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[...] We as humans, do love our categories. After all we sit and watch a movie called say "It's Just One Look". That title doesn't tell us much about what we're about to watch. Maybe I'm interested in something arty and introspective, or something light-hearted and romantic. Maybe I want to be chilled or thrilled. Or maybe I just go in blind and open myself up to liking whatever as offered to me. Subgenre is significant for these reasons, but it's not really not very cut and dry. Silence of the Lambs has been widely claimed to be the first and only horror film to win Best Picture and according to the Wikipedia page about the Academy Awards best picture, only five other horror movies have ever been nominated. Those other movies were The Exorcist, Jaws, The Sixth Sense, Black Swan and Get Out. But there are other nominees for best picture I would say that are being left out of that horror list: A Clockwork Orange, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Deliverance, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Taxi Driver, Fatal Attraction, Schindler's List, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, The Hurt Locker, Precious, A Serious Man, 127 Hours, 12 Years a Slave, Room, Parasite, Joker and Nightmare Alley. None of those movies fall directly into line with what we think of as horror, either because of soundtracks, lighting, special effects or camera movement. But they're all unnerving scary films, and they deal with the same tropes and archetypes the classic horror films deal with. And yet, I'm still not sure why Silence of the Lambs is a horror film. Is it because the extremeness of the violence depicted? I mean, if we want to draw lines here like Silence of the Lambs to me, more closely resembles a crime procedural. Like he could have just been CSI Ohio. And here I land on this week's film Freaks. Definitely part of the horror genre based on general cultural agreements. Like a Slasher B-movie, the shitty people are super shitty and they get what's coming to them in horrible ways. It's grotesque and moody, and like the best horror films, it's campion, subversive. But would I call it a horror film? Like strictly speaking, maybe not, but I think that judgment will differ from person to person. And I honestly love the stretchiness this of the horror label. Like almost everything's a horror movie. Even people who think they don't like horror actually love it because almost everything overlaps the horror genre. You seen a ton of horror movies in your life, even if you think you haven't seen a one.

- Jeffrey Cranor, Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9, ep. 200 - Freaks (1932) (aired 20th Feb 2024) Lightly edited

if you have an actual story idea for the format you chose (that includes adapting existing horror stories into a different medium), or want to elaborate on why you chose it, please share in the tags!!!!! :D

and ofc as usual, reblog to reach more people, if you'd like 🖤

not me looking up that barney scene (lrb) for the first time since i was an itty bitty baby like "oh haha this must have been such a stupid little scene"... and then jumping when i hear the braying and feeling uncomfy when they show the fucker. don't like how they painted its eyes. and that sound. they couldn't have chosen a less visceral sound clip?????

okay it’s an easily missed line (I’ve watched this movie two or three times and never had it click) but after Tina dies, one of the cops mentions that her father abandoned the family “ten years ago”

it’s never mentioned exactly how long it’s been since Freddy’s murder spree, but in hindsight, Tina’s dad either left during it or after he and his wife took part in the Freddy-burning: it was all just too much for him

considering how the other Elm Street parents we see are — Glen’s dad being Like That and [gestures to the entirety of Nancy’s parents] — it’s probably more likely than her dad just being a flake and skipping out on them for fun

(granted, though, those are both still pretty bad times to be ditching your wife and daughter)

Which best girl is more DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)?

And I know both girls would technically have evil alter mcgee but we're out here reclaiming for a couple of my fave characters! So don't judge. This is just for fun!

Pictures for reference! (Two different personas for each character)

Shirli and Nemesis.

Shiro and Wretched Egg

‘Where did the vanilla extract joke come from???’ I’m no memeologist but I put money on the thyrell four word horror story post “two cups of vanilla extract”

LYCANTHROPY: THIS COULD BE YOU

Did a redraw of this werewolf piece that I did in October: I will say that I'm much happier with the result of this new one! 🐺👍

okay so this is not an ‘official’ metric by any scale but i am curious so i just bullshitted my own (explanation on levels under the poll)

level 1 - can’t tolerate horror at all, actively avoids it at all costs

level 2 - will watch a horror movie with friends/family if convinced but will definitely not enjoy it. screams at jumpscares and covers eyes at tense moments

level 3 - can occasionally consume horror media. very easily startles at jumpscares. usually feels anxious/paranoid afterward

level 4 - startles at jumpscares and generally feels uneasy after consuming horror media. avoids anything horror-related at night time

level 5 - jumpscares are less effective, but can still startle. feels anxious during tense moments. horror mostly causes unease only at night time

level 6 - has no problem consuming any kind of horror media alone at night. is largely unaffected by jumpscares. horror causes no feeling of fear or anxiety

Meh slightly SCP related dream (slight body horror warning)

I have a hope to pick with this SCP worker 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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