[ SECRET POST #2511 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2511 ⌋

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

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02.
[The Hobbit]


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03.
[The Fly 1986]


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04.
[Slightly Damned]


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05.
[Game Of Thrones]


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06.
[DC Comics]


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07.
[NCIS]


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08.
[Roosterteeth]


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09.
[Mass Effect]
[Art: The Shepard Siblings, by bigcman321]


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10.
[Easy A]


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11.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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12.
[Sir David Attenborough]


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13.
[New Tricks]


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14.
[Hannibal (NBC)]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 078 secrets from Secret Submission Post #359.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i44.tinypic.com/2e5qdsm.png
[The Fly 1986]

[starphotographs]

Speaking of body horror, does it bother anyone else that it's kind of been repurposed as a trigger warning? That people apply to anything vaguely gross, even if the work isn't even in the same neighborhood as actual body horror?

Dude, it's a specific genre. Terms mean things!

[(Anonymous)]

People get triggered by body horror? I find that hard to believe, I highly doubt many people have been through what "body horror" actually means.

What do they use the phrase to mean?

[starphotographs]

It's really, really broad, and basically seems to mean "anything gross that happens to a human body." Which... Isn't what body horror means. Gross things happen to people in all kinds of movies!

[(Anonymous)]

So they're conflating plain old disease or dismemberment with body horror? That's silly.

Do you tell them they're warning people about a trigger that doesn't, by definition, exist? I mean the whole point of body horror is shit that can't and doesn't happen to real people.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it comes from people not knowing exactly what the term means, technically, but thinking they do because it seems like a fairly self-explanatory phrase: something involving the body which is horrifying. And then people have radically different standards about horrifying.

[starphotographs]

See, that's what I assume, and that's why I wish people wouldn't use it without knowing what it is. It's a useful term for a style of fiction, and people are stretching it until it doesn't really mean anything. :/

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Ahh, I didn't mean to mislabel! Thank you for the lesson on the differences.
For clarification, everything that happens to Jeff Goldblum--which is body horror--flies with me (pun, intended) but what I think is the only non-body horror scene does not for some reason.

Re: OP

[starphotographs]

No, I'd say The Fly counts as actual factual body horror! It was just a tangent because seeing the term reminded me.

The fly definitely counts

[insanenoodlyguy]

I'd say it's the de-facto reference for mainstream culture to explain body horror in fact.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I could easily see watching that type of genre/scene triggering a panic attack. Though I agree that 'body horror' as a term is misused a lot of the time.

[starphotographs]

Yeah, my major issue here is that it's misused. I get not wanting to watch body horror, but only body horror should be called body horror, not every gross thing involving a body.

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

You should watch Over The Top. Any issues you have with arm wrestling will be instantly cured, for sure! *thumbs up*

Seriously though, that is a cringe-worthy scene. I can't deal with the movie for other reasons (and let's not even talk about the sequel), but I get where you're coming from.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I am a HUGE Sly fan, but I have to take breaks watching even Over the Top! It's gotten a bit better, though.

Re: OP

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Ooo, you are? I love him too, so that's awesome! Sorry to hear even that movie squicks you though, but if it's gotten a bit better it'll hopefully go away completely someday.

[sparklywalls]

If it makes you feel any better OP, beyond a certain point that entire film makes me queasy. I have to be in a very specific mood to want to watch it again!

Jeff Goldblum looks so cute there.

[fingalsanteater]

I've never seen this movie.

Re: Jeff Goldblum looks so cute there.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, in the end, he's not as flighty-looking as one might expect, but definitely jaw-dropping.

Re: Jeff Goldblum looks so cute there.

[fingalsanteater]

Hahah. I know enough about the movie to get this. Thank you.

Re: Jeff Goldblum looks so cute there.

[(Anonymous)]

I really loved this movie. But then, as far as I'm concerned, Goldblum could read the telephone book, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Re: Jeff Goldblum looks so cute there.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

tbph the only thing that reeeeeeeeeeeeeally squicked me was the "birth" scene/nightmare.....

[(Anonymous)]

I can so relate to this! I love horror and gore, but there's a scene in one of my favorite novels where the main character gets his nose broken in graphic detail, and I still squirm at it every time. (And got really sensitive about nose-related injuries in general) I think everyone has these little things that seem more squirmworthy than others.

[(Anonymous)]

I think he looks so adorable here. <3 But I really dislike horror so will probably never watch it.

[bored_bitch]

I haven't seen this movie in forever, but I do remember that scene being very cringe-worthy.

Even though I'm not bothered by pictures of real gore almost at all.

Sense-making. I has none.

[thelonebamf]

So, for some reason - this movie is one of the first I can remember seeing. (I was born in 1983 for reference.) At the very least, I have early memories of catching bits of it on TV, and the arm wrestling scene in particular (as goofy as it may seem by modern standards) has stuck with me. When I see regular people arm wrestle, there is a part of my brain that twinges.

That being said- I grew up to have a soft spot for scientists, Jeff Goldblume, guys who *look* like Jeff Goldblume, guys who I think look like Jeff Goldblume (even though they really don't) and this has gone down as one of my favorite movies of all time.

But yeah. I close my eyes during that scene. What?