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āHeās a full fledged version of a Japanese Draculaā is such an understatement.
Iā¦ those are the words I have.
Iā¦ those are the words I have.
Jul 10, 2025
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Found footage film series by the director of Noroi: The Curse and Occult and I.M.O. the best the genre has to offer. Great image-making is hard to come by in found footage, but the good thing is that most of the films that do it well do it *really* well, & these are at the top. The thing about this series though is that you really do have to watch the whole thing, or at least the first 7. But they more or less keep getting better and better with each entry so it's worth it af. 6 is my favorite (pictured below)
If u like paranormal investigation media, this starts out as a pretty endearing spoof of that stuff, but it very steadily develops into something much bigger than can be expressed with the words on a pi.fyi post. Vast, jaw dropping, cosmic terror. If you don't have shit going on spring break this would be perfect to binge.
And it's all on youtube with beautiful fan-translated subtitles (linked)! 2025 is the year of Senritsu Kaiki! Get in on the ground floor!
If u like paranormal investigation media, this starts out as a pretty endearing spoof of that stuff, but it very steadily develops into something much bigger than can be expressed with the words on a pi.fyi post. Vast, jaw dropping, cosmic terror. If you don't have shit going on spring break this would be perfect to binge.
And it's all on youtube with beautiful fan-translated subtitles (linked)! 2025 is the year of Senritsu Kaiki! Get in on the ground floor!
Feb 26, 2025
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I know Iām 1000 years late to the party hereā¦ I had friends on Tumblr like ten years ago who loved Rob Zombie but I initially dismissed his body of work and refused to watch any of his films.
I already intuitively knew this to be true but this officially marks the point at which I confirm that I definitively have bad taste because I loved this movie.
House of 1000 Corpses is a love letter to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and grindhouse cinema, and exists within the thematic subset of horror movies about people on a road trip who find themselves stranded in the worst place imaginable due to vehicular dysfunctionāThe Hills Have Eyes, House of Wax or Wrong Turnāwhich I LOVE. Like truly among my favorite concepts.
Where I grew up, to get anywhere you would have to drive hours through empty desert with random little creepy houses and old gas stations (both operational and abandoned) littered along the way, and nothing in between. So these kinds of scenarios were like all I could ever imagine as a hysterical demented child.
But I love this even more because itās like okay what if you took those movies and made them more like Off Season by Jack Ketchum which was one of my favorite horror books as a teen (highly recommend if youāre a freak like me) and is so graphic and disturbing and hopeless. (See italicized footnote at the bottom for further thoughtsā¦)
But also add in goofy campy characters like a Harley Quinn/Elly May Clampett-type girl who likes to do makeup like Theda Bara and perform Marilyn Monroe songs on stage, her evil brother who looks like Riff Raff, and their mom who is like redneck Jennifer Coolidge played by KAREN BLACK (who slayed btw literally and figuratively). Combine it with a haunted house thrill ride and also make it weirdly hilarious, completely insane, and devoid of taste with absolutely no restraint. But with a hyper-stylized fantastical element that allows you to view the happenings on screen with some amount of remove and enjoy yourself rather than just feeling sickened and low-vibrational. Go off Robert Zombie!!!!
(Footnote: All of these stories are based on the legend of the Sawney Bean family which okay blah blah anti-Scottish propaganda by the Britishāsome scholars actually believe in its veracity as a true accounting of eventsābut like what if??? Wouldnāt that be sooo creepy to be on your horse at night, far away from other people, and come upon a band of inbred roaming cannibals and you have no phones no lights no motorcars not a single luxury and they take you into a damn CAVE. I can believe it happening because Fred and Rose West were unfortunately real. Well anyway if you like the terror that conjured up for you and are interested in its truest modern analogue read Open Season by Jack Ketchum or watch this movie I guess. Thanks for reading if you did)
I already intuitively knew this to be true but this officially marks the point at which I confirm that I definitively have bad taste because I loved this movie.
House of 1000 Corpses is a love letter to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and grindhouse cinema, and exists within the thematic subset of horror movies about people on a road trip who find themselves stranded in the worst place imaginable due to vehicular dysfunctionāThe Hills Have Eyes, House of Wax or Wrong Turnāwhich I LOVE. Like truly among my favorite concepts.
Where I grew up, to get anywhere you would have to drive hours through empty desert with random little creepy houses and old gas stations (both operational and abandoned) littered along the way, and nothing in between. So these kinds of scenarios were like all I could ever imagine as a hysterical demented child.
But I love this even more because itās like okay what if you took those movies and made them more like Off Season by Jack Ketchum which was one of my favorite horror books as a teen (highly recommend if youāre a freak like me) and is so graphic and disturbing and hopeless. (See italicized footnote at the bottom for further thoughtsā¦)
But also add in goofy campy characters like a Harley Quinn/Elly May Clampett-type girl who likes to do makeup like Theda Bara and perform Marilyn Monroe songs on stage, her evil brother who looks like Riff Raff, and their mom who is like redneck Jennifer Coolidge played by KAREN BLACK (who slayed btw literally and figuratively). Combine it with a haunted house thrill ride and also make it weirdly hilarious, completely insane, and devoid of taste with absolutely no restraint. But with a hyper-stylized fantastical element that allows you to view the happenings on screen with some amount of remove and enjoy yourself rather than just feeling sickened and low-vibrational. Go off Robert Zombie!!!!
(Footnote: All of these stories are based on the legend of the Sawney Bean family which okay blah blah anti-Scottish propaganda by the Britishāsome scholars actually believe in its veracity as a true accounting of eventsābut like what if??? Wouldnāt that be sooo creepy to be on your horse at night, far away from other people, and come upon a band of inbred roaming cannibals and you have no phones no lights no motorcars not a single luxury and they take you into a damn CAVE. I can believe it happening because Fred and Rose West were unfortunately real. Well anyway if you like the terror that conjured up for you and are interested in its truest modern analogue read Open Season by Jack Ketchum or watch this movie I guess. Thanks for reading if you did)
Oct 27, 2024
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Some of the heaviest hitters:
* Season 1, Episode 4, Jenifer, dir. Dario Argento ā a married detective rescues a seemingly developmentally disabled young woman (who has a beautiful body and a disfigured face) from being murdered. He finds out that she was sent to live at a mental hospital because she has nobody to care for her, so he takes her in to live with his family and develops a psychosexual obsession with her. This is adapted from a 1974 comic by the same name. * Season 1, Episode 8, Cigarette Burns, dir. John Carpenter ā Norman Reedus plays a movie theater owner whoās grieving the loss of his wife to suicide and needs money to pay back his father-in-law. Heās hired by a wealthy collector played by Udo Kier to find a lost cursed film, La Fin Absolue du Monde. Itās Carpenterās goriest and arguably scariest work. * Season 1, Episode 10, Sick Girl, dir. Lucky McKee ā two shy quirked up weird girls, unlucky in love but with so much to giveāan entomologist, Ida (played by Angela Bettis, star of McKeeās May!) and an artist, Mistyāfind each other after Ida receives a strange package with an unidentifiable insect. They feel a connection and plan to go on a first date but Misty gets bitten by the bug and starts actingā¦ offā¦ * Season 1, Episode 13, Imprint, dir. Takashi Miike ā one of my favorite horror films EVER. It was so graphic and disturbing that Showtime decided not to air it and to just release it on DVD. In Meiji era Japan, an American journalist goes to a brothel on a remote island to search for Komomo, the love of his life, a Japanese sex worker he left behind years ago. A mysterious disfigured woman tells him the tale of Komomoās fateā¦
* Season 1, Episode 4, Jenifer, dir. Dario Argento ā a married detective rescues a seemingly developmentally disabled young woman (who has a beautiful body and a disfigured face) from being murdered. He finds out that she was sent to live at a mental hospital because she has nobody to care for her, so he takes her in to live with his family and develops a psychosexual obsession with her. This is adapted from a 1974 comic by the same name. * Season 1, Episode 8, Cigarette Burns, dir. John Carpenter ā Norman Reedus plays a movie theater owner whoās grieving the loss of his wife to suicide and needs money to pay back his father-in-law. Heās hired by a wealthy collector played by Udo Kier to find a lost cursed film, La Fin Absolue du Monde. Itās Carpenterās goriest and arguably scariest work. * Season 1, Episode 10, Sick Girl, dir. Lucky McKee ā two shy quirked up weird girls, unlucky in love but with so much to giveāan entomologist, Ida (played by Angela Bettis, star of McKeeās May!) and an artist, Mistyāfind each other after Ida receives a strange package with an unidentifiable insect. They feel a connection and plan to go on a first date but Misty gets bitten by the bug and starts actingā¦ offā¦ * Season 1, Episode 13, Imprint, dir. Takashi Miike ā one of my favorite horror films EVER. It was so graphic and disturbing that Showtime decided not to air it and to just release it on DVD. In Meiji era Japan, an American journalist goes to a brothel on a remote island to search for Komomo, the love of his life, a Japanese sex worker he left behind years ago. A mysterious disfigured woman tells him the tale of Komomoās fateā¦
Oct 13, 2024
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Found him at a flea market and kept walking away and then coming back. hes too small to actually be heard from outside so I popped him on the wall by my computer where I can knock him while Iām doing tasks.
Jun 16, 2025
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I really love painting Los Angeles, showing all her little hidden gems that give her character. If you have cute/fun business reccs for me to visit and paint please lmk!
Jun 8, 2025
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šim Thinking mainly of Summer Break here.
I woke up whenever I wanted to after a late night of watching cartoon networks adult swim which was pretty much just sexy anime back then interspersed with some music news and vibes. I drank a fuck ton of Coke Gold which I never see anymore but itās the caffeine free version.
I had keys to my apartment but no money so Iād take a walk and then come back home and watch more tv or draw and listen to my cdās. I used my lunch money during the year to buy cds every other week from Best Buy or virgin records which was definitely the coolest it could have been in the early 2000ās - everything was red lighting and industrial steel and the Distillerās first cd was $7. my parents sent me off to hang with some of their friends parents out of state and they let me have free reign over their golf cart and Iād drive around in it all day blasting NOFX and Crazytown and Alkaline Trio - definitely the reason all the boys wanted to hang on my golf cart that summer was the fact that I brought my battery operated boom box with me everywhere. The girls followed on their own carts and decided they didnāt like me even tho I always asked them to come hang.
When I got an older (2006?) and had more money I started getting loosies and beers at the corner store and would smoke and drink in the park with my friends and no one ever said anything to us. we snuck into MGMT in the park and did drugs under the trees and danced with glitter on our faces and stupid string bands around our foreheads.
There was this community garden in the East Village we went to a lot that had chickens in it so we called it Cock Park - they had a tree house weād drink 40ās in and cackle until the park closed, then weād move to the church yard.
I canāt stress enough how many underground music venues there were - none of them carded, all were illegal and all served jungle juice out of coolers. we got Fucked up, dude.
And the best of all was the fuckin house party. Someoneās rich parents were always out of town and we little assholes would swarm their teenager occupied brownstone like little monsters. Lots of drinking and drugs and sex all over the place. i Feel bad for the kids who had to clean their houses in the morning all hungover and stressing out.
But yeah, it was cool.
But yeah, it was cool.
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