God that reminds me. I think a couple of years ago I heard about a horror movie coming out based on a book about a scuba diver getting eaten by a whale and having to find his way out. That sounds nice a horrific right? Wrong, the book mostly goes on and on about how the diver starts hallucinating about his daddy issues or whatever. Naturally, places like reddit loved the idea.
Uh, what else is supposed to make up most of the book? Descriptions of the inside of a whale? Wouldn't you expect someone facing an impending death and running out of oxygen to hallucinate and ruminate on his life?
I think it also hinted that the whale might be his dead dad, and the dad was abusive because the boy would cry and wanted him to be a man. I get what your saying about what would else would be in the book other then the inside of a whale, for me it's just FAMILY TRUAMA AGAIN. It could have been anything else. At least it's not obvious fetish fuel like Playground.
Sally Jane Black makes me want to fucking fedpost.
Did a character say with a straight face "make America afraid again?"
Yep, just look at fangirls for slasher and creepypasta characters.
it's a rare mind who can make a wacky kids version of David and Bathsheba with talking food
As much as it bothers me that these people still have a near iron-gripped stranglehold on culture and the perception of history, it bothers me more that they have to be such utter faggot cringenozzles while doing so. I can't help thinking back to that one tweet from NATO about how we are all the Jedi Rebellion and Hogwarts or some shit.
If you want a real head fuck look into how the film was originally supposed to be apart of the Cloverfield universe and technically still is and how JJ Abrams has been desperately trying to make any horror movie that's come across him or his production company into a Cloverfield movie.
Those are all different characters. I only know the bottom 2. This first one is Lon Chaney in London after Midnight from 1927, it's a lost film, but the look has become iconic in horror circles. He's very likely the inspiration for all the others. There's also a band called London after Midnight and it may be where the first pic on the top comes from but I can't really tell. The other one is the Babadook.
I think horror can be a comfort genre in a sense just like any other genre, especially since from personal experience there are plenty of horror movies that I've grown genuinely attached to over the years. Impeccable atmosphere is something of a must for a good horror film, and in my opinion, sometimes this atmosphere can grow to be oddly comforting in a way. (At first I thought this was an odd quirk of mine specifically, but author Thomas Ligotti actually looks deeper into this idea in "Professor Nobody’s Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror" which is an interesting read.) But that's in spite of the scary shit, not due to the lack of it, atmosphere alone can only get a movie so far.
It's not like the original black and white Romero Night of the Living Dead addressed it without preaching about it in fucking 1968. Or that the whole topic of marginalized people was ever raised in, for instance, in 1932. You know, Tod Browning's Freaks, a much-reviled film at the time despite the fact the very marginalized people the film was about starred in it and spoke for themselves.
Any time I'm in a sour mood I put on something like The Invisible man, The last man or Earth, or House on Haunted hill (The original) There really is something comforting about the atmosphere in those movies, like a little haunted house full of spooks and ghouls. It's that feeling I get when fall starts, the leaves change color and the sunsets get the fall colors. The excitement of Halloween when I was a kid and we'd run around getting "scared" at the haunted houses, decorations, and people in scary costumes. You "shriek and giggle while running away the whole time knowing it's all pretend but still having fun with it, because it won't hurt you. No matter how intense a movie can get, I can always turn it off, but it's even more fun if I can make it to the end. At the end of the day it's all pretend.
