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Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. - David Fincher

If Harry Potter Movies Had Honest Titles.

Just in time for the summer heat! I wanted to tide my hand at paged comics. Can’t believe I ac-shoal-ly had the patience to do this, lmao. You can download this as a pdf for free on my gumroad for yoar offline viewing pleashore.

This is dedicated to @ikeracity becrabs she sent this to me and the idea wouldn’t stop swimming around in my head.

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This is so fucking adorable

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I made some affirmations for myself and decided to share them with all of you. please do not reupload.

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Watch: Gaten Matarazzo opens up about living with cleidocranial dysplasia — and the massive rejection he’s faced

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I devoted my life to the humanities. I went to a liberal arts college. My focus was literature. And philosophy. And and I took myself very seriously to the point of it being a problem. Like discussing Kant over lunch. After living that very sad four years of taking myself very seriously, I actually missed it. After college, I started working and I missed school, I missed my books, I missed my classes and I missed studying. So I’d spend all my free time at the book store. And I’d spend all my money on books. And that was when YA (young adult) was having this big resurgence and young adult books had flooded the market. And I started reading and rereading. And I rediscovered my love of literature. And I realized that after all these years, I’d completely forgotten what it was like to read a book just for the sake of reading a book and falling in love with the story. And I really wanted to go back to that. And be part of the reason why young people started reading again.

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Would you mind generating a top 10 reading list for Horror Scholarship? (Clover, Creed, Mulvey, Wood, etc?)

Well, Clover’s book is a big one. Men, Women and Chainsaws is a must-read even though it does not generally paint the genre in a favorable light. But you have to hear that side of it to know what you’re arguing against. On the same note, I would also recommend people read Seduction of the Innocent if they can track it down. That was a book written in the ‘50s about how comic books (then in the height of EC Comics like Tales from the Crypt) were the number one contributor to juvenile delinquency. Even suggesting that kids developed asthma because they would stay inside and read comics instead of going outside with the fresh air.

So those two will be on the list, but I’m prefacing them because they’re both often very anti-horror, but still worth reading so that you can see the arguments people would use to tear the genre down.

Anyway:

The Monster Show by David J. Skal

Men, Women & Chainsaws by Carol Clover

Dark Visions: Conversations with the Masters of Horror by Stanley Wiater

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film by Adam Rockoff

The Monstrous Feminine by Barbara Creed

The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy by Paul Kane

The Artist as Monster: The Films of David Cronenberg by William Beard

Broken Mirrors, Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento by Maitland McDonagh

Cinema of Obsession by Dominque Mainon

Seduction of the Innocent by Frederic Werthem