Tragic Exorcist

A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)

The Other Side of the Mirror (1973)

Nightmares Come at Night (1970)

The Hot Nights of Linda (1975)

Midnight insomnia in Jess Franco films.

THE OBSCENE MIRROR (1973) dir. Jess Franco

Secret dungeons and bizarro castles in LES CROQUEUSES (1974) dir. Jess Franco

An astronomer peer through a high powered telescope. She says "ooo... I think I've found an entirely new exoplanet. Can't wait to publish." Through the telescope, we see the the exoplanet has a large mountain ridge that resembles a detailed phallus. The astronomer, shaken, pulls her head back from the telescope. At the local bar, she holds a glass of liquor while worriedly contemplating the enormity of her discovery.

Baths used to be more fun.

a 3d render of the muppets rowlf and gonzo

theatre 🎭

(been watching the muppets show recently)

Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980)

Stigmata the Hedgehog

LA COMTESSE NOIRE (1973) dir. Jess Franco

LE ALTRE (1969) dir. Alessandro Fallay
Sandy and Flavia are a domestic lesbian couple who want a child. An advertising company and a tabloid paper catch wind of this and attempt to capitalise from the potential scandal.

Nesta sexta, 22/08, às 23h59, tem "Satyricon", de Federico Fellini, no Estação NET Botafogo.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

A BLACK RIBBON FOR DEBORAH (1974) dir. Marcello Andrei

Whatever its merits for other uses, I hope archivists can agree that generative AI is a really bad idea for archival description. If you're trying to explain the context for rare materials, you are never, in a trillion years, going to get that by pointing an algorithm at them

Levana, the forgotten Third Mother in Luigi Cozzi's THE BLACK CAT (1989). Her appearance actually brings to mind Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness from Thomas De Quincey's SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS.

Dream figures superimposed on one another in various colours from green man to red woman to various dancers from Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)

Frame of the Day

suspiria (1977) dir. dario argento
nutcracker fantasy (1979) dir. takeo nakamura

GREYING OUT by Gamevial

An excerpt from Guy Maddin's SEANCES.

CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER (1962) dir. Albert Zugsmith
INFERNO (1980) dir. Dario Argento

They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath The 4K transfer of True Lies is what happens when a company uses proprietary tech to overwrite and denoise history.

Tremendous piece by Chris Person on the pointless mutilation of film history by morons, overeager tech-heads (a subspecies of moron), and directors who've gotten lost in the sauce of unbridled capitalism.

aftermath.site/true-lies-4k...

IL FUOCO (1915) dir. Giovanni Pastrone

A HAUNTED TURKISH BATHHOUSE (1975) dir. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

cozy horror is horror downtime - hooking up in the save room, telling stories on the Jaws boat, waiting for the killer as he's checking every house. marking time, waiting for death - life goes on, ruled by fear.

CINEMA BEFORE 1300 (2023) dir. Jerome Hiler

CHOCOLAT (2000) dir. Lasse Hallstrom