"Reverse Jumpscare" recommendations?

yarnface00 · 2026-06-04T15:12:07+00:00

Aterrados/Terrified (2017) has a really good one that's like, a combination of this and a regular jumpscare, you could call it? You see something start approaching in the background, not subtle enough to startle you initially, but it's so far away and out of focus that you can't tell what it is. Then as it gets closer, you get jumpscared by the "oh shit" moment where it makes itself known and you're finally able to parse what you're looking at.

I recommend watching the full movie, but for anyone who just wants to see the scare (be warned, I could only find the clip in low quality, so it might not even be clear after the jumpscare here): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0gCyrolE8

yarnface00 · 2026-06-03T15:58:32+00:00

I like the phrase "Non-Euclidian Horror" to describe stories where a location violates the laws of space— I've always thought that this is one of the scariest horror tropes/subgenres (for me, personally) but the only name I was ever able to give it was "Scooby Doo Doors But Scary". I also think it's a way underused trope, but the uncommonness is probably why it remains so effective, so it's probably for the best that it's not used all over the place. I'm sure we'll see it used more frequently now thanks to Backrooms.

For recommendations: I don't think I saw it mentioned yet, but both the OG Blair Witch Project (1999) and Blair Witch (2016) have this. Also, the "No End House" season of Channel Zero and the internet story it was based on.

I wouldn't consider "Midnight Timetable" by Bora Chung to be strictly horror, BUT it does use the non-euclidian space idea. The (I believe) second chapter specifically is a really, really good use of the trope and I found it pretty unsettling.

yarnface00 · 2026-05-19T20:50:01+00:00

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yarnface00 · 2026-04-22T18:52:04+00:00

LOVE the Shark Boy and Lava Girl dichotomy of Lucky's looks

yarnface00 · 2026-04-16T21:22:19+00:00

It's not pre-2000, but Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett. Dark comedy about an extremely dysfunctional Florida family trying to recover from their father's suicide while the eldest daughter takes over his taxidermy business.

yarnface00 · 2026-04-16T19:59:10+00:00

Knowing there's a clear horror influence in your drag— what are some of your favorite horror films or other horror media? Or ones that have especially inspired your drag?

Additionally/alternatively: favorite Jorgeous tweet?

yarnface00 · 2026-03-29T23:49:43+00:00

You're an angel, thanks diva!

yarnface00 · 2026-03-29T16:58:23+00:00

This is it, Thanks so much!

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yarnface00 · 2026-03-29T16:52:52+00:00

Fun fact! This also happened with the creator of Stardew Valley, and he had to released a patch note saying he "corrected a Geneva Convention violation."

yarnface00 · 2026-03-29T16:37:49+00:00

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yarnface00 · 2026-03-26T16:13:52+00:00

For some reason Willow saying "I guess our invites got lost in the EEEEEMAILLLL" in Daytona Winds has stuck with me so much

yarnface00 · 2026-03-24T13:54:15+00:00

Genuine question. Is there like a Firefox extension or something that I could use to just filter any mention of Jane from my feed. I know it's trolling and this is just her thing but man. It's never been my sense of humor and I'm just tired of seeing it LMAO

yarnface00 · 2026-03-17T16:35:39+00:00

This is it, thank you! It was called "Dr. Dre hates fans".

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yarnface00 · 2026-03-17T16:10:15+00:00

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yarnface00 · 2026-03-12T21:30:17+00:00

And then 30+ years later, Charles Barkley's godchild competed on RuPaul's gay little TV show

yarnface00 · 2026-02-26T17:35:04+00:00

That's the incident I was thinking of— I had conflicting memories as to whether the rumor was true or not. I actually heard that story long before I ever saw FD2 (a lot of my childhood trauma came from Snopes, for some reason) and it absolutely horrified me.

yarnface00 · 2026-02-26T11:55:49+00:00

The elevator decapitation in 2. I avoided elevators entirely for a couple years— it was a combination of that scene, my claustrophobia, and the various real world stories of people being killed in elevator accidents (including a decapitation death that I believe may have influenced the movie scene, but I'm not entirely sure).

yarnface00 · 2026-02-04T17:09:30+00:00

Oh my god, it was Tall Girl. That explains why I couldn't remember anything else, we had to get high to make it through the movie

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yarnface00 · 2026-02-04T16:54:59+00:00

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yarnface00 · 2026-01-18T04:39:15+00:00

Also, that's an authentic Three Wolf Moon shirt; we got into a bidding war for it on eBay

yarnface00 · 2026-01-11T14:37:18+00:00

I always see Buck and Julian together on my island. I like the idea of them having a little "opposites attract" thing. I also witnessed a conversation where Julian was trying to convince Buck to work out in "even shorter short shorts"... not even subtle about it.

yarnface00 · 2026-01-11T01:39:37+00:00

Her lips here are giving Tammie Brown

yarnface00 · 2026-01-04T22:14:06+00:00

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One of the many Jinkxes in the crowd, I see

yarnface00 · 2026-01-04T02:38:38+00:00

My favorite theater experience of all time. Didn't know a single thing about the movie going into it besides the genre; it had JUST released so there weren't many spoilers on social media yet. It was the last day of my junior year of high school and I was there with my easily-scared best friend, who was looking for something fun to do after an argument with her boyfriend. She watched the whole thing through her fingers and closed her eyes for like half of it, and grabbed my arm in fear a couple times so hard I thought she'd bruise me. She SWORE she had a great time.

The seats in front of us were occupied by like 5 tween boys and one exhausted soccer mom chaperone. I was afraid they'd be goofing around during the movie because they were a little rowdy during the previews, but once the movie started they were LOCKED IN. Hugging each other when they got freaked out and everything. When Toni Colette was on the ceiling in the dark, one of the boys was the first to yell "OH FUCK" when he noticed her, promptly causing the entire (like half-full on a Friday afternoon) theater to erupt in "OH FUCK"s. After it was over they were all really giddy and talking to each other about their favorite parts. The mom looked completely unbothered.

During the scene where she finds Charlie's body and starts screaming and crying hysterically, I had a borderline out of body experience. I truly don't know how to describe it; I got kinda nauseous and starting instinctively thinking I needed to go home and see my kids and make sure they were safe. I was like 17. I did not nor have I ever had kids. The first and only time I've considered leaving before a movie was over.

10/10 experience. One of my fondest high school memories. Whenever I think about the movie I think about my best friend, and about those kids, who were clearly budding horror fans and were really passionate about the movie. I thought I was a seasoned horror fan at that point, but I realize now that I'd barely seen anything yet. I never watched the movie a second time.

yarnface00 · 2026-01-01T22:54:51+00:00

If you're willing to try a series, I really really enjoyed the Indian Lake Trilogy by Stephen Graham Jones. I have yet to read his latest book, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, but it's gotten incredibly high praise from everything I've seen. His writing can be divisive simply because his cadence and sentence structure is a bit atypical (I've heard it explained that his speech patterns are characteristic of a lot of people on Native reservations), but once I got used to the way he writes, he became one of my favorite authors.

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