#honestly didn't think i'd find out that i really enjoy slasher movies

[kingfelixart]

i've now officially finished watching every official friday the 13th that is currently out. had a blast watching the franchise and i can't wait to start watching the halloween and a nightmare on elm street movie franchise in october :) (first halloween and then nightmare on elm street if i finish the halloween movies before halloween lol)

[pinkrangersarah]

Hey! I was wondering if you'd answer requests for Red Shoes and the seven dwarves.

I'd actually like to request Headcanons for the Fearless 7 watching a Horror Movie or going through a Haunted House! 🫶

oooOOOHH 👀👀👀 yes, hello!! i would be happy to!! please, feel free to send in whatever you'd like :) i will do my best to answer ^^

merlin

like i mentioned in a previous post, he is actually a huge baby. he won't ever flat out say he doesn't want to watch a scary movie or go through a haunted house, but will 100% try to divert attention away or try to lean the vote toward something else. it never works.

gotta put on that tough guy act, though. he can't let arthur hold it over him, so he tries to crack jokes and insists it isn't that scary.

has absolutely accidentally zapped a few haunted house actors. they've actually been banned from a few because of it (not that merlin is really complaining, even if he genuinely feels bad for attacking people).

he's never run out of a haunted house, but he is always the first to scream. hans thought it was a girl in trouble once.

he somehow always ends up under a blanket or behind the couch during scary movies, but will claim he was looking for something he dropped.

arthur

second biggest baby, but much better at hiding it. will actually vouch for watching a scary movie or going through a haunted house while simultaneously dying inside.

has almost hit a haunted house actor, but merlin usually gets scared first and accidentally does it first. will tease merlin about it despite also being scared.

slasher movies are probably the least scary for him because in those situations he feels the protagonist should just punch them. "just punch'em in his stupid hockey mask face, goddam".

has jumped into jack's lap at least twice.

jack

biggest. asshole. ever. to watch scary movies or go through a haunted house with. especially if he has the cape with him. he doesn't stoop to juvenile levels often, but he just can't help himself in these very specific situations. merlin and arthur tend to be his victims as they're the easiest to scare.

jack himself, however, is incredibly difficult to scare (which merlin hates). he's never been much of a screamer. in fact, he grew up with his mother telling him ghost stories, which he'd always enjoyed.

other genres don't really do it for him, though. just ghost stuff.

doesn't really care for haunted houses since he doesn't get scared. he only goes because (a) the other guys want to and (b) he can at least find joy in tormenting merlin and arthur.

hans

like jack, he doesn't get scared much, but when he does it's more like a thrill. almost as if he likes being scared. he'll let out a scream and laugh about it almost immediately after.

is the best at telling scary stories, and he's the only one who even comes close to making jack a little unnerved. snow didn't believe any of them until she actually heard one of hans's stories.

cannot sit through gore fests, though. he will vomit on the poor bastard next to him.

pino, noki, & kio

honestly a little annoying to sit through a scary movie with because they will spend the entire time trying to pick apart with logic. ghost stories in particular they will try to explain away, despite it being a movie. jack think it's a coping mechanism, because they are not immune to classic jump scares (though maybe they would be if they were actually paying attention).

similarly with haunted houses, they can only get into the vibe for so long until they find something they must investigate.

oh, terrifying pumpkin head contraption, how does it work 👀👀👀

could not tell a scary story to save their lives. too many contradictory ideas and eventually lose track of what they were talking about all together.

[uncl3badtouch]

The Final Girl Support Group: Read it 📚 7/10⭐️

I just finished reading The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix 📚 I loved it! So I just recently discovered Mr.Hendrix in the last year. The first book of his that I had read was My Best Friend's Exorcism. I just coud NOT put it down and finished it in one night. From that moment, I was hooked and bought two more books of his the next day. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and How to Sell a Haunted House. Both of which I finished pretty quickly and happily. So in The Final Girl Support Group, we have, obviously a group of 'real life final girls' all grown women now with terrible histories. Each have a story of being young and carefree until they become the sole survivors in attacks against them and their friends from murderers and serial killers. All of these incidents taking place in roughly the 80s and 90s (maybe one in 79) but around the time that our favorite classic slashers had come out. One girl had survived 'The Ghost' a masked killer that went on a killing Spree with a single knife, and had created the "Stab" series in the book. (Get what I'm saying?) All of the girls have had movies made revolving around the incidents they each had. And it was interesting to see how each of them had handled the limelight. Some embracing it, some using it to rehabilitate, some shrinking away from it and barricading themselves in a small cage connected to their front door. Everyone was so different and unique in character and story. There was enough diversity in the group to make for compelling story and to give you characters you loved and hated, but each one having a special part. Throughout the story, there were sprinkled excerpts from aspects in each characters past that help to get you to understand their present. At one point there is testimony and dialogue between one of the girls and their lawyer as she tells details in her case, another is a journal entry. They were well placed and very useful in rounding everyone out. To be completely honest, Hendrix doesn't have deep writings. They are still adult writing, for sure, but they aren't like Dracula or Frankenstein with symbolism and extra thinking. They are stories with some profoundness that are extremely entertaining and can be enjoyed with your brain turned off to a point. Personally, I feel like it's a brain sitcom type deal, where it's just a story played out in front of me and I don't need to be super educated or paying a ton of attention go still love it and understand the entirety of the book. And I'm not trying to say that he's a dumbed down writer. It's not books that would be considered literature to me. But they are still really good and have lessons in them as well. In Final Girl, Hendrix had written a lot about women and men when it comes to horror. How the monsters are men and that's why there aren't any final boys. That the final girls exist because there has to be balance. The good always has to outweigh the bad. Women create, men destroy. And that's the cycle of why women are always checking behind them. Now that's just kind of what I got out of it and not exactly what was said, you'll have to read it to find out (or listen. Audiobooks are still books!) But he did have a nice amount of insight that made me think Hendrix is a decent guy with decent understanding of the differences in those two groups of people. He's observant and explains easily. I'd love to have a class with him on writing! I think he'd be an excellent teacher. Anyway, the book is about trusting your gut and your support group. About sisterhood and unspoken social rules. About greedy men in positions of power manipulating victims for their own personal gain and what to look for in the people you surround yourself with. It was truly an action packed story that kept me guessing until the end. There was a twist I didn't see coming and a pleasantly surprising ending that honestly left me wanting more, and I hope I was able to persuade you to read his works

[hyba]

Aww, thanks for the wonderful shout out and the lovely comment in your tags! <3 <3 <3

I'd love it if you could participate in Scareuary, that would be awesome!! Scareuary 2025 is taking place in February (I'll be changing the banner so it's less confusing, since the old banner does say January), so you've still got a month and a half to settle your schedule if you're interested! ^^ It was in January this year, but a lot of people were coming off Christmas break and New Year's and it tended to be a busy time overall, so it was suggested that February was the better fit. (It was also the only other month that fit the event name lol, so that works out nicely.) Hopefully that'll actually make it even easier for people to join!

As for learning to write horror, I totally relate to your feelings. I think sometimes horror is sort of swept aside as just a cheap-fright kind of thing, but at its core horror is honestly about some of the most important, critical experiences in our lives. Even the cheesiest of slasher movies has a lesson hidden inside it, and the great thing about horror, I feel, is that it has the ability to be enjoyed by most people, regardless of their background. Because a lot of the experiences found within horror are, at their core, universal human experiences.

Finding solid writing advice and tips in general is hard, but for some reason it gets even harder when we talk about horror, and I feel like a lot of people don't really give it its due as a genre. It has so much nuance and power. Even if you didn't get a chance to dabble in it sooner, I'm glad you're exploring it now! Also, I'm always open to talk horror lol so if you ever want to, lmk! ^^

Where are my horror and mythology writers at?? Let me follow you!!

[crowpocrypha]

Basil: I really love the new batman movie, batman is so hot

Me, physically repressing the Batman 2022 rant I've been seething in since I saw the movie: yeah, we think it's okay.

Spoilers for the movie:

Have the Rant anyway:

I genuinely feel bad when I tell people I don't like the film, because it seems so well received. I was so excited for this riddler, I was like "Oh I can't wait for riddler to be a big main antag!"

Then he got the Arkham Knight Scarecrow treatment. (By which I mean functionally he's just a secondary villain who hangs out in the background, but at least in AK scarecrow was, in some way, directly involved with nearly all of the subplots)

I'll avoid the Selina talk.

To be honest, I think it could have made a decent film, if they refined it and made it tell one story instead of what- three sub plots and an overarching narrative that probably only consumes about an hour of the film? Maybe it's the recording situation due to the mandates during production, but the film seems really unedited. It felt like kind of an unrefined narrative.

It's like they took a book, cut most of it, but didn't edit it to melt together seamlessly.

I really really wanted to like the movie, i remember getting out of the theater and feeling really indifferent about the film. I thought, "Maybe I'll digest it a bit, and then maybe I'll like it."

And then I digested it for a few days and realized:

"Wow. Okay. I hated that movie, but why?"

At first I thought it was the Selina Kyle thing, and then, no maybe it's the lack of riddler thing; After that, oh maybe it's the forced theme--

And then I realized: "OH. ITS ALL OF THOSE THINGS."

I desperately wanted to find something good, and I even visited the website before I saw the film, did the riddles and I FELT riddler in those riddles. Cocky, obnoxious, those words DRIPPING in narcissistic superiority. I watched the video, I was ecstatic.

Then, I saw the movie. I walked out, and I didn't like it.

I guess I probably hyped up the movie too much for myself, playing a narrative I actually enjoyed in preperation, indulging in the media that I was expected to induldge in after the film--

Then I got to the film, and it s u c k e d. To me, it sucked.

It felt boring, dry, and negligent to characters I love.

The character I liked the most in the whole movie? Penguin. PENGUIN. He gets maybe 7 minutes of screentime.

He comes off as the closest to penguin to me. I was thrilled to get a sadistic crazy riddler, a real serial killer kind of scary.

Instead, I got an edgier AK riddler without the robot army served to me with the hype of a slasher villain.

I KINDA EXPECTED SLASHER RIDDLER.

(Honestly, I probably would have loved shitty slasher riddler more)

I expected the film to be more like My Bloody Valentine meets Noir Detective.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic, so, rant over! Congrats! I hope I didn't piss you off too much. I'm just disappointed in the film. I have nothing against the cast, writers, or the director, I'm sure they had a really neat vision.

The execution and the marketing just didn't match up.

Honestly, if I'd opted to not avoid the trailers and spoilers or leaks, I probably wouldn't have gone to see the movie.

Thank 5 reading xoxo