#horro

[chernobog13]

One of Ray Harryhausen's storyboards for the battle between the US Army and the ymir in 20 Million Miles To Earth (1957).

[chernobog13]

Dan Brereton's spooky take on the 1979 television adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot.

[silasjart]

Full review below

The first and last few chapters were wonderful. I absolutely loved the unsettling, "something's going to happen" atmosphere built by the incredible prose, eerie setting, and heartfelt struggle from Maeve. I did enjoy, even love, the beginning and the end.

The middle is where it changes for me.

With a book as short and condensed as this is (I knew that it was a novella, that's not what I'm getting at), word choice becomes imperative. It is because of the constraints that it's even more important than it would be a for full-length novel to be mindful of alternatives. The amount of times smoke/mist/fog "curled" around something was a little much, for example. "Curl/ed/ing", because of how often it was used, lost the impact it originally had despite how good it was used. Same went for many other descriptors and phrases. Had alternatives been used more frequently, I feel it would have kept the haunting prose alive and strong, perhaps made it more intense, but more importantly, it would've kept me in the story. The other things were minor, an inconsistency in writing (for example, how it was told Xander was in a cart but with how Maeve moved or spoke, it didn't seem like he was), or a bit of redundancy (literally, just a bit in one or two places), things that I would mention but that wouldn't have impacted on how much I enjoyed the story. It's only when we reach Xander's POV that we get something different, breaking up the repetitive words/phrases, and we get more of him toward the end.

Isolated, the prose is lovely in a make your skin crawl sort of way. The body horror was visceral and gritty. From start to finish, the flow of the story worked very well with the growing realization of what the orchard was, what it wanted, and what Maeve had done. I think one of my favorite things was how there was always inclusion of the village and how the events affected it. It was a great use of environment/setting to build atmosphere and stakes outside, yet still within the main character(s).

[babypolicegarden]

The New Kids (1985)

A brother and his young sister come to a small town to find out a local gang terrorizes the population.

[enchentres]

❤️

[fantasticyouthcherryblossom]

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[macabreapparel]

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[movieconsumer]

We Bury the Dead (2025)

An interesting little drama disguised as a horror film, “We Bury the Dead” stars Daisy Ridley as a woman who may in fact be a widow but it’s not sure yet. The fact that she is an American becomes an issue because of the potential threat her husband faced. It seems that the United States was testing an electronic weapon in the southern seas when an accident occurred and the entire population in…

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