[ SECRET POST #1991 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1991 ⌋

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

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15. [SPOILERS for Legend of Korra]



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16. [SPOILERS for Cabin in the Woods]



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20. [TRIGGER WARNING for rape]



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21. [TRIGGER WARNING for stalking/harassment]



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22. [TRIGGER WARNING for mentions of suicide/self-harm]
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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - unreadable ].
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Comments

[curseangel.livejournal.com]

I am really, really, reaaaaally bad with horror; I have more than one anxiety disorder, am easily squicked, the whole nine yards. I went to see Cabin in the Woods because of Joss Whedon and Fran Kranz.

It isn't really all that scary. I honestly found it more funny than scary -- there are a few gore shots, but most of the scares are "jump scares" rather than atmospheric scares.. (I draw a difference there -- jump scares [shocking things that scare you because they're so sudden] don't freak me out like atmospheric scares [where there's an oppressive, scary atmosphere a la Silent Hill games or the SCPF Containment Breach game]) It has a really heavy dose of humor and sarcasm that I felt balances the horror aspects really well.

The only thing I'd really warn for is that if you're going to see it because, like me, you'd heard that it deconstructs some of the more troubling tropes of horror films, it um. Doesn't really. It calls attention to them and then kind of follows through with them anyway. That really bummed me out and soured my experience with the movie, personally, so yeah.

But as horror movies go, it's very tame. There's blood and a little gore, but it wasn't overwhelming and it didn't give me nightmares or even make me leave the theater feeling uneasy or creeped out.

[deadtree]

jump scares are what usually stick with me, if the imagery is scary enough :x but actually a balance that prevents it from being brutally violent will definitely help :)

Anyway honestly I can't comment so much on horror tropes because I know about so many of them from second- or third-hand sources; I almost never watch or read the genre. So whether or not it deconstructs it would be lost on me lol

[curseangel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's definitely got that balance. :)

Re: tropes the ones that bugged me the most were the "virgin/whore" dichotomy -- you know, there's the "slutty" blonde "whore" woman character who will die messily, and the virginal, less-standard-issue-beautiful woman who survives makes it through to the end, and there will be no other female characters involved (in the horror part anyway). They pretty much played through that and it annoyed the hell out of me, as I'd been under the impression that if nothing else, Whedon would try to subvert it more than he did.

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*Spoilers below!*

Aww, I thought they handled those tropes really cleverly. :/ The brunette 'virgin' was hardly befitting of her label due to her relationship with her teacher-far from the typical image of an innocent, virginal mc- and the blonde 'whore' was actually shown to be quite intelligent to begin with, and in a steady, secure relationship with her boyfriend. It was only until she dyed her hair blonde that was laden with those 'bimbo' chemicals did she actually begin to be shoehorned into the 'whore' for the audience. As a matter of fact, they all were, including the athletic guy at the beginning who was emphasised on his intelligence, and the smart boyfriend of the 'whore' who was turned dumb anf jockish by the chemicals.

Heck, ALL the characters were shown to be so much more than their labels at the beginning, and I thought it was a clever demonstration of how Hollywood strips these characters of their third dimensions and gives them straight forward roles, just to make things simpler and more entertaining to the audience. Because at the end of the day, the majority of us are those gods buried under the ground, and should something dare to subvert the horror genre and its characters, then we come bursting out of the ground raging.

Uh...I don't know where all that came from. XD I really love that movie, and particularly the handling of the characters, so I felt compelled to defend them.

I'll shut up now.