#environmental horror

[degloved]

the world is not what it used to be. you are not what you used to be. like you, it is quieter now. wilder. you're not alone, not wholly, even though it feels like it most days. no matter. the basest human (...?) needs have not changed since the dawn of time, and nightfall is imminent.

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[cryingatships]

But have we given a thought to monsoon horrors? The continuous drip, drip, drip of rain against your windows that goes on for days and weeks without the hint of a single sun ray and and the churn of dark, filthy water thick with the city's refuse sloshing through the streets and insects crawling out of flooded ditches and creeping in through the pipes of your house and the water-level rising every hour every day and the river bank eroding and oh, oh it's gonna be a day or two before the entire village is taken down the river bottom forever and being stuck inside for days and the vegetation outside rapidly overgrowing and turning everything green and becoming a colossal entity that can never be tamed again be garden scissors or axes and hours and hours with only yourself for company and slowly going insane as electricity goes away after a particularly bad bout of rainstorm and never comes back and the food's running low and as you hold the knife and peer into your supplies you think of what you have to do to live on because this rain never ends

[consultingzoologist]

Infected are dying, the news says.

Bodies slumping to the ground, curling into a foetal position, the human hosts finally at rest. The fungus continuing to grow, forming a silhouette of the old host when the body finally crumbles into the embrace of the earth, fungal cups and caps and oddest of all, spires reaching towards the sky. Like how humans reached for the stars before she was born.

The world is changing once again. Ellie talks to the fungus in her brain.

One day it talks back.

Hello everyone I am back on my bullshit. Do you like themes of horror and grief and nature and transformation? Did stories like Annihilation make you question everything and stare at the wall for a few hours? Do you think there's potential for The Last of Us Part 2 to be emotionally devastating but in a different way to how it currently goes? Check this out!

[local-boob]

"This film is . . . rooted in the Welsh myths about Blodeuwedd, a woman made of flowers."

[sisters-of-mercy-unoffical]

Reverse of the events in The Bay (2012)

I bet giant isopods are sooo delicious broiled in butter the whole thing is like lobster meat

[ashersbraincell]

Environmental horror game reccomendation

While it's still in it's demo-stage, the sheer amount of CONTENT in this demo justifies playing it already(that is, if you don't mind being left on a NASTY cliffhanger...I jest, it's not that bad. It's justified and doesn't feel rushed/unintended/cheap dw).

Super solid game, genuinely really impressed with just how much this drew me in near instantly, an interest that only grew throughout the course of the game. On the surface, this is like, the furthest from the types of games/stories I normally enjoy(/not negative, just a personal preference usually), but MANNN did I enjoy myself with this. I think it partly had to do with how great the set up is. The game really justifies it's run time and never looses me/makes me feel like I'm clicking through pointless fodder to get through to the meat of the story. Well-developed characters, and great voice acting too.

(be wary of looking at tags, they may lightly spoil the premise)

[basementofthebizarre]

Wriggling Terror: Uncovering the Cult Appeal of SQUIRM (1976)

The 1976 horror film Squirm, directed by Jeff Lieberman, serves up a spine-tingling tale of nature turning against humanity in a creepy, worm-infested nightmare. Set against the backdrop of a small Southern town, Squirm leans into environmental horror, exploring a “man vs. nature” theme with an inventive, if unsettling, focus on killer worms. Known for its practical effects and atmospheric…

[ghostjelliess]

Philo wiped his hands over worn jeans and picked the dirt from his nails in the quiet morning light, sighing at the gravestone where his own name had once been. The weathered rock was hardly unique in the centuries-old graveyard, surrounded by equally decrepit thin markers sinking into the ground at odd angles like rotting teeth. The only intact memorial in the Olde Burial Ground was the uncanny mausoleum that crowned the hill, too ornate not to have a history, but far too old for the people of Belle’s Hollow to remember what it was.

continue reading on ghostjellies.com

[britcision]

Okay but hear me out:

They can be subtle

Because the thing about a dragon is, that’s a very large apex predator

That’s a very large apex predator that has been entirely and abruptly removed from the ecosystem

So:

- everything it was eating is now going to overbreed and if you think this isn’t a problem let me introduce you to Yellowstone deer. Now imagine the size of things a dragon eats

- every other large scary monster that the dragon scared away is now coming to say hi, also young dragons looking for a lair of their own. And they’re all going to fight

- dragon meat that isn’t immediately poisonous or corrosive… so the triumphant slayer has time to cart it home and save the town with enough food to last a life time…

Which is about 50% shorter than it used to be

So for days, weeks, maybe even months it seems like they did a good thing. And then, slowly, things get worse. And worse. And worse.

If you thought one big dragon was bad, a dozen little ones will shock you

i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.

[smbhax]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Oil Ocean Zone - from Sonic Origins (PC/Steam)

Session: https://youtu.be/C0totAf0FQs

[biohazard-inevitable]

The persuit of knowledge is a dangerous mountain to hike.

For when does the best berry bush or hunting spot become creation of new elements, the bringing of fire and the taming of beasts?

For when does it rise furthermore and become the harness of venom that rots the earth and the greed for things we do not need, the raking of our manmade talons through the air to let the sun scorch the earth and acid pour from the skies?

For when do those beyond our mortal minds take notice?

For when do we go too far?

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

Humanoids From the Deep

I have very mixed feelings about Barbara Peeters and Jimmy T. Murakami’s HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980, Shudder). For the most part it is very well made, with a good score by James Horner. The main plot has a progressive approach to Native American rights. In fact, without the monster plot, Peeters would have had a perfectly respectable film about the conflict between white fishermen and a Native American environmentalist over the building of a cannery on the Northern California coast. There’s some great local color in scenes of daily life that play under the credits and the depiction of a local festival, complete with the cutest local band you’ll ever see in a U.S. film. But there’s also a horror element in the appearance of mutated fish (the result of genetic experiments by the cannery company) that kill men and sexually assault the women. The film was made for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, and he had extra nudity, including more explicit assault scenes, added to appeal to the drive-in market. Those scenes are rather hateful and make the film’s ending seem more misogynistic than it might otherwise have read. One addition is also ludicrous. Heroic fisherman Doug McClure’s wife takes a shower, and between stepping into the bathroom and being silhouetted behind the shower curtain, her breasts grow significantly, only to return to their normal size when she steps out to confront the creatures invading her home. The print on Shudder is from the Japanese DVD, which has good picture and sound and includes everything from the original drive-in release but is titled MONSTERS (HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP). Pity it doesn’t include the character development and thematic explorations Corman cut from Peeters’ original edit to make room for all the crap.

[kinsey3furry300]

The fact that Kudzu grows at about a foot a day means that you could be trapped in a car watching the plant bury your car from veiw in real time, while people who could help unknowingly drive past, is scarier than bigfoot:

Appalachia itself is a cryptid.

“I’m going to drive through Appalachia, should I be scared of the inbred hill folk and the cryptids? 😱😱😱😱” no bitch, be scared of sliding off a mountain into a valley and not being found for months or years.

[sweetmapple]

Mostly Hiring manager, but HR manager and PR manager too

[alwaysbewoke]

THERE'S ALSO A GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN THE CONGO!!!!! THERE'S ALSO A GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN THE CONGO!!!!! THERE'S ALSO A GENOCIDE HAPPENING IN THE CONGO!!!!!

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

MUTATED FOREST

by Hermann Kromer