#the animatronic talks dracula

[porcelain-animatronic]

Currently headcanonning that Jonathan has run off with The Doctor for a couple of episodes as a temporary companion. He’s being taught what cellphones are. He’s enjoying futuristic paprika hendl. He’s having fun (while running for his life from all the aliens).

I gotta stop typing now or I will make a whole au.

(Edit: I made a little comic for this au in the reblogs)

[porcelain-animatronic]

THE GIRLIES HAVE RETURNED!!!! FUCK YEAH I LOVE DRACULA’S SHITTY ROOMATES!!!

I should do something to celebrate

[porcelain-animatronic]

Me: Jonathan is still very much in danger and might die tomorrow. He and the Count are keeping up their facades and playing their parts as they enter the endgame of Dracula’s plan. Unless there is some upset (either on Jonathan’s part or some mysterious third party), I fear that Jonathan’s time now is up. Amazingly crafted tension on Stoker’s part, because even though things look bleak, I still have a small flame of hope that Jonathan could survive. I believe that this is because of the epistolary nature of the novel, that we’re reading how the characters processed the events after they happen. We won’t know Jonathan is dead until someone else records finding his body.

Also me: omg lizard fashion

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

2024 Preliminaries — The Adventure Zone — Round 2

Propaganda

Barclay:

he is literally bigfoot

Indrid Cold:

he is literally mothman. in his human!sona he wears a wifebeater and red tinted glasses. he lives in a shitty trailer and drinks exclusively eggnog. he can see the future. he is literally mothman (it bears repeating).

Kravitz:

He’s the grim reaper AND he’s gay AND he’s a nerd

he's the grim reaper, he puts on a fake cockney accent while he's on the job because he's a fucking nerd, he tried to convince Merle he was his god and almost managed it, his first date with his future husband was a wine and pottery night at the "chug and squeeze" and he thought it was a business meeting

Lup:

she is a lich she is an umbrella she is a pyromaniac. she is trans and she becomes a servant to the Raven Queen. she sees her brother for the first time in a decade and she makes fun of him for dating the grim reaper. she plays the violin and she adores her family and she loves her husband

Amber Gris:

she has extra ghost arms and punches teleporting sharks i love her

She could win tumblr sexy woman if more people knew her I stg she’s crazy she’s a lesbian she fights blinksharks with her bare hands she’s perfect

Fitzroy Maplecourt:

Introduced as quote “very sexy, very sexual” and later was confirmed as asexual so just like peak character I love him

he is a knight, he is the face of a fashion magazine modeling cloaks, he grows like a foot(??) in a magical accident, one time he accidentally turns himself into a plant in the middle of a fight. he decides to overthrow a corrupt government in his first semester of university and he fucking does it.

Montrose Pretty:

he wears a mask constantly obscuring his features and wears full-piece suits. in his free time he likes to talk to mechanical animatronics and pretend they're his family. he is a thief and a great liar. he repeatedly managed to convince multiple people that he's their long lost father to get out of trouble. he absolutely could be a deadbeat dad but isn't!

Shlabethany:

She’s an absolute shitbird. She doesn’t like potatoe chips and she hates movies. She’s a taurus, but not one of those types of tauruses. She once caught a wile fox and fed it poison! She terrible but shes also the best

Dracula:

IMAGINE DRACULA BUT IF HE WAS ALSO A CRINGE FAIL PATHETIC LITTLE MEOW MEOW WHO STARTS EVERY EPISODE WITH A DIARY ENTRY

Lady Elizabeth Godwin:

She’s an old Victorian lady who Dracula hit with a car so hard her body exploded and she got frankensteined to have the body of a body builder but her old Victorian lady head and she’s on a mission to kill Dracula

[porcelain-animatronic]

Dr. Seward and Renfield

You are so interesting, like I want to put you in a container and study you like a bug. How does your mind work?!?

I would escape the container

[naffeclipse]

Naff--

Naff-- you have no idea how quickly I (and prolly many others) would eat that up O___O s t a r i n g

You've tempted me and I gave in!

In no particular order of fic ideas that I would like to one day write (with links if I've talked about AUs before):

Time Loop AU (Groundhog Day (1993)-esque shenanigans of Y/N trapped in a time loop with the DCA.)

Narcoleptic Y/N

Aliens AU

Fae AU

Iron Lung AU (I have it all plotted out... I really want to write it)

Alien DCA who has mind abilities and crash lands on your corn farm with intense injuries and also suffers from PTSD. You surprise yourself with your willingness to tend to the alien's wounds but you chain up said alien because you're not that willing to believe that he won't try to harm you not that you know at the time that said alien can break out of those chains very easily (Yeah, two alien aus. I'm very greedy.)

A continuation of Sleuth Jesters involving someone who deserved better (No, not Eclipse.)

Milky Way Momma (lots of domestic fluff involving a pregnant reader who develops a relationship with the DCA but it's set post-SB and animatronics have rights so it's outside of the pizzaplex to allow maximine domesticity, I must stress that)

An FNAF 1 setting with the DCA and the puppet and Y/N as a security guard.

A vampire/Dracula AU involving Vampire!Afton inviting Y/N to his gothic castle due to their work and studies in blood but Afton is subtly toying/scaring Y/N all the while. Afton's automatons (Sun, Moon, and Eclipse, all in separate bodies) do their best to keep you safe while working within the confines of their master's commands. You might stumble upon Sun disposing of a dead, drained body, and you might freak out, running to Moon, but whoops, he seems to be in on whatever is going on. The two take you somewhere private within the castle and then do their best to convince you to not freak out or tell Afton as that would result in your immediate demise. You don't know if you trust them or believe in how vague they are about their warnings, but something is going on, and you're going to find out what is it.

My 'canon' DCA x Reader fic (I have it planned out but ahhh, I find it very intimidating to write a canon story due to not wanting to get canon events/details wrong and other issues that I carry from my previous fandom, but one day I'll write it.)

I'm sure I'm missing an idea or two here, but these are the ones currently pressing on my frontal lobe

[fauxfickle]

Had a weird dream last night. I was watching a video by Aaron Fetcher where he's walking around my house but it's like all empty for some reason. He's showing off some old animatronics. One is apparently a retrofitted Billy Bob made to look either like King K. Rool or King Koopa from the 80s Mario cartoons. Waldo from the Bear Country Jubilee is there and spazzing into the wall gmod style. Multiple Dracula animatronics were there, one was dressed like Osama Bin Laden for some reason??? Aaron started talking about his competitors during the 80s and shows off a Cookie Monster animatronic they made. It's literally just a Fatz mech spray painted blue with giant googly eyes glued onto the head.

Somehow I wandered into the wrong part of my house and there's just a massive warehouse attached to it. There's a dictionary there so I flip through it and find "Helen Henny" and "Helen Henny with pants" in there with accompanying pictures (They are the exact same picture). Had to help my mom unbolt something and then we went to Mexico.

We were instantly in Mexico and a billboard outside an ice cream shop caught my eye. It read:

Women: We want rights!

Billy Bob de los Hard Luck Bears:

Women amiright dudes?

Anyways, we went into a buffet restaurant but since there was no food left, we just took food from other people's plates. I was looking at the wall and they had either tweets or tumblr posts and they had the weirdest hashtags on them. Only one I remember was:

"#DON'T REMIND ME🔥🔥🔥⚧️🇮🇱"

[runningw-thewolves]

Loki Devotional Ideas: Halloween Edition

(Do you seriously think our loveable God of “fuck around, find out”, “constant sugar high insanity” and “what’s the worst that could happen?” wouldn’t love a holiday about dressing up scary, watching scary movies, telling scary stories and pranking people?)

- Watch horror movies. Any will do! Slashers (e.g. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween), Splatter (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Hellraiser), Monster (e.g. American Werewolf in London, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon), Sci-Fi (e.g. Alien, M3GAN, Predator), Psychological (e.g. The Woman in Black, The Ring, Silence of the Lambs), whatever floats your boat! (Yes, this does include kids horror.)

- Listen to spooky tunes. I don’t just mean Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, Ray Parker Jr’s “Ghostbusters”, and so on; listen to the Silver Scream albums by Ice Nine Kills, “Halloweentown” by Dark Divine, fucking anything by Motionless in White or Rob Zombie. The spookier, the better!

- PRANKS! Give someone a quick scare, but remember to do clean up/soothing afterwards!

- Give Loki his own Halloween bucket and put some candy in it for him.

- Spooky tarot readings! Use tarot or oracle sets themed around horror in any way. I have an oracle set literally based on horror movies (and it has a card called “The Trickster” based on IT and it is 100% a Loki card. I’ll talk about it in detail another time.)

- If you have some sort of statue or digital representation of Loki, why not dress him up? You can even ask him if he’d like anything in particular.

- Decorate your house how YOU want to. Get out the lumbering, scary animatronics or stick to the kid friendly banners and plastic scene setters and lights. Whatever works for you!

- Indulge in whatever spooky delights you desire. Read that shitty CreepyPasta from 2009, read that Goosebumps story, watch Twilight, play old horror/scary Flash games, eat chocolate till you poop nothing but it, listen to zombie apocalypse ambience, play with your Monster High dolls, WHATEVER! JUST. INDULGE.

- Carve a pumpkin. Give Loki a pumpkin as well (sure he can’t physically carve it in our realm but you could always use your minds eye to translate what he carved as close as you can). Make pumpkin pie from the insides.

- Enjoy the autumn leaves falling, the nights growing longer, the full moon in the sky and all the hallmarks of the autumn season.

- Give out candy to trick r treaters. Laugh at their horrible jokes (convince them you genuinely found it funny), play along with their “tricks”, compliment their outfits. Loki loves kids, and you bet your ass he’d love them going home happy with not just candy but someone playing along with them!

- Draw horror art, write horror stories, create spooky music. Use the time to be spookily creative. And it doesn’t need to be groundbreaking - if you wanna make a Jeff the Killer rip-off, you go and you make that Jeff the Killer rip-off!

- For those who observe Samhain; include Loki in your celebration/tradition, even if only a small inclusion.

- Tell Loki a scary campfire story from your youth. Hell, if you wanna ask him to tell you one, go for it!

- Include his family if you can! Leave candy or toys for the twins, include wolves or snakes in your decorations for Fenrir and Jormungandr, make a foam tombstone dedicated to Hel and Garmr, make decorative potions themed around Angrboda and Sigyn. Whatever way you can think of to include them, it’s worth a shot!

- For pet owners; if your furry buddy is alright with it, dress them up or give them seasonal items! Not all animals (e.g. cats) like dressing up, so try for Halloween themed toys, bedding, enrichment and treats! Bonus points if you dress up your companion to resemble Fenrir, Jormungandr or Sleipnir.

- Get scented candles or incense that fits the season. Pumpkin, cinnamon, rain, apple - there’s plenty of options out there!

- If you do any Halloween baking, invite Loki or leave him some of your baked goods.

- Have a pumpkin spiced latte and OWN being a basic White bitch for five minutes. You enjoy every slurp of that pumpkin spiced latte like your life depends on it. Don’t matter if you are POC, disabled, LGBTQIA+, whatever else - if you wanna be a basic autumn White bitch for a minute, you go and be that basic autumn White bitch! (Bonus if you add whipped cream or anything else you like just for the Hell of it.)

- In summary; HAVE FUCKING FUN. Indulge yourself, play along with games and pranks, take in everything the season has to offer.

[porcelain-animatronic]

I don’t have words to describe how this made me feel so I have attached a helpful image

Hey know what’s fucked up. The little surge of hope Jonathan gets at trying to get his letters out isn’t even for his own rescue. It’s just for the chance for his fate to be known, and the warning of the danger that will soon be on the way.

He doesn’t want Mina to be left wondering what happened to him forever, and doesn’t want her to be vulnerable and unprepared when the Count arrives. His hope was for her.

[sweetlikehoneystingslikeabee]

Riddlers with a s/o who really likes horror movies, old ones, news one, everything in between long as it's horror? Need to know who's ear I can talk off

"Riddlers and Horror Movies" Riddler party x Reader

Several of these riddlers share direct horror movie quirks with me have fun guessing which. Also listed favorite horror film(s).

TW: horror films, blood and gore descriptions, mentions of emotional self-harm

Gotham

He's the guy who is going to contradict and tell you every medical inaccuracy of the deaths and mechanics in the movies. Yes, of course there's suspension of disbelief but at some point things are just wrong.

Babe, that should be arterial blood but they're portraying venous blood consistency :(

If you don't mind him talking at length about how these things would actually go OR conversely how well the sfx portrayed real injuries, he is your horror movie buddy! None of it bothers him considering how many real life murder, suicide and accident victims he's had to perform autopsies on.

Cuddling with his gangly legs on the couch bundled up in a big blanket with you while the sounds of screams echo from the tv and fill the room. Huge smile. He especially old classics when you're in the mood. Black and white films and transatlantic accents... It sounds like a great night to him.

Favorite Horror Movies: Might be a surprise but he really loves "Freaks" from 1932. He will talk for a long time about how, even though many of the disabled actors were ostracized on set, the fact that they were present at all is significant. The ableist assholes get theirs in the end! He also has a lot of fondness for "Re-animator."

Btas

He's the one interested in the sfx rambles. What, you think he designed a video game and labyrinth for a theme park just because he's intelligent? He likes behind the scenes work. God help everyone if he and Scarecrow decided to get together to make a haunted house.

You ever see those huge animatronics in horror mazes, especially the huge end show pieces? That's where his interest goes.

Depending on how much you watch and express interest in that kind of thing, he genuinely might start making horror animatronics and programs. He has the know-how! His would be the realistic looking ones, especially for animals. Spooky but definitely based in forms you see in real life.

Well, beautiful, you might have helped him find a very profitable side gig. Everyone else might be sore at you for a while, though, given Edward scaring the fuck out of them with holograms and mechanics. Plus more team-ups with Scarecrow.

All this because you wanted to watch horror movies with him. His darling <3

Favorite horror movie: "The Thing" (1982) and while it's not his absolute favorite, he ends up enjoying "Willy's Wonderland" a lot for both the animatronics and video game nods.

60s

The old ones with little to no gore is fine! More modern hack and slashers might be a little too spooky for him :( definitely never show him "Hostel" or anything in that vein.

Truthfully, it's not the violence or the blood, he's seen that. It's the suffering that gets him. It all seems so pointless and needless. At least when he's attempting to cut batman into tiny pieces using a comically giant fan, there's a goal or point. In his mind, anyways.

Before dating you his idea of horror was "Dracula", "Frankenstein"... "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken".... Start with horror that has a more comedic or cheesy element- "Little Shop of Horrors" to "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil." "Creepshow" 1 and 2 from the 80s! If you ease him into it and don't go too extreme, he'll love watching horror movies with you.

Favorite Horror Movie: OKAY THIS IS CHEATING BECAUSE IT'S NOT A MOVIE BUT. He'd be a HUGE fan of the "Tales from the Crypt" show from the early 90s (that is almost impossible to find streaming rip my horror uncle The Cryptkeeper). Horror plus puns. He will always take a funny, morbid pun! Plus... man can appreciate a cackle. He also has several opinions about the original "Suspiria."

Zero Year

It has to have something of a decent story or he's not paying attention. Where is the BACKGROUND? Sidenote: if you get him into something like Bloodborne (I know, not a movie) with lots of lore, expect to not see him for a hot minute as he consumes all the information he can like a sponge.

He tends to favor psychological horror- Although, if it means spending time with you and gaining favor, he would watch most anything. Especially if there's the possibility of close physical affection... ANYWAYS. He's also the one who wants to watch a bunch of foreign language film horror such as "Les yeux sans visage" in original French.

Another thing is that he will watch things over and over and over again with you if you want. Part of it is the undiagnosed neurodivergency. Part of it is because you always catch new details when you watch things again. Him noticing something that you didn't and him getting to tell you and impressing you is a special kind of high. He will talk about movies for hours afterwards. "Jacob's Ladder" has been a several hours long dissection MULTIPLE TIMES.

Favorite Horror Movies: "Angel Heart" is his top all time favorite. If you haven't seen it, he will practically tie you up to watch it together- He also really enjoyed "The Lighthouse" and "Us."

Arkham

Similar to BTAS, he is also interested in the animatronics. His, however, would lean to body horror and sci-fi. Something about biology and machine blending together... it gets him kind of excited.

He will sit and work while watching you play something like Deadspace (sorry, a game again) for HOURS. Then he wants to watch the prequel movie with you. Also if you don't mind subtitles, he has this recommendation for "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" if you haven't seen it already. And if you haven't... You are in for an experience.

In short, this man is about the body horror. He likes other horror too, but that's his bread and butter. Sci-fi horror as well. Bonus when there is overlap. He's seen "Annihilation" at least twenty times and has the books dog-eared and rough from multiple reads somewhere in his belongings. Yes, they are ultimately different, but he's in love with the concept enough that to him he appreciates both.

He is going to scare you with animatronics he makes. Sometimes intentionally. Sometimes not. Have fun with that.

Favorite horror movies: Cronenberg period but he has a special fondness for "Videodrome" and "The Fly" (1986).

Telltale

Despite it being an excellent movie, he despises "Jacob's Ladder." It brings up too many unpleasant thoughts. Movies, especially horror, with medical experimentation are a trigger though he'll never say it out loud. You find this out as you discuss watching certain movies and see the connection between all of them.

That being said, the horror movies he likes have two themes: they have meaning/ a message or they involve transformation. The first is because anything too simple bores him. The second is totally absolutely NOT because of projection of his own trauma.

Show him "Get Out" and "Nope" and he gains a deep reverence for Jordan Peele as a writer and director. Intelligent, entertaining, and the perfect amount of horror mixed in. Kind of a fan, only you know, really.

80s version of "The Fly" makes him emotional and you probably only watch it once with him. He likes it a lot! Just... the slow transformation via a science accident is very relatable. Madness overtaking you.

Favorite horror movies: "An American Werewolf In London" it's a classic. Not to mention in his opinion one of the best transformation scenes in a movie.

2022/nashton

Ha... so here's the thing. He likes "Hostel" and movies like that with lots of violence and gore. He's even seen "Wolf Creek" and got some real excitement out of it. HOWEVER. Movies in that vein are a form of emotional self-harm for him. He likes them in the moment but they also usually trigger massive anxiety and depression episodes for him later on in the day/night.

Others like "Se7en" (I know it's a thriller not true horror), "Saw" and the like are usually okay. There's a distinctive difference that may only exist in his own mind, but the more you watch with him, the more you'll find out which movies are "safe" for him. Which is good! He does like horror movies, but as we know from the prequel comics, he's not always good at taking care of himself due to massive amounts of trauma.

He loves films that are gems that aren't super well known in the US when he can find them. Have you seen the Korean horror film "The Silenced"? No? You're in for a treat.

He likes movies that have a logic or puzzle to them. Complex mechanics and traps. A sick sense of justice dispensed.

Favorite horror movies: The "Saw" series. Also "The Collector." He sees the upside down shot with the reflective contacts and the spider allegories and his eyes dilate like a cat seeing it's favorite toy.

[conkreetmonkey]

While it is really great to see practical effects in the FNAF movie (the animatronics are all puppets made by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop, if you didn't know), I can't help but find the fact these iconic monsters of video game horror, the digital equivalents of Frankenstein or Dracula or Godzilla, true pioneers in their particular genre of horror from which almost all future entries would go on to take inspiration from in some form, firsthand or through another piece of media inspired by them (which of course was for better or worse depending on who you ask, but that's neither here nor there), are being made by Jim Henson's company. I know the man was no stranger to the spooky; The Dark Crystal, anyone? This, though, feels different, probably due to a) this project being straight-up horror rather than a dark fantasy with creepy monsters in it, and b) these characters being preexisting and not an original IP. Correct me if I'm wrong, and I likely am, I'm not much of a puppethead, but I don't think the company has ever done something like this before?

Don't get me wrong, I think they're a great fit. Using puppets to portray possessed animatronics is genius, and certainly not the cheapest option. It feels like something a fan would suggest, rather than something a big media corporation would actually do, and I commend whoever made it happen. Of course, to not only spring for real puppets, but to go to one of the most prestigious puppet manufacturers on the planet drives home that there are people working on this movie who really, truly care about the artistic aspects of filmmaking and doing this iconic horror IP justice. But that's not what I'm here to talk about. Just think about this for a second:

I know nothing about how this company operates, but does this mean that work done for The Muppets and Five Nights At Freddy's could seriously take place under the same roof? Because the mental images that creates are hilarious. Imagine some guy repairing a torn Ernie, his workstation festooned with smiling Sesame Street characters, working away right next to a guy slopping chunky fake gore into Freddy Fazbear's gaping mechanical maw. Imagine Big Bird slumped over in storage right next to Foxy. Imagine Oscar the Grouch's trash can with a dilapidated animatronic monster next to it, frayed wire and mummified human flesh poking out from under a sickly-saccharine veneer of moldy synthetic fur that was once bright and fuzzy but now peels from a shell of cheap plastic and jagged steel. Imagine that in the Family Guy death pose next to Mr. I Love Trash, left to mingle while the FX artists and puppetmakers go to lunch. Imagine a guy leaned up against the wall next to those guys, wearing a lanyard and Kermit the Frog shirt, eating a 6-inch sub from Subway, nonchalantly humming while scrolling through the puppet forums with a phone in an Elmo phone case.

Peak aesthetic clashage. Peak environmental comedy.

[dreamerwriternstargazer]

Suddenly realising why your best friend’s fic is so good; it’s essentially part of the Zagreus storyline where Charley Pollard gets chucked out of the TARDIS into

Well

Hell at the end of the universe :D

Also I have to say I LOVE that it’s not just in name or little references that this is Doctor Who’s wonderland, no the entire story is actively built as the sci fi version of it

I love that Charley literally isn’t herself because she is embodying characters in holograms so when someone asks her who she is at the end of the day, she literally answers that she hardly knows because she must have been several people since that morning

Just

Ahhh

And the animals!! The animatronic animals I mean it’s a bit random to still make it akin to wonderland but it WORKS it becomes part of the plot and it’s brilliant

Down to the hologram/time skip thing to Rassilon’s workshop before Gallifrey’s existence ALSO CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT THAT LORE

WE JUMP BACK TO BEFORE GALLIFREY’S EXISTENCE AND THERE WAS A VAMPIRE SPECIES THAT INHABITED GALLIFREY?! AND THE GALLIFREYANS WIPED THEM OUT?! ALSO THERE’S THIS OTHER HIGH PRIESTESS AND HER RELIGION THAT GALLIFREY ALSO WIPED OUT IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND WE LEARN THE SHABOGANS (they’re referenced loosely in dialogue) INHABITED GALLIFREY AND ALSO RASSILON INVENTED REGENERATION WE ARE SENT BACK TO THE INCEPTION OF REGENERATION

now I knew some of this lore, that the timelords engineered regeneration (of course this is rewritten by the Timeless Child plot, but honestly that’s done very easily because Rassilon could easily have learnt how to change their physiology from the scientist who kidnapped the Doctor, yes I’m going with kidnapped bc it gives colonialism vibes, the only reason timeless child still kinda sucks isn’t continuity it’s the Doctor Is a Special Snowflake theme we’re left with) and something about the shabogans (supposedly the race the Doctor could have come from?? Mentioned a lot in classic who but I don’t think there’s a specific basis for this it’s just fan theories bc they were mentioned during Jodie’s run?) but NOT the vampires and LET ME TELL YOU

This gives me ideas about a Whouffaldi gallifreyan Dracula AU ESPECIALLY ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE HEAD VAMPIRE GUY DOES HAVE THE VIBE OF DRACULA

Alternatively

Dracula could be this guy, fled to earth, with an eternal grudge and bam Whouffaldi/Jonmina CROSSOVER idk why crossover fics keep occurring to me like I’ve even written the last one (I absolutely intend to I swear-)

Idk one of these ideas works maybe both just thoughts I am thoughting

Also

Listen I don’t dislike Charley not at all. But I don’t quite…. Get the draw with her and 8? Yes devoted besties but why don’t I feel the…. Emotional investment with them, like with Clara and 12? I’m absolutely loving the plot but I can’t help but think rewrite this and put Clara and 12 in this situation and GOD it’s like 100000000% more painful and intriguing and interesting and compelling and complex like what’s missing someone help me here, what are Charley and Eight lacking in because this situation is even better with Donna and 14 we’ve SEEN that in Wild Blue Yonder, similar situation just not quite as dire but still!!

I feel like a key ingredient to Charley and Eight’s relationship was missing before we got to vows at the door of life and death, and the pain of betrayal, like they’re not flour but they’re pumpkin spice rn and they need to be at masala chai ya get me 🤌🏻☕️

[porcelain-animatronic]

Me trying to explain how Dracula could interpreted as a metaphor for disease/illness to my father only to find out that this one of the few classics he hasn’t read

guess what i realized when i tried talking to someone about my most recent interest

[euryalex]

nicolas cage is so funny esp w his latest movies like he's dracula he's in dead by daylight he killed animatronics in a role where he didn't talk at all

[thenightling]

Five Nights at Freddy's Movie review

I just saw Five Nights at Freddy's.

It was campy, cheesy, and predictable. And you know what? I loved it. It was strangely nostalgic. I know that the film is based on a relatively recent horror video game franchise but it's very much stylized to resemble a horror film of the 1980s. Not only was the pizza place and animatronics (modeled on Chuck. E. Cheese) nostalgic for the 1980s but there's a strategically limited use of technology in the movie, giving it a kind of timeless feel. The repeated use of The Romantics song "Talking in your Sleep." also helped. The music definitely helps give it an 80s feel. Spoilers below: The plot is this. A child predator killed a handful of children at the pizza restaurant. The bodies were never found. I'm sure it's not that big of a surprise to learn the children now possess the animatronics where their bodies were hidden. The main character, Mike, is battling for custody for his kid sister. An unpleasant Aunt Jane has gone through unscrupulous means to try to claim Abby (the kid sister). Needless to say Jane and those working for Jane fall victim to the possessed animatronics. Mike has PTSD because when he was twelve-years-old his kid brother was abducted (and his body was also never found). Needless to say the man who killed the children who now possess the animatronics turns out to be the man who killed Mike's kid brother and he was manipulating the ghosts of his victims who could not remember how they had died. As I said, it's cheesy good fun. There are a few jump scares (which used to annoy me as a kid). And there is that annoying strobe effect of flickering lights or faulty florescent lights but thankfully there weren't as many of those as I initially thought there would be. I have epileptic and photophobic friends who can't handle those sort of strobe effects so I was a little worried they would not be able to enjoy the film.

It's a very far-fetched movie and full of 80s horror tropes but that's not a bd thing. The combination of nostalgia, familiarity, and predictability made it oddly enjoyable to watch. If I wasn't already familiar with the video game franchise you'd think this was an 80s horror movie and that's actually a good thing. Even though the film is PG-13, there's enough death and creative film tricks where your imagination comes up with a lot of the horror. Though we now know who killed Mike's brother (and he obviously plans to haunt one of the animatronics in death) I can't help but feel that there are a few unresolved plot threads such as what happened to Mike's brother? Is he also haunting the restaurant? Is he the cupcake? I know the animatronics are supposed to resemble the ones from the video games, and they do. But I can't help but be bothered by how innately creepy they are. Animatronics can be creepy on their own. And if you know about how animatronics work you sit wondering "Are they skinned? Why do they have exposed joins and mechanisms? Doesn't that ruin the illusion that these are anthropomorphic animals?" I also love some of the cornier moments, such as how quickly Mike accepted "Okay, these robots are possessed by dead children..." It's a fun, cheesy, film. Blum House definitely knows what they're doing. They have brought back the type of horror films that were popular (and entertaining) from my childhood, even if they are shackled by the marketing demand for a PG-13 rating but I'm willing to argue that it doesn't need to be a higher rating than PG-13. I liked this movie the way I liked the 2022 Dracula movie, The Invitation. It was campy but good. It was refreshing to see the genre drifting away from Torture P0rn (not literal p0rn, just excessive gore that people seem overly happy to see). And I am pretty sure Spirit Halloween will be Happy to start carrying Five Nights at Freddy's merchandise the way they already do for Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, It, and Trick 'r Treat.

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Dr Seward and Renfield

something about the way my extremely reactive dangerous patient today is wearing a pride collar...