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 (DIR) Post #AjzQmYhNhajvuu2foG by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2024-07-16T13:44:43Z
       
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       Ableism is kind of rampant in horror. I don't think it's by default "wrong" to have the evil guy walking with a cane, but is it being used as shorthand for evil?A whole lot of "analog horror" is basically "don't watch the creepy VHS tape or your face will get messed up"... and? Like that's not good, but just playing a scary sound cue and showing a distorted face also starts to feel lazy to me...Is there any horror movie or story that takes this on and subverts it?
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzQxaHU9wRk0fBePQ by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
       2024-07-16T13:46:39Z
       
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       @futurebird Wait Until Dark comes to mind with a disabled protagonist.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzRFwEfGuMzJScT0S by montrebei@mstdn.social
       2024-07-16T13:50:00Z
       
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       @futurebird There was a great Spanish language film called Tesis, the first film by Almenabar, where the scary guy is a Tom Cruiss lookalike. Apparently Cruise and Kidman wanted to remake the movie in English, but his agent talked them out of it because it would ruin him as a bankable star. He made Vanilla Sky instead (same director, remake of one of his Spanish-language films). Tesis is really scary.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzRdPUwdkvajIQVt2 by miah@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-16T13:54:15Z
       
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       @futurebird Phantasm, the BBG is a old dude who is so strong he can pick up a casket with a body and toss it into his Hearse.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzRnK29oMK4g6ghto by jrm4@mastodon.social
       2024-07-16T13:56:00Z
       
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       @futurebird Sure. You gotta remember that this is *crazy* old. Like one logical argument for the historical popularity of Christianity is that it was a reaction to pretty much everything else at the time being "Sucks to be you?"Like, oh you're disabled, must be because God(s) hate you and you're bad.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzSTUlaIVqy7y2tcW by mensrea@freeradical.zone
       2024-07-16T14:03:40Z
       
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       @futurebird The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Frankenstein come to mind
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzUGxxwcj8SpbyqsC by Cyrus@zirk.us
       2024-07-16T14:23:35Z
       
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       @futurebird Closest to a subversion that I can think of, besides Frankenstein, is American Psycho. He wasn’t just “good looking” and abled, he was rich and “perfect”—yet a figure of actual horror, not just mere villainy.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzUuiYJLkI6bvwge8 by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
       2024-07-16T14:31:00Z
       
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       @futurebird Some of the stories in these two anthologies from 2016 and 2020 may qualify; given the overlap between post-apocalyptic stories and horror?"Defying Doomsday" - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/defying-doomsday-tsana-dolichva/1123776927?ean=9781922101402"Rebuilding Tomorrow" - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rebuilding-tomorrow-tsana-dolichva/1138082541
       
 (DIR) Post #AjzWWp0Dus7BZejblI by Wharrrrrrgarbl@an.errant.cloud
       2024-07-16T14:48:57Z
       
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       @futurebird one disabled hero who comes to mind is the space opera protagonist Miles Vorkosigan. In anime and manga there's also a subversion that's so common it's kind of become its own trope, which is the handsome assumed hero being venal at best and a psychopathic sadist at worst.