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Do you have any documentary recs? I like the ones with bizarre things or things that makes me have second hand embarassment about people, but I'd watch anything you watched and liked tbh
i’m love documentaries and i’m love you
off the top of my head, here are my personal faves that i think you’d like:
Queen of Versailles - one of my fave documentaries period! during the process of filming, an obscenely wealthy family trying to build the biggest single family home in America is hit by the 2008 financial crisis. they panic due to becoming slightly less obscenely wealthy. sounds less interesting than it actually is!!!! (this one is on Netflix)
Jesus Camp - IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN JESUS CAMP PLEASE SEE JESUS CAMP IMMEDIATELY. IT’S ABOUT A JESUS CAMP (also on Netflix!!)
Fursonas - i swear i’m not making this up: furry political drama. i actually found that this movie took me on kind of an interesting ride regarding how i thought about/empathized with some of the main players. it’s worth fact-checking some of the way things are presented in this movie. notably, there is a man partway through the movie who claims to have been fired from his job due to people being uncomfortable with him being a furry, when it more likely has to do with his easily found, publicly available pedophile/”babyfur” art. (this movie is unfortunately kind of hard to find – i think i watched it on my friend’s Amazon Prime account. if your library offers you access to HooplaDigital, it’s on there, too?)
Finders Keepers - aka the movie i watched last night, lol. a guy loses his leg in a plane crash, talks the hospital into letting him keep it, and embalms it in his backyard. then he leaves it in a storage unit and forgets to pay the bills. another guy buys the storage unit and starts using the leg for fame and money. the result is a custody battle over the leg. also explores the lives of the people involved in a way that’s much more interesting than you would think! (you can watch the leg custody battle movie on Netflix!)
Strange Love: My Car Is My Lover - it’s about two dudes who wanna fuck cars and end up on a road trip. honestly a wild ride and only 45 minutes long. i don’t love it on a documentary level (it’s a junky TV episode), but i have drunkenly watched it many times because my best friend/roommate and i used to force everyone who came over to our place to watch it with us.(on Youtube here.)
some others you might be interested in: Married to the Eiffel Tower (it’s about folks who wanna fuck inanimate objects/cultural landmarks), and possibly the two Brony documentaries out there in the world (both kind of mediocre imo)
my other personal faves:
Tough Love: A Meditation on Dominance and Dogs - i would love if everyone who cares about dogs saw this movie. it traces the history of “dominance theory” in dog training – the idea that you have to “be the alpha” in order to train dogs. it’s only 36 minutes long and features the irreplaceable Dr. Sophia Yin. i need to rewatch it sometime soon, but this is really the only documentary on dogs i really like as a Former Dog Scientist. (on Youtube here.)
Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father - please please please, do not look up spoilers or Google the movie. this is easily one of my top faves and probably the hardest one on this list to explain. the filmmaker’s lifelong best friend, Andrew, was murdered by a woman who later turned out to have been pregnant with Andrew’s son, Zachary. (on Netflix! also p sure it’s on youtube somewhere)
The Impostor - don’t look up spoilers for this one either. a man in Spain claims to be a child from Texas who went missing years earlier. it plays out sort of like a nonfiction thriller with a lot of twists. (on Netflix!)
Grizzly Man - i watched this one for the first time recently! guy thinks that he has a special connection with nature, then gets eaten by nature(also on Netflix!)
Holy Hell - brand new Netflix documentary about the filmmaker’s experiences with being in a cult for 22 years (as well as a number of people who have also since left the cult).
some other good ones (not sure if/where you can find these off the top of my head):
The Woman Who Wasn’t There - a movie about Tania Head, a woman who lied about being a 9/11 survivor. really interesting movie with some very cool visuals, but (imo) a weak and confusing ending
Project Nim - involving a very botched, very 1970s experiment where they attempted to raise an infant chimpanzee in a human household. i haven’t seen this movie in several years and would maybe feel differently today, but i remember thinking it was very good.
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer - the title sounds very sensational, but it’s actually pretty tactful.
Hello! Do you have any articles or essays spun around horror? Thank you and have a nice day!
yes of course 💞
Ghost in the machine: inside the internet's paranormal history
Blood, Bodies, and Binaries: Trans Women in Horror
Raw and Aamis: Stories of Meat and Desire
The History and Transformation of the Final Girl
Isolation and Subjugation: The Telephone in the Slasher Film
A Timeline of Transgender Horror
Modern Horror Films are Finding Their Scares in Dead Batteries
Marketing the Monster: Has Trans Identity Become a Sales Pitch?
"Perfect Blue" Perfectly Captures the Loss of Identity in the Internet Age
Can Blood Guts and Gore be Beautiful?
True Crime is Rotting Our Brains
Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"
Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective
Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos
The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities
Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona
we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name
MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch
In Search Of A Flat Earth
Envy
The Commodification of Black Athletes
The Lies Of The Lighthouse
The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity
Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games
Time Loop Nihilism
How Bisexuality Changed Video Games
The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)
Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline
The True Horror Of Midsommar
a few more -
You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)
Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History
It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY
Adaptation.
The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
Music Theory and White Supremacy
Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕
video essays about horror, fear and dread
Films That Feel Like Bad Dreams
The Nightmare Artist
Fear of Big Things Underwater
Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House
House of Leaves: The Horror Of Fiction
Monsters in the Closet: A History of LGBT Representation in Horror Cinema
The History of Insane Asylums and Horror Movies
The Saddest Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen
Fear of Forgetting
Slender Man: Misunderstanding Ten Years Of The Internet
The Real Reason The Thing (1982) is Better than The Thing (2011)
The Bizarre Clown Painting No One Fully Understands
The Little Book of Cosmic Horrors
The Disturbing Art of A.I.
Fear of Depths
Goya’s Witches
David Lynch: The Treachery of Language
The True History That Created Folk Horror
The Existential Horror of David Cronenberg’s Camera
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true crime shows
I’ve been super addicted to watching true crime shows and youtube videos, can anyone recommend me some documentaries?
If the beauty box gets any smaller, no one will ever fit.
rare moment where me and my dad are getting along: we're watching murder documentaries together
Inktober # 15:
I’m going to see the new Velvet Underground documentary today so thought I’d draw my fav band in it’s original form. I read there’s not much of Lou in the doc, so I assume he’d be calling bull shite in the afterlife.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CVDuk4hJGNU/?utm_medium=tumblr
do homework: ❌
search up cases on serial killers and why they act the way they do: ✅
https://youtu.be/ZVlZMOB-Sq0
on my supposedly early nights 🙄 i come across some great things to watch. short documentaries that hit you right in the feels.
Women in Rock (Wolfgang Büld, 1980)