Horrifically Great Inspiration

Liz, if you do eat villager, make sure to wash it down with some good wine. It will cut back on the calories. ;)

'Scuse me, I need to go track down the relatively few things on that inspiration list I haven't seen or read yet... 'cause it's a really, really good list based upon the stuff I'm familiar with.

Any list that includes Lake Mungo, Pontypool, Yellowbrickroad, Bone Tomahawk, Phantasm, The Wicker Man, The Witch and The Changeling is clearly doing something right.

EDIT:Thale! The Innkeepers! I love you guys, never change...

I'm really surprised Triangle is on the list, never even met anyone in meatspace who had heard of it.

That's a fantastic list. I'm especially happy to see Kam Hurley and Lauren Beukes, two of my favorite contemporary authors.

Liz, if you do eat villager, make sure to wash it down with some good wine. It will cut back on the calories. ;)

Beer or bourbon, thanks. Villagers can be a little gamey. :P

Awww...all those horror movies I'll never force myself to see...LOL.

Thomas Seitz wrote:

Liz, if you do eat villager, make sure to wash it down with some good wine. It will cut back on the calories. ;)

Beer or bourbon, thanks. Villagers can be a little gamey. :P

Fair enough Liz! :)

Any list that includes Lake Mungo, Pontypool, Yellowbrickroad, Bone Tomahawk, Phantasm, The Wicker Man, The Witch and The Changeling is clearly doing something right.

I'm the horror guy in my group, and I agree this is an awesome list. I'm looking to reverse engineer Pontypool with some of the tools in this book. It'd be interested to have a party in a situation where they couldn't rely on Common to communicate.

The old Keleshite man has to be a follower of Vildeis he has all the signs. This has interesting implications as it shows you can be good and still horrific.

Vildeis is one of my favorite deities. Is there any Vildeis specific feats or corruptions etc?

Excited for this book. :)

The old Keleshite man has to be a follower of Vildeis he has all the signs. This has interesting implications as it shows you can be good and still horrific.

Vildeis is one of my favorite deities. Is there any Vildeis specific feats or corruptions etc?

Excited for this book. :)

Well-sleuthed!

There aren't setting-specific rules in the book (you can see just who he is in the book by cliking on the picture and checking the name). That said, Vildeis seemed a perfect fit when I was working on the order for that spread, so I requested her holy symbol.

Lemartes wrote:

The old Keleshite man has to be a follower of Vildeis he has all the signs. This has interesting implications as it shows you can be good and still horrific.

Vildeis is one of my favorite deities. Is there any Vildeis specific feats or corruptions etc?

Excited for this book. :)

Well-sleuthed!

There aren't setting-specific rules in the book (you can see just who he is in the book by cliking on the picture and checking the name). That said, Vildeis seemed a perfect fit when I was working on the order for that spread, so I requested her holy symbol.

Thanks.

Yeah I saw the picture name. :)

Oddly enough a few years ago I played a Keleshite Paladin of Sarenrae in Jade Regent...who got his arms and legs cut off. I played him like that for 3 or so levels before I got regenerate cast on him. He was strapped to another character's back. That sucked.

However, this paladin looks like his wounds are self inflicted.

Oh yeah just remembered I played a four armed paladin(with 2 levels of alchemist) of Vildeis before. He was creepy. ;)

I just caught Bone Tomahawk last week! Oh-sooooooo-good!

I respectfully disagree with Jaws being labeled a "Slasher Horror Movie." It's definitely a thriller (without Michael Jackson and the Zombies which fit in the body horror setting).

I'm honestly not sure what category it would fit in. Perhaps "Greatest Film of All Time." That's where I put it, followed closely by Alien.

Despite my minor disagreement, thanks for an awesome list. There's a lot of films and books here that I want to check out!

Ooo Babadook (rhymes with "book"), nice.

... It Follows is under Body Horror? Eh, not quite sure I agree with that.

I respectfully disagree with Jaws being labeled a "Slasher Horror Movie." It's definitely a thriller (without Michael Jackson and the Zombies which fit in the body horror setting).

I'm honestly not sure what category it would fit in. Perhaps "Greatest Film of All Time." That's where I put it, followed closely by Alien.

Despite my minor disagreement, thanks for an awesome list. There's a lot of films and books here that I want to check out!

Not as good as Jaws 4 though.

Ah Night of the Hunter, a true and oft overlooked classic.

I was delighted to see Night of the Demon on that list, for some reason it's usually forgotten when people describe the great horror films.

I do kind of wonder why The Great God Pan is listed as body horror. I would swear that it's a definite Cosmic Horror tale myself.

And talking Body Horror, would anyone disagree that Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton would fit perfectly there?

Now that I look up the definition of Body Horror, I think that the second greatest film of all time: Alien is both Body Horror and Cosmic Horror. Ack! Lines are blurring. *cough* It's *cough* a little of both.

Argh! Why does my chest hurt so much? *cough cough* What's that bump stretching just beneath my ribcage?

Oh, gods, not again!

Now that I look up the definition of Body Horror, I think that the second greatest film of all time: Alien is both Body Horror and Cosmic Horror. Ack! Lines are blurring. *cough* It's *cough* a little of both.

Argh! Why does my chest hurt so much? *cough cough* What's that bump stretching just beneath my ribcage?

Oh, gods, not again!

I'd agree that Alien has body horror aplenty, but I wouldn't call it a cosmic horror myself. I'd say it's a pretty archetypal slasher flick. Consider:

-Halloween: A nigh-invincible [masked killer] stalks [Jamie Lee Curtis and her friends] in a [suburban neighborhood], picking them off in gruesome fashion one by one until she's the only one left. Miraculously, she manages to defeat [Michael Myers] and make it out alive.
-Alien: A nigh-invincible [alien] stalks [Sigourney Weaver and her crew] in a [space ship], picking them off in gruesome fashion one by one until she's the only one left. Miraculously, she manages to defeat [the alien] and make it out alive.

I would say the Alien-prequel, Prometheus, is much more cosmic horror, except that its septic tank of a plot borders on incomprehensible. Anyway it's all semantics. Everyone "gets" something different from these movies.

Body horror often goes hand in hand with cosmic horror, I think. At the Mountains of Madness is almost entirely cosmic but has grotesque descriptions of the elder things' victims and of the shoggoths; Prometheus has a f$%# ton of parasites and people dying horribly, but is still very much about ancient unknowable aliens.

Also Prometheus is a kickass film :0

Also Prometheus is a kickass film :0

Don't want to derail too much, but this is a blog post about movies. Still, will spoiler b/c of slight off-topicness.

Nice to see Paul F. Wilson getting some love. In a roundabout way he's the person who got me into fantasy, and he doesn't get enough shout-outs

It really gets my Goat that you list the tv show Game of Thrones, and not the original material. Aside from that, I'll be sure to look through this list for interesting works I haven't yet read and/or watched.

It really gets my Goat that you list the tv show Game of Thrones, and not the original material. Aside from that, I'll be sure to look through this list for interesting works I haven't yet read and/or watched.

They didn't? I thought Game of Thrones was based on The Song of Ice and Fire series. Have I been wrong all this time?

It's based on Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, which is sorely lacking from this list.

Well, it really gets my Goat that they listed the 1973 Wicker Man, and not the superior, much more terrifying 2006 version.

Actually pretty happy they added at least 1 token guromanga to the list.

It really gets my Goat that you list the tv show Game of Thrones, and not the original material. Aside from that, I'll be sure to look through this list for interesting works I haven't yet read and/or watched.

They did, it's right underneath it under "Print."

Well, it really gets my Goat that they listed the 1973 Wicker Man, and not the superior, much more terrifying 2006 version.

This is one of those cases of sarcasm not coming through on the Internet, right?

I think he's being honest, you've just got to get into the mindset of Lily Sobviesky's agent.

:D I already sent out an order for my copy of the book, super excited for it.

For steering me toward The Red Tree alone this list has proven its mettle.

Seriously. Paizo. You must be saving something AWFUL to hit me with at a future date,'cause of late, you've basically been making me caper with undignified glee...

Kobold Cleaver wrote:

Well, it really gets my Goat that they listed the 1973 Wicker Man, and not the superior, much more terrifying 2006 version.

This is one of those cases of sarcasm not coming through on the Internet, right?

Well, I know some people who told me with a straight face that Christopher Lee wished he was half the actor that Nicolas Cage is. Yeah. I really couldn't think of anything to say to that.

Then again I know some ladies who told me Lee's Dracula couldn't be worth anything because it's not like he was asked to appear in Twilight, now, was he?