#skinamarink

[charl0ttan]

[wormzone]

you have to go as fast as you can

[the-hellbound-heart]

[marisashorror]

In This House....

Ballpoint pen on paper

2024

[babybluebanshee]

I'm probably not going to put this very eloquently but I wish people would stop saying "this isn't even a horror movie" when they come across horror movies that don't scare them. It immediately makes me suspicious because there's a big difference between a horror movie that isn't scary because it's badly made (and even that is intensely subjective) and a horror movie that doesn't scare you specifically. And a movie falling into that second category does not automatically make it not a horror movie. I don't find slashers scary. Never really have. But I still call Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th horror movies. People would think I was crazy if I didn't. They're some of the most famous horror movies of all time! Meanwhile, movies like Lake Mungo and Skinamarink utterly unnerve me. They leave me feeling cold and empty inside. They have ghosts and supernatural happenings and are both, for all intents and purposes, haunted house movies. But there's soooooo much discussion out there about whether they're even horror movies at all. I've heard people say The Substance and Sinners aren't horror movies! The body horror and vampire movies of the fucking decade, and people are arguing "yeah, but they aren't scary!" To who? You? How narrow of a worldview is that? To think you can define an entire genre of film by what rubric you think it should follow. If you didn't find those films scary, fine. If you thought they were bad, fine. But they're still horror movies. You don't do that with other genres - no one brags about how a comedy didn't make them laugh or a drama didn't make them cry. I dunno, it just kind of reeks of pretension to me.

[eraserheadbabies]

some more horror movie goosebumps covers

[galindaelphaba]

SKINAMARINK (2022) dir. Kyle Edward Ball

[animusrox]

THIRTEEN HORROR FILMS THAT SCARED TF OUT OF ME