#they look like people movie

[basic-bamboo]

So I just watched They Look Like People (and loved it) and feel like some people missed the intention (or maybe what I took away from it was just different.

My interpretation (spoilers just to be safe):

It's not about "what if what Wyatt is experiencing is real," it's about putting yourself in the shoes of and experiencing the fear and doubts that someone who is having those experiences. When you experience delusions, you can know logically that they are impossible, that they CAN'T be real. But you believe them anyways. It's literally not something you can logic yourself out. You cannot willpower your way out of a delusion.

As the audience, we are not given any evidence that what Wyatt is experiencing is real beyond his own senses. That doesn't make it any less real or any less scary.

This is the only "horror" movie (in quotes because I don't think the director considers it horror, but it gets recommended as horror) with a schizophrenic character where the audience is meant to sympathize with the schizophrenic character. The schizophrenic character is the audience proxy. He's not the villain, he's not the serial killer that has to be stopped before it's too late.

In fact, part of the "horror" is how people treat Wyatt, how they are cruel and saneist to him, how stigma about psychotic disorders further isolates a man who is already suffering and isolating himself.

It is also, ultimately, a movie about love. It is a love story between two best friends, two men who have been trapped by toxic masculinity who are still saved by their love for each other and letting down their walls and their vulnerability.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Into the pit Jeff and Mike finally sleep together in FNAF..

[christadeguchi]

"You can tell that there was a wealth of love that went into making this film so I hope people can take just a little bit of that love out with them." - Eugene Lee Yang | Go Behind The Animation for Nimona

[mikkeneko]

PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.

[send-me-a-puffalope]

Do you guys ever think about the therapy CDs in SB that flesh out Vanessa's character and backstory? Cause I do. Constantly.

(Process photos under the cut)

[veritasrose]

I am begging, begging y’all to understand the difference between gore and body horror please.

Body horror is transformation/monstrous sort of things like a mouth where you shouldn’t have one or like, the shifting bones and whatnot in werewolf transformations. It is where something horrific is happening within the body itself.

It is not a bloody nose, cuts, wounds, injuries ect. That is gore. It is not scars, limb differences, or visual disabilities either.

For fuck’s sake please learn this stuff because the next time I see someone tagging a scarred or disabled character as “body horror” I am gonna lose it.

(Image ID courtesy of @consistantly-changing )

[Image ID: a section from doesthedogdie, a site that allows users to put common triggers on movies. The question is "Is there body horror?". There are 4 votes for Yes, and 0 votes for No. The text below, which elaborates where and what the trigger is, says "bloody head/nose and some cuts on a childs arm from her mum. also an infected rabbit bite on the protagonist".]

[munamania]

[boringwarning]

This movie can't be fr

[knifearo]

this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...

[redysetdare]

All this aroace character shipcourse has proven to me that a majority of people that interact in fandom cannot actually interact with characters and media outside of shipping and genuinely I believe you need to learn how to interact with media outside of shipping.

[steakcreature]

My main problem with minecraft trailer:

I mean seriously, who tf thought this would be a good idea??

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo standing up for his brothers in the things that really matter to them.

Like- Leo is the one who immediately pushes Mikey and Donnie into finding Raph the second it’s clear that their oldest brother is missing because he knows Raph can’t handle being separated like that.

Leo is the one who stands up for Mikey when Mikey wants to go on a solo mission, actively vouching for him and being the one to convince Raph into letting Mikey go, because being independent and proving himself just as capable of standing on his own two feet as everyone else means so much to Mikey.

And Leo defends Donnie’s honor in particular when his brothers’ intelligence is insulted because Leo is well aware of how important Donnie’s smarts are to him - and how important having those smarts valued and acknowledged is as well.

All this goes right into just how well Leo knows his brothers. For as much as he’ll tease or fight with them, he knows them, and he loves them.

[chloesimaginationthings]

NEVER ask FNAF Vanny about her past…

[deadpoets]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[goryhorroor]

mike flanagan's favorite horror movies

[lefthandarm-man]

Bucky Barnes // The Winter Soldier Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)