Chills, Thrills and Spills: A Horror Thread

TANIS is SO GOOD.

 

Tanis legit freaked me out, way more than the black tapes have. I can't put my finger on why, though

 

I'm on 108 and I GUESS Alex still hasn't played Strand the tape of

Spoiler: spoiler

his wife, talking about how disappearing suddenly could be the key to fixing a failing relationship?

I guess she hasn't wanted to bring it up because of him getting mad about her talking about his personal life but ALEX

 

Tanis is fucking terrifying and I just listened to like five episodes in a row without stopping and it's dark outside and I hate myself for doing this but I can't stop

 

AAAAA THE NURSE'S DESCRIPTION OF THE DEMON IN 108 IS CREEPING ME *RIGHT* OUT

 

//internal screaming

Holy fucking shit episode 12

Holy shit

Edit so I don't double post:

Spoiler: Spoilers for all of tanis

I finished the last episode just now and holy shit

Since episode /five/. I should have realized but I think the label of Zealot threw me off. I couldn't think of anyone that fit - I don't know what I thought the journal entries were referring to, who wrote them, but I didn't expect this at all. Wow.

I am worried about Nic. I am really really worried and I cannot wait for the show to come back

 

2x01:

Spoiler: them's fighting words

alex and strand are fighting again. GET 'IM ALEX

edit: I'm still waiting for strand to be like "don't you think your INCREDIBLY FUCKING SPOOKY SOUNDTRACK is predisposing the listeners to the supernatural, Alex"

Spoiler: Further commentary

i love Alex being mad at Strand for not helping.. and also trying to be skeptical and rational

also I'm really worried about Alex's sleep problems. ):

 

*kicks down door* YES HELLO I AM HERE FOR HORROR TALK.

It's my absolute favourite genre, though I've desensitised myself so much at this point. And I'm the only one in my group of friends that's in to that kind of shit, so I tend to use it as Me Time.

Some recommendations:

Alantutorial
YouTube channel ostensibly done by a very childlike guy who's in to making nonsensical tutorials. It gets weirder and weirder as it goes on and ends up super dark.

Discovering Scarfolk
Imagine Welcome To Night Vale but set in England in the 70s. Similar 'creepy town where weird stuff happens and nobody thinks anything of it' plot line. There's a physical 'guide book', along with a blog. The fake PSA posters alone are worth it.

Threads
I know I said earlier I'm desensitised, but this film still scares the absolute bejeezus out of me. Partially because nuclear war is both simultaneously one of my obsessive interests and my number one worst fear. This film was made in the 1980s. It's a docudrama type thing about what would happen in the lead up, immediate event, and days/months/years after a nuclear strike on Sheffield in the UK. I can't stress how badly this freaked me out. The effects are pretty stellar for the 80s and the ending is so bleak and horrible. I watch it several times a year because I am a glutton for punishment and am still morbidly fascinated by the fact that it never gets any easier to watch for me. My parents remember watching it on the telly when it first came out and being totally traumatised by it. I think they even showed it in some schools??? Which seems unthinkable to me.

 

more black tapes liveblogging:

Spoiler

Predictably, I am digging the hell out of new and improved disaster Strand. ouo

(my current theory is still that Cora Lee disappeared for completely mundane reasons but that something #spooky happened in the time he was searching for her)

also I can't believe this rare bookstore owner just straight-up summoned the demon with the difficult to pronounce name. GOOD JOB, BOOK LADY

edit: oh, Alex, honey. ): I'm not as happy about YOU being a disaster

double edit: goddammit I almost forgot the name of that demon that is apparently summoned by thinking, and then of course Alex had to remind me of it in the closing monologue

 

OH THIS IS SO CLEVER

Spoiler: 204

I heard the banging when they first played this bit of sleep recording, but I didn't notice it was one-for-yes two-for-no banging!!! Aaaaaa

also I just love... deteriorating horror narrators...

edit: (kicks legs like a child) I want more podcasttttt

 

is there a way to watch it chronologically so i don't get spoilered? or is spoilers not a thing really? i want the Full Experience because it sounds interesting.

 

@Deresto I watched it via this playlist that has them in order. It's definitely worth watching them chronologically to get the whole feel of it. (Should start with 'how to leak on a piece of paper' and end with 'tutoiral')

Alantutorial: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2K5gy6uotoptT5SzGz6oouEWTQKWCz5w

 

Eheh, taking TANIS seriously is a bit harder when it opens with a story I know from the Dollop.

 

the first episode i was like "this isn't horror, this is just weird". i very quickly revised my judgement

 

@blue @Bel Capricorn it still doesn't truly ping me as horror, and it definitely took a couple episodes for me to get into it too. i get "weird speculative realistic fiction" more than I get "horror". but hey, YMMV...

 

Well, I'm excited for whatever it turns out to be; I've just heard way too much about Jack Parsons' life to not think his story being the basis is amusing.

 

it's not horror /per se/ but the fact that it's all centered on one location instead of all spread out is scary, the tales of the serial killers being read out with the creepy music is terrifying, and the fucking diary that alex reads throughout the podcast may not have been horror but it was certainly /something/.

 

in case anyone wants some gruesome fucking tragedy psychological-horror, i just finished an audiobook listen of The Long Walk, and holy shit.

holy shit.

premise: 100 boys participate in this contest where if you win you get any wish granted by the government. the winner is whoever walks the farthest along this road, in one continuous go, no stopping, no falling below 4 miles per hour. everyone feels pretty good about it in the first couple hours. by the second day: not so much.

https://vk.com/wall-69777695_12436

 

FUCK yes, The Long Walk! That was the first story I read by Stephen King's pseudonym and it haunts me to this day.

Fuck it, I'm listening to it. It's been years.

 

has anyone read/listened to night film? i just listened to the audio book and it was such a ride