Nadine Whitney

Can you make a face on the ghost that’s weirdly tiny?

Perfect!

Are you not INFLUENCING enough?

(It happens to us all).

I haven’t seen it but I look forward to it.

Poor Sussan has lost control again.

Congratulations, Dr. Pedlar.

It’s also a reluctant “monster” tale. No one should desire the power to conquer death.

Cronos, his debut feature, sets out his particular interests and if it had a larger budget it would have certainly been more Frankenstein.

He has. In almost every disc extra interview I have with him he references Frankenstein.

I’m a dyed in the wool fan. I will sit through any nonsense in the Star Trek universe. Jadzia Dax is FOREVER.

Polly played by Maika Monroe stand next to Caitlin played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead over a baby’s cradle.

Michelle Garza Cervera does what she can to add style to the substance-free reimagining of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE. Mary Elizabeth Winstead facing down Maika Monroe should have more sizzle.

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I own heaps of discs I haven’t watched and even more I haven’t rewatched. My Criterion collection is large.

I mean, not much.

Little Alis! What a brilliant ragamuffin.

And we can tell.

I have a LB account because I like the fancy spreadsheet. My four are A VERY CURIOUS GIRL, ALICE (Švankmajer), DAISIES and CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING.

I am ready to answer but I’ve not been asked (sad).

I think you’re fibbing about those movies!

Anne Brontë was the most feminist writer of the sisters.

And, as Kathryn said, it’s not really a “what if”

It’s so stressful.

Congrats!

Oh, Kristin. I’m distressed to hear how distressed you are. Would it cheer you a little to come to a preview with me tomorrow afternoon? Just message me.

More who names a female presenting person Florian back in the 1970s? French poets maybe despite it’s a mostly Germanic and Slavic used male name?

I rabbit-holed it a couple of years back.

Drop the Dido. It’s Florian.

What about “Dark academia vibes”?

Many genres have gothic variations. Gothic noir like Laura, In a Lonely Place. Colonial gothic like The Nightingale, Under Capricorn. Literary gothic like Jamaica Inn, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre.
Southern Gothic.

Suspiria, A Banquet, Nightmare Alley (both), Earwig, Sunset Boulevard, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Baby Jane, Fire Walk With Me, Messiah of Evil, Vampyr, Carnival of Souls, Angel Heart, The Addiction, Near Dark, Wise Blood, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Innocence…

I’ve got a massive amount. The gothic is an elastic term. Think of The Innocents, The Others, The Uninvited, The Changeling, Lady Macbeth, The Piano, Eyes Without a Face, Diabolique, The Reflecting Skin, Franklyn, Byzantium, Night of the Hunter…

When they’re starting at the rotary phone!

It’s pretty special, Trav. I didn’t get a chance to fangirl over LOVELESS, NEAR DARK, and STRANGE DAYS but I really wanted to.