#daily-scream — Public Fediverse posts

In all seriousness,

I was thinking about my post from earlier.

And I sort of wonder what would happen if we all decided to open our windows at a certain designated time (say, 1 PM local) and simply unleash a blood curdling screech. Would a collective Daily Scream make the world a better place? Would that improve people’s mental health? I don’t know. But it’s ideas like this that I think may be worth trying.

Food for thought, perhaps?

-Castor

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#CuratedCinema: what it means to kill. 2014’s #BlueRuin is on @PrimeVideo and @Tubi in the US; not streaming in the UK, alas (sorry; but it *is* on DVD+blu). #DailyScream More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-what-it-means-to-kill.html

#CuratedCinema: a Method to the bloodsucking madness. 2000’s #ShadowOfTheVampire is on @PrimeVideo on both sides of the Atlantic. #DailyScream More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-a-method-to-the-bloodsucking-madness.html

#CuratedCinema: it’s all funny-scary eldritch atmosphere. 2015’s #CrimsonPeak is on @PrimeVideo and @AppleTV on both sides of the Atlantic. #DailyScream More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-its-all-funny-scary-eldritch-atmosphere.html

#CuratedCinema: the fear and rage of being human. 2016’s #AMonsterCalls is streaming on @PrimeVideo on both sides of the Atlantic. #DailyScream More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-the-fear-and-rage-of-being-human.html

#CuratedCinema: home is where the ill wind blows. 2016’s #UnderTheShadow is on @netflix on both sides of the Atlantic. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-home-is-where-the-ill-wind-blows.html #DailyScream

#CuratedCinema: the monster in the basement is your pain. 2014’s #TheBabadook is on @netflix (and lots of other #streaming services) on both sides of the Atlantic. More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-the-monster-in-the-basement-is-your-pain.html #DailyScream

#CuratedCinema: the woods are just trees, right? *gulp* 2017’s #TheRitual is on @netflix in the US, @primevideouk in the UK. #DailyScream More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-the-woods-are-just-trees-right-gulp.html

#CuratedCinema: fresh horror and fresh humanity in a stale subgenre. 2016’s #GirlWithAllTheGifts is on @PrimeVideo and @AppleTV on both sides of the Atlantic. #DailyScream More+links: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2024/10/curated-cinema-fresh-horror-and-fresh-humanity-in-a-stale-subgenre.html

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: how to fill the gaping hole inside now that Halloween is over. #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas's Jack Skellington keeping the revelry going when he crashes Christmas and makes it his own? Same, dude. Same. #DisneyPlus US/UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the dread of a future you can’t see. The vibe in 2001’s daring, disturbing #DonnieDarko is one of despair, but its real horror is cultural conformity, and the hypocrisy and the cruelty that enforces it. #Kanopy US, #Shudder UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: meta horror about how scary movies infect us. 2021's ambiguous, introspective #Censor examines on multiple levels how we digest horror movies, and how they linger with us. #Kanopy #Hulu US, #BFIPlayer #CurzonHomeCinema UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when the silence of the lamb is horrifying. The human relationship with the natural world comes under poignant scrutiny in 2021’s #Lamb, a most affecting example of modern folk horror. #ParamountPlus US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: sexy scary vampire? hell yes! Anton Yelchin and David Tennant battle Colin Farrell's as-alluring-as-he-is-repellent bloodsucker in 2011's #FrightNight. Startlingly funny and brutal, often at the same time. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

I was all set to make 2000's bone-dry horror satire #ShadowOfTheVampire today's #DailyScream, till I discovered movie ain't streaming anywhere. It's even out of print on physical media in the US (though not in the UK). WTF. That's true horror. Anyway, here's my review from back in the day: https://www.flickfilosopher.com/2001/01/shadow-of-the-vampire-review.html

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: haunted, and haunting... 2001’s #TheOthers is classy gothic horror, old-fashioned in the best way: no CGI, just mysterious footsteps and movement in the shadows and hushed whispers and slamming doors. On #Prime + #AppleTV US/UK.

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: coldly elegant postapocalyptic misery. 2017’s #ItComesAtNight, tense with a nameless disquietude, runs the emotional gamut from jittery to hopeless. Enjoy! #Kanopy US, #Prime UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: flesh and blood... so much blood. Julia Ducournau’s shocking, visceral #Raw (2017) casts female desire as ravenously predatory in a way that few films have ever had the audacity to do. Not for the squeamish. Really. #YouTube US/UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: hell is full, 21st-century style. 2004‘s #DawnOfTheDead remains, 20 years later, a watershed cinematic moment for GenX, the first slasher/zombie/splatter horror that felt like a part of the post-9/11 world. #Starz US, #Netflix UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when we ordinary mortals are the monsters. I’m so in love with the vampires of 2014's #OnlyLoversLeftAlive (Tilda Swinton & Tom Hiddleston), with their lofty idealism, their engagement with history, science, art. #Hulu US, #Mubi UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: is there someone inside you? 50-year-old #TheExorcist leisurely and deliberately builds a tower of fear in a way genre movies no longer have the patience to attempt. #Max US, #BBCiPlayer UK (for 11 more days)

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: when ghosts of the past still haunt the present. 2019’s #DoctorSleep (The Shining sequel) cements the strange & supernatural as undeniably authentic. No suspension of disbelief needed... and that’s really scary. #Hulu US, #Prime UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: end-of-life nightmare despair in 2002’s #BubbaHoTep, as Bruce Campbell(!)’s nursing-home-resident Elvis Presley (it makes a sick sort of sense) battles an ancient Egyptian mummy. #Prime US; on DVD but not streaming in the UK, alas

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: gnaw your own arm off, why don’t you? Like James Franco, basically, in 2010’s #127Hours. This is far more distressing to me than any science-fiction body-horror nightmare, because it actually happened. #Prime US, #DisneyPlus UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the movie that made a screening room full of critics whimper. 2005’s #TheDescent makes you wanna pull your legs up onto the seat lest something hideous reach out from underneath and grab your ankles. #Max US, #Prime UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: meta horror #CabinInTheWoods works on levels you didn’t even know existed. Deeply terrifying and uncomfortably funny, it updates for today ancient, atavistic terrors that have fueled scary stories forever. #Max US, #SkyCinema UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: it’s regrets — massive regrets — only for 2016’s #TheInvitation, Karen Kusama’s haunting exercise in paranoia and suspense. The perfectly eerie ending lingers... #Shudder on both sides of the Atlantic, also #Kanopy US, #Prime UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: shorn of the dead. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp do sick, twisted, and droll adapting gory Stephen Sondheim in 2007’s #SweeneyTodd. It’s all operatic gruesomeness and cobblestones-and-fog moodiness. #ParamountPlus US, #Prime UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: the only vampire feminist spaghetti western. #AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight is gorgeously sinister, its creepy cool engorged with suspense and desire. #Kanopy US, #StudiocanalPresents UK

The #DailyStream becomes the #DailyScream for spooky season! Today: urban legends, modern horrors in 2021’s #Candyman, with its sharp ideas about what our scary stories reveal about our collective cultural fears, both conscious and unconscious. #Prime US, #BBCiPlayer UK