Michael Eberhart
@meberhart.bsky.social
editor @mmfa.bsky.social | Army 11B OEF vet | construction and call center worker before that | views are mine
I got a lot of help from watching these folks
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I got a lot of help from watching these folks
Played Criterion roulette last night, ended up finally watching "The Devils" (1971) -- I'd enjoyed Ken Russell's work before but holy hell I was really not familiar with his game. And Oliver Reed! God damn, what an incredible film.
September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Played Criterion roulette last night, ended up finally watching "The Devils" (1971) -- I'd enjoyed Ken Russell's work before but holy hell I was really not familiar with his game. And Oliver Reed! God damn, what an incredible film.
"Historia de lo Oculto" is equally stylized in a different way, using the starkness of black & white (and occasional splashes of psychedelic color) to heighten the tensions between a team of TV news journos racing against the clock to expose a police state headed by actual warlocks before midnight.
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Historia de lo Oculto" is equally stylized in a different way, using the starkness of black & white (and occasional splashes of psychedelic color) to heighten the tensions between a team of TV news journos racing against the clock to expose a police state headed by actual warlocks before midnight.
The surreal, nightmarish black & white images are far more effective at conveying low-budget terror than the genre's typical faux camcorder footage. But we get a hard look at real monsters in the official investigation for a scapegoat and the overwhelming racism from their surviving white neighbors.
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The surreal, nightmarish black & white images are far more effective at conveying low-budget terror than the genre's typical faux camcorder footage. But we get a hard look at real monsters in the official investigation for a scapegoat and the overwhelming racism from their surviving white neighbors.
I saw "Savageland" right after Barry Levinson's "The Bay" (2012), another example of found footage horror using mock doc framing to highlight the terrible reality of contemporary issues without flinching -- in that case, depredation of our oceans and predictable failures of U.S. public health system
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I saw "Savageland" right after Barry Levinson's "The Bay" (2012), another example of found footage horror using mock doc framing to highlight the terrible reality of contemporary issues without flinching -- in that case, depredation of our oceans and predictable failures of U.S. public health system
Thinking about this prompt again today and two recent watches come immediately to mind: 2015's "Savageland," a docu-style found photo zombie movie set in an AZ border town, and 2020's "History of the Occult," depicting an '80s Argentine news broadcast under the shadow of Luciferian authoritarianism.
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thinking about this prompt again today and two recent watches come immediately to mind: 2015's "Savageland," a docu-style found photo zombie movie set in an AZ border town, and 2020's "History of the Occult," depicting an '80s Argentine news broadcast under the shadow of Luciferian authoritarianism.
Post a horror movie everyone should see:
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Post a horror movie everyone should see:
shame it probably ruined our chances for more action comedies featuring a young Captain Janeway
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
shame it probably ruined our chances for more action comedies featuring a young Captain Janeway
can't believe they gave him a Golden Globes nom for that role!
September 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
can't believe they gave him a Golden Globes nom for that role!
In both cases, the actual killings seem almost beside the point: the objective is to create online content that commands the attention of a mass audience. The same motive was at work with the White House deportation ASMR post & Ghiblified AI slop, crafting a Spectacle of cruelty for shitposting.
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In both cases, the actual killings seem almost beside the point: the objective is to create online content that commands the attention of a mass audience. The same motive was at work with the White House deportation ASMR post & Ghiblified AI slop, crafting a Spectacle of cruelty for shitposting.
One thing I can't stop thinking about are the parallels between the Trump administration posting snuff film drone footage of 11 nameless, faceless foreigners we just murdered and the way mass shooters (esp. post-Christchurch) record & stream their killing sprees as a form of content creation
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
One thing I can't stop thinking about are the parallels between the Trump administration posting snuff film drone footage of 11 nameless, faceless foreigners we just murdered and the way mass shooters (esp. post-Christchurch) record & stream their killing sprees as a form of content creation
One important factor to understand about the right-wing media ecosystem is that it largely consists of gooners like Charlie edging closer and closer to the day they call on their MAGA audiences to cut down the tall trees.
This sort of exterminationist fantasy is key to their entire worldview.
This sort of exterminationist fantasy is key to their entire worldview.
August 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One important factor to understand about the right-wing media ecosystem is that it largely consists of gooners like Charlie edging closer and closer to the day they call on their MAGA audiences to cut down the tall trees.
This sort of exterminationist fantasy is key to their entire worldview.
This sort of exterminationist fantasy is key to their entire worldview.
The life and times of Silas Soule before, during, and after the Civil War would make for an epic-length Woke biopic, though I would also settle for a more focused Dirty Dozen-style actioner about his part in the Immortal Ten's 1859 rescue of Underground Railroad conductor John Doy from a slaver jail
August 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The life and times of Silas Soule before, during, and after the Civil War would make for an epic-length Woke biopic, though I would also settle for a more focused Dirty Dozen-style actioner about his part in the Immortal Ten's 1859 rescue of Underground Railroad conductor John Doy from a slaver jail
what an incredible shot. the severe lighting on their frowning, downcast faces, flanked by Praetorian Guard of unarmed troops in body armor and soft caps, the Shake Shack banner in the corner...
even Verhoeven would find the concept of "Führerburger" too heavy-handed as satire, and yet here we are.
even Verhoeven would find the concept of "Führerburger" too heavy-handed as satire, and yet here we are.
August 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
what an incredible shot. the severe lighting on their frowning, downcast faces, flanked by Praetorian Guard of unarmed troops in body armor and soft caps, the Shake Shack banner in the corner...
even Verhoeven would find the concept of "Führerburger" too heavy-handed as satire, and yet here we are.
even Verhoeven would find the concept of "Führerburger" too heavy-handed as satire, and yet here we are.
For good measure: "Psychomania" (1973) aka "The Death Wheelers," cotton candy-light supernatural biker movie about a gang of British youths who return from the grave with incredible powers after unaliving themselves in a silly bloodless montage. Banger John Cameron score and some really fun visuals.
August 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For good measure: "Psychomania" (1973) aka "The Death Wheelers," cotton candy-light supernatural biker movie about a gang of British youths who return from the grave with incredible powers after unaliving themselves in a silly bloodless montage. Banger John Cameron score and some really fun visuals.
bonus: 1983's "Siege" aka "Self-Defense," about a group of polite Canadian kids forced to use Home Alone tactics to defend their apartment from a gang of armband-wearing hate crime enthusiasts during a Nova Scotia police strike. Low budget proto-Green Room that plays like ACAB Assault on Precinct 13
August 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
bonus: 1983's "Siege" aka "Self-Defense," about a group of polite Canadian kids forced to use Home Alone tactics to defend their apartment from a gang of armband-wearing hate crime enthusiasts during a Nova Scotia police strike. Low budget proto-Green Room that plays like ACAB Assault on Precinct 13
GWOT rebounds to the imperial core -- U.S. military now conducting security cordon for a domestic "presence" patrol by masked federal immigration goons in a major American city:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
July 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GWOT rebounds to the imperial core -- U.S. military now conducting security cordon for a domestic "presence" patrol by masked federal immigration goons in a major American city:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
June 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
