Cosmic Horror Done Right

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  @theospartic · 2 years ago · pinned

  Let me know your favorite piece of horror media!

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  @MagisterMalleus · 2 years ago

  My last job was outdoors and arboricultural, and involved a lot of stuff like weeding, spraying, mowing, pruning, etc. Often, when I was out in the fields doing stuff like that, I'd consider the perspective of the creatures and habitats I was incidentally destroying as part of my work. The concept of a being billions of times your size, unaware and uncaring about your very existence, utterly destroying your entire world with some unfathomable piece of machinery for an incomprehensible reason, used to give me the heebie-jeebies to no end. That's cosmic horror.

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• BH

  @bhambabean · 2 years ago

  I think the often “lack of a happy ending” and sense of sheer hopelessness is what makes cosmic horror so terrifying.

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  @silvercloud-u5g · 2 years ago

  Anyone who hasn't delved in the lore of Warhammer40k might be happy to find that the it's mostly cosmic horror. The rest is a biblical level fantasy epic.

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  @fidalf99 · 2 years ago

  It should be said, that All Tommorows - while being extremely bleak at some places - definitely fulfiling the starndards of cosmic horror - is hopeful. Depsite all the unimaginable tradegies and degradations humanity has to go through, they always prevail and it the end, billions of years later, their legacy remains.

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  @zacharyberridge7239 · 2 years ago

  You nailed it right from the beginning. Cosmic horror is the stuff that stays in your head long after the story is done. It can have gore, jump scares, or all the usual tropes, but it has more. It's not paranormal activity, it's the Thing, the first Alien before Ridley screwed up it's origins, Annihilation, the Void, the Color Out of Space... That's the stuff I like. Freak me out, don't just startle me.

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• KA

  @kahwigulum · 1 year ago

  World&apos;s shortest horror story:<br>&quot;The last man on Earth at home, alone. There&apos;s a knock at the door.&quot;

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• CH

  @chowrites6179 · 2 years ago

  Cosmic horror is probably the only kind of horror I can enjoy. Most &quot;horror&quot; movies are just jump scares with a dark premise, they don&apos;t scare me just make me anxious and I hate that feeling. Cosmic Horror on the hand fill me with dread, anticipation, and a profound desire to understand this madness unfolding on screen. Those other horror movies make me want to turn off the movie while cosmic makes me feel like Im spellbound to its otherworldly mystery and I love it.

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• TP

  @tpkluesner · 2 years ago

  Man glad someone is talking about The Empty Man. It&apos;s a great movie but never had a chance. Hope it becomes a cult classic one day.

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• AD

  @ADDMcGee25 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m just happy to have found a channel like this that doesn&apos;t use ai voice over.

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  @ashleejones586 · 2 years ago

  The Color Out of Space with Nick Cage was a pretty good cosmic horror too, idc what anyone says

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  @ubermenschbrent · 2 years ago

  The Empty Man is definitely up there with In The Mouth of Madness, The Thing &amp; Annihilation as one of the best cosmic horror films ever made. People have dissed it for it’s length -namely its long prologue but I believe this is for its benefit as a slow-burning tale that unravels over time. It weeds out the impatient audience and leaves a lot to be chewed on and re-watched. There’s nothing fleeting about it. A direct antithesis to a lot of hollywood trash out nowadays. I wish there were more films like it.

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