Archive of Our Own

I've seen a handful of horror films. When my friend said she'd introduce me to more, I figured it'd be like. Scary things jumping out. I know there's more to horror than that. Guess I didn't realize.

Apparently this is Noir’s fave and I get it. It has all the… colors? The shapes and the designs. It's pretty. But it's also vicious. Gross. I made a few faces and she laughed at me. I wouldn't want to die like that. Any of those ways, I mean. That's scary too, isn't it?

I couldn't tell the difference between the girls who died and I almost thought it was the same girl, over and over again, dying. Like… what if it's just a bunch of cognitions of the protag and she runs into all these bodies of herself and. I dunno.

It looks good. Noir was happy. I think I felt a bit sick but horror is supposed to make you feel something. I liked where she burned down the school and escaped. It was good.

I'd rewatch it with you.

School year-end round up continues.

Oracle’s pick this time around.  I knew about this series but hadn't seen it before.  Y'know how she is with tech and all that.  Cosmic horror?  Yeah.

This would be pretty scary!  TBH… this isn't as scary as Suspiria.  I've been trying to figure out why.  Like.  Yeah.  This sucks.  There's no way out, basically.  Alien Mom can kill you super easy.  But she's also a creature.  Creatures are made to kill in a movie like this.  Suspiria… I mean, she couldn't just leave.  She does in the end, just like they get out here, but the cost is similar.  Everything goes up in flames.

In Suspiria it's just people.  Sure, witches or whatever, but… in space, of course things go bad and awful.  Of course they do.  That's a risk astronauts take all the time.  But everyone goes to school.  And people are around us all the time.

Maybe the real monster in Aliens is actually misogyny since people don't listen to Ridley.  Or maybe it's babies, because pregnancy is scary.  What if anyone could get pregnant.  That is pretty scary.  Oracle thinks it's funny but the movie also made her cry.  Moms and stuff.

… You wouldn't cry but you'd probably say something about how motherhood is thankless and difficult.  Or say how Newt didn't deserve to survive.  Or be protected.

Anyway.  Good movie.

Skull's pick this time.

This one I already kinda knew. I mean, the whole… twist. I guess it’s been spoiled since forever. Skull really gets something out of it though, even on a rewatch. Wish I could get as excited as him. This is kind of sci-fi too, right? Maybe. Might be reading too much into it. You probably saw this one. I'd bet on it. Boring bet, but what can you do.

I feel bad for the kid. He does a good job, I think. Skull insisted on the sub for this one because he’s a Bruce Willis fan. It's hard to tell what’s good acting when you have to fill in the pieces wrt language? Or something. This would be easier if you were here to talk down at me about it or. Something. Haha, must be so fun to be the Bruce Willis walking around not knowing you’re dead, right! Ha ha.

Feels bad.

For Skull it was like the first time he’d seen the film (I think he’s seen it like five times. His mom likes it) (feel free to come back to kill me for mentioning someone else’s mom btw) (one of her faaaaave movies.) (anyway). Kinda figure that you’dve figured it out in ten seconds if the twist wasn’t like. Everywhere already. It kind of sucks. No one can experience this the way its meant to be experienced, can they? The answer’s already been dug out and set on display as a joke.

I get the feeling you’d hate that. But what do I know.

Panther in with the iron chair (American remake of a stupid famous movie).

Quote the panther - “ringu is too scary.” I've not seen it so no comment. But she was contractually obligated to watch one (1) horror movie with me before I leave town so this was her pick. Just as I am contractually obligated to watch any horror movie they pick. so no one’s happy here.

It's fine, I think. Really really really blue. I asked if America was blue and she said she’d never been to Seattle (I guess that’s where the movie takes place???) I've not seen ringu or… ok, I did do my research, there’s a lot of ‘ring’ movies. But I think this is based on the one from 1998 and not 1995. Also not the Korean one. I feel like I have to watch them all now to be exhaustive because otherwise you’d hold it over me. Blah blah are you even trying blah blah. You always came across to me as a perfectionist. Wouldn't start doing something unless you meant to do it to completion.

Not a good thing but haha lol. If it pisses you off, come on.

It's another ‘mom and kid’ movie where the dad sucks. I think this might be a recurring theme. I don't know if you’d be into that type of thing or if it’d make you shut it down. But you never do stop. Even when you should. You'd probably hate the son in this one too. He's got a real case of ‘grew up too fast’. Getting a psychic connection with a teen ghost who hates your parents. Tag yourself, I'm the ghost who hates your dad.

I don't know. … I just don't know.

What is it about horror and moms and kids. Why does this keep happening.

Fox's pick this time. This is apparently pretty famous, but I'd… definitely never heard of it. I can see why he’s into it. It has “the vibe”. Fox Vibe. I don’t know how much I'd call this horror, but the ending is… it’s kind of sickening. Everything that happens. This is about centuries ago, but it’s pretty obvious there’s a lot of influence from… well. WW2 and stuff. Sometimes it just reminds me how much we’re never going to learn in a classroom. It sucks. People just suffer and it gets pasted over as something prettier or easier and we can’t do anything about it anymore.

I know. I'm not taking any other. Life. This is the life I have to live. But I can be angry if you were. I can get so angry. Angrier than you could imagine.

Um. I think you’d maybe zone out in this one and pretend like you’d been watching at the end. Or maybe you’d pull a double and pretend that you didn’t care for it when in reality, you were completely entranced and have too much to say. Actually. Second makes more sense. You think too hard about everything. Fox seems to focus more on the beauty of darkness and I can see why he does. It really is beautiful. It's a beautiful film about ugly things. …We should talk about it.

Mona’s never seen a horror film before… rip. He's like… baby sized so it felt weird to pick out a horror movie to watch with him, but he was really insistent that we do, so. Oracle teamed up and we picked one that had a talking cat.

This is by the guy who actually did nightmare before Christmas. Which I knew you absolutely fucking saw. Even I saw that and I never watch movies. Never used to, anyway. i thought it was uh…. Burton… who made that, but it wasn’t. There's a difference between the director and the producer. Especially for something animated, apparently. So I figured this would be like that. It kinda was.

I don’t think Mona was as into it as he wanted to be… but he did like seeing the cat help save the day. He was preening all day afterward. He might be getting more used to having this body for good. I guess it’s hard to accept sometimes. I'd joke it’s like gender dysphoria but I don’t want to explain that to Mona. God I don’t want to explain gender to a not-cat. Either way.

I was kind of joking after last movie but ok, horror really does seem to love being about how fucked up it is to be a mom and/or a child. Or women. In general. Haha. Lol. Definitely nothing to do with me, right? Haha. Whatever. The main character is a good kid. Her parents kind of…

Kind of.

I mean, they aren’t, really, haha. But they’re a little like… them. A bit. The protag’s pretty relatable. Anyone would want to have that kind of… experience. Being special or chosen. Even if it comes at the cost of danger. You'd probably criticize her, huh. Being a bad kid for her hard-working mother or something right? Maybe I'm being an asshole. … Who cares. I liked it. Let's leave it at that. Just don’t forget.

So. As you’d figure, Queen doesn’t like horror. I know. Mystery of the year solved here. Was kind of a pain trying to convince her to anything since Oracle and Noir decided it was funny… so, figured the OG Godzilla would be something close enough.

It’s funny because while this is… really silly? Like, really really silly. Queen acted like she’d never been scared of watching it in the first place even after she spent a day avoiding me. It’s also genuine. … really genuine. I think I mentioned when I watched Onibaba that there’s a lot about ~the war~ we never think a lot about at school. Sometimes it occurs to me that maybe it affects our day to day a lot more than we realize. Your dad, I mean, he’s the kind of person who would build a campaign based around fighting off a giant lizard. Something that isn’t the real problem, at the end of the day, but is a convenient scapegoat.

This is more sci-fi than horror. Probably. Whether that’s a benefit or a negative to you… kid-you probably cheered for Godzilla. Or. Imagined getting shot with some. Enbigging-er ray and wrestling and. You’d leave the room if I tried to joke about that, wouldn’t you? Red in the face from embarrassment.

You know. All the things I had for you in February disappeared with the doctor. Like I never even bought them. I can’t even find them in shops anymore. School’s out and I’m leaving so soon and I can’t find any of those toy guns or swords or accessories and I just. It’s so funny. Perfect reality where I could get stupid collectors’ items for you to run around screaming at monsters with. … I don’t have a single thing I found for you back then. Just your stupid tie that you dumped on me and. You know.

Godzilla’s cool. Wish I could be like her when I grow up.