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[patheticpretending]

Meow meow I tried ...

Familial and platonic dupes are allowed to interact tho . !

[necrotic-nightshade]

Artsy thing number 2- I finished Cruor’s ref! TH link TBA I’m currently working on a proper bio for him.

Square Hammer lookin’ motherfucker

[marzipanandminutiae]

What’s the New England vampire panic?

:D

:D :D :D

IT. IS. FUN.

(to research- it was probably horrifying to live through. just so we're clear)

basiclly, it was a series of incidents in response to tuberculosis outbreaks throughout New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont) during the late 18th and 19th centuries. it wasn't actually a single event, but rather isolated cases of TB being blamed on revenants rather than disease. where this belief prevailed, people frequently exhumed the alleged vampire, burned their heart or another organ on a blacksmith's anvil, and mixed the ashes into water for living consumptive people to drink

unsurprisingly, this never worked

though the earliest documented incident was in 1793, most people's awareness of this phenomenon coalesces around the 1892 death and exhumation of Mercy Lena Brown, of Exeter, Rhode Island. after dying of TB at age 19, Mercy was posthumously accused of afflicting her brother with the disease. despite drinking the ashes of her heart and liver in water, he- shocker! -died. the Brown case reached the popular press, who reacted to it with a sort of morbid fascination. "look what these crazy backwards Country People did" energy. Brown's grave has become a popular site for legend-tripping among Exeter teens since then- the game is to stand there and say, "Mercy Lena Brown, are you a vampire?" and see what happens

aforementioned classism and/or regional prejudice is a fascinating aspect of the Vampire Panic(s). like I said, a lot of the commentary- even going back to the 18th century -takes a tone of bemused horror that such superstitions could still exist, and of judgment on the intelligence of those involved

but honestly, before widespread understanding of TB bacteria...it COULD have been vampires, for all people knew. most of them were aware that it wasn't, but when your choices are "it's a disease; do nothing and watch your loved one die" vs. "it's vampires; do this thing and your loved one might not die, even though there's no proof it works," one might want to feel like one was at least trying

and unlike other mass hysteria cases a la Salem, nobody actually got killed because of a Vampire Panic. just saying

(there's a theory that Bram Stoker may have been partially inspired by the Brown case in writing Dracula, but I've seen no compelling evidence that it inspired him any more or less than any other vampire story)

[sleepygh0ulia]

. . . Introducing my Monster High DR!!

About This dr takes place in 2005, in New Salem, Virginia. In my dr normies and monsters get along slightly better, enough so that monsters can walk around in public and not get gunned down

🎀 [ABOUT ME ! ]

Name Evangeline Battis Lycan

Nationality American

Birthplace Boo Jersey

Languages English and Italian

Monster Type Werewolf & Vampire

Age 1580

Face Claim

🎀 [BACKSTORY ! ]

My bio parents were a werewolf named Aaron Lycan and a vampire named Carmilla Valira. My mom was good friends with Dracula, so when I was little I’d often have sleepovers at their manor, and hang out with Draculaurs. We were attached at the hip, and got into all kinds of trouble together, we saw each other so much we were practically sisters. When I was 567 (bare with me vampire aging is weird) my parents unfortunately were killed by monster hunters, and per their will, I was taken in by Dracula. While I was devastated that my parents weren’t coming back, being able to live with Draculaura lifted my spirits ever so slightly. I started going to school with Draculaura, before Monster High opened, and since I have the outwardly appearance of a werewolf I got a lot of crap from other students. Though Draculaura was always there to help me feel better, and thankfully after a few years, Monster High opened up, a school for all monsters. It was like a dream come true, I got to stay with my best friend, and meet other monsters in the process.

🎀 [WARDROBE ! ]

A mix of black y2k fashion & aaliyahcore

🎀 [LIFE AT MONSTER HIGH ! ]

Dorms Im ngl I don’t know if G1 monster high has dorms, but I want it to be a boarding school cs this is my dr and I say so. Students are 4 to a dorm, with 4 beds, 2 mini fridges, 4 closets, 2 bathrooms, and 4 desks. You can decorate your dorm however you want, since it’s yours until you graduate. There are 2 different dorm buildings, 1 for the girls and 1 for the boys, each building is separated alphabetically. All students must be in a dorm by 11PM, and failure to do so will result in a 3 day detention (normally served by cleaning) Girls and boys are allowed in each others dorms, but not later than 8pm and you need permission from the headmistress and all room occupants. Same sex sleepovers are allowed but must be approved by the headmistress, and if you don’t get permission, and are caught it’s a 5 day detention.

Extracurriculars

• Art Club

• A/V Club

• Batball

• Chess Club

• Comic Book Club

• Cooking Club

• Environment Club

• Fashion Club

• Fear Squad

• Graveball

• Gymnastics Club

• Mad Science Club

• Monster Exchange Program

• Music Society

• News Paper Club

• Photography Club

• Robotics Club

• Student Disembody Council

• Skultimate Roller Maze

• Swim Team

• Frightingale Society Club

• Track Team

Events

• Valentine’s day dance

• Winter Formal

• Spirit Weeks

• Annual field trips to other monster societies

• Exchange weeks! For two weeks we allow 5 students from Belfry prep, Crescent Moon High, Granite City High, Himalayan High, and Plankton Prep to attend Monster High as regular students, to promote Monster High.

🎀 [OTHER ! ]

Best Friends Draculaura, Clawdeen, Cleo, Operetta, and Venus

S/O Twyla Boogeyman

Also Venus’ design is the G3 cs it eats down

Happy Shifting and Manifesting!!

[collinsportmaine]

I finally saw the new version of Salem’s Lot (available on Max). Overall, I liked it. Even tho it departs the most from the original book, it may be the best of the three adaptations.

The cast was good. I particularly liked Louis Pullman as Ben Mears. David Soul in the 1979 TV original had too much of an action hero vibe (when cast, he had just come off a 4 year stint on Starsky and Hutch). Rob Lowe in the 2004 remake was too much of a pretty boy. Louis Pullman came across as an Everyman who fell into a nightmare.

I also liked school teacher Matthew Burke, played by Bill Camp. His death came as a bit of a shock but of course he decided to go to the haunted house alone, just before sunset!

I thought Jordan Preston Carter as junior vampire hunter Mark Petrie was terrific. He had a kid vibe but probably somewhere on the autism spectrum. I loved that he was so determined to keep his promise to Danny Glick.

In the original novel, the vampire Barlow is initially described as charming, distinguished but unsettling. In other words a modern day Dracula. I was glad the 2024 version followed the lead of the 1979 version, making Barlow a creepy Nosferatu style vampire. Although 1979’s Reggie Nalter is more memorable that Alexander Ward’s 2024 version. Was Ward’s appearance enhanced with CGI?

Speaking of vampires, the vampire transformation were done well. I particularly liked Majorie Glick in the hospital morgue. First one shoe falls off, then an arm drops down, and she sits up eerily. And we don’t see what she looks like - we just see the sheet pulled tight against her face and fangs.

Although the glowing crosses were a bit over the top, the effect looked cool and I liked how violently the vampires were thrown back when confronted with one.

One of the biggest changes from the novel was the climax at the drive-in movie theater. With all the townspeople sleeping during the day in the trunks of their cars, it was a good way to get them all together in one place. In the novel Mike and Mark had to go house to house to flush them out… then later burn Salem’s Lot down to make sure they got all of them.

Despite my praise, I can see why the movie was delayed and not released in theaters. With no “name” stars it seemed to fit better in a TV format. This version definitely felt like it would have been rated PG13. Frankly the 2024 Salems Lot needed more blood… lots more blood.

[spacely0]

HORROR MOVIE RECS

♦ top tier ★ all-time fave

slashers: ♦intruder friday the 13th part 2 sleepaway camp 2 stage fright scream ★♦cold prey (Fritt velt) 1 & 2 texas chainsaw massacre 1 & 2 wrong turn halloween 1 & 2 & H2O A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors 1987 Child's Play 1 & ♦2 ★♦Curse of Chucky Phantom of the paradise Popcorn 1991 Club Dread My Bloody Valentine 1981 ★♦Society 1989 ♦Psychopath AKA Der Poppen Murders The Funhouse 1981 Peeping Tom happy brithday to me 1981 black christmas ★♦Sceance Maniac (the one with elijah wood) hell fest ♦Just before dawn 1981 Maniac Cop

scifi horror: The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 ♦The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 ★♦Bride of Frankenstein 1935 ★♦the stuff ★♦the fly 1958 ★♦invasion of the body snatchers 1978 ★♦the thing ♦the faculty ★♦from beyond ★♦re-animator 2 ★♦prince of darkness 1987 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 ♦Pandorum Dr jekyll and sister hyde ★♦the brood ★♦its alive 1974 & it lives again 1978 killer klowns from outer space 1988 Quaatermass and the Pit 1967

hauntings/curses: ★♦burnt offerings 1976 haunting in connecticuit conjuring 1 & 2 insidious 1 & 2 & 3 & 5 ★♦ evil dead 1 & 2 & 2013 final destination 1 & 2 & 5 house (hausu) 1977 Kairo (pulse) 2001 the grudge (japanese & american) ♦ dark water Night of the Demon 1957 ♦The changeling 1980 ★♦The Hole in the Ground 2019 Whispering Corridors

folk horror: midsomar ♦ Viy 1967 ♦ impetigore 2019 ★♦ the wickerman 1973 Burn Witch Burn the medium

catholic horror: ♦ The Devil Rides Out 1968 ★♦ the sentinel 1977 nun II ♦ exorcist III

weirdos: ♦basket case 1 & 2 ♦it follows A dark song ★♦The Perfection The Empty Man ★♦The Skull 1965 Beyond the Black Rainbow dead ringers i, madman 1989 messiah of evil 1973 ★♦The People under the Stairs 1991 ★♦The Reflecting Skin 1990 ★♦Carnival of Souls

zombies: ★♦the video dead dawn of the dead 1978 & 2004 dead and buried i walked with a zombie ♦plague of the zombies The Serpent and the Rainbow

monsters: ★♦Sweetheart 2019 The Gate 1987 The invisible Man 1933 ♦Wishmaster 1997 Warlock ♦the mummy's shroud 1967

vampires: Shadow of the Vampire 2000 ★♦ Martin ★♦Captain Kronos -vampire hunter The Brides of Dracula 1960 ★♦the night stalker & the night strangler salems lot 1 & 2 ★♦son of dracula 1943 subspecies 1 & 2 & 4 from dusk til dawn Vampire Hunter D 1985

werewolves: the howling 1981 ginger snaps the beast must die!

death traps: ★♦The Pit and the Pendulum 1961 saw escape room ★♦Theatre of Blood 1973 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 haunt

found footage: ♦Host 2020 Unfriended 1 & 2 Cloverfield Final Prayer Gonjiam: haunted asylum grave encounters hellhouse LLC ★♦Willow Creek ★♦noroi the curse occult ★♦ghostwatch ♦V/H/S 1 & 2 & viral

★♦ ALL the Amicus horror anthologies are worth watching

[adarkrainbow]

Spooky season fairytales (1)

I have been covering it these past weeks, and it is a perfect fit for Halloween: Hansel and Gretel.

This is one of the creepiest "popular" fairytales, that has terrified many children. The witch in the gingerbread house not only exemplifies so many bogeymen that caused children's nightmares, but is also one of the two most famous examples of witches in fairytales - and we know Halloween is one of the witchy holidays. And the whole story revolves around a house made of sweets - in modern day interpretations, Hansel and Gretel is THE candy-fairytale. And Halloween is THE holiday for treats and sweets.

Despite being an obvious choice to make fairytale horror movies, and the fairytale having inspired several great horror classics (the scene I posted before in Stephen King's IT involving the witch of Hansel and Gretel), the tale doesn't actually have a lot of treatment in the world of horror... Yeah, it is surprising, but the first true "horror movie" about Hansel and Gretel would be the Korean 2007 movie of the same name, that was recognized as a great Korean horror piece and a very touching tragic story, but is not an actual retelling of "Hansel and Gretel" - or rather it is a twisted, reversed-retelling that mostly uses Hansel and Gretel as a motif and reference rather than actual plot material.

To have "Hansel and Gretel" REALLY enter the horror movie world, we would have to wait for the year 2013, and a dual release. The first one is a famous movie by fairytale enjoyers, that is still quite popular online: "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters". This movie is what the 2005's "Van Helsing" movie was to Dracula.

What to say about this movie? It is a dark fantasy, action-movie acting as a sequel to the original fairytale and depicting the two protagonists as gun-and-arbalet-wielding witch hunters. It is everything you except from a a big studio classic action gritty-fantasy movie. In fact, that's the main flaw of the movie: it is extremely generic, formulaic and "by-the-book". There's no real inventivity or uniqueness in terms of plot, setting or characters. If you played dark fantasy action video games, you watched this movie already. It didn't even invent the concept of Hansel and Gretel as witch hunters - Fables for example had done it already by making Hansel a fanatical Puritan witch hunter in the style of the Salem witch trials. As a result, what could have been a really good, inventive, interestng movie is just... a neutral, generic movie. The kind you can watch and enjoy but that won't transcend anything and isn't groundbreaking in any way.

Not that the movie is bad, it has some highlights and qualities to it that avoid making it bad. For example, several of the actors in this movie are really good and give their best despite playing bland or generic characters (and in fact it sames some flat characters, who are given depth by their actors' work) ; and there is a true visual work, with some fascinating designs. This all makes the movie enjoyable in several aspects - but just having good actors and good visuals won't make the movie good given how generic it is in plot and style, and how incoherent the worldbuilding and the tone feels, tiptoing around anachronisms for the sake of "let's make it cool and steampunk", and failing to find a balance between dark comedy and serious movie. (Oh yes and it also dreadfully suffer from the awful "3D movies" trend of the time)

And to this movie answered another movie: 2013's "Hansel and Gretel", aka The Asylum's Hansel and Gretel. A movie which is the perfect twin to "Witch Hunters" - in fact you could say they are the yin and yang to each other.

This movie is a full horror movie, not a dark fantasy/action piece. This movie is a retelling of the original story, not a sequel to it. This movie takes place in modern day, the 21st century, instead of a fantasized Germany of unclear era. And whereas "Witch Hunters" kind of fails at meeting the hype it built up, and is a neutral, average, not-good not-bad big budget movie, this movie is... surprisingly good for what it is, and ends up much better than what it should be.

If you do not know The Asylum, the group behind this movie, they are well-known producers of mockbusters, unofficial sequels and B-movies, and very proud of it. In fact it is their goal: make mockbusters to propose a cheaper alternative to big-studio movies, and turn the making of "second-rate" movies into a true art. They make their movies very fast, they release them against big studios movie they openly took inspiration from, they use cheap special effects, they select for actors either "no-names" or "has-beens"... I think I can sum it up enough by the fact they are the makers of the "Sharknado" movies. As a result, this movie was probably going to be an utter mess and ridiculous schlock...

... But it was surprisingly good. Better than what it should be. Of course The Asylum's marks are still there. The movie opens and closes on two very ridiculous scenes (the first victim's flight in the night ; the explosion of the house), there is some cheap "sexy-horror" audience-appeal (it is no mistake the only victims to be eaten are women that are forced in underwears before being pushed in the oven), and the plot is basically Hansel and Gretel X The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. BUT all that being said, this movie actually works! In its own, small-budget, no-real-ambition way. It doesn't try to be too snobby or arrogant - it knows it is a small, derivative, B-horror movie, and it stays in its lane. There are some interesting scenes and concepts (such as the drugged-colorfed nightmares). They do manage to create some disturbing elements - while also purposefully breaking several horror stereotypes and cliches. They try to keep a "maybe magic, maybe mundane" approach to the story in their own clumsy way but that is interesting. And more importantly - the character of the witch is SO GREAT!

I can't say enough how I enjoyed the witch (Lilith) on screen, and I do believe that this is due to the incredible work of her actress. Because she is played by none other than Dee Wallace (a horror movie regular who began her career with E.T.) - and she manages to make the character entertaining and disturbing. It really works, and I suspect that if a bad actress had been placed there, the role might have felt flat and generic. But she brings extremely well the disturbed state of mind, the humanity of the monster, and the true descent into horrible madness of the character. They are notably the first movie, to my knowledge, which actually acknowledges and reflects upon the special relationship between Gretel and the Witch, invoking elements that would later become common in "Hansel and Gretel" retellings, such as the witch wanting to make Gretel her "heir", or seeing her as a daughter substitute.

Beyond the year 2013, of course, now, you hit "Hansel and Gretel - horror" in any web research system, and you get the recent horror movie by Oz Perkins, the 2020's "Gretel and Hansel".

I do believe that this movie, and The Asylum's movie, truly reflect the two sides of horror movies and how one same story can be treated under these two lenses. The Asylum's is a gory, brutal, low-budget but decent and interesting horror movie, that still works in its limitations and intends to be just your random "fun little horror slasher movie" ; this movie is the artistic, big-budget, much more stylized and psychological disturbing horror movie that veers more into dark fantasy sometimes and tries more to be an actual nightmare, in the most abstract and eerie sense.

Personally, I did enjoy the movie as a whole and I think it is a good Hansel and Gretel movie. I do think they did a good job at mixing the fairytale with the entire Christian myth of the witch as built by the witch-hunts and other countryside superstitions (they weaved in the story for example the topics of the magical ointments and the idea of witches feasting on the dead) ; and I did love the dark twists and reveals at the end ; and I also liked very much the subtle references to other fairytales slid in the story (Little Red Riding Hood, and The Juniper Tree).

However it is not a movie without flaws - and I would never call it a perfect movie. It got the ideas, the visuals, the will, the inspirations, but... sometimes it does too much, there's unecessary things that could have been cut out and do ridiculize a bit the movie (the first third of the movie is filled with unecessary and random moments like the bizarre hostile man in the abandoned house, or the "mushroom" scenes, which clearly were not needed - there's also jumpscares that are just... there, for jumpscare sakes, when this movie clearly does NOT need jumpscares). There is also the fact that while often it manages to drive its themes, messages and topics in subtle or clever ways (the dialogues of Gretel and the witch, about things such as power, womanhood, the world, are all very well done), a few times it becomes suddenly very clumsy and awkward (one particular moment was the line of Gretel about "the system" in her very first scene, which felt definitively too political and modern to fit in the context).

I do remember the so-called "debate" there was when this movie was released, and the so-called "scandal" of putting Gretel's name first. But it makes full sense when you understand that Gretel here is the main character, that we are told the story through her, and that it doesn't try so much to be a Hansel and Gretel retelling, as rather a dark and morbid fantasy movie that uses the Hansel and Gretel tale as a driving plot to explore more things - the European witchcraft myth, the theme of "Faustian deals", etc, etc... And despite some clumsiness here and there that do flaw the movie (I haven't mentionned it, but the choice of the tattoos for the witch's "final" form seemed very random and ill-thought, which is one of the several little details that don't work ; balanced by details that do work, such as the idea of having a more modern architecture for the witch's house), it still works for most of its course.

To conclude this post, I need to talk about one last "Hansel and Gretel" movie. A movie which American audiences are not actually familiar with. Because it is a German movie, that got released around Europe (I saw it in French), but to my knowledge never crossed the Atlantic. Made by Anne Wild and written by Peter Schwindt, this movie is probably the eeriest Hansel and Gretel adaptation I have seen. It is not "disturbing", "shocking" or "horrifying" - it is just creepy and unsettling. It is not a rewrite or a "retelling" per se, because it stays faithful to the original tale and barely changes anything. Out of the five movies I present you, this is the most faithful movie when it comes to adapting the brothers Grimm fairytale.

EDIT: I originally wrote this part thinking the movie was very hard to find... TURNS OUT IT WAS POSTED ON YOUTUBE! The full movie is on Youtube - in its original German though

This movie made the fairytale eerie with two things. 1) Little unsettling and creepy details in terms of style and movie editing. This movie actually has several things in common with the 2020's Gretel and Hansel - such as the heavy use of the forested landscape to make one feel both lost and trapped at the same time (helped by the fact the protagonists are here played by actual children), and bizarre camera angles and movements (including disturbing close-ups and brutal cuts). The score also includes eerie songs and creepy children whispers, that add to the general spookyness. 2) A work on the realism on the tale. There's still magic and supernatural in there, definitively. But overall it is all... "realistic" in style, making it all more unsettling. Hansel and Gretel behave like actual children - and are in fact often unaware of the danger they are getting themselves into. The color palette is drab and lightless.

Don't get me wrong: this is not an adult-aimed movie, it is not a horror movie. It is still a kid-oriented, fairytale movie, with some moments of humor (though it is mostly dark humor, such as Hansel, blissfully unaware of the witch's plan, coming to enjoy his life in a cage eating good food all day long), a happy ending, and many beautiful visuals (the witch's bedroom is especially interesting - slight spoiler but there is the beautiful visual of the witch keeping petrified birds and butterflies in her room, that come back to life once she is dead). It has poetry to it - but it is definitively not a Disney movie and not what we usually think of as "fairytale movie for kids". It is a quite dark one.

One good illustration of this would be the family dynamic at the start of the tale, and how this movie slightly changes the whole abandonment episode. In this movie, the character of the mother is actually sick - and having her suffering from what will be a deadly disease puts her entire character into a very different light. Another major change they did is that the second time the children are abandoned - the parents do not hide the fact they are abandoning them. Hansel and Gretel know it, and the parents don't bother lying or even pretending, but there is still this sort of untold shame as they don't openly admit it and flee from their crying children... It hits hard.

The creepiest part of the whole movie is however, without a doubt, the witch. By gosh, this is one of the creepiest incarnations of the character I saw. She is a perfect embodiment of the uncanny valley: she is not some cartoonish monster, she is just this pale middle-aged woman that never blinks. She does perform magic, but her magic keeps with the "realism" style of the movie - no flash, no music, no smoke. When she teleports, she is just here one moment, another the next. She prevents Gretel from leaving by casting a spell that makes it so that each time she walks away, she ends up finding herself in front of the house - despite it being impossible. Her rhyming "Who's nibbling on my house?" is actually a disembodied whisper in the ears of the children as they see nobody, making their answer "It's just the wind" an actual comforting sentence they say to themselves thinking they imagined it all. Her bedroom cannot actually exist because it is located in an impossible part of the house that does not appear from the outside. And there are those little details that do hint at her maybe not being actually human but just looking like a human - when she moves sometimes her bones crack, and other times her voice seems to double itself in a strange echo... And when she is pushed into the oven (light spoilers too) - she doesn't scream. She doesn't make a sound. Once she is pushed and the door is closed, it is dead silence, and that makes it even more disturbing than if she actually screamed in agony.

And there are other little morbid details in the movie - too many for me too count. But one thing that does stick with me was the way Gretel pieced up together the witch's real intentions for Hansel (because of course she didn't tell them she was going to eat them), by noticing little details straight out of Pan's Labyrinth - such as Gretel noticing the witch's wind-chimes is made of bones and hair ; and the witch keeping in her house a closet filled with an ungodly amount of toys in various states of aging. This latter detail was notably taken back by "Gretel and Hansel", where the first hint of the witch's previous victims are toys scattered in the wilderness around the house. In fact, I do wonder if Perkins didn't take some inspiration from this 2005 movie, because there is definitively something similar between the two.

And with this, you have to my knowledge the perfect Hansel and Gretel movies for the spooky season.

The supernatural tragedy inspired by, and a famed piece of Korean horror. The surprisingly good B-horror movie that turns the story into a new "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". The dark fantasy action-packed blockbuster that is just halfway there. The recent, heavily stylized, witch-hunt inspired artsy/socio-political horror movie. And the eerie, unsettling, faithful retelling as a dark German children movie.

[theharpermovieblog]

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CLASSIC REVIEW (Originally From Halloween 2022)

I Re-watched Nosferatu (1922)

With Robert Eggers' remake of Nosferatu hitting theaters this Christmas, I thought I should bring this review back.

Loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, a vampire called Count Orlok, buys land in a new city and causes a plague to sweep the streets.

Examination of a silent film takes a bit of different criteria. You'll notice a lot of discussion online about contrast and filming technique. While watching it, what I noticed most were the choices made for most of shots. It's within these shots that you can see the silent eras limitations and, on the other hand, how it influenced later films.

However, I'd rather talk about how I enjoyed it as a movie and not as a significant step for the medium. Because honestly, after more than 100 years, what else can I say about "Nosferatu" other than what I personally love about it.

THE VAMPIRE

I prefer this type of vampire. The suave or sexy vampire has its place, but I like a creepy creature of the night with a disturbing appearance. After all, vampires are monsters.

Here in Nosferatu an incredibly iconic style of vampire was created. A design that would later be perfected in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu" remake, as well as Tobe Hooper's adaptation of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot".

BEST SCENE

My favorite scene here has to be when Ellen's cries in the night are juxtaposed with the Count coming for her lover, Hutter. It's such an effective moment and would still work in a film today. In fact, it's probably been duplicated somewhere along the line.

OVERALL

It's still very very watchable. I get that a lot of people find silent films boring. Hell, a lot of people won't watch movies that were made before the 1970's, but there is a lot to love here. The shots, character designs, acting and more are all handled with such care. It's a beautiful film.

Please, before you go out and watch Robert Eggers' new film, rewatch this or watch it for the first time. Give yourself the opportunity to see film grow as an art form over 100 years.

[morb1dg1rlaa]

𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖕𝖍'𝖘 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙.

comfort food(s): sour candy,chocolate,dried fruit,cashews,avocados,southern,Italian,Mexican,Mediterranean.

comfort drink(s): coffee,energy drinks,diet coke.

comfort movie(s): the black phone,hostel trilogy,firefly trilogy,rob zombie's 31,lords of salem,evil dead( not the remale,yuck ),texas chainsaw massacre( all of them except the latest one ),the crow( literally all of them but i haven't seen the remake ),natural born killers,fright night,halloween( all except season of the witch ),pet semetary,it ( both og and remakes ),bram stroker's dracula,point break,indiana jones,star wars,harry potter,sweeney todd,coraline,nightmare before christmas,corpse bride,the conjuring ( spinoff's included ),insidious,x,pearl ( have yet to see maxxxine ),charlie says,jeepers creepers,tusk,barbarian,zero day,the dirties,parnormal activity( all except the sixth one ),van helsing,the green inferno,lords of chaos,ginger snaps,the silence of the lambs,red dragon,the lost boys,once upon a time in hollywood,pulp fiction,true romance,heathers,interview with the vampire,fried green tomatoes,what's eating gilbert grape,dazed and confused,the goonies.

comfort show(s): american horror story,lost,penny dreadful,the crow : stairway to heaven,stranger things,euphoria.

comfort clothing: band t-shirts,sweat pants,black socks,hoodies,leggings,converse,doc marten's.

comfort song(s): i have way too many. but anything by korn,my chemical romance,nirvana,alice in chains,nine inch nails,marilyn manson,motionless in white,black sabbath,bathory,mayhem,darkthrone,burzum,slayer,metallica,cannibal corpse,system of a down,him,type o negative,soundagrden,rammstein,kmfdm,rob zombie,white zombie.

comfort book(s): the crow,the watchmen,pet semetary,twilight saga,cirque du freak,vampire kisses,and my true crime books.

comfort game(s): animal crossing,harvest moon,legend of zelda ( specifically ocarina of time and majora's mask ),krash bandicoot,mario kart,super monkey ball,nintendogs,super smash bros.

𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖉 𝖇𝖞 : @chrislaplante 𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖌 : you !

[magicallwomen]

Quick Muses list!

Primary muses

Sarah Alder - Born in 1675 - witch - pansexual - female, she/her - motherland: fort salem - fc: lyne renee

Eleanor Ridley - 130 - demoness - lesbian - female, she/her - fandomless/multifandom - fc: eva green

Rune - born in 1649 - half witch/half alv - lesbian - androgynous/genderqueer, she/her & they/them - fandomless/multifandom - fc: florence welch

Leonoor - aprox 1500 - vampire - lesbian - female, she/her - fandomless/multifandom - has a human verse!- fc: lyne renee

Secondairy muses

Lanfear - 3000 - one of the forsaken/demoness/witch - bi-sexual - female, she/her - wheel of time - fc: natasha o'keeffe

Olive roberts - 37 - werewolf - lesbian - female, she/her - fandomless/multifandom - has a human verse - fc: bridget regan

Rose the Hat - aprox 700 - leader of the true knot - unknown, some kind of hybrid vampire/succubus - pansexual - female, she/her - doctor sleep - fc: rebecca ferguson

Rose Witha - around 1000 - goddess/witch - lesbian - female, she/her - original character/multifandom - fc: florence welch

active on request

Carol Aird - 36+ - socialite / buyer for a furniture house - human - lesbian - female, she/her - carol & price of salt - fc: cate blanchett

Dottie Underwood - 24+ - Red room agent gone rogue - mutant - lesbian - female, she/her - agent carter/mcu/i have a modern verse - fc: bridget regan

Gerri Dandridge - 460 - professor of history of european art - vampire - bisexual (pref for women), female, she/her - fright night 2 - fc: jaime murray

Izadora - late 30's, early 40's - teacher/scientist - lesbian - female, she/her - Motherland: fort salem - fc: emilie leclerc

Lady Jayne Wetherby - 42 - vampire killer/socialite - human (later turned vampire in 1896) - pansexual - female, she/her - dracula (tv show) - fc: victoria smurfit

[lady-of-glass-and-bone]

Duck's Halloween Movie Picks!

I love Halloween and spooky season in general. So here's my list of many, many (but not all) horror movies to watch this October!

🧠 Zombies 🧠

Sometimes dead is better.

Night of the Living Dead (1968) & (1990)

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Diary of the Dead (2007)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Overlord (2018)

Pet Semetary (1989)

Dead Snow (2009)

Dead Alive (1992)

#alive (2020)

Train to Busan (2016)

Little Monsters (2019)

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)

Zombie (1979)

Wonderfully Witchy

It isn't Halloween without a witch.

The Witch (2015)

The Craft (1996)

Practical Magic (not a horror movie but I don't care, I love it) (1998)

Hocus Pocus (a true classic) (1993)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Don't Knock Twice (2016)

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Ghastly Ghouls

Ghosts, Demons, and Poltergeists oh my!

Includes but is not limited to: haunted houses and/or people, demons, cursed objects, beings from other dimensions, etc.

The Exorcist (1973)

Insidious (2010)

The Conjuring (2013)

The Nun (2018)

Poltergeist (1982)

Verónica (2017)

Hellraiser (1987) & (2022)

Candyman (1992) & (2021)

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

The Shining (1980)

Evil Dead (1981)

The Fog (1980)

Paranormal Activity (2007)

House on Haunted Hill (1959) & (1999)

The Frighteners (1996)

House (1985)

Hell House LLC (2015)

Pumpkinhead (1988)

Gonjian: Haunted Asylum (2018)

Possession (1981)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Ringu (1998)

The Entity (1982)

Vicious Vampires

Because they're bloody sexy.

Nosferatu (1922)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1999) plus all the other million dracula movies

Interview with a Vampire (1994)

30 Days of Night (2007)

Boys From County Hell (2020)

Underworld (2003)

Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

Near Dark (1988)

Salems Lot (1979)

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Fright Night (1985) & (2011)

Stakeland (2010)

The Black Water Vampire (2014)

Werewolves

Fluffy and vicious, the perfect combo.

Dog Soldiers (2002)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Night of the Wolf: Late Phases (2014)

Ginger Snaps (2001)

The Wolf Man (1941) & (2010)

The Company of Wolves (1984)

Cursed (2005)

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

Howl (2015)

The Howling (1981)

Silver Bullet (1985)

Wer (2014)

Bad Moon (1996)

The Beast Must Die (1974)

Miscellaneous Monsters

All monsters need love, not just the classics.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

The Mummy (1999)

Frankenstein

Wishmaster (1997)

Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

Feast (2007)

IT (1990) & (2017)

The Descent (2005)

Jaws (1975)

Jeepers Creepers 1 + 2 (2001) & (2003)

Horror Express (1972)

Cold Ground (2017)

Devil's Pass (2013)

The Ruins (2008)

Cabin in the Woods (2011)

The Monster Squad (1987)

Under Wraps (1997)

The Babadook (2014)

Slashers

Because people are scary too.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Friday the 13th (1980)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Halloween (1978)

The Collector (2009)

House of Wax (2005)

The Strangers (2008)

The Crazies (1973) & (2010)

SAW (2004)

Scream (1996)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) & (2006)

The Burning (1981)

The People Under The Stairs (1991)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

Terror Train (1980)

Stage Fright (2014)

You Might Be The Killer (2018)

The Toolbox Murders (1978)

Hell Fest (2018)

Revenge (2018)

The Invitation (2016)

Audition (1999)

It Came From Space!

As if space isn't scary enough on it's own.

Includes: anything sci-fi related, not just space stuff.

The Thing (1982)

Alien (1979)

Predator (1987)

AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

Event Horizon (1997)

DOOM (2005)

Monsters (2010)

Re-Animator (1985)

Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

Pandorum (2009)

Chopping Mall (1986)

The McPherson Tape (1989)

Extraterrestrial (2014)

Always Anthology

The more the scarier!

Creepshow (1982)

Creepshow 2 (1987)

Tales from the Hood (1995)

V/H/S (2012)

V/H/S: 2 (2013)

V/H/S: 94 (2021)

V/H/S: 99 (2022)

Body Bags (1993)

Asylum (1972)

Trick 'r Treat (2015)

All Hallows' Eve (2019)

Holiday Specials

We can't leave out these holidays during spooky season!

My Bloody Valentine (1981) & (2009)

Prom Night (1980)

April Fool's Day (1986)

Black Christmas (1974)

[free-for-all-fics]

Obscure Characters List - Male Edition (N-Z)

Obscure Characters I love for some reason (N-Z). (By obscure I mean characters that have little to no fanfic written about them. Not necessarily characters nobody’s ever heard of.) Don’t ask me to explain why. UPDATED: Tumblr is being a butt about post length or something so I’m splitting up the lists.

N

Nigel Billingsley (Jumanji 2 and 3)

Night’s Cavalry (Elden Ring)

Nothing (The Night House)

P

Pazuzu (The Exorcist)

Pierre Despereaux (Psych)

Prince Anton Voytek (Vampire 1974)

Prince Escalus (Romeo and Juliet, no particular adaptation)

Prince Quartus (Stardust)

Prince Septimus (Stardust)

Professor Petrie/Phantom of the Opera (Phantom of the Opera 1962)

Peter Quint (Turn of the Screw, the book and maybe some other adaptations. Not the Bly Manor Flanagan show.)

R

Reese Kelly (Scarlet Hollow)

Rene Belloq (Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Roland Voight (Hellraiser 2022)

Ronin (Star Trek)

Rorschach (Watchmen)

Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Rusty Nail (Joyride trilogy)

S

Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Sam Wayne (Scarlet Hollow)

Silver Surfer/Norrin Radd (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

Simon Jarrett (SOMA)

Sir Lancelot (Night at the Museum 3)

Sportacus (LazyTown)

Starscourge Radahn (Elden Ring)

STEM (Upgrade)

Sutter Cane (In the Mouth of Madness)

T

Thantos DuBaer (Twitches 1 and 2)

The Auditor (Hellraiser: Judgment)

The Babadook (The Babadook)

The Black Knight Ghost (Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed)

The Curator (Dark Pictures Anthology)

The Designer (Devil’s Carnival 2)

The Djinn/Nathaniel Demerest/Professor Joel Barash/Steven Verdel (Wishmaster series)

The Faun (Pan’s Labyrinth)

The Fox (The Little Prince 1974)

The Jester (The Jester, A Short Horror Film series)

The Kinderfänger (Crypt TV)

The Knight/Tarhos Kovács (Dead by Daylight)

The Look-See (Crypt TV)

The Man (Carnival of Souls)

The Merman (Cabin In The Woods)

The Metal Killer (Stage Fright 2014)

The Mirror (Oculus)

The Narrator (Stanley Parable)

The Other (Hellfest)

The Phantom (Phantom Manor)

The Projectionist (Pearl)

The T-1000/Cop (Terminator 2, Terminator Genisys)

The Tall Man/The Entity (It Follows)

The Thing (The Thing 1982)

The Torn Prince/Royce Clayton (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

The Torso/James “Jimmy” Gambino (Thirteen Ghosts remake)

Thomas Alexander “Alex” Upton (TAU)

Tiger Mask/Dave (You’re Next)

Tommy Ross (Carrie, 1976)

V

Valak (The Conjuring)

Valdack and his real world counterpart (Black Mirror)

Van Pelt (Jumanji 2)

Venable (Wrong Turn 2021)

Viktor (Underworld series)

Viktor Frankenstein/Dr. Whale (Once Upon a Time)

Vladislaus Dracula (Van Helsing 2004)

W

Wade Thornton (Nancy Drew, Ghost of Thornton Hall)

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Westley/Dread Pirate Roberts (The Princess Bride)

Wildwind/Dark Skull, Stormy Weathers, and Lightning Strikes (Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire)

“William”/The Headless Figure (Crypt TV)

William “Billy” Butcherson (Hocus Pocus 1 and 2)

X

Xenan the Centaur (Xena Warrior Princess)

[curseternal]

⸻  𝖒𝖞  𝖗𝖔𝖙  𝖎𝖘  𝖆𝖘  𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖗𝖞  𝖆𝖘  𝖒𝖊.  &  𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖓  𝖌𝖔𝖉  𝖆𝖘𝖐𝖘  𝖒𝖊  𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙  𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊,  𝖎  𝖆𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘  𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖓𝖉  𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍  𝖈𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑𝖙𝖞.

𝒂  𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚  𝒊𝒏:  a  back  turned  against  god,  wrath  beyond  mortality,  unconsolable  pain  of  losing  a  loved  one,  human  greed,  destiny  bound  to  the  night,  blood  swirling  in  an  expensive  wine  glass,  a  melancholic  melody  echoing  between  castle  walls,  and  the  centuries  old  clashing  against  a  bloodline  who  sworn  on  destroying  you.

turned  by  salem.

personnals  and  minors  dni.

rules  under  the  cut!

i. im salem! a 26 years old trans-man who uses he/they. i live in the UTC+2 timezone. because i follow a course and study full time, i only have the week-end, vacations and late evenings really free. i also have undiagnosed attention deficit disorder. as such, activity is impacted.

ii. this blog is for konami's version of dracula from the castlevania franchise. mainly based off the games, but with the influence and canon elements of the animated series and with my own headcanons and inspiration from various medias into the mix.

iii. interactions are restricted to mutuals, and anon asks in some capacity. i keep my dash from being cluttered and will not follow back everyone. however, if i follow you it means i am very much willing to write with you.

please do not interact if you are a non-rp blog, a minor, or from these fandoms: hazbin hotel, mlp, mha, mcu (comics okay), dream smp.

iv. usual rp etiquette applies. and just do not be a douche overall. also, i use this platform as a way to have fun, not to ruin my mood. so i won't indulge in petty drama, and generally pay no more attention than necessary to callout posts.

don't abuse the anon function for hate. don't mindlessly rag on people just because you somehow feel superior or disagree with a fair opinion. don't hate on people who enjoy fictional, non-problematic characters.

please DO NOT SOFTBLOCK if you don't want to me follow you. or i'll assume it's just tumblr being wonky again. just HARDBLOCK INSTEAD.

v. terrible behavior from muns won't get a pass. racism, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, bigotry, ableism, misoginy and every other less than pleasant conduct will result in a fast hard block.

vi. i am an adult and not averse to dark themes at all. these will appear in this blog so be forewarned. most notable will be the presence of blood, violence, blaspheming, trauma, murder, body horror.

now, i don't want stuff like s* *ssault, *ncest, etc. while these can be part of a backstory, i'd rather not see it romanticized and overly detailed.

vii. regarding smut in particular, i know a lot of us are actual freaks, and i am open to it. but outside unserious memes, i will be selective about who i write it with. of course, minors are out of the equation, as are things mentionnes prior. please do not force smut content to happen.

viii. shipping is welcome here. but chemistry takes priority. so don't shove your ship down my throat if i refuse to entertain it. but if our muses get along and we can click as muns, then come discuss the possibilities. this doesn't just apply towards romantic shippings.

ix. multiple verses are available. this includes crossovers like dead by daylight.

x. i do not own castlevania or any characters. the psd used on this blog is from spookshowpremades. icons and other graphics normally use official ressources.

[prettyboyeddiemunson]

Ok, so. Yes we have Vampire!Eddie, but what about Eddie with a Vampire!S/O? Like wouldn't he be as obsessed with them as we are him? Ykwim?

HE ABSOLUTELY WOULD GO INSANEEEEE

this man is obsessed with vampires, i don’t care what anyone says. he would have loved the lost boys when it came out. he probably read dracula at least twice in his life, maybe more. he reads salem’s lot every year like it’s a goddamn farmer’s almanac; he’s got that shit memorized almost word for word. and when he gets a significant other that’s a vampire? you better believe he’s gonna be fucking obsessed.

he wouldn’t believe it at first, but then he considers everything else he’s been through. if otherworldly monsters & dimensions exist, then why not vampires, too? he would drill them about vampire lore, asking what’s real and what’s not, what’s bullshit and what’s fact, the whole nine yards. he would also be fascinated with them, because they are this powerful creature that he only ever read about in books and watched in the movies. he would probably beg them to go along on a hunt, which of course they’re going to refuse because it’s dangerous, but i’m sure they would eventually allow at least once. eddie would be terrified, yet intrigued, about the whole process, which would probably lead to more questions.

eddie would also beg them to feed on him, because he has always wondered if it’s as sexual as it’s portrayed in media. it takes awhile for the vampire to come around, but they eventually feed on him. eddie discovers that it is as erotic as he always believed, and gets hard almost immediately. his mate enjoys it as well, getting aroused themselves from both eddie’s reactions and from the taste of his blood. they’d probably end up having sex, or at least doing other stuff, for the first time that night. it’s the best sex eddie has ever had in his life, and it just gets better & better each time after that.

eddie would also be fiercely protective of them, which is funny, considering that the vampire is stronger than he is. he would do anything he could for them, no matter what. he would also beg them to turn him into a vampire, so they could be together forever and eddie would never have to grow old. his vampire lover would be against it at first, of course; but when they think about losing him, of never seeing him again and wandering the world without him forever, their tone changes really fast. they make a whole ceremony out of it, and then it’s done.

eddie munson will become the very creature that he’s worshipped for years, and will never have to grow old or die.

[taybatwo2]

A doodle inspired by G3’s Draculaura, she had to make Count Fabulous his own witch hat (it would be a nice thought if he was like Salem from Sabrina, as he is an older vampire punished to stay in bat form, in this new generation).

I’m still trying to acclimate to changes in G3. I like that they might use different heights (I need a short Draculaura BADLY), and they look more monster-y than their G1 counterparts (Draculaura’s longer, pointy -hopefully bat like- ears). Something does look a bit off about the doll’s facial screening…like their eyes’ outlines are too thick? I know those are just prototypes though. I would like it if their eyes’ outlines looked more delicate and detailed (like in the Haunt Couture line). I love her split dye-thats very cute- and her little separated fangs.

I’m also hoping they add more accents of lime green (and eventually light yellow again) and white to her outfits and keep her victorian-inspiration paired with different pieces she has acquired through the ages. Hopefully they also keep her bubbly attitude, dive into her being adopted/turned by Dracula, her love of Dead Languages (that would be a good reason for her to maybe try some “witchcraft,” maybe it is often written in dead languages…maybe a character like Spelldon or Cleo have some older tomes that catches her attention….? or she starts studying it because she struggles with her vampire powers…?), the fact she was in the school’s newpaper club, and likes the theater (wasn’t she planned on being in the drama club in the Classroom line…?). Bring in some more lore about the Vampire Court and Elissabat being the vampire queen.

Oh! I also didn’t know that she was going to be Taiwanese, that’s a fun addition.

I dunno, I’m trying to stay hyped for the new dolls (I don’t have much hope for the made for tv-live action movie as it wasn’t up my alley to begin with), and really hope they take the best/most interesting things from G1 and the more sturdy dolls from G2 (and maybe some of the new characters), and explore and expand it. Mattel’s decisions just make me nervous. Like what if they have REALLY CHEAP CLOTHES…? What if they completely ignore main character traits or they don’t come with diaries?? What if they try too hard to be Rainbow High (I love Rainbow High but for different reasons than Monster High). Change is fine. its fine…it’s totally fine…

I think it is because I didn’t get a proper good bye to G1 Monster High and G2 swept a TON of stuff I liked under the rug and then it was just gone too. With the Haunte Couture line, Skullector, and B.C. dolls released (all hard to get ahold of and EXPENSIVE), I just assumed that they would be a continuation. Aw well.

[lambychop]

It’s that time of year again besties!! In the spirit of the season, I present to you:

Athina’s Horror Masterlist

Slashers

The Halloween Franchise

The Friday the 13th Franchise

The Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise

The Scream Franchise

The Child’s Play Franchise

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

The Burning

Alice, Sweet Alice

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Slumber Party Massacre

Sleepaway Camp

You’re Next

Black Christmas

Prom Night

Happy Death Day

Maniac

Hatchet

Pieces

The Prowler

The Candyman Franchise

The Hellraiser Franchise

Psycho

Tourist Trap

When a Stranger Calls

Terror Train

The Last House on the Left

The Hills Have Eyes

The Stepfather (1987)

The House on Sorority Row

I Know What You Did Last Summer Franchise

Urban Legends

American Psycho

Rob Zombie’s Firefly Series

The Strangers

The Purge Franchise

Don’t Breathe

The Wrong Turn Franchise

There’s Someone Inside Your House

X

Haunt

Hell Fest

Terrified

Trick

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

31

Fear Street Series

Creature Features

A Quite Place I and II

The Thing

Underwater

The Descent

The Alien Franchise

The Predator Franchise

Jaws

47 Meters Down

Shark Night

Black Water

Rogue

Alligator

Anaconda

The Fly

C.H.U.D.

The Tremors Franchise

The Ruins

Castle Freak

Basket Case

Supernatural

The Conjuring Franchise

The Insidious Franchise

The Amityville Horror

The Poltergeist Franchise

Sinister

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Lights Out

The Exorcist

The Grudge

The Ring

The Evil Dead Series

The Night House

The Woman in Black

It Follows

Susperia

The Babadook

Hereditary

The Witch

The Changeling

1408

Dead Silence

It (Chapters 1 & 2)

The Shining

Doctor Sleep

Oculus

Crimson Peak

The Orphanage

The Empty Man

Thirteen Ghosts

Rosemary’s Baby

Carrie

The Skeleton Key

The Omen

Devil

Mama

The Rite

Sleepy Hollow

The Ritual

Pet Sematary

The Endless

The Dark and the Wicked

The Void

The Wretched

Eli

In the Tall Grass

Werewolves

An American Werewolf in London

The Howling

Howl

Ginger Snaps

The Wolf of Snow Hollow

Bad Moon

Wer

Dog Soldiers

Silver Bullet

The Cursed

Vampires

The Lost Boys

Fright Night

Salem’s Lot

30 Days of Night

Nosferatu

From Dusk Till Dawn

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Bran Stoker’s Dracula

I Am Legend

Zombies

Night of the Living Dead

Dawn of the Dead

Day of the Dead

Train to Busan

28 Days Later & 28 Weeks Later

Pontypool

Blood Quantum

Re-Animator

World War Z

Found Footage

Paranormal Activity Franchise

Grave Encounters

V/H/S Franchise

Host

As Above So Below

Hell House, LLC. Franchise

Creep

Spree

Dashcam

Gonjiam Haunted Asylum

Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web

The Blair With Project

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Devil’s Pass

Savageland

Apollo 18

The Mirror

Troll Hunter

Lake Mungo

REC / Quarantine

The Bay

The Conspiracy

Cloverfield

Cannibal Holocaust

The Last Exorcism

The Final Prayer (aka Borderlands)

The Tunnel

Willow Creek

The Visit

Ratter

Butterfly Kisses

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The Den

The Gallows

Psychological

Watcher

1 BR

What Keeps You Alive

Triangle

The Invitation

Super Dark Times

Men

The Rental

Last Night In Soho

Possessor

The Lodge

Midsommar

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Us

The Invisible Man

The Girl on the Third Floor

It Comes At Night

Split

The Silence of the Lambs

Jacob’s Ladder

The Lighthouse

The Wickerman

Orphan

The Others

Goodnight Mommy

The Killing of a Sacred Dear

Annihilation

Get Out

Session 9

Split

Eraserhead

The Color Out of Space

1922

Things Heard & Seen

Apostle

The Perfection

His House

Cadaver

Hush

Incident in a Ghostland

Coming Home in the Dark

Body Horror/ Gory

The Saw Franchise

The Hostel Franchise

The Green Inferno

Audition

The Collector and The Collection

The Final Destination Franchise

The Belko Experiment

Society

Tusk

Martyrs

Cabin Fever

Videodrome

Raw

The Girl Next Door

Giallo

Tenebrae

Deep Red

Torso

Phenomena

Orgasm I

The Black Belly of the Tarantula

The New York Ripper

StageFright

The Cat O’Nine Tails

Anthologies

Trick r’ Treat

Creepshow I and II

The Mortuary Collection

Body Bags

Cats Eye

Southbound

Family Friendly

Coraline

Paranorman

Corpse Bride

Beetlejuice

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Monster House

Frankenweenie

The Haunted Mansion

Gremlins

Ghostbusters

Little Shop of Horrors

Labyrinth

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Shows

American Horror Story

Creepshow the Series

Slasher

NOS4A2

Channel Zero

The Twilight Zone

Midnight Mass

The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Haunting of Hill House

Castle Rock

Archive 81

Penny Dreadful

Hemlock Grove

Bates Motel

The Devil in Ohio

I’m sure there’s a ton that I missed, so don’t be afraid to reblog and add to the list! Keep in mind that trigger warnings may apply to all of these movies, so feel free to reach out and ask about any in particular. I love to talk horror, so send me your thoughts, questions, etc about any horror stuff! Happy spooky season and stay safe!