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Chris
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💀HORROR💀 - Cult, genre, exploitation
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Watch #10 for #hooptober12
Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942)
Beautiful film, both in what is shown and what remains only suggested, unseen, obscured by shadow. Alice being followed through the park and later trapped in the pool are masterclasses in creating suspense.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Watch #9 for #hooptober12
Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral (2012)
In the attention/influencer economy, we all want what celebrity personalities have got. Cronenberg’s feature debut is a hyper-stylish extension of this idea, spinning it out to its horrific conclusions. Bloody, painful, wince-inducing.
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Watch #8 for #hooptober12
Jean Rollin's The Grapes of Death (1971)
Winemaking practices have really improved since the 70s. My favorite Rollin? Far more plot than typical for R (& less nudity). Great atmosphere- post-harvest vineyards, crumbling villages, rugged mountains of the French countryside.
French language film poster for The Grapes of Death. At the bottom, a group of zombified French villagers with pale, infected-looking faces hold their arms out in pursuit of the living. Above this is a an illustration of a giant hand clutching smashing a cluster of purple grapes, as well as the screaming figure of a woman with dark brown hair. A blond woman wearing a white dress stares in defiance. Half of her face has been scraped off to reveal red, blistered, oozing infection beneath.
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Watch #7 for #hooptober12
John Irvin's Ghost Story (1981)
Shocking that the director of Raw Deal wasn’t 100% successful adapting Peter Straub’s novel. Overlong with lots of plot points left hanging. Some very charming moments, especially from Fred Astaire. And Alice Krige 🤓
Film poster for Ghost Story featuring a plain, totally black background and, in the lower right corner, a small, black and white outline of the upper stories of an old Victorian house with a cloud-obstructed moon over top of it Four elderly men, all with white hair and in black tuxedos, stand in a very fancy room (with leather chairs, wood paneling, and heavy drapes) and toast each other with their whiskey glasses.
October 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Watch #6 for #hooptober12
Ben Wheatley's Kill List (2011)
Unsettling cult mystery, with a dash of folk horror. Shockingly violent. Wheatley is a master of creating real-feeling relationships between his characters. Excellent!
Film poster for Kill List. The face of a concerned looking man is superimposed over the image of dark, spindly looking pine trees with an orange sunset (or possibly a fire) shining behind their trunks. Traced over top of the forest is a symbol--a circle crossed by 2 intersecting lines and with a triangle in the top half. A shirtless man wears a frightening mask made from twigs and straw.
October 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Watch #5 for #hooptober12
Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza's [REC] (2007).
Feels so familiar in 2025– shaky camera, screeching zombies, viral outbreak lockdown. But in 2007, REC was breaking ground in its visceral, claustrophobic, high intensity approach.
Film poster for [REC]. A woman with her hair partially obscuring her face looks up in fear as she lifts her hands up to protect herself from an unseen assailant. In the background a zombie-like figure can be seen outlined in a window. An angry looking young woman with long hair tied back in pigtails and wearing a bloodstained white tank top points back at a blood covered police officer preventing a fireman from trying to get past him toward a caution-taped building exit.
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Watch #4 for #hooptober12
Mark Goldblatt's Dead Heat (1988). Buddy cop horror-comedy with a slowly rotting Treat Williams and partner Joe Piscapo. Unfortunately, the film (dialogue, plot, Piscapo’s acting) feels pretty flat. Stick with it for a pretty gnarly rapid decomposition scene.
Film poster for Dead Heath. A zombie hand floats clutches a badge with bullet holes in it. On either side of the badge are Treat Williams and Joe Piscapo holding their pistols, ready for action. Under the zombie hand is a machine with lightning bolts zapping a shocked looking woman. A woman with hair still wet from a bath looks sad as the right side of her face droops as it rapidly decomposes, the flesh of her lower jaw sliding off revealing her lower teeth and jaw.
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Watch #3 for #hooptober12
Amando de Ossorio's Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972). Slow going at times, but Ossorio makes the most of a small budget, creating some memorable nightmarish sequences of desiccated-looking zombie Knights Templar pursuing their victims on horseback (in slow motion).
Spanish language film poster for Tombs of the Blind Dead featuring illustrations of 4 zombie knights templar in rags. One is holding the top of a sword while 2 others bite and grab a screaming woman in a blue blouse. A group of zombie knights templar look on while another carries an unconscious woman with long red hair wearing a white nightgown.
September 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Watch #2 for #hooptober12
Max Kalmanowicz's The Children (1980). Fear of nuclear disaster (ala Three Mile Island) + grumpy aversion to kids getting their grubby fingers all over you = The Children. A school-bus of kids is exposed to radioactive smoke, resulting in black fingernails and deadly hugs.
Film poster for The Children, featuring illustrations of 3 creepy children's faces next to a notebook and ruler, a cemetery in front of some leafless trees, and a school-bus driving away. In an old cemetery with white headstones, a little boy wearing a striped shirt hugs his mom, as she makes a terrified face due to the radiation burns on her face and hand resulting from the hug.
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Watch #1 for #hooptober12
John Gilling's Plague of the Zombies (1966) for Hammer Films. The Caribbean voodoo zombie plot (I Walked with a Zombie, White Zombie) is brought to Cornwall. Local squire uses black magic to enthrall the plebs and, after death, enlist their crusty corpses to work his mine.
Title still for The Plague of the Zombies. Title is in yellow over the image of a voodoo doll dripped with vibrantly red blood, a bone, and a small jar of blood. A very gray, crusty looking zombie with his mouth open carries the body of a recently killed young woman in a dress. Behind them, you can see a winch for lifting things in and out of a mine shaft.
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday
Screenshot featuring the movie posters for the last 4 films I logged on Letterboxd: Bay of Blood, Shock, Petey Wheatstraw, and Mothra vs. Godzilla.
August 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Bring Her Back had me squirming. Excellent follow up to Talk To Me. Here for whatever the Philippou bros come up with next. boxd.it/8m8nT

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky #HorrorSky
Screenshot of my Letterboxd 4 most recent films watched, including Bring Her Back, The Keep, Anora, and Murder Rock.
May 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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“A school full of sons of bitches, professor—how would you call that in criminology?” "A vipers’ nest!” (👯Murder Rock👯)
Some unforgettable watches this week
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky #HorrorSky
Screenshot of the last 4 films I logged on Letterboxd, including posters of the films Murder Rock, Dead Mail, The Ugly Stepsister, and Le Vourdalak.
May 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt's The Ugly Stepsister (Den Stygge Stesøsteren, 2025) is gross, brutal, lavish, touching. A feast for the eyes (especially if you have a little friend to help 😏). Had me laughing out loud with its wildest moments. Watch it on @shudder.com asap! #horrorsky #filmsky
Screenshot from the 2025 film The Ugly Stepsister. Title in bright pink over an image of rotting fruit and meat.
May 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Ready to get Naschty
@screamfactory.bsky.social #HorrorSky #FilmSky
Paul Naschy Collection Vol 1 and 2 blu-ray sets on a wooden table.
April 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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A movie that takes place where you're from 🎥
A film still featuring a field full of the walking dead from George Romero's 1968 Night of the Living Dead, set and shot in western PA (this scene shot near Evans City, PA).
April 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Hell yeah! One of my top fav new watches of the last few years
April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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J. Lee Thompson's 1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. While Thompson is better known for his work on Charles Bronson action films through the 70s-80s, Reincarnation is a weird little character drama/supernatural mystery. Beautifully gauzy photography and surreal past-life visions. #filmsky
Film poster for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. A muscular man with no shirt screams in agony in a swirl of pink, red, and purple colors. A man with brown hair lays in bed with brain monitoring leads going from his head to a machine on the side table.
February 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Delirium featured some wild makeup during a few of its killer POV sequences.
A woman in a blue dress has her face replaced with a giant bloodshot eye.
January 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Serving up some more psychosexual terror and childhood trauma for #JanuaryGiallo with Sergio Martino's classic ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK (1972), Lamberto Bava's late-80s DELIRIUM: PHOTO OF GIOIA (1987), and Umberto Lenzi's uncharacteristically tame KNIFE of ICE (1972). #filmsky
Title card for All the Colors of the Dark featuring a low, orange sunset over a body of water, casting the trees along the water's edge in dark shadow. Italian language film poster for Knife of Ice featuring a blonde woman frozen in terror at the bottom and at the top a red fingerprint with a hand wielding a sharp knife. Italian language lobby card for Delirium: Photo of Gioia. On the left is a film still of a woman in a dark dress standing at the edge of an in-ground pool looking at the face-up body of a man floating in the water. On the right is a film still of a woman leaning back in terror as the bloody body of another woman falls through a doorway onto her.
January 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Antonio Bido's (1978) THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW was my latest #JanuaryGiallo watch. Moody and atmospheric--autumn in rainy Venice; a mystery involving a séance group and a priest; and a solid Stelvio Cipriani score featuring Goblin. Solid. #filmsky
Italian language film poster for The Bloodstained Shadow featuring a streetlamp next to a Venetian canal almost entirely obscured by shadow, with the light revealing the body of a woman, her reflection visible in the water of the canal. A image from a high angle of a Catholic priest lighting candles in his church, a stone Christ on the cross hanging overhead.
January 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Lucio Fulci's THE PSYCHIC or SEVEN NOTES IN BLACK (1977) was last night's #JanuaryGiallo. Fulci in his more restrained, supernatural mystery mode--lots of dark corridors, faces obscured in shadow. #filmsky
Italian language film poster for Seven Notes in Black aka The Psychic. A white brick wall has black music notes dripping with blood painted on it. Through a hole in the wall a woman reaches out for help, screaming in terror. A woman with a dark red coat and tan turtle neck and a lamp with a dark red shade are reflected in a mirror with a gold gilt frame.
January 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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#JanuaryGiallo continues with Umberto Lenzi's PARANOIA (1969). After a few too many J&Bs, Carroll Baker ends up in a complicated love triangle with a local man and his "sister"...Also caught Sergio Martino's SCORPION WITH TWO TAILS (1982)--very Fulci-esque, with its fantasy/horror plot. #filmsky
Film poster for Paranoia. Illustration featuring a woman with her mouth open in a scream, overlaid with another illustration of a woman in an orange dress gagged and tied to a bedframe while man with no shirt and a woman in her underwear look on from behind. A woman with blond hair and wearing a pink nightgown has tape over her mouth and her wrists tied to a bedframe. Italian language film poster for Scorpion With Two Tails, featuring an illustration of some Stonehenge-like monoliths with a house behind them on a hill, while a man face with totally white eyes brandishes a bloody knife above the scene. A woman with long blonde hair wearing a scorpion necklace, a white turtleneck, and a green floral coat stands in front of a wall painted with an ancient Etruscan portrait of a similar looking woman wearing the same necklace and holding a white goblet.
January 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Playing #JanuaryGiallo catchup after the weekend. Found new favs in Aldo Lado's stylish WHO SAW HER DIE & Lucio Fulci's DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING (both 1972). Also watched Sergio Bergonzelli's trippy IN THE FOLDS OF THE FLESH (1970) & Ernesto Gastaldi's post-Bava/pre-Agento LIBIDO (1965). #filmsky
Italian language film poster for Who Saw Her Die? with an illustration of a man's hand holding a knife while in the background a woman lies bleeding next to a Venetian canal. Italian language film poster for Don't Torture a Duckling with a black and white image of a woman making a wild face and jagged color images of a priest backhanding a woman, a woman in a short tan coat, and a man falling from a cliff. Film poster for Libido with jagged black and white, yellow, and red tinted images from the film. Italian language film poster for In the Folds of the Flesh with multi-color tinted images of a woman's face with another woman in the background.
January 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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For all those in #Pittsburgh - If you see ICE, call Casa San Jose
Emergency contact information for Casa San Jose in Pittsburgh if ICE is spotted in the area.
January 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM