There is so so much to say about Hell House and so little time. My favourite part of this movie was the part near the end where the clips of the crew being happy and having fun play in between clips of them dying horribly. It did such a good job at humanising the cast and giving you something to latch onto in the small amount of time it had to build story, the ending of this series genuinely devastated me and I will never forgive that bullshit they pulled. Sarah I am free at 8pm on Friday, call me, I can treat you so much better than Alex

I don't have much to say about this that deserves spoilering but the way Houston died was particularly heart wrenching for me. He died completely alone, in the dark, with no way of knowing where everyone had gone. He didn't even get to see what killed him, not that there was anything to really see in the first place. It really sucks that they never found his body either. All of their deaths killed me but I think Houstons was the worst because I'm scared of being alone like that. Grave Encounters I will always love you.

I think my favourite part of this one was the flour trick Micah did. I thought the special effects for that were so fucking cool and it really made me fall in love with the movie. Micah, despite being such a massive fucking cunt the whole time, was a very realistic character imo. He did not take Katie seriously At All until it was way too late and he suffered horrendously for it. As he should. Katie please give me a call, I'm free friday at 8pm

I do enjoy the theory that the guys were just fucking with her the whole time, especially when thinking about the map scene, but the movie just isnt that strong on its own. I will definitely be updating this once I rewatch it.

I did have issues with how it seemed some of the characters weren't actually considered in terms of the larger plot. Benji had no actual reason given for what sin haunted him, and while it was hinted at near the beginning with the woman he saw, his death seemed out of place and like the writers did not give a shit when it came to how he was removed from the picture. I felt similarly with Souxie, while she didn't have a sin that haunted her [though you can argue La Taupe was her sin] she kinda just. Straight up died. With very little fanfare and not much care. Like her death just served to move the plot along and give Scarlett a reason to go back through the catacombs. Zed also felt like a complete afterthought, him surviving was like they just forgot he was there completely. He had nothing really bad happen to him the entire time besides him having to witness fucked up shit happening to everyone else. I do genuinely love this movie, I just dislike what they did to some of the characters.

This movie was incredibly uncomfortable to watch in both a positive and negative way. I am very grateful I looked up potential triggers before watching this, I deeply deeply dislike when horror movies use sexual assault/rape for seemingly no reason. The rape story was straight up not fucking relevant to the actual plot and I can see how it was useful in furthering the uncomfortable tension but they couldve used literally anything else. I am actually begging horror directors/producers/writers to stop using rape for shock value, it adds nothing worthwhile to your story and actively alienates the survivors in your audience. There are ways to tastefully explore the feeling of violation and helplessness that come with being assaulted, having your main antagonist talk about how he broke into his own home to violently assault his wife is not one of them.

Lord of Misrule is about a Catholic vicar [Rebecca] and her family who moved to a very small british town that used to be Irish. The vicars daughter goes missing during a harvest festival and Rebecca has to try and find her while the entire town kinda refuses to fucking help. Come to find out the god they were celebrating [the Lord of Misrule] is real and took her child as their sacrifice. The town started sacrificing their children a long long time ago during the catholic church's persecution in an attempt to keep their religion and god alive, and to try and protect themselves from the horrors the brits were inflicting upon them. This trauma is reflected in how they worship in the modern day and their secrecy, a lot of the stories you learn through watching the movie revolve around one big traumatic event in which the church tarred and set their religious leader on fire in front of their entire town after they were caught practicing their religion. Everything they do is coloured by this persecution, and they target the vicar specifically. Shes catholic, she is a representation of their collective trauma, so they steal her child and force her to choose between her childs death or renouncing her god and joining their religion. They recreate their collective trauma by killing her husband in front of her like the church killed their leader so many years ago and forcing her to live their nightmares. And at the end? After she chooses her child, they show her again, in her vicar attire, but visibly different. She is noticably not following the clothing rules for her position, she looks like she is wearing a costume, like the villagers did to survive.

One big thing I hated was shortly after Irene and Father Burke get to the abbey and settle in to their temporary home, Irene mentions she used to have visions as a child and the church had helped her deal with them. This leads Father Burke to drop insane fucking lore abt how he indirectly led to a kid dying bc of an improper exorcism. This felt really out of place and just. completely unnecessary. But! It gets worse! Because not even 10 minutes later Burke is lured out of his room by the spectre of the kid he killed and is buried alive. This is not even a full night after showing up to the Abbey btw, we aren't even pretending that we need any sort of tension in this film. Then Irene is woken up and wanders for a bit before hearing bells ringing from the graveyard [but dont worry, they made sure that she gets jumpscared before this, god forbid we forget theres a scary nun amirite?] and of course, she tries finding the bell and Burke by ear but the Scary Nun makes all of the bells start ringing at once so she cant track which grave Burke is in [which she just knows he's down there despite one of the lighter scares at the beginning being one of the bells ringing on its own for no reason] and in order to find him SHE ACTIVATES THE VISIONS SHE HAD AS A CHIld. COMPLETELY ON PURPOSE FORCES A VISION TO POINT HER TO BURKE. NOT ONCE DID ANYTHING IMPLY SHE EVEN STILL HAD THEM. I'm going to chew bricks abt it

I particularly enjoyed the foreshadowing with Grace's husband and his true motivations for marrying her. In his kitchen, near her describing the beginning of their relationship you can see a pinup style calendar featuring solely fat women. [Side note: need that shit] It was genuinely devastating to have my suspicions proved right but I thought it was a neat little detail to kinda make it obvious from the start during a rewatch