StudChud
@StudChud@aussie.zone
Put a fork in me, I’m done.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 2 hours ago:
Happy Colour has been worth paying for no ads, if you’re looking for an alternative.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 4 hours ago:
I can’t roll my R’s either, unless I vibrate my soft palate - which I suspect isn’t how it’s actually done 😂
I did read “provolone” as “pro-vah-lone”. The em-FAR-sis on the wrong sil-LAH-bless
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 10 hours ago:
Okay, GP was absolutely lovely! She gave me a script for a medication to help me quit smoking, directed me to reduce my coffee intake and eat more (even just grazing) during the day, and if none of that helps then we’ll look at the anti-sad I’m on.
I think I just needed someone in that profession to tell me what I already knew, but I’m very happy that she offered the medication for quitting smoking. It’ll free up money for therapy. I’m self-aware but that doesn’t help if I don’t ask for it, so I’m definitely much more confident.
I’m tired but hopeful.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 14 hours ago:
Epitome. I used to pronounce it as epi-tome (epi like epi-pen, tome as in a book). I’d heard the word spoken, but thought that the spoken word was spelled “ipitomie” or “ipitomy”.
I was a young adult when I realised they are, in fact, the same word. It’s now my favourite haha
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 14 hours ago:
I have a GP appointment today and I’m not sure what to say. My anxiety is paralysing, and my depression is escalating, but I’ve used all my free psych appointments for the calendar year. I think I’m falling apart, but the rent and bills have gone up, so I really feel utterly stuck.
I suppose I’ll say that lol
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025 17 hours ago:
You should be getting down and making moves in the aisle to that absolute bop
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 12 October 2025 17 hours ago:
Shudder does have a 7 day free trial, hence why I’m going absolutely ham on watching all these films 😂
If you like a slow burn found footage, The Borderlands is on YT in its entirety (not on shudder in Aus yet). It’s one of my favourites. No gore, just a haunted church lol
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 12 October 2025 1 day ago:
I love all of those films!!
Se7en is my favourite from that list though, it’s just such a visceral experience!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 12 October 2025 1 day ago:
Kane Pixels - Creator of the original The Backrooms analog horror. His series The Oldest View is awesome, and currently has a new series that’s out on YT but not finished yet
This House Has People In It by Adult Swim
The Walten Files is an adult version of Five Nights at Freddy’s (which I hate lol, but love The Walten Files)
The Mandela Catalogue is great from a lore pov, the images are a bit overdone but that’s because every other mediocre analog horror series tends to take inspo from TMC with making human faces look stupid. I recommend this one though.
Angel Hare is amazing!
Gemini Home Entertainment is a 10/10 for me
Midwest Angelica is another 10/10 for me
Greylock is also fucking awesome
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 12 October 2025 1 day ago:
I LOVE LOCAL 58!!! Kris Straub is a fucking legend (also a part of Acquisitions Inc (a DnD campaign) and a comic artist!) and Vita Carnis is just -chefs kiss-
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 12 October 2025 1 day ago:
I wish they had the first and second V/H/S films on Shudder, but they do have all the others.
I’m also hanging on for the 30th of Oct because I binged all the Hell House LLC movies and the last one comes to Shudder on that date! I fucking love those films! I haven’t rated Hell House LLC yet but overall the 1st and 4th films are the most solid, with 2 and 3 being only slightly less good. I fucking LOVE found footage horror, and I think it’s why I ADORE analog horror so so much
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 12 October 2025 1 day ago:
More horror film reviews. Please note that all these films below feature ::: spoiler TW gore to varying degrees, and mental health issues and suicide (especially Fréwaka). :::
V/H/S/Beyond (2024) -4/5 Hobbits
I enjoyed this anthology film, all the segments as well as the framing wrap-around were very intriguing and engaging, except for one which didn’t fit at all with the theme of this being about aliens. Definitely worth a watch, especially for the segment called Stowaway, directed by Kate Flanagan and written by Mike Flanagan (actress and creator, respectively, of Haunting of Hill House, Haunting of Bly Manor, and The Fall of the House of Usher, which is probably why it’s my favourite segment lol)
V/H/S/Halloween (2025) - 1/5 Hobbits
Very meh for me such that I did not finish it. Perhaps this anthology hits harder for audiences that celebrate Halloween, but it felt very tropey and made me feel quite bored.
V/H/S/94 (2021) - 5/5 Hobbits
So far my favourite of the V/H/S anthology film series. Perfectly gory and disturbing, the wrap-around framing was very interesting, and each segment had me on the edge of my seat. This one is definitely not for people who are squeamish, the gore effects are very well done!
Fréwaka (2024) - 5/5 Hobbits
I thoroughly enjoyed this Irish folk horror. Exploring themes of paranoia, the Aos Sí, Magdalene Laundries, and familial ties. Blends the mythology of The Fair Folk expertly with the human emotions of grief and bargaining. No real jumpscares, I won’t go on so as to not spoil too much, but I definitely highly recommend this.
Death Valley (2021) - 2/5 Hobbits
Also meh but I finished this one, so it gets one more star than V/H/S/Halloween. Blending resident evil, Nephilim, zombies, and sci-fi, I would have had a better experience if it just picked a lane and leaned into it instead of trying to everything and making a mediocre film. Watch if you want something on in the background and don’t care about the stupid plot. I’m not sure how the film wanted me to feel about the antagonists - one moment it seemed I should me sympathetic, the next made them completely irredeemably evil, and then switches again and again. MEH
Belzebuth (2017) - 4.5/5 Hobbits
This is the opposite of Death Valley (2021) in that it does pick a lane (Catholicism and demons) and blends it well with a little bit of sci-fi. Great acting on Joaquín Cosíos part, and was pleasantly surprised to see an actor (Tate Ellington) I saw in The Endless (2017) as one of the protags. Well worth a watch if you’re into possession and demon horror. The ending felt like it would be right at home for Catholics who love religious horror (not sure what the overlap is for that haha). Note: this one does feature mass child murder (not actually shown on screen but is the main plot points).
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛵 Sunday 12 October 2025 1 day ago:
EYYYYYYY MACARENA
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 11 October 2025 2 days ago:
Oooooo yesss the water benders are my favourite in ATLA and Korra!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 11 October 2025 2 days ago:
Yes it’s this product …com.au/…/endwarts-freeze-pen-7-5g
It is an unpleasant experience, but my partner has a weaker stomach than I so I did it to myself lol
In 14 days I’ll know if it worked or not (one application and then leave it for 14 days)
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 11 October 2025 2 days ago:
Warts on my toes are returning, which would be whatever, but there is now a small one forming on my FUCKING FINGERTIP!! Like, excuse me? We could have lived in peace, but this strain of HPV has forced my hand.
I bought a nitrous oxide freeze device from the pharmacy. I’m going scorched earth on their asses.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 11 October 2025 2 days ago:
I call it “stripping”. I supposed “changed the bed sheets” works as well, but I use “strip/stripping” 99% of the time.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 11 October 2025 2 days ago:
Guten Morgen!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫘 Friday 10 October 2025 3 days ago:
I’m suddenly transported to 2009 where I would in fact post song lyrics without context 👀😂
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫘 Friday 10 October 2025 3 days ago:
I’m somewhat picky about what I watch - I don’t like anything that depicts SA or related issues for example.
If you’re interested in “watching” horror films without actually watching them, these are the channels I watch on YouTube (so you won’t see any gore due to YTs terms and conditions):
- Ryan Hollinger (horror film reviewer)
- Roanoke Gaming (he studied biology and discusses how horror film diseases could work irl)
- Foundflix (reviewer who basically gives a detailed rundown of the plot of horror films)
For games and movies:
- Mertkaykay (expect videos to be 1-2 hours long as she provides very detailed analyses)
- Earlybird (similar to Mertkaykay, but discussed predominantly unknown, retro, and Japanese horror games/films)
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫘 Friday 10 October 2025 3 days ago:
Could call your local council, they usually have an e-waste process. Call them to ask about a pillowed battery and if they accept it. If they don’t accept it, they might be able to advise how to dispose of it.
Anecdotally, I’ve heard Battery World accepts them, but again, I’d call ahead to confirm.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫘 Friday 10 October 2025 3 days ago:
Watched some more movies yesterday
The Superdeep (2020) - 3.5/5 Hobbits
A Russian sci-fi horror about a researcher and a group of soldiers investigating a disease outbreak at Kola Superdeep which, in universe, is the location of a secret Russian lab 12km underground. Suspend disbelief, it’s a fun ride! I thoroughly enjoyed the main protag being a very intelligent woman. She’s a badass. There were times where I was annoyed that they know there’s a disease, she’s an epidemiologist, but doesn’t mask up when she should. However, being very reminiscent of western sci-fi/horror films of the 2000s and 2010s, I just decided it was fun instead, in the same way I love The Core (2003).
The Endless (2017) - 4.5/5 Hobbits
A very interesting and engaging film about two brothers returning to the “doomsday” cult they escaped 10 years prior and realising that there maybe something more to it. Involving time-wimey weirdness, a very realistic portrayal of two brothers at odds with one another, and the past still lingering. No jumpscares, no gratuitous gore, yet it scared me. I was engaged with the mystery throughout.
The Cleansing Hour (2019) - 3/5 Hobbits
A group of people stage exorcisms to stream online (on a platform similar to Twitch I think). The “priest” is a phony, with his production crew staging all the effects. Takes a turn when they realise the fake exorcism isn’t actually faked. Touches on a bit of trauma regarding the main two protags, childhood friends, and their time at a Catholic school, but otherwise is just a fun take on exorcism movies, modernised with current day tech. It’s a bit predictable, I called out a few plot points only 15 minutes in, but a silly ride nonetheless.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Thursday 9 October 2025 4 days ago:
I watched another movie last night because I couldn’t sleep, called Shadow of God (2025).
It was really dumb. The concept was superficially interesting, but it felt like a neckbeard atheist wrote it trying to be all smart about a religion/s they have little understanding of.
Priest who does exorcisms (and demons are real in this universe) returns to his hometown and finds his long dead cult leader father alive. Plot moves and priest starts to think that maybe it isn’t a demon possessing his dad, but God himself.
It was poorly executed, it could have been smarter, or they could have leaned into more humour or silliness and made it a fun bad movie. But it was played too straight, and the lore didn’t make sense.
1.5/5 hobbits. Watch it if you are/were religious and want to get mad 😂
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Thursday 9 October 2025 4 days ago:
I’m still awake 😭
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Thursday 9 October 2025 4 days ago:
This is what I get for having a nap during the day 🤦♀️
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Wednesday 8 October 2025 5 days ago:
You won’t be disappointed, I won’t hype it too much but it was definitely a film that was made for the horror fan I am 😂
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Wednesday 8 October 2025 5 days ago:
Subbed to Shudder, because I want to watch the horror films that my fav YT channels analyse.
Just watched Late Night With The Devil (2023) and I was not disappointed at all!
The third act goes hard
5/5 hobbits for found footage horror fans
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Wednesday 8 October 2025 5 days ago:
Well western/European honeybees are kept for farming and pollination, but they do have feral hives in the bush. Hard to know if it was part of a commercial hive or feral, but I lean to feral.
While they do push out our native species, they also pollinate our native plants too, so it’s a grey area.
I try to avoid killing any bees, as a personal rule, because without them we’d all starve, and the global bee population is endangered
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Wednesday 8 October 2025 5 days ago:
It’s not a native bee - www.aussiebee.com.au/beesinyourarea.html
I think you’re right that it’s a western/European honeybee www.aussiebee.com.au/feral-bees.html
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Tuesday 7 October 2025 6 days ago:
Ooo beef or dairy boy? He’s adorable! 😍 Cows are just massive dogs 😭