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thinking abt faith lehane and how she couldve haunted the btvs narrative again
#thinking abt the bodyswap plot#and all the horror movie elements of it#and if they had made it into a Thing. if the buffy v faith shadow self thing transcended the subtext and became a tangible threat that the#scoobies were faced with. an in your face sort of psychological torture where theres no Big Bad to fight but. like. idk i lost the point#it wouldve ended with buffy and faith kissing and or killing each other
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Decided to watch a âfound footage horror filmâ posted to youtube called Milk & Serial and iâm not even 3 minutes in and itâs so bad bro i actually burst out laughing at how bad it is i canât wait to watch this
#sid rants#sid watches#gd i love bad found footage movies#they have all the elements of how to make a ff horror movie but they canât actually grasp it#they donât give any real justification for continuing to film#the camera angles act like theyâre sloppy to seem like a person holding a camera but theyâre too perfectly centered on the action-#-to be believable#the camera will also be right in someoneâs face while the camera operator is trying to talk to them#like no one is going to take anyone seriously that is recording them that close#or when people pretend they canât see a camera if/until the plot demands it when it should be in plain view#hell even the thing theyâre recording on this movie is not warranting being recorded this extensively#also no excuse is given for the jump cuts bc it isnât the camera switching on and off when the operator does#but also if itâs âfound footageâ why would it have been edited?#basically they thought making a ff movie would be easier so they did it#and it was not well executed
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Just got to the synopsis for interlude #2 The Clearing for WBN and like, as an indoor cat with anxiety my reaction was very
Like. It's bad out there! No thank you, The Ocean! What's that over there? Do not ask! You don't want or need to know! Leave it alone!
#worlds beyond number#i like cozy spooky but i am not a horror fan at all by any means so halloween is both fun and awful for me#so i love that i have podcasts i can get some fun spooky vibes and supernatural elements from#to feed that part of me while actively blocking all tags for horror movies and such#i contain multitudes#i'll listen to achewillow with it's eviscerating hunger demon all day long#but if i catch a glimpse of a horror movie trailer i WILL burst into tears and have nightmares đ€·đ»ââïž#i'm interested to see how this interlude is going to go on the âmore gory than usualâ front đŹ
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Murder Obsession (Follia omicida, 1981)
"Why are you interested in the occult?"
"The only way to discover life's secret is through magic."
"I don't understand."
"Death. That exact moment when the body and soul separate, that which in theosophy is known as the astral body. We would have to capture that exact moment to analyse it, but to do this we would have to kill with our own hands, so that not even a wisp of life escapes us. Don't you agree?"
"And would you kill someone for this?"
"I think so."
#murder obsession#italian cinema#horror imagery#follia omicida#murder syndrome#1981#riccardo freda#antonio cesare corti#simon mizrahi#stefano patrizi#martine brochard#henri garcin#anita strindberg#laura gemser#john richardson#silvia dionisio#fabrizio moroni#franco mannino#carlo maria cordio#curious french italian coproduction. considering the era and the title i was expecting a grotty slasher of some kind but (whilst it#certainly has some elements of the stronger 80s sex and violence) director Freda seems more interested in stirring in dual elements#of giallo and gothic cinema. makes for a slightly fractured film; trippy dream sequences and a weirdly old fashioned score sit oddly with#the splatter and the grime. ends oddlyâ tooâ with a brush of occult oddness that feels like a strange left turn after the film has been at#pains to rationalise everything that came before it; in this it feels very much like Bennati's equally tonally mismatched The Killer#Reserved Nine Seats from the previous decade. this does feel a little out of time: a decade earlier and it would make sense but by 81#Italian cinema had mostly put away the toys being played with hereâ and whilst it's brushed with 80s appropriate nastiness it still feels#just a little old fashioned in shape and form. not bad tho: of interest to those sick freaks who will watch just about any italian horror#movie. it's meâ im the sick freaks. strong cast tooâ tho apparently they all had a horrible time making it (Gemser in particular)#(her and Brochard actually; both were put in dangerous situations for some of the violent scenes)
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anyways if you try to tell me that crimson peak is a bad horror movie, i'm just going to assume that you watched the movie wrong
#the marketing for the movie did it SO wrong by trying to turn it into classic hollywood horror when it's NOT#IT'S SO NOT!!!!!!!#it's gothic romance with elements of horror#like. what's the fuckin quote?#'It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.'#THAT'S THE VIBE OF THE MOVIE OKAY#IT'S ABOUT HORRIFIC ROMANCE#and like edith's book:#~it's not a ghost story it's a story with ghosts in it~#anyways#i love this movie dearly and i'll fight to my last breath to defend it from people who take it out of context then try to say it's a bad mo#vie#crimson peak
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Just watched Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! It was fun and I think I liked it more than Afterlife. Interesting in a bunch of ways and an improvement in many. Also very VERY gay !!!
#Subtextually. Melody and Phoebe as a metaphor for first queer loves sometimes being toxic and messy is fascinating#đŠ// txt#ghostbusters frozen empire#Also the pacing and story were better than the first in my mind#I love the family arc with Gary and the horror elements too!!! Itâs not the best movie of all time but I definitely enjoyed it
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Hiiiii could I ask a fic of a ghost face fic with the eternals I loved Scream and I would die to read Thena and Gil in a situation or a storyline like that!đ„čđđ€đ€đ€
(Happy birthday my dear, sweet @dalhia28! You have been such a supporter of mine from the beginning and I am always happy to see you around)
"Sersi," Thena hissed at her, gripping the Elemental Eternal's shoulders as she cried, "there's no time for that."
"Thena," Sersi sniffled, reeling from the idea that not only was their reunion with their family a stage for Ikaris' betrayal of them, but now he was picking them off one by one. "I-I can't-"
"You can," Thena said more resolutely than she could really feel at this time. But they didn't have the luxury of time--not to grieve for Ajak, or Sprite, or Kingo. "We have to."
Thena pulled Sersi to her feet. The statue of Arishem was too open an area. Ikaris could be silently floating around anywhere in the labyrinthine ship. They were at a disadvantage being split up from one another.
She had to find Gilgamesh.
They were all scattered around the ship while they were conceiving their plan. Thinking about it now, perhaps that too was part of Ikaris' plan. Maybe all this time he had been watching them like a predator, thinking to himself how weak his family was and how easy it would be to hunt them just like Deviants.
Thena kept Sersi close to her, her shield in front of them and her blade in her hand. It would be held aloft, ready to be swung. But Sersi was clinging to her hand like a trembling child.
She couldn't be angry with her--the poor thing had watched the man she loved - her ex-husband - shoot down their own right in front of them. He had told them himself of the murder of their leader and 'mother' by his own hand.
No one would blame Sersi for her tears.
Thena stopped, pressing Sersi's back to the wall with her. The corridors of the Domo were narrow, barely wide enough for two people.
Ikaris passed by.
He never was the best hunter of them. His vision was good, but he was too arrogant to make full use of his hearing, the way they were all able to feel the air bend around them.
Thena squeezed her eyes shut as the air compression and sound of Ikaris firing his lasers sounded one hallway away. The wall he was aiming at clearly relented against the force. Sersi flinched.
"Come on out," his accent drawled as he floated through the new door he had made for himself. He was moving away from them, but it was undeniable that the echo of his sinister tone felt right on top of them. "I'll make it quick, love. For old time's sake."
What a wretched man he was. The Soldier Eternal no longer, nor even an Eternal brother, now he was just Arishem's little murderer.
Thena brought Sersi with her by the hand, although she was highly aware of the sounds Sersi made when she moved. Her clothes made sound, her shoes did (Thena was still barefoot), she wore a pendant that dangled loosely around her.
She still had to find Gilgamesh.
He was somewhere deeper in the ship, healing from the fight in the Amazon. She had to get to him before Ikaris did. If he was able to be woken from his healing, perhaps he could even help them try to move the rest of them to the healing bay. At the very least, their bodies.
Thena paused at every corner, listening for every wisp of air, every moan of the Domo's metal body, every possible sign of movement. She nodded to Sersi.
Sersi's tears were dried, which was already admirable. Sersi was always the one with the most human heart, but it couldn't be said that she was weak in any way. If anything, how human she could be at times was something that made her stronger than most, Thena would say.
Thena nodded her head, telling Sersi to find refuge in Phastos' lab, just outside the healing bay with his equipment. She might find refuge in the greentank, which could offer organic material for her to connect to (it might calm her to be around material she couldn't transmute).
The healing pods were humming, one in particular engaged and glowing gently. Thena dispelled her Cosmic Energy into the air, walking over to it.
Her sweet Gilgamesh.
He had nearly given his life to save her in the rain forest. She would have done the same for him, of course, but it didn't make watching it any easier. And here they thought their worries were over after killing that monstrosity.
The monstrosity they had thought killed Ajak.
Thena knelt down to the pod, tilting her head at the image of him. His face was so still. The lights blaring on his face in the echochamber gave distinct lines and bends to his face. She raised her hand slowly, her fingers nearly trembling at the tips.
Her hand went right through him.
"Thena!"
"Gil!"
Of course. Of course he hadn't been able to kill them all going so undetected. Not even Ikaris could be in two places at once. They had seen him shoot Kingo, and then found Sprite's body, seeing the blood. But seeing meant little when it came to the Illusionist Eternal.
"Easy, Thena," Ikaris muttered, his arms locked around her head and his elbow driven into her. "You know very well not even your thick skull can withstand me at point blank range."
Gilgamesh knew it too, revealed from under Sprite's shroud with a knife to his throat. They were each other's insurance policy--Gil and Thena would never do anything to endanger one another.
Ikaris had always been behind Thena, his eyes focused on her. Sprite had rushed right to the healing bay and woken Gilgamesh with the knife ready, telling him that if he made one wrong move, they would toss Thena's body at his feet.
The perfect hostages.
"Gil," Thena managed to squeak out as Ikaris held her head. If she were human her neck would have already snapped. She could feel the heat building in his eyes against her hair.
"Please," Gil whimpered. He was softer than she was--he had no problem begging and pleading with their assailants for her life. "Let her go. I'll help you."
"Shut up," Sprite's once light and lyrical voice barked at him. "We don't need your help--we don't need anyone!"
Oh, Sprite, of course. Kingo had been right, in his oddly perceptive way of seeing the world through his own lens. Sprite, the unseen and even worse the unacknowledged.
"Tell us where the point of emergence is," Ikaris directed Thena, his eyes both on the back of her head and on Gil and Sprite by the door. "I don't care who. You tell us, we'll spare the other one."
"Thena!"
"Don't move!"
Thena's ear was ringing after Ikaris shouting in it. But Ikaris' lasers were far too deadly, and even with too many targets to look at, it would take a fraction of a second for him to kill all of them.
"Not a muscle," Ikaris glared at Sersi, completing the triangle between Ikaris holding Thena and Sprite blocking off Gilgamesh. She held her hands out, having skidded to a halt at the sight of that familiar and menacing glow. "Or I'll fire straight through both of 'em in one shot."
He could, and they all knew he was capable of it.
Thena's mind raced. They were limited on options. Ikaris wanted the point of emergence, and killing them was merely...a series of steps for him. She could tell him, doom humanity, and for all she knew, still not see Gilgamesh's life spared. The same could be said if he bent first.
"Please," Sersi whispered. Her tears returned. "Please don't do this."
She looked at Ikaris, who had far too many balls in the air. His stance kept shifting as he held Thena's head tight. His eyes cooled slightly, "just tell us, Sersi. Just...you could come with us."
Sersi shook her head faintly, baffled and probably disgusted that he would ask that.
"No, she can't!"
Thena moved her eyes from Gil's teary ones to Sprite's suddenly enraged expression. This could work.
"You said it was just gonna be us!" the small Eternal spat, although rather than point at Ikaris in her rage her hand twitched, jabbing Gil in the neck just a little harder.
Thena flinched but Ikaris' grip held strong as well.
"Sprite," he growled at her.
"No! No, you said Sersi wasn't coming with us!" Sprite continued in her accusations. She glared at her sister, "you're ruining this!"
Sprite was just as old as the rest of them, and yet she really could embody that youth that kept her mind tireless and which Ajak had adored so.
"Sprite!" Ikaris repeated. Things were unravelling, "keep it together!"
"No, you said-!" Sprite whirled around at her partner in crime--the love she had who convinced her to turn on their family. She pointed the knife at him.
Thena let her knees go, dropping from Ikari's hold rather than wrestling free. She slipped away. Gil launched forward knocking Sprite's hand out of his way.
Ikaris fired but Gil called his exoskeleton over him, the same way Thena could hold a shield. He landed a punch to his face, shattering bone the way a bullet would.
"Sersi!" Thena called out, but Sprite was already lunging at her.
Sersi moved instinctively. Her body was designed to recognise the makeup of any material it touched--to react and reformat it. Her hand came up to block the knife, but all it did was fade to water and splash onto the floor around them and into their clothes.
"You bitch!" Sprite raged at her. She'd had enough.
Sersi pressed her palm to Sprite's soaked shirt. She could turn steel to water, why not water back into steel?
Sprite's body jerked as the water collected and, while not much, reformed a blade within her skin. She choked on the air in her throat, "S-Ser..."
The Alchemist scrambled back from what she had done. She looked from the bloodied body of their sister to Ikaris, whose head was half caved in from taking a direct hit from the Strongest Eternal. She looked away.
Thena and Sersi helped each other stand. Gilgamesh came over, bending over their smaller frames and placing his hands gently on their shoulders. The night was over.
"I-I can't-" Sersi shook her head, looking at the body of Sprite splayed on the floor, eerily similar to the staging of earlier. "I didn't-"
"No one did," Thena finished for her, pulling her sister's head closer to her. No one saw their betrayal coming, and no one wanted things to turn out like this, either. No one thought they could kill their own family.
Sprite sprang up.
Gilgamesh pulled them back, Sersi held her hands up and Thena materialised her shield. It happened in two seconds. But a glow of gold flew through the air, clean through the smallest Eternal's body from behind.
Kingo gripped the door frame, his shooting hand dropping heavily as his side continued to bleed from Ikaris' earlier inflicted wound. He looked at what remained of his family, "rough night, huh?"
#Thenamesh AU#I hope you like it my darling I have done my best!#tw graphic violence#more graphic than usual anyway so just in case#at first I thought about a modern au#but then I thought what if...canon...but horror?#in the art of eternals there's a bit where they say that the scene in the rainforest has some very horror coded tones to it#which I love for us#so I thought why not go with it#also I just saw it's your birthday so this works out#Ikaris being ghostface because he's so bitter and full of rage#he doesn't have any problem killing his family#for the mission and all that#Sprite of course is happy to go with him#I thought about it being Kingo because that would be more like the original movie but y'know#also Thena should be barefoot and I really think she wasn't for filming reasons or whatever#but it makes sense with her vibe and her wardrobe and her character#so as far as I'm concerned she's barefoot whenever possible#I wanted to keep that element of horror#that moment when you realise it's not just one hunter but two#I liked the idea of Sprite using her illusions more practically#a shot of Thena's face and there's nothing behind her#but you could slowly swing around and then from behind you see Ikaris looming over her and Sprite's illusion between them#I wanted to keep the stabbing from the movie and Sersi turning it to water#the little tidbit about her being more relaxed around materials she can't transmute#being a little foreshadowing to how she reacts reflexively#and Sprite would have known that if she weren't totally off the deep end#sorry Druig I gave your 'rock' moment to Kingo#what a night indeed
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Hi there, I like your blog. What is the scariest/creepiest cutscene you've ever seen in an 8/16-bit video game?
There's no objective answer to this sort of question, but for 7-year-old me, there was no scene scarier than the one where the zombies kidnap you in Earthbound.
#Fami talks#Earthbound#like playing it as an adult it's obvious that the whole Threed section is a parody of horror movies#but as a child all the comedy elements were a lot harder to catch#let's just say I had a years-long fear of zombies due to that game
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i can just never take any complaints about media like hannibal or whatever ânormalising/romanticising cannibalismâ too seriously. like yeah sure this practice that has an EXTREMELY strong taboo against it in many cultures throughout most of human history is gonna be brought into vogue by uh. gay horror enjoyers on tumblr. sure. big risk we should all be worried about.
#i just do not think this is a serious concern!#survival cannibalism incidents are pretty rare these days. funerary and ritual cannibalism are incredibly uncommon practices.#it's something that's widely considered immoral and viscerally repulsive#and the sort of social pressure needed to reverse that attitude would be pretty immense!#many of us on here enjoy a good romantic cannibalism metaphor#or appreciate it as a horror element or a plot device#and itâs not that uncommon as a fetish! especially if you consider vore under the same umbrella#but the people who are at all seriously interested in doing it irl as opposed to just having it as a fantasy#make up a such a small proportion of that group#with such a limited opportunity to ever actually follow through on it#that i really don't think this is something that the people pearl-clutching over cannibalism movies need to worry about
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My weird-girl-loser character Anne âRoxanneâ Rodriguez
I redesigned her a teensy tiny bit and Iâm currently revamping the story I had for her so hereâs really messy doodles I made at like 1am lmao
#If anyone wants a reference of her personality/story I drew inspiration from Cybersix and Sam and Max#with a flair of some fantasy elements and heavy on action/noir detective movies#Im rewriting it to be a dark comedy/action with some horror and supernatural stuff?? the genre is all over the place lol#art#digital art#original character#doodles#sketches#slight nudity#roxanne rodriguez
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oh yeah i bet ill get weird and forget about why life is worth living so let me queue this up:
my friend saved up horror movies she wanted to watch but couldnt for when i stayed over at her place cuz i dont get scared i make silly comments while watching movies. later at night she made her bed next to me but like 30 seconds after getting into bed she whispered "hey are you asleep? im scared" and came into my bed. so you know.
#mypost#positiveposting#forme#asked her if she kept being scared after coming into my bed in the morning. said nope! slept like a baby#life do be worth living sometimes#funny thing is i told her with the Autistic Excitement i too was thinking abt the movies when she said she was scared#proceeded to tell her a bit abt my story analysis thoughts and how the horror element Ghost Man was actually just possessed too#and NOT the source of the evil. which does deflate it more cuz the mans FACE was the iconic scary element#if hes just compelled by an invisible evil thats. meh.#anyway i told her that when she moved into my bed and said 'thats all gnight'#god its so funny how wrong my brain is wired#i love the scare horror gives me. i LOVE picking it apart to see how it functions. story analysis babyyyyyy#mwah
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Found footage movies on Tubi are so bad. I wanna make edits of them
#sid rants#stuff like the last vlog of ruby reel and hashtag followme are all so bad#yet theyâve captivated me in some way#these movies should be appreciated for trying to have horror movie elements#even though they utterly fucking failed at being competent horror movies#like there are some fun/cool shots in followme but the movie itself is garbage#and thereâs nothing redeeming about ruby reel but i was intrigued for some reason
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ânow this is real horror, it makes you uncomfortable and doesnât rely on cheap jumpscaresâ would it kill you to stop being such a prick and have fun for once. could you try anyway
#in case it wasnât clear my point here is that its really annoying to find an intriguing piece of horror media and see that all anyone really#wants to talk about is how good it is because it doesnât use jumpscares or other such âcheap tricksâ to frighten/unnerve you#is it true that some horror movies/franchises overuse jumpscares(& such) to the point where they lower the value of the film?#yes. especially when mainstream corporations try to capitalize off horror.#are there jumpscares that add to the film and fit the tone of the movie? yes. especially in horror comedies (which iâve noticed tend to get#taken less seriously than films with little to no comedic elements. but thatâs not the point right now)#so to summarize#a horror medias usage of jumpscares is not a black-and-white indicator or the films worth because not all jumpscares are created equal and#pointing out that a piece of horror media you like doesnât use jumpscares(and using that to show how âgoodâ it is) doesnât make you sound#smart- you sound like a snob and i no longer want to converse with you#marble shoot#horror#horror movies
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seeing fnaf called horror is so fake tbh. its never rlly been "horror" (unless youre like 10 ig)
#the wolfs howl#fnaf in the brain once more#like the movie has me thinking sm abt how fnaf has 'progressed' over time#like i dont like it cuz its scary and has good plot its literally neither of those#im here cuz ive wanted to be friends w the silly furry robots since i was 10<3#all actual horror elements or explorations have been majority fan made#jrs ; fnaf vhs ; etc etc thats all fan shit#like i saw a post at some point that was like 'fnaf has never been scary you just grew up' and like. yea that sums it up lmao#i look at all the shit that used 2 scare me (such as fnaf2 purple guy hoax; the fnaf 3 secret screens; the 8bit springlock)#and none of that is even remotely scary lmaoooo#anyway
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ST Voyager: Repression - Horror Movie Vibes
#The vibes are immaculate#st voyager#screenshot extravaganza#the framing device of the horror movie at the beginning of the episode...B'Elanna and Tom seeing that body from behind and like - getting#closer only to discover he's dea- in a coma v_v#the fact that Tuvok is acting strange...having hunches...seems unsettled...#the fact that slowly but surely all the clues are pointing towards him#'It's possible whoever did this is still on board' while Tuvok stands in the background#That moment when Chell is alone and your heart starts racing bc WHERE'S B'ELANNA!!!!??#the cargo bay seeming empty but the computer confirming that B'Elanna's somewhere within it...#Tuvok looking down at the bruise on his side and realizing what happened...Teero appearingin the mirror!!!#THE FACT THAT TEERO USED HIS SON'S MESSAGE TO GET HIM....AGH.#and this is just the horror vibes - not even mentioning the trauma angle...my favorite voyager ep for real.#Voyager should have leaned into horror more it fits them SO well#Voyager lends itself extra well to horror bc of the 'no service' element#by which I mean like...in horror movies when your cellphone's dead or the killer cut the line - they have no means of contacting anyone#else to help them .... !!!!#star trek#episode scrapbook
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You're allowed to like the Barbie movie, but if you like it but hate Rocky Horror or Everything Everywhere All At Once get the hell out
#*but rocky horror is Problematic* unlike the Barbie movie which doesn't have any problematic elements at all. Shut up#All media is flawed especially when created under and to support capitalism
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