#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.

[empress-butterfly]

[dateamonster]

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

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: witch

[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?

[alectology-archive]

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

[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?

[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

[nerdby]

ALL👏🏻MEDIA👏🏻IS👏🏻POLITICAL👏🏻

[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)

[3cosmicfrogs]

the silt verses

[yaboihaisel]

Being afraid of ghosts means you wouldn't want to be in an allegedly haunted place, or you watch a horror movie/game where there's ghosts and you're afraid.

I'm very curious about these results bc I think I might be in a minority with these options and I just wanna see.

Please reblog I want a decent population for my test lol

[fuckmeyer]

the choice between Edward & Jacob is not a question of which relationship is healthier or which partner is best suitable for Bella. neither is correct. neither is best. neither produces a happy ending for Bella. at the end of the day this is still a vampire novel. any choice Bella could make would yield, at best, a bittersweet happily ever after.

if she chooses Edward, she gets the terrifying Breaking Dawn ending: a girl who rejected her call to grow up has hung her love & her eternity on an emotionally stunted partner who hates himself marginally less than he loves her. she's a teen mom with a kid she never wanted who perpetuates the generational trauma passed down from her parents. by keeping this child, the Cullens have set the stage for an uprising/cold war against the Volturi who are likely to take revenge in order to maintain power. Bella is living in a tenuous "dream come true" wrapped in a nightmare & doesn't realize it.

choosing Jacob is the true coming-of-age ending that rips the stitches out of a wound that never fully healed. even if we ignore the fact that she ends up with a man who sexually assaulted her (we must bear in mind Jacob's character is influenced by smeyer's racism, but it did happen), they can't have a secure romantic relationship. based on the high imprinting rate of the pack, Jacob will likely find his imprint in his lifetime & will lose himself to the imprintee. he will no longer be her Jacob. he will inevitably abandon her (whether he wants to or not), & she must reconcile with the reality that she will always be inadequate to Jacob's imprint. & say he never manages to escape the vampires? he will presumably not age for a long time, meaning the relationship Bella always feared with Edward (her being an old grandmother while he stays forever young) remains a possibility. this is the story of a girl who slaps a Band Aid on an open wound & calls herself healed while flinching every time she sees the shadow of the knife that cut her.

if she chooses neither (team therapy), her healing requires her to lose or be at least partially disconnected from everyone she cares about. Bella must spend the rest of her life shut out from one world while never fully existing in her human world ever again. she must always keep secrets. she can never go back home. even in the unlikely event that she manages to escape the Volturi, the threat of being hunted by vampires will never leave her. in addition, she must face her worst fears (aging, losing Edward) while always keeping in mind the immortal life that could have been hers, if only.

even the "healthiest" option produces scars that will never quite heal.

Twilight is a horror. Twilight is a vampire novel. Twilight is gothic. Twilight is fiction. neither Edward nor Jacob is a "bad" choice because neither will give Bella her happily ever after. the choice between Edward & Jacob is simply a matter of which horror story you prefer to read.