Lokke Heiss
@lokkeheiss.bsky.social
Writer, physician, film historian, Dracula Scholar. I love silent films, pre-Codes & Film Noir. Other areas of interest include Victorian Lit, in particular the writings of Emily Gerard, author of Land Beyond the Forest.
My website is lokkeheiss.com
My website is lokkeheiss.com
Check out Kafka’s letters to his girlfriends.
He is way more straightforward (if Kafka could be straightforward about anything).
He is way more straightforward (if Kafka could be straightforward about anything).
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Check out Kafka’s letters to his girlfriends.
He is way more straightforward (if Kafka could be straightforward about anything).
He is way more straightforward (if Kafka could be straightforward about anything).
If they find a copy of Death of Drakula, the film that preceded Nosferatu, I will be there for the first screening!
October 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If they find a copy of Death of Drakula, the film that preceded Nosferatu, I will be there for the first screening!
If they find a copy of Death of Drakula, the film that preceded Nosferatu, I will be there for the first screening!
October 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If they find a copy of Death of Drakula, the film that preceded Nosferatu, I will be there for the first screening!
Pordenone, Day 1(!)
October 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Pordenone, Day 1(!)
This episode is a “shot across the bow” for the Monster Kid generation… The Munsters, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Universal Monster models kits; Big Daddy Roth and his monsters is the most direct hit- #monsterkids
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This episode is a “shot across the bow” for the Monster Kid generation… The Munsters, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Universal Monster models kits; Big Daddy Roth and his monsters is the most direct hit- #monsterkids
In this issue of Jimmy Olson, he not only becomes a super-intelligent ape, but also becomes superpowered with the flaming abilities of the Torch. Will he use his powers for good or for chaos?
September 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
In this issue of Jimmy Olson, he not only becomes a super-intelligent ape, but also becomes superpowered with the flaming abilities of the Torch. Will he use his powers for good or for chaos?
Traditional horror posits that there is a good and evil, which then means some form of religious belief to make all that work. The deep structure behind noir is that we live in a nihilistic & meaningless universe. We know we’re going to lose (die). Our only option is to “try to lose more slowly.”
August 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Traditional horror posits that there is a good and evil, which then means some form of religious belief to make all that work. The deep structure behind noir is that we live in a nihilistic & meaningless universe. We know we’re going to lose (die). Our only option is to “try to lose more slowly.”
For anyone wanting to see Lucy in straight roll, I recommend Easy Living 1949 & directed by Jacques Tourneur, who bless him, often kept the camera rolling & let his actors really act!
Here, she’s confronting hard truths with Victor Mature’s character—it’s one of my favorite Lucy moments #EasyLiving
Here, she’s confronting hard truths with Victor Mature’s character—it’s one of my favorite Lucy moments #EasyLiving
August 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
For anyone wanting to see Lucy in straight roll, I recommend Easy Living 1949 & directed by Jacques Tourneur, who bless him, often kept the camera rolling & let his actors really act!
Here, she’s confronting hard truths with Victor Mature’s character—it’s one of my favorite Lucy moments #EasyLiving
Here, she’s confronting hard truths with Victor Mature’s character—it’s one of my favorite Lucy moments #EasyLiving
Totally agree. Do you tend to be a doorway person or a window person?
May 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Totally agree. Do you tend to be a doorway person or a window person?
There’s always Rhoda—
May 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
There’s always Rhoda—
This weekend, I watched a film of his that almost no one sees or talks about, The Long Gray Line at MoMA.
Turns out it’s a terrific film, but needs to be seen in Cinemascope to really appreciate it. Power’s Irish brogue is almost too good; I had to double-check that he was born in the US (he was).
Turns out it’s a terrific film, but needs to be seen in Cinemascope to really appreciate it. Power’s Irish brogue is almost too good; I had to double-check that he was born in the US (he was).
May 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This weekend, I watched a film of his that almost no one sees or talks about, The Long Gray Line at MoMA.
Turns out it’s a terrific film, but needs to be seen in Cinemascope to really appreciate it. Power’s Irish brogue is almost too good; I had to double-check that he was born in the US (he was).
Turns out it’s a terrific film, but needs to be seen in Cinemascope to really appreciate it. Power’s Irish brogue is almost too good; I had to double-check that he was born in the US (he was).
What we Norwegian Americans think of computer jargon—
May 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
What we Norwegian Americans think of computer jargon—
Upton Sinclair's famous quote about his book, “The Jungle.”
May 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Upton Sinclair's famous quote about his book, “The Jungle.”
Hello… I guess this would be a good time to make some kind of Star Trek/HGWT reference… I remember talking to Bob Justman about GR’s scripts, in particular, “The Great Mojave Chase," about Paladin taking a camel across the desert. RJ smiled and said to me, “Yeah, that one got him noticed.”
May 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Hello… I guess this would be a good time to make some kind of Star Trek/HGWT reference… I remember talking to Bob Justman about GR’s scripts, in particular, “The Great Mojave Chase," about Paladin taking a camel across the desert. RJ smiled and said to me, “Yeah, that one got him noticed.”
@thogstacker.bsky.social are you thinking what I’m thinking?
I’m guessing this robot had a little body work done and got a job working for Fritz Lang.
I’m guessing this robot had a little body work done and got a job working for Fritz Lang.
April 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
@thogstacker.bsky.social are you thinking what I’m thinking?
I’m guessing this robot had a little body work done and got a job working for Fritz Lang.
I’m guessing this robot had a little body work done and got a job working for Fritz Lang.
If in the world of movies, a “vehicle” can be defined as something that will drive an actor to stardom, then for Marie Windsor, #Hellfire is a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. Unfortunately for her, the driver of the car was Republic Pictures #TCMParty #NoirAlley
April 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If in the world of movies, a “vehicle” can be defined as something that will drive an actor to stardom, then for Marie Windsor, #Hellfire is a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa. Unfortunately for her, the driver of the car was Republic Pictures #TCMParty #NoirAlley
If you love Marie Windsor, #HELLFIRE is your film. It’s a Republic Picture happy to toss in everything to entertain you, eventually becoming a Technicolor hallucinogenic quadruplegänger film where Windsor gets to play bandit/seductress/showgirl & minister's wife more or less in that order! #TCMParty
April 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you love Marie Windsor, #HELLFIRE is your film. It’s a Republic Picture happy to toss in everything to entertain you, eventually becoming a Technicolor hallucinogenic quadruplegänger film where Windsor gets to play bandit/seductress/showgirl & minister's wife more or less in that order! #TCMParty
They told me not to jump into the hot pools near Old Faithful here at Yellowstone Park, but I just didn’t listen! #BMovieManiacs
April 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
They told me not to jump into the hot pools near Old Faithful here at Yellowstone Park, but I just didn’t listen! #BMovieManiacs
Celebrating this week’s date of publication of The Great Gatsby. If you boil Great Gatsby down to its essence, it's about a Midwesterner achieving a hard-earned superior moral advantage by describing how snobbish New Yorkers are.
April 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Celebrating this week’s date of publication of The Great Gatsby. If you boil Great Gatsby down to its essence, it's about a Midwesterner achieving a hard-earned superior moral advantage by describing how snobbish New Yorkers are.
The premise of the series is almost unique. A man wakes up with amnesia after falling out of a speeding car eventually becomes a psychiatrist helping others, then an amateur sleuth, but it turns out that he was once a crook himself. Originally radio show it became a successful film series.
March 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The premise of the series is almost unique. A man wakes up with amnesia after falling out of a speeding car eventually becomes a psychiatrist helping others, then an amateur sleuth, but it turns out that he was once a crook himself. Originally radio show it became a successful film series.
Maybe he’s a “young Gary Cooper” wannabe?
March 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Maybe he’s a “young Gary Cooper” wannabe?
You’re very accurately described this film-
March 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You’re very accurately described this film-
This (the first season) was the best season of Star Trek-
March 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This (the first season) was the best season of Star Trek-
“Give me a person of impressionable age and they are mine for life.” #nosferatu
January 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“Give me a person of impressionable age and they are mine for life.” #nosferatu