BOOKS
the lamb
author: lucy rose
genre: fiction, horror, gothic
year: 2025
status: ☑
rating:
finished this fairly quick! it was very good and the ending was very sad but im lowkey sick of every book with an evil woman in it being described as a "gritty tale of feminine rage" like holy god.
the graceview patient
author: caitlin starling
genre: fiction, horror, gothic
year: 2025
status: ☑
rating:
didn't realize this was the author that wrote the starving saints which i'm kinda glad i didn't bc if i had, i wouldn't have picked this book up at all lol. a lot of the imagery in this felt very silent hill/resident evil to me which i obviously loved. it was very claustrophobic which was fun
the book of elsewhere
author: china miéville, keanu reeves
genre: fiction, science fiction
year: 2024
status: ☑
rating:
was kinda devastated that ppl on goodreads do NOT like this book but whatever it doesn't take away how much i enjoyed it. also what the fuck do ppl on goodreads know about good books. i loved this book, i really like china's writing style and i reallyyyyy liked the MC, Unute and his struggles with himself and his immortality. I may have to read these comics... Damn you, Keanu.
no country for old men
author: cormac mccarthy
genre: fiction, thriller
year: 2005
status: ☑
rating:
i really enjoyed this book but i don't really enjoy McCarthy's writing style which may be an unpopular opinion but idc.
a quiet place
author: seichō matsumoto
genre: fiction, mystery
year: 1975
status: ☑
rating:
this book was slow and while i kept reading because i wanted to know what happened to Eiko, sometimes it was hard to get through because i think most men are incapable of writing about women in a way that doesn't make my skin crawl.
sunburn
author: chloe michelle howarth
genre: fiction, romance
year: 2023
status: ☑
rating:
i adored the writing in this and the catholic guilt of it all LDFKJFKGJ i also really liked that even "disgusting" actions that susannah did were provocative to lucy. very devastating and all too real sadness to this book but still, loved the ending and i want to read more by this author because the prose was gorgeous.
convenience store woman
author: sayaka murata
genre: fiction, contemporary
year: 2016
status: ☑
rating:
very short read, but one i enjoyed nonetheless. as someone that struggles a lot with social interactions and fitting in, this book really spoke to me but i did get a lil scared when she started hanging out with that incel im ngl.
TV
the amazing digital circus
seasons: 1
genre: science fiction, horror
year: 2023
status: ☑
rating:
dutch made me watch this after i went to go see the movie with him without seeing any of the show JKDFHKJHDFGJhfg i like it, it's cute. i didn't expect much from a youtube animated series and it was more or less what i expected: a show created by a millennial that obviously grew up on tumblr. my biggest gripe with this series is that sometimes, it cannot be fucked to move the fuck on from a moment or a joke. the final episode suffers from this the most i think but i won't spoil anything. that being said. i love jax :/ she's nasty and cruel bc shes scared of being vulnerable and i get it :/
the twilight zone
seasons: 5
genre: science fiction, horror, dystopian
year: 1959
status: ↺
rating:
we started rewatching season 1 this week and. god this is literally one of the best tv series of all time. it was so ahead of its time, so brilliantly written, and just. amazing. i love love love this show to death. the first episode is genuinely one of the scariest things i've ever watched to this day JKHGJFDg rod serling was and is one of the best things to happen to tv and it makes me sad knowing we may never see another show like this again
Movies
laura
director: otto preminger, rouben mamoulian
genre: thriller, noir
year: 1944
status: ↺
rating:
my favorite noir but i recently learned it doesn't techincally meet the "requirements" of a noir. which idrc about that, its a damn good movie...
ocean's 11
director: lewis milestone
genre: thriller, heist
year: 1960
status: ↺
rating:
another rewatch bc dutch and i were both doing some writing but i got too invested in it and didn't actually do much writing LOL this is such a good movie and it's actually crazy only sammy davis jr and dean martin sing in it but i guess ol blue eyes didn't feel up to the task or something jgdfjghfdg if what happened in the ending happened to me tho i'd lowkey fucking end it i'm ngl
the super mario galaxy movie
director: aaron horvath, michael jelenic, pierre leduc
genre: family, action, fantasy
year: 2026
status: ☑
rating:
this was cute im ngl... much better than the first one but i guess thats easy to beat LOL... fox was SO cute in this movie and it was so cute seeing how excited dutch got when he showed up... really hope for dutch's sake we get some new star fox stuff soon!! the ending was ABRUPT AF which was so weird and jarring jkghdfjkhfdgh
videodrome
director: david cronenburg
genre: horror
year: 1983
status: ☑
rating:
i was really nervous to watch this KJGHKJDFghfg. i was afraid it'd be a bit too intense for me but it wasn't as bad as i was hyping it up to be. snuff film as a basis for horror usually makes me especially squeamish and its probably a reason i will never watch august underground, lol. i really loved the practical effects in this and a lot of the visuals were very silent hill-esque to me, which i obviously enjoyed
the evil dead ii
director: sam raimi
genre: horror
year: 1987
status: ↺
rating:
a classic... i love ash sm he's so cute.
dracula
director: luc besson
genre: horror, romance
year: 2025
status: ☑
rating:
we went to see this for dutch's bday! it was cute... a bit corny and i think the woman that played maria was kinda overacting but again, it was fine. a few scenes fit a bit... disney? for an R rated movie. i think this is entirely the fault of the cgi gargoyles tho.
no country for old men
director: ethan coen, joel coen
genre: thriller
year: 2007
status: ☑
rating:
this was a really good adaptation but they cut one of my favorite lines of dialog from Chigurh to Carla Jean in the end which sucked but it didn't completely ruin the movie for me. Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones were excellent casts for their characters.
return to silent hill
director: christopher gans
genre: horror
year: 2026
status: ☑
rating:
jesus christ where do i even start. putting aside this is one of the worst adaptations of silent hill 2 to ever be made, and i'm talking past and future. like jesus. how do you butcher one of the best stories ever told this badly??? lets just pick apart how fucking awful this movie looked. the effects were bad, like they had a cgi roach. just one. not a swarm or anything. like you can't afford a singular roach?? it's not like the budget went into literally anything else because the costuming was also horrific. being able to see the lace lines on james's beard was shocking. don't even get me started on maria. the original monsters were hideous. the final mary form, which is perfect in game, looked like fucking dipshit vecna from shitty stranger things. like jesus christ. like i get your trying to do your own thing but do you have to butcher one of my favorite games to do it? just use the setting holy shit. the writing was also bad. i'm talking ruining your own reveals, hand holding plot lines spoken out loud to make sure the audience gets the point. i'm just flabbergasted. mary's full name reveal had dutch and i trying desperately to hold our laughter in because the theater was so silent you could hear a pin drop. when the credits started rolling someone else in the theater just went "how was it that bad?" in utter disbelief. half way through the movie someone in front of us started scrolling on their completely empty calendar app in lieu of watching the movie and i couldn't even be mad because like yeah. that was more interesting. Christophe Gans, please kill yourself if for nothing else than trying to make james a sympathetic character. you will never make me feel bad for him.
Games
resident evil requiem
dev: capcom
genre: horror
year: 2026
status: ↺
rating:
okay, beat the game again doing some achievement hunting. i think this was my 5th playthrough? Got my no heals/beat the game in under 4 hours run done. thank god. all that's left is the insanity run. bro i am scared. figured i'd do my Not Spoiler Free thoughts now that the games been out for a month.
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okay, now that i've played this game a few times and had time to Mull It in my mind. I still enjoyed it, my previous review still stands. BUT. yeah, i got gripes. First off, i feel like there was a depressing lack of lore and details on characters in this game. I'm assuming Zeno got no lore because he's going to be Explained or talked about in another game/remake so like, whatever that's fine. Victor was fun but again i want more info!!! how did he become a nemesis, WHY did he, i'm assuming, choose to become a nemesis. not everything needs to be explained of course, but i feel like previous games suffered from bogging us down with TOO MUCH information, especially putting so much in like 50 page files (resident evil 5 was TERRIBLE for this, so was 6) we're now going into an almost. drought of information? idk, i'm hoping all will be revealed in time but. i am skeptical of capcom actually caring all that much but. we will see. my second gripe. Some of Leon's writing was just. too much fanservice. okay dude, we get. the jester's always gotta be on. But holy god at some point it was like okay, you're beating us over the head with one liners, like it's too much. and none of them were all that good. like some were cute but i wasn't like woah this is a bingo moment. i think the most memorable one was "missed that raccoon city hospitality." i love leon and going back to rpd with him was emotional and i loved that he kinda took grace under his wing and i know he saw himself in her so much and i loved his moment with her in ark at the end. I wanted more of THAT leon and less of the one liner hot guy schtick. i liked the bad ending, i was kinda hoping they'd kill leon in this game because i think it would be emotionally poignant to have him die where everything began for him. but the good ending was sweet and i enjoyed it as well. time to beat leon kennedy to death for another 30 years. YAYYY. also huge shout out to capcom for leaking that leon and i got married. :/ we're private people and you totally took that choice away from us. #notcool. the product placement pissed me the fuck off. I DO NOT care about the stupid fucking porsche, the stupid fucking 2500 dollar watch. like FUCK OFF! i know the devs literally just wanted this shit for themselves and shoved it in the game so they could get the press freebies or whatever. it's so annoying. more than half of your fanbase cant afford this shit, like. just die. okay. onto my biggest complaint. SPENCER IS REGRETFUL? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? re9: adolf hitler is really sorry about all that shit he did :( LIKE ARE YOU SERIOUS. spencer has been built up to be the biggest, most self preserving, self important piece of shit in history, MORE SO THAN ALBERT WESKER. and now he's sorry? are you kidding me. fuck off. i literally could not care less. fuck off. fuck off. fuck off. it sucked, i know they're probably building up to make Wesker the main villian again, with his clones or him himself whatever. wesker wouldn't be wesker without the evil stupid bastard that is spencer. like idk. it's shit. i'm curious to see how 5 remake is going to go when in grace's report she states that spencer DIED in his estate, not that he was killed or wesker was responsible. idk. i don't really see why jill or chris would omit that wesker was the one that killed spencer or try to hide that fact? especially chris. and especially because wesker is a wanted bioterrorist. but yeah. the game is good, i have some complaints, im hoping theyll get ironed out with remakes, new games etc. but we will see. anxious to see where the series goes and i just hope this game isn't getting so big that they're losing track of it but i'm kinda scared thats where we're goin again. :/
resident evil requiem
dev: capcom
genre: horror
year: 2026
status: ☑
rating:
going to try to keep this as spoiler free as possible bc i know not many people have gotten to play/watch it yet but WOW! i've already finished it twice and i'm about halfway through a third run. this was so good, a really good mix of action and horror and most of the over top action sequences didn't overstay their welcome, thank christ. i was so scared this was going to be another re6 situation but it didn't really feel like that. i had some gripes about the enemy behavior particularly in leon's later sections but w/e. i cant have everything. i love grace as a protag i hope we get to see her more because shes such a good addition to the series and she already feels like a legacy character to me. there was a lot of information i felt the game couldve expanded on but im assuming it was withheld for a reason so i just have to wait and hope the answers are in a future dlc or the next installment... all in all it was worth the wait and i'm glad capcom was like: 'this ones for you dutch and bee' with some things in the game JDFHFJDGHFJkg
resident evil 3
dev: capcom
genre: horror
year: 2020
status: ↺
rating:
was just doing an acheivement run but i beat it so i figured i would put it here anyway. managed to get 5 in a single run so yayyyy. p.s carlos please come home i miss you so bad.
devil may cry 5
dev: capcom
genre: action
year: 2019
status: ↺
rating:
beat vergil's dlc mode this time around. not particularly fond of the rendering they did with the end cutscene models in this dlc. not sure why they didn't just use the in game engine again like they did for the main storyline, it would've looked so much better. instead dante and vergil look off in a way thats offputting LMAO. still. i love playing as vergil even if i am dog water at playing him.
