- close-up shots of swarming insects in frame
- girls wearing capes
- women riding motorbikes + creepy atmosphere/ominous music
- witchcraft
- girls with their nymphomaniac ways
- girls walking through the woods to get to school
- spying through peepholes at their dream person
- cloistered life
- fictitious books, movies, tv shows ("seeker of the serpent's eye")
- abrasively creepy scores
- eeriness and gloom pervading
- chambermaid-centered stories, their private lives
- pastoral pretty villages + satanic rituals
- where everyone is attractive and creepy
- girls fixated by knives
- close-ups of shoes as a character walks
- lovers whispering “i could eat you up”
- creepy darkened libraries
- girls sleeping curled in/under huge trees, especially dying trees
- girls wandering the wildwood alone ♡
- unsimulated sex
- boys/girls engrossed by their books
- sleep lines in skin
- surrealism and dreamlike states
- little delicate relics being preserved in jars
- girls drawing their own anatomy
- take place in all-girl boarding school
- prolonged sexual tension
- girls in coffins
- non-linear story plot
- jean rollin's girls
- girls tasting the blood of a pricked finger
- obsessive girl relationships
- soft and delicate filters
- gas lights in horror films
- long, uncomfortable scenes with no dialogue
- long hair on girls
- fairytale gothic horror
- prosthetic limbs with secret compartments for hiding treasures
- whisperings that are not subtitled
- seeing a character's handwriting
- character's silhouetted figures
- braided crowns become messy through duration of film
- scenes taking place in record stores
- rapidly skimming a character's life in a montage ♡
- quiet walks up long staircases
- riding in very old and creaky elevator lifts
- the anxiety of showing someone's room for the first time
jul 9 2012 ∞
oct 8 2021 +