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chaoticdesertdweller · 16 days

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"I Know What You Did Last Summer"

Dir. Jim Gillespie, 1997

#i know what you did last summer #1997 #teen horror #sarah michelle gellar #jennifer love hewitt #my teen obsessions #movies i saw in the theater #movie stills

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esqueletosgays · 1 month

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THE COVENANT (2006)

Director: Renny Harlin Cinematography: Pierre Gill

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ersatzreality · 2 years

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#the lost boys #marko the lost boys #marko #alex winter #80s horror #teen horror #1987 #vampire #horror #classic horror

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secretpeanutstrawberry · 7 months

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india eisley in look away (2018)

#india eisley #look away #horror #teen horror #gif pack

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foxyfablesblog · 10 months

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Check out my Book Review: You're Not Supposed To Die Tonight

#young adult horror #book review #Kaylynn bayron #you're not supposed to die tonight #young adult fiction #book blog #bookish #young adult novel #LGBTQ fiction #sapphic fiction #young adult thriller #young adult mystery #booklr #african american fiction #teen horror

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nighttimefrights · 8 months

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A page from my book "Midnight Hunger: the Undying Curse" From the Nighttime Frights Series available only on Barnesandnoble.com

Midnight hunger - the undying curse: ( NightTime Frights Series #01) by Jason Edwin, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

#NightTime Frights #goosebumps #horror #horror books #kids horror #90s nostalgia #horror fiction #horror stories #new books #thrillers #horror novel #best seller books #New horror books #80s horror #90s horror #creepypasta #kids horror books #teen horror #teen horror books

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afternoonhorror · 6 months

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Just the one find at the thrift store recently 🛟

#rl stine #fear street #super chillers #the dead lifeguard #afternoon horror #teen horror #ya books #scary fiction #thrift store scores

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anhed-nia · 5 months

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BLOGTOBER 10/30/2023: TALK TO ME (2022)

When I was 9 or 10 years old, I went to a slumber party with a lot of other girls who started a game of choking each other for the rush. I didn't participate, but watched in fascination as they took turns making each other pass out for several hours. Early on, it devolved into a lot of girls faking it so they could then pretend to say outrageous things "in their sleep", so this wasn't as extreme a scenario as it may sound. However, there's something deeply perverse about it, at least relative to the (bullshit, often harmful) "innocence" society projects onto children, and I wasn't sure if I should even write this all down. I had a feeling that probably lots of little kids have done this, but I couldn't be sure. I tried looking it up on the internet, and found a pretty upsetting article about it from just a few years ago. So, I suppose it's probably pretty common, and has been so, though it's not always the casual thing I remember from childhood. I thought about this for the first time in decades when I recently saw TALK TO ME, a strange and original Australian horror movie that I'm really sorry I missed in theaters.

Mia (Sophie Wilde), an alienated teenager struggling with her mother's suicide and her father's subsequent withdrawal from her, finds a bizarre form of comfort in a disturbing game she learns at a house party. Local delinquents have somehow procured an embalmed, severed hand that causes anyone who holds it to become possessed by ghosts. This is safe when done for short periods of time, beyond which there lie untold perils. Inevitably, Mia breaks the rules in order to reunite with her late mother--a foolish mistake that sets off a gruesome chain of events, threatening to destroy her along with all of her loved ones.

For a movie with such a fun and stylish veneer, TALK TO ME is surprisingly sad and grim, and also unpredictable. Things about it didn't quite add up for me: Where does this object come from? Why do the kids accept its extraordinary supernatural effects so readily and fearlessly? What effect does it exactly have on them, that cause them to behave like addicts, endlessly going back for more even when many of them are humiliated by the behavior of the possessing spirits? At that, why do kids play games like Bloody Mary, where the expectation is that a demoness will spring out of your mirror and murder you? Why are Ouija Boards all the more attractive because of the rumored dangers? These questions dredged up my ancient memories of the choking game, something that may not have made sense to most adults, because it was a little scary, and because it broke the rules around what society assumes about innocent young children. At that, there may be something to the fact that TALK TO ME was made by first-time filmmakers Michael and Danny Philippou, whose relative inexperience may have given them the freedom to ignore the usual expectations. This produces a rather uncertain viewing experience that sometimes results in a breech of contract with the audience, who may not expect something as intense as this movie becomes.

Obviously this is a commercial graphic related to where to stream TALK TO ME, but it so represents my feelings about being a film lover in the modern world that I'm including it anyway.

Of course, I had to look up who the filmmakers were, which was sort of an unpredictable journey in and of itself. First it was like...oh no, they're YouTubers. I really don't want anything to do with that whole entire culture. Then further down their Wikipedia page there's the Controversies section, and I was like, Oh no, half the time I am forced to hear about a YouTuber, it's because someone has been outed as a gross predator, I don't know if I even wanna look... And then I read what was in there. Twice. And I was OK with it:

The End.

#blogtober #2023 #talk to me #2022 #horror #supernatural #possession #teen horror #ghost #sophie wilde #danny philippou #michael philippou

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kevinsreviewcatalogue · 5 months

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Review: Thanksgiving (2023)

Thanksgiving (2023)

Rated R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, pervasive language and some sexual material

Score: 3 out of 5

Thanksgiving is a movie that feels like a remake of itself. Specifically, a 2000s Platinum Dunes slasher remake, rather appropriately given that the film began life as a fake trailer for the 2007 film Grindhouse homaging the retro holiday slasher flicks of the '80s, with a mix of depraved and gory deaths, phenomenally stupid characters, and low-budget sleaze. It's an idea that has been bouncing around in director and co-writer Eli Roth's head for years, and even as he went on to make other movies, he never gave up on the idea of turning it into a feature film the way that Machete and Hobo with a Shotgun, two other fake trailers attached to Grindhouse, had been. The film he and co-writer Jeff Rendell ultimately made feels like a film that's ultimately, after sixteen years, wound its way from being an homage to '80s horror to being an homage to '00s horror, the decade in which Roth cut his teeth as a filmmaker, filled as it is with elements of that era's slasher flicks that now seem old enough to be nostalgic in their own right. It homages a lot of the trailer's more memorable scenes, but wraps them in a package that's at once darker and grittier but also slicker and more polished, with a big-name cast (a mix of veteran actors like Patrick Dempsey and Gina Gershon, Disney Channel stars like Milo Manheim, and influencers like Addison Rae) paired with exactly the kind of violence you'd expect from a filmmaker who was once considered one of the leading figures behind the "Splat Pack" of ultraviolent 2000s horror movies. Most importantly, it's a movie I enjoyed, even if I'll be the first to admit that it's no classic, or one of Roth's best. It's a fairly by-the-numbers whodunit teen slasher cut from a very post-Scream cloth that doesn't have a lot of surprises, but does have some solid thrills and chills that I suspect are gonna ensure that it gets rewatched a fair bit by horror fans around the Thanksgiving holiday.

Set in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the film opens with a Black Friday riot at RightMart instigated by a mix of the store's owner Thomas Wright deciding to open early on Thanksgiving night and a group of teenagers, including Thomas' daughter Jessica, managing to sneak in early and provoke the crowd outside when they see them. Three people die in the ensuing stampede, a security guard, a shopper, and the wife of the store's manager, while the high school baseball team's star pitcher Bobby gets his arm broken, killing his sporting dreams. One year later, a killer in a Pilgrim costume and a mask of the Plymouth Colony's first governor John Carver is hacking up people connected to the "FightMart" riot, on a quest for revenge. Now, the teens, along with the local sheriff Eric Newlon, must figure out who's behind the murders before they're the next to die.

It's a simple slasher plot of a sort that we've seen a million times in the last twenty-five years, and it was honestly a fairly predictable one. The killer's identity is telegraphed pretty early on, it wasn't much of a surprise when the big reveal came, and the main plot was rather boilerplate once you scratch the surface. You've got a lot of archetypal teen horror movie stock characters (the aggro jock, the sexy best friend, the shifty boyfriend, the cool geek because it's 2023 and unpopular nerds don't work anymore, the girl who you know is gonna make it to the end and defeat the killer) who largely stay within their lane, as well as adult supporting cast members who are there to serve as cannon fodder and/or suspects. The plot involving the store's greedy management was established in the first act but never really built upon after. It's not altogether completely disposable from a writing standpoint, but this is still a teen slasher movie, and you don't watch these films for particularly in-depth plotting and characterization unless you see an A24 plate on the opening credits.

No, you watch because you want the goods. You want stabbings, decapitations, dismemberment, mutilations, and more, all vividly displayed on screen in ways that earn this movie an R rating. And when you've got the guy who made Cabin Fever and Hostel behind the camera, that's what you're gonna get. This movie comes alive when it's time to kill, and it doesn't care how ridiculous it gets with the bloodshed. The deaths range from the deadly serious to the awesome to the comical (one death in the opening Black Friday scene involving a man literally shopping 'til he dropped had me in stitches), but no matter what, when John Carver is doing what his name suggests, that's when it felt like Roth was most invested in the material. There's one lengthy chase scene late in the film, climaxing with one of its best and most gruesome kills, that I think is gonna go down as one of the classics. The gore is plentiful, and it is icky and gross.

The cast was surprisingly good for a movie like this. Nell Verlaque may not have had much of a character to work with as Jessica beyond "the final girl", but she did it well, in particular giving great "scared face" whenever she was confronted by the killer or realized that her friends were in danger. Patrick Dempsey made for a good authority figure as the sheriff, and if you're wondering how Addison Rae did, she actually wasn't bad. Finally, the actor playing the killer was wonderfully hammy after the big reveal, and I wouldn't have accepted anything less given the kind of movie this was, delivering the most ridiculous dialogue ("this Thanksgiving, there will be no leftovers!") with the straightest face without even once winking at the camera. On every technical level, this movie was at the very least competent, and never wore out its welcome.

The Bottom Line

Thanksgiving could've stood to have a bit more meat on its bones story-wise in order to make the parts between the kills more interesting, but the kills were plentiful and grisly enough, and its other qualities competent enough, that I could forgive it. Even if it's just from lack of competition, I see this sticking around as a go-to Thanksgiving/Black Friday horror flick.

#thanksgiving #thanksgiving movie #2023 #2023 movies #slasher #slasher movies #horror #horror movies #teen horror #teen movies #holiday movies #eli roth #patrick dempsey #gina gershon #addison rae #milo manheim

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geenawrites · 8 months

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This September, I started watching the Amazon Prime series Harlan Coben's Shelter, starring Jaden Michael (Vampires vs. The Bronx and The Get Down). During that time, I started thinking about horror films starring Black Teenage Protagonists. Was it in any better a state than science fiction for Black teens? I've only just started my research (well, browser searches, really), and the end result of unsurprisingly similar to the state of the teen science fiction genre. The number of horror films starring Black protagonists has increased since the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, for sure. The representation of stories has certainly gotten more and more specific, yes. But the focus is almost always on adults or 20 twentysomethings.

So, like before: The following list is a collection of horror and thriller/mystery films that feature Black teenagers as the protagonists of stories that would typically exclude them or see them play second fiddle to white or non-Black leads.

#letterboxd #geenawrites #geeenawrites #horror films #teen horror #attack the block #vampires vs the bronx #the people under the stairs

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nerdby · 9 months

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Ok, I was a little off. This show isn't the anti-Totally Spies.

If anything Buffy Summers seems like an evangelical Kim Possible. But mocking nerdy girls isn't any better than mocking Valley girls.

At least that's what I can gather from the first episode with the whole underground Christian rave party and Luke going on about how the master will inherent the earth and the devil will come to town. And does it bother anyone else that Angel is like forty and giving a SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl presents after being caught stalking her???

Did I mention that Angel is one of Buffy's infamous love interests???? Which makes the aforementioned weirdness even more uncomfortable😣

I'm kinda triggered right now, not gonna lie. Cause I'm getting some pretty strong anti-Paganism vibes from this first episode. But can the show really be called anti-Pagan if its based off of vampire mythology which is rooted in Christianity??? Or at least it is in the Western world -- there are some pretty cool Asian mythologies about vampires or blood-sucking creatures.

By the way, I'm also a Pagan witch, so if you're wondering why I'm just a little upset that would be why.

So I am gonna take a pause and just hold off on that second episode. Cause I need a moment to process and decompress before I try to deal with anymore potentially rightwing fearmongering bullshit. That crap was everywhere in the 90s courtesy of Satanic Panic. And, no, I'm not being dramatic -- anyone who tells you Pagans don't face discrimination is extremely ignorant.

Wiccans weren't even allowed to have pentacles on tombstones until like 2008 and it wasn't until the 2010s that pentacles were allowed in most schools in the US. I'm not a Wiccan but I do emphasize with them cause that is some grade-A Christofascist bullshit.

This is all googleable, by the way.

#comic books #horror genre #horror series #teen horror #nostalgia geek #nostalgiacore #90s nostalgia #tv and streaming #tv and movies #hulu #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #paganism #vampires #satanic panic #ptsd thoughts #actually ptsd

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esqueletosgays · 1 year

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MATE-ME POR FAVOR / KILL ME PLEASE (2015)

Director: Anita Rocha da Silveira Cinematography: João Atala

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bimbomoviebash · 1 year

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Valentine, 2001

#film blog #film stills #movie stills #cinema #movies #horror #horror movies #teen horror #y2k #valentine #valentines day #horror fans #teen movies

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thehorrormoviechick · 9 months

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Idle Hands (1999)

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mediamatinees · 3 months

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Talk to Me: an Exploration of Intimacy and Grief

Grab a comfortable chair, some rope, and a camera. We're diving into Talk to Me!

“The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’erfraught heart and bids it break.” – William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” Content Warning: Talk to Me contains discussions of and allusions to drug use and scenes of violence, including attempted murder and self-harm (particularly suicidal ideation). It’s also a psychological/supernatural horror film, so there’s definitely disturbing imagery. There’s…

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#A24 #alexandra jensen #Australian movies #danny philippou #horror #joe bird #michael philippou #miranda otto #sophie wilde #talk to me #teen horror #this movie is very sad y&039;all

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danielstalter · 11 months

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The Prom Queen was an exceptionally fun and bloody romp through Shadyside. It pulled off having a large cast of characters much better than many of its Fear Street predecessors, at least so far as the five prom queen candidates went. I can’t say the same for the boy characters; they all kinda blended together aside from being suspects. There are also some great examples in this book of how you don’t have to be a killer to be a total fucking creep. It was kinda funny how the students and parents were all anxious about the recent murders in Shadyside, as though murders don’t happen there all the time. It was also pretty ridiculous that the school would put on a play and do the prom on the same weekend. I mean, Shadyside is hardly a normal town, but maybe this was a tradition in some high schools. I can’t say for sure. It sounds like a logistical nightmare to me. In fact, I would say my biggest issues with the book were the baffling decisions made by the minor adult characters. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end. That alone elevates this book for me. The plot may have followed a familiar Fear Street formula, but I felt like The Prom Queen was one of the best-executed books to use it.

Score: 4

Find my full review with spoilers snark, and memes over on my blog: https://www.danstalter.com/the-prom-queen/

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