@marioscido.bsky.social
Humanities instructor, independent filmmaker, MUFF supporter, Monstrum conjurer, hysterical cinephile, and golem scholar. The book I wrote: https://anthempress.com/grand-guignol-cinema-and-the-horror-genre-hb https://www.monstrum-society.ca/
I did not even know it was unavliavlabule until recently. I bought the film to honour Diane Keaton. It's a forgotten masterpiece.
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WOW! LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (Richard Brooks, 1977) blew me away. Diane Keaton's performance is so powerful as a woman seeking sexual liberation from Catholic conservatism within the feminist movements of the 70s. Grand-Guignol cinema in every way. Still on my skin!
09.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never. Saw. This. Tonight.
08.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am always pleasantly surprised when I re-watch Jess Franco's films, here BLOODY MOON (1981), his slasher film set in Alicante (Spain) giving it a lovely weirdness accompanied by a bizarre score, really good FX work, and a sun-drenched vistas that clash with the slasher sensibility. Good one!
08.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Et l'ère Denis Coderre est de retour !
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Movie blood.
02.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy Halloween/All Souls Day.
02.11.2025 13:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The new FRANKENSTEIN by Del Toro is beautiful but lacks monstrous trauma. The creature is only tragic like Quasimodo in Disney and kills defensively. A good transgressive version is by the queer James Whale from 1931 , because like in the novel the creature kills a child and shocked audiences.
29.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my first academic publications was an anti-colonial reading of I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Lewton/Tourneur, 1943). No recent films have come close to depicting Vodou as anti-colonial as this film does, btw. The new Criterion release has "finally" arrived and the transfer is stunning! See it!
27.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My comfort food!
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From the year of DIAMOND DOGS (1974) in this otherwise scathing review: "The stage was built at weird angles like in 1920 German Expressionist silents with a cityscape as the backdrop." This monster kid would have died and gone straight to hell.
26.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CE SOIR! Célébration MONSTRUM du 50e anniversaire de la sortie de SHIVERS de David Cronenberg (tourné à Montréal) avec Éric Falardeau et Justine Smith à la Cinémathèque QC, vendredi le 24 octobre à 19h45. $13.
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In the brilliant noir FALLEN ANGEL (1945), the later blonde-black design of David Lynch is already in evidence with June (Alice Faye) and Stella (Linda Darnell) dealing with a vile huckster (Dana Andrews). The film begins with Stella arriving in a bar, removing her shoes, and everything falls apart.
22.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Célébration MONSTRUM du 50e anniversaire de la sortie de SHIVERS de David Cronenberg (tourné à Montréal) avec Éric Falardeau et Justine Smith à la Cinémathèque QC, vendredi le 24 octobre à 19h45. $13. VENDREDI PROCHAIN.
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Before Dr. Frank-N-Furter's singing "I'm just a sweet transvestite, from Transsexual in Transylvania" in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975), there is Hammer queering DR. JECKYLL AND SISTER HYDE, by Roy Ward Baker, released on October 17, 1971.
20.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Celebrated stage and screen actress Samantha Eggar, known for her numerous appearances in horror films across three decades, has passed away, according to her daughter, Jenna Stern. The actress has suffered with illnesses for the last five years, and, according to Stern, passed away peacefully in…
17.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 62 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 12France has indeed always had a continuous horror history from Méliès to the Cinema of Sensation. Great list!
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Il y a 50 ans, au petit matin du 16 octobre 1970, ces trois «dangereux révolutionnaires» étaient kidnappés par la police, comme plus de 490 autres personnes.
Gérald Godin, Pauline Julien, Gaston Miron et toutes les autres victimes de cette rafle politique, nous nous souvenons.
MONSTRUM celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of SHIVERS by David Cronenberg (shot in Montréal) with Éric Falardeau and Justine Smith at the Cinémathèque on Friday, October 24th @ 7:45 pm.
www.monstrum-society.ca/fall-2025.html
Célébration MONSTRUM du 50e anniversaire de la sortie de SHIVERS de David Cronenberg (tourné à Montréal) avec Éric Falardeau et Justine Smith à la Cinémathèque, vendredi le 24 octobre à 19h45.
www.cinematheque.qc.ca/fr/cinema/sh...
TONIGHT! So good!
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YES! Great picks from the always provocative Luca G calling Breillat the great director of our time and with Fuller, Wong Kar-Wai, Scorsese's LAST TEMPTATION, and Friedkin's SORCERER, and others!
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The documentary THEATRE OF HORRORS is fantastic - and not surprising coming from the good people at Severin. Barbara Steele's narration should be enough to entice you! Go see it with a crowd at FNC next Sunday at 20:30 @ CQ:
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THE EVIL DEAD (1980).
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