@marioscido.bsky.social
Humanities instructor, independent filmmaker, MUFF supporter, Monstrum conjurer, hysterical cinephile, and golem scholar.
The book I wrote: https://anthempress.com/grand-guignol-cinema-and-the-horror-genre-hb
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The book I wrote: https://anthempress.com/grand-guignol-cinema-and-the-horror-genre-hb
https://www.monstrum-society.ca/
I watched ENNIO (2021) and was quite moved by the film. The maestro used a pseudonym at the beginning of his career facing the double taboo of genre hatred and being a second class film composer within the music industry. I encountered him when I saw THE THING (1982). My sacred is called Morricone.
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I watched ENNIO (2021) and was quite moved by the film. The maestro used a pseudonym at the beginning of his career facing the double taboo of genre hatred and being a second class film composer within the music industry. I encountered him when I saw THE THING (1982). My sacred is called Morricone.
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On this day in Horror History, ONIBABA was released in 1964.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On this day in Horror History, ONIBABA was released in 1964.
Gaspar Noé giving the pope the brilliant VORTEX at the Vatican suggesting that a more serious view of cinema is offered than the constant refrain by my left liberal friends who want escape from the world. Is not the pope sounding like David Cronenberg: cinema should "not console, but challenge?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Gaspar Noé giving the pope the brilliant VORTEX at the Vatican suggesting that a more serious view of cinema is offered than the constant refrain by my left liberal friends who want escape from the world. Is not the pope sounding like David Cronenberg: cinema should "not console, but challenge?"
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On this day in Horror History, SALEM'S LOT premiered in 1979.
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
On this day in Horror History, SALEM'S LOT premiered in 1979.
Jess Franco's DRACULA (1970) with Lee, Kinski, Miranda, Lom, and Rohm is actually quite brilliant. I think it is not liked because for Franco, who worked in France a lot, the reference is actually surrealism over the Gothic. The tone of the film is Stoker filtered trough Cocteau rather than Hammer.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Jess Franco's DRACULA (1970) with Lee, Kinski, Miranda, Lom, and Rohm is actually quite brilliant. I think it is not liked because for Franco, who worked in France a lot, the reference is actually surrealism over the Gothic. The tone of the film is Stoker filtered trough Cocteau rather than Hammer.
I did not even know it was unavliavlabule until recently. I bought the film to honour Diane Keaton. It's a forgotten masterpiece.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Disclaimer: The 'OOP' edition of this release is still in stock since there were leftovers following our 2025 Labor Day sale. Available for a limited time only.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I did not even know it was unavliavlabule until recently. I bought the film to honour Diane Keaton. It's a forgotten masterpiece.
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WOW! LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (Richard Brooks, 1977) blew me away. Diane Keaton's performance is so powerful as a woman seeking sexual liberation from Catholic conservatism within the feminist movements of the 70s. Grand-Guignol cinema in every way. Still on my skin!
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
WOW! LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (Richard Brooks, 1977) blew me away. Diane Keaton's performance is so powerful as a woman seeking sexual liberation from Catholic conservatism within the feminist movements of the 70s. Grand-Guignol cinema in every way. Still on my skin!
Never. Saw. This. Tonight.
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Never. Saw. This. Tonight.
I am always pleasantly surprised when I re-watch Jess Franco's films, here BLOODY MOON (1981), his slasher film set in Alicante (Spain) giving it a lovely weirdness accompanied by a bizarre score, really good FX work, and a sun-drenched vistas that clash with the slasher sensibility. Good one!
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am always pleasantly surprised when I re-watch Jess Franco's films, here BLOODY MOON (1981), his slasher film set in Alicante (Spain) giving it a lovely weirdness accompanied by a bizarre score, really good FX work, and a sun-drenched vistas that clash with the slasher sensibility. Good one!
Et l'ère Denis Coderre est de retour !
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Soraya Martinez Ferrada succédera à Valérie Plante
C'est la fin de l'ère Projet Montréal. Défait, le dauphin de Valérie Plante, Luc Rabouin, annonce qu'il quitte la direction de son parti.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Et l'ère Denis Coderre est de retour !
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Movie blood.
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Movie blood.
Happy Halloween/All Souls Day.
November 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Happy Halloween/All Souls Day.
The new FRANKENSTEIN by Del Toro is beautiful but lacks monstrous trauma. The creature is only tragic like Quasimodo in Disney and kills defensively. A good transgressive version is by the queer James Whale from 1931 , because like in the novel the creature kills a child and shocked audiences.
October 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The new FRANKENSTEIN by Del Toro is beautiful but lacks monstrous trauma. The creature is only tragic like Quasimodo in Disney and kills defensively. A good transgressive version is by the queer James Whale from 1931 , because like in the novel the creature kills a child and shocked audiences.
One of my first academic publications was an anti-colonial reading of I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Lewton/Tourneur, 1943). No recent films have come close to depicting Vodou as anti-colonial as this film does, btw. The new Criterion release has "finally" arrived and the transfer is stunning! See it!
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of my first academic publications was an anti-colonial reading of I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Lewton/Tourneur, 1943). No recent films have come close to depicting Vodou as anti-colonial as this film does, btw. The new Criterion release has "finally" arrived and the transfer is stunning! See it!
My comfort food!
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PASTA E FAGIOLI - Rosina Casalinga per passione
La PASTA E FAGIOLI, un primo piatto gustoso della tradizione contadina, una ricetta semplice
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October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My comfort food!
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From the year of DIAMOND DOGS (1974) in this otherwise scathing review: "The stage was built at weird angles like in 1920 German Expressionist silents with a cityscape as the backdrop." This monster kid would have died and gone straight to hell.
October 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
From the year of DIAMOND DOGS (1974) in this otherwise scathing review: "The stage was built at weird angles like in 1920 German Expressionist silents with a cityscape as the backdrop." This monster kid would have died and gone straight to hell.