With the scene being described of the mom just letting her kids being harmed being described I kind of assumed the mother hated her children and was just as bad as the killer and was letting things play out the way they were so she could take advantage of it. I thought that was going to be the big twist at the end given how you were describing the plot. I'm honestly a bit let down cause that would have been pretty clever. But it does feel like the book is a mess.
if the author understood character writing they could've fleshed out the mother's sexualization to give that beginning a reason for it being there. Giving hints of her secretly enjoying it and even towards the end, they could've made it that the mother suggested to give the man head than being by force because she was that enticed by this situation. When the son kills the guy, she realizes that she's still stimulating and cries because this situation is over. If they wanted to add a twist, the son runs away to the gas station cause he manages to get his mom's phone that reveals that she orchestrated this situation to happen which is why she is still stimulating the guy.
@@mysteryyoshi4917 that’s actually a good idea, since it would fit w/ her character whilst providing us w/ more female main villains in horror stories in general, since the most popular ones do happen to usually be males unless it’s smth paranormal, also I’d add to that by going over the mom’s psychological background to explain that she’s a clinical psychopath who was sexually suppressed throughout most of her life up until part where she turns her house into a “fun house”, along w/ her being the one who secretly killed the kids’ father/her husband in fear of being exposed for the sorta person she truly is given that she had only played the part of a “loving mother” to them as an act up until the point of the story, as well as the reasoning for having her daughter killed (as he was supposed to pull the trigger on her no matter what she said) is cause she secretly didn’t like her as much as she liked her son due to her daughter reminding her the most of their father whom she secretly never really loved and only initially got w/ for sex and money, I’d also add to the elevation of the story via having it start out as some true crime police report that also included the son’s perspective as a testimony from the survivor of such a incident
@@mainmorphoI read it around Christmas last year, it was on Kindle for like $1.50 or something like that. Honestly, I’m past trying her out at this point, it feels so bad because she’s a trans woman and I’m a trans woman and I like extreme horror and she writes extreme horror, but I’m very picky with the writing style and hers is really bad, so I almost had a seizure trying to get through it.
I just realized that the reason why Aron and Judith's goreful storytelling, in this genre I never heard of called "Splatterpunk" and talk of horror shock value.. is that it sounds exactly like that one reading of Dipper Goes To Taco Bell fic. And Idk if I'm more astounded or horrified that people actual publish books like that, I was not prepared for today but I'm all for the ride lol
The author acting like she achieved some amazing feat by writing this garbage in 10 days reminds me of those musicians who act like they're prodigies for being able to "play" a piece really fast, while missing half the notes.
From some quick research, there were several renowned books written in a short amount of time, this is obviously not one of those. I,The Jury in 9 days. Clockwork Orange within two weeks and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in 2.5 days. R.L. Stine could produce a new Goosebumps book in two weeks. So quality can be produced in short time, but it has to be done by quality writers.
I think it's considered no harm towards children because the siblings are both adults in college. Not saying that makes it any better! I just think that's why it's considered no harm towards children
@@mousesnow3900 Yeah, by making the son/daughter young adults starting college drew a line where readers knew the story wouldn't cross. Seems like other than that it was 'anything goes' because damn, it went real hard into making everything disturbing.
“She’s justifying her actions in her head by saying that they’ll be let go in the end and we can all just go to therapy after this and get fixed.” …………… In the words of Timmy Turner, “No amount of therapy will ever make this okay.”
Some people need to understand that just because a choice was deliberate doesn't mean it's beyond criticism and something being intentionally bad doesn't magically make it good.
What I've gathered from this book so far based on your review: Wants to be like "The Hills Have Eyes" or "I Spit on Your Grave" turned up to 11 but fails. Instead, it succeeds in becoming what I think is "Scrotey McBoogerballs" from South Park.
LMAOO I LOVE UR HUMOUR AND WAY OF NARRATING SO MUCH! Your videos are very endearing and i love listening to them while painting my nails or doing whatever. Im glad i found this channel, I couldn't ever read these books on my own, not even bc of the gore but because they're so blatantly plain and bad, so ur brave for this 🙏
For the writer making the abuse survivor seem bad when they were abused, that actually does make sense. Writing can be a way to self process. To deal with your personal feelings and sometimes not in the best of ways. People are victim blamed all the time. It would not be hard to then internalize that mind set and then have that self blaming come out in your work. I can very much see that happen, especially when you decided to write the book in only 10 days. That gives you like NO TIME to think about your book and what your themes are actually saying. Deciding to rush this story just sounds like such a horrible idea. I think if they just sat on the idea and let it cook they could have realized the book in a way was self venting and then they could have gone back and reworked it. Now to be honest I have this point of view mostly because my old stories that I wrote were just me working through some stuff and I have come to not agree with any of it. If I had the chance to go back and edit my stuff I would. But ya, deciding to just put this out in 10 days was just a horrible idea.
the thing is jodi never blamed herself for what happened which is good cuz it wasn't her fault anyway. the horny talk then leading to the violent abuse happened as if it was two different books or unfinished ideas. the only way i could connect them myself was with punishment for being impure. jodi just didn't do anything like her fight or flight didn't kick in, her protective instincts were nonexistent which i found to be so ridiculously unrealistic. i heard from other people who have read her work before that she always picks characters who would logically fight tooth and nail to protect each other but the characters never do that. maybe it's the trauma. i also never really thought of jodi as a reflection of the author. if i would have to assume i guess i'd go with poppy since she dies and abuse takes a piece of you that you can never replace. but then i'm thinking maybe that's what poppy represents, the piece that jodi will never get back BUT THEN the book didn't treat her as such. poppy and ralph (poppy moreso than him) were treated as side characters that had no agency whatsoever. jodi was acting like they are replacable. i also haven't made up my mind on the villain being so one dimensional either bc on one hand i like that he was never humanized but on the other hand real life abusers are very rarely this cartoonishly evil in the way they act or interact with people so that also makes the story seem unrealistic. i'm confused and disappointed but like you said, it was a bad idea to put this out in such a short time and because of that reason alone i don't think judith sonnet knew what she was trying to say with this book herself either. it sort of reads like a mind vomit.
I'm genuinely deeply curious what parts made you feel like Jodi saw the kids as replaceable, because I felt this book was one of the first times I read an author in extreme horror addressing the trauma and loss of the character in real time in a way that felt relatable (disclaimer: have history of experiencing serious violence personally, ymmv, istg this is a good faith question). @@mainmorpho I also ask because I'm on the verge of quitting extreme horror and my standards might have just plummeted from reading a new extreme horror novel every day for 10 days now.
i didn't use replacable as in jodi could make more babies if they died. i used it as in the idolization and the adoration she got from them mattered to her more than their wellbeing. she talked about their shared love of cinema and how it's something they picked up from her more than she talked about who her kids really are. when she helps poppy undress and she pulls herself away from her touch because how dare you just go along with this without saying anything, i read jodi's reaction to that as she was scared of losing her status in her kids' eyes as the perfect mom. she can always find someone else, most likely her flings, to adore her and to put her on a pedestal bc her kids could never love her the same way after everything. it wasn't a physical replacement i was talking about it was more emotional.
I like hearing about these books cause its like morbid curiosity but with awful writing, not to be enjoyed for content but the mere stupidity of its presentation
The hell? I woke up to hear about some guy getting his Johnson's size roasted by an old woman, I'm awake now and wanna know what the hell I woke up to.
For well-written splatterpunk (or at least better than this), I recommend Gone to See the Riverman and Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana. I’m let down by a lot of extreme horror, but I found these two enjoyable
Gone to see the riverman was pretty well written, but, funnily enough, i didn't have enough gore and pulled too much attention to CSA than i wanted too. Like, i expected a slaughter house, but all i got was a documentary about a woman i wanted dead. I'd better recommend The Devine corpse. I liked the writing, but i really liked incorporation of queer history. I really suggest reading the Radio station chapter, its a great representation of history, of grief, and fear, and hope, and acceptance of your own fate
Fun fact: Judith Sonnet may or may not have harassed another splatterpunk/extreme horror author over Matt Shaw’s “Her Name Was Amber” (a poor knock-off of The Girl Next Door). Judith was on Team Matt.
matt shaw should've been aborted. his big ego can't handle criticism like he did that recently too but what's the story there? what happened cuz i've never heard that book also i'm not at all surprised with sonnet's behaviour. disappointed but not surprised
@@mainmorpho First off, this all came from Reddit’s DeppDelusion subreddit; The harassed individual’s username is u/nopedefnot. They’re also trans and called out Judith Sonnet for supporting Matt Shaw. Allegedly, Judith dragged them on Facebook and misgendered them. The book itself? Well, remember how Jack Ketchum was motivated to write The Girl Next Door because of his anger at Gertrude Bani-WhatsHerFace? That’s “Her Name Was Amber,” except it’s about Phil Spector Junior (Sorry; Johnny Depp) being driven to suicide by his horrible wife. Then a fan decides to exact revenge…
so he basically wrote a book about how he wants to torture amber heard..what a nice gentleman 😍 that dude is truly disturbed bc all of his books seem to be just violence against women and he then calls himself a feminist which is WILD. if judith really did what the reddit user is saying she did, which i believe ao cuz i don't see why she would be brought into this situation otherwise, then shame on her honestly. she has no grounds of protesting against being misgendered or being a victim of transphobia or sexism after that. extreme horror community has a very strange cult mentality
@@mainmorpho Love your videos. I was a fan of Bizarro fiction, and it seems that well is starting to dry up so Extreme Horror was recommended. I can't remember if it was this video or the one for The Slob (I watched them back to back) but I immediately recognized The Haunted Vagina when you described it. "Help! A Bear is Eating Me" may not be the best written book, but it is one of my favorites. I picked up The Slob about a year ago because I thought it would be similar to Bizarro. Was very disappointed by it and hated the ending. Along with The Slob, I also picked up a couple of Matt Shaw books. I should've read The Slob before buying multiple books in the genre. The description of the first book seemed to be pretty feminist in a time right after Roe V Wade was overturned, so I figured I'd just get a few. Now I'm sorry I had. Never read the book and never will. Unfortunately, it's too late to refund them. I did recently read an extreme horror book called "What Good Girls Do" by Jonathan Butcher. It wasn't the best book, but I at least found it interesting. As a warning, there's a LOT of SA, plus all your normal extreme horror TWs. If you ever read it, I'd be curious to hear your opinion of it.
@@DrNecrotech I think Jonathan Butcher wrote "Chocolateman" - the one about a shit demon. It's better than it sounds. One Goodreads review accurately described it as a perfect metaphor for alcohol or drug addiction. I'm glad I read it once, but my gag reflex will not stand up to a second time.
Matheo: pissing all by yourself handsome? Oh this is a whole production huh. I want to write so bad now haha, closest Ive gotten to horror was a fake out with shadow the hedgehog. This story really is a shallow mess coated in piss stains huh? Isolation is a fun trope in horror but this is just a bottle episode book where a lot happens all at once and it means nothing. The further I go into this video the more dull this book gets and the only saving grace is your commentary/summaries. Love your formatting, great to have in the background or when watching the screen actively!
I randomly found your videos today and I'm simply captivated! I really like your humor and you make very valid points when you give feedback, especially when you talk about how to write a character and make them intersting to readers. As a writer myself, I can only agree with you
i haven't read a lot of them. i've read 5 so far. the last one (Zola by D. E. McCluskey) i finished yesterday and it was going good. the first half was very well written and it gave me hope that there's actually amazing stuff in this subgenre you just gotta get lucky. but then the last half kinda tanked in terms of writing and falling back to cliches. it felt like author suddenly decided their book wasn't gorey enough and started ticking imaginary boxes off. so honestly no, not yet. there's still a lot of authors i wanna try though so maybe one day i'll find a book like that 🥲🤞
The Summer I Died was pretty well written while also being incredibly gory and horrifying. The first 1/3 of the book is basically just build-up to the horror, which really makes you feel for the characters.
@@mainmorphoI read Zola too and had the exact same reaction. The beginning was so promising but as soon as the Mom decided to feed her husband's rotting corpse to her son I was like 😑 it's not even just the fact that it's cannibalism it literally came out of nowhere. Then it just time skips like 20 years and it completely fucks up the pacing. Such a disappointing read
not the chocolate cake gif 😭😭😭 i started watching your vids today and i already spent multiple hours listening to the (very weird) but good videos, thank you for everything 🤎
I read this book after seeing hype on TikTok. I wanted to support a trans woman author in the extreme horror genre, but I was so let down by the story. The twins are not characters, their close relationship with each other and their mom are never shown, so you never really care what happens to them. And the characters go along with the man for so long that it feels unrealistic, they take so long to actually fight back. And the long detail of the protagonist’s sexual exploits feel so superfluous?? The premise sounds amazing, but the actual plot, charactetization, and writing itself is so dull. It makes sense considering Judith bragged about writing, “editing,” and publishing this in ten days.
It’s a nice idea to support this kind of author, but the reality is that their creative output is just misogynistic and seems deeply informed by pornography. It’s unclear how much this seeps into their worldview, and I would want their hard-drive checked before buying another one of their books.
Awesome! Been looking forward to this one! Part of me wants to see you do one of these styles of videos with “Things have gotten worse since last we spoke” its short and kinda still fits in to splatterpunk
Omg I got to finish! And.. Oh my. This really WAS like another round of Aaron. Your humor was stronger than ever here, and it was excellent. I was entertained with full attention to you easily. The visuals in this video were hilarious, and something that I appreciate about your videos so much is that you still give the subject matter itself full respect, and you only aim your humor towards how it is handled by the writer. Judith’s writing here is incredibly disappointing, especially knowing her background. It’s just truly bizarre, especially when it’s written as if nothing even happened. You are completely correct about them not acting like a family, let alone survivors of such abuse. The fact that the mother’s head went to the “girls’ time” that she’d miss with her.. daughter? Right after her tragic death and torture of her and her other child? So much to question here in so little time. And I’m glad that you brought up how people will excuse shitty writing due to it being transgressive media.. Like, okay..? I don’t even know why that’s a mindset. And you exactly put my thoughts into words when you brought up the point that if someone is going this far, how could it still be extremely boring and lifeless? Are we not here to be entertained? We didn’t ask for a moral of the story here, we knew what we came for. Another enjoyable review from you, Morpho! Can’t wait to see the next. -Jared Cox
i feel like i have a hard time seeing the appeal of splatter/splatterpunk as a genre because shit escalates so quick in these stories that there's no time to even give a shit about any of the characters before it becomes just a shockfest. the only thing that ends up feeling intentional and thought out is the graphicness of the content, and without anything else to care about in the story, it just ends up feeling juvenile and edgy for the sake of being edgy. i have no problem with graphic content and i don't even necessarily think it needs to have some kind of serious message or deeper meaning to justify it (see: the anime baccano, which has quite a bit of gratuitous violence and bloodshed but instead of taking that violence seriously it makes it really fun, and pulls it off spectacularly) but it has to have other compelling things that make the graphic content worthwhile. when it's something like this where there's nothing remotely interesting aside from the edgelord shock content, it's just annoying and stupid. coming up with a bunch of horrific shit in sequence and writing it down is easy. making that shocking content engaging to read is a whole other story.
Also describing random violence in detail is not shocking. Providing just enough detail for the reader to have to read it over again to make sure they read what they thought they did and then being horrified to realise they did is the most fun I've ever had.
Exactly! I always find it so much more disturbing when it's not said outright, and the reader comes to the realization themselves. The horrifying violence is still there, but it's left up to the reader's imagination
The sad part is the atrocities that happen to women in real life is more than enough to be considered gore. Why do authors always feel like they have pile on the torture to make a story “over the top”?
Darker topics can be done, but if they're treated with respect. Some things are better left implied or up to the reader's imagination which makes it scarier to me.
I found your channel yesterday and already watched 3 out of 4 of your videos and will be watching the 4th today. These are great breakdowns of these books and your delivery style is great. Keep it up! 😊
I read playground one month ago..this was my introduction to splatterpunk genre.. I have had always mostly read horror lit but had no idea this genre existed. And then got recommended your video essay on it..have been your fan since then ABSOLUTELY LOVE your commentary and sarcasm 😩🤌✨
Watched all the videos on your channel and love them all. I have read all books except this one but just wanted to let you know I love your videos and hope you do many many more.
i recently got into splatterpunk, while reading this book I was expecting something like the siblings enjoying each other and that being the twist or something similar (since she spends so long talking about how close they are in a way not even the mom understands, how they don't date, etc), but it was just gross stuff for the sake of gross stuff and then bam it ended. Took me like 5 minutes to realize it wasn't a half deleted copy of the book
I think the worst thing about splatterpunk is that because the genre is based on extreme gore and violence, authors get misled to believe that the gore and hate makes up for lack of plot and creativity. “Because the book is short and gory, it will scare people!!” Like no…the scary part of horror is seeing yourself in characters and being like “oh shit, that could happen to me”. GET BETTER EXTREME HORROR/SPLATTERPUNK AUTHORS
I've listened to some of your splatterpunk books reviews before bed and had dreams so effed up and vile that I had to write them down in the morning just to cope with them.😵💫
"How are they gunna have pages and pages describing bodily fluids and still have their book come out dry" IT TOOK PHYSICAL EFFORT TO NOT START LOUDLY CACKLING
I came here for the graphic descriptions of books I'll never read, and I stayed for the thoughtful/witty banter of reading and analyzing these horrible books. I hope you find the strength to review more of these. You should also look into the Clown in a Cornfield series. I dont think they are supposed to be extreme, but i wonder if they are any good.
i feel like this author has a very pornified view of motherhood, mother-daughter relationships, and sibling relationships. a few fucked up, violent pornified view. she seems incredibly misogynistic… wow. i have no issue with books dealing with dark themes. i have no issue with books dealing with social issues like misogyny. i do have an issue with the gratuitous pornification of it. there is no point in including it if there is no meaningful commentary included. splatterpunk was originally a “fuck you” to the censors. it was disgusting, graphic, and sometimes misogynistic, but it was that way for a reason, albeit a controversial one. censorship laws are far less strict now. you can’t just produce slop and act like you’re sticking it to the man.
Apparently she sided with Matt Shaw when he wrote a revenge fantasy abkut... Amber Heard. No joke. It was just a fan abusing Amber over the allegations to "show her what it really means to be in fear of her life" Oh and also Johnny is dead. He dies and that starts the story. A fan gets mad because he khms after the allegations.
To me it feels like the author had an idea and just wrote it without giving it enough thought. Even presenting your book as something filthy and nihilistic doesn’t exclude it from needing attention to iron things out. At the very least the characters your readers are spending the most time with have to be likable. Not good people, necessarily, but likable enough to want to invest time in their journey. Not that there is one, in the end it’s just visceral torture porn.
Ooohh I would love if you reviewed a book from colleen roover… especially the November 9th ( I think that’s the name…) it’s really bad Love your videos! ❤
Just now acknowledging videos about Splatterpunk. I think this is a good way to prepare myself for actually good horror novels whenever I actually get into it, no?
This could have been much cooler (at least to me, I like gore) if the woman had been trying to think her way out and there had been some hint of a reason as to why the hijacker was doing this other than "so violent things can happen". Some kind of dialogue back-and-forth between the hijacker and the family, perhaps? The webcomic "Jack" isn't marvellous in general but it definitely got this right - it had an arc of a woman having her car hijacked by a guy who had violent designs on her, the villain monologued a bit so we knew how he got to that point (he was the protege of another serial killer who trained people to enact copycat crimes so that if he got caught they'd think they had the wrong guy), and the woman figured out a way to attempt escape which didn't work as planned but was a really good try (she sped up and told him to throw the gun out the window and she'd let him get out, but if he tried to hurt her she'd intentionally crash the car and kill them both). *Ideally*, the guy should have some motivation besides "do violence" and there should be sufficient characterisation that we might worry that the victim is slipping in sanity and hint at them becoming like the killer, and the climax involves them facing the choice between good and evil. Otherwise you just have someone stabbing a crash test dummy.
Like I said. I found Playground pretty interesting and disturbing but this book and The Slob are just uninteresting edge and it doesn't feel like they are trying to be scary they just want to be disturbing but it's too over the top and try hard to even really be that disturbing. The Slob straight up felt like a Goosebumps book but with lots of gore and rape. it's just impossible to take any of it seriously. I also think one of the reasons I found Playground pretty engaging and disturbing is because not only is it kids being put into these horrifying situations but we are following them trying to escape and survive. and seeing of course little kids who are weak helpless and afraid have to get through what is basically a SAW movie is creepy but interesting since I wanted to see the kids survive and get out. NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE and The Slob are just boring because it feels like there's no real chance of survival and there's no teamwork or goal it's just someone is torturing these people and we get to read along. I guess I just find the SAW or Squid Game like game of death scenarios a lot more interesting A disturbing series that uses lots of gore and dark themes that I like is an analog horror series called The Painter by Urbanspook on youtube. The writing and story is disturbing and very gory but I feel like there's a lot of things that are left up to the viewers since it's all showing crime scenes long after the fact and you kind of piece together what happened to the victims and picturing what happened to the victims in your own head is disturbing. NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE on the other hand is too in your face and detailed to actually be disturbing
OH I AGREE BIG TIME. playground is definitely the most polished extreme horror book i've read so far even though it has a lot of issues. these books are written to be disturbing but i think the authors think just having descriptions of torture is enough to get the job done which is completely wrong. i'm also intrigued by the series you mentioned so i'm gonna check that out
honestly the only one i've read and loved so far is fluids by may leitz so if u can get it and are okay with the content warnings i'd say give it a read
What’s cracalackin’ (my life) you’re by far the funniest person when it comes to literature. I would go more into detail but I’ve already been fired. They haven’t changed the password though so I’m somehow fine. 😁😁
Ms. Sonnet, Chuck Tingle writes his erotica books in three or four days. Are they objectively good? Not really. Are they actually genuinely fun and funny to read? Yes. Flash fiction is not to be applauded for merely existing, there's got to be something there for people to pat you on the back.
Ok but you giving Colleen Hoover a second chance after reading this it's lit me with Eric LaRocca after reading the works of extreme horror authors. Anyway, I was planning on buying Summer never ends by Judith Sonet but after watching your video I don't think I will because if this is how she writes (simple, no substance, total unawareness) then that other book is going to be a dissapointment as well. Oh, also, it shouldn't be funny or surprising but misogyny runs rampant in this subgenere, I swear it's like obligatory or smth, and I'm not even talking about the themes of abuse but of the way you can tell when the author is projecting their own issues into the story to the point their own characters suddenly seem OoC between one paragraph and the other lol
honestly idk why i assumed books with gore would treat women differently than movies with gore 🤡 at least i expected better from judith sonnet. beauregard is a straight guy who writes body horror no wonder he's misogynistic at least in his writing but a lesbian woman?? come on like how are you gonna be a woman and love women but be misogynistic it's so disappointing. when i read the afterword and saw her calling aron beauregard an inspiration it like gave me whiplash 🥲
@@mainmorphothe main problem with splatter is that for basically most people, SA (specially women's) is just a winning move to make the story extreme without really giving much effort, so they just do, even if there area many ways in how to make a extremely twisted story, but you gotta use your big brain for reals
I'm late but thank you for once again making more content based off these books. Honestly I've never heard of these books before and I'm surprised anyone could read them with a straight face. But anyway. I hope your channel becomes bigger and bigger with the more content you produce later on in the future.
the authors of the books you cover definitely cover their works as "slashers" but in reality, they0re just their paraphilias and fetishes in a non-convincing way.
I’ve (badly) written similarly over the top degenerate filth before under the pretense of writing an actual story. Then I realized how much fun I was having with the pornographic bits and carried on with this as my primary focus. It’s like OP doesn’t know if they want for this to be erotica or an actual “thriller”
Welp my favorite book is American Psycho so I thought i could handle anything. I was interested by the synopsis I read but I'm definitely going to skip this one. Thanks for the warning.
im glad i found your channel 💕while i find extreme horror interesting i always find it weird when people look past the excessive sa scenes and praise the story and authors. watching your vids critiquing these extreme horror "favorites" is sooooo satisfying to me. also, maybe ill find a extreme horror book that has something to say through your sacrifices 🙏
I've read a few books by Sonnet and honestly couldn't vibe with any of them. I'm into pretty edgy entertainment but the splatterpunk as a genre has yet to do it for me. So much of it is mediocrely written and tries waaaay too hard to shock ~the normies~ without having any substance. It makes Hogg look like Blood Meridian. I'm not joking when I say that I've read more impactful, fucked-up stories written by 19-year-old fanfic authors.
i LIKE extreme horror and splatter punk book but like i want it to actually have substance like you can't just write 150 pages of torture porn and call it a finish book you need a story somewhere in there
With the scene being described of the mom just letting her kids being harmed being described I kind of assumed the mother hated her children and was just as bad as the killer and was letting things play out the way they were so she could take advantage of it. I thought that was going to be the big twist at the end given how you were describing the plot. I'm honestly a bit let down cause that would have been pretty clever. But it does feel like the book is a mess.
if the author understood character writing they could've fleshed out the mother's sexualization to give that beginning a reason for it being there. Giving hints of her secretly enjoying it and even towards the end, they could've made it that the mother suggested to give the man head than being by force because she was that enticed by this situation. When the son kills the guy, she realizes that she's still stimulating and cries because this situation is over.
If they wanted to add a twist, the son runs away to the gas station cause he manages to get his mom's phone that reveals that she orchestrated this situation to happen which is why she is still stimulating the guy.
@@mysteryyoshi4917 that’s actually a good idea, since it would fit w/ her character whilst providing us w/ more female main villains in horror stories in general, since the most popular ones do happen to usually be males unless it’s smth paranormal, also I’d add to that by going over the mom’s psychological background to explain that she’s a clinical psychopath who was sexually suppressed throughout most of her life up until part where she turns her house into a “fun house”, along w/ her being the one who secretly killed the kids’ father/her husband in fear of being exposed for the sorta person she truly is
given that she had only played the part of a “loving mother” to them as an act up until the point of the story, as well as the reasoning for having her daughter killed (as he was supposed to pull the trigger on her no matter what she said) is cause she secretly didn’t like her as much as she liked her son due to her daughter reminding her the most of their father whom she secretly never really loved and only initially got w/ for sex and money, I’d also add to the elevation of the story via having it start out as some true crime police report that also included the son’s perspective as a testimony from the survivor of such a incident
The granny teleporting bead trick does sound pretty impressive. So much organs, bones, and muscles are in the way.
she was old af most of her organs were probably like deflated baloons
not enough t-rexes in splatterpunk, i'm now desperate to read splatter-saurus even if this one wasn't great.
i agree but bad news..i think the book is not in print anymore 🥲 i can't find any kindle or ebook links or anything either
@@mainmorphoI read it around Christmas last year, it was on Kindle for like $1.50 or something like that. Honestly, I’m past trying her out at this point, it feels so bad because she’s a trans woman and I’m a trans woman and I like extreme horror and she writes extreme horror, but I’m very picky with the writing style and hers is really bad, so I almost had a seizure trying to get through it.
@@eileenscat which good books about extreme horror would you recomend instead?
I love that you were sensitive to the author’s situation while still keeping your humour while critiquing the book. Love to see it
I just realized that the reason why Aron and Judith's goreful storytelling, in this genre I never heard of called "Splatterpunk" and talk of horror shock value.. is that it sounds exactly like that one reading of Dipper Goes To Taco Bell fic. And Idk if I'm more astounded or horrified that people actual publish books like that, I was not prepared for today but I'm all for the ride lol
The author acting like she achieved some amazing feat by writing this garbage in 10 days reminds me of those musicians who act like they're prodigies for being able to "play" a piece really fast, while missing half the notes.
From some quick research, there were several renowned books written in a short amount of time, this is obviously not one of those. I,The Jury in 9 days. Clockwork Orange within two weeks and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in 2.5 days. R.L. Stine could produce a new Goosebumps book in two weeks. So quality can be produced in short time, but it has to be done by quality writers.
@@Yayofangamer16no
@@Yayofangamer16who?
I just realized...
I listen to these videos like a "basic white girl" who listens to true crime podcasts. THIS IS MY TRUE CRIME PODCAST.
Better this than actual true crime
@@ladystarfire reall
i prefer this over true crime any day
it says no animal or child harm.....a serial killer forcing two siblings to SA each other and then murdering the sister...isn't child-harm?
I think it's considered no harm towards children because the siblings are both adults in college. Not saying that makes it any better! I just think that's why it's considered no harm towards children
@@Yayofangamer16 Dude that’s transphobic.
@@mousesnow3900 Yeah, by making the son/daughter young adults starting college drew a line where readers knew the story wouldn't cross. Seems like other than that it was 'anything goes' because damn, it went real hard into making everything disturbing.
“She’s justifying her actions in her head by saying that they’ll be let go in the end and we can all just go to therapy after this and get fixed.”
…………… In the words of Timmy Turner, “No amount of therapy will ever make this okay.”
Some people need to understand that just because a choice was deliberate doesn't mean it's beyond criticism and something being intentionally bad doesn't magically make it good.
What I've gathered from this book so far based on your review: Wants to be like "The Hills Have Eyes" or "I Spit on Your Grave" turned up to 11 but fails. Instead, it succeeds in becoming what I think is "Scrotey McBoogerballs" from South Park.
LMAOO I LOVE UR HUMOUR AND WAY OF NARRATING SO MUCH! Your videos are very endearing and i love listening to them while painting my nails or doing whatever. Im glad i found this channel, I couldn't ever read these books on my own, not even bc of the gore but because they're so blatantly plain and bad, so ur brave for this 🙏
For the writer making the abuse survivor seem bad when they were abused, that actually does make sense. Writing can be a way to self process. To deal with your personal feelings and sometimes not in the best of ways. People are victim blamed all the time. It would not be hard to then internalize that mind set and then have that self blaming come out in your work. I can very much see that happen, especially when you decided to write the book in only 10 days. That gives you like NO TIME to think about your book and what your themes are actually saying. Deciding to rush this story just sounds like such a horrible idea. I think if they just sat on the idea and let it cook they could have realized the book in a way was self venting and then they could have gone back and reworked it.
Now to be honest I have this point of view mostly because my old stories that I wrote were just me working through some stuff and I have come to not agree with any of it. If I had the chance to go back and edit my stuff I would. But ya, deciding to just put this out in 10 days was just a horrible idea.
the thing is jodi never blamed herself for what happened which is good cuz it wasn't her fault anyway. the horny talk then leading to the violent abuse happened as if it was two different books or unfinished ideas. the only way i could connect them myself was with punishment for being impure. jodi just didn't do anything like her fight or flight didn't kick in, her protective instincts were nonexistent which i found to be so ridiculously unrealistic. i heard from other people who have read her work before that she always picks characters who would logically fight tooth and nail to protect each other but the characters never do that. maybe it's the trauma. i also never really thought of jodi as a reflection of the author. if i would have to assume i guess i'd go with poppy since she dies and abuse takes a piece of you that you can never replace. but then i'm thinking maybe that's what poppy represents, the piece that jodi will never get back BUT THEN the book didn't treat her as such. poppy and ralph (poppy moreso than him) were treated as side characters that had no agency whatsoever. jodi was acting like they are replacable.
i also haven't made up my mind on the villain being so one dimensional either bc on one hand i like that he was never humanized but on the other hand real life abusers are very rarely this cartoonishly evil in the way they act or interact with people so that also makes the story seem unrealistic.
i'm confused and disappointed but like you said, it was a bad idea to put this out in such a short time and because of that reason alone i don't think judith sonnet knew what she was trying to say with this book herself either. it sort of reads like a mind vomit.
I'm genuinely deeply curious what parts made you feel like Jodi saw the kids as replaceable, because I felt this book was one of the first times I read an author in extreme horror addressing the trauma and loss of the character in real time in a way that felt relatable (disclaimer: have history of experiencing serious violence personally, ymmv, istg this is a good faith question). @@mainmorpho I also ask because I'm on the verge of quitting extreme horror and my standards might have just plummeted from reading a new extreme horror novel every day for 10 days now.
i didn't use replacable as in jodi could make more babies if they died. i used it as in the idolization and the adoration she got from them mattered to her more than their wellbeing. she talked about their shared love of cinema and how it's something they picked up from her more than she talked about who her kids really are. when she helps poppy undress and she pulls herself away from her touch because how dare you just go along with this without saying anything, i read jodi's reaction to that as she was scared of losing her status in her kids' eyes as the perfect mom. she can always find someone else, most likely her flings, to adore her and to put her on a pedestal bc her kids could never love her the same way after everything. it wasn't a physical replacement i was talking about it was more emotional.
That is actually such an insightful take I hadn't considered. Thank you so much for your thoughtful reply!
Personally I bragged before about writing a 5k words chapter in 3 days but I still waited 2-3 weeks to do final editing.
Man, i dont even find these books shocking anymore. They are just exhausting now.
yeaah if i don't read something good soon i'm gonna lose it
@@mainmorphohave you read Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren?
I like hearing about these books cause its like morbid curiosity but with awful writing, not to be enjoyed for content but the mere stupidity of its presentation
ngl the 2 teens never bullied the guy probably because both of them are too traumatized
The hell? I woke up to hear about some guy getting his Johnson's size roasted by an old woman, I'm awake now and wanna know what the hell I woke up to.
For well-written splatterpunk (or at least better than this), I recommend Gone to See the Riverman and Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana. I’m let down by a lot of extreme horror, but I found these two enjoyable
What about Martyrs? It was pretty interesting both story and concept.
Does Blood Meridian count as Splatterpunk?
@@isaacmayer-splain8974I don't know what the punk verdict on westerns is, but i assume not.
Gone to see the riverman was pretty well written, but, funnily enough, i didn't have enough gore and pulled too much attention to CSA than i wanted too. Like, i expected a slaughter house, but all i got was a documentary about a woman i wanted dead.
I'd better recommend The Devine corpse. I liked the writing, but i really liked incorporation of queer history. I really suggest reading the Radio station chapter, its a great representation of history, of grief, and fear, and hope, and acceptance of your own fate
Fun fact: Judith Sonnet may or may not have harassed another splatterpunk/extreme horror author over Matt Shaw’s “Her Name Was Amber” (a poor knock-off of The Girl Next Door). Judith was on Team Matt.
matt shaw should've been aborted. his big ego can't handle criticism like he did that recently too but what's the story there? what happened cuz i've never heard that book also i'm not at all surprised with sonnet's behaviour. disappointed but not surprised
@@mainmorpho First off, this all came from Reddit’s DeppDelusion subreddit; The harassed individual’s username is u/nopedefnot. They’re also trans and called out Judith Sonnet for supporting Matt Shaw. Allegedly, Judith dragged them on Facebook and misgendered them.
The book itself? Well, remember how Jack Ketchum was motivated to write The Girl Next Door because of his anger at Gertrude Bani-WhatsHerFace? That’s “Her Name Was Amber,” except it’s about Phil Spector Junior (Sorry; Johnny Depp) being driven to suicide by his horrible wife. Then a fan decides to exact revenge…
so he basically wrote a book about how he wants to torture amber heard..what a nice gentleman 😍 that dude is truly disturbed bc all of his books seem to be just violence against women and he then calls himself a feminist which is WILD. if judith really did what the reddit user is saying she did, which i believe ao cuz i don't see why she would be brought into this situation otherwise, then shame on her honestly. she has no grounds of protesting against being misgendered or being a victim of transphobia or sexism after that. extreme horror community has a very strange cult mentality
@@mainmorpho Love your videos. I was a fan of Bizarro fiction, and it seems that well is starting to dry up so Extreme Horror was recommended. I can't remember if it was this video or the one for The Slob (I watched them back to back) but I immediately recognized The Haunted Vagina when you described it. "Help! A Bear is Eating Me" may not be the best written book, but it is one of my favorites.
I picked up The Slob about a year ago because I thought it would be similar to Bizarro. Was very disappointed by it and hated the ending. Along with The Slob, I also picked up a couple of Matt Shaw books. I should've read The Slob before buying multiple books in the genre. The description of the first book seemed to be pretty feminist in a time right after Roe V Wade was overturned, so I figured I'd just get a few. Now I'm sorry I had. Never read the book and never will. Unfortunately, it's too late to refund them.
I did recently read an extreme horror book called "What Good Girls Do" by Jonathan Butcher. It wasn't the best book, but I at least found it interesting. As a warning, there's a LOT of SA, plus all your normal extreme horror TWs. If you ever read it, I'd be curious to hear your opinion of it.
@@DrNecrotech I think Jonathan Butcher wrote "Chocolateman" - the one about a shit demon. It's better than it sounds. One Goodreads review accurately described it as a perfect metaphor for alcohol or drug addiction. I'm glad I read it once, but my gag reflex will not stand up to a second time.
6:53-7:03 to be fair if I was in a car with a unstable pyschopath with a gun I would not risk joking around because I would fear getting shot.
Matheo: pissing all by yourself handsome?
Oh this is a whole production huh. I want to write so bad now haha, closest Ive gotten to horror was a fake out with shadow the hedgehog. This story really is a shallow mess coated in piss stains huh? Isolation is a fun trope in horror but this is just a bottle episode book where a lot happens all at once and it means nothing. The further I go into this video the more dull this book gets and the only saving grace is your commentary/summaries. Love your formatting, great to have in the background or when watching the screen actively!
I randomly found your videos today and I'm simply captivated! I really like your humor and you make very valid points when you give feedback, especially when you talk about how to write a character and make them intersting to readers. As a writer myself, I can only agree with you
"I challenged myself to write, edit and publish this in only 10 days"
well that explains a lot
i love your editing style! the memes make these extreme horror books much more tolerable to hear about x)
Have you come across any extreme horror books that strike a good balance between the graphic and well written? I’m curious now.
i haven't read a lot of them. i've read 5 so far. the last one (Zola by D. E. McCluskey) i finished yesterday and it was going good. the first half was very well written and it gave me hope that there's actually amazing stuff in this subgenre you just gotta get lucky. but then the last half kinda tanked in terms of writing and falling back to cliches. it felt like author suddenly decided their book wasn't gorey enough and started ticking imaginary boxes off. so honestly no, not yet. there's still a lot of authors i wanna try though so maybe one day i'll find a book like that 🥲🤞
The Summer I Died was pretty well written while also being incredibly gory and horrifying. The first 1/3 of the book is basically just build-up to the horror, which really makes you feel for the characters.
@@mainmorphoI read Zola too and had the exact same reaction. The beginning was so promising but as soon as the Mom decided to feed her husband's rotting corpse to her son I was like 😑 it's not even just the fact that it's cannibalism it literally came out of nowhere. Then it just time skips like 20 years and it completely fucks up the pacing. Such a disappointing read
not the chocolate cake gif 😭😭😭
i started watching your vids today and i already spent multiple hours listening to the (very weird) but good videos, thank you for everything 🤎
I read this book after seeing hype on TikTok. I wanted to support a trans woman author in the extreme horror genre, but I was so let down by the story. The twins are not characters, their close relationship with each other and their mom are never shown, so you never really care what happens to them. And the characters go along with the man for so long that it feels unrealistic, they take so long to actually fight back. And the long detail of the protagonist’s sexual exploits feel so superfluous??
The premise sounds amazing, but the actual plot, charactetization, and writing itself is so dull. It makes sense considering Judith bragged about writing, “editing,” and publishing this in ten days.
It’s a nice idea to support this kind of author, but the reality is that their creative output is just misogynistic and seems deeply informed by pornography. It’s unclear how much this seeps into their worldview, and I would want their hard-drive checked before buying another one of their books.
@@Yayofangamer16dog you've spammed this everywhere tf are you saying
Awesome! Been looking forward to this one! Part of me wants to see you do one of these styles of videos with “Things have gotten worse since last we spoke” its short and kinda still fits in to splatterpunk
seconded, i didn't really enjoy the story myself but i would enjoy seeing morpho commentate on it
@@sIimepuppy i wasnt neccesarily a major fan of it but in terms of where the story was going i did not expect that being the outcome
read that one last year and didn't really like it but since you guys want it i'll squeeze it in i still have the book
Thank you so much for reviewing this, nobody else will describe this fricking thing and I really didn't want to read this myself lmao
love your humor and the way you narrate things! great video 💜
This channel is becoming my favorite channel
Omg I got to finish!
And..
Oh my. This really WAS like another round of Aaron.
Your humor was stronger than ever here, and it was excellent. I was entertained with full attention to you easily. The visuals in this video were hilarious, and something that I appreciate about your videos so much is that you still give the subject matter itself full respect, and you only aim your humor towards how it is handled by the writer.
Judith’s writing here is incredibly disappointing, especially knowing her background. It’s just truly bizarre, especially when it’s written as if nothing even happened. You are completely correct about them not acting like a family, let alone survivors of such abuse. The fact that the mother’s head went to the “girls’ time” that she’d miss with her.. daughter? Right after her tragic death and torture of her and her other child? So much to question here in so little time. And I’m glad that you brought up how people will excuse shitty writing due to it being transgressive media.. Like, okay..? I don’t even know why that’s a mindset. And you exactly put my thoughts into words when you brought up the point that if someone is going this far, how could it still be extremely boring and lifeless? Are we not here to be entertained? We didn’t ask for a moral of the story here, we knew what we came for.
Another enjoyable review from you, Morpho! Can’t wait to see the next.
-Jared Cox
yay i'm glad you enjoyed it
Goddamn I love your videos. Your sense of humor is incredible, please keep them coming if you love doing it as much as we love them!!!
thank you for watching ♡
i feel like i have a hard time seeing the appeal of splatter/splatterpunk as a genre because shit escalates so quick in these stories that there's no time to even give a shit about any of the characters before it becomes just a shockfest. the only thing that ends up feeling intentional and thought out is the graphicness of the content, and without anything else to care about in the story, it just ends up feeling juvenile and edgy for the sake of being edgy. i have no problem with graphic content and i don't even necessarily think it needs to have some kind of serious message or deeper meaning to justify it (see: the anime baccano, which has quite a bit of gratuitous violence and bloodshed but instead of taking that violence seriously it makes it really fun, and pulls it off spectacularly) but it has to have other compelling things that make the graphic content worthwhile. when it's something like this where there's nothing remotely interesting aside from the edgelord shock content, it's just annoying and stupid. coming up with a bunch of horrific shit in sequence and writing it down is easy. making that shocking content engaging to read is a whole other story.
Also describing random violence in detail is not shocking. Providing just enough detail for the reader to have to read it over again to make sure they read what they thought they did and then being horrified to realise they did is the most fun I've ever had.
Exactly! I always find it so much more disturbing when it's not said outright, and the reader comes to the realization themselves. The horrifying violence is still there, but it's left up to the reader's imagination
"I'm not a killer" says the dude we LITERALLY JUST SAW KILL A GUY. 😳
The sad part is the atrocities that happen to women in real life is more than enough to be considered gore. Why do authors always feel like they have pile on the torture to make a story “over the top”?
Darker topics can be done, but if they're treated with respect. Some things are better left implied or up to the reader's imagination which makes it scarier to me.
I found your channel yesterday and already watched 3 out of 4 of your videos and will be watching the 4th today. These are great breakdowns of these books and your delivery style is great. Keep it up! 😊
I read playground one month ago..this was my introduction to splatterpunk genre.. I have had always mostly read horror lit but had no idea this genre existed. And then got recommended your video essay on it..have been your fan since then ABSOLUTELY LOVE your commentary and sarcasm 😩🤌✨
thank you ❤️🔥
@@mainmorpho you're welcome 🤗
i was genuinely giggling throughout this whole video i love your humor so much it makes these stories so much more enjoyable
Would like thoughts on May Leitz's books. I only listened to the audiobook of the first one.
Your reviews are so funny the ending monoluge bro is hilarious. The echo man
Watched all the videos on your channel and love them all. I have read all books except this one but just wanted to let you know I love your videos and hope you do many many more.
THANK YOU SO MUCH I'M GLAD YOU ENJOYED THEM ♡
i recently got into splatterpunk, while reading this book I was expecting something like the siblings enjoying each other and that being the twist or something similar (since she spends so long talking about how close they are in a way not even the mom understands, how they don't date, etc), but it was just gross stuff for the sake of gross stuff and then bam it ended. Took me like 5 minutes to realize it wasn't a half deleted copy of the book
I think the worst thing about splatterpunk is that because the genre is based on extreme gore and violence, authors get misled to believe that the gore and hate makes up for lack of plot and creativity. “Because the book is short and gory, it will scare people!!” Like no…the scary part of horror is seeing yourself in characters and being like “oh shit, that could happen to me”. GET BETTER EXTREME HORROR/SPLATTERPUNK AUTHORS
I've listened to some of your splatterpunk books reviews before bed and had dreams so effed up and vile that I had to write them down in the morning just to cope with them.😵💫
"How are they gunna have pages and pages describing bodily fluids and still have their book come out dry" IT TOOK PHYSICAL EFFORT TO NOT START LOUDLY CACKLING
If one of us kills Aron Beauregard will you help hide the body then? 1:15
I can’t stop hearing the character select music for MVC2 because of the title of this book
Dingle dangle 😂
The first half of this book in the second half of this book seem like two different novels. Lol.
YOOO!! my favourite 12 year old posted!!!
Found this channel today and went through most of the horror videos you've done. Love the work and the random usage of memes 😂😂
I have never been more focused in my life watching this and studying humoral immunity
I came here for the graphic descriptions of books I'll never read, and I stayed for the thoughtful/witty banter of reading and analyzing these horrible books. I hope you find the strength to review more of these. You should also look into the Clown in a Cornfield series. I dont think they are supposed to be extreme, but i wonder if they are any good.
i feel like this author has a very pornified view of motherhood, mother-daughter relationships, and sibling relationships. a few fucked up, violent pornified view. she seems incredibly misogynistic… wow. i have no issue with books dealing with dark themes. i have no issue with books dealing with social issues like misogyny. i do have an issue with the gratuitous pornification of it. there is no point in including it if there is no meaningful commentary included. splatterpunk was originally a “fuck you” to the censors. it was disgusting, graphic, and sometimes misogynistic, but it was that way for a reason, albeit a controversial one. censorship laws are far less strict now. you can’t just produce slop and act like you’re sticking it to the man.
@@Yayofangamer16 Transwomen have a brain/mind closer to women then to a man, but you just love making every trans person into a creep hm?
Apparently she sided with Matt Shaw when he wrote a revenge fantasy abkut... Amber Heard. No joke. It was just a fan abusing Amber over the allegations to "show her what it really means to be in fear of her life"
Oh and also Johnny is dead. He dies and that starts the story. A fan gets mad because he khms after the allegations.
@@chocomelo454 so she’s just a violent misogynist. got it
I am so glad I stumbled upon this channel. You are hilarious and incredibly astute. Keep up the great work! 🙂❤️
To me it feels like the author had an idea and just wrote it without giving it enough thought. Even presenting your book as something filthy and nihilistic doesn’t exclude it from needing attention to iron things out.
At the very least the characters your readers are spending the most time with have to be likable. Not good people, necessarily, but likable enough to want to invest time in their journey. Not that there is one, in the end it’s just visceral torture porn.
listening to this as background sounds is a trip
I'd love to see you review some visual novels like slow damage or CLOCKUP's works.
i want to request the bighead by edward lee but i also don't want to ever put anyone through reading edward lee...
it's on my list but i feel like i'm gonna require a lonotomy after reading it
gotta rush home and listen!
lesgoo i hope you like it
@@mainmorpho you haven't let me down yet!
staaaahppp itttt
your euphemisms.... amazing lol
Ooohh I would love if you reviewed a book from colleen roover… especially the November 9th ( I think that’s the name…) it’s really bad
Love your videos! ❤
so now i don't have any help with the body, way to get my hopes up.
never trust a youtuber
Just now acknowledging videos about Splatterpunk. I think this is a good way to prepare myself for actually good horror novels whenever I actually get into it, no?
We are ESL kids, and she is reading to us.
1:56 LMAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOO
This could have been much cooler (at least to me, I like gore) if the woman had been trying to think her way out and there had been some hint of a reason as to why the hijacker was doing this other than "so violent things can happen". Some kind of dialogue back-and-forth between the hijacker and the family, perhaps? The webcomic "Jack" isn't marvellous in general but it definitely got this right - it had an arc of a woman having her car hijacked by a guy who had violent designs on her, the villain monologued a bit so we knew how he got to that point (he was the protege of another serial killer who trained people to enact copycat crimes so that if he got caught they'd think they had the wrong guy), and the woman figured out a way to attempt escape which didn't work as planned but was a really good try (she sped up and told him to throw the gun out the window and she'd let him get out, but if he tried to hurt her she'd intentionally crash the car and kill them both). *Ideally*, the guy should have some motivation besides "do violence" and there should be sufficient characterisation that we might worry that the victim is slipping in sanity and hint at them becoming like the killer, and the climax involves them facing the choice between good and evil. Otherwise you just have someone stabbing a crash test dummy.
Its like being pushed off a window but grabbing them too to pull them down
Its either
"Let me live, Or we both die."
Found this video searching for the song no one rides for free from half life, great video!
come on barbie let's go party
I read this one last week. I wont lie when the man took out sis and told brother to hop to it; I think that was it for me and the book.
The Rick images are sending me 😂
Ive had rhumatoid arthrtis since i was one. And i will forever refer to it as "arthri-titties" from now on
lesgooooooo
Like I said. I found Playground pretty interesting and disturbing but this book and The Slob are just uninteresting edge and it doesn't feel like they are trying to be scary they just want to be disturbing but it's too over the top and try hard to even really be that disturbing. The Slob straight up felt like a Goosebumps book but with lots of gore and rape. it's just impossible to take any of it seriously.
I also think one of the reasons I found Playground pretty engaging and disturbing is because not only is it kids being put into these horrifying situations but we are following them trying to escape and survive. and seeing of course little kids who are weak helpless and afraid have to get through what is basically a SAW movie is creepy but interesting since I wanted to see the kids survive and get out.
NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE and The Slob are just boring because it feels like there's no real chance of survival and there's no teamwork or goal it's just someone is torturing these people and we get to read along. I guess I just find the SAW or Squid Game like game of death scenarios a lot more interesting
A disturbing series that uses lots of gore and dark themes that I like is an analog horror series called The Painter by Urbanspook on youtube. The writing and story is disturbing and very gory but I feel like there's a lot of things that are left up to the viewers since it's all showing crime scenes long after the fact and you kind of piece together what happened to the victims and picturing what happened to the victims in your own head is disturbing.
NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE on the other hand is too in your face and detailed to actually be disturbing
OH I AGREE BIG TIME. playground is definitely the most polished extreme horror book i've read so far even though it has a lot of issues. these books are written to be disturbing but i think the authors think just having descriptions of torture is enough to get the job done which is completely wrong. i'm also intrigued by the series you mentioned so i'm gonna check that out
There has to be a splatter punk book that is actually written with character depth & great story telling, right?
honestly the only one i've read and loved so far is fluids by may leitz so if u can get it and are okay with the content warnings i'd say give it a read
Thanks bae, looking forward to your next vid
What’s cracalackin’ (my life) you’re by far the funniest person when it comes to literature. I would go more into detail but I’ve already been fired. They haven’t changed the password though so I’m somehow fine. 😁😁
I think you can tell a lot of things about these kinds of books based off how they end this ending definitely isn't the worst one I've seen
I hope people don't get this udea that disturbing books beed to be written like lolita or the necrophiliac in order to be good.
Thanks!
super thanks!
I haven't watched the full video yet but it's very fitting to use Rick and Morty characters when there's this much talk of piss in the book
You could drown r Kelly with the amount of piss talk on thos book
Is this the one where they mention Fluids?
Summer Never Ends is a good one by Judith in my opinion
Ms. Sonnet, Chuck Tingle writes his erotica books in three or four days. Are they objectively good? Not really. Are they actually genuinely fun and funny to read? Yes. Flash fiction is not to be applauded for merely existing, there's got to be something there for people to pat you on the back.
@@Yayofangamer16 I have no idea what that means.
@@ebagentjOutdated trans su*cide rate
@@Leftistmushroom I'm sure this was hilarious in your mind but I have no idea what you're talking about.
@@ebagentj The 52% thing the other guy said that's what it refers to
@@Leftistmushroom Oh, I didn't see that. Sorry, thanks.
Ok but you giving Colleen Hoover a second chance after reading this it's lit me with Eric LaRocca after reading the works of extreme horror authors. Anyway, I was planning on buying Summer never ends by Judith Sonet but after watching your video I don't think I will because if this is how she writes (simple, no substance, total unawareness) then that other book is going to be a dissapointment as well.
Oh, also, it shouldn't be funny or surprising but misogyny runs rampant in this subgenere, I swear it's like obligatory or smth, and I'm not even talking about the themes of abuse but of the way you can tell when the author is projecting their own issues into the story to the point their own characters suddenly seem OoC between one paragraph and the other lol
have you read May Leitz’s books? i found them to be quite enjoyable honestly
@@natalie_the_ratalie I haven't but I'd check her books out! Fluids seems very interesting, thx for the recommendation!
honestly idk why i assumed books with gore would treat women differently than movies with gore 🤡 at least i expected better from judith sonnet. beauregard is a straight guy who writes body horror no wonder he's misogynistic at least in his writing but a lesbian woman?? come on like how are you gonna be a woman and love women but be misogynistic it's so disappointing. when i read the afterword and saw her calling aron beauregard an inspiration it like gave me whiplash 🥲
@@mainmorphothe main problem with splatter is that for basically most people, SA (specially women's) is just a winning move to make the story extreme without really giving much effort, so they just do, even if there area many ways in how to make a extremely twisted story, but you gotta use your big brain for reals
By the way, how is the Rage book review video coming along?
Oh yes I love this Rick and Morty edit lol
I'm late but thank you for once again making more content based off these books. Honestly I've never heard of these books before and I'm surprised anyone could read them with a straight face. But anyway. I hope your channel becomes bigger and bigger with the more content you produce later on in the future.
the authors of the books you cover definitely cover their works as "slashers" but in reality, they0re just their paraphilias and fetishes in a non-convincing way.
I’ve (badly) written similarly over the top degenerate filth before under the pretense of writing an actual story. Then I realized how much fun I was having with the pornographic bits and carried on with this as my primary focus. It’s like OP doesn’t know if they want for this to be erotica or an actual “thriller”
ik this is so unrelated but are you going to review son of the slob?
i'm not sure some people want it so i might. do you want me to? 🤨
@@mainmorphoyes! And ty❤
Thank you for spoiling this book. I looked online for about 30minutes for someone to just tell me what happens so I didnt have to read it. ❤
Welp my favorite book is American Psycho so I thought i could handle anything. I was interested by the synopsis I read but I'm definitely going to skip this one. Thanks for the warning.
im glad i found your channel 💕while i find extreme horror interesting i always find it weird when people look past the excessive sa scenes and praise the story and authors. watching your vids critiquing these extreme horror "favorites" is sooooo satisfying to me. also, maybe ill find a extreme horror book that has something to say through your sacrifices 🙏
I've read a few books by Sonnet and honestly couldn't vibe with any of them. I'm into pretty edgy entertainment but the splatterpunk as a genre has yet to do it for me. So much of it is mediocrely written and tries waaaay too hard to shock ~the normies~ without having any substance. It makes Hogg look like Blood Meridian. I'm not joking when I say that I've read more impactful, fucked-up stories written by 19-year-old fanfic authors.
I pay extra attention to the memes to see if any are Brazillian
Theres many ways to write a story with the theme of "dont be promiscuous" and THIS is not one of those ways
i LIKE extreme horror and splatter punk book but like i want it to actually have substance like you can't just write 150 pages of torture porn and call it a finish book you need a story somewhere in there
7 minutes in, i love how so far there’s no plot and we’re talking about how much a woman loves pee.
I know somebody became transphobic after reading this
writing so bad I detransitioned and became a republican /j
@@Yayofangamer16 I'm sorry not everyone is a cis person, it's okay tho, you'll survive this
@@StriderStarfallNah fr 😭😭 Another thing to make us look bad
What does morphomorphs look like? My guess is she's either mexican/latina or filipino. Her voice is super pretty tho. I'm super curious
She sounds like my ex when she's speaking in English, her tone and everything, it worries me