#ringu icons

[cinefiliz]

Ringu, 1998, Directed by Hideo Nakata.

[i-vrdude]

Here are the slasher horror icons I have made as pixel art chibis!

[super-paper]

do u guys think they would b friends

[spoon]

spooky themed sadako icons ♡

[chid0rita]

No One Asked; Sadako Yamamura icons

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[leonsrightarm]

i feel like ringu and audition are the same in that you can't just read the book or watch the movie you have to do both or else you're missing out on half the story. the book and movie both complement each other, enhancing the narrative in one way while completely ignoring something that feels key when you visit the other.

[cleolinda]

The Scariest Movie I Ever Saw in a Theater: The Ring

I'll tell you up front that the story I'm going to tell you is about "The Ring (2002)," in the sense that it is about The Ring in the year 2002.

See, I don't know what The Scariest Movie Ever is. A quick google says that the consensus is The Exorcist (I haven't seen it, because I never felt like scheduling a day to freak myself the entire fuck out). But horror is specific, and not just to a person, but to a time and place, even. When I saw The Shining as a teenager in a well-lit living room with other people, I didn't even really flinch, but I bet it would play very differently to me now. I don’t think The Ring is at the top of anyone’s list, but twenty years ago, I had a personal interest in it—at the time, I was running a dinky little Geocities site devoted to movie news. Links curated and compiled from all the other, bigger sites I followed—basically, it was the linkspam format I have used on multiple platforms, including here on Sundays. And so, as someone who followed theatrical releases pretty closely for two or three years, I saw the trailer for The Ring, and I immediately knew it was going to be huge.

To locate you in time, this was just after three self-satirizing Scream movies and the Overcomplicated Serial Killer films of the '90s. The Ring was something completely different: chill aqua-blue color grading a good 5-6 years before Twilight; a mournful Hans Zimmer score; no jokes, no quips; and a slow, inexorable sense of doom. Grief, even, given that the movie begins with the death of the main character's niece. What immediately struck me about the first trailer was 1) the melancholy of it, and 2) how much it doesn't explain. Onscreen, you get the title cards,

THERE IS A VIDEOTAPE IF YOU WATCH IT SEVEN DAYS LATER YOU DIE

Concise! Understandable! A woman (Naomi Watts) is freaking out upon discovering that her young son has just watched it! Admirable job setting up the premise and the stakes of this entire movie in thirty seconds flat, without even any dialogue. That's all you need to know, and thus, the remaining minute of the trailer can do whatever it wants, and what it wants to do is be fucking weird. Echoing voices, TV static, a closeup of a horse's eye, ladders, a girl with dark hair, people reacting to things we don't see, drippy doorknobs, rain. Characters don't give us the whole plot in convenient soundbites of dialogue (like they do in a later trailer); we just hear lines, overlapping, murmured out of context—

did you see it in your head? she talks to you... leading you somewhere... showing you the horses... you saw it. did you see it in your head? she shows me things. Everyone suffers.

That you saw it has lived in my head ever since, and not once have I charged it rent. But the "best" part is Naomi Watts screaming at the end, because you don't hear her voice; you only hear this heartless telephonic beeeeeeep. It's 2002 and I'm watching this trailer, thinking, I have no idea what the fuck I just saw. This is going to be huge.

And it was, to the tune of $249 million on a $48M budget.

At risk of recapping what you might already know, Ringu, aka Ring, is a media franchise that spiraled out from a trio of Koji Suzuki novels into Hideo Nakata's film Ringu (1998), a landmark of Japanese horror, plus several other movies, some TV series, many comics, and even a couple of video games. The overarching story is about a murdered girl/vengeful ghost named Sadako Yamamura whose rage and pain have created a cursed video tape, you watch it and you die unless you pass the tape around like a virus, seven daaaaays, etc.

The "ring" in question is the rim of a well. Keep that well in mind.

The movie I saw is the U.S. remake, which itself had two sequels. (The iconic Sadako is now named Samara Morgan. Keep her in mind, too.) Director Gore Verbinski moved from The Ring to Pirates of the the Caribbean (!), and so Hideo Nakata himself would direct The Ring Two. I... honestly have only seen the first one. And I was right, it was huge, and it kicked off the American J-Horror Remake genre, for better or worse. But what gets forgotten about The Ring is its marketing campaign, which I followed pretty closely for my doofy little news site.

It was inspired.

The story of The Ring is partly the story of the sea change in the media landscape—how we watch movies. And the story of its marketing is a picture of the very last years before social media changed the wilderness of the internet into something that feels so big, like a billion people could see anything we say, and yet so small—only a tame handful of places to say it, owned by three or four companies, and corraled by algorithms.

Back around 1997-1998 or so, I worked at a video store (Movie Gallery, where the hits were there then, guaranteed) for about a year and a half. By the time I left, we had started adding DVDs to the VHS tapes on the shelves, but we hadn't replaced the entire stock. Video stores might have transitioned fully to DVD by 2002, I'm not sure, but people still commonly had both VCRs and DVD players in their homes. And I remember that The Ring was sold in both formats when it eventually hit home video. Which is to say—you know the analog horror genre today? Marble Hornets, Local 58, The Mandela Catalogue?

Analog horror is commonly characterized by low-fidelity graphics, cryptic messages, and visual styles reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog recordings. This is done to match the setting, as analog horror works are typically set between the 1960s and 1990s. The name "analog horror" comes from the genre's aesthetic incorporation of elements related to analog electronics, such as analog television and VHS, the latter being an analog method of recording video.

Okay, but this is just what home media was like, and 2002 was at the very tail end of that—boxy black VHS tapes that degraded with time and reuse were just how we lived. At the same time, I'd been using CDs for music since about 1991, and all our software installs came on CD-ROM discs; a "mixtape" by that time had shifted to mean a rewriteable CD rather than a cassette tape. In college, I—well, I'll plead the Fifth as to whether I downloaded mp3s via Napster, but I was also taping Mystery Science Theater 3000 on VHS over the weekends. It was Every Format Everywhere, All At Once, and we kept half a dozen kinds of players around for them. Here in 2023, we stream and download everything invisibly, unless we choose to engage in format nostalgia. (I've already run into the problem of Apple Music deleting songs I really liked, due to this or that licensing issue, because I was really only renting them.) The year The Ring hit theaters was the edge of a last shimmering gasp of physical media where iTunes had only come into being the year before, and iridescent discs were still mostly what we used, but cassettes, both video and audio, were still viable. And so, people did not think it was terribly weird when they started finding unlabeled VHS tapes on their windshields.

Movieweb, quoting TikTok user astro_nina:

"Their marketing strategy was essentially 'let's get this tape viewed by as many people as possible without these people being aware of what this is, sort of raising intrigue," she says. One way they achieved this was by airing the tape, which allegedly marks its viewers for death within seven days, as a commercial with no context. The video would air between late-night programming "with no words, no mention of a movie, for like a month...so people would run into it and it would just go on to the next thing, and people would be like, 'what the f--k is this?'"

I remember seeing the Cursed Video as an unexplained ad at least twice, by the way. That TikTok also indicates that DreamWorks straight-up sent copies of the tape to Hot Topic stores, as well as planting them under actual movie theater seats. While running my movie site, I heard at least one story of someone finding a tape on the sink counter of a restroom at a club. Did the marketing department actually plant tapes in bathrooms—or did a freaked-out recipient leave it there, hoping to dodge the "curse"?

(I haven't embedded the Cursed Video here, by the way—but I could have. If you'd like to see the American take on it, you can watch both the full version and the shorter variant that appeared in the movie itself. A text description of what the fuck you're even looking at is here [content note for both: blood, insects, animal death, body horror, and suicide by falling]. The original version from the Japanese film is shorter, and it's eerie rather than gruesome.)

BUT WAIT, THERE WAS MORE: DreamWorks had something of an alternate-reality campaign going with a handful of in-character websites. This was only a year after Warner Bros. ran the groundbreaking "The Beast" ARG for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: "Ultimately, fifty websites with a total of about one thousand pages were created for the [A.I.] game." (I lurked in the Cloudmakers Yahoo group.) Marketing for The Ring did not go anywhere that in depth, nor did it need to; it was both a smaller film and a smaller story. I saw at least two ���personal” websites (seemingly amateur and a little tacky, like my own), but the one I particularly remember was about someone who owned/trained horses? I'm not sure if it was meant to be the actual Anna Morgan character—Samara's mother—or maybe someone who had noticed that the Morgans' horses were disturbed? I'm not even sure anyone even remembers this but me. Reddit users dug up a few other archived websites, but they're about Sadako, the curse and/or videotape; they aren't as subtle or character-oriented as the site I remember. (Honestly, I wonder if weird shit like "What Scares Me" or "SEVEN DAYS TO LIVE" were made by fans rather than a marketing department, but who knows.)

[The “About” page from Seven Days to Live on the Internet Archive.]

[The entirety of An Open Letter on the Internet Archive. “UPDATE” is a now-blank pop-up. I would bet $5 that it was originally a pop-up of the cursed video.]

I need to point out here that Facebook did not exist in 2002. It would not exist for another two years, and Twitter wouldn't exist until 2006. Even MySpace was not a thing until the next year. I didn't start my Livejournal until October of 2003. What we had, for the most part, were independent forums and blogs. We also had Creepy Internet Fiction like "The Dionaea House" and "Ted the Caver"; their use of the blog format, of people out there seemingly living their lives until something fucked up went down, gave the stories the shape of reality. And it helped that these blogs had comment sections, sure—sometimes more story unfolded there—but for the most part, an author could "abandon" a blog, and you'd just find the story there via word of mouth. Like the Ring blogs I remember, it wouldn't seem strange if no one replied to you, whereas today, you'd have to hire a writer to sit on Twitter, or Reddit, or even Tumblr, and interact with people in character. Could you do something like The Ring's mysterious, weird-ass blogs today? Would anyone even notice?

So: It's 2002, my head is full of Alternate Reality and eerie images and you saw it, and I'm hype as hell to go out and see The Ring. I'm perfectly happy to go see movies by myself, so I went in the early afternoon (best time to get a good seat). The movie ended up being a sleeper hit, and the first weekend, the public was still sleeping on it, so there were only 7-8 other people in that theater, grouped in maybe two clusters. I was off in my own little pool of darkness in the upper right quadrant. Functionally, once the lights went down, I was alone.

Despite some middling reviews at the time, The Ring is something of a horror classic nowadays. If you want a scary movie this Spooky Season, check out The Ring. Or don't, because it nearly killed me.

We're at the last, I don't know, third of the movie? And Our Heroine has tracked down the origin of the Cursed Videotape to some creepy mountain motel or whatever. SPOILER, it turns out that it was built over the Cursed Well (everything in this movie is cursed) that Our Villain was thrown into—that's why Sadako/Samara is a vengeful wet murder ghost crawling out of TVs now. While investigating this decrepit hotel room, intrepid journalist Rachel and her, who is it, her ex-husband? her kid's dad, idk, discover the well under the creaky old floorboards. And then, wouldn't you know it,

NAOMI WATTS FALLS INTO THE WELL

NAOMI WATTS FALLS INTO THE FUCKING WELL

THAT'S WHERE SAMARA'S BODY IS

[The rather slapstick moment when Rachel falls into the well. Does not include what actually happens next.]

I go absolutely rigid in my seat. Naomi Watts is splashing around this dark-ass death swamp of a well and I know, with as much certainty as I have ever known anything in my life, that Samara is about to pop up in all her pasty, waterlogged glory. All the sad creepy dread, all the desperation to figure out what the fuck all that shit on the tape was and stop Samara from killing Rachel's son, all the horrible contorted victim faces, all the alternate reality I’ve been soaking in, it has all come to this. I have to leave the theater. I cannot be having with this. I have to be gone from this place. My legs do not work. I cannot feel them. I am frozen. I want nothing more in this life or any other to get up and leave this cavernous pitch-black room, and I cannot. I start praying for death. I want you to understand that I am not trying to be flippant or humorous. This is genuinely what went through my head. I was too scared to even think, "You know, you could just pray to pass out or for motion to return to your limbs or something." No, I sat there in The Ring thinking, Please for the love of all mercy just let me cease being.

You know that scene in Mulholland Drive (also starring Naomi Watts)? Winkie's diner and the EXCRUCIATING tension? It was a little like that, except I wasn't watching it, I was experiencing it, and Samara was my dirt monster out behind the diner.

Except that the jump scare didn't actually happen. I mean, yes, Rachel finds Samara's body down there, but—I don't remember exactly, please don't make me go watch it again to tell you what actually happens. It's played more sympathetically on Rachel's part, as I recall, and she and her ex get Samara's body out so that she (Samara) can have a proper burial.

And then it turns out that this is not the end of the movie. It turns out that Rachel has Fucked Up.

I think I was relatively okay through the rest of it, although the climax is Samara emerging from a TV in her full glitching swampy glory to scare [SPOILER] to death. I don't recall praying for death twice. There's a point when you're so exhausted from fear chemicals that you're like, yeah, this might as well happen. Bring it, Soggy. I did have a hard time prying myself out of that seat afterwards, though, and my mom says that when I got home, I had the classic thousand-yard stare. How was the movie?

"It was great," I said, and I meant it.

I've seen things that were objectively scarier (I watched much of The Haunting of Hill House from behind a pillow, to be honest), and it's not like I've never experienced fear in real life. But I respect when a movie that can make me feel so intensely, and there's something weirdly precious about the way horror is a safe roller coaster, as it's often been said. So I love telling the story about The Time The Ring Nearly Killed Me—a movie that actually made my body stop working—and I love thinking of how embedded in a specific time and place that movie was for me. The last gasp of VHS when the Cursed Videotape still seemed plausible; the way the internet was still wild and weird and free; where I was in my life, keeping up so avidly with all the movie news, and finding myself in such a little pool of darkness early one afternoon. It's the scariest movie I saw in a theater; that's the alchemy of circumstance.

[madame-mortician]

So Sadako was trending on Twitter because of a meme, and people were joking about how Sadako would kill you without being near a TV and as a Ringu enthusiast I had to info-dump so here we are.

Everybody knows the iconic curse is that if you watch the video tape, a phone rings and you have 7 days until Sadako climbs out of a TV and kills you… Well, this isn’t actually the case. Sadako’s curse is actually only the tape part and the 7 days. The phone ringing was only if you were in Cabin B4, the reason for this was because that cabin was in the original location of the well Sadako died in. If you watched the tape anywhere else you wouldn’t get a phone call, but you still got cursed. As for the TV, the only person in the original films to die that way was Ryuji, and this was only because he was near the TV and Sadako is a “nensha” and used the TV to easily project herself to kill him. Every other time Sadako killed somebody, (which wasn’t even a lot) she usually just appeared. Now again, Sadako is a nensha so whenever she “appears” it’s usually through a TV monitor, but it should be noted that Sadako herself rarely actually appears, and usually her appearances are limited to the cursed video appearing on a TV screen. I mean, technically Sadako doesn’t ever actually appear since she’s always just a projection of herself, and she’s obviously dead so physically shes just a corpse… anyway. Sadako can kill people either way heartaches without the use of a TV, hell she doesn’t even need to be manifested to do so. Now, Sadako’s curse rules are very lenient as sometimes Sadako kills people who didn’t even watch the tape, or she just changes the rules whenever she wants. In the OG films the only way to save yourself was to copy the tape and show somebody else, but then this was stopped and in the latest film when you watch it once between every deadline you’re good, but then again, Sadako being Sadako she tries to stop you from doing this.

So to answer Twitter’s question, if you were cursed by Sadako and the only TV nearby was that one super high off the ground, Sadako wouldn’t give a shit and would either give you an instant heart attack without bothering to manifest herself, or would use literally any other device with an image (including photographs) to manifest herself. Hell, if you’re lucky, she might teleport you to a secluded location and kill you there. (I know the meme is just for fun, but I can infodump for fun so shhh, let me have this.)

[catluniscia]

Sadako

So blame me for a weird rabbit hole I went down about Japanese Horror and Well Ringu, which if I may recommend a little video that really gives ideas about like history and origin of this wonderful horror icon, the youtube creator is called The Gaming Muse...I would link but tumblr being anti outside links for me. which is a really nice listen to for an hour. And while listening this I drew this little piece.  Now I feel some people are about to point out her eye is showing, Well for me in the Original Ringu with the eye is very impactful to me. Also fun fact the eye in that was done via a worker on set, because the actress didn't want to have her eyelashes removed for the shot...and it took about three hours for each little eyelash plucked...such pain for an iconic scary impactful look. 

[mychemicalraymance]

1998 !

SUCH AN ICONIC YEAR!!! I was born. And all the movies that came out were so good. It's hard for me to pick lol

1998: it has to be the big lebowski. Rushmore, Truman show, pleasantville... RINGU!!! All close seconds.

[cinefiliz]

Nanako Matsushima is Reiko Asakawa in ringu1998.

[readordiebyemilyt]

Here's the next round of scary movies I've enjoyed this October:

Return of the Living Dead: I'd never seen this one before: it was at the Last Picture House last weekend, and I had a lot of fun. The punks were great, the zombies were scary (and looked fantastic), and Clu Gulager was, to my surprise, a serviceable action hero. (Also, I like a deus ex machina when it's exactly what the military industrial complex would do to "solve" a problem.)

Ju-On: It's been a long time since I first saw this movie, and I'd forgotten how it plays with time: each section focuses on a different character, and how they're cursed in different ways. Rika's story bookends the film, and even her eventual understanding of what happened in the house can't save her, but it's a haunting journey.

Killer Fish: The MST3K version of this features a great song, Crow as a killer fish, and, you guessed it, piranhas eating people.

Halloween: I watched this with Rifftrax, as I do most years: it was the first movie at the Dusk Till Dawn event at the drive-in on Saturday. There are so many sequels, and at least three continuities I can think of. (Four?) But this one is the first, and it's still the best.

Halloween II: I'll be honest, I tuned out for parts of this one, mainly because I wanted to finish an audiobook. It has its moments, and the use of Mr. Sandman is a great musical leitmotif, and we start to get into the druid stuff that comes up in movies 4, 5, and 6. Probably the scariest thing is the fact that most of the hospital staff act like horny teens, which they're of course standing in for for the sake of the plot.

Christine: Another first time watch for me: the fact that the cursed car Christine has, in 1983, what look to be LED headlights that she uses to blind her victims further proves the evil of that invention.

The Shining: Again, there are parts of this movie that I just sort of tune out, especially since this watch started around 2:30am. The scariest parts IMO are when Jack yells at his family: this movie is full of effective visuals that stick in your head and an iconic soundscape. In many ways, it's a beautiful film, and every time, I wish Scatman Crothers didn't die. (Spoiler alert: he doesn't in the book! He becomes an important part of Danny's life!)

The Most Dangerous Game: Can we go back to some movies only being 63 minutes long? I just think it would be a nice change of pace: not every film needs to be two hours long. Anyway, I watched this with Rifftrax, and it was fun. A man hunts people for sport, Faye Wray is there, and the protagonist here seems very unmoved by the deaths of his best friends in a shipwreck. Maybe he's in shock? Or maybe they didn't have time for that trauma when the whole "our host is trying to kill us" plot point was coming.

Ringu: Still compelling and deeply disturbing even after all these years: Sadako is one of, if not the best, modern horror icons. I'd forgotten that her victims die not from fear, but because of her incredible psychic power, which she possesses even after death. Also, the way to break the curse is interesting, because in theory, would-be victims could just keep showing the tape to others, copying it, then instructing others to repeat that cycle indefinitely, with no one dying.

Nope: This is my favorite Jordan Peele movie so far. It explores the consequences of thinking you're chosen, or just a mere spectator when, in fact, you are a participant in whatever entertainment you consume. So in watching this, you the viewer are engaging with spectacle, and seeing the characters try to survive that very thing. As a former English major, watching this always makes me want to write an essay.

[sirghostheart]

Film Diary 26/10/24 - Ringu (1998) (Dir. Hideo Nakata)

Synopsis: While investigating the relation between the mysterious deaths of a group of teenagers -including her niece- and an urban legend, journalist Reiko Asakawa ends up watching a cursed video tape and must solve its mystery before her time is up.

Rating: 4,5/5 stars.

Review: Despite having a basic notion of the plot thanks to cultural osmosis of the american remake, this film kept me squeezing my pillow till the very end, to the point I thought I'd throw up out of sheer tension. While Sadako herself doesn't appear much, the constant reminders of how many days Reiko and her ex-husband Ryuji had left via the subtitles made the horror and despair of the situation palpable, specially when Reiko catches her son Yoichi having finished watching the cursed tape. Even when Reiko was in hysterics (even getting the good ol' "get your shit together" slap in the face), I couldn't help but empathize with her because I'd do the same if I were in her situation. In fact, I think I'd do worse than her.

Now to the main attraction - Sadako.

Sadako herself is a golden example of how in horror "less is more", as when she we get to the iconic TV scene, the most we see of her face is one of her eyes staring her victim to death between her long dark hair. It's an AMAZING sequence that fucks you right up.

Overall, I really enjoyed this and would like to watch more J-Horror in the future. So, go watch it.

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its The Ring Collection, which releases on March 19. The 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray box collects all three US films based on the 1998 Japanese horror classic Ringu: 2002’s The Ring, 2005’s The Ring Two, and 2017’s Rings.

The Ring is directed by Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) and written by Ehren Kruger (Scream 3). Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman, and Daveigh Chase star.

The Ring Two is directed by Hideo Nakata (Ringu) and written by Ehren Kruger. Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Sissy Spacek, and Daveigh Chase star.

Rings is directed by F. Javier Gutierrez (Before the Fall) and written by David Loucka (House at the End of the Street), Jacob Estes, and Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend). Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan, and Vincent D'Onofrio star.

All three films have been newly mastered in 4K. Both the theatrical and unrated cuts of The Ring Two are included. Special features for the six-disc set are detailed below.

The Ring 4K UHD:

New 4K scan from the original camera negative, supervised by Verbinski, with Dolby Vision

The Ring Blu-ray:

Ghost Girl Gone Global (new)

The Origin of Terror

Cast and crew interviews

Deleted footage

Rings - 2005 short film

Theatrical trailer

It begins as just another urban legend – the whispered tale of a nightmarish videotape that causes anyone who watches it to die seven days later. But when four teenagers all meet with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape, investigative reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) tracks down the video … and watches it. Now, the legend is coming true, the clock is ticking, and Rachel has just seven days to unravel the mystery of The Ring.

The Ring Two 4K UHD:

Theatrical cut - new 4K scan from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision

Audio commentary by film critics Emily Higgins and Billy Dunham (new)

The Ring Two Blu-ray:

Unrated cut - new 4K scan from the original camera negative

The Making Of The Ring Two

Fear of Film: Special Effects

Faces of Fear: The Phenomenon

Samara: From Eye of Icon

The Power of Symbols

Deleted scenes

Rings - 2005 short film

Theatrical trailer

Hoping to leave their terrifying experiences in Seattle behind them, Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son, Aidan (David Dorfman), move to the small town of Astoria, Oregon. When Rachel learns of an unexplained murder which occurred after a teenager watched a strange videotape with his girlfriend, she suspects her past is following her.

Rings 4K UHD:

New 4K master with Dolby Vision

Rings Blu-ray:

Terror Comes Full Circle

Resurrecting the Dead: Bringing Samara Back

Scary Scenes

Deleted/extended scenes

When a radical college professor (Johnny Galecki) finds the mysterious video rumored to kill viewers seven days after watching it, he enlists his students in a dangerous experiment to uncover the secrets behind the Samara legend. When the deadly video goes viral, they must figure out a way to break the curse and defeat Samara before her evil is unleashed upon the world. But how do you stop her when she’s everywhere?

Pre-order The Ring Collection.

[dotsayers]

8 13 31 39?

8 what’s your comfort film?

haven't watched it in an unforgivably long time but let's be real. it's the princess bride. it will always be the princess bride.

i also have to do the obligatory shout out to coraline, an insane comfort movie but one i really do love to sink into

13 do you have a favorite film in another language?

HAUSU 1977!!!!!!! i also loved ringu predictably, and i have a guilty love for the ace attorney movie. persepolis, sub not dub. oh and la grande illusion did make me cry. OH AND REC. actually i have a lot of faves

31 do you remember the first movie you saw in theaters?

pretty sure it was monster's inc. an iconic first film. the other strong possibility is thomas and the magic railroad, which is iconic for other reasons

39 in your opinion what is the most underrated movie?

i've watched a lot of slightly obscure films in my journeys with alex but the first thing that leapt to my mind was dead in a week or your money back: a film about aneurin barnard hiring an old hitman to kill him and then changing his mind. but it's also SO much more. i loved it and honestly writing this post is making me want to rewatch

i also loved rituals (1977) and in a more feminist direction (has more women in it) me and my partner adore the slightly naff spy comedy the spy who dumped me, and we are not ashamed

[luthienblacks]

Celebrating my favorite time of the year, I bring you some of my most ambicious art projects when it comes to traditional art. I did these for 2017's Inktober, using china ink and watercolors... I picked my favorites to add to this compilation though, mostly 'cause I am quite ashamed of my past artworks.

Bela Lugosi's iconic Dracula, emerging from the shadows.

Kayako from Ju-on, my all time favorite J-horror ghost.

Stephen King's Carrie

My favorite Creepypasta, Slenderman.

Another awesome Creepypasta, Laughing Jack... I drew him mostly because of his cool looks.

Frankenstein's Monster and The Bride

Eleven and a Demogorgon (I love how El turned out here)

Jason Voorhees readdy to kill some horny teenagers.

My man Nemesis, one of Resident Evil most iconic villains.

Sadako from Ringu, 'cause J-horror is never enough.

The Babadook, slay queen.

Last, but not least. my favorite horror writer, Edgar Allan Poe. ‼️❌ PLEASE DO NOT TRACE/COPY/DOWNLOAD/REPOST THIS ARTWORK WITHOUT PERMISSION! ❌‼️