you know what my favorite genre of horror is? children’s show mascot horror

and i don’t mean “lost episode of real children’s show” i mean “i created an entire children’s show and corrupted it”

Amanda the Adventurer, Welcome Home Puppet Show, My Friendly Neighborhood, also the toys made by Playtime Co., sometimes Dont Hug Me I’m Scared(it tends to feel a little too complicated for me)

they’re all seemingly normal children’s show and then slowly it reveals it’s evolving darkness, it also tends to make their main character’s sympathetic

i want Amanda as a character to be ok, i want to help the puppets at the MFN studio, i want to know the characters/puppets of Home are ok, i want to put what is tormented children’s souls in toys to rest(i also want a life size huggy wuggy but that’s beside the point)

it genuinely makes me want to make a Sesame Street esc horror show where it is just lovable characters who have been corrupted by society

and they were all friends your honor

We shared this with our patrons a while back, but want to share it with the rest of you all as well! This is a little peek into the process for our children’s horror video, which was nostalgic for all of us on the team in different ways.

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Mascot horror is so Bizarre. Why is it so sanitized when classic children’s horror is extremely ugly and jagged looking? Look at nightmare hour or haunting hour or goosebumps or scary stories to tell in the dark. Products that largely committed to hideous gruesome imagery and appealing to children in that way. Fnaf managed to appeal to kids despite having the least kid friendly appearance with all these dark spaces and un-cute unappealing designs. Like it did not talk down to kids like this, and did not shy away from making things creepy. Scary stories to tell in the dark didn’t have things like Huggy Wuggy, it had real horror monsters.

Coraline (2009)

Henry Selick (Dir)

“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”

1.5 minutes of my favorite moho lines

a glimpse into my psyche as a child

I only watched The Halloween Tree maybe once as a kid and never read it, both of which is a huge oversight on somebody’s part. Nimoy is having such fun. A nice chill 100th film this year.

Tagging anyone interested

I have I Live in Your Basement and Monster Blood IV left to read!! Can y’all believeeee???

61/62 books in! 😫

This shit fucked me up when I was like 7

Inspired by @b4d_.s4turn (Instagram) xD

Madmare belongs to Jokublog The boys belong to him

because i've seen 3 other polls like this and they were all missing the best options

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Kids… horror… two words that don’t seem to go together. Why, then, do kids seek out scares? Join us as we take a journey into the world of children’s horror!

I’m at the theater to see Coraline remastered. I have no real point to this just i’m excited. I’m literally in the theatre waiting for it to start.

Hey all, need help trying to find a horrors anthology book I remember reading when I was younger.

It was an illustrated book with a series of short horror stories. The art style was fairly cartoon way I recall it.

I only recall two of the stories from the book. One about a boy who sees a dog and feels like it’s following him wherever he goes, and it ends with him going to his room and the dog is on his bed, waiting for him.

The other story I recall more vividly is told from a kid recording himself on a tape recorder, documenting his arrival in a town with almost no children, the only other kid looks like he hasn’t slept in days and all the other adults wander tired and sad looking. The kid has an encounter with one woman, who hugs him and tells him not to go out at night “no matter what he might hear.” Later on, the boy is recording at night when he hears what sounds like children playing outside, and he opens his window to record it. He narrates that he can see other kids playing in the dark, and one girl starts to sing out to him “little ghost girl, something something.” This eventually lures the boy, who says that he knows what that woman said but he wants to see where everyone is going and he’ll only go out just for a minute. The recording is left going and he doesn’t come back, and that’s where that story ends, with the illustration of the recorder left in the window.

So yeah, if anyone knows what book this is from, let me know.