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horror movie director: ok so it’s set in an old psychia–

me: ima stop u right there

there’s a thin line between valid criticism of the psychiatric system and taking advantage of mentally ill people because they’re soo ~scary~ and i’m afraid the majority of movie makers fail in that aspect

We reachin today huh folks

reachin for the destigmatization of mental illness and those suffering from it, yeah. every day, bro

I kinda feel there is a difference between an old psychiatric facility and an abandoned asylum (like ooolldd asylum). To me the asylum is a good horror movie setting (okay tropey as fuck so no but good in this context) because it isn’t a stigmatization against those suffering from mental illness but the shit ass treatment they genuinely received in these hellholes. Like these places irl are consistently reported to be haunted as fuck because the patients died because the staff were ducking torture murder doctors. And it’s generally evil staff members not the patients.

Versus an abanded psychiatric hospital from the past fifteen years where the horror movie is generally the patient was crazy and killed people.

But this is my opinion and I don’t even watch horror movies because yanno, they scary.

glad I found a reblog that put my thoughts into words. 9/10 horror movies involving asylums have nothing to do with demonizing patients, it’s almost always about the terrible things they went through.