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Horror Short Films You Can Watch For Free - Right Now!
Just a 'small' post collecting some less well known horror short films that you can find mostly on youtube & vimeo! All worth a look!
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SUNGAZER 9min, 2020 (You'll have to log in to vimeo to watch this one!) "A short, wordless horror film about the terrors lurking just beyond the veil of reality." - Or, a man waits, and performs a ritual. Wicked atmospheric, manages to really paint a world despite the run-time. Looks great as well. [TW: flashing lights, body horror, harsh noise]
The Color Out of Space 5min, 2017 "A meteorite, strange vegetation, a colour: an experimental take on H.P. Lovecraft's spiral into madness, shot with a vintage camera on truly unique LomoChrome 16mm film." <- All accurate! Eerie little film.
My House Walk-through: 12min, 2016
Short, sweet, and unnerving!! The person who made this has done a tonne of other (more classical) 'internet horror' shorts, but this is a really wonderful & understated piece. Visually it feels very PT inspired, but its even more about atmosphere and repetition. Worth checking out the making of as well, pretty much the whole thing was done practically!! [TW: unsanitary conditions, blood]
Possibly in Michigan 12min, 1983
Cecilia Condit mostly does weird, dreamy short films. They have a kind of cake with a worm inside feeling, if you get me; things are rotting inside. This one is a cannibal musical! [TW: cannibalism, unreality, insects, murder, animal death]
The Black Tower 23min, 1987
More unsettling than scary. A man finds himself followed by a mysterious building. I really love how this one gets built up visually. The most like a tma episode out of all of these, or something out of Blue Jam. You can read more stuff about it here! [TW: unreality, talk of mental institutions, disordered eating]
Heck 29min, 2020 If you've seen any of these, I think it'll probably be this one. Its the short that originally inspired Skinamarink. I personally kind of prefer this. Digitally gritty and mean. [TW: Same warnings as skinamarink for the most part, there's a kid in danger, a little body horror].
Juliet in Paris 18min, 1967
Juliet moves to Paris for college, is lonely, and keeps losing blood. Kind of a vampire thing? But also not a vampire thing. Vibes and vignette heavy.
[TW: blood, animal death, self harm]
Dawn of an Evil Millennium 20min, 1988 (in 3 parts!)
A palette cleanser! Getting a honourary nomination through me hearing about it on a found footage podcast (lol). A trailer for an 18hr movie that doesn't exist; staring demons, 'olds mobiles', space-travel and cops. Deeply 80s, kind of ooey-gooey, pretty fun! [TW: some vomiting, a lot of fake blood gets splashed about]
Thanks for reading!
The only way to combat loneliness is to spread joy and love. I love the world I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you
some pieces I've done for my exhibition! do not repost or reupload without my permission. image descriptions in alt text
James Jean (Taiwanese-American,b.1979)
Carrier, 2011
Ink on paper
Columbine and Pierrot, Richard Geiger (1870-1945)
Rose O'Neill knew what was up
sorry for not answering messages for three thousand years i have. Stew. in place of a brain. you know how it is
some recent-(ish) reads: (faves are bolded)
when buildings kill, places journal
The Psychology, Geography, and Architecture of Horror: How Places Creep Us Out, evolutionary studies in imaginative culture
influencer creep, real-life mag
mommy issues: unlearning inherited pain, human parts
it’s not a child’s job to heal their wounded mother, medium
don’t eat before reading this, anthony bourdain on the new yorker
eye culture: how the cult lab became the hub for london’s photographers, wepresent
the great beyond, real life mag
stop hyperbolizing language, substack
the family that would not live, colin dickey on longreads
abject permanence, larissa phan
how American culture ate the world, the new republic
queer readings of the lord of the rings are not accidents, polygon
the falling man, esquire
the dogs that grew wool and the people who loved them, hakai magazine
i....found a rare shoegaze tape. legit. band does not exist online. tape is at least 20 years old. This is so Sam
welcome to the party, acrylic, 2014
Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3
u guys cant be having majors in stuff like forensic entymology you have to major in Hanging out with meeee and Having fun with meeee
Noorain Inam (Pakistani, 1998) - Walks at Night II (2021)
The Miyoo Mini+ Plus is a portable retro console. It can run GB/GBC/GBA/NES/SNES it also has support for Sega Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, PC Engine, Wonder Swan Mono/Color and PlayStation 1 . It has built in WIFI, Retroarch support and with a recent update you can trade/battle in the original Gameboy Pokémon games.
1. Miyoo Mini Plus (64gb)
2. 128gb MicroSD card for Miyoo Mini
>i sit on a throne and people come up to me one by one displaying different items
>with each item i yell out "yonic" or "phallic" and then wave them away to a door to the left or right of me (depending on whether its yonic or phallic)
>guy comes up with an item thats too difficult to label as yonic or phalic
>i pull a lever to the right of me that opens a trap door under his feet sending him to fall miles down to his death as we are in my floating cloud castle
>categorizing continues as normal
diamonds & daisies no. 2
Only 3 paints used in this one—viridian green, naphthol red, & light cadmium yellow (plus titanium white). Sharing because I’m always interested in other artists’ limited palettes and the wide spectrum they manage to provide.
Available here: https://leahgardner.art/collections/originals/products/diamonds-daisies-no-2
Abandoned Stone Hands Sculpture, Japan. 埼玉県南部現机石亡噂の巨大龙白山手。— toshibo
https://t.co/tQNM37KsB0
Translation request by @unbridled. English added by me :)
@guumboots GIRL HAVE I EVER GOT YOU COVERED. Here’s some of my fave horror I’ve read in the last 3ish years!
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
My Best Friend’s Exorcism, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Vampire Slaying, and The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy
The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
The Return by Rachel Harrison
Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis
Apps for Local Biodiversity and Learning About Your Backyard
I had a few new things come across my feed, so I thought I'd put together a list.
If you have more, please share!
iNaturalist is the big one, of course. Best used if you already know your local flora and fauna
And it's child Seek is perfect for if you are trying to learn. It will identify stuff for you and you can share your observations to iNat to add to the resource pool there.
Wildflowers Search has a bunch of area-specific apps for the Americas. (Like, I have 'Pennsylvania Wildflowers' app. I don't know if it has all of the Americas covered, but it has specific apps for th Canadian provinces and Patagonia for sure). It gives you multiple choice options for color, type of plant, location of leaves, etc, and gives you a list of plants you might be looking at. Covers trees, grass, and other stuff, in addition to wildflowers. Pairs well with iNaturalist, IMO. And gives better 'about this plant' info than Seek.
Merlin is like a mix of Seek and Wildflower Search specifically for birds.
Owls Near Me is a website that runs off of iNat, and lets you see what owls have been spotted near you recently.
Falling Fruit is for urban forages. It lets people list locals of edible plants that can be found in a city. (Or, I assume, a town.) If you do ediable guerilla gardening or have a tree you don't mind folks eating from, you can add it to the map. Or add stuff you find in other places around you. Philly and NYC both have over 6,000 locations tagged. (There are other urban foraging tools, but falling fruit is the only one I've seen that maps worldwide.)
Anyone have other apps to add to the list?
first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go
Darkness on the Edge of Town, Patrick Joust
here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of
How am I in my twenties but feel like I’m running out of time