#The Fireplace

[cannibalspicnic]

I love how you said “I can’t believe Y’all made me make this gif set” about Adult Swim Yule Log/The Fireplace, like it’s not the greatest movie of all time (/jk)

But seriously, what drugs was the director smoking to make a campy horror movie that manages to perfectly encapsulate the cycle of cruelty of the human race?

Honsetly, I was bummed that there were no other gifsets of that movie! It was a really solid movie and no one talks about it! I should make more gifs this year....

[watchingmoviesandshit]

Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace) (2022)

[cynthiaandsamus]

(I still don't really like the final twist like it seems like one of those final horror movie twists that're just being cruel for the sake of being cruel but I still like this movie a lot for the insane shit it manages to get away with, so in my mind that final reveal is one of those random stingers horror movies have where things jump at the camera and it doesn't mean anything)

[panozwar]

It’s only a Yule Log, what can possibly go wrong?

[suchawrathfullamb]

the patroclus and achiles thing obfuscated the fact that hannibal is just drawing with will in here? he only draws when he's alone, but in this scene they're just hanging out, so comfortable he's just...drawing, just doing his little sketches, his little special interest in the comfy companion of his soulmate IT'S SO COZY

[oldfarmhouse]

Image via We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/

[flowerchildasriel]

I really wish we could have seen Ember enjoy playing with glass more than we did! I mean, she fixes the front display window easily and makes the glass vivisteria flower with even more ease.

I wish we could have seen her fix the display window room with just a little bit more flair to show how she isn’t just good at doing it but likes it more than anything else in the shop. I would have loved to see her room!!! Maybe seeing some of her own glass designs decorating her shelves. Seeing her trace designs in glass idly, smiling, or pause in her deliveries to admire glass sculptures or other windows, or try to make stained glass for the shop windows only be scolded about using her time and energy for better uses.

[thelastfinalgirl]

Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace). Directed by Casper Kelly (2022)

[moviemosaics]

Adult Swim Yule Log (aka The Fireplace)

directed by Casper Kelly, 2022

[cannibalspicnic]

Adult Swim Yule Log/The Fireplace (2022) dir. Casper Kelly

[mrawkweird]

I actually got this from a twitter post but I can't find it anymore but concerning Adult Swim's Yule Log, the film seems to be about privilege. A lot of the log's flashbacks show people burdened by the era's they live on where being born a certain way denied you happiness. (Being black in 1800s, being gay, being a certain weight) and it attacks our modern cast who are privileged to live mostly without prejudice or obstacles or at least compared to the past. And what's more privileged than being able to afford an airbnb?

The little man in the fire even spells it out clearly, he also takes advantage of their privilege in the fact that it makes things that people would used to consider small like anxieties and insecurities into massive deals. It's why he's able to prey on the drug dealer's insecurity of not being successful like his siblings and tricks him into killing his mother with the promise of a better life leading to his nonexistence. He tries to do the same with Zoe noting how she seems pretty much done with the world only to be shocked she has a renewed stamp on life and insulted that she would say he's from hell and berates her for her privileges stating that one day everything she considers normal could called evil tomorrow.

There's also the fact that our main characters are a mostly happy interracial couple, while in the past the slave and slave owner who despite their situation grew to actually love each other (if we can believe that the man in the fire was the spirit of dead slave owner regretting his actions) until the nature of the time they live in caused the owner to do something that would cause the slave to kill him.

(I just also realized that Zoe was pretty open about not wanting kids because she considers the world to be too messed up while the slave killed her owner because he was going to send their son away to a harsher slave owner)

I'm actually shocked there don't seem to be any sort of analysis videos for Yule Log, seems like the shit people would eat up

I almost couldn't help but notice the deal with privilege because I've been seeing way too much bullshit when it pertains to the subject as of late. Not that the world has ever been without it but just more so than usual in the places I've been looking. A whole lot of "Wow; must be nice". You also can't get any more privileged than wanting Chris Pratt to play you in a movie.

I'm also surprised not a lot of video analysis types seem to be jumping on the themes but then again it is one of those niche Adult Swim projects that the long time fans are used to while everybody else is just here for that Rick & Morty before heading out.

[cynthiaandsamus]

"Don't say it's a flying log, they won't come!" this movie is such a weird combo of horror and comedy.

[mannyblacque]

This holiday's hottest new movie is Adult Swim Yule Log aka The Fireplace. This movie has everything: hillbilly serial killers, haunted yule logs, a cabin in the woods, cults, silver aliens, edibles, time altering demons, and pimento cheese.

[goghvanwillemvincent]

The Fireplace (c.1869) by James Tissot (1836 - 1902)

[oldfarmhouse]

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