#trigger warning film

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Are you ever going to draw more for your Heather's Murder Mystery AU? I would love to see more art of it! If not, that's okay

something something obligatory "Veronica and Heather are all alone in the hospital after Heather is trying to recover from her stab wounds and the killer is one of their friends (?)" scene, and oh they've just confessed their feelings for each other earlier because seeing the other one get hurt made them realize how badly they want each other in their lives

welcome to Act Three

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HE NOOT NOOT

07.02.24

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Rebecca (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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sissy spacek as carrie white in carrie (1976)

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new-to-me #475 - Trigger Warning

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Seeing as it's Black History Month, I'm gonna take a break from your regularly scheduled girlblogging to be a film nerd and beg every single person reading this post to go and watch Within Our Gates (1920).

Within Our Gates is a feature-length silent film written and directed by black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and it is a miracle that we have it today. The film was believed to be lost for years until a SINGLE surviving print was found in Spain, translated back into English, and recut to match the original as closely as possible. (This is actually not uncommon in the realm of old film a lot of lost films get found in random closets but ANYWAY.) The film tells the story of Sylvia, a southern schoolteacher who travels up north to raise money to keep her school open. It explores how her life and family have been affected by racism, abuse, and sexual violence, as she falls in love, works to save her school, and grapples with her place as a black woman in the antebellum south. If that's not enough to get you interested, the film is also kinda batshit. There are shootouts! Affairs! Someone gets hit by a car! It's wild and dramatic and incredibly engaging.

You've heard of Birth of a Nation, right? Maybe you've even seen it. That insanely racist piece of film history premiered in 1915. Oftentimes people will defend D.W. Griffith and the film itself as being "a product of its time." Well, Within Our Gates premiered in 1920, and it is a product of its time. It depicts white mob violence against black Americans, and how that violence destroys innocent lives and rips families apart. It is written and directed by a black man. All of its lead actors are black. It is an absolutely heart-wrenching, moving, and intelligent film, produced on a shoestring budget, that explores what it meant not only to be a black American in 1920, but what it meant to be a black woman. Different characters have different approaches to coping with racism and strategies for protecting themselves. It's complicated, and upsetting, and one of the most impactful films I've ever seen.

If you can spare an hour and twenty minutes, if you happen to have access to the film through a streaming service (in addition to being FREE ON YOUTUBE, I believe it's on Amazon Prime, Paramount+, MGM+, and some Hulu plans) or an institution (you may have access to Kanopy or a similar platform via your local library or university), it's worth a watch. Play whatever music you want in the background if your version doesn't have any added! Even if you can't watch it for whatever reason, I'd encourage all of you to look into Oscar Micheaux and the history of "race films," films created outside of the Hollywood studio system by and for black Americans.

Don't buy into the false narrative that the only black representation in historical film was minstrelsy and Griffith-style garbage.

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The Break-Up (short film)

2023 short film. Available on YouTube. Romance.

Plot points:

Breakup

Child custody

Femme x Stud relationship

Identity questioning

Conversations about transness

Young adult romance

Black lesbian couple (main)

Black director and creator: Savonne Pearson

://TW Physical assault

Black sapphic characters:

Savonne [lesbian] (Chayna Douglas) Aubrey [lesbian] (Diamond Mo)

Connections:

Savonne x Aubrey (black lesbian)

Sex & Nudity - Very Mild

Kissing

Couple seen in bed together

Violence & Gore - None

Profanity - None

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Mild

Drunk character

Frightening & Intense Scenes - Mild

Conversations around child custody

Main character slapping co-lead

Character slapping her child

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Trigger warnings

As I said previously, I have not seen these films, but I’ve done my research, and I’m sharing this to hopefully help anyone avoid being triggered by them. I am in no way advocating anyone watch these; if anything, I’m suggesting the opposite, and I 100% believe the majority of these films should be banned.

Megan is missing

TW: Child abuse, stalking, graphic sexual assault, kid snapping, pedophilia, bodily harm.

Funny games

TW: Animal cruelty, stalking, child abuse, violence.

The human centipede

TW: Violence, kidnapping, torture, body horror.

Martyrs

TW: Child abuse, torture, gore, kidnapping, body horror.

Serbian Film

TW: Child abuse, child sexual assault, drugging, pedophilia, rape, violence.

The coffee table

TW: Infant death, bodily harm.

August underground

TW: Blood, gore, rape, extreme violence.

The green inferno

TW: Cannibalism, self harm, blood, violence.

(I’m a massive Eli Roth fan, but this is own film of his I point blank refuse to watch)

The Poughkeepsie tapes

TW: Stalking, kidnapping, bodily harm, torture, child abuse, child death.

A Clockwork Orange

TW: Rape, violence, torture.

Cannibal Holocaust

TW: Real animal abuse, rape, violence, female genital mutilation, cannibalism

*I'm not bashing anyone who likes these films, just sharing my own opinion*

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i don't know what i thought secretary (2002) was going to be about but i was Not expecting it to be about autism fueled d/s dynamics thank fucking god for james spader you absolute freak. where would cinema be without him

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Wassup Rockers - Larry Clark

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Last Night in Soho appreciation post?

Last Night in Soho appreciation post.

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Recently watched The VVitch (2015). How did it take me so long to get round to watching it!?

I drew this from memory so I can’t attest to how accurate it is and didn’t have to long to do it.

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Wonderful things are happening in the Infinite Dungeon today

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I watched a gay short film on YouTube called Two Little Boys today…

uh

yeah I will not recover from this