#jaws

[eros-ghoulette]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO THEM

[peppermintkamz]

Day 71 of drawing my dittosona every day until I crowdfund a Switch 2

Throne

[grandscreechingdeer]

I really love how much horror as a genre lends itself to the human experience. To make good horror, whatever the horror is has to represent more than what it seems to be. Examples!

Most of my favorite horror is character driven. The horror is secondary to the characters' experience of the horror. "The Haunting of Hill House" tv show is a good example. The ghosts are there, and the house is spooky, but the ghosts aren't just ghosts. They are grief, estrangement, lonliness, addiction. The family trying to pick up the pieces after two significant losses is the point. The Mortuary Assistant is similar. The demons are there. They are spooky and evil, but they represent Rebecca's depression addiction, and the all-consuming guilt she feels about her father's death. She is only able to overcome the literal demons when she forgives her figurative ones.

"Jaws" is one of my favorite movies. Here, the characters are secondary. The shark is the main force of the movie. It has the power to destroy the entire town. Financially, if Amity can't have the beaches open, tourist money won't keep the town afloat during the winter. Trust between the chief of police Brody, who is already considered an outsider because he moved to Amity instead of being born there, and the people he is suppose to protect is eroding. The mayor, who in the book is in trouble with the mob, is positioned as incompetent at best and uncaring as worst. The shark, while again is a literal, man eating shark, represent tge destructive force of nature. The shark is what happens when you are confronted with something that does not give one single fuck about you. The shark is just power and what happens when that power is unchecked.

I think this is just a longwinded way for me to say that media is always more interesting if you ask yourself why the curtains are blue.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[the--moon--raven]

And I'm not here to be the saviour you long for.. Only the one you don't

And are you watching me, with eyes of a predator? As you move towards the door

Show me those pretty white jaws Show me where the delicate stops Show me what you've lost

And why you're always taking it slow Show me what wounds you've got and show me love

[the--moon--raven]

don't know the source, but i love it.

[filius-doloris]

Show me those pretty white jaws Show me where the delicate stops Show me what you’ve lost And why you’re always taking it slow Show me what wounds you’ve got And show me love

[retro70s80sandmore]

Jaws (1975) Art by Ape Meets Girl