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Hello everyone♥ Today i bring this Y2K set to you!!

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Check out my new Y2K EXTRA set!

Polycount, functionality and some more info under the cut.

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Hi again ♥ By my patrons vote, today I bring the Y2K EXTRA set to you!

CLICK ON THE GIFS TO TAKE A BETTER LOOK AT THE IMAGES, SINCE TUMBLR NUKED THEIR PREVIEW QUALITY x)

DOWNLOAD: Patreon - Early Access (To be released on July 14th)

Polycount, functionality and some more info under the cut.

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Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) Dir. Julien Temple

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Funny Games (1997)

Michael Haneke once told his producer that if Funny Games turned out to be a blockbuster, it was because people hadn’t understood it. He has also commented on numerous occasions that what he intended with it was not to make a horror film, but a reflection on media violence that worked rather like an anti-horror film.

Which is what it is actually about. It is a film in which the subject is above the narration, and of course many times that ends up being more controversial than the very representation of violence on screen, something of which there is very little.

The argument of the film can be summed up in the premise of a family that is preparing to spend a few days in their summer house next to the lake and that, without any justification, are held hostage and tortured in their own house (physically and mentally) in unthinkable, sadistic and cruel ways by a pair of posh young men claiming to be guests of the neighbouring family.

And here comes the twist: Anyone watching Funny Games that is expecting to see a typical movie of exploitation, of torture, of suffering, of inhuman treatment and psychopaths indulging in a bloodbath will certainly not find what they are looking for, but It’s precisely this type of viewer who should see this film, that’s the target audience.

This is because the frustrating, painful senselessness and incomprehensible aspect of the actions perpetrated by the two young men are the perfect reflection of the senselessness that represents seeing violence on the screen and enjoying it, getting a kick out of it.

Thus sponsoring the fictional sample of those things that in reality we would mostly flat out be repulsed by and reject. The funny thing is that Haneke shows us this reading quite clearly and frontally.

As if he openly told us that this is not a film intended to grandly impact, much less one intended to entertain, you’re not meant to have a good time watching it, you should almost literally be squirming in your seat, wanting to scream and run out the room, because you want it to end.

In fact the film is extremely consistent with this message not only by refusing to fall into exploitation, but even by depriving the viewer of any kind of gratification he can get from a film of this genre.

Almost all scenes of violence occur outside the camera, and only the audio helps our imagination to imagine the horrors perpetrated by the two antagonists. Since any graphic representation is forbidden, but really this on some level makes it more haunting, for those of us who have a very strong and visual imagination, you can form the visual equivalent of it in your head and that’s horrifying…

One of the aggressors even breaks the fourth wall several times and speaks directly to the audience. Inviting them to acknowledge that they really, really, really badly want to see the protagonists suffer and that they want to see that violence that, in daily life, they would be scared of and mostly likely reluctant to accept.

See It’s good fun to watch someone in a film have a gun shoved in their face sometimes, I’m certainly not mother Theresa, (but I’ll skip the fuck me gently with a chainsaw part) I too enjoy it when a bad guy in a film gets shot. But imagine that It’s in yours, and that someone might be enjoying watching you panic, that they actually derive pleasure from holding such power over you It’s terrifying and sadistic right?

The film has too many moments and lines that clarify this idea, and it would take too long to expose them all here, so I’m going to only name one: The instant one of the young men asks the woman to undress for him, while her husband is forced to helplessly and powerlessly watch and has to let his wife endure this humiliation agains her and his will.

Because he has a really big, scary rifle aimed at him It’s simply horrible… to supposedly safeguard the innocence of the child, he covers his head with a cushion cover without ceasing to expose all others to the sheer unpleasantness and creepiness of the scene.

All this savagery, evidently, ends up putting the public on the side of the victims, and desiring at all times that they obtain their just revenge, but (and this is where the real genius of the film lies) even this satisfaction is snatched from us in a way so surreal but at the same time so amazing that it leaves you literally speechless.

That moment is the true center of the film and the moment in which the whole of Haneke’s thesis becomes a palpable reality to take our liking for horror films (and vengeance and exploitation in general) and forcedly shove it in our face and use it against us, in a way that’s utterly unpleasant, and painful.

You literally feel disgusted for having wanted to see the violence, almost like you yourself have perpetrated some unthinkable act, he’s literally asking you why you enjoy it, and that can be very confronting to say the least.

Obviously someone who enjoys horror films won’t necessarily commit murder, or do anything horrible that’s not the idea of the film, but still he asks the question why do we like watching senseless violence, why do we enjoy watching people, even if they’re fictional characters suffer, why do like to watch them die? Are we all to some degree sadists, even if we could never bring ourselves to for instance shoot someone?

In fact, his more recent American remake, which I’ll also review, Funny Games U.S (2007) is a perfectly coherent decision if you consider that It’s the mainstream public that’s generally (and I’m saying generally, here) reluctant to approach productions that are not endorsed by the Industry that can benefit most from a viewing. It’s Simply a very intelligent film, that’ll leave you with thinking material, and hypothetical scenarios of how you would act, for days.

George: Why are you doing this to us? Paul: Why not?

“Whether by knife or whether by gun, losing your life can sometimes be fun.”

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rip vine pt. 2

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This Corrosion by The Sisters of Mercy

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Female Cenobite cosplay - Cosplayer: Loretta Vampz

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“coming of age” books and movies are so stupid like being a teenager isn’t about having sex and going to parties it’s about staring out your car window after hanging out with your old best friends who you haven’t seen in months and realizing that you aren’t actually friends anymore and that your childhood has been well and truly dead since you were thirteen