#housebound 2014

[six-demon-bag]

HOUSEBOUND (2014) dir. Gerard Johnstone

[mythtakens]

Housebound (2014) dir. Gerard Johnstone

[captaincolossal]

I'm now like 15 hours into Secret Art Project 2: Going Postal (the group entry is postage stamp themed) and, not to get ahead of myself, but it still feels very doable, if repetitive, which is what I keep telling people when they give me That Look when I tell them what I'm doing.

Anyway, today I got all of the fucking fabric cut, so I can take it with me when I'm at my parent's place next week.

Housebound (2014)

Oh, helpful when the "security contractor" for your house arrest is also a ghost hunter.

[gardensinner]

Just watched housebound 2014 and I gotta say I FUCKING LOVED IT

Practical effects, funny as fuck crappy cgi in the end. Literally hilarious, but also scary, and the ending was amazing, and the COSTUME AND MAKEUP FOR EUGENE WAS AMAZING gave me beetlejuice vibes. I kept on getting surprised by who the bad guy actually was! Surprise found family in the creepiest way? Hells yeah.

I do have a fav. Although Kylie is second fav, I love pathetic asshole women.

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: A would-be thief is remanded to the custody of her estranged mother, who turns out to be correct in her assertion that evil spirits are afoot in their family domicile.

[splatteronmywalls]

[hannahwatcheshorror]

HOUSEBOUND (2014)

 💁‍♀️Strong Female Lead

A pretty well rounded horror movie! Surprises and turns only from the fact that we are all used to the same sort of story. A neat twist that didn’t make me feel jipped, just excited. It isn’t a revolutionary film, but it’s a good horror movie that feels satisfying to watch and discover the secrets.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

Girl is finding freaky stuff in her house, turns out, some dude has been living in the walls and is actually trying to help her and her family. It’s fucky, especially when you want it to be about ghosts but it's scary humans instead. I originally gave it 5 stars on Netflix but, fam, I think I would remember this movie more if it was really worth 5 stars.

[allsadnshit]

My co worker showed me how to set up my voicemail box after a decade of not having one and to my surprise an entire decade of voicemails started coming in. I was listening to the ones from 2014 and it was so many missed moments. My step mom trying to call me during my dads first intervention. I thought she just never said anything. A really happy loving voicemail of my old best friend singing he misses me was wanted to hang out. A million voice messages from my nai nai saying she just wanted to touch base. My first coffee manager telling me I got the job. My first art curator asking if I had anything I wanted to sell.

It took me all my energy at work not to have a complete mental breakdown.

I've been talking so much about grief this year because to my surprise, finally feeling safe and finally starting to process a lifetime of stunted emotions has been the most painful and joyful thing I've ever experienced. No one tells you when your mind and body protect you from harm with disassociation that when you finally come out of it, you will be left alone with all your feelings and the moment will have passed. I feel like I've let everyone I ever loved down, especially when I got sick. I feel like everyone watched my become emotionally unavailable and unable to trust, and pulled away with every hard thing that happened to me this last decade and now the truth is I don't have any friends. No one made it through the wreckage, and I am second guessing if I even did now. I stopped being able to eat anything, go out, or even look my loved ones in the eye my last few years in my hometown and then I feel like I acted so rashly and so emotionally manic calling crying after not talking for months and they must have thought I was so unstable and selfish and now I am scared that's a fair description.

I feel like I wasn't myself for a really long time and nothing could get through to me even though I was desperate for connection. Family, friends, relationships all passed me by and I left everyone disappointed and confused while my chronic pain got worse and cycled into violence with my undiagnosed ocd keeping me housebound.

I feel like I am a million miles away by the time I am turning around hearing my name called out, and all I can do is stand there knowing it's an echo by now.

I don't understand why I am so bad at showing people I love them and need them. Even as I unravel it all in therapy, does it even matter when it's too late? I feel inconsolable and like I've never once been able to make the people who mattered to me felt like they did and now I am too scared to try.

So I'm gonna go home and eat dinner

[notbecauseofvictories]

The full list is quite long, so I didn't want to clutter up the last post with it---still, it is impressive to see them all laid out together. So without further ado!

THE 50 MOVIES AND 50ISH BOOKS I WATCHED/READ IN 2024

MOVIES

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) Emilia Pérez (2024) Wicked (2024) American Psycho (2000) Heavy Trip (2018) La Planète sauvage / Fantastic Planet (1973) The Slipper and the Rose (1973) Bottoms (2023) I Saw the TV Glow (2024) *We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) Oddity (2024) Maxxxine (2024) *The Substance (2024) *The Wicker Man (1973) Housebound (2014) Problemista (2023) Showing Up (2023) *Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) It Comes at Night (2017) The Boy and the Heron (2023) Abigail (2024) Seven Samurai (1954) The Iron Claw (2023) Talk to Me (2023) Bodies Bodies Bodies (2023) Rashomon (1950) *M (1931) Lord of Misrule (2023) The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013) *Crimes of the Future (2022) Sanctuary (2022) After Yang (2022) **The Florida Project (2017) Pig (2021) The Favourite (2018) Poor Things (2023) Infinity Pool (2023) The Feast (2021) Office Space (1999) *Corsage (2022) Robots (2023) The Deer King (2021) Madame de… (1953) Orphée (1950) Master Gardener (2022) *Something in the Dirt (2022) Black Orpheus (1959) Priscilla (2023) How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) *The Lure (2015) To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)

BOOKS

The Shambling Guide to New York City, Ghost Train to New Orleans, Mur Lafferty What Feasts At Night, T. Kingfisher *Bad Girls, Camila Sosa Villada Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones *Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox The Barrow Will Send What it May, Margaret Killjoy You Know How the Story Goes, Thomas Olde Heuvelt Bloodchild, Wild Seed, Octavia E. Butler The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones The Default World, Naomi Kanakia Fantasyland, Mike Bockoven Something is Killing the Children, issues 1-15 The Night Eaters Book 1, Book 2, Marjorie Liu This Wretched Valley, Jenny Kiefer These Deathless Bones, Cassandra Khaw *Dead Inside, Chandler Morrison Mental Diplopia, Julianna Baggott A Human Stain, Kelly Robson The Shape of My Name, Nino Cipri Daughter of Necessity, Marie Brennan The Mist, Stephen King A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge The Chalk Man, C. J. Tudor *The Rehearsal, Eleanor Catton Come Closer, Sara Gran The Underwater Welder, Jeff Lemire Blink, Christopher Sebela Pulling the Wings Off Angels, KJ Parker Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock, Maud Woolf An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, Helene Tursten Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt Midnight Rooms, Donyae Coles Aglaeca, Mohnfisch Dr. Limos Plays God, Stevie Barot Home by the Rotting Sea, Otava Heikkila Last Crane, Narsid Sacred Bodies, Ver No Trouble at All, Various Authors (short story collection) *Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand Glass House, Paul Jessup Agony's Lodestone, Laura Keating * Big Swiss, Jen Beagin House of Rot, Danger Slater Dreadful, Rebecca Rozakis *Diavola, Jennifer Thorne Lute, Jennifer Thorne Regrettably, I Am About To Cause Trouble, Amie McNee The Rules Upheld by No One, Amie McNee The Sacrifice, Rin Chupeco The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister The Unmothers, Leslie J. Anderson *The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim Paying for It, Chester Brown Snow, Ronald Malfi Midnight on Beacon Street, Emily Ruth Verona Haunt Sweet Home, Sarah Pinsker The Doll-Master, Joyce Carol Oates The Third Person, Emma Grove The Werewolf at Dusk, David Small It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth, Zoe Thorogood Mom's Cancer, Brian Fies Mary Astor's Purple Diary, Edward Sorel Impossible People, Julia Wertz Roaming, Jillian Tamaki

[watermelinoe]

Any horror movie recs for the season?

yessss i am so glad you asked >:3c

horror comedy

shaun of the dead (2004): romantic comedy with zombies tucker & dale vs. evil (2010): hillbillies mistaken for killers by some college kids the cabin in the woods (2011): pokes fun at horror tropes but also has some genuinely scary moments fright night (1985): cult classic vampire film, it's a comedy to me an american werewolf in london (1981): werewolf horror comedy cult classic housebound (2014): haunted house horror comedy with a twist the menu (2022): i thought it was funny ok

creature features

alien (1979) and aliens (1986): sigourney weaver being sexy for 4+ hours and also there's aliens jaws (1975): you know, the big fish, the musical fish crawl (2019): surprisingly fun movie with alligators tremors (1990): kevin bacon vs underground monsters the thing (1982): in which there is a Thing

feminist themes and/or woman-centric

the invisible man (2020): elisabeth moss is a woman who believes her abusive ex-husband is not really dead his house (2020): a refugee couple from south sudan deal with racism and a haunted house the haunting (1963): based on shirley jackson's the haunting of hill house (and i do recommend the mike flanagan miniseries as well) the descent (2005): all-female cast becomes trapped underground with monsters the night house (2020): another "horror as metaphor" where a woman deals with the aftermath of her husband's death last night in soho (2021): college fashion student realizes the sixties had a dark side pearl (2022): a movie about a totally normal woman the love witch (2016): horror comedy tribute to 1960s flicks saint maud (2019): titular character becomes obsessed with saving the soul of her patient a girl walks home alone at night (2014): persian-language black-and-white vampire movie the boy (2016): creepy doll movie with a twist gothika (2003): halle berry plays a woman accused of murdering her husband what lies beneath (2000): starring michelle pfeiffer as a woman uncovering her husband's dark secret

some movies that actually scared me (ymmv):

the autopsy of jane doe (2016): father-son coroner duo attempts to establish the cause of death of an unidentified woman insidious (2010): comatose child has summoned The Horrors sinister (2012): true-crime writer finds a box of homemade snuff films the conjuring (2013): rural family gets haunted and must seek the help of vera farmiga and patrick wilson aterrados (2017): argentinian supernatural horror film

it's hard for me to say what's scary because what scared me as a kid or as a teenager a decade or more ago may not be scary for adults or by today's standards, i will say that in recent years the ones on this list that had me the most tense were the invisible man (2020) and the night house (2020)

[neurodivergent-willow]

There was a movie called housebound made like ten years ago now when you search on any platform like half or like just some of things you get are about that movie and people even use the hashtag housebound????

Do they not think there will be disabled people who want to see things about them??!

No, i don't want to see a horror movie made in 2014 go away

[mythtakens]

Housebound (2014) dir. Gerard Johnstone

[retourne-toi-eurydice]

i was tagged by @kissingmonsters to list 7 comfort films 🎬 thank youuu!

1.Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma) because it's my favourite

2. Housebound (2014, dir. Gerard Johnstone) because cringe personal reason

3. Giselle (2014, Royal Opera House) because i will never, ever tire of it

4. Hot Fuzz (2007, dir. Edgar Wright) because i'm English

5. Alice in Wonderland (2010, dir. Tim Burton) because it changed my life (i was 12)

6. Knives Out (2019, dir. Rian Johnson) because everything you want to happen happens

and finally...

7. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005, dir. Steve Box & Nick Park) because it's just so fucking funny

here are my no-strings-attached 7 tags, if you fancy it!: @gavetheflamingswordaway @a4chocolate @hammerhouse @almost-born-in-1893 @parnagfegg @whizbang-cap (i may have double tagged someone here)

[magz]

Am get the criticism about the "global strikes" being made with "little preparation, little fallback, and not much community-strong effort" -

This one being planned on Twitter by a non-palestinian with even less traction and even more disorganized than previous ones - and Bisan and other regular Palestinians saying to do anything Now Now while crying and dying

But to get what we need to do better, would have had to established and prepared *months* - *years* before the genocide against Palestinians got to this stage again.

Which wasn't the case on a worldwide platform with this fervor, even wider than in 2011 and 2014 when we were a kid n started being aware of this stuff.

So with these criticisms - establish as much as possible and make an effective alternative to these strikes made in desperation. Use your knowledge for benefit of the cause, and apply it so it can do change.

Find people with more influence, your unions, your strike funds and bailout funds, the everything that you are able to identify as a weakness in these attempts and strengthen it.

Use that energy for the cause if you're able to, in a reasonable time frame before the damage is too huge (it's already very awful as-is). And don't let it become just repeating discourse on a dying social media platform.

Am multiply disabled with degenerative conditions. Housebound n at-risk in D.R. (not united states nor canada nor u.k.), don't have a real job, don't have these contacts either. so am acknowledging own limits in "truly contributing" that aspect and irl praxis. Am only doing what am able to, because it's the what can do in any way.

[kurgy]

hey. hey. in WHAT movie is there a guy in the walls who helps them find the killer?????????????

Housebound (2014)