Travis Woods
@aheartofgould.bsky.social
Professional obsessive.
BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc
COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory
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BYLINES: Bright Wall/Dark Room, Southwest Review, Letterboxd, Fangoria, etc
COMMENTARY TRACKS/BOOKLETS: Cinematographe, Fun City Editions, Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Imprint, Shout Factory
https://linktr.ee/black_neon
God, we do this EVERY YEAR. I'm so tired of this endless debate as to whether it's a holiday movie, or simply takes place on a holiday, so let me make it clear once and for all--
Yes, NIGHT EYES 3 *is* a Christmas movie.
Yes, NIGHT EYES 3 *is* a Christmas movie.
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
God, we do this EVERY YEAR. I'm so tired of this endless debate as to whether it's a holiday movie, or simply takes place on a holiday, so let me make it clear once and for all--
Yes, NIGHT EYES 3 *is* a Christmas movie.
Yes, NIGHT EYES 3 *is* a Christmas movie.
I’m just a boy, standing in front of the Criterion Collection, asking for a 4K UHD of Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 for Christmas.
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I’m just a boy, standing in front of the Criterion Collection, asking for a 4K UHD of Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 for Christmas.
For the last day of #Noirvember, nab this THE LAST SEDUCTION 4K UHD set from @imprintfilms.bsky.social. Features three different versions of the film, as well as an 80-page booklet with a new essay (“One Of Those Sudden Horny Things”) by your ol pal Travis.
GET IT: diabolikdvd.com/product/the-...
GET IT: diabolikdvd.com/product/the-...
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
For the last day of #Noirvember, nab this THE LAST SEDUCTION 4K UHD set from @imprintfilms.bsky.social. Features three different versions of the film, as well as an 80-page booklet with a new essay (“One Of Those Sudden Horny Things”) by your ol pal Travis.
GET IT: diabolikdvd.com/product/the-...
GET IT: diabolikdvd.com/product/the-...
Some films I’ve done commentaries for are now part of @vinsyn.bsky.social’s massive Black Friday sale:
—WE KILL FOR LOVE, the erotic thriller doc
—LOVE CRIME, the erotic noir that inspired De Palma’s PASSION
—WOMEN ON THE RUN, a gender-flipped 48HRS
—DEVIL FETUS, a fuckmonster extravaganza
—WE KILL FOR LOVE, the erotic thriller doc
—LOVE CRIME, the erotic noir that inspired De Palma’s PASSION
—WOMEN ON THE RUN, a gender-flipped 48HRS
—DEVIL FETUS, a fuckmonster extravaganza
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Some films I’ve done commentaries for are now part of @vinsyn.bsky.social’s massive Black Friday sale:
—WE KILL FOR LOVE, the erotic thriller doc
—LOVE CRIME, the erotic noir that inspired De Palma’s PASSION
—WOMEN ON THE RUN, a gender-flipped 48HRS
—DEVIL FETUS, a fuckmonster extravaganza
—WE KILL FOR LOVE, the erotic thriller doc
—LOVE CRIME, the erotic noir that inspired De Palma’s PASSION
—WOMEN ON THE RUN, a gender-flipped 48HRS
—DEVIL FETUS, a fuckmonster extravaganza
Hope everyone is decorating for Shane Black Season today.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hope everyone is decorating for Shane Black Season today.
Only one more day until we all get to put up our THE SILENT PARTNER posters.
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Only one more day until we all get to put up our THE SILENT PARTNER posters.
I wrote a piece on my favorite American crime writer—and some of my favorite crime films—for the new issue of THIS IS @cine-matographe.bsky.social. There are a few copies left on the @vinsyn.bsky.social website, which will be live on Black Friday.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I wrote a piece on my favorite American crime writer—and some of my favorite crime films—for the new issue of THIS IS @cine-matographe.bsky.social. There are a few copies left on the @vinsyn.bsky.social website, which will be live on Black Friday.
Farewell to the incredible Udo Kier, who I first discovered after stealing Madonna’s SEX book from a Waldenbooks when I was 12.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Farewell to the incredible Udo Kier, who I first discovered after stealing Madonna’s SEX book from a Waldenbooks when I was 12.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
2025 really is the fucking worst.
Priscilla, can I interest you in the 1988 erotic thriller CALL ME?
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Priscilla, can I interest you in the 1988 erotic thriller CALL ME?
I’ve thought of LOVE HOTEL every fuckin day since I first saw it back in April.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve thought of LOVE HOTEL every fuckin day since I first saw it back in April.
LOVE HOTEL, a 1985 Japanese pink film/erotic drama that transcends its exploitation roots, achieving a level of devastation (emotional, libidinal) that stunned me.
A movie about how you can spend your whole life trying to solve what happened one night, when you could have let that night solve you.
A movie about how you can spend your whole life trying to solve what happened one night, when you could have let that night solve you.
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
LOVE HOTEL, a 1985 Japanese pink film/erotic drama that transcends its exploitation roots, achieving a level of devastation (emotional, libidinal) that stunned me.
A movie about how you can spend your whole life trying to solve what happened one night, when you could have let that night solve you.
A movie about how you can spend your whole life trying to solve what happened one night, when you could have let that night solve you.
It’s based on a watercolor by the artist Jay Shaw, and my tattoo artist (Craig Jackman of American Electric) did an excellent job of translating that to skin.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It’s based on a watercolor by the artist Jay Shaw, and my tattoo artist (Craig Jackman of American Electric) did an excellent job of translating that to skin.
Happy Noirvember, here’s my Elliott Gould LONG GOODBYE tattoo.
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Happy Noirvember, here’s my Elliott Gould LONG GOODBYE tattoo.
Obligatory:
1978
III
II
REVENGE
RETURN
H20
ZOMBIE II
ENDS
2018
KILLS
CURSE
ZOMBIE I
RESURRECTION
1978
III
II
REVENGE
RETURN
H20
ZOMBIE II
ENDS
2018
KILLS
CURSE
ZOMBIE I
RESURRECTION
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Obligatory:
1978
III
II
REVENGE
RETURN
H20
ZOMBIE II
ENDS
2018
KILLS
CURSE
ZOMBIE I
RESURRECTION
1978
III
II
REVENGE
RETURN
H20
ZOMBIE II
ENDS
2018
KILLS
CURSE
ZOMBIE I
RESURRECTION
Fascinated with this cunty little exit Krueger makes in NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2.
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Fascinated with this cunty little exit Krueger makes in NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2.
Biggest jump scare in the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4K box set.
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Biggest jump scare in the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4K box set.
Also discussed: How De Palma’s films wear their hearts on their sleeves in such unabashed and emotionally-outsized ways that their romances are misperceived as satire or cheese. They are not!
So many of Brian De Palma’s films are not about yearning. They ARE yearning.
So many of Brian De Palma’s films are not about yearning. They ARE yearning.
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Also discussed: How De Palma’s films wear their hearts on their sleeves in such unabashed and emotionally-outsized ways that their romances are misperceived as satire or cheese. They are not!
So many of Brian De Palma’s films are not about yearning. They ARE yearning.
So many of Brian De Palma’s films are not about yearning. They ARE yearning.
I am thinking once again about how Ken Russell’s CRIMES OF PASSION was released on October 19, 1984, ***and just one week later*** Brian De Palma’s BODY DOUBLE was released.
This is what we had. We were once a nation of perverts.
This is what we had. We were once a nation of perverts.
October 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I am thinking once again about how Ken Russell’s CRIMES OF PASSION was released on October 19, 1984, ***and just one week later*** Brian De Palma’s BODY DOUBLE was released.
This is what we had. We were once a nation of perverts.
This is what we had. We were once a nation of perverts.
“Braided together, the film’s long-con dual twist—Tyler isn’t real, Marla’s love is—serves as the delivery system of FIGHT CLUB’s meaning:
"We must take responsibility for ourselves, because no one else will.”
On FIGHT CLUB's birthday:
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
"We must take responsibility for ourselves, because no one else will.”
On FIGHT CLUB's birthday:
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
October 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“Braided together, the film’s long-con dual twist—Tyler isn’t real, Marla’s love is—serves as the delivery system of FIGHT CLUB’s meaning:
"We must take responsibility for ourselves, because no one else will.”
On FIGHT CLUB's birthday:
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
"We must take responsibility for ourselves, because no one else will.”
On FIGHT CLUB's birthday:
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
"FIGHT CLUB is not an all-out assault on the hypocrisies of society. FIGHT CLUB is a devastating satire about a man’s fear of rejection and reflection by a woman he can’t admit he is falling in love with.
"FIGHT CLUB is Jack’s fear of finally growing up."
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
"FIGHT CLUB is Jack’s fear of finally growing up."
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"FIGHT CLUB is not an all-out assault on the hypocrisies of society. FIGHT CLUB is a devastating satire about a man’s fear of rejection and reflection by a woman he can’t admit he is falling in love with.
"FIGHT CLUB is Jack’s fear of finally growing up."
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
"FIGHT CLUB is Jack’s fear of finally growing up."
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/04/29/f...
When a new @briannaduggan.bsky.social piece arrives in the mail and it makes putting up with her nonsense worth it.
LOOK AT THIS!!! The wig is an actual cutout!
LOOK AT THIS!!! The wig is an actual cutout!
October 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
When a new @briannaduggan.bsky.social piece arrives in the mail and it makes putting up with her nonsense worth it.
LOOK AT THIS!!! The wig is an actual cutout!
LOOK AT THIS!!! The wig is an actual cutout!