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I am writing a research paper about the influence that global politics has on the horror movie industry. I want to be as thorough as I can. Since I obviously don't know every horror movie ever released off the top of my head, I figured Reddit can help me!

Attached is a google form to submit any movies you think were influenced in any way by global politics, legislation, or government. I do ask that you explain why you submitted that movie or movies, but you can be as short or as long in answering as you need to be as long as you think you have provided enough detail.

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Amazon has slashed the price of its latest flagship smart display, the Echo Show 11, to an unprecedented $194.99—down from its standard $219.99 retail tag. This rare discount, spotted on Amazon’s own storefront, arrives just in time for holiday shoppers seeking to upgrade their living spaces with cutting-edge technology. For those already embedded in the […]

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Two Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee have fired a warning shot across the escalating takeover battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, signaling that a future Democratic-controlled Congress and White House could move to block or even dismantle any acquisition of the company by Paramount Global if foreign Gulf investors end up with meaningful […]

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What I'm Doing Wednesday

Dec. 10th, 2025 12:27 pm
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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sharon L. James (Editor), Sheila Dillon (Editor). 2012. Triggery as hell in the first third. Took a long time to read.

I started Natasha Pulley's Hymn to Dionysus, but it didn't grab me so it's on pause.

yarning
a) Thanks to some links from Petra, I learned to knit a few rows of garter stitch. And yet...it feels wrong. (I'm probably doing it wrong, though my little swatch looks vaguely like it's supposed to.) I found a video on knitting continental, so the yarn is on the correct side for my brain. But it feels weird. Maybe I'm just built for crochet...?

b) I think I've just about got the Vampire Lestat in gold pants crochet pattern just about complete. I'm testing it, which is a good thing, bc I found some errors. Meanwhile, I'm teasing the art doll on Tumblr ([tumblr.com profile] mostlyvampires), hoping it'll eventually reach interested people. (I'd appreciate a reblog, if you see this! <333)

c) Next up maaaay be creating a red pants version. In the screen grabs from the trailer, that version doesn't have the necklace or microphone...unless I add them. I'm so impatient for more canon to work from! OR a different canon to bite me and demand yarning into being. OR commissions to make dolls of other people from photos. That's a thing I can do & it would be FUN!

d) Saturday evening some lovely anonymouse bought a Made to Order cat stitch scarf from me, but they didn't tell me what colors to use! I messaged them Sunday morning but didn't hear anything all day & hyperfixated on it, as you do. Then first thing Monday, there was a message with colors! So I spent all day Monday working on it, and then part of Tuesday weaving in all the million ends from the 45 color changes. And ouch my shoulder, but I've missed making these, so all in all, it was fun! AND, most importantly, I revised the listing to make it clear that ANY colors are doable, but you have to choose the colors! :g:

e) This is just me being fond, but yesterday someone bought the black sparkly amineko kitty with gold eyes after YEARS of it sitting on my couch waiting for a home. I'm so happy for it! \o/

healthcrap
Thursday's bone scan went fine, though the results weren't great. I may or may not have lost half an inch of height. I didn't stand up straight when she measured me, so I'm hoping not. OTOH, I haven't been exercising, so maybe so. :shrug: Yesterday was the doc appt for filling out transportation forms. I have doubts that it'll be approved, but we won't know til I send it in.

Yuletide
I keep having feelings about my fic, flipping between unutterably anxious and more or less pleased. The betas really helped, and there are many many editing days left between now and Dec 24, so maybe it'll be okay in the end. Monday night, despite my intention to stick it in a proverbial drawer for a few days, I couldn't get to sleep until after I got up and tinkered with it a little more. I keep changing sentences and hoping I'm improving it instead of breaking it. :crosses fingers and toes:

I hope all of y'all are doing well! <333
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Posted by /u/Jay_Stranger

What a hidden gem of a movie. I am very critical of horror movies because for the most part, they NEVER scare me or creep me out. Which is why I tend to lean into psychological horror.

This movie follows a crew of asbestos cleaners whose job is to clear out asbestos from an old mental asylum. Focusing on Gordon's struggle to provide for his family, the movie highlights just how thin the line of sanity is.

Without giving away too much, this movie is about losing your god damn mind. If you enjoy a slow and unsettled experience, I would highly recommend. It wouldn't be considered analog horror, but I get those vibes a lot in this film and can see how it would inspire a lot of analog horror directors into creating something horrifying.

Also, the music, or lack thereof, fits the vibe of the movie perfectly.

I would rate this movie 7/10 for normal audience. 8/10 for horror fans.

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Posted by /u/castdex

The Babadook has a scene where the mom is looking through her window over to her neighbor’s home. The neighbor is sitting on a chair watching TV. On the second cut to the neighbor we see the Babadook standing behind her.

Unexpected, background and silent scares like these are what actually scare me. While I’m a fan of good executed jump scares, the more subtle scares are my favorite.

Another example would be in Weapons. The scene where the mom gets out of her house in the middle of the night over to teachers car. All of that was silent. Or in Signs, the first few times we see the alien. Another similar one is in Cuckoo, scene where main character is riding her bike and she sees someone running on the field next to her.

Now a big factor to me is when it happens in the background. Where you immediately say to someone “Did you see that??” and gets you worried because you know something the character doesn’t know in that moment.

If you guys know anymore scenes like these in movies I would love to know! Though I wouldn’t the scene spoiled so just the movie title would be great. Thanks!

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An Icelandic horror novella translated by Mary Robinette Kowal! I had no idea she's fluent in Icelandic.

Iðunn experiences unexplained fatigue and injuries when she wakes up, but is gaslit by doctors and offered idiotic remedies by co-workers. (Very relatable!) Meanwhile, she's being semi-stalked by her ex-boyfriend/co-worker, her parents refuse to accept that she's a vegetarian and keep serving her chicken, and the only living beings she actually likes are the neighborhood cats that she's allergic to.

After what feels like an extremely long time, it finally occurs to her that she might be sleepwalking, and some time after that, it finally occurs to her to video herself as she sleeps. At that point some genuinely scary/creepy/unsettling things happen, and I was very gripped by the story and its central mystery.

Is Iðunn going out at night and committing all the acts she's normally too beaten down or scared to do while sleepwalking or dissociating? Is she having a psychotic break? Is she a vampire? Is she possessed? Does it have something to do with a traumatic past event that's revealed about a third of the way in?

Other than the last question, I have no idea! The ending was so confusing that I have no idea what it was meant to convey, and it did not provide any answers to basically anything. I'm also not sure what all the thematic/political elements about the oppression of women had to do with anything, because they didn't clearly relate to anything that actually happened.

Spoilers!

Read more... )

This was a miss for me. But I was impressed by the very fluent and natural-sounding translation.

Content note: A very large number of cats are murdered. Can horror writers please knock it off with the dead cats? At this point it would count as a shocking twist if the cat doesn't die.

Every day I'm shovelin' [^1]

Dec. 10th, 2025 09:49 am
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By the time today ends I will have shoveled our driveway and ways at least four times over the course of two days. We're finally getting a new garage door and opener, having needed one for several years. We had to wait for a non-standard-sized door to be ordered[^2], then once it arrived, we scheduled the installation for yesterday. Then, the night of the day before yesterday, it started snowing.

Yesterday morning, I called the garage door company to see if they would need to reschedule because of the weather. The woman I spoke to sounded almost amused by the idea. Since then, I have shoveled:

  1. Yesterday morning, so I could get our vehicles out and the technician could get his truck to the garage.
  2. Yesterday evening, so the technician could get his truck out of the driveway and I could get our vehicles back in.
  3. Early this morning, so I could get our van out and go to the doctor. This included shoveling the huge piles that the snow plows had deposited at the end of the driveway.
  4. Later this morning, when I got back from the doctor, I had to shovel the rest of the driveway so we can play vehicle Tetris[^3] and the technician can finish the garage door.

It's currently snowing, but not as hard as yesterday, so I may or may not have to shovel again when the technician has to leave this evening. Plus, I'll have to shovel the end of the driveway again when the city plows the sidewalks, which may or may not happen today. So I guess this winter's definitely giving me my exercise!

[^1] If you recognized the musical reference in the title, I'd like to offer my sincere apologies. If you didn't, please don't go looking for it — I doubt you need an earworm, and I'd prefer that you not think ill of me.

[^2] Because of course our house required a non-standard-sized door.

[^3] Right now we're forbidden to park on the street, so that the plows can run. When the technician gets here, A. and I will have to back our vehicles out of the driveway, then he'll back his truck up the driveway to the garage, then we'll pull back into the driveway. Then we'll have to do the whole thing in reverse when he leaves.

Fic in a Box recs!

Dec. 10th, 2025 09:55 am
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There's a bunch of amazing stuff in the FIAB! I've made a couple of recs posts for fics I've loved so far.

My gifts (Red Sonja, Kyle Murchison Booth stories)

Horror fic recs (Cthulhu Mythos, House of Leaves, Original Work)

Slippery Creatures, by K.J. Charles

Dec. 10th, 2025 09:45 am
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Will Darling's inherited his uncle's used bookshop and also a secret that everyone in London is trying to beat out of him. After Lord Arthur "Kim" Secretan—handsome, charming, rich—rescues him from one of these numerous thugs, Will accepts his help in searching the bookshop for whatever it was his uncle was hiding. Sex, intrigue, and hats (it's the 1920s) ensue.

I don't know, gang, I just didn't vibe with these two, and the many sex scenes kind of demand that you do. I would have preferred a higher story to horny ratio; as it is, it's pretty much 1:1. But, personal tastes aside, it's not a bad book, and other readers have found it delightful, so don't let me scare you off.

Contains: explicit m/m sex, including some terms so deeply unsexy I can only assume they're historically accurate; violence; references to WWI, trench warfare, infectious disease, and biological weapons.
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Posted by /u/jesseknopf

Slow start, but the movie goes nuts in the last half/third. I think it has another name as well. I had to rewatch the bit in the beginning to make sure I understood the ending. Highly recommended!

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Posted by /u/poweroverbirdss

recently I've been on a binge of found footage movies the last couple days, and so far I've watched Grave Encounters, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, The Bay, The Gracefield Incident, Unfriended/Unfriended Dark Web, and The Blair Witch Project and I'm looking for more.

I figured if someone recommended them to me, they'd be worth watching, so any movie you can think of that would fit this category I'm willing to give a shot!

(eta another movie I forgot about)

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Movie of the day...PIRANHA (1978)

Dec. 10th, 2025 05:04 pm
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Posted by /u/Mgellis

Movie of the day...Piranha (1978).

Our story begins with a pair of backpackers breaking into some kind of deserted facility. While exploring, they find a large pool and decide to take a swim. Then something eats them.

Later, a skip tracer (Heather Menzies) looking for the missing young people coerces an alcoholic living in a remote cabin in the woods (Bradford Dillman) into helping her. She drives up to the abandoned facility. She wants to see if there are bones at the bottom of the pool, and before the one scientist who still works there can stop her, she drains it, not realizing in doing so she is releasing mutant piranha (developed by the government as a bioweapon) into the river. Uh oh.

This may be a controversial review because the film was directed by Joe Dante, the man who brought us both Gremlins and The Howling. However, I have rarely seen a movie so expertly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It is competently directed, but ruined by an idiotic script. The story and dialogue are so bad it is impossible to suspend disbelief. Possibly the movie is meant to be satire or parody, but if so it lacks the critical element of being funny.

Even if Jeremy Wade, the British angler who brought us River Monsters, had been in this film, I doubt it would have helped very much.

In fairness to Dante, whenever the movie shuts up and lets us watch piranhas killing people, it is not too bad. Unfortunately, far too much time is spent on the characters; the fish are a lot more interesting.

Rating: C-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_(1978_film))

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YouTube TV has confirmed plans to launch a series of lower-cost, genre-focused subscription tiers in early 2026, marking the most significant restructuring of its live television offering since the service debuted in 2017. The new lineup, branded YouTube TV Plans, will consist of more than ten specialized packages built around sports, news, kids and family […]

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Posted by Jess Barnes

Xfinity announced today the launch of new video plans and pricing, meant to offer customers simplicity and transparency when choosing a plan. New and existing customers who choose from the new plans will get an included X1 4K TV box and a voice remote. The plans include unique features like Multiview, Enhanced 4K, Fan View […]

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RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

Dec. 10th, 2025 04:43 pm
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It's Wednesday in some localised linear timelines (more or less). What are you reading?
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Posted by /u/kipwrecked

Aside from the typical Christmas slashers & ghost stories, I'm interested in all your slightly sideways movies to set the mood!

Last year, about this time, I watched Oddity (2024) and it was a vibe. So, I'm interested to know what's got you all vibing this year?

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