Chekhov's Sloth

Watching stories unfold on screens.
All things movies & series, esp. horror (history). Love-hate relationship with jumpscares. Queer Gaze.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

Hi! My dad let me watch horror movies way too young, my mom never monitored the books I chose in the library. Later, "Men, Women & Chainsaws" changed how I consume scary stories. Now, I'm a mix of the child who loves to be terrified by stories & the fan who loves to analyze them.

[x-files in a loop @tenfeetoff]

The best thing in Pet Sematary (besides watching DD in a couple of scenes): The face of this little stunt action double, as he's asking if he's doing the bite thingy right and if he's a good boi 🥺

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

@tenfeetoff I am humbled by your ability to take a photo of a dark dog in which one can actually see the dog. When I try this with my black dog, all you can see is a colourless void.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

There's this woman on Tiktok who watches classic horror movies for the first time and it's hilarious. @thetremorssaga this one is for you.

"Are these two idiots gonna be our heroes!?" #tremors

[Dan Olson @FoldableHuman]

AITA for marrying my best friend?

Edit: who I met through a mutual acquaintance
Edit 2: the acquaintance is my daughter
Edit 3: they know each other from school
Edit 4: the school is Jr. High
Edit 5: but they're starting college now
Edit 6: we've been married for 3 years

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

Don't get me wrong, I hated them all except Grace, but he was a special kind of asshole.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

I just watched The Lodge and wow the dad is such an irresponsible, unethical, egotistical prick. He brought this shit over his family.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

Several years into the pandemic, World War Z seems like a dream come true. They not only rely on and trust in science to find a solution, but they also manage to develop and globally distribute a vaccine in no time.

#CovidIsNotOver

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

Fargo Season 1: There's good & evil in the world. Don't be tempted by the devil!

Fargo Season 2: Men & women need to communicate properly with eachother (but feminism is not the answer).

Fargo Season 3: Fuck your morals, existence is meaningless & capitalism will devour us all.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

@choptopmoseley Also, they star in one of the best older Scifi/Horror Movies

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

@choptopmoseley Ants. Their behavior and skills are fascinating.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

till not even death do us part

[Richard Bacula @RichardBacula]

“The Book Is Better”

[Josh Williams 🎃 | 🇵🇸 @JoshuaAlanWill2]

My summer mood.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

"Spoiler alert, I am an anarchist, Charlie's a communist. (...) That doesn't mean that we will have *good* political views, but we *will* give our political views."

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

The perfect podcast doesn't exi

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[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

The perfect podcast doesn't exi

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[Jim Horlock @HorlockWarlock]

These dingbats can't even get their own nonsense right. You can't have 8 alphas in a group. What would I do? I guess I'd ask which one of them is actually the group alpha and watch them implode.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

The classical action hero fatherfigures fulfill their role by dying: The Terminator, Butch in Perfect World. Pedro Pascal's father figures sacrifice their lives, too, but not by dying for the child in their care, but by changing their way of life for them.

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

Who are "Daddy Pascal's" grandfathers?

I'm trying to understand the specific appeal of his "hardcore soldier to sweet fatherfigure" roles (Prospect, The Mandalorian, The Last of Us) & looking for this (arche?)types forbearers.

Yondu maybe, Ellen Ripley in a way, but who else?

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Bella Ramsey on Pedro Pascal being called “daddy” by the internet: “I very much played into it at the beginning but now I’m worried it’s gone too far. I don’t know whether he’s still loving it; I need to ask him. He’s a global phenomenon as he should be, he’s pretty spectacular.”

[Chekhov's Sloth @chekhovssloth]

@woodspodcast1 The human centipede