#the horror genre

[blackhholes]

The Horror Genre in Teen Wolf

Dread, Taboo, and The Thing: Toward a Social Theory of the Horror Film by Stephen Price / Bodies of Fear: David Cronenberg by Steven Shaviro / Mutations and Metamorphoses: Body Horror is Biological Horror by Ronald Allan Lopez Cruz / Exploring Mutilation: Women, Affect, and the Body Horror Genre by Carina Stopenski

[terrietont]

This is coming from someone who enjoys horror/thriller/gore/spooky stuff (you get the idea) as a genre but does anyone else just get sick of it after a while? I feel like horror only works the best when there’s more than a single genre put into it. Mixing horror/thriller with tragedy, comedy, family, action is way more investing than just “spooky dark story about death and monsters”

It gets real old real quick for me tbh. That’s why I love it when people make satire horror stuff or wholesome stuff out of horror, because it gives you something different after a while when you’ve been seeing the same ‘dread, death, blood, evil cults, mental torture’ with little to no chance of a happy or even bittersweet ending.

Or the weird doomsday reaction to anything that’s in their favorite genre as something that “Saved” the genre or something that “ruined” the genre…

A huge example of this is the Liminal space vs Backrooms debate. I’m more 50/50 on it, but I personally think putting horror into something that’s already unsettling doesn’t really add anything to it, but at the same time, it’s also fun to do so and I can get behind the interest of it.

There’s no right and wrong with this stuff, I just wish people wouldn’t gatekeep about their favourite genres and more open to lots of different mixed stories and writing, instead of trying to keep everything “pure” all the time.

Horror and Comedy work so god damn well together too in my honest opinion.

[dateamonster]

"top ten movies about Girlhood" whose girlhood? whose girlhood? what kind of girl are these movies about? answer quickly.

[empress-butterfly]

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: witch

[odetokeons]

The Substance (2024) + parallels with other horror films

Re-Animator (1985)

Saw (2004)

The Shining (1980)

Videodrome (1983)

Pearl (2022)

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Carrie (1976)

[batboopp]

batman has gotta be one of my favorite heroes only because he’ll go through the most borderline traumatic series of events possible where he may or may not have proved an afterlife existed just to drive away in his stupid fucking batcar with his stupid fucking bat ears peeking out

[wroniec]

Námo. Re-embodiment of Fëanor

[fairykukla]

Horror as a genre includes films with action/adventure elements (Jaws), films with a creepy vibe but nothing gross (The Others), sci-fi (Alien), monster movies (Dracula), creepy cults (Get Out), slasher films (Friday the 13th), and more.

When someone says "I don't like Horror Movies," they usually mean that they dislike one specific subgenre. My husband hates jumpscares. HATES them. But he does like psychological horror, old fashioned monster movies and almost anything Sci-Fi.

My mom doesn't like gore and gross outs, or anything where a child is killed. But she does like creepy vibes, jumpscares, and tragic monsters. She adores Gothic Horror.

I worked in the Halloween industry for years. I'm a professional horror makeup artist. I was easily frightened by horror movies as a kid, but once I learned how the sausage is made, I really started to appreciate the whole horror genre much better. Now, 8m the first one to say, "Let's go see Freddy Vs. Jason!"

I’m convinced non-horror fans don’t understand the differing shapes that horror films can take. my coworker will say she doesn’t like horror movies but admits to watching and liking a quiet place, my father doesn’t like horror movies but will watch jaws and alien. those are horror movies, what isn’t clicking?

[probablybadrpgideas]

Put the Slender Man in your campaign.

Look, I know, he's old news, but have a heart! He last got work like ten years ago, and he just needs one solid gig to get him back on his feet. He can still do the static thing, you know! Remember that? That was so cool in 2009! Everyone loved the static thing, right?

He doesn't have to be the Big Bad or anything, he'll settle for being a mook or random encounter. He spends all his time rewatching Marble Hornets and crying these days, just give him a cameo or something. One last hurrah for the guy who used to be the Big Name of internet horror. What do you say?

[alectology-archive]

most annoying breed of author is actually someone who doesn’t respect a genre and sets out to subvert it.

[zhukzucraft]

the most terrifying sight in Minecraft

[valtsv]

we need an all-women polar expedition that encounters something terrible in the arctic and dies badly #feminism

[anarchomitsumi]

also do you ever think about how the hyperbolic slapstick humor in the nanami episodes is deliberate. how in reality she is just a really young girl faced with things that are new and strange to her, and she's having such a bad time.but the show sets her up as an odd girl, too silly, borderline hysteric. everyone is laughing at her. so you do too. but it's one of those moments where the show is aware that it has an audience, and this play has been specially prepared for you. nanami's understandable discomfort is discredited by her portrayal as an "irrational teenage girl". isn't she just so dramatic? she walks to the stage and begs the audience to please tell her what's going on and suddenly a message appears for the viewers This is a Comedic Monologue! None of It is Meant to Be Taken Seriously. Please Ignore Her. the show has decided for you how you shall interpret her and feeds it to you. it's one of the most effective showcases of misogyny in rgu to me, because the show makes you complicit in it. it needs to to dismiss the critique to the world she clearly poses. and for a moment you go along with it. you doomed nanami too.

it sends the message that how you view the characters in this story matters. you were never considered a passive observer. it's all a play they're putting on for you after all.

[nerdby]

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