#prestige horror

[bbyteach]

Hate ppl being like well at least there’s *edgy show with queer characters* *show with super conventionally attractive, young leads* or *show with both* like… not the fucking point?

I don’t need all art I connect with to be cutting-edge or ‘cool.’ I’m an artist that does a lot of horror/‘edgy’ work outside of this fandom space. This shows earnestness and whimsy and how little it cared about being ‘cool’ has been a breath of fresh air for me. In the sea of media that is banking on existing IP or bleak social commentary and true crime… this truly was original and interesting. Like. True height of queer media golden age. A warm light that doesn’t need to peak through a million layers of irony. Sigh

#our flag means death #ofmd #yes I like comforting things as much as horror and prestige tv #what a shit show #David Jenkins saying this wasn’t a ‘cool’ show made it cool to me

[tarabyte3]

I made some Andy Serkis blorbo themed autumn/horror moodboards for spooky season. 🎃🍁🔪🩸🧡 Enjoy!

Kino Loy, Andor (2022)

David Robey, Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)

Alfred Pennyworth, The Batman (2022)

Liam Black, The Accused (2010)

Capricorn, Inkheart (2008)

Mr. Alley, The Prestige (2006)

Dr. Adrian King, Death of a Superhero (2011)

George Clements, SAS: Red Notice (2021)

David, The Cottage (2008)

Colleoni, Brighton Rock (2010)

PART 2

#andy serkis #moodboard #halloween #autumn #horror #kino loy #andor #david robey #luther the fallen sun #alfred pennyworth #the batman #liam black #the accused #capricorn #inkheart (2008) #mr. alley #the prestige #dr. adrian king #death of a superhero #george clements #sas red notice #the cottage #colleoni #brighton rock #my blorbos

[naamahdarling]

Oh shit I completely forgot about Lost Johns cave fuck that shit is horrifying

I think only 2 serial fiction podcasts have ever actually made me breathe a little too fast. The other was Limetown which...the Napoleon episode fucked me up (only episode I ever had to pause for a few seconds), as well as just the concept in general. But Magnus Archives in addition to being overall the best complete podcast I have listened to had a couple of real getters individually. MAG-15 Lost Johns Cave is one.

"It meant me harm."

And then when they played the recording back and I realized what she was saying my entire body just got cold.

Like, the reason I consume horror content isn't actually because it frightens me. It almost never does. So when it does more than unnerve and thrill me, it's doing a very good job. Congrats Jonny Sims for doing it a good two or three times in Magnus Archives.

By the way, the cave is real.

Here's how you go in.

Goodnight!

#two of the best horror movies ive ever seen weren't even horror movies #or werent marketed as such #the prestige is one #almost nobody appreciates it enough #and annihilation is another and shortlisted for movies that i will never ever watch again because i legit almost had to go throw up #borderline sorry i ever watched it and still occasionally think about that bear #it was a good movie but my god the body horror and existential dread and the infiltration of death into your treacherous body was HORRIFYIN #i was not sufficiently warned about annihilation #the prestige was a pleasant surprise even though i was curled up in the fetal position #because i figured out the twist EXACTLY when the movie wanted me to and it worked for me #it wasn't for everyone and my ex was pissed at it for quote cheating unquote #but i thought it had established the rules just fine in retrospect and it fell into place beautifully #i love horror deeply #i could talk about it all day

[bluebirdcurse]

Jeff and Shauna would be so much happier if they just switched jobs. Jeff would be a great stay at home dad and Shauna would run that furniture store with an iron fist.

Shauna would never get in with the mob to save the business. She'd do it to feel alive.

#yellowjackets #their whole dynamic is just the prestige horror version of liz lemon and james marsden

[louisdelac]

the thing about mp100 is that it's a very cute show, but it is also 100% targeting 13 year olds. like don't get me wrong. it rules. but like the creator's sole intention was to grab all the little boys who read shounen by the hand and teach them that growing up is really scary, but he believes in their power to love openly and be a good person. which is just not comparable to jjk, whose creator's sole intention was to go "shadow the hedgehog is the coolest sonic character. what if i put 50 of them in a manga and made them fight" you all have to stop trying to put ebony dark'ness dementia raven way into blue's clues. it's not gonna work.

#i'm SORRY some of the jkaisen criticisms on this website are the equivelant of su critical posts #to me #like it's a fun show and i AM obsessed with it currently #but some of you are getting pissed off because your horror shonen anime made to be a fun time #doesn't have the storytelling finesse of a prestige drama

[aidenwaites]

Once again if hbo wants to give me the ofmd money to make a little show called Prey Animal,

#or ill just use the funds for the jack rabbit duology you just gotta take your pick #between the prestige television version or the slasher horror film version #i can also go coming of age. look its all already written idk what to tell you

[rotzaprachim]

one thing that’s kind of poking at me a lil bit ficwise is kind of. unpicking the threads of Galen and Lyra and Jyn. I think there’s a fandom and to an extent a canon tendency to make her early childhood in Lahmu into Those Good Years, and to an extent that’s part of the structure of a film with a running time- the opening, before everything Goes Wrong. but I can’t stop thinking about how, if not fearful, then deeply paranoia-laced and isolated Jyn’s early childhood must have been. your father is on the run, your father took you and your mother with you in the night, you know literally no one else but your mother and your scientist father who has made himself a god? there’s such a kind of, cold, isolationist biblical patriarch narrative edge to the opening shots of lahmu and the Erso family as purposefully isolated and separated from everything. I’m not sure it’s quite a horror story- thought it sure has potential to be- but I do think there’s room to deeply unearth and nuance the situation there a bit. after all, by the time rogue one starts Galen and Lyra are terrified, and the story begins in many ways with their fear. what is it to be a child of that? 

#the whole litfic prestige television horror potential here is insane #like more complicating of Galen Erso please more complicating of it #I still can't stop thinking of the fact he's like Jyn I just hope you're living with a Nice Family in peace whilst doing you know #an awful lot to have sent the galaxy into the war torn state it currently is #I'm not sure he was the My Word Is King patriarchal abuser #but I *do* think there's absolutely some kind of power dynamic #between him- the Mad scientist on the Run- #his 11 yrs younger wife who had their child at 23 and seems to have quit her scientific research #and their you know like. #6 year old kid. I do not think that was a great family situation and it's interesting to kind of pick at the threads of #Galen Erso #lyra Erso #Jyn Erso

[marklikely]

you guys know that phenomenon where dudes will be like "women aren't funny" but its just bc when a woman makes a joke they don't get it and take her seriously and just think she's like an idiot? like a woman will say smth silly as a joke and they'll just be like "smh you can't be serious you're so stupid" bc theyd rather think a woman is stupid than think that she's just saying it to be funny.

i feel like thats what happens in the reviews every time a woman tries to direct a campy b movie right now.

#look at the ratings of like. a cheesy b horror movie from the last couple years directed by a woman #vs directed by a man #the reviews for the ones by women are all like avg rating 1.8 stars plot holes the dialogue wasnt realistic its not an elevated drama #vs directed by a man its like avg 3.0 stars a fun romp a delightful ride packed with hilarity don't take it too seriously #with the bonus that usually the one by men is not actually even a fun romp it sucks #anyway. i think its the same as the women aren't funny thing. #the urge to just like dismiss women making things for fun and for camp to be like ACTUALLY THIS IS NOT GOOD BY SERIOUS STANDARDS #avpost #the only way they'll praise a woman's movie (that's not about male characters) is if its a flawless prestige drama #but women aren't allowed to make silly campy movies. at least not if it also is about women. #bc if you do that they will trash you for not making the next shawshank or some shit. #god forbid you be a woman having fun etc. they just cannot comprehend it #theyd rather believe you're an idiot who can't write. than to just believe that you made the movie to be a fun ride. #and the best that we fans of these movies can hope for is that they get the jennifers body treatment in 10 years and become beloved later #yknow after many years of being trashed unfairly for liking them. ive had dudes harass me on lbxd for defending some of these lmao

[navree]

cannot believe we’re getting shit like the barbie movie and the dark barney because hollywood has decided it’s out of ideas as if there aren’t sooooooooooooooooo many historical dramas of people and events whose stories haven’t been told

#personal #'we've heard the barney song i love you and you love me but what if that wasn't true' shut the FUCK up #where is my louis philippe miniseries #where is my aurangzeb biopic #where is my prestige drama about the fall of the roman republic and rise of the empire #where is my treatise on hatshepsut or nefertiti #fucking king philip's war? anything about the inca? ching shih the pirate queen? an ACCURATE accounting of the war of the roses? anything??? #just (accurately) adapt more history goddammit no more shitty persuasion or horror movie winnie the pooh #(i'll allow for the christopher robin movies from a few years ago because ewan mcgregor was in it but that's not the point)

[heartshapedtrap]

hiiii y’all i saw Barbie w friends and it was sooo much fun!!!! we sat and talked at theater like an hour and half before because we couldn’t sit together during the time we planned to watch it so we waited and we told silly stories and things about our interests (me convincing them to watch succession bc trust me and them talking about video games which i love hearing about because they’re so passionate about it and look so happy to tell me about favs ) and chatted and ya know shared lore about our lives which idk even know how to describe the joy I felt because I’ve been working on being more vulnerable w friends so I don’t trap myself in a false intimacy in relationships and stuff and it was such a good time felt like I opened up more about my personal experiences and then it got even better when we watched the movie :)))

also we went to 5 below right after and I made a new friend in her twenties exchanged contacts and stuff all because we were wearing the same shirt and happened to be in the same aisle bc I was looking for the blind jjk mini figures (I got geto and nobara btw <333) then we walked around target lol

#I love my friends so so much #and it’s so funny how many shared interests we all have together meanwhile there is interconnection with certain stuff #like they are hardcore into video games and I just know some stuff meanwhile me and **** are into reading n anime and ****** is barley into #those things but know enough about certain ones just not heavy into it but me and her are really into horror movies and prestige tv #personal #* #heartshapedtrap

[nancywheeeler]

“The Boogeyman is based on a short story by Stephen King, originally published way back in 1973, with the film concerning a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims. The movie's human characters include high school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister, Sawyer who are both reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren't getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist dealing with his own pain. “

lol so Stephen King adaptions are just original scripts with his name slapped on them now. okay.

#this is not even close to what the short story is about #i'm trying not to get heated but the bogeyman is my favorite horror short story #and given how obsessed 'prestige' horror is right now with parental anxiety #i don't understand why they wouldn't adapt the actual text of the story #which is all about a man's fear of fatherhood manifesting itself as a boogeyman #the story is really heavy but that's what makes it so good #i think about it all the time and whatever this adaption is it ain't it #a shout into the void

[sol-flo]

do NOT let anyone fool you: there's no biomechanical horror in titane. i repeat. the movie where the woman fucks the car has no biomechanical horror in it. there is no biomechanical immaculate conception as horror.

#i don't think it's a very good movie thematically and it was exhausting to watch #i wouldnt say 'god this movie sucks' but i do think it's mostly prestige covering up a weak story #and look i know it's quaint for the 70s schlock guy to say that sort of stuff but this never tried to be schlock #i'm not entirely sure what it was trying to be at all! #it's 2-3 undercooked movies in one of those two people horse costumes and each half is trying to do something different #it could have been fun as something original forking from the first few scenes (dunno why bc i had no idea what to expect) #it would have been extremely fun as a silly little slasher origin story #even the whole 'cross dressing and pretending to be some guy's long lost son' could have been a (questionable) psychological horror premise #but like what the fuck is this. im sure shes a competent director (the movie is mostly a good movie in other regards) but girl #girl what the fuck is this you have to choose something to say. like girl what are you even fucking saying!! #i think its funny she said alexia was meant to be impossible to relate to or something but honestly she slayed in the beginning #if it was a slasher flick she'd have been spectacular

[loverboybrightsideghost]

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#see i can watch hannibal eat someone and watch will investigate the bloody disgusting gruesome w murder scenes #and i can hear jon describe horrific meaty terrors in my ears in tma #all that i can watch/listen to while eating and not feel the slightest bit physically uncomfortable #i eat my food i'm like damn that's crazy #i watch a movie like the prestige? nausea. this movie is SO FUCKING GOOD!!!! #bluebird.txt #dl #the kind of movie that stays with you. goddamn bro #that final shot the foreshadowing all the way through #THE FKNAL FUCKING SHOT MAN #THE MOMENT IN THE MOVIE WHEN IT DAWNS ON YOU WHATS GOING ON #FUCK BRO #SO GOOD #NOLAN DOESNT FUCKING MISS WITH HIS MOVIES #top ten movies that make you wanna puke in horror and amazement

[prestiged-prince]

sex? in my horror movie? it’s more likely than you think.

#horror #prestiged prince posts #nsft tw

[drchucktingle]

hey chuckie, how do you get published and also over the fear of nobody liking your work.

my initial way was to trot a SELF PUBLISHED trot, which is pretty dang exciting because anyone can do it. after writing about four hundred books WORLDS GREATEST AUTHOR CHUCK sent a message to a big time publisher name of nightfire and said 'will you publish my horror novel in all stores?' and they said 'yes bud'

so basically to answer first question of 'how do you get published?' it is both simple and difficult. SIMPLE in that i just started self publishing which anyone can do but DIFFICULT in that i did it for a long time and wrote till my dang eyes fell out.

but honestly i do not think this is the real question.

i think what is really being asked is: how can i climb over the greatest hurdle of all, the voice telling me that i am no good?

the way is to understand that YOU ARE GOOD AT BEING YOU. in fact YOU ARE PERFECT AT BEING YOU. there is LITERALLY NOBODY BETTER, not now, not in the past, not in the future. you are a brilliant eruption of rarity in the middle of endless time stretching forever in either direction.

when i say 'i am the worlds greatest author' i HECKIN MEAN IT, but this does not mean that i am better than you. the podium i stand on is not just for one buckaroo, it is for ALL BUCKAROOS. there is plenty of room at the top because YOU CAN BE THE WORLDS GREATEST AUTHOR TOO. IN FACT, YOU ALREADY ARE.

now that you realize you hold this power and prestige, what are you gonna do with it? that is up to you bud. id say you should go out and publish your dang incredible book

#love is real #book tumblr #publishing #self publishing #chuck tingle #worlds greatest author

[lafiametta]

As much as I'd like Shōgun to return to the dynamic pacing that characterized the first part of the show (have we really spent the last four episodes in Ajiro?), slowing the action down has allowed for some fascinating explorations of character and theme.

One that featured heavily in this week's episode (as well as in the previous one) is the idea of myth-making and story.

Toranaga, of course, is the center of one such myth. The “boy warlord,” he won his first battle at age twelve and then served as second to his defeated enemy, taking off his head with one blow. This is the story that Saeki Nobutatsu tells at dinner, a tale that delights his young, impressionable nephew. Nagakato, who wants to prove himself to his father, takes such story as truth and wants to emulate him by riding off to battle, where he will likely be killed, but as a glorious end that will be told and retold. (“Will we die with blood on our swords?” he asks, which is the only honorable way to die.)

Lady Ochiba is surrounded by her own legends. Whereas Toranaga's exploits are the stuff of dinner party entertainment, she literally watches her own life be made into drama. The play performed at the Noh theater depicts her courtship by the Taikō, a courteous affair where her character does not speak, an frozen mask covering any expression she might make. (“Dear Lady Ochiba,” the fictionalized Taikō tells her, “if we have a son, prestige will spread in every direction...”)

(Mariko is also haunted by a story, that of her father's actions against Kuroda. But unlike Toranaga and Ochiba, she has no desire to disillusion herself. In her mind, her father died a hero, the man he killed a tyrant, and for fourteen years she has suffered by not being able to fulfill her duty to him by joining him in death.)

But what Shōgun is also trying to tell us is that life is nothing like the myth. A glorious death, the honor of one's family, the prestige of bearing the Taikō's only son, these require far more of us that we can ever imagine, pain and horror laced through every act.

The true story is one we never want to tell. It is being drugged and assaulted on a nightly basis by your consort and his wife, all in the hopes that you will give them a child. It is hacking at the bloody neck of your defeated enemy, until the ninth blow finally severs his head. It is attempting to kill your uncle in the darkened garden of a tea house, only to slip on a wet stone and dash your brains against the rocks, not a single drop of blood on your sword.

#shōgun #shogun #shogun 2024 #shogun fx #fx shogun #shogun spoilers #1x06 #1x07 #yoshii toranaga #yoshii nagakato #lady ochiba #toda mariko #meta