Richard Roxburgh and Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing (2004)
The best part about this scene wasn’t just that Dracula didn’t have a reflection. She was at a ball with a few hundred other people attending it, and during this dance, there were dozens of other couples also dancing alongside Anna and Dracula. The scene showed that everyone at that ball was a vampire, not just Dracula. And she was the single only human there. It’s so subtly threatening to be surrounded by bloodthirsty killers all dressed to the nines, masked and pretty. And it was such an ingenious way of telling that part of the story, I adore this movie so much.
Do you ever see something that fills you with so much joy that if you don’t share it with people you’re going to explode? Yeah that’s this
🌺 Cheyenne
I really super appreciate that the music wasn’t dubbed over, but live audio was included because I cannot overemphasize HOW MUCH the flailing noises add to this
I don’t know who this person is or where they are but I adore them and their absolute commitment to being the very best of whatever the fuck this is that they are.
I bet octopuses think bones are horrific. I bet all their cosmic horror stories involve rigid-limbs and hinged joints.
To an octopus, a human is like a thinking being with blood-stained coral growing inside it.
I need to sit down and breathe into a bag for a while.
Its parts were obscenely limited in their movement. Each hinge could open or close only a small amount before reaching its limit, yet by working in concert they demonstrated unexpected dexterity, moving and manipulating the objects before it with cunning equal to my own. It was more torso than limb, as though a seal had been stretched and warped, given long grasping tentacles filled with bones like bars of coral. It’s head was most horrid of all, flat and ovoid, jutting out too small from the trunk as though it belonged to a beast half its size.
The thing rose upon its lowermost appendages, two long trunks that ended in flat, protruding flippers that branched into stubby, grasping mockeries of a sucker. It’s triple-hinged uppermost limbs were similar, but the ends branched into five smaller tentacles, each with three hinges of their own.
I froze, as the thing’s gaze fell upon me and it opened its hideous fish-jaw, filled with thick, many-shaped teeth like white shards of stone, and spoke in a shrill, discordant babble. I felt its horrid dry grip on my flesh, as those hinged appendages closed on me like the legs of a crab.
I felt the heat of its body, tasted its noxious, oily flesh through my touch, and prepared for the end, and all went black as a swoon overtook me.
I awoke, some time later, the cold and comforting water, banished back to the comfort of the sea and the dark. I should be grateful I am alive. I should cast aside the experience like a half-remembered dream.
I shall never again go swimming in search of lights above. The last thing I recall before the darkness took me was my right eye popping free of the thing’s grasp enough to see into the distance for one brief moment.
I saw thousands of lights.
ok so it turns out “horror but it’s about something mundane from the perspective of a non-human animal” fucks severely
Since you are building Chaos Marines and consider FW-Option, ever considered the Dreadblade Drop-Pod?
No room.
Might be able to squeeze in a night raptor squad. They can proxy raptors.
Oh well with 115 points and not going into transport slots, they are more of a “plan around this” and less of a “just add them” sorta deal. Is it the points or are you running out of Fast Attack slots?
If they were not so absolutely expensive money-wise I’d have scrapped my GSC plans and gone full Alpha Legion but hey, maybe they’ll get plastic kits in the future…
Big secret time.
I don’t play.
I collect and pain because they look cool.
I am a bad Warhammer fan, spending all that money on shelf warmers.
Better a painted shelf to take pride in. than the horror of a table of the unpainted grey hordes!
he says, not having played in a while, because origanising a game is annoyingly difficult sometimes. damn you travel times!
Greetings there friend, I welcome you to my page, I am but a simple Geek,
Oh yes and I also want to be a writer and try my hand at animation or a being an artist, I've got a head full of ideas, might as well use them.
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