movies: Wake Up Dead Man, Hell House LLC: Carmichael Manor
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snickficWake Up Dead Man (2025). A young priest accused of murder in a small parish in upstate NY pleads his case to famous detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig).
This is the third movie in the Benoit Blanc franchise, and I enjoyed it a lot. The cast is great, as always, and Josh O'Connor in particular as the young priest is fantastic and is the heart of the movie. The writing is solid and often very funny, with some great laugh lines, even if this wasn't trying quite as hard as Glass Onion did. These movies are just fun, even when they don't make all that much sense.
I will say it felt too long; I thought it might be my favorite of the series, and then it went on for another 45 minutes. 💀 It needed at least one less twist and one less dramatic monologue. I also wish one of the secondary antagonists (Cy, the mixed-race would-be Republican politician) had gotten more development or at least a hint of how he'd become who he'd become, not least because he was one of the funniest characters and stole almost every scene he was in. I have some quibbles about the narrative treatment of one of the female characters as well; I think the movie's heart was in the right place, but the execution didn't quite get there.
This one also tackled some heavier themes than either of the others. The charismatic, abusive, ego-driven church leader making his own little cult felt very familiar, especially after that podcast I listened to about Mars Hill.
Overall: just fun. Solidly entertaining in an era when it feels like mainstream movies really struggle to be that. I hope Rian Johnson makes ten more of these.
And this was the last one on his Netflix contract, so maybe the next one will get a real theater release instead of this bizarre indie-and-tiny-chain-only bullshit. OTOH, because the release has been so limited, I saw it in a completely sold-out theater that laughed throughout and then clapped at the end, and that was pretty fun. Silver linings!
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Hell House LLC: Carmichael Manor (2023). A ghosthunter and her girlfriend investigate a supposedly haunted house near the site of the former Abaddon hotel and soon wish they hadn't.
This is the fourth entry in the Hell House LLC franchise, and for my money it is the scariest. There's not even a close second IMO. It took me almost a year to watch this in fits and starts, because I kept getting too tense. I only finally managed it because an online friend was going to watch it and we had a watch party. Found footage is the scariest horror there is, in my opinion; the fiction of watching raw footage removes a last crucial layer of distance between me and the events. This franchise's greatest strength is that it has a fucking scary clown and it knows how to use it, but there are a number of scenes here without even a threat of clown that are genuinely unnerving and use the found footage mechanic in creatively terrifying ways.
As a movie, this is also far and away the best one since the first. The characters are well-developed and don't get bogged down in the history of the previous movies, unlike movies two and three. I do think the last twenty minutes or so, when it tries to tie the story to the broader lore, is by the far the weakest part of the movie, but so it goes.
Also, I've been pining for more found footage horror focused on women, and it's just a bonus that these are an f/f couple to boot, which goes completely unremarked. Yay, more of this please.
If you're looking for a good scarefest with minimal gore next Halloween, you absolutely should check this out.
This is the third movie in the Benoit Blanc franchise, and I enjoyed it a lot. The cast is great, as always, and Josh O'Connor in particular as the young priest is fantastic and is the heart of the movie. The writing is solid and often very funny, with some great laugh lines, even if this wasn't trying quite as hard as Glass Onion did. These movies are just fun, even when they don't make all that much sense.
I will say it felt too long; I thought it might be my favorite of the series, and then it went on for another 45 minutes. 💀 It needed at least one less twist and one less dramatic monologue. I also wish one of the secondary antagonists (Cy, the mixed-race would-be Republican politician) had gotten more development or at least a hint of how he'd become who he'd become, not least because he was one of the funniest characters and stole almost every scene he was in. I have some quibbles about the narrative treatment of one of the female characters as well; I think the movie's heart was in the right place, but the execution didn't quite get there.
This one also tackled some heavier themes than either of the others. The charismatic, abusive, ego-driven church leader making his own little cult felt very familiar, especially after that podcast I listened to about Mars Hill.
Overall: just fun. Solidly entertaining in an era when it feels like mainstream movies really struggle to be that. I hope Rian Johnson makes ten more of these.
And this was the last one on his Netflix contract, so maybe the next one will get a real theater release instead of this bizarre indie-and-tiny-chain-only bullshit. OTOH, because the release has been so limited, I saw it in a completely sold-out theater that laughed throughout and then clapped at the end, and that was pretty fun. Silver linings!
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Hell House LLC: Carmichael Manor (2023). A ghosthunter and her girlfriend investigate a supposedly haunted house near the site of the former Abaddon hotel and soon wish they hadn't.
This is the fourth entry in the Hell House LLC franchise, and for my money it is the scariest. There's not even a close second IMO. It took me almost a year to watch this in fits and starts, because I kept getting too tense. I only finally managed it because an online friend was going to watch it and we had a watch party. Found footage is the scariest horror there is, in my opinion; the fiction of watching raw footage removes a last crucial layer of distance between me and the events. This franchise's greatest strength is that it has a fucking scary clown and it knows how to use it, but there are a number of scenes here without even a threat of clown that are genuinely unnerving and use the found footage mechanic in creatively terrifying ways.
As a movie, this is also far and away the best one since the first. The characters are well-developed and don't get bogged down in the history of the previous movies, unlike movies two and three. I do think the last twenty minutes or so, when it tries to tie the story to the broader lore, is by the far the weakest part of the movie, but so it goes.
Also, I've been pining for more found footage horror focused on women, and it's just a bonus that these are an f/f couple to boot, which goes completely unremarked. Yay, more of this please.
If you're looking for a good scarefest with minimal gore next Halloween, you absolutely should check this out.
Coffee Social Sunday
Nov. 30th, 2025 06:01 pmbedes posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
dunmeshiCoffee Social Sunday is a weekly post for low-pressure chit-chat about anything on your mind in the Dunmeshi universe! Is there anything you're currently reading, creating, thinking about, considering creating, watching or rewatching? Tell us! But remember to hold onto your specific fanwork recs to instead share under the current Quick Recs post.
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Share your thoughts, ask for help, and cheer your fellow fans on!Now, what monsters would be good ingredients for coffee...
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fic recs: Gallaghercest
Nov. 29th, 2025 09:52 amsnickficSome Oasis recs for your enjoyment. One of the great things about the reunion is so many new people are writing fic. When I think about when I got into the fandom and there were like four writers total... It was bleak. But not anymore. :)
all through the circling years by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
mainpopgirl, 47k.
Four months after crash-landing on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific, Liam and his fellow castaways, long presumed dead, are rescued and returned back to civilization. In Liam’s case, back to England — and back to his brother, with whom he finds himself rapidly falling back into old and familiar rhythms.
Friends, this is one of my favorite fics in this entire fandom. Yes it is a LOST crossover, except set in 2020 and really only using the crossover elements for the premise. Mostly it's about Liam and Noel reuniting after not speaking for ten years, falling back into old habits and trying to find their way out of them, and FEELINGS. God so many feelings. They're so good. The angst is real here, and so is the hope. The character voices are fantastic, and this author writes a great Liam POV, which is a rare treasure because probably 80% of the fic in this fandom is written from Noel's POV.
Everything about this is so good. If you only read one fic on this list, read this one.
The Long and Winding Road byshameonskadi, 5k.
Noel keeps having these dreams about Liam. I never get tired of dreamsharing fic about these two. This is set early in the reunion tour and leads to their first sex in years and years. I love the intimacy here and the low-key D/s vibes and of course the feelings. Always the feelings.
(And) All That I Want From You byFishfucker, 28k.
Liam and Noel get stuck in a broken-down bus in the Mojave desert, which goes about as well as you might expect.
Another Liam POV fic, but one from his younger days before he mellowed. If you're looking for chaotic absurdity in your Gallagher brothers fic, this is for you, and yet by the time we get through Liam's days-long tantrum the fic brings us around to some real emotion as they work through some things together. Also the very rare 2000s-era fic, which I always appreciate.
Kenet bymatewan, 11k.
Liam is a shapeshifting dragon, and this changes less than you might expect. The author takes this AU premise and makes it a new lens to see Liam and their relationship through, and it's so cool! Liam, whose emotions are huge and fiery and has such a strong sense of certain things and people belonging to him: of course he's a dragon. The character writing here is delicate and lovely and never says too much. A good time.
all through the circling years by
Four months after crash-landing on a deserted island somewhere in the Pacific, Liam and his fellow castaways, long presumed dead, are rescued and returned back to civilization. In Liam’s case, back to England — and back to his brother, with whom he finds himself rapidly falling back into old and familiar rhythms.
Friends, this is one of my favorite fics in this entire fandom. Yes it is a LOST crossover, except set in 2020 and really only using the crossover elements for the premise. Mostly it's about Liam and Noel reuniting after not speaking for ten years, falling back into old habits and trying to find their way out of them, and FEELINGS. God so many feelings. They're so good. The angst is real here, and so is the hope. The character voices are fantastic, and this author writes a great Liam POV, which is a rare treasure because probably 80% of the fic in this fandom is written from Noel's POV.
Everything about this is so good. If you only read one fic on this list, read this one.
The Long and Winding Road by
Noel keeps having these dreams about Liam. I never get tired of dreamsharing fic about these two. This is set early in the reunion tour and leads to their first sex in years and years. I love the intimacy here and the low-key D/s vibes and of course the feelings. Always the feelings.
(And) All That I Want From You by
Liam and Noel get stuck in a broken-down bus in the Mojave desert, which goes about as well as you might expect.
Another Liam POV fic, but one from his younger days before he mellowed. If you're looking for chaotic absurdity in your Gallagher brothers fic, this is for you, and yet by the time we get through Liam's days-long tantrum the fic brings us around to some real emotion as they work through some things together. Also the very rare 2000s-era fic, which I always appreciate.
Kenet by
Liam is a shapeshifting dragon, and this changes less than you might expect. The author takes this AU premise and makes it a new lens to see Liam and their relationship through, and it's so cool! Liam, whose emotions are huge and fiery and has such a strong sense of certain things and people belonging to him: of course he's a dragon. The character writing here is delicate and lovely and never says too much. A good time.
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Nov. 28th, 2025 10:03 pmsnickficMeme nabbed from sushiflop, who also has the coded text if you want to do the meme yourself.
Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are. (Or any other site that has tags)
1. What rating do you write most fics under? Teen and up. Basically anything with a "fuck" gets marked at least teen, whatever else is in it.
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
What's listed are Buffy, Hockey RPF, and SPN, but if I go to the MCU page, which includes all my fics that are in MCU subfandoms, that has the most works of any of my fandoms at 95.
3. What is your top character you write about?
Sidney Crosby with 33 fics. Still, all these years later!
4. What are the 3 top pairings?
Sid/Geno (hockey, 24 fics), Liam/Noel (Oasis, 23), and Spike/Buffy (BtVS, 14). Yes indeed, those are my OTPs. <3 Fourth is Dan/Herbert from Re-Animator, which feels right as well.
Despite writing a shit ton of MCU fic, I was too much of a multishipper for any of my ships to threaten the top here. My highest was Carol/Yon-Rogg, and I only wrote 8 for them.
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabble (64), mpreg (50 jfc), and hurt/comfort (29). Zero percent surprised by the first two, but I'm a little surprised by the h/c count. I don't tend to think of myself as a h/c writer. However, I do like writing things that contain h/c, and I guess I'm good at tagging it when it applies...
6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
I only need to write two more Gallaghercest fics for that to be my top ship! To be fair a bunch of the existing ones are less than 1k long, so Sid/Geno probably still wins by wordcount, but OTOH one of those Gallaghercest fics was 40k, so maybe not.
sushiflop, who also has the coded text if you want to do the meme yourself.Go to your Works page on AO3, look at the tags, and see what the answers to these questions are. (Or any other site that has tags)
1. What rating do you write most fics under? Teen and up. Basically anything with a "fuck" gets marked at least teen, whatever else is in it.
2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
What's listed are Buffy, Hockey RPF, and SPN, but if I go to the MCU page, which includes all my fics that are in MCU subfandoms, that has the most works of any of my fandoms at 95.
3. What is your top character you write about?
Sidney Crosby with 33 fics. Still, all these years later!
4. What are the 3 top pairings?
Sid/Geno (hockey, 24 fics), Liam/Noel (Oasis, 23), and Spike/Buffy (BtVS, 14). Yes indeed, those are my OTPs. <3 Fourth is Dan/Herbert from Re-Animator, which feels right as well.
Despite writing a shit ton of MCU fic, I was too much of a multishipper for any of my ships to threaten the top here. My highest was Carol/Yon-Rogg, and I only wrote 8 for them.
5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Drabble (64), mpreg (50 jfc), and hurt/comfort (29). Zero percent surprised by the first two, but I'm a little surprised by the h/c count. I don't tend to think of myself as a h/c writer. However, I do like writing things that contain h/c, and I guess I'm good at tagging it when it applies...
6. Did any of this surprise you? e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.
I only need to write two more Gallaghercest fics for that to be my top ship! To be fair a bunch of the existing ones are less than 1k long, so Sid/Geno probably still wins by wordcount, but OTOH one of those Gallaghercest fics was 40k, so maybe not.
The Reason It Fucked Me So Up.
Nov. 27th, 2025 10:48 amrionaleonhartSome more ficlet requests from Tumblr! Lots of obscure nonsense in here, to my delight.
( Danganronpa: Despair Time: Xander and Teruko. )
( Eden’s Garden/Danganronpa: Damon Maitsu meets Nagito Komaeda. )
( Danganronpa: survivors of the first game discuss Touko/Komaru. )
( Vargas: Edgar being possessive of Scriabin. )
( The Coffin of Andy and Leyley: complicated Ashley/Julia. )
( Persona 5: Akechi/protagonist mindgames. )
( Clair Obscur: one-sided Maelle/Gustave. )
When I posted the Persona 5 ficlet to my secondary AO3 account, I named it play stupid games, win something good probably, and I don’t think I’ll ever come up with a better title in my life.
( Danganronpa: Despair Time: Xander and Teruko. )
( Eden’s Garden/Danganronpa: Damon Maitsu meets Nagito Komaeda. )
( Danganronpa: survivors of the first game discuss Touko/Komaru. )
( Vargas: Edgar being possessive of Scriabin. )
( The Coffin of Andy and Leyley: complicated Ashley/Julia. )
( Persona 5: Akechi/protagonist mindgames. )
( Clair Obscur: one-sided Maelle/Gustave. )
When I posted the Persona 5 ficlet to my secondary AO3 account, I named it play stupid games, win something good probably, and I don’t think I’ll ever come up with a better title in my life.
Photobucket
Nov. 25th, 2025 07:48 pmscaramoucheI never unsubscribed from photobucket's emails, even after I let my account lapse when they hit everyone with the USD400/year price tag lockdown uhhh (checks) eight years ago. So I would periodically get emails begging peeps to come back, and it's been funny to see the tone change.
The emails used to be:
They kept on with all those warnings, sending anywhere from 2 to 6 emails a month with the same text to let you know.
And then! About a year ago the emails changed to:
Again and again, until the emails got another tone change about three months ago in August, to:
Somebody's doing something!🤣 I'm just surprised they're still around, and the price tag is now USD80 a year, or USD8 a month, so I just might sign up for a month and download everything for reorganizing. I did download the most critical stuff way back when, but it might be fun to redo my old pic-heavy posts. Maybe.
The emails used to be:
Warning: Your account is over the free tier limit.
Keep your account active.
Urgent: Keep your account active.
You've become inactive.
Do you want to keep your photos?
Do you want to keep your account?
Action required.
Warning: Your photos may be subject to deletion.
Your account has been deactivated.
We can't keep waiting for a response from you.
This May Be Your Last Chance.
They kept on with all those warnings, sending anywhere from 2 to 6 emails a month with the same text to let you know.
And then! About a year ago the emails changed to:
A private space for your family's most precious moments.
Did you forget about the [xxx] photos in your account?
Do you want to recover your old photos?
We can't keep waiting a response from you.
Again and again, until the emails got another tone change about three months ago in August, to:
Aren't you curious to see your old photos?
Your memories are still here.
We found photos you probably thought were gone.
A little piece of your history.
A message from your past self.
Your old selfies are now fossils.
This one might bring a tear to your eye.
A glimpse into the good old days.
The past is calling (and it has photos).
Somebody's doing something!🤣 I'm just surprised they're still around, and the price tag is now USD80 a year, or USD8 a month, so I just might sign up for a month and download everything for reorganizing. I did download the most critical stuff way back when, but it might be fun to redo my old pic-heavy posts. Maybe.
Taking 'Any Hole's A Goal' To Its Logical Conclusion.
Nov. 25th, 2025 11:26 amrionaleonhartMore of the Silent Hill 2 remake! I'm still working my way through Brookhaven Hospital.
James, you cannot keep jumping down or climbing into or sticking your hand inor fucking every hole you come across! It's such a bad habit!
You also probably shouldn't keep injecting yourself with every syringe you find lying around Silent Hill. I'll be honest: I think these are unlikely to be sterile.
I yelped aloud when Pyramid Head said hello on the roof. I wonder if they changed that particular encounter specifically so it could still startle people who'd played the original game.
Actually, it might be a camera angle thing. In the original Silent Hill 2, hearing the door to the roof open just out of shot and not knowing what's coming is absolutely terrifying, but that's something you can only do with a fixed camera angle. In the remake, with its freely movable camera, you could swing the camera over to the door as soon as you heard it open, which immediately strips away that 'oh, God, I know something's here with me but I can't see what it is' terror.
I hadn't really contemplated it before, but going from the restricted camera of the original to the free camera of the remake is a pretty huge change in a horror game. What you can and can't see makes such a big difference to the atmosphere in horror, and it's a lot harder to limit what the player can see if they have full control of the camera.
I'd be interested to know all the ways the remake team tried to address this issue. It might be the reason some monsters, mannequins in particular, will run away from the player when spotted and hide in a different room. You've seen the monster, you know it's here, but it's removed itself from your sight; all you know is that it's somewhere nearby, waiting to attack. It's a way to create that sense of 'there's something here, but I can't see it' even when the player can quickly scan their immediate surroundings. (Of course, the radio is also good for creating that sense in both the original and the remake.)
The YouTube music algorithm recently served me a song that I might have heard in passing at some point, but had never really listened to before. Listening to the lyrics, I found myself thinking, Wow, this song is absolutely perfect for James and Mary.
Had it been any other song, the logical next step would be to contemplate naming a fic after it. Unfortunately, the song in question was 'My Immortal' by Evanescence.
James, you cannot keep jumping down or climbing into or sticking your hand in
You also probably shouldn't keep injecting yourself with every syringe you find lying around Silent Hill. I'll be honest: I think these are unlikely to be sterile.
I yelped aloud when Pyramid Head said hello on the roof. I wonder if they changed that particular encounter specifically so it could still startle people who'd played the original game.
Actually, it might be a camera angle thing. In the original Silent Hill 2, hearing the door to the roof open just out of shot and not knowing what's coming is absolutely terrifying, but that's something you can only do with a fixed camera angle. In the remake, with its freely movable camera, you could swing the camera over to the door as soon as you heard it open, which immediately strips away that 'oh, God, I know something's here with me but I can't see what it is' terror.
I hadn't really contemplated it before, but going from the restricted camera of the original to the free camera of the remake is a pretty huge change in a horror game. What you can and can't see makes such a big difference to the atmosphere in horror, and it's a lot harder to limit what the player can see if they have full control of the camera.
I'd be interested to know all the ways the remake team tried to address this issue. It might be the reason some monsters, mannequins in particular, will run away from the player when spotted and hide in a different room. You've seen the monster, you know it's here, but it's removed itself from your sight; all you know is that it's somewhere nearby, waiting to attack. It's a way to create that sense of 'there's something here, but I can't see it' even when the player can quickly scan their immediate surroundings. (Of course, the radio is also good for creating that sense in both the original and the remake.)
The YouTube music algorithm recently served me a song that I might have heard in passing at some point, but had never really listened to before. Listening to the lyrics, I found myself thinking, Wow, this song is absolutely perfect for James and Mary.
Had it been any other song, the logical next step would be to contemplate naming a fic after it. Unfortunately, the song in question was 'My Immortal' by Evanescence.
Check-in Post for Round 6 - NOW CLOSED
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