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I get that 'donghua' is animated motion picture, and 'manhua' is picture books

Wikipedia says 'danmei' is gay-themed novels, but other people seem to say it for any sort of Chinese web novel? Confused.

What's a cultivation genre good web novel to get started?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/18651836

Throughout decades of cinema, horror has changed so much that there's no question it's one of the genres that has been reinvented the most. Audiences have evolved, and with them, the ways they can be scared. Horror has also had to adapt itself to inevitable cultural shifts.

Yes, horror is universal. But some do it better than others. While the Japanese and the Koreans have proven they can master the art of the scare, American filmmakers have cleverly found a way to adopt those resources. However, the British have also found a way into the conversation of terrifying films based on classic tropes. These are the underrated British horror films that'll give you a scare this Halloween season. That is if you dare to watch them...

• Kill List (2011)
• The Ritual (2017)
• The Borderlands (2013)
• Host (2020)
• A Dark Song (2016)
• The Innocents (1961)
• The Woman in Black (2012)
• Saint Maud (2019)
• Ghostwatch (1992)
• Repulsion (1965)

The bizarre ‘bit’ on last Saturday’s Late Late Show in which US presenter Conan O’Brien was coaxed into mocking the Irish-language names of people in the audience was an illustration of this self-loathing colonial cringe. Evidently, the Anglocentric mind finds great amusement in different languages having different phonetic systems.

Late Late Show audience members denigrating the Irish language, couching this ridicule as ‘humour’.

https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UCHfRlg0a94EK7t6n5HrymPA

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20964207

Everyone thinks Bram Stoker in 1897 was the Irishman who brought vampires out of Romanian folklore into the mainstream, but Le Fanu scooped him by 25 years.

It's a quick read, about three hours.

I'll start with this Spanish 2007 zombie horror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec_(film)

30 more to go for the month!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophet_Joseph_(TV_series) – (full series in the video links at the bottom)

It portrays the prophet ﷺ but nobody cares because the show is a banger

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/18164065

Production is now under way in New Zealand on “Marama,” a gothic horror film from Māori writer-director Taratoa Stappard (“Taumanu, Emkhatsini”). Production is taking place around Auckland on New Zealand’s North Island and in the South Island’s Otago region.

Set in North Yorkshire, England, in 1859, “Marama” is the story of a young Māori woman’s fight to reclaim her identity and indigenous culture in Victorian-era Britain. The film title comes from the woman’s name.

The film features Māori actor Ariana Osborne (“Madam,” “In A Flash”) in the lead role, alongside British actor Toby Stephens (“Black Sails,” “Die Another Day,” “Percy Jackson and The Olympians”) who has recently wrapped principal photography on the project.

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“This film will be confronting, bloody and entirely unique, and I’m excited to be forging a new genre: Māori gothic horror,” said Stappard, who lives in the U.K. and whose lineage includes the Māori tribes Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Tuwharetoa.

IMDb

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/18011751

Ghosts usually come with a fair bit of baggage in the movies: A tragic romance leading to an even more tragic suicide, maybe, or a howl for justice from a murder victim from beyond the grave. The protagonist of “Dead Talents Society” has no such tale attached to her untimely (and embarrassing) death, and this is where her problems begin. John Hsu’s frightfully entertaining Taiwanese horror-comedy imagines a world where the dead are just as beholden to the pressures of fame as the living, and an industry has grown around ambitious apparitions building their personal brands. Urban legends live forever, and forgotten ghosts literally disappear — so get out there and scare ‘em good, kid!