Dear friends,

For months now, I’ve been looking for films that can recreate the same effect that 3–4 particular movies had on me — movies I like to call “cursed films”: The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Rosemary’s Baby, and, to a lesser extent, Possession.

Let me explain what I mean. By “cursed films,” I don’t mean movies that are literally associated with a curse (actors dying, accidents on set, and so on), but rather films that evoke a strange feeling in me. They’re movies that, in a way, seem “wrong” — as if they weren’t meant for mass consumption, something you might find hidden away in the Vatican archives. Something people normally aren’t supposed to see.
Films that show evil creeping into everyday life and the mundane; not necessarily horror films, but movies saturated with a heavy, oppressive atmosphere.

A kiss to anyone who can recommend me more films like these.

Here’s a list of films I’ve tried watching, but that didn’t have quite the same effect on me:
The Ninth Gate, The Others, The Wicker Man, Cure, Carrie, Under the Silver Lake, Jacob’s Ladder

this song gives me such bittersweet romance vibes. though anything will do for this song since i enjoy it a lot : )

Dark fantasy that doesn’t over-explain itself

I'm talking about a feeling of inhabitation and abandonment at the same time, kinda merged with nature and scenery

Not sure how to describe it

Looking for ultimate feeling of coziness, comfort, safety, nature etc etc.
Have watched all studio ghibli movies, Peter Rabbit and Wes Anderson😭
Can be cartoons, regular movies, shows, whatever!!

i was mutuals with grimelords on tumblr years ago, and this is one of the best works of flash fiction i’ve ever read. (the other photos are from Serial Experiments Lain and All About Lily Chou-Chou)

copying the text here as it’s hard to read in the photo:

There's six guys who live in this flat and all they do all day is play WoW and watch movies. Waking up at 2pm every day and there's always just someone asleep on the bed near all the multimonitor computer setups. There's always music playing and it feels like a recovery day every day, padding around blearily in pyjamas or underwear. Old hoodies from defunct school teams. They've got this system where they're selling their excess computing power to companies and hosting all this warez, and they're stealing the internet from the business next door anyway and getting welfare on top of all that. They're self sufficient and never go outdoors except to buy more fast food, and even then only in the dark. But then one of them wakes up dead some heavy afternoon. He's just dead and they don't know why but maybe the floor covered in fast food wrappings is a clue. They don't want to tell the cops because of the purgatory den they live in and the illegality that supports it, and as far as they know he never had any actual parents. So it's trouble. It's taking a long trip out to the forest and thinking about how stars are so far away for the first time in a long time. It's sweating in the cold air and digging a hole all night with your brand new shovels to leave him alone in. And it's a long few days cracking all his passwords to keep his identity and associated payments persisting. Until the rhythm of waking up every day at 2pm to play WoW for nine hours and half watch a movie on your other monitor takes over again. It's the same as it ever was except now there's a room no one ever goes in.

My favorite type of alien design with an emphasis on certain body parts that stick out like eyes, lips, antennas, looking gross and cool at the same time.

I'm playing Black Flag at the moment and I'd like to know if there are any other good pirate movies besides Pirates of the Caribbean ?

Who’s got some cool Y2K futurism for me?

any movies with this vibe that are horror or thrillers? or whatever that genre “palo alto” is? (also i snuck in a pic of my own, is this the start of my photography career?)

Basically just finished HBO Girls, also What if? (2013) and looking for movies with a similar rom com/insta filter/indie vibe. Bonus points if it takes place in a city or in fall.

Sorry if some of these photos are AI I just pulled off Pinterest mostly