Oh and Ive done my best to watch Black Mirror but most of them seem more sad than scary. The one episode I really did feel dread was White Bear.
White Bear was the first one that really upset me. It was the first one that felt like it could really happen and people would feel good about it.
The other one that really fucked me up was Shut Up and Dance.
I totally missed the twist ending of Shut Up and Dance because the rest of it seemed so close to reality in concept.
I assumed the "reveal" was just the other blackmail victim jumping to conclusions because of how much the main character went through to keep an embarrassing but relatively innocuous webcam video from getting out. Then the trolls that put him through the ordeal falsified the accusation of pedophilia to make it worse than it would have been if he'd just had a video of him jacking it to legal porn so his life would be as ruined as they could make it after the successively worse tasks they made him do.
Part of me feels like that would be a better ending than the kid "deserving" it at the end. Trolls don't have a moral code, they just enjoy wielding power over people and threatening to embarrass a teenage boy to trick him into more and more heinous offenses is plenty terrifying. It could have happened to any of us, which is what I found effective. Making him into a pedophile just gives the viewer an out.
Descendant XSkyrim is my god now.Outpost 31Registered Userregular
Playtest gets me every time I watch it.
Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
So I haven't really ever had a paranormal experience, I had sleep paralysis as a teenager that was accompanied by hallucinations a couple of times, but that's the closest thing. Been a decade since I've had anything like that happen to me.
And I still don't believe I have had a paranormal experience, but...
In the last two months I've had three separate instances of believing that someone was in my bedroom after waking up in the middle of the night. The first time it was a woman shrouded in darkness and I was so convinced that it was a real person that I actually called out my roommate's name to see if it was her.
Second time it was the stereotypical "black hat man" sitting over me on my bed.
Third time it was a pair of children in clothes from like the 1930s? They were particularly well detailed, I can still recall their faces and some of the details on their clothes.
Each time they disappear when I acknowledge them (calling out, reaching out, moving to get a different view).
And I know that this is just my brain trying to make sense of the shapes in my darkened room while still coming out of sleep, I know that, but it is troubling to me that I have gone a decade without any kind of hallucinations to having three of them in the span of two months. They're also not instances of sleep paralysis, I know what that feels like.
I hope it's not indicative of some health concern (mental or physical)...
It's my understanding that vivid dream imagery, even though you are in the process of waking up, is indicative of coming out of a deep sleep and your dreaming brain had a few moments of overlap with your visual perception. It might actually be a sign you're sleeping more deeply lately. Before recently was it ever common for you to have vivid dreams? Could just be your body adjusting to newer sleep patterns but I doubt it's signaling a declining health.
Alternatively, it could be that recent shifts in Earth's magnetosphere have shifted a ley-line through your bedroom and now the shadow-beings of a parallel world have become aware of you for brief moments at a time. Do not stress, they cannot harm you any more than you can harm them. Do not fear the man in the hat or the shrouded young woman.
The early 20th century children are ghosts, of course, and you should have them removed as soon as possible. Dead children are bad enough to have around, but often they're just outsider entities in the shape of children in order to slip past your defenses. Do not speak to them, do not tell them your name, do not take anything they offer.
It's my understanding that vivid dream imagery, even though you are in the process of waking up, is indicative of coming out of a deep sleep and your dreaming brain had a few moments of overlap with your visual perception. It might actually be a sign you're sleeping more deeply lately. Before recently was it ever common for you to have vivid dreams? Could just be your body adjusting to newer sleep patterns but I doubt it's signaling a declining health.
Alternatively, it could be that recent shifts in Earth's magnetosphere have shifted a ley-line through your bedroom and now the shadow-beings of a parallel world have become aware of you for brief moments at a time. Do not stress, they cannot harm you any more than you can harm them. Do not fear the man in the hat or the shrouded young woman.
The early 20th century children are ghosts, of course, and you should have them removed as soon as possible. Dead children are bad enough to have around, but often they're just outsider entities in the shape of children in order to slip past your defenses. Do not speak to them, do not tell them your name, do not take anything they offer.
Dang dude, at least invoice them for that kind of consultancy, you're going to put all the other chapters out of business!
Where you at jgeis? I got friends in the Hollywood Ghostbusters who might enjoy the distraction. Southland GBs operate around there too but those guys get enough special treatment from Ghost Corps and probably don't need the money. They're probably a bunch of elitist pricks anyway.
In case one of you finds this in two years like that one guy from the NYC Ghostbusters who got mad at me jokingly shittalking them, I'm not at all serious. I've never met you. Calm down.
Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Hey if you haven't seen it yet there is this movie called Session 9 that just came back to Netflix and it is one of my favorite favorite horror movies ever, it's about a crew of asbestos removal dudes working in an old insane asylum which I believe is actually the Danvers State Hospital. It's super fuckin spooky and David Caruso is in it!
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AuralynxDarkness is a perspectiveWatching the ego workRegistered Userregular
Hey if you haven't seen it yet there is this movie called Session 9 that just came back to Netflix and it is one of my favorite favorite horror movies ever, it's about a crew of asbestos removal dudes working in an old insane asylum which I believe is actually the Danvers State Hospital. It's super fuckin spooky and David Caruso is in it!
Worth it for the cinematography.
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Hey if you haven't seen it yet there is this movie called Session 9 that just came back to Netflix and it is one of my favorite favorite horror movies ever, it's about a crew of asbestos removal dudes working in an old insane asylum which I believe is actually the Danvers State Hospital. It's super fuckin spooky and David Caruso is in it!
Is that the movie that he did before he went to CSI: Miami, that was his first role since he went clean and that's what essentially got him that job?
It's the movie this is from:
And yeah, that's Danvers they filmed in. I grew up in Massachusetts and all the old schools and institutions looked like that. Reminded me of how my old middle/high school had to get de-asbestosed in the 90s while I was there.
Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
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I love fucking everything about that movie. The performances are subtle and believable, the spooky bits are juuuust ambiguous enough to leave the viewer to fill in the pieces without it feeling like it's obfuscating anything, the cinematography is stunning and utilizes the setting so beautifully. I will stan Session 9 until I am in the fuckin ground.
edit: Caruso does a little scenery-chewing, as is his wont, but there's other moments where you see what's ACTUALLY going on and he's very good.
I'm gonna be honest, I only remember the contractors getting into arguments with each-other. I barely recall any supernatural occurrences at all.
Maybe it's my familiarity with that very specific style and period of architecture, maybe it's because my dad owns a contracting business and the actors were very true-to-life for the guys I met who do that kind of stuff, but the movie is maybe the most grounded "supernatural" movie I've ever seen.
I should watch it again and refresh my memory of what exactly happens in it.
I'm gonna be honest, I only remember the contractors getting into arguments with each-other. I barely recall any supernatural occurrences at all.
Maybe it's my familiarity with that very specific style and period of architecture, maybe it's because my dad owns a contracting business and the actors were very true-to-life for the guys I met who do that kind of stuff, but the movie is maybe the most grounded "supernatural" movie I've ever seen.
I should watch it again and refresh my memory of what exactly happens in it.
it's actually really, really ambiguous as to whether anything supernatural even is occurring and that's my shit
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
I decided to rewatch Sinister, since I enjoyed it when it came out and I've been in a spoopy mood lately. It holds up! Some of it is a little shaky, but visually the film is excellent and the acting is pretty good, especially Ethan Hawke. I feel like it's one of those horror movies that reveals the villain way too early, though, and I kinda question whether or not it even needed like, a physical bad-guy.
I'm gonna be honest, I only remember the contractors getting into arguments with each-other. I barely recall any supernatural occurrences at all.
Maybe it's my familiarity with that very specific style and period of architecture, maybe it's because my dad owns a contracting business and the actors were very true-to-life for the guys I met who do that kind of stuff, but the movie is maybe the most grounded "supernatural" movie I've ever seen.
I should watch it again and refresh my memory of what exactly happens in it.
it's actually really, really ambiguous as to whether anything supernatural even is occurring and that's my shit
I thought it was pretty plain that supernatural was deffo involved.
The only other explanation was "he's real crazy" and that ignores the tapes the guy was listening to and the fact he heard the same voice as on the session 9 tape when he first got to the asylum even tho he knew nothing about it.
It's been fifteen years so I definitely don't remember everything, but I *do* know the one scene that stuck with me to this day is the one at the end where he's having his distraught emotional phone call with his wife, and you follow the phone cord down and back and... oh fuck, *oh no*, oh fuck
I had always just assumed "the divorce made him r-e-a-l crazy" was the actual explanation, and everything else was just really good flavor, but maybe I need to go back and rewatch it again
My high school friends and I used to go nighttime explore an abandoned hospital that looks a lot like the one in the movie for thrills, so it's definitely a favorite for personal reasons. There's nothing more terrifying than finding a child's drawing in a dialpdated old room that also contains beds with straps on them (also, sort of nostalgic for the days where a fun activity was going to find something to be scared about...)
It's been fifteen years so I definitely don't remember everything, but I *do* know the one scene that stuck with me to this day is the one at the end where he's having his distraught emotional phone call with his wife, and you follow the phone cord down and back and... oh fuck, *oh no*, oh fuck
I had always just assumed "the divorce made him r-e-a-l crazy" was the actual explanation, and everything else was just really good flavor, but maybe I need to go back and rewatch it again
My high school friends and I used to go nighttime explore an abandoned hospital that looks a lot like the one in the movie for thrills, so it's definitely a favorite for personal reasons. There's nothing more terrifying than finding a child's drawing in a dialpdated old room that also contains beds with straps on them (also, sort of nostalgic for the days where a fun activity was going to find something to be scared about...)
It's been fifteen years so I definitely don't remember everything, but I *do* know the one scene that stuck with me to this day is the one at the end where he's having his distraught emotional phone call with his wife, and you follow the phone cord down and back and... oh fuck, *oh no*, oh fuck
I had always just assumed "the divorce made him r-e-a-l crazy" was the actual explanation, and everything else was just really good flavor, but maybe I need to go back and rewatch it again
My high school friends and I used to go nighttime explore an abandoned hospital that looks a lot like the one in the movie for thrills, so it's definitely a favorite for personal reasons. There's nothing more terrifying than finding a child's drawing in a dialpdated old room that also contains beds with straps on them (also, sort of nostalgic for the days where a fun activity was going to find something to be scared about...)
You deffo need to watch again because
there was no divorce
Will *definitely* be watching it again now, but what I thought I remembered was...he murdered his entire family, wife kids even the baby, the night *before* the job started? Again, fifteen years since, so correct me if I'm wrong
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
It's been fifteen years so I definitely don't remember everything, but I *do* know the one scene that stuck with me to this day is the one at the end where he's having his distraught emotional phone call with his wife, and you follow the phone cord down and back and... oh fuck, *oh no*, oh fuck
I had always just assumed "the divorce made him r-e-a-l crazy" was the actual explanation, and everything else was just really good flavor, but maybe I need to go back and rewatch it again
My high school friends and I used to go nighttime explore an abandoned hospital that looks a lot like the one in the movie for thrills, so it's definitely a favorite for personal reasons. There's nothing more terrifying than finding a child's drawing in a dialpdated old room that also contains beds with straps on them (also, sort of nostalgic for the days where a fun activity was going to find something to be scared about...)
You deffo need to watch again because
there was no divorce
Will *definitely* be watching it again now, but what I thought I remembered was...he murdered his entire family, wife kids even the baby, the night *before* the job started? Again, fifteen years since, so correct me if I'm wrong
It's been fifteen years so I definitely don't remember everything, but I *do* know the one scene that stuck with me to this day is the one at the end where he's having his distraught emotional phone call with his wife, and you follow the phone cord down and back and... oh fuck, *oh no*, oh fuck
I had always just assumed "the divorce made him r-e-a-l crazy" was the actual explanation, and everything else was just really good flavor, but maybe I need to go back and rewatch it again
My high school friends and I used to go nighttime explore an abandoned hospital that looks a lot like the one in the movie for thrills, so it's definitely a favorite for personal reasons. There's nothing more terrifying than finding a child's drawing in a dialpdated old room that also contains beds with straps on them (also, sort of nostalgic for the days where a fun activity was going to find something to be scared about...)
You deffo need to watch again because
there was no divorce
Will *definitely* be watching it again now, but what I thought I remembered was...he murdered his entire family, wife kids even the baby, the night *before* the job started? Again, fifteen years since, so correct me if I'm wrong
No,
he killed them the night he got home from the walkthrough, after he heard the voice. Just wife and new baby; that and the running out of money had him stressed and "weak" so the thing was able to get in him and when the water got spilled on his arm the thing in him either took control or pushed him over the edge. "I live in the weak and the wounded."
I used to do site surveys for an architecture company in Massachusetts that had government connections. I got to explore old hospitals, institutions, schools, and other public buildings. I loved playing urb-ex gf getting paid for it.
One of the oddest artifacts was a moldy, old black and white printout of white tiger power ranger from the original series that was signed in sharpie. This was a good 10 years after the cultural relevancy of that season, but the building had been sitting in disuse for a considerable time. Before that it was a kind of dorm for homeless single mothers and kids.
If I find the photo on an old hard drive somewhere I'll post it.
Rewatched Hereditary the other day since it's on Netflix here in the UK now. Hot fucking damn that is such a goddamn great movie. Especially as a feature length debut for the director.
The way it
keeps you in the dark around what's actually going on really puts you in the shoes of the family. They were ensnared from the start in the grandmother's masterplan and there was nothing they could have done about any of it. Chilling.
My favorite/most personally horrifying scene in Hereditary is the family dinner
*Movie spoilers, and it's a great horror movie so don't ruin it for yourself*....
Because I've been to that family dinner more than a few times (not accidental-sister-murder, but pretty identical otherwise), and the personal accuracy and pathos that Ari Aster brings to the scene makes me think he *definitely* has too -to the point where sometimes I can watch the scene cathartically just fine, and sometime I have to leave the room because it feels like I'm having an anxiety attack because how did Ari Aster get in my family's house?!?
Amid all this pressure and confusion I could not forego seeing Frederica once more. Those were painful days, the memory of which has not remained with me. When I reached her my hand from my horse, the tears stood in her eyes; and I felt very uneasy.
I now rode along the foot-path toward Drusenheim, and here one of the most singular forebodings took possession of me. I saw, not with the eyes of the body, but with those of the mind, my own figure coming toward me, on horseback, and on the same road, attired in a dress which I had never worn, — it was pike-gray, with somewhat of gold. As soon as I shook myself out of this dream, the figure had entirely disappeared.
It is strange, however, that, eight years afterward, I found myself on the very road, to pay one more visit to Frederica, in the dress of which I had dreamed, and which I wore, not from choice, but by accident.
Got that benign creep that soft creep
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
Rewatched Hereditary the other day since it's on Netflix here in the UK now. Hot fucking damn that is such a goddamn great movie. Especially as a feature length debut for the director.
The way it
keeps you in the dark around what's actually going on really puts you in the shoes of the family. They were ensnared from the start in the grandmother's masterplan and there was nothing they could have done about any of it. Chilling.
HAIL PAIMON
I watched it a few weeks ago to keep up with the Scaredy Cat's Horror Show, which is a very good and fun podcast if you like horror movies or also if you hate horror movies but wish you didn't
My favourite kind of horror movie is two hour long exercises in tension and "what the fuck is going on" and Hereditary does very well in that regard. A lot of movies start slow and slowly ramp up to something truly horrifying within the last 15 minutes
Hereditary (with the exception of a certain scene in the backseat of a car) takes one hour and fifty minutes to go from 0-20, then about 10 minutes before end it goes from 20-100 in like 45 seconds. The last ten minutes of Hereditary are fucking brutal.
I thought the lights at the park I cut though were on a timer as they would fade out at about after 21:30
I had to go to work late the other day and they did the same thing at nearly the same spot as I am walking though the park at after 2200
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I totally missed the twist ending of Shut Up and Dance because the rest of it seemed so close to reality in concept.
Part of me feels like that would be a better ending than the kid "deserving" it at the end. Trolls don't have a moral code, they just enjoy wielding power over people and threatening to embarrass a teenage boy to trick him into more and more heinous offenses is plenty terrifying. It could have happened to any of us, which is what I found effective. Making him into a pedophile just gives the viewer an out.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
And I still don't believe I have had a paranormal experience, but...
In the last two months I've had three separate instances of believing that someone was in my bedroom after waking up in the middle of the night. The first time it was a woman shrouded in darkness and I was so convinced that it was a real person that I actually called out my roommate's name to see if it was her.
Second time it was the stereotypical "black hat man" sitting over me on my bed.
Third time it was a pair of children in clothes from like the 1930s? They were particularly well detailed, I can still recall their faces and some of the details on their clothes.
Each time they disappear when I acknowledge them (calling out, reaching out, moving to get a different view).
And I know that this is just my brain trying to make sense of the shapes in my darkened room while still coming out of sleep, I know that, but it is troubling to me that I have gone a decade without any kind of hallucinations to having three of them in the span of two months. They're also not instances of sleep paralysis, I know what that feels like.
I hope it's not indicative of some health concern (mental or physical)...
Alternatively, it could be that recent shifts in Earth's magnetosphere have shifted a ley-line through your bedroom and now the shadow-beings of a parallel world have become aware of you for brief moments at a time. Do not stress, they cannot harm you any more than you can harm them. Do not fear the man in the hat or the shrouded young woman.
The early 20th century children are ghosts, of course, and you should have them removed as soon as possible. Dead children are bad enough to have around, but often they're just outsider entities in the shape of children in order to slip past your defenses. Do not speak to them, do not tell them your name, do not take anything they offer.
Dang dude, at least invoice them for that kind of consultancy, you're going to put all the other chapters out of business!
Where you at jgeis? I got friends in the Hollywood Ghostbusters who might enjoy the distraction. Southland GBs operate around there too but those guys get enough special treatment from Ghost Corps and probably don't need the money. They're probably a bunch of elitist pricks anyway.
WOW
Worth it for the cinematography.
Is that the movie that he did before he went to CSI: Miami, that was his first role since he went clean and that's what essentially got him that job?
And yeah, that's Danvers they filmed in. I grew up in Massachusetts and all the old schools and institutions looked like that. Reminded me of how my old middle/high school had to get de-asbestosed in the 90s while I was there.
edit: Caruso does a little scenery-chewing, as is his wont, but there's other moments where you see what's ACTUALLY going on and he's very good.
Maybe it's my familiarity with that very specific style and period of architecture, maybe it's because my dad owns a contracting business and the actors were very true-to-life for the guys I met who do that kind of stuff, but the movie is maybe the most grounded "supernatural" movie I've ever seen.
I should watch it again and refresh my memory of what exactly happens in it.
it's actually really, really ambiguous as to whether anything supernatural even is occurring and that's my shit
I thought it was pretty plain that supernatural was deffo involved.
I had always just assumed "the divorce made him r-e-a-l crazy" was the actual explanation, and everything else was just really good flavor, but maybe I need to go back and rewatch it again
My high school friends and I used to go nighttime explore an abandoned hospital that looks a lot like the one in the movie for thrills, so it's definitely a favorite for personal reasons. There's nothing more terrifying than finding a child's drawing in a dialpdated old room that also contains beds with straps on them (also, sort of nostalgic for the days where a fun activity was going to find something to be scared about...)
You deffo need to watch again because
You pretty much got it but it's worth a rewatch.
No,
One of the oddest artifacts was a moldy, old black and white printout of white tiger power ranger from the original series that was signed in sharpie. This was a good 10 years after the cultural relevancy of that season, but the building had been sitting in disuse for a considerable time. Before that it was a kind of dorm for homeless single mothers and kids.
If I find the photo on an old hard drive somewhere I'll post it.
and haunt all of us? don't you dare
Hey man, I got a business to run.
The way it
HAIL PAIMON
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*Movie spoilers, and it's a great horror movie so don't ruin it for yourself*....
Got that benign creep that soft creep
I watched it a few weeks ago to keep up with the Scaredy Cat's Horror Show, which is a very good and fun podcast if you like horror movies or also if you hate horror movies but wish you didn't
My favourite kind of horror movie is two hour long exercises in tension and "what the fuck is going on" and Hereditary does very well in that regard. A lot of movies start slow and slowly ramp up to something truly horrifying within the last 15 minutes
Hereditary (with the exception of a certain scene in the backseat of a car) takes one hour and fifty minutes to go from 0-20, then about 10 minutes before end it goes from 20-100 in like 45 seconds. The last ten minutes of Hereditary are fucking brutal.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Edit:
Here it is:
I think there is a Spookin' with Scoops episode on it.
Those are those high end horror films.
I had to go to work late the other day and they did the same thing at nearly the same spot as I am walking though the park at after 2200
They are getting the jump on Halloween.
Some streetlights have light sensors, not timers.