[goodsirs]

Isabella Wei as Ling Yi in 1899 — 1.07 “The Storm”

[goryhorroor]

cats in horror

blanche in house (1977) winston churchill in pet sematary (1989) jonesy in alien (1979) jezebel in the sentinel (1977) thackery binx in hocus pocus (1993) ligeia in the tomb of ligeia (1964) general in cat’s eye (1985) mar in ju-on: the grudge (2002) the cat in a girl walks home alone at night (2014) cat in coraline (2009)

[rubyvroom]

Free horror films on Youtube: 2021 edition

Around five years ago I made a list of free horror movies you could watch on Youtube. Unfortunately none of the links work anymore and it’s much harder to get full-length films on Youtube these days.

But not impossible! Here is a brand new version with links that work as of 9/21/21 for all your Halloween marathon needs. Some of these are very old movies in public domain, others are just up on Youtube and nobody cares enough to take them down. A few are on Youtube Movies and are free with ads embedded (*). Enjoy!

The Old-School Classics

Nosferatu (original 1922 version)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Faust

The Mummy

Bride of Frankenstein

Phantom of the Opera

Night of the Living Dead

The Innocents

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die

The Blob

70s-80s-90s

The Omen

Black Christmas

Halloween

The Stepford Wives

The Stepfather

Ginger Snaps

Brahm Stoker’s Dracula

Dog Soldiers

Frailty

Horror Around the World

Diabolique

Black Sunday

M

Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog 1979 version)

Hour of the Wolf

Black Sabbath

Suspiria

Vampyr

Haxan : Witchcraft Through the Ages 

Rated V for Vincent Price

The House on Haunted Hill

The Last Man on Earth 

The Pit and the Pendulum 

The Masque of the Red Death

Stephen King made for TV corner:

Sometimes They Come Back

The Stand 

The Tommyknockers

The Langoliers

Storm of the Century

Hammer Films British Horror

The Vampire Lovers

Twins of Evil

Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter

The Evil of Frankenstein

More Older Horror Films That are A little Lesser Known but I Love Them

A Bucket of Blood

Dementia 13

Carnival of Souls

The Lodger 

Lemora: a Child’s Tale of the Supernatural

Some Recent Indie Horror Films You Really Should Really Try

Darling

Coherence

Oculus

Lake Mungo

Triangle

YouTube Films Currently Free with Ads that More or Less Fit the Bill

Trollhunters (*)

Gremlins (*)

The Silence of the Lambs (*)

Addams Family Values (*)

[sphinxinthenight]

Handmaiden by Gaslight: Gothic Film Adaptation, Gendered Subjectivity and Vengeance

Gothic storytelling is marked by changing narrators, multiple perspectives, the instability of perception, and the reexamination of rationality and sanity as constructions rather than absolutes. Horror’s classic “Is this real or am I going crazy?” conflict becomes profoundly lethal in the gothic as it reflects the historic blood shed by way of gendered subjectivities.

The Handmaiden is a unique, complex new entry in gothic storytelling that recalls the dense subtext and filmic innovations of its predecessors like Gaslight, a film that seventy years later still confounds viewers with insights and fuel for modern-day vernacular on psychological abuse. Both of these films not only expose the obfuscation of women’s lives and legacies by men who weaponize the threat of the asylum against them, but also build toward climaxes in which the heroines carry out vengeance upon their abusers and reclaim their freedom.

Here is my labor of love: I write about the sumptuous collection of gothic literary tropes that drive Gaslight and The Handmaiden. Please share and let me know what you think!

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favorite genre of horror bts

[vivienvalentino]

The Loneliness of Science Fiction

Interstellar (2014, dir. Christopher Nolan)

The Martian (2015, dir. Ridley Scott)

Annihilation (2018, dir. Alex Garland) 

Blade Runner 2049 (2017, dir. Denis Villeneuve) 

Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

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Parallels: Stranger Things & A Nightmare on Elm Street

[tipsonradiance]

Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s horror legacy, as of today (2006-2016)

Final Destination 3 (2006)

Black Christmas (2006)

Death Proof (2007)

The Thing (2011)

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

[sphinxinthenight]

Kate Bush’s Cinema of Sound: Her Love of Cinema, The Films That Inspired Her Songs and Her Filmmaking Dreams

Bush’s control over not just her music but her image and the visual representation of her work, coupled with her love of cinema and storytelling, extends to an even larger yet lesser-known dream of hers: filmmaking. Cinema, particularly the genres of horror, gothic, and film noir, drove many of Bush’s most well-known songs: Wuthering Heights, Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon, Truffaut’s The Bride Wore Black, Jack Clayton’s The Innocents, Powell & Pressburger’s The Red Shoes and more. “I am fascinated by the negative aspects of terror. Isn’t everyone?” she once said. “Horrible things fire my imagination. Without them there’d be no film industry.”

Time and money limits on videos led to Bush’s continual frustration with the end results, but regardless of their outcome, she said that “what I really like about videos is that I’m working with film. It gives me the chance to get in there and learn about making films, and it’s tremendously useful for me, because one day I might like to make films myself.” Increasingly, she wished to be behind the camera rather than in front, wanting to explore the relationship between music and image. Her career has shown that, as an interpreter, video director, performer, storyteller, and filmmaker, she’s an artist who has created a uniquely multi-layered mode of authorship in an industry where such levels of artistic control are not easily gained.

I wrote about Kate Bush’s love of horror, film and more for Dazed!

[santiagogarcia]

And I remember thinking of my father [a doctor] a bit. Because afterward he even pointed that out: that there was the awe of cutting somebody open and seeing something. Which made it more horrible. As opposed to me being horrified by it, I was like: Look, there it is! There was an excitement to it which just made it all the more disquieting. That’s something that Alex [Garland] and I talked a lot about in that movie: how do you make what’s there just slightly off so it really creeps you out. — OSCAR ISAAC

Annihilation (2018) dir. Alex Garland

[filmetto]

Milk and villains:

Let the Right One In (2008) No Country for Old Men (2007) Get Out (2017) Inglourious Basterds (2009) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Succession (S2E3)

[gullbones]

1. house of 1000 corpses // 2. suspiria // 3. gerard’s game // 4. mandy // 5. lords of salem // 6. the exorcist // 7. the house of the devil

[lesmiserabelles]

lucy st louis as christine daaé | the phantom of the opera 2021 trailer

[afterhoursanimationschool]

Concept Art for Dreamwork’s Cancelled Film Moby Dick by Paul Lasaine

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Japanese poster for David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch, 1991.

[july-mulder]

Don’t walk past me as if we were strangers.

Jane Eyre (2011) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

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David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)