#errementari the blacksmith and the devil

[chainsxwsmile-personal]

Sartael needs to make a long-distance call to his former home. Aaaaand we’re on hold.

original audio belongs to thehexbaby and artycycle on Instagram

[sheena-isa-punkrocker]

some self ship x sartael

art by me

[meddling-in-horror]

Halloween 2023 Content Round-Up

So........my October was a lot more packed than I thought. I ended up extremely busy across the board with school and shows, so I wasn't able to watch every single thing on my list. However, I ended up getting through a lot more than I thought I would.

Here's the rundown:

Ginger Snaps (2001) - thesis research, more to come

Blood Red Sky (2021) - monsters, motherhood, and the monstrous-feminine, more to come

El Conde (2023) - I was confused, but in a good way?

Flux Gourmet (2022) - really bizarre, but really really good

The Lighthouse (2019) - very odd, unsure how to feel about it

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) -folk horror is really cool, more to come

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018) - super interesting examination of trauma and escapism

Errementari: The Devil and the Blacksmith (2017) - again, folk horror is really cool

Ganja and Hess (1973) - thesis research, more to come

The Pale Door (2020) - depiction of witched, more to come

She-Creature (2001) - thesis research, more to come

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) - lore is a bit confusing, but it's beautiful

Freeway (1996) - fucks with me every time I watch it

Midnight Mass (2021) - I think about Riley Flynn literally every single day of my life

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) - this show fucks 10/10

Creepshow S4 (2023) - perhaps the best season of the show yet

Considering three of these are tv shows, I'd say I did pretty well.

[fangemorose]

Please do yourself a favor and watch the movie Errementari: the Devil and the Blacksmith if you haven't already. It's dark and hilarious at the same time.

i hate craving highly specific niche media. i want catholic horror that isn't "what if a nun was scary" or "what if the church is actually satanists" but apparently the powers that be cannot envision such a thing

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A blacksmith in nineteenth-century Araba holds a demon captive in his home - until the day an orphaned girl stumbles in and unwittingly frees it.

English name The Blacksmith and the Devil

This movie makes mod Sus go brrrrrrr they liked it a lot and eat folklore stories to keep themself alive.

[tlbodine]

Our Next Horror Watch Theme

Man. It's been a minute since @comicreliefmorlock and I have done a themed film series. Remember when that was a thing we did all the time?

We did Horror by the Decade. We did Horror by Director. We did Horror Remakes. Horror Directed by Women. Asian Horror.

Now it's time for....*drumroll* Faerie Inspired Horror!

We picked this series specifically because we watched Bagman recently and found it very disappointing. And it's one of many disappointing boogeyman-type horrors that should have been scary but just...isn't.

So I went on a quest. And, true to our usual format, I assembled a list of movies and paired them off into double features. We've got a nine-week series here (18 movies, if we don't manage double features every week).

The Criteria: The only rule for this film series is the movie needs to be fae-inspired or related. For our purposes, I'm defining "fae" as a sapient non-human entity that exists parallel to humans and operates according to its own rules, primarily as described in a country's fokloric tradition.

Sometimes these stories overlap with ghosts, demons, and old gods, but I tried my best not to include those types of things if I could help it (but these are overwhelmingly films I haven't seen and didn't want to spoiler myself on, so...I might have some mistakes in here). A lot of these movies probably overlap with Folk Horror as a subgenre, but I wanted to specifically include movies where the fae creature does actually exist as opposed to simply being invoked by local legends etc.

I tried to cast a pretty wide net to get some diversity here, but by nature of the beast this skews heavily European, with a lot of Norwegian and Irish folklore represented. (Don't worry - we're hitting Latin America next, we already decided that was the next film series, and I'm gonna aim for more cultural and racial diversity in future series as well).

ANYWAY. Without further ado, here is our final film list. The order we watch these in is TBD. But the hashtag to follow will be "#Fae Horrors" and they will also be in my general "#Horror Movies" tag. Also maybe this will be the year I finally go make a damn Letterboxd account to keep track of things.

FAE HORROR MOVIES:

Thale (2012) (Norwegian) (Hoopla, Tubi)

Huldra: Lady of the Forest (2016) (Swedish) (Hoopla, Tubi, Amazon)

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2018) (Spanish) (Netflix)

Draug (2018) (Swedish) Tubi, Amazon)

Valley of Shadows (2017) (Norwegian) (Hoopla, Tubi, Amazon)

There's Something in the Barn (2023) (Norwegian) (Netflix, Amazon)

Pyewacket (2017) (Canadian) (Shudder, Amazon)

The Wretched (2020) (American) (Shudder, Amazon)

Troll (2022) (Norwegian) (Netflix)

Rawhead Rex (1986) (Irish) (Amazon)

Unwelcome (2023) (Irish) (Shudder, Hoopla)

The Hallow (2015) (Irish) (Shudder, Amazon)

You Are Not My Mother (2021) (Irish) (Hulu, Hoopla, Prime)

In My Mother's Skin (2023) (Singaporean) (Prime)

The Haunting of Helena (2013) (Italian) (Prime)

The Hole in the Ground (2019) (Irish) (Kanopy, Amazon)

Wither (2012) (Swedish) (Tubi, Amazon)

The Lure (2015) (Polish) (Max, Amazon)

[ubasjuice]

[ERREMENTARI] 2017

"THE DEVIL AND THE BLACKSMITH"

"A blacksmith holds a demon in captivity, torturing it as revenge for his troubles. One day, an orphan girl stumbles upon the demon's enclosure and unwittingly releases it."

[ubasjuice reviews]

A Spanish/Basque supernatural/horror film, directed by Paul Urkijo, who also did "Irati (2022)"

This was one of the best storybook type of storytelling, the kind that could be told from generation to generation; based on the Basque folktale version of The Smith and the Devil; it is well-paced, well-written, also mixed with some dark humor and a pretty enjoyable watch for a film that deals with demons and hell.

The design of the demon, as textbook as it can be, is perfectly done. I don't want to describe it that much as I want you guys to see it firsthand as well. Every detail of it fits the deathly feel of the whole film, it's dark and gritty.

There's no jump scares involved, no gory scenes, no "fillers" that would make one yawn, no impending-doom-sound effects as well, really just good storytelling that makes you want to sit and listen.

Casting was also great, it's not perfect, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. All of them performed well and acted as they should on the scenes, a very good display of proper screenwriting.

The way they started and how they ended it was satisfying and put a smile on my face. You'll know what I'm saying when you've watched it. It's very underrated in my opinion.

Juicy 9/10

[mystic-for-dummies]

Meet the Witch

(Saw someone else make a post like this and I thought it looked fun.)

September 2023 Name: Caelan Age: 23 Birthday: October 31st (yes, for real) Pronouns: My pronouns change from day to day. Check my pinned post. Astrological Signs: Scorpio Sun, Leo Moon, Virgo Rising, Sagittarius is the most common sign in my chart. Deities: Apollo, Loki, Lucifer, and Nyarlathotep

Witchy Facts About Me:

The element I feel the strongest connection to is fire.

I usually don't give exact, specific ingredients, words, etc when sharing spells. I feel like it's just going to discourage people who don't have access to certain items, can't perform specific acts, or can't memorize words very well.

I'm very interested in divination, especially astrology, tarot, oracle decks, and scrying.

I actually rarely work with my deities in witchcraft. That's more of a religious thing, and I don't always mix my religion and my craft. I'm more interested in working with my pre-Christian Irish ancestors. Nyarlathotep does give me very useful advice for my craft, though.

I'm not going to hesitate to hex a corrupt politician, an abuser, or anyone who unapologetically makes the world a worse place. No, you're not going to convince me that it's going to come back to me. It never has before, and I don't believe it will in the future.

As a heads-up, if you are a "love and light, never do harm ever" type of witch, this is probably not the blog for you. I don't think that you're any less valid or respectable for being that kind of witch; I just want you to know upfront that I am not that kind of witch and that I will most likely never be that kind of witch.

I try to take potential disabilities into consideration when writing spells, rituals, and other magical activities. It often feels like, when I read witchcraft books, the author will say that you have to do something a specific way. Like, "you have to do a bath ritual for this to work," or "you have to meditate first." And that completely fails to consider that some people aren't objecting to these things because they don't want to do them; they're protesting because they literally cannot do the tasks that the author says that they must do.

My Favorite WC Books

The Crooked Path by Kelden

Besom, Stang, and Sword by Christopher Orapello and Tara-Love Maguire

Of Blood and Bones by Kate Freuler

Weave The Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff

Fun Facts About Me

I'm autistic and ADHD, and I have dyscalculia.

My hobbies include reading, writing, video games, drawing, painting, makeup, cooking, worldbuilding, and TTRPGs (D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Tales of Xadia, City of Mist, World of Darkness, Shadowrun).

My interests and things I study besides WC: medical science, biology, zoology, botany, world history, world mythology, literature, cultures both ancient and modern, folklore, psychology, neurodiversity, and LGBTQ+ history, culture, and current issues.

I have Christian religious trauma and now I'm allergic to most things Christian. Also I'm allergic to pollen.

I'm studying Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Irish.

My favorite genre of anything (movies, books, shows, games, etc) is Fantasy.

I'm currently writing a novel.

I hope to someday make an Indie animated series.

I have a dog.

My Favorite Books (in no particular order)

The Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb

The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles

Stephen King's novels

PJO

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Neil Gaiman's novels

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings

The Hot Zone

The Outsiders

My Favorite Video Games

The Legend of Zelda

Pokemon

Kingdom Hearts

Final Fantasy

God of War

Skyrim / The Elder Scrolls

Don't Starve

Darksiders

Fran Bow

My Favorite Shows and Movies

The Owl House

Hazbin Hotel

Helluva Boss

Fullmetal Alchemist

The Dragon Prince

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil

Annihilation (2018)

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Most Ghibli movies

The Silence of the Lambs

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The entire Jurassic Park movie franchise

John Carpenter's The Thing

Soul Eater

Black Clover

[ordosmarkzero]

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil

[tuulikki]

“Language revitalisation bad!” is not a take I was expecting to see… anywhere, really. But least of all on Tumblr.

I like minority languages. I think I’m pretty good at finding media in them. Since I’m on the topic, I’d particularly recommend Edge of the Knife (Haida: SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna) and The Blacksmith & The Devil (aka, Errementari, Basque). And while I haven’t seen it yet, Manchu is so rare that I’d include War of the Arrows for having any Manchu in it at all.

But I’ve also found a whole Israeli TV drama, Shtisel, that’s pretty much half Yiddish. There are many ways to drive a language to extinction, sure, but government-funded linguistic extermination campaigns don’t usually let you get multiple seasons of a TV show. For Ladino, there’s also the Israeli movie, The House on Chelouche Street.

Assimilationist and exterminist language policy do not usually allow minority language in books, let alone onto screens.

not only are there no bad languages there are also no bad or annoying dialects

[visplay]

Chris: Errementari is a folk horror / fantasy from Spain about a town blacksmith who is believed to be in cahoots with the devil, incredible imagery and effects, hope to see it again, Watch: On Subscription Service.

Richie: It was a fun Basque folk horror / fantasy, a little slow at times that makes up for it with fantastic creature designs, Watch: On Subscription Service.

[chainsxwsmile-personal]

Sartael’s design is so beautiful and so intricate and so very very difficult to animate OTL

WIP of a tiny project I’m working on

[meddling-in-horror]

October Movie Racket

Decided to continue what I started last year by watching one movie a day for all of October. I just finished the list:

Ginger Snaps (2000) Fright Night (2011) Errementari: The Devil and the Blacksmith (2017) Ganja and Hess (1973) Night Teeth (2021) The Pale Door (2020) El Conde (2023) Midnight Mass (2021) Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021) Possession (1981) Day Shift (2022) Vampir (2021) Flux Gormet (2022) She-Creature (2001) Last Night in Soho (2021) Def By Temptation (1990) The Lighthouse (2019) Perfect Blue (1997) The VVitch (2015) The Lure (2015) The Old Ways (2020) Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) The Craft (1996) Freeway (1996) Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (2021) Audition (1999) Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) X (2022) Pearl (2022) The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)

Just in case you wanna watch along, we start October 1st.

Happy haunting.

[gorewound]

Not the beach party part, but other than that this is almost exactly the plot of a really cool movie named Errementari: The Blacksmith and The Devil

I dreamt that I was some kinda bad-ass in an action movie. Eventually I agreed to go to hell in exchange for the people I was trying to save. Something was understood, like I was such a bad ass hell would never be able to catch up with me if I didn't agree to go... IDK dream logic is fun. ANYWAY. I get picked up and carried off and when I get to hell, it's just a huge beach party. So I mean. Win / win. See you all in hell.

[sheena-isa-punkrocker]

Errementari: Sartael/Demons HCs

yoooooooooooo i’m 3 yrs late to this movie but im obsessed and lets do thiiiis~

these are hcs i made about sartael and all other demons in this movie

firstly, the amount of demons in hell are as innumerable as the amount of human souls are in there 

since hell is divided into categories (think dante’s inferno) this means that there are different demons for each punishment 

there are also more..... bureaucratic parts of hell (its a vast place) and there are demons for those jobs too

tbh all the demons know each other

they’ve spent centuries in hell since the dawn of time, everyone knows everyone let the gossip commence

there’s also a hierarchy of demons

like low level demons are basically the run of the mill ones that go out and tempt ppl by making deals but also the ones who execute the punishments 

sartael is a low level demon lol

the bigger demons like alastor are the higher ranking demons, they usually are in a position to tell lower demons what to do and carry out orders from the big man downstairs 

there’s more than one way to enter hell than through the fiery gates and yes some of them u can enter and leave without consequence

now lets get into the demons that tempt humans

to demons, humans have their own scent. one demon can smell a small village from miles away

if a demon spends time with a human, they learn that human’s individual scent

although demons are immortal they CAN feel pain like anyone else

most injuries don’t last long though and heal quickly

however some are permanent (i.e. sartael’s broken horn poor bb)

burns are the fastest to heal tho

since they basically live in the fiery pits of hell, burns are like nothing to them

demons can shapeshift obv since they are supposed to trick humans

however they are not supposed to reveal their true identity until the last moment when they are taking the human’s soul to hell

blessed bells hurt their ears considerably, we know this from the movie

to them it’s a horrible screeching sound that they hear

can’t step foot in a church due to it being holy grounds

blessed items in general make their skin sting 

they have an aversion to images of christ or anything holy related

it’s hard to explain... it doesn’t hurt them necessarily but they have an extreme dislike of it like a biological hate

if you had to label them, on the whole demons are pansexual (can have preferences tho!)

since they are demons, they tend to look down on humans since they are a different species and they don’t understand why they are so fickle about orientation

since its their job to tempt humans, they are not above sleeping with same sex when they are in their human form

they are also confused by women being seen as weaker than men and patriarchy as a whole in many human societies

demons have seen so many human souls, male and female, young and old do horrible things that they don’t consider one gender weaker or stronger than the other, everyone’s shitty

 demons have an innate inclination for causing suffering to humans

this can range from little mischievous antics to the upmost cruel acts

its just within their nature

however they are also capable of experiencing emotions such as love, sadness, anguish, etc

 so yes they can experience real relationships if they want to however who has the time when ur supposed to tempt souls all day?

who wants to befriend a human anyway??

there are some demons who have fled hell to stay in the human world, this is against protocol and other demons are sent to bring them back eventually

okay so that was more about demons than sartael specifically BUT i will be making MORE hcs in the future for this movie stay tuned~

also let me know if u want any specific hcs???

[animusrox]

31 Days of Horror Marathon 2018 ↪ Day 24:  Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2018) dir. Paul Urkijo Alijo