Matt Simon

A cool thing is this rare situation where the (Tourneur/Lewton) original and the (Schrader) remake both absolutely rule.

Christie/Sutherland dressing in Don’t Look Now

“Its visual beauty gives it parallel emotional registers—induces a desire to look and not look. Glamour and gloom together …”

www.deadofnightletter.com/glamour-gore...

Marquee that reads “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark in 35mm” / neon

immaculate October vibes

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Seated for the Terror Vision/Beyond Fest world premiere of a 4K restoration of long lost 80s synthy slasher Silent Death 😱

Was lucky to catch a print at the Academy Museum.

Also: wild the degree to which Rosita Quintana is a dead ringer for Lana Del Rey.

(I should really credit this precise thought to my wife)

a movie about the perils of being too good looking

Poster: Susana

Caught another Buñuel banger last night.

watched recently—pretty harrowing!

The Monster in Panna a netvor.

The Monster’s claws at Julie’s throat in Panna a netvor.

Julie hugs the Monster from behind in Panna a netvor.

Monster POV in in Panna a netvor.

“Its ‘Beast’ is a hybrid creature with a bird’s head and sharp claws—a character surging with carnal and violent energy.” On Herz’s Panna a netvor (“The Virgin and the Monster”): www.deadofnightletter.com/glamour-gore... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

the small, the handmade, sketches & utterances A list of 55 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Nevermore Eleanor (2024), Captain Elliot's Circle (2023), You Burn Me (2024), In Water (2023) and By the Stream (2024).

at the risk of shameless self-promotion, some of these titles might interest you: letterboxd.com/danimal1/lis...

Nice theme. ‘Small canvas’ films of the 2020s:

What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
Aftersun
Petite Maman
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
All We Imagine As Light
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Limbo
Slow

Poster: Femme

Poster: Murina

Poster: Priscilla

Poster: Enys Men

For instance:

Lots of good ones being thrown around, but it strikes me how conversations like this always focus on movies that are big in some way or are self-consciously about history. Where are the small canvas movies, the portraits, the mood pieces?

It’s a pretty intense movie. It does feel real.

My childhood VHS box of terror was Henry: Portrait of Serial Killer. Rooker’s pretty freaky on there. Finally saw it last year.

Sisters | The Seventh Victim Setting out, shuffling off. I’ve been rather obsessed with Val Lewton’s movies for a long time, and The Seventh Victim (1943) is my favorite. In anticipation of Cinematic Void’s screening of a Librar...

Maybe my favorite movie. A permanent pick on my Letterboxd top four. I wrote about it a few years ago: www.deadofnightletter.com/sisters/

VHS box: House II

VHS art

VHS art: Jawbreaker

““Horror’s a genre that has run so often on small budgets and practical effects, and this same ethic can be felt in the detailed exhibit creation here.” On Slashback Video: www.deadofnightletter.com/glamour-gore... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

Yes! I should watch it again. I watched The Ninth Heart without English subtitles so it was confusing, but still a good watch (with great handmade credit titles too).

Julie Christie in Don’t Look Now

Donald Sutherland in Don’t Look Now

Hot off the presses: new newsletter on time in Don’t Look Now (and impeccable 70s style), the “horror VHS immersive exhibit” at Slashback Video, and the gorgeous goth fantasy of the Czech Beauty and the Beast. www.deadofnightletter.com/glamour-gore... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema

And now time for Mag Mag.

At my first BeyondFest screening of the season (Dust Bunny)!

me and Freddy hanging out

Got to catch up with my best friend today.

still from Lake Mungo: darkened house interior with shadowy figure on the left

“Images here are unstable and so are we. We see new things every time we look.”

www.deadofnightletter.com/image-secret... #filmsky #horror #cinema

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It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

loved

big screen VistaVision a dream

One Battle After Another poster by Jeremy Arblaster

tonight!

(poster by @jeremyarblaster.bsky.social rules)

Ever-disappointed in the lack of a mainstream left counter-narrative to the right’s nativism. Nativism-light is a moral and political loser.

Say it loud: migration is a human right.