Matt Simon
@mattsimon.bsky.social
cinema | Los Angeles | democracy, solidarity, climate & environmental justice | quick-read horror newsletter drops every Tuesday | www.deadofnightletter.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Feels like an Ed Brubaker comic.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Feels like an Ed Brubaker comic.
On @elrickane.bsky.social's The Dead Thing: “The melancholy here is recognizable, the atmosphere of a stretch of life where we can find ourselves alienated from a world that doesn't quite feel solid. It’s a perfect mood for a ghost story.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
On @elrickane.bsky.social's The Dead Thing: “The melancholy here is recognizable, the atmosphere of a stretch of life where we can find ourselves alienated from a world that doesn't quite feel solid. It’s a perfect mood for a ghost story.”
On Aislinn Clarke’s Fréwaka: “… a movie about the tangle of the mind and history, and [its overstuffed] rooms echo the troubled, cluttered minds of its characters.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
On Aislinn Clarke’s Fréwaka: “… a movie about the tangle of the mind and history, and [its overstuffed] rooms echo the troubled, cluttered minds of its characters.”
New newsletter--
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
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“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New newsletter--
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
“The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera
www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror
Perhaps the perfect hinge between October and November, I’m thinking about horror and cornfields …
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#filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Perhaps the perfect hinge between October and November, I’m thinking about horror and cornfields …
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#filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
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#filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Really taking to this wolf mask (too much so probably) 🎃🐺
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Really taking to this wolf mask (too much so probably) 🎃🐺
“If Dr. Loomis showed up in my city looking for someone, I'd probably make it my first order of business to protect the target from the raving doctor.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“If Dr. Loomis showed up in my city looking for someone, I'd probably make it my first order of business to protect the target from the raving doctor.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
On Michael Myers’s stillness: “… he's also striking a pose, making a creepy image of himself, and taking his place as an icon.” 🎃
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
On Michael Myers’s stillness: “… he's also striking a pose, making a creepy image of himself, and taking his place as an icon.” 🎃
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
“… metaphor can be as unstable and slippery as memory …”
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“… metaphor can be as unstable and slippery as memory …”
“He has lots of ideas, and they serve to expand and develop a master amalgamated Frankenstein that exists in del Toro’s mind.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“He has lots of ideas, and they serve to expand and develop a master amalgamated Frankenstein that exists in del Toro’s mind.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
“… when the fog rolls in, there’s a distinct sense of the natural disaster to it.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“… when the fog rolls in, there’s a distinct sense of the natural disaster to it.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
On Mica Levi’s score for Under The Skin: “Its delightfully unnerving melding of uneasy strings with buzzing and static effects can feel like a submerged Bernard Herrmann score …”
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #musicsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #musicsky #horror #cinema
October 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
On Mica Levi’s score for Under The Skin: “Its delightfully unnerving melding of uneasy strings with buzzing and static effects can feel like a submerged Bernard Herrmann score …”
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #musicsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #musicsky #horror #cinema
blood orange at shrine expo hall last night 🩸🍊
October 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
blood orange at shrine expo hall last night 🩸🍊
“If the slasher feels … like a creature of the 80s, then perhaps it’s only natural to return there.”
On Night of the Reaper’s period setting: www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
On Night of the Reaper’s period setting: www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“If the slasher feels … like a creature of the 80s, then perhaps it’s only natural to return there.”
On Night of the Reaper’s period setting: www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
On Night of the Reaper’s period setting: www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Nation of Language at The Fonda Theatre last night.
October 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Nation of Language at The Fonda Theatre last night.
“Jacob’s Ladder feels, at different moments, like a drama about post-war PTSD, a horror movie about demons among us, a paranoid thriller about a secret military program, and a spiritual tale about the afterlife.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“Jacob’s Ladder feels, at different moments, like a drama about post-war PTSD, a horror movie about demons among us, a paranoid thriller about a secret military program, and a spiritual tale about the afterlife.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
New letter on:
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New letter on:
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
looking back at my watched films on Letterboxd (in order they were added) and damn this run was insane
October 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
looking back at my watched films on Letterboxd (in order they were added) and damn this run was insane
Thinking about jack-o’-lanterns and “… two ingredients of evocative visuals—live flame and crude faces.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
October 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thinking about jack-o’-lanterns and “… two ingredients of evocative visuals—live flame and crude faces.”
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
“… the monster is always dangerous, always other, never domesticated.”
On @bryanfuller.bsky.social‘s Dust Bunny at www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
On @bryanfuller.bsky.social‘s Dust Bunny at www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
October 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“… the monster is always dangerous, always other, never domesticated.”
On @bryanfuller.bsky.social‘s Dust Bunny at www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
On @bryanfuller.bsky.social‘s Dust Bunny at www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
This week’s letter on:
- the special power in anthologies
- keeping monsters dangerous
- and the rare experience of a rediscovered lost slasher
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #horrorsky #filmsky #horror #cinema
- the special power in anthologies
- keeping monsters dangerous
- and the rare experience of a rediscovered lost slasher
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #horrorsky #filmsky #horror #cinema
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This week’s letter on:
- the special power in anthologies
- keeping monsters dangerous
- and the rare experience of a rediscovered lost slasher
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #horrorsky #filmsky #horror #cinema
- the special power in anthologies
- keeping monsters dangerous
- and the rare experience of a rediscovered lost slasher
www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #horrorsky #filmsky #horror #cinema