Narnianwizard - Unequivocal Dumbass

Horror movie night at Dillon’s

This will go with my fic whenever I get around to posting it 🥶

Halloween Film Frightstival Day 7: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

To preface I was ridiculously tired yesterday and I never posted which film I watched, so this is yesterday’s, I’m still going to watch something today and post about it later

OKAY moving on

I have seen Rosemary’s Baby before but it’s been a while and I legitimately love this movie. Obviously having seen it before, I have fewer thoughts on plot revelations because I knew what was coming but I do have thoughts on some deeper stuff

One surface level thing that’s maybe too silly to mention but I’ve never looked very closely at the movie poster and only just realized I’ve been seeing it wrong this whole time. I’ve only ever seen it small at a distance on the tv screen, and until now I guess I didn’t notice that it was her face in profile because I thought the shadow of her nose and eyes was her in her nightgown reaching down towards the pram. I feel a little silly now

Rosemary’s dream (should that be in air quotes? “dream”?) sequence is honestly an amazing piece of the movie, it’s unsettling but you’re not exactly sure why until towards the end of it, some of it still doesn’t make sense even when you’ve seen the whole film and it really messes with the viewer’s sense of reality as far as is she dreaming and what’s part of the dream or what is she seeing for real. The first time I saw the film I remember struggling to determine if it was one of those films where it turns out the horror is that it’s all in the main character’s head (I won’t spoil if you haven’t seen it which way it goes, but also go watch it right now)

That last paragraph was long, but it’s not even what I wanted to mention the most. This film is incredibly feminist, obviously it’s a horror movie and not a realistic one at that but if you watch it from a lens of feminism, it draws some parallels to real life that make it scarier than the plot itself.

I’m trying not to spoil because I legitimately think everyone should watch this movie, but it touches (albeit in a supernatural way and sometimes only briefly) so much on bodily autonomy, medical autonomy, the concept of “hysteria”, mental illness (especially if you think about societal views of psychosis), the right to educate yourself and informed consent, toxic politeness/advocating for yourself, stalking, isolation (as an abuse tactic), and even marital rape.

The world has a really fucked up history concerning women’s health, obstetrics and gynecology of course being one of the centers of that, and obviously Rosemary’s Baby isn’t a documentary and centers on the unrealistic, but watching it, especially in today’s political climate, definitely feels like watching the collective trauma of anyone and everyone who’s ever been mistreated by the medical industrial complex.

Mia Farrow’s acting is wonderful too, which certainly makes the terror feel even more real. I occasionally felt like I’m missing some nuance from not being personally familiar with the 1960s since it’s actually a film from the 60s and not a period piece but it’s easy to ignore because of how much I like her costuming, the pixie cut is sublime

Okay I think that’s all I have to say. Really good movie, I still like it 👍 I also think you should go watch it

The way I cook is pure chaos and it usually errs on the good side of mediocre, but for some reason the rule does not apply when I try to make pasta sauce (without diligently following a recipe)

Of the times I can remember:

— I once made a lovely delicious sauce while slightly out of it (there may or may not have been impulsive tequila involved) which needed to be thickened slightly, one thing led to another and it turned into a solid block of flavorless rubber

— One time I tried to make a pesto sauce from approximately scratch and I don’t remember what exactly I put in it, all I know is I kept adding things to try and fix it and it ended up so bad I had to just pour the whole of it out

— A few days ago, I had an idea to add asparagus to a jar of pesto, I managed to choke down all of the pasta, but it tasted like pure asparagus piss sauce

— I took the leftovers of that sauce today and seasoned the fuck out of them to try and fix it, unfortunately I thought they needed an acid and I decided to add a smidge of vinegar which turned into probably like a whole tablespoon because I poured straight from the bottle and now I covered one bad flavor with another and it’s now salt and vinegar flavored asparagus piss sauce

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Halloween Film Frightstival Day 13: The Ring (2002)

To scold myself for skipping two whole days of my marathon, I’m watching The Ring. I am very preemptively scared but if i start crying and end up too afraid to sleep tonight I only have myself to blame.

The true horror is the fact that my tv does this weird inexplicable thing where when something is streaming sometimes the audio cuts out and the only way to fix it is to restart the entire tv and it’s done it twice in the first half hour

Okay I watched the whole thing, overall not nearly as scary as I thought it was going to be, I was honestly the most scared at the beginning when Katie’s time was almost up (the tape itself also bothered me, but it’s supposed to be unsettling). It was actually incredibly sad during the middle part (before the ending was revealed, when you no longer feel bad for Samara).

That moment at the end when it hit me that Rachel’s countdown had stopped days before she even tried to save Samara was honestly a chef’s kiss moment. And the various realizations of how the imagery from the tape applied to her life were also good moments.

Am I good at horror movies now? Am I hard to scare? Because that’s not how I would describe myself with ghosts horror movies. Anyway I actually think I really liked it, it felt a lot more investigative mystery than horror for a significant portion of the middle and now I’m wondering if I’m gonna need to rewatch it sometime to get more out of it now that I know how it ends. It gets a 👍 from me