#suspense genre

[juniperhillpatient]

“Christmas movie” isn’t just a genre to me. It’s like a best friend. I wish all movies were more like this actually

[buboplague]

I've been on a small reading binge the last month, anyone have book recommendations? Any genre is fine, but preferably something a bit lighthearted, or easy/fun reads!

edit: oooo thank you guys!! I'll be checking out the ones I have library access to!

[poisonouspastels]

I wish more people would weigh out the demand of how "realistic" something is regarding horror media thats supposed to be around a certain time era or within certain limitations with the fact that if it WERE 100% accurate to what it's trying to represent, it'd probably be lame as hell.

[thinwhitedoc]

CARGO | Martin Freeman as Andy Rose

[fictionadventurer]

Victorian sensation novels my beloved.

They're like Gothic fiction with a sense of humor.

Mysteries, but less methodical.

They're over-the-top drama with with memorable characters dealing with the craziest stuff you've ever seen.

They don't make them like that anymore.

[vaguely-concerned]

*sigh* this is arguably going to be slightly cursed so don't go blaming me if you fail to avert your eyes at this my dire warning. still here? ok let's go. do you guys think kremy could light a post-coital cigarette off of gideon's... let's err on the side of discretion here and call it happy trail. like if he were down there anyway and really craving the first smoke of the day in celebration of a job well done. do you think gideon would mind. probably not right. just impatiently waiting for a cooldown smooch like 'c'mon up here already, the fuck are you still doin' down th -- oh ok, fine. just don't get any ash in my pubes this time alright it gets itchy'

[acinematicworld]

Final Destination (2000) aes.

[dykesynthezoid]

If you haven’t seen much cable tv in a few years you might not know this but the editing on most of those shows is so absolutely crazy now. God it sucks so bad. And like some of those shows do appear to be genuinely well written and made by people passionate about what they’re doing!! But the pacing and storytelling and character beats all seem so strange.

And it’s clearly bc they’re supposed to be made for an audience who’s expected not to be paying full attention/have zero attention span. So everything comes at you way too fast and both vulnerable/revealing character moments and larger plot developments seem to come out of nowhere w very little buildup. Honestly it makes me wonder how many of these shows are having genuine effort put into them but are then totally chopped up in the edit anyway.

Like as an example I really enjoyed Brilliant Minds, but if you compare the editing in that show to what they were doing over on say, House MD? It’s night and day, and it feels even more apparent bc they’re in the same genre of medical investigation drama, albeit w different central themes. Like I loved the writing and it felt like a lot of sincerity and passion went in to making it; but the editing is so break-neck and disjointed it can be hard to enjoy those positives.

(And the flipside of this is prestige television shows being pumped out that don’t have the same time constraints and so can take their time meandering and don’t have that super fast edit, but a lot of the plot and character development are still just like. Playacting at storytelling. Just vague gestures in the guise of plot or character moments. And still so many tropes.)

[absolutebl]

i saw someone say Laws of Attraction is technically a lakorn and im like huh.. i could either google whats the difference between lakorn & y-series (bls) as we know it OR i could just ask you so here i am ✨✨ ((im asking cause the only lakorn i know is To Sir With love and i just thought its cause of the many episodes + not really centred ~ so like would Manner of Death be considered bl or lakorn??? idk anything anymore))

Sure it has some lakorn aspects, but if you want to experience TRUE lakorn def watch their first drama together: To Sir, With Love. It has SPARKLE DEATH GLITTER

yes you read that right

SPARKLE DEATH GLITTER

If you're familiar with telenovelas from say the 80-90s, lakorns have more in common with those than anything else I can think of. Like truly camp over the top soap operas.

They are GREAT.

If you like that kinda thing.

I would say Laws is a little less lakorn and more gay romantic suspense, because lakorns tend to be more more ensemble pieces with lots of focus on parents, villains, siblings, staff, and other sides. Again, think really soapy soap operas.

I highly recommend watching To Sir With Love. It will give you a real lakorn experience but still very gay. And, as of right now, it's the only one of its kind.

Genre is often a matter of "I know it when I see it" and challenging to define. I will sometimes try using a negative.

For example I have an author friend who defines sci-fi as: if you remove the sci-fi elements the whole story would fall apart. In other words, to be called sci fi, the book's central premise and narrative backbone must rely upon its science fiction elements.

You can apply the same to romance: if you remove the love story, the whole narrative falls apart.

Lakorn, I'm not entirely sure what that backbone is (I haven't watch enough of them, because so far they not queer enough except for Laws). But I wouldn't necessarily define Laws of Attraction as lakorn first. Although it has lakorn aspects. I wouldn't necessarily define Laws of Attraction as BL first either. Although it also has BL aspects. Which is why, like Manner of Death, I settled on "gay romantic suspense."

One might make a case for Only Friends or even Playboyy as lakorn, but neither was soapy or campy enough. IMHO they have more in common with something like The L Word or Queer as Folk.

[reindeerswillsavethisworld]

look, i'm not saying that the show missed the perfect opportunity to make "my brother's keeper" and "doctor's disorders" a psychological suspense and a psychological horror, respectfully, but. i'm also NOT not saying that.

[creecherfeecherofficial]

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[captainswan618]

Setting myself on fire as we speak btw

Like at least Shawn and Abigail formally broke up. but like COME ON, not even a scene with him and Juliet at the end wtf????

Anyway now I’m wondering if there’s a third episode in this Yin/Yang series, seeing as we still don’t know who Mr. Yin is, and apparently Shawn and Yang met when he was young???

Goddamn how do Psych’s few really suspenseful episodes (both of the Yin/Yang episodes, Shawn Takes A Shot in the Dark, Tuesday the 17th to a lesser extent) always get me so bad?? I was so anxious the entire time, I resorted to literally chewing on my thumb lmao

[they-bite]

for anyone wondering if in a violent nature is basically just friday the 13th with the serial numbers filed off: you’re not wrong but watch it anyway

[mariocki]

Night School (Terror Eyes, 1981)

"There's been another killing."

"Mmm."

"That doesn't seem to surprise you."

"When man kills for the sake of killing, there's no reason why he should stop."

"Do you really believe that man can go out and kill, just like that?"

"Why not? You see, animals kill when they're hungry or when they're threatened. But man is the only animal who destroys his own kind for the sheer pleasure of it."

[offonaherosjourney]

Whenever a Bridgerton character (specially a married one!!) has absolutely no idea how sex and pregnancies work, EVERY SINGLE TIME there are such scenes I need to pause the episode until I'm able to concentrate again on the plot instead of having most of my brainpower focused on daydreaming a scenario where I shake the 4th wall until they let me in and I get to teach some DESPERATELY NEEDED sex ed to everyone

[anerol152]

just some Beowulf memes based on class reading impressions