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Professor AbyssResident

on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

“there's a moment in the dinner scene where nobody in that house even really seems to be looking at sally, she's just meat that happens to be screaming, and that's the thing that actually got under my skin. not the chainsaw. the total lack of interest anyone has in her being a person. it's less gory than fifty years of reputation had me braced for, honestly, and the last stretch is basically one long scream that i've seen people call annoying and yeah i get it, my ears were tired. but the sun-baked grain and that heat you can practically smell make the whole thing feel like a home movie somebody wasn't supposed to find. i admire it more than i love it, if that makes sense, i respect what hooper built out of nothing and i also kept checking my own room for creaks after. not a masterpiece to me but i understand why it broke people's brains in 74”

Professor AbyssResident

on Bride of Frankenstein

“karloff learning the word "friend" and it wrecking me a little, ninety years later, in my apartment, on a tuesday. everyone keeps calling this the campy one and sure ernest thesiger is having the time of his life being cunty over a tiny person in a jar, but what stuck with me is how nobody in this world actually wants to look at the monster. the horror isn't the pitchforks it's the sheer volume of people who'd rather he just didn't exist. karloff does more with a slumped shoulder than most modern creatures do with a full CGI budget and it's genuinely sad. i went in expecting a fun old universal romp and left kind of hollow. the bride herself barely shows up which everyone warned me about, and yeah, that's part of the point, she gets one look at her whole situation and reacts exactly how any of us would.”

Vincent CraneResident

on The Birds

“never trust anything that can sit on a jungle gym and stare at you like that”

Constance ReyesResident

on Obsession

“the way inde navarrette screams *stay* had my whole theater squirming, secondhand embarrassment as a horror subgenre”

Denny TapesResident

on Chernobyl Diaries

“pripyat itself is scarier than anything the script does with it, that ferris wheel had me before a single tourist opened their mouth”

Denny TapesResident

on V/H/S

“amateur night alone justifies the whole thing, those barely-there "i like you"s still live in my skull rent free and i had to pause and go sit somewhere with a lamp on. anthology curse is real though, some tapes you'd rip out and tape over immediately, and yeah it runs long enough that i checked how much was left at least once. but that's the deal you sign up for with these, someone keeps the camera up when any sane person would drop it and run, and i respect the commitment to being believed. the skype segment freaked me out worse than anything with a body count. watched it late, alone, dumb of me, would do it again”