As a child, stories like IT and predator that were about malicious alien intelligences hunting people were by far the most frightening. I think later, stories focused on psychosis and reality collapse became more frightening. Recently I've found Lake Mungo the most disturbing,

Remembering when my sisters and I used to watch BBC's Pride and Prejudice a lot in high school and shout I WANT TO GO TO BRIGHTON through the house

Good reminder to watch this, I enjoyed Terrified/Aterrados and I hear this is better.

And this mission with the TV crew. Just pure delight. I was wondering if things would somehow be, once again, resolved by punching. And I was not disappointed.

Finally picking up Yakuza Zero and shit is good. This quest where you help the kid get his video game back is amazing. If you know, you know.

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Saw this yesterday in the Cineville preview and it's amazing.

I saw the Carcosa thing and was like oohhh

One of my favorite Dutch social movements, De Collectieve Beweging, have started a campaign to limit the weath of the Dutch ultra rich. They've started a small crowdfunding campaign for this. Consider supporting them! Link below.

Like I'm interested in the crossover between games x sacredness/mystery and perhaps games x doom/black metal energy is a nice concrete example of this, more tangible and raw, more relatable.

Thought: if games can be truly metal as fuck, and especially in styles like black metal or doom metal, it allows them to escape the 'this is a fun entertainment product' aesthetic to some degree and become something else, something more resonant.

Anyone interested in doing a PhD with me on the 'boring power' of technocratic planning techniques and how they act as imagination infrastructures for dull-as-fuck futures? See below.

I just backed the brilliant Ithaca by @thepixelhunt.bsky.social. 10 days to go until the end of this kickstarter campaign about this narrative road trip RPG that lets you explore the reality of a person fighting for a better future, caught in a very unusual situation. Follow the real road trip!

Just passing by but I was very impressed by Montpellier. Beautiful vibey city with I believe the biggest non-car city zone in Europe, which means a very large part of the city is just for walking and hanging around outside. Really great vibe.

Will the Mandalorian & Grogu get a redemption arc, what do you think? I saw it after rewatching the show, having context from Clone Wars, and with expectations at -10000. I can see all the criticism, but I enjoyed it in the same way that the Ewoks in ROTJ became more enjoyable. Puppets!

I also feel like rather than entire films there are specific ideas or images that hit and stay, as well. When I watched the BWP I don't think the entire film messed me up, but this? Oh yes.

TCM and BWP are both up for a rewatch. I love the original Suspiria but I LOVE the remake. That's potentially my favorite film ever. Curious about the Empty Man and Angel Heart.

It was @johanvanhattum.bsky.social posting this rather painfullly observant meme a while back that made me realize, damn, I wish someone would have told me as a kid the very obvious conclusion that since I wasn't a Special Ops soldier with an M16 I was actually safe from the Predator.

The first film that ever messed me up was Predator. I watched it when I was 7 or something like that. I had trouble sleeping for a year. I think what makes the film so scary to a young boy is these men who are the pinnacle of military patriarchy being completely defenseless and crazy with fear.

For my partner, Hereditary still takes the cake. I love that movie so much, but I've never found it especially scary. But that seems to be one that's high on people's lists.

Not scary, but definitely a highlight on our journey: The Sadness (2021). Utterly disgusting but very fun.

I'm also curious to see how It Follows holds up for me now. I remember the combination of dreamy melancholia with inevitability to be effectively scary.

The same goes for Fire Walk With Me. The darkness in the Twin Peaks universe runs really deep and the Return really brought it out as well.

The same goes for Bring Her Back (2025) which is just so drenched in bad vibes, I love it. The tape footage in that movie is very effective as well.

Talk To Me (2022) is easily one of my favorite horrors of the last years and the way it imagines the spirits of the dead and their desires while making the living very empathetic is seriously chilling.

I remember being rattled by Inland Empire when I first saw that. Just the sense of a very unstable and dark reality. I'm up for a rewatch because this was nearly 20 years ago.

We also watched Martyrs (2008) this week, but this was a case of a movie having to much buildup around it for me. I'm not very interested in gore and torture, but I did feel like the first half was emotionally engaging and sad. But the lore dump and context provided later made things kind of silly.

When I think of the media that has frightened me the most in my life, the absolute winner is without a doubt a reading of Stephen King's IT when I was around 8 years old. Pennywise has stalked my dreams ever since and I still think about this book a lot. The movies are fun but don't capture it.

I thought the way Incantation (2022) aimed to involve the viewer in the movie's spell was cool as well, not terrifying but definitely a new vector of unsettlement.

Of course we also saw Obsession, and being around someone where different personalities pop up in a very unsafe way rattled me more than expected, based on personal experience. The sense of a person being trapped was also very effectively scary.