American Mary (2012)

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TW: There is a scene of SA at about 38 minutes.

This movie caught my eye because I reviewed Rabid (2019), which was also directed by the Soskas. They’re at it again and doing it wonderfully. Love you queens 🫶🏻

Absolutely adored this film. I am a Mary apologist!!!! A gal’s gotta do what a gal’s gotta do. She has never done anything wrong in her life. Long live women in STEM and all that jazz. I also deeply resonate with her doing her homework and downing a glass of wine at the same time.

The men in this film are so unhinged, they were the real things that made me squirm. As in real life, be prepared to not trust trust them right away, or at all.

Watch this movie:

For a twist on a favourite trope - this time it’s a student committing medical malpractice!!

To witness the most artistic body horror you have ever seen

If you like the “Good for her” trope

Similar titles:

Ginger Snaps trilogy (Katharine Isabelle, my beloved)

Open 24 Hours (2018) (very different storylines, but similar aesthetics)

Evil Dead Rise (2023) (not my cup of tea but for the body horror fans may enjoy this)

sick of this anti-aging obsession. let's go in the opposite direction. i want more characters who are hardened & grizzled & have a face lined with the harrowing tribulations of time--and then halfway through the narrative u find out they're 27

Quarters only, please [x <- prints here]

(done in procreate)

games (mostly text-based) about houses and places-- exploring them, haunting them, feeding them:

childhood homes (and why we hate them) - after a decade, you return home.

return - a text-based horror game about coming home.

singing from the far side of the hill - about a trans woman, homeless after a bad breakup, who rents a stranger's spare room. it's a decision she comes to regret.

anatomy - Explore a suburban house, collect cassette tapes, study the physiology of domestic architecture.

leave house - leave house

the open house - We at Northtree Real Estate (in partnership with Optix Dynamix Labs) are proud to present our new, state-of-the-art, open house simulator!  Come and take a quick tour of 15615 Hollow Oak Lane, a familiar and comfortable showcase home in one of our premier developments!

what girls do in the dark - This little game is based off one of the greatest fears they had as a teenage girl: showing up late to a stranger's slumber party.

unbecoming - a sonically-textured interactive horror fiction exploring cycles of trauma and unspeakable forces of nature in a mythic rural American landscape.

13 laurel road - an interactive fiction game about the relationships we have with places and reconciling with trauma. You play as a young man named Noah who has been tasked with picking up some things from his cousin’s old house.

domvs - a gothic mystery game in which you rely on your environment to uncover the truth.

flesh, blood, & concrete - you find yourself in a vast, empty apartment complex.

i am still here - a short, unconventional ghost story and vignette reflecting on the end of a long lockdown.

vacant - Film a ghost-hunting show.

uh, okay. i'm very scared to ask but : rabbit that's not really a rabbit...?

yeah, there's, like. a small god, shaped like a rabbit, that lives in my yard. I would say it's a normal rabbit except it's not. It won't move from my driveway if I'm trying to drive out and it was there first. I can walk up within a few feet of it, and it will turn and just look at me like what do you want? It's the only rabbit that freaks the hell out of all my birds, they CANNOT be directed or communicated with when this rabbit comes around, they will do nothing but stand on alert and stare at it making a soft warning call. I've caught it SEVERAL times now standing nose to nose with one of my peacocks, and it just looks at me and walks away when I catch them. hawks and falcons and eagles and owls constantly pass over my yard, and it is full of rabbits that do not hide from them, and I've never seen evidence of one being taken. You know the moment you walk into a very dark room and maybe it's a room you've been in before and maybe you don't believe in ghosts, but also it's still dark and your little leftover lizard hindbrain goes "anything could be inside of here waiting for me" the second before you turn on the light? It's like that feeling, except in the shape of a rabbit. i didn't ask for any of that.

i made this just now and im obsessed with the visual it puts in my head

Literally everything but his ears

day 4: doomed by the narrative ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

Right person, wrong time.

Lifted off one of my fics.

Bolas is psychological horror and found footage of a group of friends turned to a cult lost in the blood and violence of the island, a place where death isn’t permanent and they can come back and back, rip the flesh from each others bones

while soulfire is survival horror and lovecraftian horror of demons and shapeshifters and good people who have had to done the worse to survive, things that while haunt them forever. To keep their heads above the water or be consumed by the darkness around them and drown in paranoia and blood lust and fear

Hope this helps

Dead Before Dawn (2012)

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My baby’s father is in this, so it’s obviously not biased in the slightest.

Honestly? What a stellar C-list cast with well-acted comedy. I had to pause the movie after seeing Caspar’s paper with the huge block letter heading “WRITING ASSIGNME” because I was laughing too hard. This is what comedy is all about. CGI blood, and lots of it doesn’t hurt either!

During my research, I found out this was the first Canadian movie to be shot in stereoscopic 3D. I love that you can still tell it was supposed to be seen in 3D. I can almost feel the cheap plastic glasses on my nose when the cherry red blood gushes on the screen.

Watch this if:

Devon Bostick 🥵🥵🥵

you think there should be more movies about college kids not taking curses seriously

Similar titles:

Deathgasm (2015) (recent watch for me, very similar in comedy and horror levels)

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I designed finch's dad!!!!

The rest of the Crows: can't even imagine the complex machinations of Kaz's diabolical mind. He must have the ultimate control over his thought process and emotions. What can the inside of a mind like that even look like? We will never quite understand his motivations or his worldview.

The complex machinations of Kaz's diabolical mind:

Keep an Eye Out As You Travel West

You see a church, you just keep on walking. Most are abandoned anyhow, nothing left in 'em but the hollowed out husks of their priests. The rest have been filled by now; old pretenders, zealots, and self proclaimed prophets snatching up any man fool enough to worship. And that's if you're lucky. There are older things, other things that have curled up amidst the altars of the Lord like worms in dirt. If you're wanting to do any worshiping, best do it out under the sky.

There're things that roam the dust, figures of men with eyes deader than any corpse and smiles as bright and pretty as a lady's. They come around sometimes, always trying to pawn off some bizarre thing; elaborate crowns made of rusted nails, gold lockets with strange portraits inside, letters that can't be read without getting a deep pounding in your head, and keys rusted with so much blood it'd be a wonder if they turned anything at all. Now, I've seen what comes for folks who trade with them and I'll tell you this. Wherever they got their goods, it sure as shit wasn't from here.

You'll be hearing now about the "Oil Baptisms," I'm sure. Black sea water dredged up from some abyss, thicker than any water I've ever seen and you can smell it long a mile away. They say it gives people "the sight" but of what I can't say. All I know is that once you start smelling that briny shit on the wind, the screaming don't start long after.

Be careful what deals you make out here. There're plenty of strange folk who would be more than glad to work you down to the bone and long after, too. Work is work, crops need harvesting, graves need digging, meat needs carving, and idols need worshiping. Watch your words and read your contracts, else you might just be stuck washing the feet of the righteous until doomsday.

Best stay indoors once night comes, that's when a lot of the "families" start movin' out. They take to the roads, long lines of them, a parade of the ugliest sons of bitches you've ever seen. In the daylight, their skin never fits quite right and stinks to high heaven but once the sun dips past the trees, they start taking it off. They move from place to place, sloughing off their decayed flesh and stealing new off any traveler they come across. Lock your doors and put out your lights before they coming knocking on your door, asking sweetly, "Do you have anything I could wear?"

I am of the opinion that the woods ought not be traversed by folk who ain't been called there. Keep to the roads and towns, there's enough foul mess there if it's strangeness you're looking for. But what's in the woods has always been in the woods and if you pass the treeline with no business being there, well. The woods will give you business.

While a useful tool, a gun won't save you from drowning in the bathtub of a family of fanatic prognosticators, or from having your skin torn clean off by the night sky. Keep your ears up for any kind of protection you can get and learn to speak well because a lot of smart talk can get you out of a whole mess of trouble.

Keep on moving, friend. If you're looking to survive this trek, don't stop for anything, not even to bury the dead or feed the starving. It ain't worth what'll catch you, cause there's always things waiting for a fella to slow down so's they can get their claws in faster, deeper. You wanna be stuck here, in the fields and the dirt, under the big sky while hymns are burned into your skull? No?

Then keep on moving.

violence, round one: the violent against neighbors (meet your maker)