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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2h

I have! It’s so so good, I was maybe going to put it on the list later on. I think I saw that one of the prequels is on YouTube now, too?

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 4h

One of my favorite movies, no joke. A movie where the monster is the good guy but still also a monster: sympathetic and tragic, while the hero and heroine make you want to spit cotton.

danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 4h

don’t sleep on Tourneur’s Cat People for all your spooky watchlist needs, still a total stunner:

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 4h

I’m so glad!! If you look further up the list, there’s some other good ff/analog/creepy pasta stuff, especially the whole FALE DOCUMENTARY Q thing. YouTube is *rife* with found footage creepy pasta!

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 4h

Congratulations!!!

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 4h

Today’s YouTube offering: a little classic analog found footage horror from England.

Tomorrow we’ll slip on back to the heady days of olde, with a little British TV folk horror

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 4h

16. “No Through Road”

Back in 2009, a couple British teens posted this little vid to YouTube—allegedly the first YT “Analog horror” video. Totally context-free, viewers thought it was real, & it spawned all sorts of theories & imitators.

CW: dead animal btw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rj...

No Through Road

YouTube video by indrancole3

www.youtube.com

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 4h

15.2 “No Through Road 2”

NTR was so popular that, a year or two later, the direct made a string of 3 sequels that develop the story intriguingly. TBH this second video is where the series really takes off for me, as things start to get even weirder.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUj3...

No Through Road 2

YouTube video by indrancole3

www.youtube.com

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 4h

16. “No Through Road”

Back in 2009, a couple British teens posted this little vid to YouTube—allegedly the first YT “Analog horror” video. Totally context-free, viewers thought it was real, & it spawned all sorts of theories & imitators.

CW: dead animal btw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=08rj...

No Through Road

YouTube video by indrancole3

www.youtube.com

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 16h

While RJL finishes prepping an episode on Lafcadio Hearn, we’ve still got you covered for spooky season.

Check out RJL’s list of Japanese Horror Stories!

Japanese Horror Stories - Read Japanese Literature

images/Japanese-Horror-Stories.png Japanese horror stories can be scary. (Just ask any Millennial traumatized by The Ring—like I was!) Some of these stories are so scary (at least to me!) that RJL ma…

readjapaneseliterature.com

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis:

As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people?

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 22h

Considered going with this guy

a very small man in a red suit is dancing on a zigzag floor .

Alt: a very small man in a red suit is dancing on a zigzag floor .

media.tenor.com

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 22h

Reply with an image you can hear

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 1d

At least I caught the KOYAANISQATSI clip the first time through season 4 so there shouldn’t be any surprises there

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 1d

You’d think by now I would have them all but we just watched season 2 and I had to go download LIQUID DAYS which I don’t even LIKE and now we just got to the s.3 episode with SATYAGRAHA in it fuck

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 1d

Every season STRANGER THINGS forces me to purchase one (1) new Philip Glass album

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting for the real ones

It’s just a nice little short movie, not too scary or nothing. I’m chilling us down as we head back towards British TV Fun

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 1d

15. “Box Fort”

After CYCLOPS, it’s prob. time to take it down a notch. So here’s a nice little short film about some girls who make a box fort. I’m sure it’s fine.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVU...

Box Fort | A Short Horror Film

YouTube video by Tyler Czajkowski

www.youtube.com

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 1d

15. “Box Fort”

After CYCLOPS, it’s prob. time to take it down a notch. So here’s a nice little short film about some girls who make a box fort. I’m sure it’s fine.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=muVU...

Box Fort | A Short Horror Film

YouTube video by Tyler Czajkowski

www.youtube.com

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

Dogg when I tell you fuckin watch this Dogg watch this my brov watch this YouTube video my sweet boy

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

14. CYCLOPS (George Iida 1987)

Of all the messed up weird j-horror I’ve posted this month, CYCLOPS takes the cake: pure body horror in the vein of John Carpenter’s THE THING, with shades of TETSUO & AKIRA. Not for the squeamish, but pure absurd fun

www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ja...

Cyclops - 1987 (Sci Fi/Body Horror)

YouTube video by DEVILMAN666

www.youtube.com

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

Granted it’s been 20 yrs since I read it but the one thing I liked about the Johnny sections was the codes—I remember being actually alarmed/scared/unnerved by one of his mother’s coded letters, and that being the result of the deciding process slowly unveiling g the horror

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

YESSSSSS

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

Now I need to scroll down your feed to see what the takes were!!

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

Now to be clear, I watched this on a bootleg blu-ray—I haven’t watched this YouTube presentation yet, except to make sure it had subtitles (the other version on YT doesn’t), so it may be different from my experience. I was gonna watch it today but then I had to deal with life. Stupid life!

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

14. CYCLOPS (George Iida 1987)

Of all the messed up weird j-horror I’ve posted this month, CYCLOPS takes the cake: pure body horror in the vein of John Carpenter’s THE THING, with shades of TETSUO & AKIRA. Not for the squeamish, but pure absurd fun

www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ja...

Cyclops - 1987 (Sci Fi/Body Horror)

YouTube video by DEVILMAN666

www.youtube.com

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HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

I think I miscounted & I have *one* more 80s Japanese video horror, actually, but it is the best & most WTF of the bunch

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 3d

Hey you all getting sick of the weird Japanese and found footage stuff? Should I pause for some British 70s TV folk horror, or can I wrap up the 80s Japanese stuff first?

I’m thinking I have 2 more Japanese 80s video horror & then I’ll pivot to Britain for a while & then come back to Japan later on

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 2d

Esp in horror fiction

There are so many brilliant horror writers who will never get the attention they deserve because they only or mostly work in short form

April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 3d

Short story collections should be way more popular and marketed better for the short-attention present.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 3d

2 more 1980s Japanese video horror, some 2010s/20s Japanese found footage, the weirdest Japanese mockumentary horror movie ever, possibly a couple shorts and even a reeeeaaaaalllly bad 2000s-era j-horror for laughs

But yrall probably getting ready for some more Brit horror first right?