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can-of-w0rmz · 4 months ago
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The Herr Englishman 🕯🦇
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marzipanandminutiae · 11 months ago
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basilsbestpainting · 6 months ago
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Saltburn is like if Wuthering Heights fucked up relationship dynamics hate fucked with The Picture of Dorian Gray's internalized homophobia to get a modern Gothic tale that'll live rent free in my head forever
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positively--speculative · 9 months ago
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I can see in a future season of IWTV Daniel interviewing Lestat about the domestic violence in s1e5 and this whole thing being set up where Lestat is telling his side and things are coming to that part. Daniel asks a couple of questions regarding that specific event and it plays out something like this:
'And you say you loved him?'
'I *do* love him.'
'And I suppose you're going to tell me that the events of that night didn't exactly play out the way Louis said.'
'Oh, no Louis was forthcoming about that. The events played out exactly as he said they did.'
And I see it happening this way because as I've said before, the gothic genre of storytelling is not meant to validate a desire for uncomplicated answers to questions as to what something as complex as *love* is. Love can be kind but it can also be cruel, and the gothic genre forces us to be confronted with that disturbing reality. A bad person like Lestat can still feel emotions like love and *still* be a bad person. The idea is *supposed* to be uncomfortable.
The desire some in the fandom have (especially white fans) for the abuse to be retconned shows a misunderstanding for the gothic genre. Gothic stories teach us that both of these things can be true: A person can be in love with someone and hurt that same person *intentionally.* The fact that Louis takes him back is a part of what makes the story disturbing. Their love story isn't supposed to be simple. A simple, uncomplicated story simply does not belong in this genre.
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prettyboyprettyeyes · 11 months ago
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Movies i wanna watch
the craft
sleepy hallow
sweeny todd
edward scissorhands
interview with the vampire
pans labyrinth
dead poets society
maid and nancy
bram stokers dracula
queen of the damned
the crow
the witches of eastwick
labyrinth
suburban gothic
the oxford murders
the virgin suicides
crimson peak
death becomes her
devils advocate
mary shelley’s frankenstein
the man in the iron mask
Irma Vep
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talesfromthecrypts · 2 months ago
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I get so frustrated by "yeah make vampires scary again" stuff every time a vampire movie has a "monster" vampire (Nosferatu, Voyage of the Demeter, etc). It reeks of an attitude that thinks all horror is about something being ugly and horrifying on the outside. If you can't see the horror in Interview With the Vampire, or a Jean Rollin film, or The Hunger, or Carmilla, or the vampire sections of Baldur's Gate because they are attractive that is absolutely an issue on your end. There is such a rich well of themes to dig into with horror and vampires, especially where sex and romance are concerned, but people are so desperate to separate romance and horror. The despair of being frozen as a child even while your mind matures, the loneliness of an eternity alone, the terror of eternal hunger that can't be sated, the awful seduction by something beautiful but monstrous. Trying to turn vampires into just any other monster doesn't make them more horrifying, its just a more kind of overt horror that can only be done so many times and is often covered better by other monsters.
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evydraws · 9 months ago
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"It seemed as if the whole, awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion."
Bram Stoker's Dracula | portfolio | prints
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nevershootamockingbird · 1 year ago
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[ begin id: a screenshot of tumblr tags that read “#everyone wants a virginal maiden in a nightgown exploring the haunted manor halls with a candelabra #but NO ONE wants to talk about why the house is haunted and how the ghost died and what twisted mangled corpse pile it’s unfulfilled flesh #now resides”  / end id ]
when internet people are like “i love gothic literature but i hate anything that discusses incest, sexual violence, oppression, misogyny, abuse, torture, gore, murder, or death”
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threeheadedtrinity · 1 month ago
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Dawne Raulet, Sven (c. 2018)
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can-of-w0rmz · 1 year ago
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Pov you repeatedly find cool sounding modern “gothic” media only to find out it’s really shit overly edgy 13-year-old’s-Wattpad-story level shit that romanticises suicide and mental illness “depression and self harm is quirky and everyone else with a mental illness is crazy” style instead of commentating on and delving into it and exploring the darkest elements of the human condition through romanticism without presenting them as a good thing or gatekeeping who has it worse:
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marzipanandminutiae · 2 years ago
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why be the gothic ingenue when you can be the overly invested lesbian caretaker
Mrs. Dudleycore
Mrs. Danverscore
Lucille Sharpecore
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inkyami · 14 days ago
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Something wicked this way comes
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positively--speculative · 9 months ago
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You know, now that I'm thinking about it, another piece of media that threw me when it came to the subject of love was The Ring. Like, I saw that movie for the first time when I was 13, and I could not put my finger on why it stuck with me and made me deeply unsettled beyond the obvious horror.
But in recent years, I kind of figured it out. It was because Samara loved her adoptive mother, Anna, but still placed those horrible images in her head and killed her horses who she loved. I always felt sorry for Samara and that's the scary part. Samara was literally a "bad kid" who couldn't be saved with love.
I feel like IWTV gives me similar feelings, but with a different kind of love. Lestat loves Louis but still hurts him intentionally similar to how Samara loves her mother but hurts her intentionally. And both Louis and Anna make reluctant attempts to murder the ones they love to be free, because killing who they love is the only way they feel they can be free.
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circslai · 6 days ago
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witchrealms · 1 year ago
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arepaz · 2 years ago
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hey if anyone knows about any gothic/horror animated movie (maybe not made in the u.s), i would love to know of any suggestions - my final paper for my gothic lit class is comparing one of the novels we read to a gothic movie/tv show episode and im still not sure what to write abt
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