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HAPPY DEATH DAY — (2017) dir. Christopher Landon

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Ma Dong-seok in Train to Busan (2016) dir. Yeon Sang-ho

So many actors trying to look swole and roided up as possible for their superhero roles and yet not a single one of them can bring the ‘I could absolutely kick the shit out of an army single-handedly” energy that Ma Dong-seok and his dad-bod does.

BRUCE CAMPBELL

Evil Dead II, 1987

You can talk about "elevated" horror all you like but they wish they could be this

this barbie refuses to die!

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people who don’t watch horror movies are SO confident that they know everything there is to know about the genre. like it’s okay to not know things. it’s okay if you don’t like friday the 13th or whatever. i promise you don’t need to make an ass out of yourself on the internet about it

horror is an incredibly diverse genre, because there is potential horror in everything. it’s in nature, it’s in architecture and technology, it’s in human relationships, it’s in folklore, the past, the future, the mundane. there are horror movies from all over the world. it is straight up anti-intellectual to pretend that the handful of B slashers you’ve vaguely heard about comprise the totality of what horror has to offer. If you’re just not interested in horror, or if you dislike certain subgenres of horror, then that’s fine, you’re not obligated to like anything at all. but smugly announcing that you don’t like horror because you dislike a handful of VERY specific non-universal tropes is just as stupid as saying that you hate comedy because you don’t like adam sandler movies.

this is what I mean by anti-intellectualism btw

MELISSA BARRERA as Sam Carpenter in Scream VI (2023)

hi hi, here are some free horror readings/resources in pdf form and adjacent horror viewings as seen in the curriculum for the miskatonic institute of horror studies’ course on theorising horror. 

- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood ; deathdream, dir. bob clark, 1974 - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed ; possession, dir. andrzej zulawski, 1981 - when the woman looks, linda williams ; ju-on, dir. takashi shimizu, 2002 - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover ; hell night, dir. tom desimone, 1981 - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro ; rabid, dir. david cronenberg, 1977 - why horror?, noël carroll ; horror and art-dread, cynthia freeland ; cropsey, dir. barbara brancaccio, 2009

POST UPDATE 

the links on this post appear to have fried; i originally copied them directly from the miskatonic institute course page here (x) but i’ve haphazardly compiled them:

- the american nightmare: horror in the 70s, robin wood - horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection, barbara creed - when the woman looks, linda williams - her body, himself: gender in the slasher film, carol j. clover - bodies of fear: the films of david cronenberg, steven shaviro (the link is to shaviro’s full text the cinematic body, this essay in particular is pg. 127) - noël carroll’s philosophy of horror right here on libgen - cynthia freeland’s horror and art-dread was published within a collection of essays; the entire text can also be found and downloaded easily on libgen with freeland’s essay on pg. 189

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