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So You Watched Obsession And Want To Mainline Curry Barker's Short Horror:

wonderful news!! curry barker is one of my favorite (if not my favorite, hands down) short horror directors. as someone who has watched hundreds and hundreds of short horror films on youtube.

here are five of his films with the runtime and a quick summary of each. (sorry if i miss any, these are what i remember off the top of my head!) i've avoided spoilers beyond the basic premise, but every single one of these deals with Absolutely Haunting Thematic Shit:

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THE CHAIR - 25 minutes

when horror connoisseurs hear "curry barker," they usually think of the chair first. barker was approached to make this into a full-length film & pitched obsession instead... GREAT choice, as i don't think the chair would Work with extra runtime.

a man finds an old chair on the side of the road and brings it home to his girlfriend. strange events begin to unfold -- his girlfriend's behavior becomes increasingly erratic, he's losing time, he's unraveling at the seams....

if you enjoyed the fucked-up relationship dynamics in obsession then you will probably have a good time.

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MILK & SERIAL - 62 minutes

barker's other best-known horror film. a twisty found footage thriller about youtube pranksters whose pranks Go Wrong (TM).

i can't say much more than that.... if you watched obsession and thought "pretty good, but pretty predictable. i wonder how curry barker would handle a psychological thriller with more plot twists??"

boy, does this film have an answer!!

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ENIGMA - 20 minutes

this is a psychological thriller about a man dealing with the impending end of the world. explores how other people are also dealing with the end of the world.

i fear i'll give a skewed impression if i say this one is sort of a feel-good film..... but OF the films on this list, it's Certainly the most optimistic. my partner rafi (who really hates depressing horror) watched it with me and concluded, "oh, that was kind of sweet, actually!!"

this one's great if you want a palate cleanser after The Unrelenting Gutwrenching Horror of obsession.

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WARNINGS - 20 minutes

my personal favorite!! criminally underrated!! upsetting in a way that stuck to my skin for days!!

a man starts receiving strange written warnings on halloween. things around him begin to unravel.

similar to the chair in its unsettling surreality, but with a bit more supernatural influence imo. you'll recognize a lot of parallel imagery to obsession, especially with Strange Movement and Nightmare Experiences.

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HEAVY EYES - 5 minutes

the shortest one on this list if you just want to dip your toes in real quick... a pretty easy time investment if you've never watched short horror and aren't sure if you'll like it!

a boy's mom comes home unexpectedly at night.

the only problem?? she's still texting him from the hospital where she works.

this one is both scary and ended up Way More Haunting than i thought a 5-minute short could. even thinking about it makes my stomach kind of hurt.

libraford

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

libraford

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

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I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

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I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

libraford

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."

I saw a bumper sticker and thought “is that seductive Daffy Duck” and then when I looked closer I realized it was actually a fishing bumper sticker but also. also it is still very much seductive Daffy Duck???? somehow????????

psychotic-gerard

There has been a recall of SERTRALINE 100mg tablets batch number V2500425.

The regulator said 81,872 packs are included in the recall. Please check if you are on Sertraline. Thank you.

lesbianfujoshis

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recalled a batch of a commonly prescribed antidepressant as a precautiona

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article april 29th, 2026

autistobrat

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

wild-e-eep

Smooth, wiggly algae going with the flow. If I look at them under a microscope, I'm sure they'll be even flowier and wigglier, right?

eyelessseraphim

starting a collection

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hen-a-m

You forgot the best part

isaacsapphire

And if it’s that easy with something stupid that nobody cares about… well probably it’s harder to get the summary of a politician to say something nuts but it didn’t take long for self interested actors to figure out how to game google search. Surely self interested actors are already doing this deliberately to ais.

cykelops

more comic characters should haunt their writers like how everyone who’s written John Constantine keeps meeting him in dark alleys

rootbeerrex

What The Actual Fuck

cryptotheism

I have a question regarding Jewish occultism and theology, I hope it's ok to ask you.

I assume that as part of your job, you've read Jewish texts such as the Talmud, Sefer Yetzira, Zohar, and etc. Are there reliable translations of these texts available, or would I have to read them in the original Hebrew?

Talmud: multiple excellent translations with high quality English commentary available online for free at places like sefira.org.

Sefer Yetzirah: same as above. But the text is also only like 3000 words it has some excellent critical scholarship in english

Zohar: You are fucked. Sefer Zohar is effectively impossible to translate into English. Content yourself with the (excellent, voluminous, dense, thank you Gershom Scholem) scholarly commentaries, or commit the next few years to learning Zoharic Aramaic.

cryptotheism

Sefer Zohar --the book of radiance-- is the crowning achievement of medieval Jewish esotericism, and remains one of the most complex and influential mystical texts in history.

To oversimplify, it is a grand synthesis of Jewish mysticism, an attempt to bring the panoply of peripheral Jewish mystical traditions more in line with the Orthodox mainstream. It's author, Moshe De Leon, was horrified by the medieval neo-aristotelian rationalism of rabbis like Maimonides, who he saw as stripping Judaism of its emotional and spiritual core.

As such, Sefer Zohar is a systematic literary tour of Jewish esoteric history. An esoteric history which involves a robust literature on the mystical significance of the Hebrew language itself. Because of this, much of the text is recursive analysis of its own language; full of things like theologically significant puns, numerology, and other such esoteric language games.

It is also not written in normal medieval Hebrew. For several complex reasons, the author was attempting to pass the text off as a copy of a rediscovered manuscript from 2nd century Palestine. So it's actually a 13th century Andalusian rabbi trying to write like a 2nd century Syrian rabbi who wrote in Aramaic. It is written in its own dialect, generally referred to as Zoharic Aramaic. Also much of the text is a gloss on the Hebrew Bible itself. All of this makes it effectively impossible to translate.

Go listen to the Dr. Sledge lecture about the Zohar its fascinating.