[ 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

[gondremark]

I haven't seen the movie, but the book Coraline has the notion eyes being replaced with buttons. It's not graphic and it doesn't actually happen (we meet some characters who have buttons for eyes, and not wanting her eyes replaced with buttons is a theme throughout the story and a motivation for getting out of the twisted fantasy world) but as far as kid's books go, Coraline comes pretty close to body horror.

[(Anonymous)]

Movie had it too, which made me puzzled about it not being body horror.

[starphotographs]

Hmm, it's kind of hard to point to why I don't think it is, because body horror is kind of like porn... Erm, in the "you know it when I see it" sense, that is. :P

But kind of comes down to:

1. Body horror usually has a certain aesthetic that goes with it, and button eyes don't quite fit with that.
2. The actual process isn't lingered over in the way you usually see with the mutilations in body horror works.
3. If I recall correctly (and I might not, it's been a while since I saw the movie and even longer since I read the book), a lot of the fear associated with the button eyes was more related to control and entrapment than to the alteration itself. Body horror is different from regular gore/pain/transformation scenes in that the fear and gross-out factors come from the idea of your body being altered, turning against you, or escaping your control, and not so much from the pain or danger itself.

At least, that's how I always understood it! I might be off, or it might just be subjective.

[gondremark]

It must be a case of Your Mileage May Vary. I was properly squicked out (in a good way!) about the notion of button eye replacements, because even though the book didn't dwell on the mechanics of the change or even show it happening, I have a serious eye thing and a needle thing, so that all combined and reading Coraline made me think about my eyes a little too much and too viscerally (again, in a good way).

It is like porn, everyone has their own odd kinks and fetishes and things and comes at it differently, and what works for one might do nothing for another. And yes, you know it when you see it.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not just you. That whole notion squicked the hell of of me on a visceral level--like you, in a good way, because it was supposed to.