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[keymintt]

dragon wheelchair designed for class + notes on how it works but also please suspend your disbelief bc i am not in fact an engineer

[dragonanarchist1155]

This is a very neat and interesting concept!!!!

@dovewithscales what do you think?

[dovewithscales]

Oh what a cool concept!

[re-animatresse]

i want a werewolf with anosmia (no sense of smell), a vampire with positional vertigo, an incubus with cptsd, a zombie wheelchair user. Give me disabled monsters, not characters who are perceived as monstrous because of their disabilities. Please

[valtsv]

the whole “i’m an evil monster because i have to kill and eat innocent people to survive :’(” angst in ‘regular human gets turned into supernatural monster’ stories is so stupid. like how is that even a problem??? there are also plenty of corrupt billionaires, abusers and cops out there for you to snack on

[valtsv]

everybody’s like “eating the rich is the only ethical consumption under capitalism” until they actually have the opportunity to actually eat the rich 🙄 smh

[valtsv]

what we do in the shadows is the only one that Gets It

[stunflsk]

you guys need to watch santa clarita diet. a woman suddenly only desires human flesh, so in order to fix it, her and her (wonderful, loving) husband find nazis, men’s rights activists and anyone else with immoral values for her to kill violently and then eat 

it’s great

[moonlightchess]

I think one thing that a lot of Addams Family fans forget is that for the family, goth wasn’t about being gloomy and sad or bitter and cynical at all. Morticia was always gazing out at rainy days and declaring, “how beautiful a day it is!” or saying that “black is so much more cheerful!” because they found joy in their dark aesthetic. Wednesday was curious and sharp-minded and very clearly exercised and expressed her personal sense of power and self through things like her interest in weaponry and true crime - in the original series and comics, she was always dancing and playing with her brother. Edgy Wednesday didn’t happen until the 90s reboot, and well, it was the 90s. Gloomy grunge and artful sadness were in at the time. And let’s not even talk about Gomez, who was so full of life and love for his family that he’d often break into song or dip Morticia in the kitchen for an old-fashioned kiss. The Addams worked so well because they were healthy, happy, loving and goth. They were a perfect example of indulging in an aesthetic without letting it become toxic or consuming their lives.

[natalikoromotoart]

🦇🦇🦇

[riotsqurrrl]

There have been so many bad movies made about the Mexican legend of La Llorona - The Weeping Woman. Mostly english language films about frat guys going to party in Mexico. But I finally found a good one. It’s an animated kids movie called La Leyenda de la Llorona. It’s streaming on Netflix. It’s hilarious, fun and a little creepy. Disney doesn’t make movies this good anymore.

[heilyd]

I still love the movie of "La Leyenda de la Llorona" so much...

I know it’s childish and sometimes boring and had a lot of error on many takes and that the animation would be better, but…

La Llorona is one of my favourite legends and I love how they designed her ;u; And I like her screams and and.

sHE’S SO COOL

She just wants love.

Love rejected.

Babe can suck your ife out of your eyes. Crazy.

But she remembers her kids.

Oops.

BUT THEN WHEN SHE REMEMBERS

SHE’S WITH HER KIDS AGAIN FAJKFF

I love this character.

[pendulum-sonata]

Hot take, but american (and really non-mexicans too) show runners should stop trying to make horror movies based on La Llorona, they’re never going to get it right because of… many reasons, but there’s a very important one, on why they don’t get at all why the legend is important for mexicans:

The legend everyone is familiar with (the woman who drowned her children etc. etc.) is the later version of the colonial period; it was morphed into a ghost story because like much of mexican folklore it has its origin in prehispanic times; specifically the nahuatl goddess Cihuacoatl, who was the reaper of the souls of women who died during childbirth (although some people argue she was also identified with Tonatzin, the mother earth goddess).

In any case, there’s this tale about omininous signs Cuauhtémoc received about the inminent fall of the aztec empire, and one of them was the Cihuacoatl appearing at night crying about her “children”, her people, the mexicas:

“ Hijos míos, amados hijos del Anáhuac, vuestra destrucción está próxima.” (Oh my children, beloved children of Anáhuac, your destruction is nigh.) “¿Adónde irán, adónde los podré llevar para que escapen a tan funesto destino? Hijos míos, están a punto de perderse. “ (Where shall you go? Where could I take you to escape such an awful fate? My children, you are about to be lost.”)

And the tale continues, with the signature wail of La Llorona/Cihuacoatl: 

“Ay mis hijos!” 

So, basically the tale went from an old warning from religious texts and priests to the tlatoani, and through the colonization it became a mere ghost story (with heavy catholic undertones on top of it) to scare children with, but even then it never lost it’s original intent of a mother (the land) mourning the loss of her children (her people) 

So unless they’re willing to tackle on that, no, it’s never gonna work.

[natalikoromotoart]

Ending the Halloween drawing series with “La Llorona”😭🖤A spooky character from Latin folklore🧡It was a lot of fun drawing all these ghouls!

[cactusrabbit-deactivated2019120]

The best thing about La Llorona is her locality. I grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, which is a border town on the Rio Grande. Everyone was completely sure La Llorona was from OUR TOWN. Hell, we even have La Llorona park. It’s the same for all towns on the river. You grew up in ABQ? La Llorona was from ABQ. You’re from El Paso? DUH, La Llorona was from El Paso. She’s our scary ghost lady and we love her very much. 

[lulluluvskullz]

petition to make la llorana part of the cryptid crew

[lulluluvskullz]

in honor of the new movie coming out i redrew my llorona design <3 (original post bc im too embarrassed to show them side by side)

[aviator-capricorn]

La Llorona

[velcrobitch]

YALL, LA LLORONA IS ON GOD AMAZING. it scared tf outta me, I deadass screamed a few times.

If any one of y'all has seen it and calls bs in this post, know this: I grew up with that story and was spoked with it my whole childhood. Still am but anyway

I have many relatives who say and swear they’ve heard it, including my parents. The rituals shown are ones I believe and have participated in. We do limpias and use eggs and smoke from certain stuff to get rid of evil spirits and vibes. I believe in all of that and and that it’s real and ain’t nothing gonna change it.

All in a, movie’s scary as fuck.

[re-animatresse]

2 ottobre 2019: i personally did not have high expectations for this movie when i learned early on that it would be part of The Conjuring Universe. i know the first in the franchise is a very popular film for its portrayal of Ed and Lorraine Warren, icons of paranormal investigation, but i have difficulty suspending disbelief enough to enjoy anything steeped too deeply in Christian mythology and rather disliked it when it debuted in 2013

the narrative of The Curse of La Llorona is depicted through a very Christian perspective as well, but with more focus on Christianised Latin American folk magic tradition, which i find fascinating from an anthropological point of view. i can't speak to the accuracy of its portrayal here, but the story of La Llorona at least stays true to the folklore, specifically the Mexican boogeyman version involving a young woman named Maria who drowned her children and herself after learning of her lover's infidelity, and wanders the Earth as a spirit, searching for her lost children and doomed endlessly to repeat her desperate acts of filicide. i first read this story around twenty years ago in Ghost Stories of Old Texas (1983) by Zinita Fowler; it's stuck with me through the years, and this movie's got me looking for a copy to re-read

The Curse is a very character-driven film with excellent cinematography and notable performances from Roman Christou, who makes his acting debut in this film as the protagonist's young son, and Raymond Cruz as Rafael, the curandero they turn to for help in their crisis. i actually liked and feared for the characters throughout, and there are plenty of really creepy scenes that don't rely on jump scares to startle audiences, although there's a tasteful amount of that as well

while it performed very well in the box office, critics who are Conjuring fans appear relatively disappointed, so i'd recommend adjusting your expectations accordingly and judging The Curse on its own merit. All-in-all it's an entertaining movie that does its inspiration justice imo and made me want to turn the lights on while watching it at various points; i wouldn't mind owning this one on blu-ray 8/10 [image description: a film poster for The Curse of La LLorona features a primarily black and white monochromatic drawing of the face of La Llorona in profile. She is crying black tears, and her nose has rotted away. Her visible eye is golden and shows the reflection of two children holding hands. Near the top of the poster in white serif font is the phrase ‘ay, mis hijos’, which she is known to repeat in a version of the Mexican folk tale. The film’s title is superimposed in larger lettering near the bottom of the poster]

[re-animatresse]

The Head Hunter (2018)

dir. Jordan Downey [image description: movie poster for The Head Hunter. A bearded medieval warrior dressed in fantasy battle armor stands in profile with a desaturated, foggy mountainous background. He carries a large sword, appears to holding a skull in one hand, and his arm is bleeding. The movie title is superimposed over the center of the poster in bold white serif lettering]

[re-animatresse]

The Head Hunter | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical Entertainment 

29 settembre 2019: this is a great movie despite its thirty thousand dollar budget, a huge step up from director Jordan Downey's debut feature length film, ThanksKilling, which i was unable to sit through in its entirety

Head Hunter is like watching a graphic novel in motion, with lingering, panoramic shots of carefully crafted sets and beautiful forest and mountain landscapes, presumably in Norway. Spoken lines are minimal, and the story unfolds slowly, frame by frame, but is not a tedious watch at only 72 minutes long

the medieval theme is relatively unique -- the only other horror movie with a similar setting that comes to mind is more comedy than creature feature. And the creature design is revealed piecemeal and really creepy, in part because the background story is largely left to the imagination

the experimental soundtrack is worth listening to on its own but would have been perfect if it included some metal given the visual and thematic nature of the film. That's my only gripe though; there's really nothing else i'd change about this movie, so check it out if the trailer looks interesting to you

9/10