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Recent Media Enjoyments
Jun. 25th, 2021 01:35 am* Last night I watched Censor (2021), a new British horror movie set during the "video nasties" moral panic of the late eighties/early nineties. I really liked this as a period piece and a very serious and unnerving kind of meta horror - the main character, Enid, is a censor for the BBFC, and one of the most stomach-clenching moments in the first half of the movie is a scene where you see her scanning other passengers' newspapers as she takes the train home from work, reading headlines about rising crime rates and "nasties to blame" like she's braced for a blow. I particularly loved the dreamlike, gummed-up feeling of a scene that comes later in the movie, where Enid visits the set of a horror movie during its production, and struggles to explain herself to the other people on set while the movie scene around her becomes more and more graphic. Would recommend to anyone who's interested in this kind of A24-esque arthouse horror.
* I also finished reading Harrow the Ninth this week (after reading Gideon the Ninth earlier this month). This series is absolutely killing me: the characters, the aesthetic, the offhandedly-decadent prose. I love that Harrow is too ascetic and repressed to drink water with lemon in it, and I love that Ianthe will ( spoiler for GtN ). I scream inside every time Gideon gets chivalrous. I'm extremely into all the possible variations on Harrow/Gideon/Ianthe after HtN made Harrow/Ianthe so very scaryromantic4scaryromantic. Also, now I want some kind of The Perfection AU for Harrow/Ianthe, or at least ( spoiler for HtN and The Perfection ). (I also think a Locked Tomb/Twin Peaks fusion would absolutely slap. Cooper could be a cavalier or necromancer for the Ninth House, and Audrey could be as a scion of the Third or Seventh who is threatened with getting sent to Drearburh as the in-universe equivalent of a Bulgarian convent.)
* I also finished reading Harrow the Ninth this week (after reading Gideon the Ninth earlier this month). This series is absolutely killing me: the characters, the aesthetic, the offhandedly-decadent prose. I love that Harrow is too ascetic and repressed to drink water with lemon in it, and I love that Ianthe will ( spoiler for GtN ). I scream inside every time Gideon gets chivalrous. I'm extremely into all the possible variations on Harrow/Gideon/Ianthe after HtN made Harrow/Ianthe so very scaryromantic4scaryromantic. Also, now I want some kind of The Perfection AU for Harrow/Ianthe, or at least ( spoiler for HtN and The Perfection ). (I also think a Locked Tomb/Twin Peaks fusion would absolutely slap. Cooper could be a cavalier or necromancer for the Ninth House, and Audrey could be as a scion of the Third or Seventh who is threatened with getting sent to Drearburh as the in-universe equivalent of a Bulgarian convent.)
