[ SECRET POST #4104 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4104 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, RuPaul's Drag Race season 10)


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06. [SPOILERS for Shadow Unit]



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07. [SPOILERS for Pacific Rim: Uprising]



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08. [WARNING for rape/non-con]
https://i.imgur.com/n0Letic.jpg
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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom]

04. https://i.imgur.com/dKB3oaS.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

It had many fine starts, but they played out one clumsier than the next and in the end it was just one (unconvincingly) cold mess.

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you, OP. I thought Crimson Peak was actually a very decent example of the genre, but I get the impression that it wasn't really marketed well... did people expect more horror? It's a shame, really.

SA as above

[(Anonymous)]

I also wanted to add that it was a gorgeous movie in terms of gothic visuals and IMO worth watching for that alone if you like the genre.

[(Anonymous)]

It definitely wasn't marketed well because I went in expecting horror and that's not what I got. I like gothic romances, so I was pleasantly surprised by the movie and enjoyed it, but I can see how other people wouldn't have liked it.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

Yeah from all the marketing I was like, yes, horror movie! Gothic horror! I got gothic romance and I still loved it, but I can see if that's not your thing and you were just going in under the assumption that it was horror how you'd be disappointed.

[sparklywalls]

Do not get me started. I'll be forever resentful that despite everyone being involved repeating over and over "not a horror story!" it was still marketed as such because it was released near Halloween.

I went in expecting something like Rebecca, The Turn of the Screw or Wuthering Heights and had a great time. It's not the best film ever but it ticked a lot of boxes I enjoy.

[(Anonymous)]

That movie wasn't what I was expecting at all from the trailer, but damn I loved it. And it was so stunning visually.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked that movie a lot more than I expected to... when I eventually saw it on cable. At the time it came out, yeah, I assumed it was horror and I wouldn't like it.

[(Anonymous)]

I assumed it was horror until right this minute

[(Anonymous)]

What else could a movie need? To not have such awful CGI ghosts, for starter? I almost couldn't believe it was Del Toro in some of those scenes, he did better with The Devil's Bone almost a decade and a half prior.

Honestly, all the actual horror elements were poorly done and didn't seem necessary at all in retrospect, especially when they lent themselves to mis-marketing. The gothic romance would have shone with a more subtle approach when it came to the ghost, maybe just keep us guessing the entire time instead of frontloading us with bad CGI.

[(Anonymous)]

...when you say 'bad cgi', do you mean 'doug jones in a variety of weird rubber suits'? because i haven't seen the movie, but i have heard a lot about doug jones playing creepy ghosts in it.

[(Anonymous)]

What CGI? They basically filmed a couple of actors in rubber corpse suits and overlaid transparent footage of them into the scenes.

[(Anonymous)]

The Devil's Bone was fantastic! The slowly creeping, understated horror of it... A whole different genre though.

[(Anonymous)]

I loved both films, but while Crimson Peak is a great example of gothic romance, The Shape of Water was explicitly about different kinds of prejudice, with bonus odes to Old Hollywood Glamour™️ in addition to being the Creature From the Black Lagoon love story of little Guillermo’s dreams. So it was more up the Academy’s alley. But I’m not bitter that The Shape of Water won, just happy that Guillermo and one of his Beauty and the Beast films won.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Crimson Peak, but it was definitely not what I was expecting from the trailers. Not marketed well AT ALL.

It was a visually appealing film.

[(Anonymous)]

Crimson Peak had really bad marketing. Winning awards isn't about art or talent anymore. It's about marketing yourself and your project. Check out the episode about award shows on "Adam ruins everything" for how it really works.

Spoilers

[thewakokid]

I really liked the incest.

Re: Spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

Are you stirring shit, being truthful, or both? I didn’t hate it in the context of the film, but I didn’t find it hot or whatever. It’s just another sad, horrifying bit of storytelling.

Re: Spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

I felt kind of gleeful about it since most Gothic Romances are adapted from stories written in the 17- and 1800s, and nobody of that era was willing to Go There. Hell, Hollywood wasn't willing to Go There in a mainstream movie until fairly recently. You can kind of understand why Edith's first thought is, "you're not really siblings" because why would she think of incest? The thought probably never crossed her worldview, in the literature she consumed and the safe little world she lived in.

So when Lucille was like, "oh no, we're totally siblings" I cheered because it felt like finally we're allowing something that, despite fitting the stories, was so taboo up until now. Gothic romances often have so many brooding heroes and messed up families, it's just makes sense. And it's totally fucked up, which is the point. Gothic Romances are about people who are totally fucked up.

[(Anonymous)]

Crimson Peak is super underrated! It's a beautiful movie (as others have said, the ghost effects are a little iffy, but it doesn't bother me) and I loved the gothic atmosphere.

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Crimson Peak too. It REALLY WAS marketed wrong, though, and that will wildly affect the audience's reaction.

(I can't lie though, I thought Shape of Water was better. Like almost career-best level better - if this hadn't been the same guy who made Pan's Labyrinth, it would have been.)

[(Anonymous)]

I can't like Pan's Labyrinth no matter how hard I try. I feel like it was as mis-marketed as Crimson Peak.

I went in expecting supernatural magic and dark fairies and I got miserable escapism where someone gets his face beaten to a pulp with a bottle.

OP...

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for reminding me I should rewatch this movie! I've already made a few Crimson Peak secrets and will be submitting them in the future. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I am super happy to see my favorite director get lauded for anything, but I get it.