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Damn, that's tempting.
I know. I really shouldn't be spending money on things like this, but they got my $129.
Damn, that's tempting.
I watched Occult yesterday. The build up was fun, but the final scene was really poorly directed. There must be a better way to portray that even considering their budget.
Finished Uzumaki the other day. Liked it a lot and so did the wife.
Now to see the film next. Apparently it's not very good(?) but it seems to share some of the visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1_ZoQmqxM
I see some people talking about The Mouth of Madness which I could check out but it seems a bit cheesy.
Anyone have any good visual medium suggestions?
Anyone have any good visual medium suggestions?
I see some people talking about The Mouth of Madness which I could check out but it seems a bit cheesy.
I watched The Void the other day which was good but was a bit too vague and had some slower boring moments in it.
I've also seen Event Horizon which was great, but got really cheesy with it's effects and ending.
Amneziak mentioned The Jaunt.
Back in the day King short stories haunted me so bad after I read them. I spent a lot of nights staring at the ceiling wondering if these horrors could exist.
The poor creature at the end of the Jaunt. The father at the end of the Boogeyman. The man left to die on the planet of living sand. The people after The Mist.
I miss that feeling. Now I just get that feeling of helplessness and mistrust from politics.
Yes, especially since it originally was going toWould you consider the movie Sunshine to be cosmic horror, or have elements of cosmic horror?
I had never thought of it that way, but some comments in that Sunshine thread mentioned that, and it kind of changes everything about how I thought of that movie. At the very least, the third act makes much more thematic sense in that context
Was in cosmic horror mood after watching The Void. Stumbled upon this short on YouTube named Thresher: https://youtu.be/SqNdbHHWtBc
Thats pretty good.Was in cosmic horror mood after watching The Void. Stumbled upon this short on YouTube named Thresher: https://youtu.be/SqNdbHHWtBc
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Worst, as in bad or scary?House of Leaves is the worst novel I've ever read.
im kind of surprised that there werent any fan created Sutter Cane novels. i love the covers for those books.
Worst, as in bad or scary?
Finished Uzumaki the other day. Liked it a lot and so did the wife.
Now to see the film next. Apparently it's not very good(?) but it seems to share some of the visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r1_ZoQmqxM
Worst, as in bad or scary?
That KindleWorlds fanfiction initiiative would be fertile ground to create Sutter Cane stories
You know, it is kind of strange. I help run a horror group on facebook, and it is full of people whose literary opinions I respect, and they never mention House of Leaves, where it is mentioned here all the time.
I finally asked if anyone read it and it turns out nearly no one has. It's just strikes me as strange, these are people that live and breathe horror.
I need to get a copy and read it and break this trend.
I'm not a huge fan of the genre. It has a ... let's say problematic relationship to mental illness, for a start.
But I guess my real objection is that it feels like it gives a comfortingly inhuman gloss to the themes of cosmic insignificance. Stuff that's exciting when we're talking about squids from the deep, and just depressing when placed in a more mundane context. If you want an extended meditation on how little our value system means to the universe, Lovecraft's a cop-out. You should play That Dragon, Cancer instead.
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The layout of the pages in House of Leaves were very effective in giving extra depth to what the characters are experiencing. I get it isn't for everyone though. For Mark Z Danielewski's novels you have to be willing to work harder.
His new series is insanely ambitious. It is called The Familiar, with a planned 27 volumes (4 of which are out). It plays with the page and narrative even more so than HoL, but is very rewarding imo.
Haven't read HoL yet, but might just pick up the first volume of The Familiar to see if I'm into it. Something in those 800 pages better justify 26 more books
So I did it. I went and put money into that kickstarter for the hardcover set of Providence. Well at least my tax returns are decent this year so I consider it treating myself.
I wish I had found it sooner so I could've gotten in on an early-bird special. I can't complain though, since it's still a really good price for what I get.
Worst, as in bad or scary?
That movie freaked me out, it stayed with my head for a couple of weeks after watching it, really did a number on me.Also rewatched Pandorum again yesterday. Good flick
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=491047
Annihilation by VanderMeer is a good starter. It's pretty short and reads quick.
I think my favorite take are the spatial terrors. You know, where space and time and physics just don't work as intended. Places bigger within than without, closed loops that drive you insane from being forever lost, endless hallways, doors to nowhere, architecture shifting and changing when it shouldn't, maps and compasses not working, walking in a straight line and ending up where you started. Or maybe that place doesn't want to you to leave, that it might have malignant sentience
There's something about a thing as solid as a building or piece of land changing like that, that slow pit-in-your-stomach realization of being lost magnified exponentially.
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Excellently said.
Bought House of Leaves because of this thread. About to dig in. Skimming through has me very excited. The formatting is really something.
Tim Curran is probably my favorite horror author right now.Started reading Dead Sea due to this thread. The writing is kind of eh but the concept is totally cosmic horror.