#giallo fever

[giallofever2]

From The Amityville Horror (1979)

#the amityville horror #amityville horror #international cult #giallofever #giallo fever #giallo #gialli #cinema cult #cult #horror film #80s horror #horrormovie #horror movies #horror #cinema horror #film horror #horror movie #film orrore

[popping-your-culture]

The latest blog post is up at the Wordpress site and it’s a lengthy tribute to Giallo Queen Edwige Fenech! Click here or below to read it. Here’s a small sampling of the images from the post:

#thigh high thursday #edwige fenech #giallo fever #giallo babe #italian giallo #legs and heels #legs for miles #lingerie #smoke show #lingerie babe #1970s #70s #70s movies #thirsty thursday #thursday motivation #blog post #writing

[bens-things]

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo (2016) dir. Calum Waddell

#Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo #Calum Waddell #movie night #spooktober

[brokehorrorfan]

Tenebrae will receive a standard 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray release on September 26 via Synapse Films. It lacks the third disc with the re-edited US cut of the film from last year’s limited edition.

Also known as Tenebre and Unsane, the 1982 Italian giallo is written and directed by Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red). Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Veronica Lario, John Steiner, and Giuliano Gemma star.

Tenebrae have been restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) with restored original DTS-HD MA lossless Italian and English 2.0 mono soundtracks.

A slipcover and reversible artwork are included. Both discs feature the same extras, which are detailed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians Alan Jones and Kim Newman

Audio commentary by Dario Argento expert Thomas Rostock

Audio commentary by Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento author Maitland McDonagh

Original Italian and English front and end titles and insert shots

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo - 2016 documentary on the giallo genre with filmmakers Dario Argento, Umberto Lenzi, Luigi Cozzi, Ruggero Deodato, and more

Voices of the Unsane - Interviews with writer/director Dario Argento, actors Daria Nicolodi and Eva Robins, cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, composer Claudio Simonetti, and assistant director Lamberto Bava

Interview with actor John Steiner

Interview with actress Daria Nicolodi

Interview with Dario Argento

Interview with composer Claudio Simonetti

Interview with Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento author Maitland McDonagh

Introduction by actress Daria Nicolodi

International theatrical trailer

Japanese theatrical trailer

Alternate opening credits sequence

Unsane end credits sequence

Image galleries

American mystery author Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) comes to Rome to promote his newest novel, Tenebrae. A razor-wielding psychopath is on the loose, taunting Neal and murdering those around him in gruesome fashion just like the character in his novel. As the mystery surrounding the killings spirals out of control, Neal investigates the crimes on his own, leading to a mind-bending, genre-twisting conclusion that will leave you breathless!

Pre-order Tenebrae.

#tenebrae #tenebre #dario argento #horror #italian horror #giallo #synapse films #dvd #gift #80s horror #1980s horror #john saxon #daria nicolodi #80s movies #1980s movies

[missholson]

Thank you @suchamiracle-does-exist, @electricnormanbates and @faisonsunreve for tagging me to list my 10 favourite movies! 💖 I had to give some thought on them. Here they are finally!

1. Red River (1948) A fresh Western ahead of its time with a young tender cowboy (sweet Montgomery Clift) in the lead, accompanied by one of the best supporting roles in cinema history (by John Ireland), and John Wayne unusually as the bad guy. The movie started my enthusiasm for old Westerns. 🤠

2. The Red Shoes (1948) I fell in love with the way how Powell & Pressburger tell the story between the lines and create their own distinctive atmosphere. Anton Walbrook’s performance blew my mind.

3. Magnum Force (1973) A whole new world of action movies opened up to me with the first Dirty Harry movie, and this sequel was pure diamond.

4. Call Me By Your Name (2017) A love story full of life and human feelings. Timothee Chalamet leads on the audience with his incredible performance.

5. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) One of my long time favourite movies that is simultaneously dark, funny, serious, and brilliant. I love the production design, the opening title sequence, and the soundtrack.

6. North by Northwest (1959) I wanted to include at least one Hitchcock movie and to my opinion this is one of his finest ones. Quoting my sister, this movie indeed made me also wonder “why on Earth haven’t I seen this before”!

7. Sebastiane (1976) A movie of men, made for men, with men acting in pieces of cloth and a pair of sandals. Has one of the greatest slow motion scenes ever. 🥵

8. La cage aux folles (1978) I love it how the movie is so honest and doesn’t apologize for being there. Great acting and incredibly funny. I love the texture of the film, the star fog effect, and the late 1970s style. My favourite soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

9. Tenebre (1982) I can still remember the moment, when I was lying in bed in fever, wanting to watch something new, rented this movie, and saw the iconic camera crane scene with another iconic music. That was definitely something new. The movie introduced me to the world of giallos.

10. Un couteau dans le cœur / Knife + Heart (2018) I had many alternatives for the last choice. This modern French version of old Italian giallos was love at first sight. I like the combination of unconventional characters (all lgbtq+) trying to solve a good old murder mystery. Beautiful cinematography and great soundtrack.

Tagging: @miss-indigodaisies @serenastella @dysfunctional-deity @unwillingadventurer and anyone who wishes to do it!

#tag post #10 favourite movies #personal #as you can see #my sister & i have a similar movie taste #shared memories #thank you #i really enjoyed doing this #own post

[lambychop]

It’s that time of year again besties!! In the spirit of the season, I present to you:

Athina’s Horror Masterlist

Slashers

The Halloween Franchise

The Friday the 13th Franchise

The Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise

The Scream Franchise

The Child’s Play Franchise

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

The Burning

Alice, Sweet Alice

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Slumber Party Massacre

Sleepaway Camp

You’re Next

Black Christmas

Prom Night

Happy Death Day

Maniac

Hatchet

Pieces

The Prowler

The Candyman Franchise

The Hellraiser Franchise

Psycho

Tourist Trap

When a Stranger Calls

Terror Train

The Last House on the Left

The Hills Have Eyes

The Stepfather (1987)

The House on Sorority Row

I Know What You Did Last Summer Franchise

Urban Legends

American Psycho

Rob Zombie’s Firefly Series

The Strangers

The Purge Franchise

Don’t Breathe

The Wrong Turn Franchise

There’s Someone Inside Your House

X

Haunt

Hell Fest

Terrified

Trick

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

31

Fear Street Series

Creature Features

A Quite Place I and II

The Thing

Underwater

The Descent

The Alien Franchise

The Predator Franchise

Jaws

47 Meters Down

Shark Night

Black Water

Rogue

Alligator

Anaconda

The Fly

C.H.U.D.

The Tremors Franchise

The Ruins

Castle Freak

Basket Case

Supernatural

The Conjuring Franchise

The Insidious Franchise

The Amityville Horror

The Poltergeist Franchise

Sinister

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Lights Out

The Exorcist

The Grudge

The Ring

The Evil Dead Series

The Night House

The Woman in Black

It Follows

Susperia

The Babadook

Hereditary

The Witch

The Changeling

1408

Dead Silence

It (Chapters 1 & 2)

The Shining

Doctor Sleep

Oculus

Crimson Peak

The Orphanage

The Empty Man

Thirteen Ghosts

Rosemary’s Baby

Carrie

The Skeleton Key

The Omen

Devil

Mama

The Rite

Sleepy Hollow

The Ritual

Pet Sematary

The Endless

The Dark and the Wicked

The Void

The Wretched

Eli

In the Tall Grass

Werewolves

An American Werewolf in London

The Howling

Howl

Ginger Snaps

The Wolf of Snow Hollow

Bad Moon

Wer

Dog Soldiers

Silver Bullet

The Cursed

Vampires

The Lost Boys

Fright Night

Salem’s Lot

30 Days of Night

Nosferatu

From Dusk Till Dawn

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Bran Stoker’s Dracula

I Am Legend

Zombies

Night of the Living Dead

Dawn of the Dead

Day of the Dead

Train to Busan

28 Days Later & 28 Weeks Later

Pontypool

Blood Quantum

Re-Animator

World War Z

Found Footage

Paranormal Activity Franchise

Grave Encounters

V/H/S Franchise

Host

As Above So Below

Hell House, LLC. Franchise

Creep

Spree

Dashcam

Gonjiam Haunted Asylum

Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web

The Blair With Project

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Devil’s Pass

Savageland

Apollo 18

The Mirror

Troll Hunter

Lake Mungo

REC / Quarantine

The Bay

The Conspiracy

Cloverfield

Cannibal Holocaust

The Last Exorcism

The Final Prayer (aka Borderlands)

The Tunnel

Willow Creek

The Visit

Ratter

Butterfly Kisses

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The Den

The Gallows

Psychological

Watcher

1 BR

What Keeps You Alive

Triangle

The Invitation

Super Dark Times

Men

The Rental

Last Night In Soho

Possessor

The Lodge

Midsommar

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Us

The Invisible Man

The Girl on the Third Floor

It Comes At Night

Split

The Silence of the Lambs

Jacob’s Ladder

The Lighthouse

The Wickerman

Orphan

The Others

Goodnight Mommy

The Killing of a Sacred Dear

Annihilation

Get Out

Session 9

Split

Eraserhead

The Color Out of Space

1922

Things Heard & Seen

Apostle

The Perfection

His House

Cadaver

Hush

Incident in a Ghostland

Coming Home in the Dark

Body Horror/ Gory

The Saw Franchise

The Hostel Franchise

The Green Inferno

Audition

The Collector and The Collection

The Final Destination Franchise

The Belko Experiment

Society

Tusk

Martyrs

Cabin Fever

Videodrome

Raw

The Girl Next Door

Giallo

Tenebrae

Deep Red

Torso

Phenomena

Orgasm I

The Black Belly of the Tarantula

The New York Ripper

StageFright

The Cat O’Nine Tails

Anthologies

Trick r’ Treat

Creepshow I and II

The Mortuary Collection

Body Bags

Cats Eye

Southbound

Family Friendly

Coraline

Paranorman

Corpse Bride

Beetlejuice

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Monster House

Frankenweenie

The Haunted Mansion

Gremlins

Ghostbusters

Little Shop of Horrors

Labyrinth

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Shows

American Horror Story

Creepshow the Series

Slasher

NOS4A2

Channel Zero

The Twilight Zone

Midnight Mass

The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Haunting of Hill House

Castle Rock

Archive 81

Penny Dreadful

Hemlock Grove

Bates Motel

The Devil in Ohio

I’m sure there’s a ton that I missed, so don’t be afraid to reblog and add to the list! Keep in mind that trigger warnings may apply to all of these movies, so feel free to reach out and ask about any in particular. I love to talk horror, so send me your thoughts, questions, etc about any horror stuff! Happy spooky season and stay safe!

#athina talks #horror #horror movies

[whumpfish]

I tell you what, it may surprise some of y'all to hear, but I grew up away from horror content. I had a vivid, visual imagination as a kid. I was at a sleepover when I was like 8 or some shit in the 90s and their mom had decided that Look Who's Talking was a great sleepover movie, and I had nightmares about childbirth for a week. At that point my mom decided no actually scary things for me. And one look at the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark illustrations told me she was probably right.

And boy did I miss out on a lot. All the classics of the 80s and 90s, Goosebumps, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Darren Shan's Demonata, Wes Craven's entire career... but I wasn't ready. So I stayed out of that space.

So I grew up a bit, and got really into Hitchcock - Strangers On A Train, North By Northwest - and having a feel for what I could handle at that point, kept going. We saved Psycho and The Birds for last. Again, good insight on my mom's part, I was not ready for those at the North By Northwest phase. Around this time, I'm also getting into The X-Files, which is kind of a baby's first horror thing. The episode Stephen King guest wrote still fucked me up the first time, though, so I hung back from what I judged to be the hard stuff at that point. I wasn't ready yet. So I stayed out of that space.

I suffered a minor setback when I had the bright idea to watch the network remake of The Shining with a fever of 105. I have never sleepwalked before or since, but I legit got up mid nightmare, still fully asleep, and ran away from the bathtub zombie (hilariously where I hid in my sleepwalking genius was... my bathroom). But by and by, I recovered from Bathtub Zombie Delirium, and started getting into more serious thrillers. And then I steeled myself and watched Se7en, and a new era began. I finally had confidence in my capacity to handle horror. I finally had an appetite for it.

I'm in college at this point, streaming is in its infancy, and FearNet is still a thing. I make a point to go through their whole monthly selection just to see if I can. I'm introduced to Dario Argento and fall in love, suffer through a minor Fulci and learn my lesson, discover indie works of genius like Hard Candy, hear soprano Sarah Brightman as never before in Repo!: The Genetic Opera, finally see Saw. And I say to myself, you know what, I love this shit, I want to keep going. I think I'm ready.

I go international. Junji Ito enters my life and my heart. I watch Ju-On and realize that weird clicky noise I would make when I was a kid just for the hell of it if I was alone and bored is actually kind of terrifying under the right circumstances. I see Eyes Without A Face. I dive into the world of giallo and B-grade Italian horror. Force myself to watch The Beyond and am the donest of dones with Lucio Fulci--then watch Don't Torture A Duckling and spend the rest of the week mad because it's so good and he just. Idk forgot how to movie when he started doing horror?

Giallo leads me down a rabbit hole to extreme cinema, of which I am now an avid devotee. Martyrs was a fucking religious experience. I still marvel at how Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion managed to package most of The Handmaid's Tale as a quartet of exploitation movies, and do a better and more visceral job (imho) than the latter. I could write essays on how Matsushiro transcends the woman's revenge trope. I could write a fucking thesis. Pieces of Found are still seared into my brain in a traumatic way--and pieces of Found are seared into my brain in a positive, visual and conceptual way. I'm still not entirely sure I was ready for Found, but I done did it anyway, and I think I'm the better for it. But had I discovered I wasn't ready, I would not have made it anybody else's problem.

There are things I know I'll never be ready for, like Men Behind the Sun. I couldn't take Schindler's List; no thank you, Unit 731. There are things I could probably take but have no interest in, Joe D'Amato on the lame end and Ruggero Deodato on the competent but way too questionable end. And you know what? I do and will continue to stay out of those spaces.

Everyone moves at their own pace, and that's fine. That's what makes us unique individuals. I was part of the R.L. Stine generation. Our parents were professional pearl-clutchers, from scary books and movies to the *gasp* violence of Mortal Kombat. I was the one kid who wasn't out there trying to see what my gross-out threshold was and then yeet myself over that line. And that's okay.

It was still there when I caught up. Even if I only decided today that I was ready, it would be there just as it was the day it entered the world.

If you’re not ready for something, that's fine. It's fine if you come to it late, or never get there at all... as long as you stay out of those spaces until you are ready, and quietly turn around if you make a miscalculation and see something you're not actually prepared for. You have to take responsibility for your own content consumption. People come together to share something they like because it touches a piece of them, because they find understanding in it just the way it is. It's not right or fair to bulldoze other people's spaces in the name of expanding your own.

It may sound harsh, but it's a fact. If you're out here writing a ton of aftermath sadporn but you can't write the Before half and need basic elements of what is supposed to have caused your perpetually pathetic "whumpee" to become a sad pile of jello tw tagged, especially something as foundational as #blood, you're not ready for whump. Stay in angst spaces a little longer. It's not a race. It's not a competition. And you're not actually entitled to every space in the known universe.

#your safe-spacery is bad and you should feel bad #you know what my safe space was? #whump #whump was my safe space #i am a responsible consumer of media and so can you

[grandhotelabyss]

Thank you, David! I do know what you mean—a particular quality of certain movies, where the film can seem somehow longer and bigger than its running time. (This is why exorbitantly long movies or prestige TV shows can seem an overly literal attempt at this effect, magnitude mistook for meaning.) As a caveat, there’s a lot of movies I haven’t seen, including Barry Lyndon and Tár, so I’m sure I’ve missed obvious examples. Excluding novel adaptations, which usually feel thin if you’ve read the novel anyway—if it’s a great novel, that is, and not, say, The Godfather or The Exorcist, schlock on the page but gold on film—my somewhat idiosyncratic candidates would include:

—Wings of Desire. Cinema as modernist city epic, complete with an epic bard and streams of consciousness, but not so literary—Peter Handke co-wrote the screenplay—as to neglect images, performances, and, above all, sounds. Mark Fisher called it “Epic Trite,” and Wim Wenders can be cloying in that way, but Wings, whose heroine is an acrobat, maintains the balance and remains aloft. 

—Nixon. Not only the biopic to end all biopics—and, I confess, exorbitantly long—but the closest I’ve seen cinema approximate the paranoid postmodern novelistic styles of DeLillo and especially Pynchon. Stone’s alienating Brecht-Godard stylistic kaleidoscope is grounded in Hopkins’s weighty Shakespearean performance, in the same way that Pynchon buries his authentic hippie romanticism (“They are in love. Fuck the war.”) inside a similarly contrived avant shell. 

—Daughters of the Dust. Just as Oliver Stone approaches Pynchon, so Julie Dash channels Morrison with an initially befuddling and then eventually immersive magical realist excavation of a Gullah family around the turn of the century. As in many great novels, each character embodies a distinct social role and worldview until the discordance of their clash rises to the concord of art.

—Code 46. An underrated science-fiction romance that is short on plot and long on tone, mood, and its own polyglot language. As with Daughters of the Dust, it takes a few minutes to adjust to the film’s particular universe, a quality of trust in audiences I find more common in fiction than in cinema—no doubt due to the vastly higher cost of the latter to produce. (Trigger warning for the instantly dated Coldplay song that plays over the final shots: Epic Trite indeed.)

—Suspiria. Guadagnino reimagines the giallo horror classic as less an aesthete’s fever dream than a grittier social and psychological canvas of the arts in postwar Europe. In common with the other movies on this little list, it’s not just a story or a collection of performances but a fully realized world unto itself, bounded as if between the covers of a book.

#cinema #film #movies #literature #wim wenders #peter handke #oliver stone #julie dash #michael winterbottom #luca guadagnino

[mattachinesocial]

Happy Anniversary to perhaps the most beautiful horror film of all time, 1977’s surrealist masterpiece Suspiria. A film about a German ballet academy run by a coven of witches and the young American girl Suzie Bannion (played by the underrated icon herself Jessica Harper (on a triple feature run of future cult favorites including Phantom of the Paradise and Shock Treatment!) . Co-written by Daria Nicolodi and directed by Dario Argento at the height of his powers the film is an alchemical mix of dream logic, theatrical artifice, bits of Italian giallo, and nightmarish witchcraft. It’s the kind of film that feels like a fever dream of sensory overload with it’s shockingly bold. super saturated colors, stunning production design, innovative and gruesome gore, and all propelled by the legendary score by Goblin that was probably in every dorm room and art studio I’ve ever been in. Not to mention fine AF young Udo Kier in a small role. It’s a peerless film. While the first of the trilogy of films on the “Three Mothers” neither of it’s two related “sequels” the mesmerizing if uneven Inferno (set in New York and boasting one hell of a submerged room set piece) not#r the much maligned and long delayed 2007 finale Mother of Tears come close to capturing the lighting in the bottle that was Suspiria. It’s the epitome of 1970’s arthouse horror. #suspiria #darioargento #threemothers #inferno #motheroftears #jessicaharper (at Los Angeles/Hollywood California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoHrMNALaxo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#r #suspiria #darioargento #threemothers #inferno #motheroftears #jessicaharper

[spoilsofwar666]

January Giallo Day 18 Girl In Room 2A Another gem I see in many lost or underappreciated lists online. I was glad to see that the Forgotten Gialli Vol. 2 set from @vinegarsyndrome I own has a copy of it. Since I haven't seen it yet, and now is as good a time as any. I really enjoyed this one. It's a little different since it adds a dash of the occult, making the story odd in places and giving the feeling that our protagonist is an unreliable narrator. But everything links up pretty well in the end. The killer also has a slightly different look since he's mainly wearing red instead of all black. Which of course works with the hallucinations of if he's even really in the room or just part of a fever dream. Some kills are crazy too. With some of them involving torture. Obviously, by today's standards, it's pretty tame. But a little brutal nonetheless. #Horror #HorrorMovies #HorrorJunkie #BloodJunkie #GoreWhore #Blood #Guts #BloodAndGuts #Shudder #HorrorReviews #MovieReviews #EverydayIsHalloween #InfectedVoice #Metal #MetalAndHorror #MetalHead #SpoilsOfWar #JanuaryGiallo #ItalianHorror #GirlInRoom2A #VinegarSyndrome #ForgottenGialli #TheEdgarWrightChallenge https://www.instagram.com/p/CnjMV3UO3Lr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#horror #horrormovies #horrorjunkie #bloodjunkie #gorewhore #blood #guts #bloodandguts #shudder #horrorreviews #moviereviews #everydayishalloween #infectedvoice #metal #metalandhorror #metalhead #spoilsofwar #januarygiallo #italianhorror #girlinroom2a #vinegarsyndrome #forgottengialli #theedgarwrightchallenge

[seancekitsch]

give me some horror recs? maybe those italian slashers you like or body horror?

giallo:

inferno (argento), stage fright, ...a tutte le auto della polizia, strip nude for your killer, the sex of the witch, eyeball, my dear killer, red headed corpse, orgasmo, the doll of satan

body:

society, the thing 1982, tetsuo, videodrome, crimes of the future 2022, cabin fever, contracted, evil dead, jacobs ladder, tusk, the blob, strangeland, starry eyes, hostel

[giallofever2]

Happy Birthday/Buon Compleanno Barbara Bouchet

Nata: Barbara Goutscher

Data di nascita: 15 agosto 1943

Paese: Liberec, Repubblica Ceca

Da ballerina, a modella, a attrice, Barbara Bouchet è stata una forza da non sottovalutare nel cinema di culto italiano degli anni '70, di indiscutibile bellezza e intelligenza.

Di seguito una piccola lista dei suoi Film Giallo/Thriller più CULT!

Non si sevizia un paperino (1972)

La dama rossa uccide sette volte (1972)

Casa d'appuntamento [The French Sex Murders] (1972)

Alla ricerca del piacere [Amuck] (1972)

Milano calibro 9 [Calibro 9] (1972)

La tarantola dal ventre nero (1971)

L'uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio (1971)

Colpo rovente [Red Hot Shot] (1970)

Percorso del pericolo (1967)

#barbarabouchet #barbara80 #bouchet80 #ladamaroja #ladamarossa #ladamarossauccidesettevolte #ladamarossauccide7volte #ladamarossa❤️ #ladamarossaucciesettevolte #ladamarossauccidesetevolte

#barbara bouchet #giallofever #giallo #giallo fever #gialli #italian giallo #italian cult #cinema cult #cult #international cult #italian horror #la dama rossa uccide 7 volte #milano calibro 9 #amuck

[tomorrowedblog]

Saturnalia is out today

Saturnalia, the new game from Santa Ragione, is out today.

Saturnalia is a fever dream inspired in equal parts by authentic Sardinian culture and classic Italian giallo horror films. The narrative revolves around a mysterious, centuries-old ritual that occurs every year on the night of the winter solstice, as each of the game’s four playable characters must utilize their unique abilities and confront their own painful memories in order to expose the secrets haunting the town and ultimately escape Gravoi.

#Games #Saturnalia #News

[falsebooles123]

Diary of a Horror Buff 8.29.22

Ugh bitches I just got a new car. well new to me. I am filled with an absense of emotion. Do you ever look at your life and you don't really feel excited for anything just anxious about the new stress that it will introduce to yourself???? maybe theres something wrong with me?

well fuck that heres some gifs of music cars.

it turns out that I can't think off of a lot of pop songs about driving cars that are also a metaphor for fucking.

anyway fuck this lets talk about what I watched last night.

Dressed to Kill (1980) dir. Brian de Palma

OK so I didn't HATE this.

but lets be honest it is problamatic.

so dressed to kill is one of those thrillers that came out were woopsie doodle the serial killer just so happens to be trans, (and/or suffering form DoD, they get conflated, (and patholigized), a lot).

So unlike say Silence of the Lambs this one focuses a lot less on the whole tranvestite serial killer bit and is just more about following around a hooker who witnessed the first murder.

also this movie is super fucking horny. It literally starts with a woman fingering herself in a shower, For me it says hey titties in case anyone forgot what they look like. To be honest there is a very deliberate conflation between sexuality and violence in this film thats not subtle. Also a lot of repressed women sexuality but luckily that one chick gets DICKED DOWN before she gets brutally murdered.

This is a giallo-lite thriller with lots of titties, violence, and honestly a lot of stuff that did not age well. So now you know.

Midnight Snack (2014) dir. David Romero

ok so apparently David Romero is on Tumblr. Badass.

So first can I just say that I love everything about this. The protaganist, the classic style ghost story, his animation style. Like he did a 3d modeled set that he hand animated over I mean who doesn't fucking love that. Mother fucking icon.

The Clockwork Elves (2020) dir. Nick Cross

"[[Content warning:: Contains flashing imagery, cartoon violence & sexuality]]

The Clockwork Elves could be a pyschotropic exploration of spirituality and death - or it could be a tale of a little goofball hopped up on goofballs. Either way - it's a cartoon."

Ok this was an absolute fucking bop, imagine over the garden wall, ( I've never actually seen OTGW, my ex boyfriend and my desire to do mouth stuff was greater then watching quality television). but set to an acid trap song and trippy visuals.

congradulations this is like a beginners friendly episode of Midnight Gospel.

ok did anyone ever finish that show, I tried watching it but my brain literally melted.

ok I still feel bad for not watching it but in my defense my ex boyfriend was really hot.

LÍNEA 17 (2021) dir. Diego García Figueroa

oh I love a good subway horror. I mean one of these days I'll watch midnight meat train.

So this is a short film anout a young woman in latin america who is riding the subway when the lights flicker and some creepy monster starts stalking her.

this was definetly a great little short film and I had a lovely time watching it.

Undress Me ALTER (2017) dir. Amelia Moses

Content Warning: Gore, Blood, Self-Harm, Akward Virgin Sex.

We stan an akward queen.

Homegirl is just throwing herself at that dick but like at the same time like relatable like it totally reminds me of the first couple times I've fucked and like its awkward. You either come off to strong, (or like the first time), it takes us watching the entirity of Always Be My Maybe before they kiss me.

I'm just saying if you don't grab my ass by the 34 minute mark I'm doing something wrong.

this was the only relevent thing that came up when I typed in "Netflix and Chill" which accurate but still.

Ok but actually plot time chick gets that dick and goes and then proceeds to get that pryon disease from Cabin Fever so theres a lot of body horror and gore.

ok there are not a lot of good clips from that movie on here apparently.

Limp CRYPT TV (2019) dir. Benjamin Baraad

Honestly fuck the demons thats just how people treat people that have non visuable disabilities.

also I love how this girl is literally dealing with suddenly becoming disabled and her mom is like OMG how did you get a D In math. like fuck your disablities and the things that make you happy.

omfg

"you lied to me alyssa IM JUST HAPPY YOUR FATHER ISN'T ALIVE TO SEE WHAT YOUR'VE BECOME".

WHAT DID SHE BECOME BITCH, SOMEBODY WHOS OVERCOMING STRUGGLES AND UNFAIRNESS IN LIFE. EAT A COOKIE AND CHOKE ON IT.

but also that demon is also kinda a bitch just saying.

Sinner Circus (2013) dir. Jon Kondelik, James Kondelik

one of my favorite crypt tv shorts.

I will never apoligize for enjoying media in which people get revenge on there abusers.

Also we stan a carnie that speaks entirely in rhymes.

Occupied CRYPT TV (2015) dir. Mitchell Kerby, Taylor Kerby

"I've been alive 20 years and I still don't know what to do when someone knocks on the door when I'm using it" - that one tweet.

so yeah this is the sotry of a hot guy having to use the bathroom and this rude ghost keeps banging on the stall. Like ghost bruh if you he wanted to cruise he would have sucked your dick by now.

My House ALTER (2020) dir. Alexander Edep

ok so we love the vibes. surburbia horror vibes and fucked up board game mechanics, whats not to love.

what a lovelingly fucked up movie we stan.

Carol Anne is Dead (2009) dir. Michael Robinson

ok this is basically a family home movie recreation of Poltergeist, everyones favorite blockbuster horror.

supposedly Michael Robinson "rid[es] the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria."

so I assume that this type of strange home video is an intentional post modern interpretation of nostaglia and childhood.

either that or somenbodies random ass home movie just reached cinema status.

Rapunzel (2018) dir. Hans Stjernswärd

Ok home girl was like sorry I'm just trying to get dicked down and her home girls are OMG but why can't you party with us.

I'm just saying homegirl had perfectly fine prioties.

so as far as I can gather this is a series of films that were meant to be modern horror adaptations of Fairy Tales, with the Little Mermaid being another one of these.

Honestly I'm rooting for these two and will won't to see a feature length movie of this at my next earliest convience.

anyway whores thats all the movies for today. We have two more days of this before the challenge is over.

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Movie Review | Evil Dead Trap (Ikeda, 1988)

One of the pleasures of Evil Dead Trap is seeing a convergence of several lines of influence. There are the fingerprints of David Cronenberg, whose Videodrome is cited early in the movie. The heroine, who works for a late night investigative program that seeks out edgy, extreme content, receives a snuff video in the mail and decides to dig further. There are the great Italian horror directors. The colour schemes bring to mind Mario Bava and Dario Argento, with aggressive use of filters rendering much of the movie in monochrome, generating a certain frisson from applying such a bold visual style to such a grimy setting. And there's a scene of Fulcian eye trauma, which paired with the POV delivery we associate with classic giallo, knocked me on my ass like I haven't been in quite some time. There's a little Sam Raimi sprinkled throughout, with frantic camera moves providing a kinetic manifestation of the sinister atmosphere. And there is perhaps a bit more Cronenberg, although I wouldn't dare to reveal the specifics.

And one can perhaps see subsequent movies echoing certain attributes. In a featurette included on the Unearthed Films Blu-ray release, Calum Waddell suggests that the presence of a cursed object (the snuff tape here) might have influenced the use of the same trope in Ringu. Waddell also cites a rumour that Oliver Stone was a big fan of the movie, and when you see how this movie swerves between film formats and colours, one can speculate that Stone might have drawn a bit from here when creating the fever dream aesthetics of his '90s classics. And staging this level of brutality in this kind of isolated, decaying setting does bring to mind a similar juxtaposition in Hostel.

I bring all this up not to knock the movie for being derivative, but to suggest that for certain horror fans, this will be like a trip to the candy store, where you grab a little bit of everything and try to fit them in your giant trenchcoat Marge Simpson style and hope it doesn't explode from the pressure. (Okay, that was a candy convention. I apologize for pivoting my metaphor mid-sentence.) And the movie is quite well executed, with gruesome, creatively staged violence and a palpable atmosphere from its crumbling abandoned military base setting. There's a sense of real evil in the air, enhanced by the almost disembodied acts of violence perpetrated against our protagonists. I think the movie stumbles a bit when it includes a scene of sexual violence (which is ugly in ways that ultimately don't feel justified by the time the movie concludes), and some of the supposed adults behave like horny, idiotic teenagers from slashers, but the latter at least provides for some humour. (A choice line: "Don't worry, the sun's still up. Dracula won't be out until dark.")

Now, this did not occur to me during the movie, but in that featurette, Waddell offers an interesting political read of the movie, suggesting that it's a metaphor for dealing honestly with Japan's imperial past and the search for truth. In that sense, one scene proves especially potent. The heroine hides behind a car as the villain leaves with the corpses of two other characters. She sees a chance to escape and starts on that path, hesitates, goes back in the car. She retrieves a flashlight, steadies her nerves with a cold brew. And then she goes after the villain.

#film #movie review #evil dead trap #toshiharu ikeda

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The Beautiful Jennifer Connelly

As Jennifer Corvino in the Cult movie

PHENOMENA

Direct by DARIO ARGENTO 1985

#jennifer connelly #phenomena #dario argento #giallofever #giallo #giallo fever #gialli #italian giallo #italian cult #cinema cult #cult #international cult #italian horror