I'd love to un-watch this one. I get the message they were going for, but it taught me I do have limits on needless cruelty and how dark satire can get before I need to vomit. This might have been the one that broke me, horror-wise.
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Yeah I had to detox after this one. I recognised a couple of the actors, so that helped remind me it was fake, but otherwise it was too close to real serial killer cases for my taste.
Lake Mungo is still my go-to mockumentary horror. I prefer the slow build & spookiness.
Women raising their voices makes Pence wet himself in fear (or possibly joy) so that's probably not a good metric.
I nearly added that very observation in my post, so I would have to agree that could be a contributing factor.
First of all, excellent username.
Second, I would love a chance to win the Tomb Raider I - III remaster just for the nostalgia.
Third, the cool new thing I've done this year is take part in WeeklyBeats, a year-long challenge to create and post a new music track every week of 2024. So far so good!
Fourth, I don't have a decent meme to share but here (if I can get photos to work) is a photo of my void.
Another vote for the T480. I have a T480s running Mint and it's been lovely. No driver issues and for office/light media creation/consumption it seems to work without a hitch.
I'm finding I like suspense and thrillers more these days, though I do still enjoy black comedy (Ready or Not was tremendous fun, but I think that's because it was over-the-top just enough). It helps to look up behind-the-scenes footage of the Terrifier films, as the team genuinely seem to have fun making them. It's just that the final product is so grueling with not much else to balance it out.
There are a lot of excellent indie horror shorts on YouTube as well, from some clever 10-second-horror contests to Kane Pixels' The Oldest View series. The clever and innovative stuff really appeals to me, especially when it's a film that builds slowly and moves in unpredictable ways. Slashers all have the same vibe, so cranking up the violence is kinda all they've got.
A Mary Sue can fail, but those failures don't usually have a massive impact and are easily reversed without the feeling that the MS had to struggle to earn the reversal.
The more flaws a character has, the more they have to work to balance them out. Readers are more likely on the side of a character that has to work and make sacrifices to make it through the difficulties the plot throws at them.
Random Example: Diana Rowland's "My Life as a White Trash Zombie". Protagonist Angel has a criminal record, drug addiction, abusive home life, and generally makes very bad decisions. Because of her life course, she has very few resources (she can't go to the cops, nobody she knows has money or connections, etc) but she can think quickly and has a sort of desperate resourcefulness. Because everything is working against her, she has to fight for any positive forward movement, and one misstep can be a serious threat - and those happen frequently, undoing any success and forcing her to burn her resources to try a new path. IIRC in one of the books the B-story is her trying just to earn her GED as the main plot around her is utter pandemonium. Just that struggle to graduate high school is a herculean task given the deck stacked against her. Readers aren't thinking "how will she win", they're thinking "well what's going to go wrong this time?"
TL;DR: If every time your protagonist has a setback the readers shout "can't she ever catch a break?" instead of "ah she'll just breeze through this" you should be doing okay.
Haunter (2013) - Modest but fun shoestring indie with some good ideas & atmosphere and solid performances.
Started watching Terrifier but had to take a break. Lately I'm finding it more difficult to watch too much cruelty at once. I'll watch the trilogy because I do love practical effects and the filmmakers accomplish a lot with a smaller budget, but I'll probably ingest them 20 minutes at a time.
Want to watch Hatching. Body horror used to skeeve me out but with the shift in my tolerance for slashers, I'm finding it easier to deal with overly stylised genres.
I'm suggesting do what it takes to make sure we get more elections after 2024.
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Taken individually, the set pieces in Serbian Film don't sound that awful (apart from what you mentioned), but as a whole in one sitting, it builds and slowly crushes you. The climax of the movie is simply too much. "Bleak" doesn't even begin to describe it.