Hacker Cinema
#Horror
2015 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Tara Subkoff
Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.
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I would actually like to see something like TV Tropes in spreadsheet form. Something like this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/OverdosedTropes
But in more detail like category etc and covering a wider range of tropes. That way I could be watching a horror movie or something and work out who's likely to die based on the tropes and so on.
Or something like digging up forgotten tropes when I'm digging around for ideas that nobody uses anymore.
Or popular color tropes when I need to pick a symbolic hair color and wardrobe.
> ...with one very elaborately painted and decorated room like straight out of a horror film.
If it's anything like the abandoned mental health facility I live near, it may have been exactly that: the set for a horror film, meticulously decorated for that purpose.
as long as they are only growing in your mouth, thats still a solution.
Now, having teeth grow om your body randomly, thats a horror movie
Going faster where the vehicle is a human body. Imagine athletes being sponsored by various pharmaceutical companies. When I read it, it actually sounds very creepy, but I'd watch a horror movie based on such scenario.
The strongest model I have for understanding the world is that your prefrontal cortex is a simulator that is always predicting. When something occurs that surprises you (like a glass breaking in a restaurant), the anomaly diverts your attention to the sound source so your visual system can feed more data to your model and rationalise the event.
But when something happens that contradicts your model, it means your model is wrong, and this causes severe anxiety (cognitive dissonance). This explains why people get more upset when things don't go the way they expect than whether or not things go badly or well, which is why managing expectations is such a high priority for project managers. It also explains why autistic people who struggle to abstract and get upset by social disappointment rock themselves: to create a signal they can predict. Otherwise, the bottom of your world falls out every time someone moves their cheese - like a baby throwing a tantrum when they drop their favourite toy before they have a model of gravity.
Now, why would people want to get drunk together? I think we want to test congruence and resilience in a vulnerable situation. The better a person can predict your social cooperation in a variety of contexts, the less bandwidth they can afford to devote to modelling your actions, which might otherwise pose an existential threat. Once you have mutually compatible models of cooperation, you can safely turn your backs to each other and work on solving external problems without causing internal anxiety.
But being predictable also means you are vulnerable. If you can be modelled, you can be manipulated. So we crave a certain "predictable chaos" from our friends, partners and co-workers. We want someone self-aware enough to follow the rules, while pleasantly surprising us in ways that expand our mental territory without invalidating too much of the existing foundation. A quick way to upset a drinker is to turn down free drinks at a bar at night (but not in the middle of the day). It forces them to re-evaluate their model of the world - and, people hate doing that, especially drunk people. The same is true of questioning people's religion.
Incidentally, this is also why you dream and have nightmares, and seek out horror movies when things feel stagnant. Your mind is exploring your survivability in a bunch of threatening situations that could arise, and learning from them without dying.
The change has to come within you. Drink was a problem to both of my parents. I'm not saying it's wrong to drink. We are only a brief period in this world of pain, and generally, what you find pleasing, go for it. The problem with drink is, it may take you, and the medical complications can be horrific. I don't really care for horror movies - they are lame, after having to consider the fates of two close relatives.
My father drank about as much as you, and he nearly died of liver chirrosis. Which would have been extremely painfull. He died later, after not drinking so much, of heart failure. The medical examination showed he had escaped chirrosis by an inch.
My mother drank way more than that. Eventually her state deteriorated, she went to a psychosis and she soon died. Only after death we discovered she had had pancreatic cancer. So it was good thing, in a way, she passed quickly, not prolonging her agony. Because death by pancreatic cancer is a really painfull way to go. See a pattern? She started soiling her sheets soon before the psychosis. And, her last month she mostly could not communicate, as as far as I can tell, she trembled in fear in her bed.
Was the fear because of psychosis? Or had the hospital staff maltreated her, because, you know, she was just a psychotic fragile drunk? I will never know. She was 66 when she died.
As I understand she took to drink in a major way in her late twenties, and never gave up. She became depressed and lost her job, and drank more.
Some people drink to their grave in the nineties, and stay seemingly healthy, so, it's a game of chance.
Look up alcohilism and it's complications. The bad thing about most of them, is that they creep in, and when they are obvious, it's likely too late to do anything and it's a slide to body horror land and gruesome death.
I know scaring people doesn't work, but at least you have some concept of the odds you are dealing with.
Take care, man.
This is still a widespread idea. See how many people look at a shoplifter who was killed by cops, and resolve that the killing was appropriate because the kid committed a crime.
I haven't fully processed it yet. There's a common trope in horror movies where someone commits a minor infraction... say, cheating on their boyfriend, and then they get murdered and the audience shrugs because they were obviously not one of the good guys.
I think the general idea is, we only want people around who have a fundamental allergy to wrongdoing. If you'd commit some small infraction, how can we trust you to not commit a big one in a crucial moment when we are relying on you in the future?
The alternative is to view minor infractions as a normal part of life, and to see them as an opportunity to rehabilitate someone. This approach only works in a somewhat... for lack of a better term, "wealthier" community, where you have some insurance against harm. If you can afford to have kids doing some bad stuff, you can be more forgiving. My perspective is that we're currently in a time of surplus, and so we can afford to live that way, (he says from his apartment in the Bay Area) but I think much of culture is still operating in a scarcity mode.
The other relevant concern is surveillance. If you can't surveil your community, you need to rely on them having an internal model of correct action. If you can rely on surveillance you can allow people to play more fast and loose with rules, with the assumption that you'll be able to correct for it in moderation.
But again, we're not fully into the surveillance age yet, so many people want to rely on the stricter mode of social organization.
We haven't found one particular feature to be the most predictive overall, across all different types of projects, but we have noticed that certain features are more predictive for certain projects. For instance, a horror film, on average, is more affected by the presence of other horror/thriller genre fare released within a 2 week range than an action/comedy/drama film.
Isn't this the plot of for a horror-thriller movie?
I actually see that pretty often. When the movie requires it, people forget that they have cell phones. It's the same way the horror movie universe apparently doesn't have horror movies, or people would know not to split up or have sex while camping.
This article is the intellectual equivalent of a horror movie.