Matt Simon

solidarity

thank you!

definitely held up in a rewatch!

Poster: House of the Devil

This week thinking about

- 80s setting and genre freedom in House of the Devil
- a horror of revisitation in Charlie Polinger’s The Plague

and recommending

- an accusatory stare in Max Ernst’s Attirement of the Bride

www.deadofnightletter.com/devil-plague... #filmsky #horrorsky

Every day more vile things happening to immigrants in this country and around the world. Every person on this earth matters, especially those who’ve risked so much to start over somewhere new. No one is free until we all are.

Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar in THE COLLECTOR.

“There’s a crushing sense of hope in her performance, and flashes of despair as she senses how—even if he’s sensitive, child-like—he’s also impenetrable.” www.deadofnightletter.com/stamp-toy-ph... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

interesting!

Seen some street banner ads around town but confused about what it was

wait so that Paranormal Activity live theater thing is good?

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...

Slide on theater screen: The Plague.

Plague time 💀

Elizabeth Peña and Tim Robbins in Jacob’s Ladder

“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

still: shadowy sidewalk

still: woman looking back down an unevenly lit street

still: Irena in Cat People at the zoo on a misty night

Oliver and Alice from Cat People, Tourneur's wild shadows marking the space

Indelible Horror Cities—
No. 1 — Cat People’s New York

#filmsky #horror

Took the #noirvember opportunity to recommend my favorite movie—which I’ve written about at greater length here: www.deadofnightletter.com/sisters/

still: Under The Skin/reflection in a mirror

still: Under The Skin/red light in a hallway

still: Under The Skin/a misty road

still: Under The Skin/practical lighting, shadow on the wall

Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 4 • Under The Skin

#filmsky #horrorsky

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: backlit girl, arm extended

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a picnic at the base of Hanging Rock

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a hazy landscape

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: walking through the trees

Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 3 • Picnic At Hanging Rock

#filmsky #horrorsky

Françoise Pascal in Iron Rose

“… its quiet surrealism makes a hypnotic, hypnagogic (soporific for some) experience.” - On Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky

Françoise Pascal in Iron Rose

“… its quiet surrealism makes a hypnotic, hypnagogic (soporific for some) experience.” - On Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky

still: Under The Skin/reflection in a mirror

still: Under The Skin/red light in a hallway

still: Under The Skin/a misty road

still: Under The Skin/practical lighting, shadow on the wall

Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 4 • Under The Skin

#filmsky #horrorsky

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: backlit girl, arm extended

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a picnic at the base of Hanging Rock

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a hazy landscape

Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: walking through the trees

Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 3 • Picnic At Hanging Rock

#filmsky #horrorsky

The children in Village of the Damned

This week thinking about

- Village of the Damned (1960) &
- Keeper

and recommending

- Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky

a standing stone at the door

a red jacket and stone

a woman in a red jacket in the background, stone in the foreground

reddish lens leak framing an image of a stone

Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 2 • Mark Jenkin's Enys Men

#filmsky #horror

cool — I didn’t see it until streaming

a standing stone at the door

a red jacket and stone

a woman in a red jacket in the background, stone in the foreground

reddish lens leak framing an image of a stone

Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 2 • Mark Jenkin's Enys Men

#filmsky #horror

The children in Village of the Damned

This week thinking about

- Village of the Damned (1960) &
- Keeper

and recommending

- Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky

Comprehensive Carlos Saura retrospective in Los Angeles when?

It's a small gesture but this year I decided to prioritise watching microbudget self-distributed horror films in my relaxo time as a way of not supporting gross major corporate economic models. It's one of the best things I've ever done, and has fundamentally rewired what I think of as "good" film.

Comprehensive Carlos Saura retrospective in Los Angeles when?

Never seen but the poster always blows me away.

YouTube video by Charles Gerhardt - Topic Concerto Macabre for Piano and Orchestra (From "Hangover Square")

God, I love this movie. Bernard Herrmann outdoes himself with the “Concerto Macabre”. youtu.be/lp5fCcAM-s8?...