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My eye caught this somewhere in Slater Park. "Esperanza Hope" by Gabriel Calle Arranga, 2021
🎥 A Shot in the Dark (1964): Sellers does it again for the first time, reprising his role as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau—this time falling for his chief murder suspect (Sommer), much to the exasperation of his boss, Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Lom). 🕵️‍♂️💎💘

#filmsky #comedy #60scinema #filmnoirparody
Yeah, I was surprised to read that! Inspired both Balance of Terror and Wrath of Khan.

Strange how Spock saves the day in both huh?
The Enemy Below (1957) ⚓️
Of the two rival captains, Mitchum faces the more skeptical crew. His steady presence eventually wins them over, but it feels perfunctory rather than earned. Still, all is forgiven once the film locks into its tense, thrilling cat-and-mouse game. 🌊🎥

#filmsky #classicfilm
"I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood."

George Orwell, "Why I Write"
Gangrel, No. 4, Summer 1946

#writing #georgeorwell
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#OnMyWalk this big #Skull peered out from the bushes & then I saw the whole #Graveyard! My neighbors have gone berserk! Too many skeletal visitors!! What is wrong with people!? #Ghouls #HappyHalloween #Ghosts #Spiders #BeKind Sending Love To You All🧡🕷️💛🎃🧡🧛‍♂️💛🦇🧡👻💛🐈‍⬛🧡☠️💛🧙‍♀️🧡🕷️💛🎃🧡🧛‍♂️💛🦇🧡👻💛🐈‍⬛🧡☠️💛🧙‍♀️🧡🕷️💛🎃🧡🧛‍♂️💛🦇🧡👻💛🐈‍⬛🧡☠️💛🧙‍♀️🧡
What's strange about it is that neither Tobe Hooper or Spielberg were asked back abd I can find nothing on what they thought of it.

Having said that, its an interesting story with a few good creature effects, but its always on the edge of coming undone by cheesy writing and acting.
🔥 Face of Fire (1959) — Striking a tone between monster movie and morality play, it reserves our revulsion for the townsfolk’s cruelty toward a hired man (James Whitmore) disfigured while saving a child from a fire. Based on Stephen Crane’s novella "The Monster." 🎭💀🔥

#filmsky #horrorsky #film
Worth a second reposting.
"There was an old woman who lived in a room and like all of us was frightened of the dark, but who discovered in her minute, last fragment of her life, that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on."

#robertredford #rodserling #tvsky #twilightzone #scifi 📺
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
"Even a drum sounds melodious from afar..." "Prefer the present..."

Its hard seeing people be successful at something you want. Just remember there's a gulf between your perception of them and who they actually are.

Also things are not set in stone, success is fluid.
🎥 I Bury the Living (1958) Business curdles into paranoia when a new cemetery director learns he can kill plot holders simply by moving map pins. Harsh lighting, swelling maps, creeping silhouettes, and a music-box score build our unease into a mud-caked, sweaty delirium. 💀🪦

#filmsky #horrorsky
The Yesterday Machine (1965) — Hog-tied by budget and resources, Okie director Russ Markel turns a rundown farmhouse into a hotspot for the sudden re-appearance of Confederate soldiers, Egyptian queens, and Nazi scientists. 🤯 Clunky but oddly charming regional sci-fi. 🛸

#filmsky #bmovies #scifi
He has no standards, no ethics, no respect for anything or anyone.
🎥 Little Shop of Horrors (1960) is fast, efficient, and doesn’t dwell on the absurdity of its plot. However, the juvenile humor is hard to take from the get go. Jack Nicholson appears in one of his earliest roles. 🪴🧛‍♂️😂

#horrorsky #film #1960sCinema
The Curse of the Demon (1957):
Like getting lost on a walk in the woods, Curse makes the familiar seem strange—and then suddenly frightening—before pulling you back onto the well-worn path of rationality, leaving you wondering whether what you saw was real or merely an illusion. 👁️‍🗨️🕯️
#horrorsky #film
I think it's an even greater accomplishment that you found a Tower Records, but that might be my provincial ass talking.
Sorry to hear, my condolences.
🎥 Fortress of the Dead (1965)
The haunted house is swapped for a crumbling WWII fortress in post-war Manila. Eeriness is promised — and kept — but it’s the triangle between trauma-bonded soldier Frank, his war buddy Joe, and the enigmatic Major Franco that ultimately earns our respect. #horrorsky