Horror Movie Recommendations for Halloween☆

Happy spoopy Halloween to everyone!

So instead of finally doing the ebay loot-post I've been postponing, I decided to do a Halloween post consisting of one of my favorite thing: horror movies! For a couple of years I've been watching horror movies probably more than any other type of movies, but I used to lose sleep if a movie was especially scary.. This was a huge pain in the ass, since I love horror movies but luckily now I'm over that! Nowadays I can watch as much, and as scary, horror movies as I want to! ψ(｀∇´)ψ So in honor of Halloween (even though Halloween is pretty much non-existant here in Finland) I decided to do a collection post of some of my favorite horror movies, or of ones that left an impact on me! I wont be writing long descriptions of the movies, because I don't want to spoil anything. So let's get started! Oh and these aren't in any specific order!

!!If you're easily spooked by spooky pictures, I would recommend to stop reading!!
I really don't want to make people lose sleep, since I know how much that sucks-- even just pictures can scare me a lot, and I'm probably not the only one

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Noroi (2005)

Noroi is a Japanese found footage horror film and probably my personal favorite from this list! It's incredibly interesting and scared the crap out of me....but in a cool way! I don't know I just love this movie and it has such an incredible atmosphere, even though the cgi in this movie is...well, interesting to say the least-- But it didn't bother me the least bit! It's also sort of an mockumentary (=fake documentary), but that aspect of it is not very visible most of the movie so I wouldn't count it as one. Anyway, I absolutely adore this movie and will recommend it to anyone who loves a good atmosphere and bone chilling movies! Oh I don't really want to write anything about the plot, since it's really hard to put it into couple of sentences, But it is a paranormal happening-kind of movie!

Personal scare rate (max 5): ☠☠☠☠

Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

This is one of the most disturbing and uneasy-feeling movies I've ever seen! Might be, because a gif of that pictures scene was the first thing to ever make me lose sleep-- or it might be because it actually is pretty damn disturbing. Poughkeepsie Tapes is a straight up mocumentary about a fictional serial killer, whose "home videos" are found. The mockumentary goes through the videos and interviews people associated with the investigations, and it really is very convincing every now and then! Poughkeepsie Tapes isn't scary like Noroi is, but instead more disturbing and interesting in a very captivating way! I would recommend this to anyone who likes to shock themselves (like me) and who likes found footage-movies or mockumentaries!

Personal scare rate: ☠☠☠

The Conspiracy (2012)

The Conspiracy is yet another mockumentary + found footage film like the last two, but it's not necessarily a horror movie. More like a thriller, but a very atmospheric and exciting (in a scary way) one! The Conspiracy is a mockumentary about two young men researching a conspiracy theory and it follows the whole research process. The movie is quite slow-building and like I said, not that scary but still worth a watch! In my opinion, just the final "revelation" of the movie makes it worth to watch-- This is a good horror movie to people who can't handle gore or paranormal things, but still enjoy a good, exciting and scary movie!

Personal scare rate: ☠

Sinister (2012)

Sinister is one of the more well-known ones on this list. But even though it's a mainstream movie, it's not any less scary than the rest of the movies on this list, quite the contrary actually. I personally really loved this movie, but I couldn't fully enjoy it because the "big reveal" was spoiled to me accidentally.. But I know that if that wouldn't have happened I would have been like !!!!!!! Anyway, it's a really good and scary movie about a familyman who finds strange video tapes on the attic of his new house. I would recommend this to anyone who likes scary, quite modernly classic horror films!

Personal scare rate: ☠☠☠

V/H/S (2012)

VHS is yet another found footage horror movie and....it's not exactly good, but scary as hell! Just don't touch the newer VHS movies--  They suck so bad. But this first movie in this series is actually pretty damn scary and overall a bit better than okay, but not good. VHS consists of a few shorter found footage films, and the plot outside those....doesn't matter at all, it's just there to create a reason to watch those shorter films. Anyway, I recommend this movie to anyone who likes genuinely scary movies and enjoy versatility, like I do!

Personal scare rate: ☠☠☠☠

Creep (2014)

One day I was just browsing Netflix with my dad, looking for a horror movie to watch and ran into Creep. So we decided to watch it despite of the bad ratings, and it was very surprisingly good! The film follows a young, freelancer cameraman in need of money who accepts a job to film a man's video to his unborn child. But as you may already guess, things really don't go that smoothly! Creep is also filmed in a found footage style, and isn't necessarily scary, but instead suspenseful. It also doesn't rely in gore or paranormal happenings, but instead is very realistic and that's what makes it scary! This is also good for people who don't handle horror or gore well! But what I love about this movie most, is that I've never seen anything like it!

Personal scare rate: ☠☠

The Tunnel (2011)

The Tunnel is an Australian found footage indie film (yet again) that follows a film crew's investigation of an abandoned subway tunnel, and damn does the movie do a good job of making that scary! The Tunnel is extremely suspenseful and off'-putting, and all in all a very scary and well made movie! I don't really know what else to say, just watch it if you're into genuinely scary found footage films! My friends found this scarier than Noroi, but I personally think Noroi is scarier.

Personal scare rate: ☠☠☠☠

Insidious (2010)

Insidious, like Sinister, is a regular mainstream horror movie, but a very good one in my opinion! The first time I watched it I thought it was one of the scariest horror films I've seen, but nowadays it has just stayed as a personal favorite. And that's why I'm recommending it to you! Just don't watch the second part... Insidious tells about a family who start to experience strange paranormal happenings in their house, but it really gets more interesting than that! Insidious is also good for people who enjoy basic, but good and scary horror movies!

Personal scare rate: ☠☠☠

Unfriended (2015)

Unfriended is the newest addition to this list and was a huge positive surprise to me! The film is completely filmed as a screen capture and that's something that has never done before. I didn't have any expectations for the scare factor of this movie, but it was extremely suspenseful and exciting! And the whole plot of it and the way it is filmed brings Unfriended closer to us normal, young people who use social media, than any horror movie before! And that's what makes it scary! Basically a friend who killed herself for the bullying he received over a viral video that was posted of her online, returns to haunt his friends through their computers. Sounds pretty silly and basic, but Unfriended was actually very good! I would recommend it to anyone who just enjoys a good horror film and wants to see something completely different!

Personal scare rate: ☠☠☠

And that's all for now! I wanted to include some of my favorite classic horror films too, but probably everyone has seen them-- So I'll just mention them here if someone hasn't seen them: Please watch The Shining (1980) and Silence of the Lambs (1991)! Really, if you haven't seen them you're really missing on some damn good movies and I command you to watch them right away! (╬ಠ益ಠ) They're not classics for nothing!

See you again soon!

(I own none of the pictures above!)

Beaucon Vibrant Match Blue and Revo Colour Yellow Eclipse Lens Review + Cosplay plans☆

Hello beautiful people!

Sorry for the lack of updates in a while.. I was waiting for some stuff to arrive for a new Ebay loot post, and then I got lazy-- But now I'm here with another circle lens review of two lenses I ordered from HoneyColor.com (they have a -50% promotion now!) for my next cosplays! So let's get down to business:

B E A U C O N  V I B R A N T  M A T C H  B L U E

Diameter: 14.0mm

Water content: 45%

Life span: 1 year

What I was looking for: Cute-looking, vibrant, sort of turquoise, dolly -but not too dolly- blue circle lens for my Rix (Show by Rock!!) cosplay. I don't think big 15mm circle lens suit me, so I wanted the diameter to be small, but not too small.

LENSES IN, ONE IN and NO LENS

Sorry for the low quality photo (though all my photos are low quality simce I'm too lazy to use my camera HEH). But I'm really pleased with the lenses! I didn't even check the diameter when ordering these, and only now while writing this post, realized that they're only 14mm! I usually go for 14,5mm or 14.8mm, and I just presumed these were 14.5 but for my surprise, I was wrong! So clearly the small diameter doesn't bother me, since these lenses look exactly how I wanted them to. Very vibrant and cute! I really have no complaints for these ones. I can't say anything about comfort yet, but they have a high percentage of water so I expect them to be more comfortable than lenses usually are! These don't really blend in with my natural eye color, but I don't mind that since the pupil hole is small enough not to let my eye color peek out!

E N L A R G E M E N T: ★★★☆☆

C O L O R: ★★★★★

B L E N D I N G: ★★★★☆

C O M F O R T  W H E N  P U T  I N: ★★★★★

R E V O  C O L O U R  Y E L L O W  E C L I P S E

Diameter: 14,5mm

Water content: 45%

Life span: 1 year

What I was looking for: Vibrant and opaque yellow lenses for my Yaiba (also from Show by Rock!!) cosplay. I really wanted to try out lenses that were made for costume use, because they are usually very vibrant and opaque, since yellow lenses with light eyes.....don't really work well together. So I wanted ones that would cover my natural eye completely. But since most lenses like that are made for halloween use (like these were), I didn't want them to look too creepy.

LENSES IN, ONE LENS and NO LENS

I'm still not entirely sure about these lenses, since I don't have my Yaiba wig or costume made yet so I can't see how they look with the cosplay on, but I imagine that these will work well! They are very vibrant and look a little creepy up close, but from a small distance these look amazing! And since yaiba has glasses, I think these will really pop out in a nice way. The right makeup will most likely make the lenses blend in better with the rest of my face and costume. So I'm pretty pleased, at least for now. One thing I don't like about these lenses is that when I wear them, I can see the yellow outline of the pupil hole quite well, and it tends to blur the edges of my vision a little bit. I'm not too fond of that, but anything for cosplay! These lenses are also pretty thick because of the opaqueness, so we'll see how comfortable these will be after a few hours. Good thing I always carry eyedrops when wearing circle lenses. Also the pupil hole is small enough to not let my natural color show, and that's good.

E N L A R G E M E N T: ★★★★☆

C O L O R: ★★★★★

(B L E N D I N G: ★★★★★)

C O M F O R T  W H E N  P U T  I N: ★★☆☆☆

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And then onto my cosplay plans (which I already mentioned) for Desucon Frostbite in January!

                                                                RIX from SHOW BY ROCK!!

I just looooove the SB69 game, and so does one of my best friends so we decided to do a pair cosplay of the cutest doggy girls Rix & Mix, since Rapezziauto is one of the best bands in the game (at least in my opinion) and the pajama outfits are so cute! I'll be cosplaying the older sister Rix and I just love the design, I will get to dye a wig for the first time, and make a cute ruffly outfit! I love cute and ruffly cosplays and would love to do them more, but I don't really like most girl characters (sounds horrible but it's true) and I don't like cosplaying characters I feel no connection to. But then Show by Rock and Rix came along and I just knew I wanted to cosplay this UR outfit! First I thought that none of friends would like to do Mix so I didn't even suggest it....until the mentioned friend mentioned that she wanted to cosplay Mix!! So naturally I volunteered to do Rix! I was so excited and I still am, since I adore Rapezziauto and the whole game!

                                                   

    YAIBA also from SHOW BY ROCK!!

......So two cosplays from the same series for the same convention? Why the heck not! Like I said, I adore the SB69 game and even though I've only watched a few episodes of the anime, I fell in love with the losers of Shingan CrimsonZ （*´▽｀*）and so did some of the group of my best friends! And now we have a full Shingan CrimsonZ cosplay group planned! I'm so glad to have a proper group cosplay with some of my best friends, since the Shingan CrimsonZ boys are such huge loser dorks AND I get to cosplay them with my dearest friends! What more could a cosplayer ask for? And we even decided the characters for everyone with ease, since everyone had the same clear idea of who should cosplay who. And the natural choice for me was Yaiba! which I didn't mind at all since I love him. I'm very excited, and a bit frightened also because 1) I will have to combine two different colored wigs into one, 2) Yaiba has ridiculous heels, and 3) I will have to side bind myself (๑⊙Д⊙) so we'll see how it works out... I'm thinking of doing a video of the making and styling of Yaibas wig, but we'll see! I  ordered the ears and tail from Taobao (since I'm a lazy bastard), and I can't wait to see how they'll look! Hopefully good.. There's many risks in this cosplay, even though it looks simple but I'm eager to challenge myself and learn new things!

And that's all! See you soon in the form of the ebay loot post (finally)!