#horror drama;

[crownmemes]

Abigail Sentences

(Sentences from Abigail (2024). Adjust phrasing where needed)

"So, have you got a boyfriend, or…?"

"What's your name anyway?"

"Hey, no names! You know the rules!"

"You know the rules: no real names, no backstories."

"Wow, you might be the least perceptive person I've ever met."

"You used to be a cop?"

"Did he arrest you or something?"

"Wow, $20? That's cheap considering you come from money."

"You've got loose wiring. Probably a sociopath."

"Don't ever fuck with me. I will know."

"Can you promise me you're not going to let anyone hurt me?"

"I'm sorry about what's going to happen to you."

"Oh my god, you're going to be a real pain in my ass, aren't you?"

"I sort of have this reputation of being a professional."

"I don't trust any of these other guys, so let's watch each other's backs."

"You better not be fucking with me again!"

"This whole thing is a trap!"

"I don't know what you're talking about, but you don't sound very calm right now, Little Miss Paranoid!"

"How did she get out of those cuffs?"

"I don't know anyone who can pull off a trick like that. Do you?"

"Okay, what do we know about vampires?"

"Alright, let's go kill us a vampire!"

"If you put your hand around my neck, you'll lose it."

"Listen, you sit here and bleed, or you trust me."

"How many bodies are we talking? Like, two, three?"

"I've had a few centuries of experience."

"Hey, what's going to happen to me? Am I going to turn into a vampire?"

"How many of your father's enemies do you think you're going to have to kill before he loves you again?"

"What can I say? I like playing with my food."

"You know what? My offer just expired."

"Stay alert. She's toying with us."

"I always hated this room. A lot of painful memories - but it's never too late to make new ones."

"Fuck it. Bite me."

"Drink, and you'll be one of us."

"Our game ends here. I've made sure of that."

"It's a little late to be a good mom now, don't you think?"

"Well, well, well - look who came to join the party!"

"If you want to kill me, you have to drain me."

"Here’s the thing about being a vampire: it takes a long time to learn how to do all the cool shit."

"I think you should leave. It's getting awfully close to dinner time."

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i'm a big fan of tv shows where they do an episode from the POV of a side character and they're living in a completely different genre than the main character

[mydirtyvalentine]

pretty normal podcast listening experience i think,

[dailyflicks]

FRODO in A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024) dir. Michael Sarnoski

[u3pxx]

brain empty skills doodling WAHOO

[mildarka]

Felt like making a reverted AU

[homosexualslug]

21st century vampire chronicles is already promising to be so funny. vampires becoming DJs. daniel hunting for prey outside an arby's. "siri, pause". I hope we get a scene of lestat finding out he's been canceled on tiktok.

[mino2aur]

also fucking we have NOT discussed the performance of justice smith in that film enough. what a fantastic job. he hits that sense of awkward confusion and dissociation so perfectly and it makes the scenes where owen actually lets how she feels show absolutely GUTWRENCHING in comparison. i was particularly impressed by his willingness to play every part of owens anguish (e.g. with the wheezing in the final scene). thank you justice smith i love you justice smith

[didanagy]

CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

dir. guillermo del toro

[georgiacooked]

TMA episode sketch: Episode 3, Across The Street.

[candycassowary]

It has come to my attention that people have been using my mspaint doodle as a reaction image- and I'm flattered however I realized I didn't sign it so I made a signed version. Use this one instead please and thank you!!

Drawn while listening to Malevolent, but can apply to a wide variety of horror podcasts or listening experiences. I'll tag a few for safe measure

[crownmemes]

The Fall of the House of Usher Sentences

(Sentences from The Fall of the House of Usher (2023). Adjust phrasing where needed)

"You cannot understand the things I've done unless you understand the life that I was born into."

"Are you watching my house?"

"Why the fuck would anybody think it serves their best interest to become a goddamn informant for the government?"

"There's no such thing as a step back. You go forward. If you hit a brick wall, you don't go back - you go through."

"Nothing worth having is ever easy."

"Things like this - all things, in fact - have consequences."

"I've always liked the bad boys. Got a weakness, I suppose."

"Don't play coy; knowing stuff is your bread and butter."

"Opportunity doesn't give a fuck what you're going through."

"It's amazing how far you can get on denial."

"Do I strike you as someone who can't speak for herself?"

"You strike me as a queen without a crown."

"You're a smart man. You could be anywhere doing anything. Why do you do this?"

"You've got to be smart. You have to realise that you can't trust people."

"No, I'm not okay, but that doesn't mean I need anything from you."

"The world might not be safe, but listen to me and listen carefully; I won't let anything happen to you."

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

"The question is not yet settled as to whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."

"Don't you ever get tired of hearing yourself talk?"

"You don't have to be a tyrant, but if you don't want to be consistently cruel, you have to be sufficiently brutal at least once to establish authority."

"You're a collection of impeccable, elaborate masks in orbit of a stunted heart."

"You're a monster, you know that?"

"You are the most perfect and beautiful thing I've ever seen."

"Your reputation is warranted. You're beautiful at what you do."

"I know more about hospitals than anybody would ever want to know. I'll never spend a single night in one."

[clarisimart]

Everything about The book of Bill and Journal 3 and Stanford Pines' backstory fascinate me, because WDYM the lore and backstory for this children's show where two siblings have Scooby-Doo style mystery adventures all summer and there are multiple gags about the town making it legal to marry animals, is a Sci-fi psychological magnus archives/return to night vale style horror about one isolated barely restrained mad scientist with good intentions and a list of baggage a mile long who gets into metaphorical (and maybe literal(!!!!!)) bed with what is basically an eldritch horror-beyond-human-comprehension being, literally worships and devotes himself to that horror as his god at times, and sorta even loves him, until he realizes that the god he made his house and body into an an altar for is not a benevolent one, and he tries to severe ties with him.

But it's too late, the god is equally as obssessed with him, he made a home of his mind, and he's not letting him go, and even though the horror might even love him back, and in a twist it might even be the one of the most horrifying cases of the "one fell first, one fell harder" trope, it is still cruel and not above unleashing torment on his former devotee to get what he wants.

And then looking back on the scientist life, you also see that he's been haunted by symbols of what would become his god and betrayer literally since birth.

AND WDYM THE WHOLE THING IS (rightly, because it's a children's show and they are not the main characters) BARELY HINTED IN THE SHOW

I AM BITING THE DRYWALL

someone give me a horror podcast about Ford's time with Bill and later his life dimension hopping is what I'm saying

[dailyflicks]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 — 2003)

[lostinmac]

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Dir. Jane Schoenbrun

[thestuffedalligator]

I read Fat Face by Michael Shea last month and it was. Fine? It was a Cthulhu Mythos story written in the 80s, it was very edgy and it had a lot of tropes I’m not a fan of, I don’t really recommend it, but I have to talk about one detail I have not stopped thinking about since I read it.

So. I knew Fat Face through reputation because it was the story that inspired Shoggoth Lords from the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, shoggoths that can control their cellular makeup to look like humans. And the twist in Fat Face is that shoggoths have been hiding amongst humans in Los Angeles, and at the end of the story one of them eats the protagonist.

The tone of the story is grit. It’s grime. It’s sleaze and sexual violence and drug abuse on top of cosmic horror. It wants to be taken seriously so bad.

But here’s the thing about the shoggoths: they have a business.

They have two businesses they run out of an office building in downtown Los Angeles. A shoggoth is a primordial blob of eyes and mouths and flesh and hunger, and the idea of one of them at the LA Office of Finance registering an LLC is already. Great. Perfect. No notes.

The business is a front — and again, that’s great, a shoggoth went, “I want to do some nefarious deeds and not get caught by humans; I know, I’ll register a fake business that’ll be a front, and no human will ever suspect” — because the actual interior of this office is a room of pools of water made from black and ancient Antarctic rocks so that shoggoths can relax in their original blobby forms and eat stray animals that they’ve caught.

So it’s basically just. A place for shoggoths to unwind after a long day of pretending to be human. It’s portrayed as cosmic horror, but it’s shoggoth Cheers. Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your shape.

Here’s the kicker. The front of the business is a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

When they decided to make a front for their secret lair in an LA office building where they hang out in pools of water and eat stray animals — the front they prominently display and advertise — they decided to go with a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

That is Goosebumps shit. The rest of the story reads like a tone poem about the sleaze and violence of Los Angeles, and the main twist of the story reads like R.L. Stine.

But that’s not even the detail I can’t stop thinking about. Because the story reveals that this business — which again, is a front made by alien blobs to eat stray animals like an ALF-themed buffet and hang out in jacuzzi tubs of Antarctic rocks in an LA office — has a flyer.

Which means there’s a shoggoth with a passion for graphic design