Horror sub genres #21

Supernatural:

Sinister - The Ring

The Conjuring - The Others

Insidious - Hereditary

The only thing that moves here is the light... But it changes everything.

The Others (2001) dir. Alejandro Amenábar

“Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead.”

The Others (2001) dir. Alejandro Amenábar

31 Days of Horror | 16/31: The Others (2001)

"There are things your mother doesn't want to hear. She only believes in what she was taught. But don't worry. Sooner or later everything will be different.”

so so so cruel that insufferable tech bros have claimed the term "AI" for their pathetic little auto generated words and pictures when the concept of actual artificial sentience is so so beautiful. i love robots and i love stories about a being defying its creation to experience the humanity that it was built as a tool to serve. i love the inherent loneliness of ones' capability to feel being seen as a defect. but now i can't say "i love AIs!" because then you'd think i'm talking about soulless generation poorly disguised as intelligence. fuck this gay earth.

i think the fragile mortality of the machine is why i like the concept of characters who are holograms and artificial intelligences so much. because on paper, they're far more durable than their flesh and blood human counterparts, and much harder to break or hurt. but the reality is they're incredibly vulnerable and dependent on their creators and caretakers. all it takes is pulling a plug, or damaging or removing a vital component, or erasing important data, to "kill" them. they can be lost without hope of recovery in an instant. they don't look it, but they're just as mortal as we are. and they're often helpless to prevent it, unable to fight back except by begging for their lives. we designed them that way. a perfect silicon and copper foil prison of an existence.

Czesław Miłosz, from “It Was Winter” (tr. Czesław Miłosz, Renata Gorczynski, Robert Hass, & Robert Pinsky), New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 [ID'd]

Maybe the closest I'll get to putting my thoughts into words

Horror movies of 2001

so a few days ago I made an off hand joke on main about making a hal 9000 fancam and it turns out no one is more committed to the bit than I am because here it is <3

me: ok lets make an electric dreams sticker sheet

also me: hal ☺️

Finished this in time for the anniversary!!! happy birthday to the only gorillaz album ever <3

please click for quality :3

Years of butting heads led them here. Couples Therapy.

JY wears Meta’s rose print op in black x red.

SUMMARY: In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

The mod begs of you, please don't spoil this movie for yourselves or others, this movie is so fucking good if you don't know anything other than the basics before you go in.