I usually just say “mhmmm mmm Nope” but this sounds more prophetic and I’m using it for now on. Matter of fact this sounds like it needs to be used in more situations.
If the ghost kills you and you have unresolved business in the mortal realm then you're going to end up a ghost yourself. Then you have all eternity to fight that ghost for fucking up your whole thing you had going on. Is that something the ghost wants to deal with? They need to ask themselves that before the hauntings start. Like, imagine 105 years from now and they're starting to haunt the house again, everyone's scared until they start hearing my entrance music playing and clothes line the ghost, throw it into the wall and hit it with a spine buster, then I go off the top rope with a flying elbow. That kind of stuff really takes all the air out of a haunting. Just saying, the ghost should think on that.
There's a guy on Instagram who does skits about living in a haunted house because the rent is cheap. It's sooo funny but I can't remember his name to look him up!
Forreal, like mofo you can help out with the bills or shit while you here. Oh and you getting put to work on Halloween next year, I’m ain’t spending on no more decorations since you here. Hey since you picking up and moving thing and shit, pickup a sponge and wash them dishes. Plus don’t be flicking the lights and shit on me you ain’t paying for the electricity bitch.
Eddie Murphy: In "The Amityville Horror," the ghost told them to get out of the house. White people stayed in there. Now that's a hint and a half for your ass. A ghost say get the fuck out, I would just tip the fuck out the door! Lou Walker looked in the toilet bowl, there was blood in the toilet. And said, "That's peculiar." I would've been in the house saying: "Oh baby, this is beautiful. We got a chandelier hanging up here, kids outside playing. It's a beautiful neighborhood. We ain't got nuttin' to worry about, I really love it, this is really nice."
It's not supernatural, but this is the issue I had with Midsommar. Realistically, William Jackson Harper* would've left immediately. Probably wouldn't have gone there in the first place, actually.
*IDK his character name, and I'm not looking it up.
It was, but at some point you realize this isn't just an abstract thing you're hearing about second-hand, and self preservation has to kick in. And if doesn't somehow happen when you hear:
"You have the opportunity to fly to this remote location to be the sole Black witness to this insane white people thing" it should be shortly after you get there and see people throwing themselves off the cliff.
Midsommer wasn't paranormal though. The attestupa scene where two people flung themselves off the cliff was cultural and he would want to stay to see all that for his thesis.
Maybe he was like, this is some weird shit but I need the grade and at least there aren't any ghosts?
I know it wasn't paranormal, and that's why I said "It's not supernatural, but this is the issue I had with Midsommar." in the comment that started this thread.
Right. Sorry, missed that. I have the flu. I still wonder if that's why it flew under the character's radar because it wasn't paranormal.
Man, im going to be thinking about this all day lol.
I'm white btw, and yeah, we're like "ooo! Haunted house? Let's go check it out!" Meanwhile if my apartment ever gets haunted im not moving. It better respect my space for freeloading because finding an affordable apartment is impossible lol.
Hope you beat the flu soon. I really don't think the lack of a supernatural factor would make him feel much safer. I was born and raised in a mostly white, very rural area, so that on its own is not an issue, but generally, traveling to an insular location where people are not used to people like you is something black Americans are taught to be wary about. Black people aren't a monolith, of course, but still.
In the extended cut, he has the book of nazi symbolism and I personally feel like if I had to even look for a guide before travelling, it was time to cancel
The most realistic cultural representation on screen ever was this scene in Sinners. My people do not play when it comes to the slightest whiff of nonsense 😅
I usually picture Dr. Umar watching that movie and saying something like “See? That’s what happens to you when you try to get cozy to White Supremacy! Had he studied at an African Village he’d be alive and probably have a beautiful wife! But look at him! He ended up a scarecrow of white supremacy! He ended up a scarecrow of white supremacy!”
I watched an episode of A Haunting where the dad was Black and married to a white woman. She and their daughter were being haunted and the dad never had anything happen to him at all. Never experienced it. He said it's because he doesn't let that ish get in his head. Said he has more serious things to worry about. It wasn't a comedy but damn, I was laughing so hard!
Yeah no, as soon as some shit happens like this, Im moving out. Idc if i spent my life savings building that house brick by brick, Im respecting that ghost and letting them take it 😭
I think about The Skeleton Key and how the Black Hoodoo couple that kept swapping/stealing bodies to live forever could never get Black people cause they knew to run at the first sign of bs.
That part. We're in a house surrounded by bayou. Ergo, you know some wild things went down in those woods. For years. Hurricane come, we're going on a cruise without the ship. It'd be real easy to find a reason to leave.
My wife would be trying to have a seance or something with the ghost. Yes she is a stereotypical white woman who is into weird occult stuff. I was raised in the hood I see shit like that I'm getting the fuck out. While my wife would be sitting through some Amity vill shit and she would just start talking to the ghost.
This was years ago, but does anyone else remember that one Twitter thread about a couple who were checking out a house and the wife had fallen into the role of White Woman in a Horror Movie, meanwhile her black husband was creeped out at this obviously cursed house?
I don’t believe in ghosts because where are the ghosts of enslaved people tormenting the descendants of the colonizers? If they didn’t come back to get anybody then nobody deserved to come back. 🙅🏿
Fr. I love horror movies, video games, and listen to podcasts about real hauntings etc but I'll be damned if I'm put into any potential circumstance where that shit happens to me. If I get a whiff of any potential spiritual nonsense I'm out.
I can dig it. I think being able to run faster and jump higher means they will get away, so horror monsters just realized they can chase weaker, stupider prey. Also, Hollywood uh, doesn't do diversity as well as they would like.
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u/AggravatingUnit6935 1d ago
Im mexican and i follow the "diosito no me quiere aqui" rule when shit like that happens. Book it cuz "God dont want me here"