No. 1 Cronengirly

Jenny | 20s | Horror fanatic | former media student | average David Cronenberg enjoyer | She/it

[cronengirly]

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@/queenofplaguerats -> @cronengirly

Main: @doomed-jester

Long Live the New Flesh✨

[cronengirly]

Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) is fascinating to me. As a mummy movie it's a 1/2 star experience on account of There Are No Mummies In It. As an Evil Dead movie (which it technically isn't but... c'mon) it's a solid 3.5, felt very restrained by the standards of those movies. If they amped it up a little more and slapped "From the World of Evil Dead" on the posters it could've been a 4 star, maybe even 4.5.

If your sole criteria for a movie is "does it include split diopter shots," oh boy are you in luck

[yaxsha]

Ah…to be in a dark lake with a huge dead guy… 🔪🩵

[cronengirly]

If there's one thing that really shocks me, it's that the 2020s has become the decade that revived hagsploitation cinema. It's such a bizarre thing to see a resurgence of in this decade.

[cronengirly]

Apparently in the book Sadako is actually described as "a little tall," which is a new thing for me to be mad about whenever I see art of her that's so clearly just Samara from the American version but with a different name. THEY'RE VERY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS. THE AMERICAN VERSION IS NOT A FAITHFUL ADAPTATION. FUCK YOU.

[cronengirly]

So, I'm currently reading Ring by Koji Suzuki. I've already watched most of the films so I have a pretty good idea of how Sadako's curse functions, but one thing I don't recall is what happens if you try to pass it to someone who's already been cursed. Can you get re-cursed? Can two people keep passing the tape back and forth to prolong their deadlines indefinitely? Or do you become immune after passing it on?

[blightyrant]

it's 2026 and we've finally figured out how to beat that little japanese girl at her own game. amen

[cronengirly]

Honestly I wouldn't even call that "beating" the curse. If you have to live your whole life knowing that at any given time you have a week to live and can only extend that timer by copying a video tape and sharing with someone who's willing to borrow the curse, you've kinda just trapped yourself in an endless cycle of misery. It's like thinking that if you just keep having enough sex you can beat the monster from It Follows. Indefinitely delaying an imminent demise doesn't negate it, it just means you'll never have a day of peace again for as long as you live.

Also I'm like 90% sure that in some of the different versions, Sadako's curse will cause other supernatural phenomena as your time ticks down. I think it would probably be a pretty miserable way to live. At that rate, just show someone else the tape and get the hell out of dodge

[cronengirly]

So, I'm currently reading Ring by Koji Suzuki. I've already watched most of the films so I have a pretty good idea of how Sadako's curse functions, but one thing I don't recall is what happens if you try to pass it to someone who's already been cursed. Can you get re-cursed? Can two people keep passing the tape back and forth to prolong their deadlines indefinitely? Or do you become immune after passing it on?

[horror-aesthete]

May or may not be working on new poster designs for my shop

EDIT: They're currently up in my shop! Happy lesbian visibility week, yall.

[lucy-harker]

BILL SKARSGÅRD as BOB GRAY WELCOME TO DERRY 1.07 "The Black Spot"

[vivemonroi]

Me after episode 7:

I’m traumatised.

[cronengirly]

NGL, watching the other works of Koji Shiraishi, especially Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi, made me understand and appreciate Sadako vs Kayako so much more

[eyeronmaus]

My sexual orientation is Kudo continually antagonizing Kokkuri

[mbharestuff]

PSYCHIC MEDIUM: it's weird that you don't seem to have a soul.

KUDO JIN: idk I guess. look, I've had some experiences. whatever. moving on.

[natvoltaic]

[humanpersonface]

Hori, in the movie "Noroi- The Curse": *starts ranting about the worms.*

People when their first Koji Shiraishi movie is Noroi:

People who know all about the Shiraishi Cosmic Horror Worm Cinematic Universe:

[eyeronmaus]

I hear that

[cronengirly]

I love when I stumble on to a new obsession completely by accident. I was watching Koji Shiraishi's Noroi: The Curse the other day and, as I tend to do, I decided to search the Tumblr tags for the movie looking for any nice screengrabs, fan art or analysis. Then I found out that Noroi is just one film in an entire SHARED UNIVERSE of cosmic horror Japanese mockumentary films?? So I watched Occult (2009) after Noroi then started watching Shiraishi's Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi series, which is available in its entirety on YouTube with English subs. I'm currently five films into SKFK and I am OBSESSED, I need more people to get into this film franchise. It's nuts and all the movies seem to connect somehow. If you're a fan of J horror, ghost hunting or lovecraftian horror, I highly recommend checking these out. SKFK is best treated like a show imo, each film feels more like an episode and they all bleed into each other in some way.