#lite horror

[blatherpuss]

Those cross cookies really are good!

[canisalbus]

Y’know, I’ve seen your characters as just these happy gay dogs in love so often, *that I forget there’s actually like. Traumatic backstory to them.*

Like “oh, look at these two wonderful lads, I m sure nothing bad has ever happened-“ AND THEN I REMEMBER

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[miscelliteeous]

Underrated 2020s Horror Movies (So far!)

Making this list because these are all good or at least fun or interesting horror movies that I genuinely think need more love!

Freak (2020) - Gory slasher movie where the killer is played by a really gnarly puppet!

Cadaver (2020) - Artsy post-apocalyptic horror inspired by Sleep No More!

Bloody Hell (2020) - Ex con gets captured by a cannibal family!

Hunter Hunter (2020) - Sad and BRUTAL story of a family in the woods finding bodies!

Spare Parts (2020) - Girl punk band vs weirdly Mad Max-esque cult!

Fear Pharm (2020) - Corn maze full of a family of killers with moneymaking aspirations!

The Oak Room (2020) - Slowburn thriller taking place in an almost empty bar!

Anything For Jackson (2020) - Grief drives old couple to demon worship!

Vicious Fun (2020) - A loser gets caught up in a support group for serial killers!

Bingo Hell (2021) - Deadly bingo game with Richard Brake being weirdly hot as always!

The Cursed (2021) - Period piece werewolf movie with very creepy werewolves!

The Final Rose (2022) - The Bachelor but with a slasher on the loose!

Gatlopp: Hell of a Game (2022) - Horror comedy about a cursed drinking game!

Moon Garden (2022) - A little girl in a strange, surreal world tries to get home!

Requiem For A Scream (2022) - A slasher who records his victims screams for music!

Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (2023) - Obnoxious guy and a group at their magician idols spooky mansion!

House of Dolls (2023) - Artsy slasher about sisters who stay in a giant doll house to win their inheritance!

Baby Blue (2023) - It's like The Ring meets Nightmare on Elm Street meets Slumber Party Massacre 2!

Bring Her To Me (2023) - Weird dreams bring a woman to a strange realm with a demon who wants her!

Dante's Hotel (2023) - Slasher set during a New Years Eve ball, very similar tone to Ghost Ship!

Renfield (2023) - Renfield tries to leave his abusive relationship with Dracula!

Bury The Bride (2023) - Evil rednecks target a bachelorette party!

You Shouldn't Have Let Me In (2024) - Sexy vampires target a bachelorette party!

Abigail (2024) - Kidnapped rich girl fights back against her kidnappers!

[loversandantiheroes]

Not to put too fine of a point on it, but if you're any sort of creative artist that struggles with mental health and the way it affects your ability to create the way you want to (and perhaps feel you need to), please play Alan Wake 2.

Sam Lake gets it.

[lavampira]

speaking my truth but if I have any notp in this game it’s the portrayal of romantic fraysid ngl

[problematicsashawaybright]

10 year old me: I need to get a bible. to fix me. (plagued by internalized homophobia and religious guilt about liking girls)

19 year old me: I need to get a bible. to fix me. (so I can write the crazy yuri sex in my blasphemous biblical horror podcast more accurately)

[worldbeyondzine]

Video description: Sped up timelapse of a white man creating vintage styled lite brite art of a jack o lantern. Spooky music plays in the background as he works, and the video ends with the text: "Happy Halloween from the World Beyond Team, WorldBeyondZine.BigCartel.com."

Happy Halloween from the World Beyond Team!

if you're in the mood for something spooky, you can pick up a digital copy of our transmasc horror zine today!

[masteroffakesmiles]

I actually remember moving myself away from anything FNF related because there were a lot of mods that were pretty horror-related. (Like the corruption or .exe mods for instance). Like there was art and YT thumbnails about them EVERYWHERE

And FNF is a funny rhythm game about a little guy who raps for his girlfriend (yeah there are some surprise creepy moments with the lemon demon and the last song of week 6 but the rest is just lighthearted)

[yakketymax]

What's Funnels favorite body part to remove?

Their head, by far. Funnel loves to take their head off for pranks and shenanigans, their favorite being "let me ask my associate" where they remove their head and regard their body with the question at hand as if they were separate people. It's not uncommon to see Funnel with their head removed for one reason or other, be it for a joke or just because they wanted to at the time.

But because of this casualness they have for taking their head off and since they're still refining how to behave around regular Gingerfolk, Funnel will sometimes remove their head like it's a regular thing to do at inappropriate times. Which is like... all times outside of the circus and their house. They still feel guilty for accidentally scaring their neighbors that one time...

Bonus discord shenanigan screenshot:

[miscelliteeous]

Saw others doing this and thought it'd be fun, so I put together my 100 favorite movies into a list. It's not just horror either!

[silverspleen]

Green is always fun 'cause I can push him around into various gentle places I like to draw. Bought TREPANG2 and haven't even started playing but listened to the soundtrack enough before bed that I had to Creative a little bit.

[mercymaker]

bruv read 'you learned that being useful meant being loved' and that has NOT left my brain the whole day

[chrisairgames]

Time to Play Curios: Albrecht Manor

When it's Halloween, I like to play creepy Halloweenie games. Ok, well I might like spooky games all year-round, but for the horror season it's time to pull out all stops. When I received this package in the mail last month, I knew it'd be perfect for the weekend before Halloween:

Curios: Albrecht Manor is "an epistolary horror mystery experience" by Seb Pines, the first in the new Curios series from Good Luck Press. There is no single person who runs the game. No one knows what they're about to open, other than what you see on the blurb.

The notion of the game is that the players are "Researchers" of "The Archive" who receive evidence and ephemera leftover after the appearance of supernatural phenomena. The details on the Archive is sparse, but you an unbothered dayjob vibe oozes from the tone. This manila envelope is all you're going to get, and your job is to make some declarative statements by the end of the research.

It's a fun space to play. I could see the experience of play spanning the spectrum between a total LARP and completely player-facing. For our game, we were closer to the player-facing end of that spectrum, and had a fabulous evening.

What's inside?

The Albrecht Manor manila envelope contains 11 letters and two postcards, along with a short mailing notice and the "Archive" report card. Like any good horror story, the letters start off tame with bits of weird, yet quickly start including photos, newspaper snippets, blueprints and administrative papers.

From tearing open the letters to the difference in paper textures, styles and handwritten bits were thrilling to handle. We were surprised how each piece, and sometimes innocuous details at first, came back to have us rifling back through what we'd read before.

Play Experience

With the stack of letters in the center of the table, without prior discussion, we naturally began to play by each picking up a letter/postcard, and circling, writing notes, and sharing weird details. This created a fun, anachronistic revelation of details, as sometimes one bit would go unremarked earlier would pop up in someone else's letters.

When an important detail came to the forefront of this developing narrative, I appreciated how the spotlight would pass around each of us adding more context or details or asking questions we weren't sure how to answer. But it's extremely difficult to discuss direct details without spoiling the contents of the letters. The discovery of certain documents and finding the inter-connectivity is the fun of this game.

The game comes with a single paragraph of instruction, which can seem daunting, but I was in awe of how the physical presentation made space for our own curiosity to define the bounds of how we approached the mystery. We examined photos under different types of lamplight, tried using the zoom on our smartphones as impromptu magnifying lenses, and folded paper in all sorts of ways. Most importantly, we were enraptured by this game for nearly three hours and were astonished at how fast the time passed.

We all appreciated how there is no direct, singular answer, and that we the players were the ones to define the story from our collective interpretation. It's not a good mystery, especially a ghost story mystery, if you're not left with more questions by the end.

Spoilers at the next heading!

Three specific moments literally gave me chills. I don't want to spoil those here. After the photo and line break is the report that was sent to the Archivist at curiosarchive.net. I realize now that we didn't "even "formally" discuss how we would classify the Albrecht Manor phenomena, but the classification is hinted at.

While I don't intend to spoil specific details in the letters, the submitted report has major spoilers. So if you haven't played this game, don't read any further!

Submitted Report to the Archivist

29/10/2023

Dear Archivist,

The first sentence on the first postcard, unwittingly, says it all, "the house is a dream."

This group of Archive researchers have deemed this household, built by one Damian Albrecht, to be a spiritual machine. This trap inhabits the mind of its occupants, and grows and shifts according to its creator's and past occupants' hopes and dreams of a warm household. The researchers are even hesitant to call this a haunting, but agree the house appears to be a spatio-temporal machination propelled by the spirits it is required to consume to keep operating. The fire, in this interpretation, is a convenient excuse for the house to re-enter its slumbering stasis. The researchers' consensus is that there must be only one true fire, but could not access WHEN that may be.

The researchers agreed, though without substantial evidence, the purpose of this machine is to sustain not only long life to its creator, Damian Albrecht, but also to impose HIS dream onto others, and subsume their dreams to feed his own. Again, the fire is a convenient cover-up for the displaced spirits Albrecht has trapped.

The researchers were divided on several facets, foremost questioning the actual existence of the principal figures: Alex Dunn and Anne Wilson. Could it be that Alex Dunn is in fact Albrecht? Has the persona of Alex Dunn created the character of Anne Wilson to represent the inhabitants of St. Ann? Will there be an all-consuming fire that destroys the town, and this house (and letters) are calling the community to action, as a sort of warning? Does Albrecht Manor's machinery twist and channel the powers of the Catholic Saint Ann, whose emblem is a Door, to imbue itself with supernatural power? If Alex Dunn is/was a real person, were they drawn to the house due to past trauma involving Anne and the implied kitchen fire that took place in the past? Did this oft-alluded-to fire kill Anne?

Many loose ends remain, but these Archive Researchers remain confident that the initial readings of the Albrecht Manor as deviating from the traditional haunting are correct. The "ghosts" are most likely Albrecht himself, and the temporal echoes of the Manor's past occupants. We put forth that through mechano-spiritual insights, "Damian Albrecht" built Albrecht Manor to trap people into its/his dreams of a perfect home. As a single household can never be "perfect" in his madness, the Manor and its master yearn to consume more ideals to feed this imperfect spiritual machine.

Thank you for reading, dear Archivist.

All best, Chris Air & Friends.

[weirdlookindog]

The Devil's Daughter (1939)

[worldbeyondzine]

here's a new Frankenstein question instead of memes over who's the real monster--

have you always felt that Frankenstein made a sickass trans allegory? or hell, that Frankenstein's monster can be a little trans as a treat?

have I got the zine for you!

the World Beyond the Veil transmasc horror zine is available til the 27th--preorder a copy today!

ID: Photo of lite brite art of Frankenstein's monster with the trans pride colors on his shirt. Digitally added text reads: "The zine of choice for transgender Frankenstein truthers (the man OR the monster!) WorldBeyondZine.BigCartel.com."

[flamingteddyproductions]

Babysitting Is Murder Update

Finally finished updating the game for the Post Jam version. Among the changes are:

Added a game mode settings (Novice and Adept mode) to have a setting for players unfamiliar with rpg maker games.

Added sparkles to objects for novice mode to make them stand out. One section due to there being no one specific item or way to go, and two items excluded as I felt they were obvious enough to not need them.

Added a couple small animations just to add a little extra detail.

Added a door and rug to address the hall closet not standing out enough.

Updated the backyard with better grass and added lights to the windows and doorway.

Fixed a small bug in the kitchen

Updated the walkthrough in the manual for better clarity