schenk

Scream Franchise - Billy Loomis, Dewey Riley, Jill Roberts, Mickey Altieri, Richie Kirsch, Roman Bridger

The Walking Dead - Beth Greene, Gabriel Stokes, Gareth, Merle Dixon, Milton Mamet, Paul Rovia, Shane Walsh

If you'd like to work something out, please message me or like this post and I'll reach out to you first.

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[samsonofapollo]

@creatlcn location: hot springs notes: continued from banter!

The image was easy to laugh at: Luka, pale as a sheet, scrambling under the covers to pull them over his head and disappear into the oblivion of rest. At least, if nothing else, being terrified hadn't kept Luka awake. “Well, thank you for champing it out with me - despite how badly I wore you out. It was a really good day though, fun.” And necessary - so necessary, if even for a little while.  

"Uhhmm - well… yes. I wasn't scared so much as intrigued, I ended up staying up half the night watching videos on people who've gone missing from the hostel we passed on the tour: The Golden Fleece. Added staying there to my bucketlist already." While he'd read several horror stories on hostels as well, none of them were especially supernatural.

[callmearcturus]

hang on wait

squints

if you were at a hostel why tf are you wheeling your entire suitcase

i know i already made the case that dottie manipulated ted into letting her stay but was there ever a fucking hostel, dottie? like, she's a chronic liar. why would i suddenly believe her on the hostel?

jfc this fucking episode is a horror story

[fmth3rd]

Holding an 18+ only audition for a paid project to recast a child character in my slow burn horror!

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2025

My name is Francis Morgan III (@FMth3RD), I’m a 27 year old science fiction / body horror author. My debut novel, titled Room With A View, is being adapted into a fully voice-acted audiodrama which will be released episodically for free on Newgrounds and Bandcamp. 

Room With A View details the story of a maladapted, conceited young cyberstalker named Emery who introduces himself anonymously to Delilah, the woman he has been watching through her rigged home security system for the last 12 months. After a few dates "getting to know her," Emery begins to realize there is something malignant about Delilah's saccharine affection. Inspired by works such as Takashi Miike's Audition, Koogi's Killing Stalking, Ryukishi07's Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, and Eli Roth's Hostel. Unflinching, hair-raising, and gut-wrenching, Room With A View lets you follow a character you love to hate down the long, rugged road to his own personal hell.

I had all the parts cast but unfortunately someone had to drop out of a significant speaking part at the last second as I was gearing up to start working on it again. So, as a result, I am here holding auditions for the re-casting of Young Emery. 

I am in search of a VA to play Young Emery, the protagonist between the ages of 3-12. I would prefer to hire someone with a higher voice, ideally a woman or a trans man pre/early on T, but I'm not opposed to any gender/sex auditioning if you feel your voice fits the bill. As long as you are over 18, you are welcome. 

FULL DETAILS AND AUDITION MATERIALS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oalzxGYJp1DJWUL9ruct5GmQrU1fbtUuRHQqS9eHYaM/edit?usp=drivesdk

[cipheramnesia]

give me your french movie recs plz?

have you seen mr Wonderbird?

My intersection with French film is more via French Extremity, which are typically films characterized by graphic sex and violence, exploring consent and the human body, psychological breakdown through major trauma, bigotry and social inequality, and cult or cultlike indoctrination. It might not be consistent with Mr. Wonderbird, although I admit I haven't see that one.

My favorite of French Extremity continues to be Inside, which I found to be a welcome and visceral assault on the cultural sanctification of pregnancy by the USA. The remake from the USA drives home just how incapable the Hollywood industry is of approaching pregnancy from any angle but "save the baby," while the original considers why anyone wants a baby.

Titane and Raw from Julia Ducournau are, so far as I'm aware, not meant to be about queerness per se, and perhaps my own cultutal bias is showing when I say they're both fantastic metaphorical treatments of the queer experience. Titane especially is a favorite.

Saloum from 2021 is a French Algerian film that's a highly underrated action horror, and an excellent ghost story. Along with Infested, it utilizes monsters to interrogate racial inequity and historical violence surrounding Algeria and immigrants in France.

There's more but I hesitate to recommend them, as their content veers into much darker territory. However, if you watched movies like the Saw sequels, the Hostel and Wolf Creek series, and similar, but felt like the torturous violence lacked the necessary psychological assault to really self inflict some psychic damage, you may find more films in the French Extremity movement enjoyable.

[hellerfanboy91]

Supernatural Revisited: My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)

Spoilers for the entire film, as well as mild spoilers up to series 2 of From After a lengthy absence, it is finally time to get back to my analyses, and what better time to finally publish my analysis of My Bloody Valentine that before the Supernatural episode of the same name.

Introduction

'Apprehensive' sums up my initial feelings before first watching this film ten years ago. Jensen was the only reason I bought this film on DVD in 2015, and exposure to Nightmare on Elm Street at a very young age meant I had and still have an aversion to slasher films. But it was the little leaflet inside the DVD case advertising Saw and Hostel which made me wonder what I was getting myself into. I had watched Hannibal and The Walking Dead at this point and been completely unperturbed by the blood, guts, and violence in them, but most of the gore in them was just dead bodies and bits thereof. In the case of Hannibal, it was frequently culinary violence.

Torture porn and graphic, gore-soaked depictions of people's slow, painful deaths, however, repulse me for involuntary neurological reasons. Had the gore been too much, the film would have been returned to its case in minutes. Quite unexpectedly, though, it was bloody hilarious. Few are the films which have had me laughing, and fewer still the ones where the hellishly over-the-top violence and silly gore has had me cackling so much that I farted. Without doubt this was not quite the response the filmmakers hoped to elicit from the viewer, but they almost definitely did not intend the film to be taken seriously. Imagine their surprise, then, if they were to read this analysis and see me doing just that.

There is some merit in the criticism. The screenplay could benefit from considerable edits in certain places and the characters are generally not 'fun'. The nearest the characters get to the usual 'fun' youths is at the party in the cold open (which is also pretty much the story of the 1981 original). But the negative criticism leaves me wondering whether some people hoped for something more like Final Destination.

It is certainly no art house film, nor a meta-commentary on the state of the horror genre like Cabin in the Woods, and certainly no The Shining. However, I have watched it every Valentine's Day for the last decade and never turn it off feeling like I have watched irredeemable rubbish. Which is of course to say that it has its flaws, but generally it is a silly, fun little film that requires no thought. As I wrote above, it made me laugh a lot but it has always felt like laughing with the film rather than at it. I would have appreciated certain parts being treated better and for characters to have acted less stupid here and there.

Summary

A gas explosion in a mine traps a group of miners. One of the trapped, harry warden, kills the others with a pickaxe to conserve oxygen. He is ultimately rescued, but after spending a year in a coma he awakens on Valentine's Day 1999 and goes on a killing spree. The killing spree ends a a party in the mine shaft which previously collapsed. The man held responsible for the explosion, Tom Hanniger, narrowly escapes death at the hands of Warden. Police arrive and shoot Harry who disappears into the tunnels.

10 years later in 2009 (lots of jumping around at the beginning of this film) Tom Hanniger returns to the town after a long absence. His father who owned the mine has died and Tom wants to sell off his shares and thereby the mine. This coincides with a string of murders where people get their hearts cut out. Suspicion is placed on Tom, but as events happen it becomes apparent that sheriff Axel Palmer might also be the culprit: his ex-girlfriend Irene is among the first murder victims. Megan, the woman Axel is cheating on his wife Sarah with, ends up dead after he finds out she is pregnant. And the house his family owns in the forest is full of the heart-shaped chocolate boxes used to deliver fresh human hearts to the police station.

After a string of deaths with connections to both Tom and Axel, things come to a head in the mine when the killer is revealed to be Tom. It is never explained explicitly, but Tom is suffering with dissociative identity disorder caused by the trauma of almost being killed by Harry Warden at the party. After a fight, Tom is shot and some oxygen canisters explode. Axel and Sarah escape but Tom is left for dead, only to be seen, beaten but not dead, escaping before the credits roll.

General comments

One of the areas which a rewrite would have benefitted is the opening of the film. The first minute or so is simply exposition which gives the viewer the information necessary to understand events. It is functional, but not as engaging or immersive as seeing the events would have been. A real mine in Pennsylvania served as the set, and it really should have been taken advantage of. Rather than a series of headlines and static images appearing on the screen while a news report info-dumps on the viewer, the opening should have comprised of 5-10 minutes showing Tom failing to check the gas was properly invented (or whatever it was he neglected to do), the explosion, the deaths, and the miners being trapped, and finally Harry killing them to save himself.

This would function as a mini horror film, much as the first few minutes of Scream show the viewer the first of Ghost Face's murders. The viewer is thereby involved and hopefully engrossed in the story from the outset, rather than being told a load of things which are easily forgotten fifteen seconds later. The large-fonted headlines might grab the attention at first, but I have watched this film almost every Valentine's Day for the last decade, and I forget what precisely it was Tom did or did not do that caused the explosion and cave-in. What does 'bleeding the lines' mean? And where did the fire start?

Consequently, the facts of the event are obscure. The viewer is told to believe that Tom was at fault for the explosion, and indeed the entire town blames him for it. Without having seen the actual events or being presented with conclusive evidence of culpability, there is only circumstantial evidence to pin the blame on Tom, which is no evidence at all. As a result, as far as the viewer knows Tom really did ensure the gas was properly vented and thereby did his job properly, only to be scapegoated and metaphorically crucified by the entire town. One is also left to wonder whether the responsibility for checking the gas was Tom's alone, or whether he had a supervisor who should have double-checked.

I have recently watched the show From where a man is held entirely responsible for his family's death in the cold open of the first episode. But for all Sheriff Boyd's anger at Frank's supposed negligence, I was curious as to why nobody else ensured that the windows were nailed shut. If that is a matter of public safety, surely safety inspections of all residences would be in order. At the very least, the mother was just as responsible for nailing the windows shut as the father. Not to mention the fact that both parents and the community in general should be responsible for making sure children know never to open the windows and doors at night. If Frank had to go in the box, then so should everybody else in the town (except Kenny. If Kenny dies, I riot). From also brought My Bloody Valentine to mind with the character of Sara, but more on that later...

The point is that the opening leaves too many questions without answers, thereby leaving it open to interpretation. This also complicates the matter of Tom's dissociative identity disorder, as discussed below.

The community

Harmony is a small mining town in the state of Pennsylvania, America. The entire town's economy is reliant on the mine. That is where the men work, and without it there would be no money going into the pubs, the shops, the hairdressers, or the diner. Such being the case, it is very much like any number of towns in whichever country you chose that is reliant on one industry. The slate quarries of Wales and the coal mines of England and Scotland come to mind and the communities entirely dependent on those industries (this is why we hate Margaret Thatcher, the stone-hearted bish *spits on her grave*).

Such being the case, Tom Hanniger selling the mine is... actually, not that important at all. He intends to sell his shares and thereby the mine, and the viewer is supposed to believe that this would be a disaster for the community. This in part fuels some of the animus against him as shown in the pub scene, but why would this be an issue? Is the company Tom intends to sell his shares to renowned for closing mines? Are they scared the new employer would fire everybody and bring in cheap outside labour? This is never explained. The mines would still be there and the new owners would still need employees. What is the issue then?

I expect that one of the reasons Tom wanted originally wanted to sell his shares was either revenge against his dad, or just simp0ly wishing to be rid of anything to do with his dad. A deleted scene set in 1999, the night of the massacre, shows Tom and Sarah trying to get Eli Hanniger, Tom's dad, to stop drinking. Eli refuses to go with them, and blames Tom for the accident. It is understandable that Tom would want to wash his hands of his dad's business.

Harmony is also a close-knit community where people generally know everybody else, or at least knows everybody's sister or friend. Harry Warden's killing spree would have torn huge gaps in the social fabric of the town. It is therefore understandable why Sheriff Axel got angry at the news reporter using the anniversary as an opportunity for a scoop.

The real Harmony

My Bloody Valentine was filmed on location in Pennsylvania in late spring and summer 2008. This accounts for the fact that the film is set in February but does not look like it is set in the depths of winter. The town itself apparently looks like pretty much any other small American or Canadian town (I have recently watched the film with Canadians), and looks like anywhere Dean and Sam have visited in Supernatural. The wooden, colonial style of houses put me in mind of the town in Gremlins, but the general vibe of the place is also very reminiscent of small towns and cities in Finland. They all look pretty much the same as each other.

Most of the places used as sets in the film are still there, and some of them look almost identical in 2025 to how they did in the film. The pub where Tom got called a 'cocksucker' is still there, as is the diner, the motel, Axel and Sarah's house (though now with a fence around the garden), the police station, and the hospital. The hospital was actually two buildings; one used external shots, one used for internal shots. The canopy visible in the opening shot is no longer there. Neither was the police station actually a police station, but just another municipal building dressed up to look the part. Sarah's parents' supermarket is an actual supermarket which is still there, although the back alley where Megan's body was found is actually further up the street.

The mines also exist, though they had already been decommissioned and turned into a museum. some sets were remade using measurements from the actual mines, and some people working at the museum still remember the film being shot. While the actors seem to have enjoyed filming in the mines due to it feeling authentic, it was apparently a very difficult place to shoot in because of the moisture, lack of lighting, and the claustrophobic nature of the place. Having recently been down a copper mine in north Wales, I can attest to the fact that being in a place like that for hours on end and being expected to work would get wearisome.

Regarding Tom getting called a 'cocksucker', why precisely the slur 'cocksucker'? A random choice, or do they know something about Tom to which the audience is not privy?

Differences from the original 1981 film

Quite a bit was changed in the 2009 iteration of the film, both in terms of story as well as character and location. The original is set in 1980 in a small Nova Scotia mining town. A mining accident around the year 1970 led to miners getting trapped, and in order to survive Harry Warden killed and ate them. He was eventually rescued but went on a killing spree. One of the victims was the 10 year old Axel Palmer's dad, whom Warden killed in front of Axel.

The trauma of this led had a similar effect to Harry almost killing Tom in the 2009 version. After the killing spree, the town abandoned Valentine's Day and stopped celebrating it. The children were not as damaged by killing sprees and barely remembered it, meaning they did not understand the older generation's aversion to Valentine's Day. Because of this, they decided to throw a Valentine's Day dance at the school gym in 1980, but around this time the miner reappears and start killing people. He will keep killing people unless the dance is cancelled.

Naturally, the dance goes ahead. Lots of teenagers and a few adults die until a climactic fight between Sarah, TJ (OG Tom), and the miner reveals that the killer is Axel. He ends up caught under a rockfall, but cuts his arm off and escapes into the mines saying 'Be my bloody valentine, Sarah'. No sequel ever came out of this for some reason, even though it was released at the height of the slasher trend and gained a cult following. Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Friday the 13th among others became long-running franchises and mostly people will at least recognise Jason, Michael, and Freddie Krueger, but the Miner remains in the shadows.

Axel being the killer in the original film meant that many who had seen the original would expect Axel to be the killer in the remake. The film also plays into this expectation, giving him plenty of reason to be the killer and showing him as an explosion waiting to happen

The original was also much more in the vein of other teen slashers. The main protagonists were teenagers and had silly teenage problems. The 2009 version, on the other hand, is focussed on adults in their late twenties. Their problems are a little more adult as a result, and the characters - Tom in particular - have more history and depth to them. Perhaps the criticism one commentator somewhere made about the characters being 'emos' was a comment on this fact: the characters are not hedonistic teenagers and the story is not entirely stupid fun.

I expect that the fact I was last a teenager in the year Supernatural series 6 stopped airing accounts for the fact that I do not care about teenagers in shows and find their problems difficult to relate to or be interested in. But for that reason, the characters in the 2009 version being well into adulthood, having families and lives of their own makes it more relatable and interesting to me. The fact that it is an extra 100 minutes of a Jensen project is also in its favour, but having watched Devour it is safe to say there are things which even Jensen cannot save.

A third version of the film was also confirmed in May 2024 to be in production. How far along production is is unknown to me, but with luck it should be out in a year or two. I will probably watch it when it comes out, though the fact it is billed as a remake rather than a sequel means that the originally-planned sequel to the 2009 version will likely be forever trapped at the script stage. ...Unless I take it upon myself to make a novelisation of it.

Tom's DID

One thing the film did better that the original version is Tom's mental health problems, though it does unfortunately get close to demonisation of the mentally ill here and there. The original hinted at this with Axel's trauma after seeing his dad get killed, but it was made clearer in the 2009 rendition. Tom in MBV 3D most probably suffers with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a response to severe trauma. Trauma here refers to psychological damage caused when a person is exposed to extreme pain, stress, or danger and is unable to escape or otherwise get out of the situation. The brain essentially turns itself off for a while in defence. This is dissociation. Everybody dissociates sometimes due to boredom, anxiety, illness, or whatever, and there is nothing inherently unusual about it. It is common for people to get drunk, become a completely different person for a few hours, and then remember nothing about it at all in the morning.

DID arises when, simply put, a part of the brain gets cut off from the rest due to stress. This causes the consciousness to become separated into two or more parts or 'personalities'. It can perhaps be likened to the sometimes drastic change in personality a person may exhibit when drunk. It might then be the case that a part of a person's consciousness gets separated from the rest when e.g. in a car crash or while being assaulted. That part will then always be there and it will almost be stuck in that moment and mind-frame. If somebody takes serious trauma at 8 years old and develops DID, there will be a part of the person's mind which is always an 8 year old no matter how old the person gets. The personality might also have certain beliefs or delusions about itself, such as being a dog. One thinks of the Red Dragon in the Hannibal series who thought he was becoming Satan.

As it is common to have no or little memory or what one did when drunk, a person with DID will dissociate and (for lack of a better term) become a different personality with little to no memory or the other personality or personalities and what they did. Some people with DID are completely aware of their situation and manage it as best they can, but others are unaware and not in control. This brings the discussion back around to Tom Hanniger.

In the opening of the film, the whole town blames him for the accident and his friends abandon him to his death rather than driving the car forward and killing Harry. Even before Harry tries to kill Tom specifically, he is kicked out of the herd and left to fend for himself. This would be the helplessness aspect of traumatic events as discussed above, not to mention the violence and gore he might have seen in Harry's wake. He was then attacked and almost killed which is precisely the kind of thing which can cause PTSD and result in DID.

I infer from what the film shows me that Tom dissociated during and after the attack, and that the part of his mind which failed to come back ended up believing that it was Harry Warden. How exactly this happened is beyond my abilities to explain, but a few thoughts come to mind. whether or not he is 'responsible' for the explosion and cave-in, he probably believes it was his fault and that he got all those people killed. Survivor's guilt is also a likelihood. He is primed to think he is a bad man and that he is ultimately a killer. Maybe that combined with the image of the miner's mask as he was about to die resulted in that part of his mind believing it was a murderer. I am also reminded of Faith in Buffy who 'chose' to believe she was an evil person who did evil things rather than entertain the notion that she was originally an innocent victim who did not deserve the things which happened to her.

The complications arise from whether or not Tom is responsible and whether he 'knows' he is or not. If he 'knows he is, then perhaps 'becoming' Harry Warden was a defence mechanism like Faith in Buffy. If he is not responsible and does not know or believe he is, then perhaps having the entire town, including his friends, nail him to a proverbial cross in order to have somebody to accuse left him both powerless, betrayed, and full of bloodthirsty anger.

Whatever the case, what happened seems to have been traumatic enough to fracture his mind beyond repair.

One video analyst contested the idea that Tom has DID based on the fact that there seems to be some shared memory between the personalities, as Tom remembered the words 'Be Mine 4 ever' written above Megan's dead body. However, the different personalities are not always completely separate. Somebody can have memories of what their alters have seen, said, and done, but the memories are vague and feel like something somebody else told them about events. So Tom remembering some stuff he did as Harry would not refute a diagnosis of DID.

If Tom does have DID, the scene where he is locked in the cage while the miner kills Red is an interesting visual representation of the condition. Tom is locked in a cage and incapable of controlling anything his body does, but still has to watch while 'Harry' kills people. This is also very much like demon and angel possession in Supernatural.

That said, he might not have DID. Psychosis and schizophrenia might also produce the same results in extreme circumstances. DID fits, but it is always important to have several possible explanations rather than going with the first one that fits. But he almost definitely has post-traumatic stress disorder, itself a serious condition which Tom, unfortunately, clearly was not receiving proper treatment for. Whatever the doctors and psychiatrists did to him in the 'institution' was useless. Was he perhaps in the mental hospital as Dean and Sam were in Supernatural 5x11 Sam, Interrupted? The one with Dr Dildo? They seemed sufficiently useless.

Something I would have appreciated having more consideration put into it is the depiction of mental illness in this film. DID is not inherently dangerous to others, and I have three friends who deal with it. It would be overdramatic to say that Tom is a demonisation of people with DID, and it would be naïve and foolish to claim people with DID, psychosis, or schizophrenia can never be a danger to others. But the presentation of Tom is that he is a bad man and a dangerous, insane killer. Axel claims as much over and over again, only to be proven 'correct' in the last few minutes of the film.

The sad thing is that Tom in 2009 is the result of a long string of psychiatric and medical failures, as well as perhaps a scapegoat for other people's failures. His illness is a danger to others and himself, as mental illness like this can be sometimes. While I do not wish to portray him as a helpless little victim, his friends betrayed him, his community turned its back on him, then the mental health services he sought help from failed him. None of this is explored in the film, but rather the viewer is perhaps encouraged to come away from the film thinking he is just another psycho. The one line in particular which drove this home was the scene when Axel spoke to Sarah on the phone after Tom had taken her out of the hospital. Axel told her to get out of the car because Tom had spent the last seven years in an institution.

No shit! really? A guy who survived a massacre and almost got killed needed to spend time in a mental hospital? The absolute horror! Oh, he must be crazy! Pfft.

As mentioned above, Sara in From put me in mind somewhat of Tom. The different format (television series) and genre (horror-fantasy rather than MBV's horror) allow for further exploration and more nuanced depictions. In the hopes of not spoiling much (though much of this is present in the first episode), Sara is driven to kill people by voices in her head which tell her that killing people will help save everybody. She is held accountable for her actions by the community, but with the knowledge that she was pushed to do it by extremely abnormal circumstances. She is not completely vilified or demonised, but is shown as a character struggling to deal with the things she was 'driven' by external forces to do.

Tom is in a vaguely similar situation. It is not 'Tom' killing people, but rather the part of his psyche that got separated and trapped in 1999. A deleted scene from the very end of the film shows Tom on the ground in the mine after the explosion, trapped by fallen wood and rock. As a rescue worker wearing a gas mask approaches Tom, Tom is shown shaking and scared because he thinks Harry Warden is coming to kill him. It is then that he picks up a pickaxe and kills the rescue worker. Whether this was in self-defence or not is ambiguous. As the pickaxe is shown shattering the gas mask's visors, Tom's face also changes to indicate the Harry personality is now in control. The reason this alternate version of the scene should have been kept in the film is that is humanised Tom as scared and suffering an illness nobody can help him with, and the monster which he has to share his body and mind with.

Before moving on from the armchair psychology segment of this analysis, it also shows us more of the aftermath of Tom's near-death experience. In the immediate aftermath of the initial attack, he was stunned and dissociated (also temporarily deaf due to the gunshots), but he probably woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night many times. The 'trauma' of the event might not have even hit him for weeks or months afterwards, but ten years later and it is still close to the surface. There was a human in there who needed help, but assistance was not forthcoming.

That said, the script for a sequel was written and would have righted some of these wrongs, but that too will be left for later.

The Violence

Gore in shows is generally a turn off for me, and I have never understood why people enjoy it. But the majority of the violence in My Bloody Valentine is rather ridiculous and comically over the top, something I expect was intentional. A lot of the gore and guts in the film is also posthumous, i.e. dead bodies and bits thereof are shown, but the miner is never depicted graphically hacking somebody's chest open and ripping out the heart. The closest to this was Red's death, but that was mostly shown at a distance. Even the deaths in the film were all quick, with no lingering torture or bits of bodies being hacked off before death. It therefore does not bother me in the slightest and frequently made me laugh. The miner killing the motel owner and pinning her to the ceiling, for instance, was hilariously silly. Although since the miner has the gas mask on, there is no way he would have heard Irene whimpering under the bed.

Something which struck me watching this after Supernatural was the equal-opportunities nature of the violence. I also noticed the same in From: violence is not gendered in that show as it is in Supernatural and The Boys. I found that refreshing and made the shows feel more realistic. I always come away from Supernatural and The Boys with the sense that they were made to avoid making people feel uncomfortable. As I have said many times in my Supernatural analyses, violence against women and girls on screen makes people infinitely more uncomfortable than violence against men and boys. Having the first two deaths in From be a mother and her daughter, and to have their mutilated bodies shown on screen soon after the opening credits, made things feel much more realistic. Everybody is in danger, and everybody keeps being in danger.

It is a similar situation with MBV. Women and men both fall prey to Harry's and Harry!Tom's axe with neither sex apparently being over- or under-represented to appease the audience's discomfort. However, some have complained about Irene's nude scene, but the funny thing is that the nudity was entirely the actress's idea. In the script, she was supposed to run out of the motel room with a sheet wrapped around her. The actress had other ideas though, as she thought Irene would care much more about getting the camcorder and the sex tape back than she would about being naked in public. That was the actress's choice, and whether or not it was in the script in the first place, it was ultimately quite respectful. She was not objectified or degraded, nor portrayed as weak and helpless: she put up more of a fight than most of the other victims, and she did it while naked and in heels. Frank (played by the writer of the film) took advantage of Irene, called her a whore, then got instantly killed for being a douche.

Although to be honest her death scene was a little stupid. She ended up against the wall with only a metal bed frame between her and the miner. In the film, she stands there, shouts at the miner, and tries unsuccessfully to dodge his attacks before coming a-cropper. What she should have done is run at the miner while holding the bed frame in front of her. That would have got the miner and his axe tangled up in the bed and given Irene time enough to run to safety.

Nudity

Apropos Irene and Frank boinking, the slut mirror on the ceiling was hilariously sleazy. I have written a bit here about Irene's nudity, but in spite of her lack of clothing my eyes were on the other half of the screen. Considering he is a writer, the actor playing Frank had a very impressive body. Perhaps the nudity was unequal because Irene was shown full-frontal (by the actress's own volition) but Frank was not. But with female full-frontal nudity, nothing is really shown because women's sex organs are internal. If there is pubic hair, even less is shown.

With men, though, everything is visible because men's sex organs are external. Men are harshly judged if their flaccid penis is not 9 inches long and 6 inches in girth. Have you seen pictures of Jude Law naked? His flaccid penis looks completely normal for a white man, yet he was ridiculed publicly in newspapers for, apparently, having a small penis. Because clearly nobody knows that flaccid size is no indication of erect size. And since most people cannot deal with more than 6 inches anyway, why is this important?

Cue 'small dick energy' comments in 3...2...1...

In more current shows, it has become far more common to see men full-frontal than women (and HBO apparently has a male-only full-frontal policy). This avoids the possibility of women's groups protesting possible exploitation of women, and also means they can still claim to be edgy and adult without having to worry about anybody getting up in arms. Because men generally do not see themselves as part of a group the way women seem to, and generally will not get up in arms. In fact, the objectification of Michael Fassbender and more recently Jason Isaacs regarding their nude scenes proves nobody cares about causing men discomfort, and will bully and shame them if they call people out for being creeps.

The point being I see male and female nudity as both fundamentally different, but also just nudity. Britain is far less prudish about these things than the hegemonic American culture forced down everybody's throat, and I have lived in Finland for over 11 years altogether. Here a human body is just a human body and it is completely normal for people to go to the sauna naked with their family and friends. Everybody has seen their dad's penis and their nan's boobs and nobody bats an eyelid at it. It is much healthier than the Puritanical nonsense Americans have to deal with.

But regarding the nude scene: it was unnecessary, but it did make the scene more real and gritty than it might otherwise have been. I would not have felt I was missing out on anything if they were partially clothed.

Some stupidity

- Why did the miners think Tom killed Red when Tom was locked in the cage?

- How was Meg's death so quiet?

- Why did neither Sarah or Megan smash the fire alarm the moment they got into the office?

- How did Harry manage to kill so many teenagers in the mine without anybody hearing?

- Sarah says that Tom 'just left' after the massacre, neglecting to mention the fact she, Irene, and Axel left him behind in the mine. 'You just ran away' --> pot kettle black, Sarah.

- How did the retired sheriff know the miner was in Axel and Sarah's house?

- Tom hallucinating the miner's lamp and stumbling across Axel's house was convenient

- How did Axel just happen to appear from behind a curtain when Tom told Sarah he was planning to stay in town? Had Axel been hiding there?

- How did the photo of Tom and Sarah end up at the house in the woods? Did Harry!Tom steal it when he was in Axel and Sarah's house? If so, why did he put it there?

- How was Harry Warden able to move his legs after being in a coma for a year?

Harry Warden

That brings the discussion neatly round to Harry Warden. On a strictly utilitarian basis, is what he did in the mine wrong? On an ethical and moral basis, it is doubtful anybody would condone his killing of his fellow trapped miners, but had he not done so, the oxygen would have been used up much faster. By the time the rescue team found them, they would all have been long dead.

The miners would have had no idea how long they would have been trapped, but after a few days they must have started feeling that time was running out. Morals etc aside, one could argue that Harry killing all the others was the only way they could be sure at least somebody might survive. The expositional info-dump nature of the opening also means that the viewer does not know what actually transpired once the miners were trapped. Instead, the film tells us what news reports claim happened. This is the classic show vs tell problem.

Whatever the case, Warden ended up in hospital for a year (no, Americans: 'in hospital' is not a mistake anymore than saying 'at church' or 'on holiday'). He spent the year comatose, only to wake up and miraculously have full use of his limbs, as well as the strength to murder many, many people.

My question is not just 'how', but 'why?' Why would he feel it necessary to kill the nurses? Was he having a psychotic episode? Did he think he was still stuck in the mine? This is something the film really should have explained, but it gave no indication of why he did what he did. The only thing he did in the opening which made sense was trying to kill Tom whom he blamed for the accident in the first place.

The sequel

A follow-up to this film was planned and a script was written by the same writer of MBV 3D. The film would have begun a few hours after the first film ended, and the opening scene would have involved Miner!Tom killing Sarah in hospital in front of Axel. After Sarah's death, Tom would have taken control over his body again and realised what he had done. Declared legally insane, he would be sent to a mental hospital where he would remain for an extended period of time before being deemed 'healed' and released.

The story would have been about Axel trying to find Tom to get revenge for his dead wife Sarah (who, you remember, was also once Tom's girlfriend). Tom rescues a group of miners trapped in a mine, and generally seems to be trying to make up for the wrongs his Harry alter-ego committed. But the people he saved turn on him during a celebration, which leads to Tom losing control and Miner!Tom resurfacing and another killing spree. The killing spree would have included the mental hospital where Tom spent a year, and I really hope it was Dr Dildo's hospital because those people were useless.

Unfortunately, this film never happened. It would have humanised Tom and given him an opportunity to at least try to redeem himself. Of course a lot of people would still have left the pictures thinking him a crazy psycho, but then a lot of people who watch From think the same of Sara. Some people are apparently just incapable of looking beneath the surface and unwilling to understand people whose brains do not work like their own. It would also have given Jensen a chance to be in a series which is not Supernatural or Kripke's puerile The Boys.

The idea for this sequel was pitched a few weeks before the film was released, but in spite of the film's staggeringly successful worldwide takings, the studio apparently stopped returning the writers' calls. The executives still wanted to make it, even years later, but the writer speculated that the studio Lionsgate had had no faith in the film's success and had not therefore secured the rights to a sequel, wherefore it never happened.

Nigh on seventeen years after it was filmed and over sixteen years since it was released, it is unlikely that the film will ever receive this sequel, if it receives a sequel at all. The writer confirmed that all the actors were willing to return for it, but the fact so much time has passed means that everybody looks older and the story would not work as it is. With the purported remake being made by Blumfield studio, the franchise is set to have at least one more outing, but given the rotten luck up to now, I remain doubtful that a sequel will ever be produced.

Unless I write one. I really should. Perhaps that can be my retirement project. In the meantime, you can read more about it here.

Jensen's acting

Jensen's acting in this film is another thing I have seen criticised. Essentially it boils down to something along the lines of Tom is just evil Dean and Jensen cannot act as anyone other than Dean. This one is harder for me to empathise with than other criticisms because the only similarities I see with Dean are Jensen's physical appearance. Some might say things like 'Tom has a car' and 'Tom has a bad relationship with his dad' or 'Tom has mental health problem', but those things describe the majority of people who ever peopled.

And before you suggest it, this is not simply a case of a fanboy trying to cope. I can see that Tom looks a lot like Dean. This was filmed between Supernatural series three and four, and there was no time for Jensen to grow his hair out. The show-runners could at least have suggested he let his facial hair grow for a few weeks before filming and to not cut his hair in order to make Tom look more visually distinct. But I do not see 'Dean' anywhere in the show, and I am very good at spotting his mannerisms.

Others would disagree. A few years ago somebody did a short and not very good review of the film, and claimed that 'for me, Tom was Dean in this movie'. Times like this made me wonder whether there truly is something fundamentally different about my sensory processing compared to others. It can feel mildly alienating, actually. Tom is a different character than Dean; he just happens to look identical. His facial expressions are as different from Dean's as Jensen's are from Dean's. Tom is far more withdrawn, quiet, and nervous than Dean is. His clothing is different, the way he moves is different, and even his voice is different.

Then when his Harry alter takes over, his face, voice, and mannerisms change completely. His voice drops significantly, his facial musculature becomes far more tense and serious, and the way he walks is far more determined and measured. And when Harry!Tom was strangling Axel at the end, his eyes bulged and he looked very ugly. Dean has never looked like that. ...And Jensen's bow-legs which I almost never notice are more apparent in Tom's Harry alter-ego.

I expect that the actual reason people 'see Dean' or 'evil Dean' (really?) is overfamiliarity with Supernatural. I suppose people are not really paying all that much attention. Still, how can people not see all these things? Is this one of those cases where autistic people are paying attention to every minute detail to analyse their meaning whereas 'normal' people are just getting a general vibe? The same happened with the confession scene in Supernatural 15x18 Despair: a lot of people called Jensen's acting wooden because he did not howl, beat his breast, or pull his hair out, but lots of us also saw every single micro-expression and knew precisely what Dean was thinking in that scene.

Some trivia

Kerr Smith (Axel) and Jensen were both on Dawson's Creek. Kerr Smith's character was one of the first gay protagonists in a teen drama, and had one of the first mainstream on-screen kisses a year or two before Willow and Tara in Buffy.

Supernatural 5x14 My Bloody Valentine makes a few references to this film, as it was shot almost a year after the film's release. The title is an obvious reference, but more easily missed ones are the hearts in boxes at the morgue, as well as Dean saying 'Be my Valentine?'

The mines would probably be running all night: if the men are working underground anyway, it makes no difference to them whether it is daytime or night-time outside.

Final thoughts

This is a rather silly film which is fun to watch if your expectations are low. It could have been improved with the inclusion of some of the deleted scenes, another pass or two with the script, as well as giving Jensen time to not look like he just came from the Supernatural set. It does, however, keep the viewer guessing right up until the end with several possible killers, each with probable motives. It is not game-changing or groundbreaking, but almost ten years to the day since I first watched it, it is still one of my favourites and gets watched every Valentine's Day. My sister has visited Finland twice in February and has been forced to watch this film, and I inflicted it on my Canadian friends this year. So far, nobody has complained.

Thus concludeth the analysis. You can read more of my analyses here:

Series 1

Series 2

Series 3

Series 4

Series 5

Sundry

[hiskillingjar]

What do you think about the murders of women and children? These murders are happening one after the other in my country and it's on the agenda right now. However, some protesters accuse the producers of gory content (body horror necrophobic art, especially female, body horror necrophobic art, and so on) of murder and encouraging it. I also consume this kind of content, and although I took a break because I was affected by this unfortunate brutal murder of a woman, I am someone who consumes and draws such content, and as someone who never wants and defends these things to happen in reality, I wonder if I am encouraging and legitimizing them even if they are fictional art. I hope I was able to explain what I wanted to explain, I wanted to ask because I was curious about your opinion on this issue.

first of all, fuck israel, fuck colonisers, fuck zionists, and a hearty, free palestine

secondly, any effort to censor violence in art (yes, even when inflicted on women) is fascist effort.

when director meir zarchi witnessed an assault on a woman, he called the police, stayed with her on the drive to the hospital, and sat throughout all police questioning. he was so angry about the experience, and what little support is given to rape victims, he went on to make i spit on your grave.

when director pier paolo pasolini lived through the second world war, he was so disgusted by the fascism in his country that he adapted the marquis de sade and made salo, or the 120 days of sodom.

in a protest against his country's film industry "appealing" to EU film funding, srđan spasojević made a serbian film. in response to american soldiers torturing hostages overseas, eli roth made hostel (but also fuck him for being a zionist piece of shit now. super ironic).

horror is political. horror is reactionary. horror is important.

i never want the things i depict, or i enjoy in fiction, to happen in real life. i will never fault someone who doesn't want to interact with upsetting themes (especially if they hit close to home).

but any movement made to remove those themes from art is a fascist movement.

end of statement. thank you for your question and for sharing your story.

[ohsalome]

Ivan and Phoebe by Oksana Lutsyshyna

Ivan and Phoebe is a novel about a revolution of consciousness triggered by very different events, both global and personal. This is a book about the choices we make, even if we decide to just go with the flow of life. It is about cruelty, guilt, love, passion – about many things, and most importantly, about Ukraine of the recent past, despite or because of which it has become what it is today.

The story told in Oksana Lutsyshyna’s novel Ivan and Phoebe is set during a critical period – the 1990s. In the three decades that have passed since gaining independence, Ukraine has experienced many socio-political, economic, and cultural changes that have yet to be fully expressed. The Revolution of Dignity in 2014 marked a pivotal moment in the country’s history, as it signaled a shift towards European integration and a strong desire to distance itself from Moscow. Prior to this, Ukrainian culture had remained overshadowed by Russian influence, struggled to compete for an audience and was consequently constrained in exploring vital issues.

77 days of February. Living and dying in Ukraine

"77 Days," is a compelling anthology by contributors to Reporters, a Ukrainian platform for longform journalism. The book, published in English as both an e-book and an audiobook by Scribe Originals.

"77 Days'' offers a tapestry of styles and experiences from over a dozen contributors, making it a complex work to define. It includes narratives about those who stayed put as the Russians advanced, and the horror they encountered, like Zoya Kramchenko’s defiant "Kherson is Ukraine," Vira Kuryko’s somber "Ten Days in Chernihiv," and Inna Adruh’s wry "I Can’t Leave – I’ve Got Twenty Cats." The collection also explores the ordeal of fleeing, as in Kateryna Babkina’s stark "Surviving Teleportation '' and "There Were Four People There. Only the Mother Survived." 

It also highlights tales of Ukrainians who created safe havens amidst the turmoil, such as Olga Omelyanchuk’s "Hippo and the Team," about zookeepers safeguarding animals in an occupied private zoo near Kyiv, and one of Paplauskaite’s three pieces, "Les Kurbas Theater Military Hostel," depicting an historic Lviv theater turned shelter for the displaced, including the writer/editor herself.

In the Eye of the Storm. Modernism in Ukraine 1900’s – 1930’s

This book was inspired by the exhibition of the same name that took place in Madrid, at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, and is currently at the Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany. 

Rather than being a traditional catalogue, the publishers and authors took a more ambitious approach. Rather than merely publishing several texts and works from the exhibition, they choose to showcase the history of the Ukrainian avant-garde in its entirety – from the first avant-garde exhibition in Kyiv to the eventual destruction of works and their relegation to the "special funds" of museums, where they were hidden from public view.

These texts explain Ukrainian context to those who may have just learned about the distinction between Ukrainian and Russian art. Those "similarities" are also a product of colonization. It was achieved not only through the physical elimination of artists or Russification – artists were also often forced to emigrate abroad for political or personal reasons. Under the totalitarian regime, discussing or remembering these artists was forbidden. Archives and cultural property were also destroyed or taken to Russia.

"The Yellow Butterfly" by Oleksandr Shatokhin 

"The Yellow Butterfly" is poised to become another prominent Ukrainian book on the themes of war and hope. It has been listed among the top 100 best picture books of 2023, according to the international art platform dPICTUS.

The book was crafted amidst the ongoing invasion. Oleksandr and his family witnessed columns of occupiers, destroyed buildings, and charred civilian cars. Shatokhin describes the book’s creation as a form of therapy, a way to cope with the horrors. "During this time my vision became clearer about what I wanted to create – a silent book about hope, victory, the transition from darkness to light, something symbolic," he explains.

Although "The Yellow Butterfly" is a wordless book, today its message resonates with readers across the globe.

A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails by Halyna Kruk

A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails is a bilingual poetry book (Ukrainian and English) about war, written between 2013 and 2022, based on Halyna’s experience as an author, volunteer, wife of a military man and witness to conflict. 

The Ukrainian-speaking audience is well-acquainted with Halyna Kruk – a poet, prose author and literature historian. Kruk is increasingly active on the international stage, with her poetry featured in numerous anthologies across various languages, including Italian, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, English, German, Lithuanian, Georgian and Vietnamese. 

For an English-speaking audience, her poetry unveils a realm of intense and delicate experiences, both in the midst of disaster and in the anticipation of it. The poems are succinct, direct, and highly specific, often depicting real-life events and individuals engaged in combat, mourning, and upholding their right to freedom.

[onepiecereactions]

Steal my husband, Chapter 13, Shanks x Reader

Note: This chapter is SFW

Steal my husband

Chapter 13

“What the hell is going on?”

The young woman violently pushed the duvet away from her face and rushed out of her bedroom with an angry step. She crossed the hallway and the living room which were bathed in daylight and violently opened the window, sticking her face through the window opening to look at the street. For several minutes, voices had been rising in the street at the foot of her apartment. This agitation was particularly abnormal for this calm island where all the citizens lived in harmony. This must surely have been fishermen fighting over fishing grounds or for locations for their stalls on the market in the town hall square.

And indeed, a crowd had formed at the foot of her building. Women were shouting among themselves, apparently outraged. One of them, a woman in her fifties, quickly raised her head while hearing the waitress' window open and pointed at the young woman who, by reflex, had a movement of retreat to hide from the gaze, sheltered in her apartment. She could have sworn she saw all these women scrutinizing her with an outraged air. Was it because she didn't have her hair done and was wearing her "lazy pajamas"?

And suddenly, the blonde realized that something was wrong in her apartment. Her evening last night had been so chaotic with the pirate, that she had left by herself on the couch, holding back so as not to explode in anger. She was still dealing with a pirate, and a pirate with ties to an emperor, she had to be careful.

But this morning, while the women continued to shout in the street and the agitation seemed to increase a little more each minute, the young woman noticed that her apartment was empty. No more trace of the pirate. The suitcases had disappeared, the kitchen was perfectly tidy, the dishes lined up to dry, the sofa and the blankets perfectly folded. It even seemed that the pirate had swept the living room and the kitchen before leaving.

She felt guilt arise in her. She had perhaps been hard on the pirate who, in the end, had never really been mean to her despite sometimes a few acerbic remarks. And in the end, she had to admit that in fact, she had agreed to participate in this and that what was happening in the emperor's couple was none of her business, and that in the end she only knew one part of the story of this couple…

"It's Isa, the waitress of the hostel!"

This time, it was a male voice that had shouted in the street, just under her still open window.

“But what’s going on?”

The blonde dared to stick her head out the window again to look at the street.

“Hey, what’s going on here…?”

“It’s your fault!” the fifty-year-old woman yelled this time, surrounded by her friends, still pointing at her.

Isa flinched again, but curious, she tried to get more information.

“Me? What do you mean? I spent my evening working and sleeping while…”

“Sleeping with the emperor is that right ?” one of the women bellowed shouted, her colored hair perfectly styled in a bun.

“What? What…?”

Isa was speechless. The women of the island were all starting to come one after the other under her window, shouting insults and threats.

“Aren’t you ashamed, young lady, to steal other people’s husbands? Laty also participated in the peace of this island!”

“Shameless!” You don’t steal other people’s husbands! Who will be the next one in your bed? My husband? I saw you staring at him with your mascara and your low-cut tops!

“Stay away from my husband, you bitch!”

Isa went back to hide in her living room, closing the window behind her so as not to hear the horrors screamed by these crazy old women.

But what the hell was going on? Why did all these women seem convinced that she had spent the night with the emperor and that she was going to steal their husbands? There were now dozens of them under her window! The young woman felt anxiety creeping into her. Was she safe in her apartment? How long before this crowd would become hysterical and come to pick a fight with her in her apartment? Could she explain herself and tell them that it was all just a huge misunderstanding?

“I saw you the other night making advances on him in front of his wife! You’re nothing but a whore!”

“Shame on you! You’re not touching my husband!”

Her heart raced in her chest as she sat down on her couch to calm down. She hid her face in her hands and tried to find a rational explanation for all this. Must she go back to the window to explain herself? Must she go downstairs and risk being attacked in the crowd? Must she lock herself in her apartment for several days until things calm down ?

The voices suddenly rose in the crowd. This time, Isa could detect male voices right next to them.

And finally, what she dreaded the most happened. Footsteps echoed on the stairs leading to her apartment.

The young woman was frozen on the couch. They were going to arrive in a few seconds and come to attack her in her apartment. She couldn’t do anything against so many people, she didn’t even know how to fight.

The footsteps finally reached her door and she heard someone banging violently on the door.

“Isa, open this door immediately!” A male voice ordered in a powerful voice that she didn’t recognize.

“Isa! Open!”

The young woman held her breath, trying to pretend that she wasn’t there, that there was no reason to enter this apartment because it was empty…

“Isa! I know you’re here! Open!”

She stood up to face the door, her body shaking with fear. Tears were pouring down her cheeks without her being able to control it.

“Isa! I’m coming in!”

And with an explosion, the door was ripped open in front of her and Isa saw the man enter her apartment in a split second.

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Fic Titles Named After Locations Masterlist

after japan (ao3) - graydar

Summary: the aftermath of japhan 2.0

a little bit of california, with a little bit of london sky (ao3) - twelfthnlght

Summary: (alternatively, dan and phil go outside.)

on an impulsive road trip dan plans right before their high school graduation, the truth will out.

@AmazingPhil: Landed in Vegas! (ao3) - snsk

Summary: “It’s his birthday,” Phil said brightly, pressing his knuckles to Dan’s cheek, and the man smiled again. “He’s twenty-five!”

An Island in the Mediterranean - secretlywritingstories

Summary: A holiday just for them and their friends. A little break filled with calmness by the seaside. Five precious moments shared on Instagram. September 2017

berlin (ao3) - waveydnp and dizzy

Summary: dan and phil meet at a hostel in berlin.

Between Home and Tokyo (ao3) - umbre0n1

Summary: A small snippet of under 704 words of wholesome moments featuring Dan and Phil on an airplane.

Birthdays in Vegas (ao3) - thatsthephan

Summary: In honor of my squishy son’s birthday, I have written a Vegas fic!

Dan and Phil’s Stroll Through Japan (ao3) - cafephan

Summary: When Duncan and Mimei have to cancel on their plans with Dan and Phil for the day, they take it upon themselves to stroll around Japan by themselves.

From all the way across the Atlantic (ao3) - Archive (Curlylinguist)

Summary: Phil’s away on a family holiday in Florida leaving Dan to man the radio show alone (almost).

Glimpses of Portugal (ao3) - adorkablephil (kimberly_a)

Summary: Dan and Phil went to Portugal together May 27-June 3, 2010, but very little is known about the trip. This is a random collection of ficlets that take place during that trip, occasionally incorporating some of the few actual tweets and photos from the trip. They aren’t in any particular order, but they all take place during that holiday in Portugal.

how to survive a flight to australia - softiejace

summary:inspired by “will dan and phil survive australia?” in which dan suffers through horror in the form of planes, noise, and other people. but hey, at least he’s in it with phil.

Iowa 80 - realityisnoplacetolive

Summary: In which Phil is stranded in Iowa.

It’s Good To Be In Manchester (ao3) - danrifics

Summary: Dan and Phil are in Manchester visiting their friends Ian and Lauren Ian and Lauren’s daughter draws a cute photo of Phil.

(Based on a Phil insta story, link in notes)

Manchester (ao3) - ahappyphil

Summary: 13 March 2010 @amazingphil- “Looking at apartments in Manchester:]”

Moscow to Berlin (ao3) - outphan

Summary: What happens when they get horny on the plane?

new york, new york - gorgeousdan

Summary: It’s Dan’s eighteenth birthday, and Phil has a special surprise for him.

On the Manchester Eye- twowrongsmakemewrite

Summary: They make a Valentine’s Day video with the intention of trolling the Phan shippers, but Dan realizes he doesn’t want it to be a joke.

Under Vegas Lights (ao3) - LunarLoverrr (orphan_account)

Summary: It’s the last night of their Nevada road trip, and Phil has the perfect date planned for his boyfriend. However, he hopes this date will be a stand out among the rest.

Vegas (ao3) - justhavesex

Summary: When Dan turns 30 and Dan makes a video titled ‘Vegas’, a short home made video with him and Phil at the alter in Vegas. Not when they were younger, but the current them. He wanted to live out everybody’s fantasies about them getting married in Vegas, just a tiny bit.

Vegas Lights - softiejace

Summary:2012 is not going as planned, but phil still takes dan to vegas for his 21st birthday, the city that is said to hold adventure, risk and fortune – and maybe a flimsy hope for conciliation?

[overnightoverthinking]

‘Saw’: A Modern Film classic.

To talk about the influence that the first ‘Saw’ movie had on movies as a whole quite an undertaking. Its immediate reach is

obvious but its influence can still be felt and seen to this day.

What's the last thing you remember?

To talk about ‘Saw’ as a milestone let's first talk about what came before it. We won’t go into the entire history of Horror movies (I could, don’t tempt me) but let’s go right before Saw released.

Wes Craven’s ‘Scream’ (1996) ushered in self-aware horror. It was a movie that drew focus to horror tropes while still being an incredible slasher movie. So many movies afterwards would riff on the idea of being a “wink and a nod” to moviegoers. It’s easy to forget that the movie which pioneered this on a big scale was ‘Scream’.

‘The Blair Witch Project’, released in 1999, opened the door for movies with an incredibly low budget to not only be seen as legitimate but as major motion picture worthy.

‘The Ring’, released 2 years earlier than Saw in 2002, proved that a very effective horror movie can exist while getting a rating of PG-13. You could do more with less. Although R-rated horror were still prevalent it certainly widened the horror playing field.

I want to play a game.

Saw was released in 2004 with a budget of around 1.2 million dollars. Calculating for inflation that brings the budget to a little over 2 million dollars in current currency. Putting that into perspective the average major studio movie budget is anywhere from 65 million on a low end to 100 million and above nowadays.

Something to keep in mind about Saw is that it did not look as polished as other big budget movies. Saw looked like a grungy indie movie instead of a big budget movie which audiences were used to at the time. Another factor is that with this movie, then first time director, James Wan’s skill was apparent.

Much like with ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (1974), we don’t directly see a lot of the gore in Saw. We see bodies, quick camera cuts, shaking, and sped up footage but a lot of the direct violence is not on screen. What is implied takes root in your mind to make your imagination do a lot more of the work than the director could.

Let the game begin.

After ‘Saw’ there were a lot more dark and gritty horror movies that flourished like ‘Hostel’ and ‘The Strangers’. ‘Saw’’s insistence on following it’s characters and learning about their stories can also be seen in high concept horror like ‘It Follows’. It launched a subgenera of movies: “torture/gore porn”. I think those movies are an interesting and important commentaries on the time the exist in but they were spurred on by the success of ‘Saw’.

Let’s now step outside of movies entirely. You know what else sparked in popularity after ‘Saw’? Escape Rooms. I love Escape Rooms. They were certainly a thing before the ‘Saw’ movies but the popularity of them has gone up after. The original ‘Saw’ basically revolves it’s main plot around the idea of an escape room after all.

Live or die, make your choice.

I am biased. I love the ‘Saw’ franchise and think the original ‘Saw’ movie should be appreciated for the long reaching impact that it has. Hopefully in reading (or skimming) this you were also able to see some of that.

Take care everyone.

[deimosbreakfrost]

Dude. Tbh I would think it would be pretty weird but pretty cool if someday you made a album or smt

NO I LITERALLY WRITED THIS IN MY NOTES ONE OF THIS DAYS

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-Anyways, my music genre would probably be;

Metalcore, pop punk/punk rock, horror punk, post grunge or/and hard rock.

-It'll probably sound like:

MCR during the bullets era, i.n.k during the burning, SIJAS and TPBTP era, MSI during the Frankstein Girls era or/and NX zero during the Dialogo? Era

I still haven't finish all of it but, er..

-Album name: Perverse Thoughs and Shock Values

-Ideas for the musics:

1. Introduction

2. Violent Descriptions

3. Hostel (the movie)

4. Violence and anatomy

5. Attached to your phone

6. Love and Hate

7. True Colors

8. Cannibal Holocaust (the movie)

9. Things that Teenagers shouldn't Do

10. Gore Addiction

11. Diss track to signmx

12. Weird Love Song

13. A Real Story of mine

14. Perverse Thoughs

15. Shock Values

The official name of the songs and basically what they will talk about:

1. I am my own Band.

2. A Dick in my Wound

3. Quick times at Slovakia

4. Honestly That Never Happened, Lying is your Favorite Passion

5. Your Phone is a Second Valuable Life, But More Easier to Lose it

6. The Best and Fastest Way to a Boy's heart is Though a Punch in the Face

7. And as You Drown In My True Colors..

8. Trow This Song to The Cannibals!

9. "Aren't We Too Young For This?"

10. The Art of Dying (I Hate What I've Become)

11. I Hate People That Fake That Are Animals

12. My Ribcage is Always Open to You

13. I Would be lying if this song isn't a indirect diss track to someone

14. Perverse Thoughs

15. Shock Values

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Awkward Hostel

So for a few months last year i went travelling around Asia, staying in cheap hostels to keep the cost down. So this particular hostel was the worst. I entered the male-only room and was greeted with 12 bunk beds then in a corner there was a sink, a shower and the toilet in the open with no privacy! So i had to shower and shit in front of 23 other blokes. There was already a few others in the room asleep when i entered. One bloke was already snoring. I got on my bunk which was near the "bathroom" and started getting for bed. I had just got into bed when bloke came in and literally just walked over to the toilet, sat down and started farting. He sat on his phone not even caring everyone in the room could see/smell him. He even stood to wipe, washed his hands then got into his bunk. The room that night was full of everyone snoring loudly. Being a light sleeper, at 3am i was awoken by a loud fart. I slowly opened my eyes and could see a bloke sitting naked on the toilet!

I was awoken in the morning to the sound of the shower running. I sat up and could see one bloke in the shower, another shaving and one on the toilet. All 3 naked! Everyone was stirring and slowly getting out of bed. By the time i got out of bed (naked) there was already a queue of 3 people for the toilet. I felt sorry for one bloke as he seemed constipated, by the sound of the grunts, and one bloke waiting actually asked if he was almost finished as he was "touching cloth" I was standing there with a slight cramp in my stomach. I was next in the queue and was able to watch the bloke sit down and start shitting. Lucky for me he was quick and stood to wipe. I quickly sat down and let out a loud fart. Several people laughed. It was strange to be sitting on the toilet in a room with 23 other blokes. I stayed sitting while wiping. I left the toilet, and the next bloke quickly took the seat. I quickly had a shower and got dressed along with everyone else in the middle of the room. I didnt really have any horror stories from that toilet. I did wake up in the middle of the night on the 3rd day having a big dump. One bloke woke up and stood nearby as he needed the toilet. I was farting quite loudly and was worried would wake someone up.