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Dorian Dawes
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Author of A Dream of Saints
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IT WAS SO SICK. There is an entire opera number that goes into multimedia animation that caused our theater to erupt into frantic applause following a moment of stunned silence. people were losing their shit. it's amazing.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
ah now i see

anyway if you love mexican gothic melodrama you are gonna love I am Frankelda
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
ALSO A MOVIE THAT SHOULD HAVE GONE BIGGER AND HARDER
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
There is something about this movie that feels like a very compromised version of itself and not just in the Netflix digital sheen and some other sins of modern filmmaking
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
i was telling fel the other day this movie felt too restrained in that regard. theres anecdotes of gdt talking about his vision for this as mexican telenovela frankenstein and BOY I WISH THIS MOVIE WAS THAT.
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
SHADOW
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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This was my second visit, following closely after THE PASTEL CITY. Cover illustration for A STORM OF WINGS by M. John Harrison (Pocket) 2/2

www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/st...
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Blood Wash remains a favorite of mine. If you liked that I think you'll enjoy Skinfreak as it plays in a similar playground, though with a more quirky giallo bent
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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A bit harder to empathize with someone experiencing an external threat when their lifestyle itself is sustained on external threats to others
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
no worries. no one with any salt takes his ridiculous nonsense seriously. youre absolutely fine.
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
oh its this dumb fuck again
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
yeah the closet *can* be a harrowing point for horror and a lot of great queer writers have done so

that author did not. he wrote a book about how awesome he is and barely scratched the surface of that issue
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
it really stretches my ability to empathize when the protag has a beautiful house, boyfriend, is super healthy wealthy and successful and about to win an oscar...but theyre worried about coming out of the closet

i just wanna smack the shit out of them. maybe they should get eaten by the metaphor
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
it isnt that i think rich people are incapable of making good art or even good horror its just that having zero real problems is a huge handicap to it
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
stories where "the monster is trauma" but no bitch what is that actual fucking trauma cause you wont specify and either youre dishonest or wont be vulnerable enough to get into it but either way youre a hack
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
maybe its me being a huge bitch but i get so sick of these stories about super successful upper middle class domestics whose big anxieties are "will i be a good father/mother" while the rest of us are concerned about homelessness or eating tomorrow
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM