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[razzleberryicedtea]

Book Review: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

A fun read for terrible times. Have hope.

Heyy, I just posted another review on substack. I would appreciate if y'all checked it out and supported me by subscribing/liking/leaving a comment/etc. You can also come yell at me about good omens/books in general on here lol

[noodles-and-tea]

And THEN-

[kippdipp]

just a couple losers plannin a clubhouse!! 🎈

[ecorner]

this idea has been eating at my brain for awhile so here's a richie

[floatingtozier]

That's poison ivy

That's poison ivy

And thats poison ivy

Wheres the poison ivy?

Nowhere!

Not every fucking plant is poison ivy, stanley!

[benito-cereno]

Hey Benito. I'm someone who always uses your Netflix guide to Halloween movies and I've generally enjoyed all recs. I am a person who rarely watches spook films though. If you could would you be willing to make a list of your must see scary movies ever. I know it's a lot to ask but I'd love a big list from you to hunt down and watch this October! Please consider it and thanks

Hello! This is a great question and one that I am excited to answer. I could easily spend the rest of my life answering this question, and so I am going to have to limit myself. While part of my brain wants to categorize the movies by genre or era or movement, I’m going to just arrange them by decade so there’s at least some organization and not just a list of hundreds of titles.

This list will be pretty long, I’ll warn you. I will be doing my best to mix in the essential classics that everyone knows and agrees on with hopefully lesser known movies that might be worth watching not necessarily because they are flawlessly made, but because they are notable for other reasons. I will also try to include more than just American films, since a lot of really notable horror has come out of Italy, Japan, Korea, Spain, and the UK, for example.

That said, even though I watch horror movies all year round and devote a lot of my time to them, I still haven’t seen everything. There are some that are probably someone out there’s favorite that I haven’t seen, or maybe they didn’t pop into my head while I was writing this. I promise the omission of your personal favorite jam is not (necessarily) an intentional slight.

If there is any particular movie or group of movies anyone would like to see me talk more about, drop me a line in my ask box and I will elaborate.

Okay, here we go:

1920s:

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Nosferatu

The Phantom of the Opera

1930s:

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Dracula

King Kong

Vampyr: der Traum des Allan Grey

The Invisible Man

Freaks

The Mummy

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Black Cat

White Zombie

The Old Dark House

1940s:

Dead of Night

The Uninvited

Cat People

The Wolf Man

I Walked With a Zombie

The Body Snatcher

1950s:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Night of the Hunter

The Fly

House of Wax

House on Haunted Hill

Horror of Dracula

Curse of Frankenstein

Night of the Demon

1960s:

Repulsion

Rosemary’s Baby

Psycho

Night of the Living Dead

The Birds

Peeping Tom

The Innocents

Eyes Without a Face

Village of the Damned

The Haunting

The Fall of the House of Usher

Masque of the Red Death

Black Sunday

Black Sabbath

Kwaidan

Carnival of Souls

1970s:

Jaws

Alien

Don’t Look Now

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Suspiria

Halloween

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Martin

Deep Red

Carrie

Dawn of the Dead

The Exorcist

The Wicker Man

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage

The Legend of Hell House

Last House on the Left

The Omen

The Abominable Dr Phibes

The Hills Have Eyes

The Changeling

Tombs of the Blind Dead

1980s:

Evil Dead

Evil Dead 2

The Fly

The Shining

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Re-Animator

Fright Night

Poltergeist

The Lost Boys

The Fog

Return of the Living Dead

American Werewolf in London

Zombi 2

The Thing

The Howling

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

The Beyond

1990s:

The Silence of the Lambs

Ringu

The Blair Witch Project

Scream

Audition

Army of Darkness

The Sixth Sense

Dead Alive

Cemetery Man

Ravenous

2000s:

Let the Right One In

Drag Me to Hell

Zombieland

Shaun of the Dead

The Devil’s Backbone

28 Days Later

Dog Soldiers

[REC]

Tale of Two Sisters

Saw

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Ginger Snaps

The Orphanage

Ju-On

The Devil’s Rejects

The Host

Pontypool

The House of the Devil

The Descent

The Others

Kairo

Martyrs

2010s:

The Babadook

The Cabin in the Woods

Attack the Block

I Saw the Devil

Resolution

V/H/S

You’re Next

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

The Innkeepers

It Follows

Kill List

Lake Mungo

Okay, I’ve certainly forgotten some, and definitely some great-taste super-genius is going to tell me that X should be on there and not A, B, and C, but hopefully this is enough to get you started ;)

Again, if you have a question about a more specific subset–best Universal horror, best Hammer horror, best American International horror, w/e–just drop me a line and we can look a little closer.

[floatingtozier]

I thought it might be useful so made a letterboxd list for y'all with everything on this list sorted by year of release

https://boxd.it/EsvOS$E79FiogUQOoCTOnO

[sharkpuppymusic]

It's about the stolen adolescence and holding onto childhood while seeking to reconcile this with your identity as an adult of it all. Listen to Hindsight (2020) on Bandcamp! https://sharkpuppy.bandcamp.com/album/hindsight-2020

Which song from Shark Puppy’s hit album Hindsight (2020) are you? Find out now with the official uQuiz!

Stream Hindsight (2020) on Bandcamp, OUT NOW!!!

uQuiz by @flightlesslovers, @sapphicsansastark and @trashmouthbi

[vintagegeekculture]

"Viy" (1967), the only horror movie ever made in the Soviet Union.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price at the opening of The Tingler (1959)

[thefloatingstone]

I assume people are aware of what the gimmick was with "the Tingler" and I don't need to explain it

[vltima]

Please educate me on what "the Tingler" did. I am very curious

[thefloatingstone]

The Tingler is a B grade horror film made by William Castle. Now what you need to know about William Castle is the dude liked to put on a SHOW. (If the first sentence in his bio on Wikipedia doesn't make you interested in him nothing will.) He made around 15 movies but the one's he's most remembered for had some or other "gimmick" when you went to go see them in theaters during the 50s and 60s.

A famous one was for "The House at Haunted Hill" (also starring Vincent Price). At a pivotal scene in the movie, a skeleton with red glowing eyes would swoop out over the movie theater audience on a wire.

Now the Tingler had a much more unique concept.

The story of the Tingler is already insane. In the movie, Scientists discover that all human beings are born with a parasite in their spines called a "Tingler" that feed off of human fear. Called "The Tingler" for how you feel a rush run down your spine during extreme fear, which turns out to be the feeling of the parasite growing. Tinglers grow and will slowly curl in on themselves and will eventually crush the human spine it's wrapped around. Humans have evolved a natural defense mechanism, which is screaming when they get scared. Screaming weakens the growth of the Tingler, and prevents it from reaching a lethal size.

A scientist discovers this creature after a movie theater owner's wife, who was deaf and mute, died because she could not scream when frightened. Turns out he had murdered his wife by purposefully terrifying her, allowing the Tingler to grow to a lethal size.

So here's the gimmick. It's simply but ingeniously effective, as the entire movie was basically written to "sell" the gimmick.

William Castle had buzzers installed under the theater seats. This caused the seats to, at specific points in the movie, vibrate against the movie audience's backs.

There was also some live action sequences I'm just gonna copy paste from the wiki

During the climax of the film, The Tingler was unleashed in the movie theater, while the audience watched a climactic fight scene in Tol'able David (1921). The film stops and, in some real-life theaters, the house lights came on, a woman screamed and pretended to faint and was then taken away in a stretcher; all part of the show arranged by Castle.[12][8] From the screen, the voice of Price mentioned the fainted lady and asked the rest of the audience to remain seated. The film-within-a-film resumed and was interrupted again. The projected film appeared to break as the silhouette of the tingler moved across the projection beam. The image of the film went dark, all lights in the auditorium (except fire exit signs) went off, and Price's voice warned the audience, "Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic. But scream! Scream for your lives! The tingler is loose in this theater!"[15] This cued the theater projectionist to activate the Percepto! buzzers, giving some audience members an unexpected jolt, followed by a highly visible physical reaction. The voices of scared patrons were heard from the screen, replaced by the voice of Price, who explained that the tingler was paralyzed and the danger was over. At this point, the film resumed its normal format, which was used for its epilogue.

There were also nurses stationed at the theater doors and planted "Screamers and fainters" who would be gurneyd out of the theater and "whisked off to hospital" past the audience, who would then come back and repeat the process for the next showing.

And that's the story of the movie "The Tingler".

I recommend looking up Willaim Castle and his movies further.

Also this is what a Tingler supposedly looks like

Edit: oh it was also the first movie to ever show someone take LSD. Since LSD was legal at the time.

[lunegrimm]

Nachtschwärmer - [night owl/ night person]

New personal piece just in time for the return of the werewolf designs (more details will follow soon] I felt like making coloured version this time as well & I love how it looks! #WerewolfWednesday

[eacart]

Inspired by @val-creative ‘s fic Hollow where Richie is haunted by the deadlights!!! It’s so good check it out!!

[sunshinereddie]

need someone to draw this as reddie but it’s “baking my childhood love into a cookie because an evil clown made me forget him as we grew up and apart but we just reunited after 27 years and i realized i’m still in love with him but he’s married to a woman and i can’t do anything about it”

[elhopperentourage]

okay now that i’ve seen this i couldn’t go to sleep until i drew it so…

quality is awful but i have a jazz band audition tomorrow and need to sleep 4 that!!

[billcarden]

(I'M SORRY) EVERY SONG'S ABOUT YOU

in 2023, most people who know richie tozier know of him as a B-list comedian. but to elder emos and gay young adults on the internet, he's the frontman of shark puppy - a now-mostly-irrelevant pop punk band and former warped tour staple. he's mostly forgotten about his days in shark puppy, until people start to find his 15-year-old livejournal posts that they're speculating are about shark puppy's former tour manager, eddie kaspbrak.

read it on ao3 (and check out the reddiesance ao3 collection and tumblr tag for the 5 year anniversary of it chapter 2!)

[mxgicdave]

And they loved you. Really loved you.

[t4tozier]

“it would’ve been less effort for them to carry eddie out than drag richie out” is my “there was room on the door”

[darkcrowprincess]

Why most people read Stephen King: Horror.

Why I read Stephen King: Gay subtext, friendships, secondary characters, and cool villians to root for.

[gloomy-prince]

gonna start making a collection of confused Stan faces