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teacher / giallo enthusiast / general reprobate
teacher / giallo enthusiast / general reprobate
Here's wishing you and yours a very fruitful Yamsgiving
Simon Yam in John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)
#HappyThanksgiving2025 #HappyYamsgiving #GiveThanks #SimonYam #filmsky
Simon Yam in John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)
#HappyThanksgiving2025 #HappyYamsgiving #GiveThanks #SimonYam #filmsky
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here's wishing you and yours a very fruitful Yamsgiving
Simon Yam in John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)
#HappyThanksgiving2025 #HappyYamsgiving #GiveThanks #SimonYam #filmsky
Simon Yam in John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)
#HappyThanksgiving2025 #HappyYamsgiving #GiveThanks #SimonYam #filmsky
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), Dario Argento // Angel Dust (1994), Gakuryū Ishii
#filmsky #gialloscience if you know you know 📽️👁️
#filmsky #gialloscience if you know you know 📽️👁️
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), Dario Argento // Angel Dust (1994), Gakuryū Ishii
#filmsky #gialloscience if you know you know 📽️👁️
#filmsky #gialloscience if you know you know 📽️👁️
I was kind of meh on this until Nils Asther went full Ray Liotta
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I was kind of meh on this until Nils Asther went full Ray Liotta
Arne Mattsson recaptures the spine-tingling snap of Damen i svart with inheritance ruse VITA FRUN (1962) after the third Hillman mystery fell victim to the law of diminishing returns, backloading budget conscious lake lore & somnambulant suicide with a humdinger of a sting op séance. #Noirvember
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Arne Mattsson recaptures the spine-tingling snap of Damen i svart with inheritance ruse VITA FRUN (1962) after the third Hillman mystery fell victim to the law of diminishing returns, backloading budget conscious lake lore & somnambulant suicide with a humdinger of a sting op séance. #Noirvember
Satō's bleak reinterpretation of The Conversation SURVEY MAP OF A PARADISE LOST (1988) also examines voyeurism from an auditorial standpoint, challenging the technology meant to ease connection that further divides & mechanizes a bubble society reeling from its byproduct: lack of sensation.
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Satō's bleak reinterpretation of The Conversation SURVEY MAP OF A PARADISE LOST (1988) also examines voyeurism from an auditorial standpoint, challenging the technology meant to ease connection that further divides & mechanizes a bubble society reeling from its byproduct: lack of sensation.
Giallo? Giallo?
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Giallo? Giallo?
While Ákos Ráthonyi's THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL (1961) feels most recognizably giallo in its dancer dispatching stocking masked menace & airline insurance sleuth, the daffy smuggler subplot, crazed Kinski & cringe use of Christopher Lee as a Charlie Chan-esque spy are pure krimi kookiness. #Noirvember
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
While Ákos Ráthonyi's THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL (1961) feels most recognizably giallo in its dancer dispatching stocking masked menace & airline insurance sleuth, the daffy smuggler subplot, crazed Kinski & cringe use of Christopher Lee as a Charlie Chan-esque spy are pure krimi kookiness. #Noirvember
My favorite flavor of giallo: fashionable haunted women in existential crisis mode aka haute paranoia
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My favorite flavor of giallo: fashionable haunted women in existential crisis mode aka haute paranoia
#NowWatching THE BEAST TO DIE (1980), Tōru Murakawa #Noirvember
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
#NowWatching THE BEAST TO DIE (1980), Tōru Murakawa #Noirvember
Folie à deux enfolded in grain & dripping with depressive static, Satō's atypical Pinku rape revenge TURTLE VISION (1991) breaks erotic melancholy down to its visual viscera, meditating on sunsets like a voyeur upon a horny unsuspecting couple & embedding trauma into artfully reflexive tape glitch.
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Folie à deux enfolded in grain & dripping with depressive static, Satō's atypical Pinku rape revenge TURTLE VISION (1991) breaks erotic melancholy down to its visual viscera, meditating on sunsets like a voyeur upon a horny unsuspecting couple & embedding trauma into artfully reflexive tape glitch.
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Portrait of Jennie (1948), William Dieterle // Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987), Hisayasu Satō
#sidebyside #backlitbuildings #filmsky 📽️🏢
#sidebyside #backlitbuildings #filmsky 📽️🏢
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Portrait of Jennie (1948), William Dieterle // Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987), Hisayasu Satō
#sidebyside #backlitbuildings #filmsky 📽️🏢
#sidebyside #backlitbuildings #filmsky 📽️🏢
I realized something today. I need a lady back record player chair.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I realized something today. I need a lady back record player chair.
Combining the mystique of the Rue Morgue with a deadly Agatha Christie closed circle, Vohrer's THE DOOR WITH 7 LOCKS (1962) has everything Rialto Wallace krimi made legend including stunning photography, ham-fisted hijinks, unhinged science & a MacGuffin locked behind a sinister door. #Noirvember
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Combining the mystique of the Rue Morgue with a deadly Agatha Christie closed circle, Vohrer's THE DOOR WITH 7 LOCKS (1962) has everything Rialto Wallace krimi made legend including stunning photography, ham-fisted hijinks, unhinged science & a MacGuffin locked behind a sinister door. #Noirvember
A key domino in the German krimi film cycle's trajectory, Reinl's lean Wallace caper FELLOWSHIP OF THE FROG (1959) comes complete with chiaroscuro heavy pulp & a real rubik's cube of a plot bearing the eurospy augury of waggish playboy with butler sidekick & a penchant for crime solving. #Noirvember
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A key domino in the German krimi film cycle's trajectory, Reinl's lean Wallace caper FELLOWSHIP OF THE FROG (1959) comes complete with chiaroscuro heavy pulp & a real rubik's cube of a plot bearing the eurospy augury of waggish playboy with butler sidekick & a penchant for crime solving. #Noirvember
let the bodies hit the floor
#BavaBodies Blood & Black Lace // Planet of the Vampires // Kill, Baby...Kill! // Hatchet for the Honeymoon
#BavaBodies Blood & Black Lace // Planet of the Vampires // Kill, Baby...Kill! // Hatchet for the Honeymoon
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
let the bodies hit the floor
#BavaBodies Blood & Black Lace // Planet of the Vampires // Kill, Baby...Kill! // Hatchet for the Honeymoon
#BavaBodies Blood & Black Lace // Planet of the Vampires // Kill, Baby...Kill! // Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Ghosts won't kill people because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ghosts won't kill people because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.
Beyond pat stalker/thriller, Shunichi Nagasaki's tense V-Cinema giallo style neo-noir STRANGER (1991) set amidst the predawn of Japan's asset bubble burst takes Spielberg's Duel on a gender bender, focusing its more intense moments on the incessant, unsolicited scrutiny women face daily. #Noirvember
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Beyond pat stalker/thriller, Shunichi Nagasaki's tense V-Cinema giallo style neo-noir STRANGER (1991) set amidst the predawn of Japan's asset bubble burst takes Spielberg's Duel on a gender bender, focusing its more intense moments on the incessant, unsolicited scrutiny women face daily. #Noirvember
DoP's Chung & Doyle entering god mode 🫠
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
DoP's Chung & Doyle entering god mode 🫠
A key progenitor of Wong Kar-Wai & Christopher Doyle's tone poems, Patrick Tam's spectacle of sadness MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE (1989) perfects a certain synth driven ocular pageantry that forms lustrous crinkled foils of melodramatic longing to enfold heroic bloodshed's sweet sanguineous candy.
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A key progenitor of Wong Kar-Wai & Christopher Doyle's tone poems, Patrick Tam's spectacle of sadness MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE (1989) perfects a certain synth driven ocular pageantry that forms lustrous crinkled foils of melodramatic longing to enfold heroic bloodshed's sweet sanguineous candy.
Now that the M+ 4K restoration of Love Massacre is officially making the rounds maybe I can stop yelling at people to watch it—one of the greatest slashers ever made.
#Finally #PatrickTamIsLove 📽️🎞️
#Finally #PatrickTamIsLove 📽️🎞️
November 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Now that the M+ 4K restoration of Love Massacre is officially making the rounds maybe I can stop yelling at people to watch it—one of the greatest slashers ever made.
#Finally #PatrickTamIsLove 📽️🎞️
#Finally #PatrickTamIsLove 📽️🎞️
Night of the Demon (1957), Jacques Tourneur // Messiah of Evil (1973), Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz
#sidebyside #horrorhallways #horrorsky #filmsky 📽️
#sidebyside #horrorhallways #horrorsky #filmsky 📽️
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Night of the Demon (1957), Jacques Tourneur // Messiah of Evil (1973), Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz
#sidebyside #horrorhallways #horrorsky #filmsky 📽️
#sidebyside #horrorhallways #horrorsky #filmsky 📽️
Kicking off #Noirvember with two of my favorite bad husbands #nw
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Kicking off #Noirvember with two of my favorite bad husbands #nw
October 31st November 1st
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
October 31st November 1st