Video Essays - Tumblr Posts
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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randomly curious if im weird or if people are like me
Video essays by poc:
India and its UNFAIR beauty standards
Memento-- telling a story in reverse
That mysterious "S" thing we used to draw
Indiana Jones -- a primer on racist film tropes
Reality show secrets: was MTV'S "my super sweet 16 100% real?
Why Aquaman Sucks (the commodification of the polynesian body)
"Black sounding" names and their surprising history
Let's revisit the fashion in the Aladdin remake
Train to Busan: how to kill a character
If you're in the unfortunate spot of wanting to make a story and have to world build, you'll get to see this first hand!
Find yourself a nice video on the "world building" and "magic system" in Avatar:tla get cozy, and listen to 20 minutes of someone COMPLETELY IGNORING EVERYTHING THAT MAKES THAT SHOW GOOD.
The bending styles based on real world martial arts? How the elements mesh with the character's personalities, and the ethos of the in world culture they come from? The use of these "powers" being tied exclusively to character development throughout the series? (Zuko being physically scarred by the fire, Aang needing to be less flighty as a person in order to master earth bending)?
NAH SIS! What's IMPORTANT is knowing that the audience knows all the ins and outs of a carefully detailed magic system so they can't find any plot holes!
Since you know. It's plot holes or a lack thereof that makes a good story. Nothing Else.
Everyone knows reading comprehension sucks. Boring, overplayed, classist.
Let's talk about visual and auditory comprehension instead!
How about something closer to my heart??? (and that I ashamedly fell into) Gwen Stacy as trans!
Guess what? Who cares if its canon? who cares that a cartoon pig didn't pop up on screen and mention estrogen pills with all the subtlety of a train hitting a flour mill?
Did you know sometimes stories can mean things??? Gwen arguing with her dad doesn't HAVE TO ONLY MEAN ONE THING.
Is she defending her right to be a spider-woman in a very literal way? YES. Is she defending her right to BE A WOMAN in a very metaphorical way? also YES. Could you argue that it's just a continuation of themes in Miles' story, told from a different point of view with different characters so that the film's themes of acceptance (and those who refuse to accept) are shown from a different angle? It's that one, its most definitely probably that one\
Or you know. It could just be words. And a regular 'ol argument. With no extra meaning. I guess that's fun too
Everyone knows reading comprehension sucks. Boring, overplayed, classist.
Let's talk about visual and auditory comprehension instead!
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 💕
some recent very good video essays <3
James Baldwin and the Annihilation of Gender by Anansi's Library - stunning essay about gender, sexuality, and Blackness in the works of James Baldwin, and Moonlight (2016).
astronomy has a colonialism problem by Dr. Fatima - Libyan-American and former physicist Dr Fatima discusses the links between colonialism, scientific academia, and the Palestinian liberation movement.
Saltburn: The Tumblr-ification of Cinema by Broey Deschanel - fun essay on how Saltburn is a cheap rip-off of The Untalented Mr Ripley and refuses to admit it, and how such pastiche is a growing problem.
How Shirley Jackson exposed the horror of home life by Books n Cats
This Video Isn't Just About Taylor Swift. It's About You. by Alexander Avilla - a juggernaut of an essay about how so much of Taylor Swift's success is just about the weaponisation of whiteness in marketing.
Time Travelling While Black by Aishyo - comparative essay about media that portrays Black characters who time travel.
Why We Can’t Build Better Cities by Philosophy Tube - Abigail Thorn investigates the ideological links between gentrification and the 15-minute-city conspiracy theory.
Why Sci-fi Can't Fix Its White Savior Problem by Princess Weekes - an essay about how white supremacy and white feminism is baked into science fiction.
Eminem and the White Rapper Problem by F.D Signifier - a retrospective on Eminem's impact on rap, for better and worse.
Why YouTubers Hold Microphones Now by Tom Nicholas - a fascinating piece about how the slow corporatisation of YouTibe has impacted content creators' aesthetics over time, and how this is also a wider trend on the internet.
I love all of F.D Signifier's videos, but I wanted to especially highlight his video about cops and the prison system
Первый сезон “The Knick" - лучший из сериалов, увиденных мною за последний год.
coraline video essays are always so fun to watch
*Puella Magi Madoka Magica
+ Good Omens & Love Live
Decided to post this on here on impulse. The list is no order whatsoever. My friend wrote them based on what I wouldn't shut up about this year. Neither of us really know what a hyperfixation is, we kinda just added things I was really, really into, sometimes it lasted a day or week, sometimes longer.