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behindthescreamz

katharine isabelle as mary mason on the set of “american mary” (2012)

rylandgraces

SEND HELP — 2026, dir. Sam Raimi

acecroft

Ooby dooby, motherfucker.

DANGEROUS ANIMALS (2025) dir. Sean Byrne

#zephyr annoyed me at first idk why #but she very much redeemed herself by the time she chewed off her own thumb

thesoldiersminute

Dangerous Animals 2025 | Sean Byrne

#finally watching this rn #the fucking baby shark song oh god

hearthouses

FRANKENSTEIN (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro

filmgifs

Amber Midthunder as Naru PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

only80sgifs

baredmirror

“More recently, feminist film theorists have turned to the work of one of Lacan’s successors, the French feminist psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. Kristeva’s book Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection focuses on literature and not film, but her views have been adapted to the study of visual horror by Barbara Creed, in a 1986 Screen article about Alien, and in her more recent book The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Kristeva locates the sources and origins of horror not in castration anxiety, but in the preoedipal stage of the infant’s ambivalence toward the mother as it struggles to create boundaries and forge its own ego identity. The mother is ‘horrific’ in the sense of being all-engulfing, primitive, and impure or defiled by bodily fluids—particularly breast milk and flowing menstrual blood. Kristeva uses the term ‘abjection’ to designate the psychic condition inspired by this image of the horrific mother. For Kristeva, horror is fundamentally about boundaries—about the threat of transgressing them, and about the need to do so. Hence she emphasizes the duality of our attraction/repulsion to the horrific.”

— Cynthia A. Freeland, “Feminist Frameworks for Horror Films”

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goryhorroor

130 favorite horror movies: (63/130)

"the trick is not to go too far. just enough to break through the skull."

-the loved ones (2009) dir. sean byrne

erikakohuts

RED ROOMS (2023) dir. Pascal Plante

saucefunk

you’re a strange animal

brundleflyforawhiteguy

Pumpkinhead (1988)

goryhorroor

130 favorite horror movies: (62/130)

"there is no death. there is only a transition to a different sphere of consciousness. carol anne is not like those she's with. she is a living presence in their spiritual earthbound plane. they are attracted to the one thing about her that is different from themselves - her life force. It is very strong. it gives off its own illumination. it is a light that implies life and memory of love and home and earthly pleasures, something they desperately desire but can't have anymore. right now, she's the closest thing to that, and that is a terrible distraction from the real light that has finally come for them."

-poltergeist (1982) dir. tobe hooper