#Hostel franchise

[tawneybel]

Imagine Alexei and Óli showing Paxton and Josh pics of them taking turns filling you with their fingers and lapping at your clit.

Alex smiled. At this rate, you two would be luring more to Elite Hunting than Natalya and Svetlana could honeytrap by themselves. Your plan to initially use seduction—plus exhibitionism, group sex, whatever—instead of just waiting till a sitting duck came to the hostel proper… Well, it was making you very popular with your superiors.

In more ways than one, the Slovakian thought as he remembered Sasha wondering aloud how tasty was your pussy, after being freshly filled by someone slated to die?

A bit morbid for your boyfriend’s taste. Alexei was more indifferent than sadistic. Sharing you almost felt virtuous. He could understand why naive men would be eager to meet more promiscuous ladies like yourself.

“Lots more girls like this-” began Alex.

“Why bother hooking up with separate girls when she’s down to share?”

“And make mementos.”

#Alexei #Óli Eriksson #Paxton Rodriguez #Josh Brooks #Hostel #minors do not interact #Hostel 2005 #honeytrap #threesome. #cunnilingus. #fingering. #oral. #reader insert #horror #Hostel movie #Hostel film #exhibitionism. #Hostel imagine #Hostel trilogy #Hostel franchise #Lubomir Bukovy #Eyþór Guðjónsson #Jay Hernandez #Derek Richardson #Alexei imagine #Óli Eriksson imagine #Paxton Rodriquez imagine #Josh Brooks imagine #horror imagine #villain imagine

[veronicasvices]

I hate horror movies that are just gorey for the sake of being gorey.

Like oOooh you're so dark and edgy, cool, but there is no meaning to your violence. It doesn't add depth to the plot (if the movie even bothered to establish a coherent one to begin with, which is rare in a lot of horror movies) it doesn't convey any sort of message and sometimes it doesn't even make sense for it to be there in terms of character motivation. Heck, sometimes the gore isn't even fun. Like, if you did it in a fun way I'd like it for shits and giggles (which is the case of Saw, for example) but most of the time the gore is just there for the sake of shock factor, and, ironically, despite the fact that this kind of content is considered "adult" it just comes off as extremely childish.

On a similar note, I also hate it when a movie's idea of "horror" is just cheap jumpscares. Horror in movies should be slow, claustrophobic, and all consuming, not a FNAF jumpscare (Keep in mind that I'm talking about movies here, I actually kinda like jumpscares in horror games lol)

Those two combined are the opposite of my bread and butter, they're my cardboard and broken glass.

Anyway, fuck "in your face" horror movies. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

#horror #movies #saw franchise #saw #saw movies #saw 2004 #the nun #hostel #a serbian film #human centipede #skinamarink #fear street

[explosive-hourglass]

What are your “uncomfortable comfort movies”? Like movies you love and put on to relax and unwind that most people would give you side eye for. Comment or tag them for me

#saw franchise #american mary #american psycho #hostel #girl interrupted #house of 1000 corpses #repo! the genetic opera

[sad-cinnamongirl]

is it just me or does the dutch businessman from hostel (2005) remind anyone else of lawrence gordon from saw (2004)?? the dutch businessman is more cynical and violent but they were really similar imo.

lawrence was a surgeon, the dutch businessman wanted to be a surgeon.

they both have a daughter, and got divorced after being married a while (yes its canon that lawrence divorced alison)

lawrence (according to my headcanon) is gay, and divorced his wife after the realization which is exactly what the dutch businessman did.

they both start out as neutral and end up being the "villain" (the dutch businessman kills josh, and lawrence becomes a jigsaw apprentice.)

maybe im like reading too much into it but idk they have a lot in common in my opinion.

#saw #hostel #saw 2004 #hostel 2005 #saw franchise #saw fandom #saw movies #lawrence gordon #john kramer #saw x #spiral from the book of saw #horror #horror films #horror movies

[eileennatural]

i went to a feminist society meeting tonight about feminism + horror and was deeply amused by the presenter using hostel II as an example of a movie where you can "find feminism, even if it's not explicit". as probably the only other person in that room who had seen hostel II. there were probably more appropriate films to choose from

#as an unapologetic hostel franchise enjoyer. cmon now. just bc a cast is majority women doesnt mean its feminist. its an eli roth joint

[horrorlamb]

Let's talk about the Blair Witch Project and the Upcoming Remake.

I’m sure we have all heard by now the CinemaCon announcement about a Blair Witch remake from Blumhouse and Lionsgate. This makes me nervous for a couple of reasons. Firstly, The Blair Witch Project was the first horror movie I saw in a theatre. I would have been 9 or 10 years old, I went with my mum and sister. It probably wasn’t the best parenting decision on my mothers behalf, as both myself…

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#Blair Witch Project #Blumhouse #Cabin in the woods #Cinemacon #Cube #cynic #cynical #film #Film industry #Found footage #ginger snpa #Horror #Horror Cinema #Horror Film Franchise #Horror genre #Horror Movie marketing #horror movies #Horror Reboot #Horror remake #horror review #Hostel #Joshua Leonard #Lionsgate #Low budget films #Movie Remakes #movie reviews #movies #New horror #The Descent

[sumquiasum]

hostel (each of them) :3

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

When I say the Hostel films are "great, favorite, masterpiece" I mean that they are quintessential to a Moment in horror cinema. Without Hostel, what would torture porn, as a genre, be? Hostel 2 is the most refined of the Hostel films, it builds on the already strong original and expands the universe. Hostel 3 is bad but it gives me a very specific kind of brain worms and it's the only one I've seen with director's commentary (Scott Spiegel does not understand Hostel and he does not know that he has made the blueprints for a gay masterpiece). The original is good and has more depth than you might think when you first watch it. Eli Roth knew what he was doing.

ask me about a film

#movie asks #I have so much to say about hostel. I could have kept going. #Great franchise 10/10 despite the weak points

[mariamakeslemons]

Canon CoD movie killer types (with Bonuses!)

Like I did with the 70's horror stereotypes, I need to make a Canon character version of the 141 movie killers.

Alex is a stalking killer. Like mentioned in the stereotypes, he's the kind of guy who can blend into the background. Here, he uses it to hunt and harass his victims, for his amusement before he kills them. There's no better prey than a scared prey.

Final Girl isn't actually his prey, but they put themselves between him and his prey, even managing to keep his prey safe from him. He becomes obsessed and wants to be their obsession in return.

Farah is a "victim" killer, a true wounded gazelle gambit. She'll go out to bars and clubs, fake getting drunk or drugged, and allows someone to get her out of the building. Whether the person is helping her or "helping" themselves, she doesn't care. She kills them while believing that she's ridding the world of more scum.

Final Girl gets on her radar because they "save" her from an asshole who wanted to help himself to a seemingly drunk woman. Instead of trying to drag Farah anywhere, they get her an Uber and wait with her for the car to show up. She soon tries to find a way to get close to them again, to be "saved" again.

Kate is a manipulator. It's pretty close to how she is in canon, but her moral code is a little looser. She finds killing to be therapeutic, to the point that she'll go out into the field herself. Preferring to either snipe her victim or poison them, she doesn't shy away from killing for her perceived greater good.

Final girl is pretty much her sweet little neighbor, and a huge part of her morals. Someone mean to them? That person is dead and tied to some big conspiracy, even if they weren't while alive. Every life that Kate ruins or destroys is connected to their comfort and life.

Alejandro is a snapped soldier, dishonorably discharged after having a mental breakdown in the field and killing friend and foe alike. Honestly, he's more tragic than horrific, but he still kills. This is more due to the loss of all the people he cared about, to the point that he can't see people as civilian or ally. Something in his mind has placed everyone as an enemy.

Final Girl ends up being the sole exception, as they actively help him. To his mind, they appear angelic, and he needs to keep them safe from all the enemies surrounding them.

Rudy is the Brother's Best friend killer. Similar to Gaz, he's a killer that is the Final Girl's brother's best friend. He only really tolerates the brother (unless it's Alejandro, in which case he tries to hide his darker side from him as well), because it gives him easy access to his obsession. If a non-Alejandro brother gets in the way, he'll kill the brother while comforting their sibling at the funeral.

Again, similar to Gaz, he views Final Girl as his. He'll manipulate brother to either be his fall guy, or his hypeman and Final Girl's body guard.

Valeria is pretty much Canon, with a little set up similar to the 'Hostel' franchise. When people are brought into her set up, she gets first pick at the "meat". Her shows are horrifying and often used as a way to tell her men that they could easily become "meat" for her to use in her shows.

Final Girl was picked as someone else's "meat", only to escape. Valeria watches the video of their escape and is intrigued, wanting them for a "pet".

Graves is, like Valeria, pretty much Canon, but perhaps with an inflation to his ego, to the point of Narcissism. The highest bidder can buy his "loyalty", until either someone richer comes around or he grows bored with their orders. He doesn't shy away from working on the field, he actually prefers it.

The Final Girl was an objective that he'd been hired to kill, only for him to find them fascinating. He even kills his "employer" to keep playing cat-and-mouse with them. When he catches them, he plans to make them into a "proper spouse".

Makarov becomes a mafia don, one that gleefully gets his hands filthy with blood. Human trafficking, drug trafficking, weapon trafficking, prostitution, threats, his gang does it all. He controls the Russian underground and shadow controls Russian in it's whole.

The Final Girl would be an innocent at the wrong place at the wrong time. He'd initially find them amusing, only to become obsessed with figuring out how they're able to keep being so kind after they help him without knowing who he is. He hunts them down in hopes to keep them.

Nikolai is a pick-up killer, driving a cab to kill the passengers who don't fit his rules. His rules are ever changing to match his mood and whimsy. There is no rule list to decide who Nik does and doesn't kill.

Originally, Final Girl broke his "too pretty" rule, but they kept their life by being on the phone, on speaker, and obviously paying attention to the world moving past the window. It becomes a game to him, how they keep managing to get him as a cabbie and surviving. Eventually, he decides that once they slip up, he's keeping them.

Bonus!!

Alex and Farah form a bait and monster killer pair. Alex leads possible victims to his love while Farah eats them to remain as humane as possible for her love. A sick version of Beauty and the Beast.

Final Girl was originally planned as a victim, only for the couple to become smitten with them. The pair decides that they need to become like Alex, nearly immortal to stay with Farah.

Alejandro and Rudy are tag team killers. Depending on who their target for the night is, they get rugged, mean-acting Ale forcing them outside, or soft, shy-acting Rudy asking them out of the building. Once their victim is outside, the other man attacks and the bait watches on, usually aroused at his lover covered in blood.

The Final Girl actually got away, as they wanted nothing to do with either man or their persona. This, of course, intrigues the men, to the point that they hunt Final Girl down. After all, they've always wanted a "pet".

#call of duty #my work #alex keller x reader #Farah karim x reader #Kate laswell x reader #alejandro vargas x reader #rudolfo parra x reader #valeria garza x reader #philip graves x reader #vladimir makarov x reader #nikolai cod x reader #Alex keller x farah karim x reader #alejandro vargas x rudolfo parra x reader

[filmnoirsbian]

Can you share some of your favorite and least favorite horror movies?

Some of my favorites are Scream 1996, Dark Water 2002, The Crow, Jennifer's Body, Rec, Se7en, Saw, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Zombieland, Night of the Living Dead, Get Out, The Stepford Wives 1975, 28 Days Later, The Silence of the Lambs, Carrie 1976, American Psycho, the Fear Street trilogy, Zombieland, Malignant, Us, Rosemary's Baby 1968, Poltergeist, Stoker, Bones and All, Snakes on a Plane, Zombeavers, Tremors, Kairo, The Thing 1982, Vamp, Alien, Return of the Living Dead, Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus, Cabin in the Woods, El Orfanato, Fright Night 2011, The Craft, Ginger Snaps, Pan's Labyrinth, Blade, Alien vs Predator, You're Next, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Signs, Chronicle, Mandy, The Devil's Backbone, Planet Terror, Train to Busan, Nope, The Descent, The Doom Generation, Prey, Midsommar, The Host 2006, The Eye 2002, Suspiria 1977 and 2019, The Invisible Man 1933 and 2020, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984, Resident Evil 2002, Ready or Not, Trick r Treat, Delicatessen, The Blair Witch Project, Thirst 2009, Thirst 2019, Friday the 13th 1980, The People Under the Stairs, The Moth Diaries, Final Destination, Hereditary, The Village, Bride of Chucky, A Quiet Place, Candyman 1992 and 2021, Censor, Dead Snow, The Velocipastor, 8 Legged Freaks, Barbarian, M3gan, Zombie Tidal Wave, Pumpkinhead, Detention 2011, Insidious, The Fog 1980, Donnie Darko, Annabelle: Creations, The Blob 1988, It 2017, Sinister, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Fresh, and Black Christmas 1974

Some I dislike are The Hills Have Eyes franchise, Cabin Fever 2002, the Hostel franchise, Martyrs, My Bloody Valentine 2009, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2014, Rob Zombie's Halloween movies, Terrifier, Thankskilling, The Boy, Prom Night 2008, Dawn of the Dead 2004, Lycan Colony, Splice, One Missed Call 2008, Detention 2010, The Fog 2005, The Roommate, The Bye Bye Man, Wish Upon, Truth or Dare, Creepshow 2, Prometheus 2012, Annabelle 2014, The Purge, The Conjuring movies

I am extremely lenient with horror movies tbh for me to outright dislike one it essentially has to either bore me or feature unnecessary gratuitous rape/threats of rape--or be a bad remake.

#asks #horror is a love letter to humanity

[ashcoveredtraveler]

Headcannon Dumping (2)

Soul Master likes jewelry, especially circlets. While all of the other bugs in the city wear wigs, he wears a crown for himself to signify how important he views himself.

Intersex Quirrel. I really like the idea of him having a pouch to carry young kids as female pillbugs have them in real life. But since I already made Traitor Lord trans(and if I were to make another character trans, I would make them mtf), I decided to just make Quirrel intersex, having him possess only a few female features.

Hive Knight can't fly due to having a Deformed Wing Virus (DWV), which is an actual virus that affects bees. This may be canon as he doesn't have wings in-game. But what isn't canon is that Herrah made Hive Knight multiple cloaks with wing-like imagery, which made him more beautiful than all of the other bees with wings.

Vessels do not need to eat to survive but they do need nutrients to grow and develop. They have mouths hidden under the bottom of their shell. However, I would like to think that their mouths are horrifying. I would also like to think they have a double mouth like an Xenomorph from the Alien franchise. (The image below is the mouth in question):

Wyrms can grow fur depending on where they live, kinda like how animals grow and lose their fur depending on the season. However, you wouldn't be able to see these as the fur grows between their scales and is hidden away most of the time. This allows pockets of heat to be stored away so it doesn't get messy from all of the dirt it has to tunnel through. Vessels also grow fur, but it really depends on the amount of nutrients they get and the environment they grow up in.

This ties into the last point, but White Lady can grow fur or fuzz. I imagine it would feel like poison ivy. I would imagine that when the vessel grows this, it would initially be difficult to tell if it was fur or plant fuzz. But when maintaining the vessel's fuzz/fur, the retainer's hands and arms would get itchy, meaning that the vessel can be poisonous.

I kinda mentioned this in the knight's backstory, specifically for Isma's backstory, but she was born in a "communal family unit", or a household with multiple parents. Polyamory is common within Greenpath, though there isn't a head of the household, and consists of multiple types of parents instead of a father and multiple wives.

Manti are the Germans of the bug world. They speak so aggressively but they could be talking about the most normal stuff.(I know in my language headcanon I say that their language would sound like Afrikaans, but I am saying German as I see memes about it more often.)

Sorry if this post was a bit shorter than the first headcanon post. This has been in my drafts longer than I would like. I am also currently in a different country for a week for a spring break class. That means I don't have constant WiFi and am at the mercy of the hostel WiFi's. So might as well post something.

#hollow knight #hk headcanons #hk soul master #hk quirrel #hollow knight quirrel #hk hive knight #hk vessel #hk pk #hk white lady #hk worldbuilding #hk wyrm #hk wl

[roseaesynstylae]

Here's a list of what type of horror movie villain One Piece characters would be, in my opinion.

Killer: He has all the tools to be a slasher villain. He wears a mask, wields two eye-catching weapons (when you think about his Punishers, they'd be pretty nasty in real life), is very durable and fast, and has the potential to be creepy (especially after he ate that SMILE). Plus, I can't think of a name for a killer in that particular subgenre that fits better than 'Killer.'

X Drake: He'd be a good antagonist for some kind of cross between Jaws and Jurassic Park. Much like a surprising amount of things in One Piece, his Zoan transformation would be pretty scary in real life.

Doflamingo: For some reason, I feel like he'd fit in well in the Hostel franchise. After Audition, I think everyone has a better idea of the horrible things razor wire (or, in this case, sharpened strings) can do to our sensitive parts.

Kid: I can picture him as the villain of some sort of sea-based horror film. Imagine the Victoria Punk emerging from the fog to attack an unfortunate ship, possibly to the tune of MALINDA's version of Hoist the Colors. Like a ghost ship...

Law: Medical horror. Just... Medical horror. It's halfway canon already.

Charlotte Family: They'd probably be a cannibal clan, similar to the ones featured in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Wrong Turn series. I mean, Big Mom has eaten people in canon (hell, possibly outside of the incident with Mother Caramel and the other orphans) and I have some questions about some of the others.

#one piece #killer one piece #x drake #donquixote doflamingo #eustass kid #trafalgar law #charlotte family

[rebelcourtesan]

Honestly, I don't understand why people want to constantly trash Vivziepop and shows Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel. If you don't like something, then just ignore it.

I do not like the Saw or Hostel or Purge films. Never cared for them, will never watch them. I also abhor sports games. I don't see the point of them.

What you won't see me doing constantly bashing these franchises or watching them just so I can pick apart their plots, actors, etc. Life is too precious to waste my time on that. Instead, I just DON'T WATCH. I don't give them my time, my money, or my views. I ignore them.

Also, I don't harass the fans or think poorly of them. People love Saw, a good friend of mine is a fan, and I don't think any less of him for that. I also don't harass or insult the creators or actors for these franchises. They're people doing their job and Hollywood and Entertainment is highly competitive so they have to do the jobs they can get.

What I don't understand is I see people constantly bashing Spindlehose and its shows, but will still watch the fan projects from DJ Paranoid and the Stolas music video Look My Way just to have something critical to say about it.

Hate watching only gives the franchise more attention. We got a second season of Velma because so many people hate watched it that Max got the views it needed to okay another season, meanwhile good animated shows like Fired on Mars and Scavenger's Reign haven't been renewed yet.

I just don't understand people's motivations anymore.

#hazbin hotel #personal thoughts #thoughts #spindlehorse toons

[saintshigaraki]

i am not a horror enjoyer but what are your favorite horror movies vic !!!

persie beloved thank you for indulging me <3

as above so below

the blair witch project

the descent

saw (just the first one)

texas chainsaw massacre

the witch

silence of the lambs

annihilation

nope

hostel

get out

us

barbarian

the cabin in the woods

you're next

it follows

train to busan

midsommar

hereditary

saint maud

creep

thelma

the green room

the purge franchise

there are definitely quite a few that im missing but these are all on my 'constantly rewatching' list <3

#ask

[frankendykes-monster]

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Marcus Nispel’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a remake of Tobe Hooper’s iconic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Nispel’s gory and grungy slasher is hardly a great piece of cinema, but it is a surprisingly important one. Texas Chainsaw Massacre altered the course of mainstream populist horror cinema, at least for a couple of years, by ushering in an era of horror remakes. Pop culture is inevitably guided by larger trends. This is particularly true of horror cinema, where the tendency to make movies cheaply and quickly allows studios to chase popular fads. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre arrived at the end of one such fad. The renaissance in teen slasher movies sparked by the release of Scream in December 1996 was already dying down, giving way to diminishing returns like Scream 3 and Urban Legend: Final Cut along with spoofs like Scary Movie.

That late ’90s slasher fad was self-evidently nostalgic. In Scream, film nerd Randy (Jamie Kennedy) pauses a pivotal scene from John Carpenter’s Halloween to explain the rules of the slasher movie. Scream writer Kevin Williamson would go on to work on the slasher sequel Halloween H20, which would include a sequence of its characters watching Scream 2. However, there was a layer of irony and self-awareness to this nostalgia. These movies referenced classics, but stood apart from them. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre removes that layer of self-reflexive irony. It doesn’t just pay homage to one of the classics of American horror, it straight up remakes it. It reboots the franchise and starts over, as if offering a young moviegoing audience a chance to witness their version of the beloved horror movie. The gambit worked. The movie grossed $29.1 million in its opening weekend. “To say that it exceeded [our] expectations is an understatement,” conceded David Tuckerman of New Line Cinema.

Nispel’s remake had a profound impact on both the franchise and the larger industry. While many other major classic horror franchises, like Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, tended to slow down as they entered the new millennium, Texas Chainsaw Massacre roared to life. The franchise has released more entries in the past twenty years than it did in the previous thirty, including the reboot, a prequel to the reboot, two sequels to the original, and a separate prequel to the original. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre made an even bigger impression on the horror genre as a whole. For the next seven years or so, theaters were flooded with remakes of 1970s and 1980s horror classics: Dawn of the Dead, The Amityville Horror, House of Wax, The Fog, Assault on Precinct 13, Black Christmas, The Hills Have Eyes, The Omen, When a Stranger Calls, The Wicker Man, The Hitcher, Prom Night, Friday the 13th, Sorority Row, The Stepfather, My Bloody Valentine, and many more.

Of course, trends do not exist in isolation. These remakes overlapped with a similar push to adapt Japanese horrors like Ring and The Grudge for American audiences. More interestingly, they seemed to unfold in parallel with the “torture porn” fad, which really kicked into gear with the release of Saw in October 2004 and Hostel in January 2006. Both trends seemed to be displaced by the embrace of “found footage,” and many of these remakes were notably gorier than the originals. It’s worth revisiting this trend in general and Nispel’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre in particular. There is a tendency to overlook the horror genre in discussions of popular cinema. This is most obvious when it comes to awards recognition, but also applies to general discussions of the artform. There’s also an understandable impulse to dismiss these sorts of remakes as inherently unworthy of discussion or scrutiny. Five years ago, Keith Phipps noted that these remakes were largely forgotten.

One of the more interesting – and frustrating – aspects of Nispel’s remake is the fact that it is a horror movie that exists in the context of decades of slasher movies. Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre may not have been the first slasher movie, but it was released before Halloween codified the conventions of the genre. Even watched today, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a delightfully and unsettlingly odd experience. It can seem uncanny to a viewer versed in the films that followed. Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre begins with a sense of a world that is unraveling, reflecting the chaos of the early 1970s. It begins with a news broadcast about the handing down of an indictment, an invocation of Watergate. Sally (Marilyn Burns) and Franklin Hardesty (Paul A. Partain) are traveling with their friends to visit their grandfather’s grave, following a series of desecrations in the region. There’s an apocalyptic vibe to all this, recalling George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.

In contrast, Nispel’s remake is much more conventional in its framing. It is set in 1973, but there is no real sense that the larger world is collapsing. None of that apocalyptic dread hangs in the air. These teenage leads are not investigating a case of potential grave robbery. Instead, they are driving to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after purchasing drugs in Mexico. This is a standard start to a slasher like this. The teenagers transgressed, so will be punished. They broke the rules, so must die. In contrast to the irony that defined the meta-slashers of the previous few years, this is all played remarkably straight. The movie’s final girl, Erin (Jessica Biel), is entirely innocent. She is shocked to discover that her friends used the trip to Mexico as an excuse to buy marijuana. Her friend Kemper (Eric Balfour) jokes that she didn’t even drink the tequila down there. As such, Erin’s survival feels like it plays the socially conservative tropes of the slasher movie remarkably straight.

To give the movie some credit, it is at least somewhat equal opportunity in terms of the violence it inflicts on its teenage victims. In Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the male characters tended to die quickly while the female characters suffered longer. Nispel’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre reverses that dynamic somewhat. Pepper (Erica Leerhsen) dies abruptly in the distance, while Andy (Mike Vogel) hangs from a meat hook in place of Pam (Teri McMinn) in the original. That said, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is hardly a reconstructed slasher movie. Nispel’s camera lingers on Jessica Biel, particularly her exposed midriff. It seems to luxuriate in shots of her running and panting. It’s an approach that feels very similar to how Michael Bay’s camera would treat Megan Fox during the Transformers films a few years later. Biel may not be hanging on a hook, but there are certainly times when Texas Chainsaw Massacre treats the actor as a piece of meat.

There is a sense that the remake is revisiting the original through the lens of the decades of slasher movies that followed, smoothing down the rougher edges of the original film to make it more easily fit within an established template. This is true of most of the uninspired remakes that followed, which would take messy and clumsy original films that were figuring out what these horror movies looked like in real time, and apply a “one-size-fits-all” structure to them. These movies could be grungy and grimy. They could feature graphic gore. However, these remakes also tended to be products of a more ruthlessly efficient studio system than the films that inspired them. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre sets early scenes to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama, a song that the original could never have afforded to include. Biel and Balfour may not have been movie stars, but they are more established than any actors in the original. There is a polish to these remakes that exists at odds with the power of the original.

Notably, there is no sense of mystery or ambiguity to Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski) in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film offers the iconic horror villain a backstory involving horrific skin disease and even a name: Thomas Hewitt. Hooper’s original film was so scary because it suggested that this violence couldn’t be explained or rationalized. It had the logic of a nightmare. It’s very hard to replicate that sense of existential dread when so much of the appeal of a remake is the familiarity. Then again, perhaps this makes a certain amount of sense in context. As with the “torture porn” trend, these horror remakes were largely a product of the Bush era. They existed in the context of the War on Terror. This may explain why they were so much more graphic than the original, and why they tended to fixate upon torture and brutality. The War on Terror was defined by a desire to understand the horrors lurking out in the darkness, to understand, “Why do they hate us?”

Released a little more than two years after 9/11, Nispel’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre is rooted in that moment. The biggest alteration to the original narrative is the introduction of R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff Hoyt, a sadistic local law enforcement official who feels more at home in Deliverance rather than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Hoyt is a product of the Bush era. A former governor of Texas, Bush was likened to a western sheriff when he boasted about posting “Wanted” signs in the wake of the attacks. Hoyt physically and psychologically brutalizes these teenagers. He forces Morgan (Jonathan Tucker) to reenact a suicide that the characters witnessed, pushing Morgan to place what he believes to be a loaded gun in his mouth. When Morgan resists, Hoyt handcuffs him and loads him into the back of his police car. He takes Morgan away, but not to experience due process. On the drive, he smashes a nearly empty bottle of liquor in Morgan’s face. It seems likely that Morgan is just going to disappear.

This is perhaps the most unsettling sequence in the film. It resonates with contemporary anxieties over the “enhanced interrogations” and “extraordinary renditions” that defined the War on Terror. Of course, Hoyt doesn’t have any authority to do what he is doing. In perhaps the film’s sharpest jab at the Bush administration, it is eventually revealed that Hoyt isn’t even really the local sheriff. None of this is as overt as the cultural context of Hooper’s original, but these are films of their moment. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is ultimately an underwhelming, generic, and gory imitation of a much richer film. It takes one of the most transgressive horror films of its era, and reduces it down to a standard slasher template. In doing so, it provided a sustainable model for mainstream horror over the next few years, an assembly line that could reliably churn out low-budget and low-effort films to solid box office returns.

In its own weird and grotesque way, Nispel’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre turned mainstream horror into a charnel house. It pushed away from the knowing detachment of the self-aware slashers, and embraced a more direct mode of recycling. It carved up the corpses of classic horror movies to be repackaged as subprime cuts.

[eileennatural]

i'm pretty sure my sister thinks i'm some kind of degenerate. and a bad feminist.

#shes on the whole lesbian who doesnt really engage with anything made by men let alone well. #my fault honestly for telling her about how i watched the hostel franchise and videodrome and enjoy things made by men #well. maybe i am a little bit of a degenerate. i think thats a good thing to be

[blogger-yura]

Entry #52 Oct 23rd '23

#YurasLife #MovieMonday #HalloweenWeek #Thriller #Horror #Slasher #Gore

𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 - This is Halloween~

This is Halloween~ Pumpkins scream in the dead of night~.

It's that time of the year again! Isn't it just OH, so exciting! If you've been here a while, you might know how much I LOVE holidays ♡ And Halloween, of course, holds a special place in my heart. Wouldn't be able to tell you why, but it's always with great joy that I spend october, and especially the last week, preparing, decorating, and celebrating ~.

Same as last year, to get in the mood this week before the day comes, I've prepared a small list with movies to watch! Some were added to the ranking last time, classics that simply can't be left out–. And some, well, are just here to enjoy and have fun with friends at night (*^ω^)

With nothing else to say, I hope you enjoy this year's selection!

Monday 23rd

Title: Scream franchise (1996-2023) - Director: Wes Craven, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Christopher Landon

It is not a Halloween movie night if there's not at least ONE Scream movie in there. That's it. That's everything there is to say. Ah, how do you even explain this franchise? To this day, it remains a must watch for any and all horror lovers. There is no further discussion about it. I'm taking the holiday as an excuse! Still need to watch the new drop. So do the same, and if you haven't watched them all, make yourself a favor and sit through them tonight!

Personal score: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Tuesday 24th

Title: Hostel (2005-2011) - Director: Eli Roth, Scott Spiegel

Personal score: 🌟🌟🌟☆☆

Wednesday 25th

Title: Slither (2006) - Director: James Gunn

Personal score: 🌟🌟🌟☆☆

Thursday 26th

Title: The Evil Dead franchise (1981-2023) - Director: Sam Raimi, Federico Alvarez, Lee Cronin

It's the hand. It will ALWAYS be the hand. Picture this, you're watching a terribly gore-y, comical horror movie. You can't get past the 1st person POV of the evil spirit sprinting through the woods, trying to take the movie seriously as it's so old. And then, to top it off, a possessed hand wants to end its former owner's life. That's all you need to know to understand why this is here. A comic, a computer game, a movie, a tv show, and a musical. That's the cultural impact of The Evil Dead!

Personal score: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Friday 27th

Title: House of 1000 corpses (2003) - Director: Rob Zombie

Personal score: 🌟🌟🌟☆☆

Saturday 28th

Title: The Strangers (2008) - Director: Bryan Bertino

Personal score: 🌟🌟🌟🌟☆

Sunday 29th

Title: Paranormal Activity (2006) - Director: Oren Peli.

Lets be honest for once. There's only one good Paranormal Activity movie, and that's simply the first one. Maybe it was the fear it induced, the novelty of the idea and the filmmaking, or simply the fact it made it seem like such an ordinary occurrence, like it could happen to you at any time. But it is, undoubtedly, an axiety inducing, terrifying movie. And I am more than convinced it deserves a little spot in todays list.

Personal score: 🌟🌟🌟🌟☆

Did I pick your favorite movie, or did I miss it? It's always so hard picking so little movies to share and have fun with for these dates! Never know if I want to keep the list old school, modern, psychological, or bloody! Regardless, this is the list I'm going with myself! A bit of everything, I reckon, and I know I'll enjoy it.

If you have your own horror list for the week, what do you have in it? And if you don't like horrors, what do you watch for Halloween? (^w^)

Can't wait for next week to come already! Still have so much to share the next few days, though. I'm super excited, and I hope you are too!

I'll go now, or I'll fall behind on my other plans! But I'll be back tomorrow with more, so don't miss me much! All the love, my little pumpkins~.

Stay safe out there! -Yura ♡

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