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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 15h

short were easily my favorite from the whole film. Horror in environments like the ones these took place in really get under my skin. The key to my horror loving heart is to set the film in Michigan. The vampire one also committed the most to the style of being VHS, and I was -

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 15h

and tell me if this is a convincing VHS effect. The one thing this collection of short films was VERY good at was the practical effects. The Raatma was very fucking impressive. Same with the body in the funeral and the vampire from the bombing short. That bombing and the funeral-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 15h

standard affairs for this series for the most part. I was a bit annoyed at how almost none of the films actually really wanted to commit to the VHS style. "The Subject" although very cool, was the worst offender of not adopting the VHS style. Please look towards the image below-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 15h

Day 7. “V/H/S/94” (2021) Directed by: Jennifer Reeder, Chloe Okuno, Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, Ryan Prows, and Steven Kostanski. Written by: Jennifer Reeder, Chloe Okuno, Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, and Ryan Prows. I don't have a lot to say about this one. It was-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

43 posts and only 6 days in, we might have 2025s watchathon beat by the end of this😅

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

answers behind everything a bit more vague. Also, it would have been nice to not have had that whole ending bit. Apparently there is a directors cut that makes these problems even worse :( I still think this is easily one of the greatest found footage films ever made and a-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

clown reminded me a lot of how scared my older brother described being. Your naive feelings of safety being utterly destroyed, and you're just horrified how unaware of the situation you are. My large complaints about the movie are mostly that I just wish they had kept the actual-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the house through that sliding glass door, but though our older brother had locked our other older brother out to fuck w him (this was a reoccurring things that would happen). It wasn't until my brother got closer and said something that the guy ran for it. That scene with the-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

childhood home. One night, while my parents were out, my brother suddenly came to get me and our younger siblings and put us in the bathroom. He was clearly freaked the fuck out. I had never seen someone so scared like that before. Apparently he saw someone trying to break into-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

sees a clown costume standing above a staircase, and when he leaves the room he sees the guy that's supposed to be in the costume just chilling on the couch. This moment reminds me of an incident that happened when I was a little kid. We had this sliding glass door in my old-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

context, and from a different point of view. If the movie had ended RIGHT here I would have zero issues with it. But it continues on and sacrifices its believability all to have one last scary segment with the documentary crew. There's this one moment in which our camera man -

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

very well until the end, which is a part of the film I have a huge issue with. There's a moment at the end of the film, where they play the opening tape alongside a head mounted cam that one of the employees were wearing. You see all of these events happen again, but with -

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

try to turn back and get the fuck out. It's fucking freaky and it is great tone setter. The acting is REALLY GOOD for the majority of the film. I can only think of three times when I was kinda taken out of it by the acting. This used the whole "found footage documentary" thing-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

online. The opening to the film is very similar to my memory of that video. There's this feeling of anxiety that builds up throughout the videotape which boils over when suddenly, instead of seeing the backs of the people in front of you in line, you now see their faces as they-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

questions asked. There was a video that I used to see a lot back in the day on the internet related to a massive nightclub fire that resulted in a massive crowd crush and a lot of deaths. One of the club goers involved had filmed the entire thing on a handheld camera and put it-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

opening. I genuinely cannot remember the last time a film has sunken its nails into me so fast. The footage of what happened to the Hell House LLC is so convincing that if you told me it was a real genuine video of a Haunted House having an accident I would believe you with no-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 6. “Hell House LLC” (2015) Directed by: Stephen Cognetti. Written by: Stephen Cognetti. I have vague memories of having watched this film circa 2016~2017, but I only remember just a few scenes and they were incredibly hazy. One thing this film does insanely well is the-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

slashers just brute force their way through everything, but not Michael. He just stares and watches. His breathing and the vacant stare of his mask are so ominous. It's a shame how wild shit gets later which kinda defeats everything that made this character awesome! But-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the background of the most innocuous shots, which causes this amazing feeling in the viewer. It leaves you clueless on how much Michael knows about where our characters are hiding. Every closet a normal person would hide within, is one that Michael may already be in. Most-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

get. Laurie Strode is still the greatest final girl of all time even after decades of rewatches. The Judith tombstone on the bed and Michael mimicking Bob under the bed covers as if he's wearing a ghost costume is just *chefs kiss*. Earlier in the film, Michael is just hiding in-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

talk about how Michael really doesn't do a lot of anything until the final act of the film. Its runtime is just spent adding this tension, and I can imagine if it's your first time seeing this film that the longer it goes without relieving that tension, the more frightened you-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

years by this point and made waves in the news cycle. The Exorcist and Last House on the Left had pushed horror in film to an entire new level. Then John Carpenter comes out of nowhere with this incredible and surprisingly atmospheric horror movie. I feel not a lot of people-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Day 5. “Halloween” (1978) Directed by: John Carpenter. Written by: John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Sometimes I get it in my head that this is the first real slasher, but it never occurred to me that 1978 is actually surprising late to the party. TCSM had already been out for 4-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but if the visuals of the Friday 13th remake didn’t do it for you… this is a step up but not by a whole lot.

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

and there is some really cool imagery here with the twins. There’s also some pretty unique camera shots in general throughout the movie that I made a mental note of. All in all it was mostly just okay. Writing team takes a holiday while the visual team goes into overdrive,-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

makes it worth the watch. This is also one of those movies where the cast of characters you follow are so insufferable that if they were actual humans, then none of this would have happened. The entire film is building up to the big climactic battle within the melting wax house-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

visuals that were seen in every other horror film from this time period. It is a sum of this entire era of horror with a main setting from the silent film era. The film is incredibly basic, but it has a massive budget and a very incredible practical effects team that it kinda-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Day 4. “House of Wax” (2005) Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra. Written by: Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes. Based on the novel, which was based on the 1953 film, which was based on a 1933 film. This film engages in a bizarre game of telephone with the aesthetic choices of bland-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

really did a lot to freshen up the routine for me. It's pretty damn good, and I really don't think there was anything aside from Taryn's death that I disliked. Laurence Fishburne is also in this film a lot and I didn't notice it was him until likeeee 50 minutes in.

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

in some of the later films. I like the cheesiness, but it definitely has a different type of charm. Not only that, but I feel like from a writing standpoint, Freddy had kinda outlived his main formulaic plot beats within the first two films, so the kids coming in as the Dream Warriors-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

kinda takes it too far for me and is just really kinda uncomfortable, but this movie also gave us "Welcome to Prime Time, Bitch!" so all is forgiven. I found the characters to all actually be pretty likable, and it's definitely not to the point of cheesiness that you would see-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Freddy begins to reallyyyy feel like how the mainstream audiences see him in this film. He and Chucky are cut from the same cloth of humor, but Freddy's has always seemed just a tad bit more genuinely demented and mean spirited. There's one kill in this movie that -

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lot of sequels on my Halloween binges because I feel it's a lot of inflation, and I want to have more variety in the films I watch this month. However, this movie happens to fucking rock. I will say though that if this film were 1% more catholic it would be undifferentiable from Conclave.

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Day 3. “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors” (1987) Directed by: Chuck Russell. Written by: Wes Craven. Last year I took a look at the first two films, mainly because the second film is a personal film to me with its vague themes of gay expression. I don't like to do a-

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Daily Tom Baker @dailytombaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tom Baker and Wanda Ventham during "Image of the Fendahl". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and Ghost Adventures, this is pretty much capturing that feeling. Below are examples of the soyjaking.

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

of nowhere and then dies which was so absurd that it became funny to me, like woahhh T.C. cool it with the homophobic remarks. The core concept of the film reminds me a lot of the idea that Curry Barker is playing around with in his next movie. If you like Paranormal Activity-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

given up hope and just randomly decides to ask why into his recorder. When he plays it back, his voice is drowned out by screaming and laughter. Something about the execution of that scene really struck a nerve with me. There’s also a guy that drops two slurs back to back out-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

kinda killed my enjoyment. They use this awful face stretching effect that results in what I can only describe as a “prototype soyjak” and it ends up being more comedic than scary. There are some really effective scenes like one where the host is in a hallway, and he has-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Day 2. “Grave Encounters” (2011) Directed by: Stuart Ortiz, Colin Minihan. I hadn’t seen this one in agesssss. Back in the original YouTube horror space it was one of those movies you’d just kinda see everywhere. I honestly really really liked it, I just feel the jumpscares really-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

outfits of the classic American Gothic painting to eliminate Franken Furters extreme lifestyle is imagery that sticks out to me pretty heavily. It’s just an absolute wonderful musical that I cannot recommend enough.

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

return to his home planet before being utterly rejected. I feel so badly for Frank, but he is also such a monster that cannot account for any life other than his own. A lifestyle that he pays the price for. Magenta and Riff Raff using weapons that call back to their opening-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

to terms with his sexuality, Janet has had a massive sexual awakening, Rocky was only taught lust and no self control, and Columbia is left heartbroken and yearning for the lovers she once had in both Frank and Eddie. Then Frank is left to resort to begging for the ability to-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

features him climbing the radio tower with his creation, mimicking the death of King Kong. Rose Tint My World is easily my favorite song because it really demonstrates the effect that Frank has had on all of the people in his life. Brad is now being forced to finally come-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RKO Tower at the end I just get a big smile on my face. There’s an implication that the aliens from Transexual were sent to Earth to monitor humans, and that while here, Frank saw Fay Wray which led him to his decision to give into his pleasures. It’s why I love that his ending-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 1. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975) Directed by: Jim Sharman. I love this movie so much man. I can’t even begin to describe how important it is to queer culture and how much of a beautiful love letter it is towards older horror films of the 30s and 40s. Every time I see the-

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#1DAVIDTENNANTSTAN⏳デビッドテナント @ikagurared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

MUHAHAHAHA IT IS OCTOBER 1ST! WHICH MEANS THE RETURN OF THE IKAGURARED HALLOWEEN WATCHATHON. ONE FILM EVERYDAY FOR ALLLLLL OF OCTOBER!!

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