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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1h

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SALOUM (2021), a supernatural thriller in which a trio of elite mercenaries who've been hired to take a Mexican drug lord to Dakar are forced to land their plane in a remote area of Senegal inhabited by malevolent spirits

Written and directed by Jean Luc Herbulot

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1h

Dick Johnson is Dead (2020)

Directed and co-written by Kirsten Johnson - BOTD in 1965

Color photo of Kirsten Johnson and her father Dick sitting on a couch in Halloween costumes.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1h

Drop something DEVILISH 😈🖤😈

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Gunhed Candy🎃 @gunhedcandy.bsky.social · 2h

Halloween countdown 🎃
Josie and the Pussycats
#1970s

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Gunhed Candy🎃 @gunhedcandy.bsky.social · 2h

Advert for Pep cereal with Tom Corbett Space goggles offer #1950s
This sign sold for $600

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Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social · 2h

Yasujirō Ozu & crew
Tokyo Twilight 1957 東京暮色
#filmsky #moviesky #japan #movies #japanese #cinema #小津安二郎 #東京暮色

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1h

Rewatching Tokyo Godfathers every year around Christmas time is a tradition with me too.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1h

What a coincidence--I was just talking to actual C.H.U.D.s yesterday!

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 3h

“I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally

and become his chief of staff.”

-Aleister Crowley #BOTD

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 3h

Daliah Lavi - BOTD

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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 3h

The best Dracula movie is Blood for Dracula because at the end he’s killed by a working class communist

Joe Dallesandro chopping off Udo Kier’s arm at the end of Blood for Dracula

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 2h

Images from films shot by cinematographer Peter Stein - BOTD in 1943

C.H.U.D. (1984)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)
Graveyard Shift (1990)

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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 3h

"Clay is embedded in our subconscious.

It has been there for at least 50,000 years."

-Art Clokey #BOTD

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Alexis ☭ @gothgf.rip · 2h

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 2h

I read Peter Thiel’s essay on Alan Moore’s Watchmen and it unquestionably proves that piss poor media literacy is foundational to this recent rise of fascism.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 2h

Japanese poster for Pier Paolo Pasolini's MEDEA (1969)

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2h

Same

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 2h

The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

A mostly lost silent serial about a clairvoyant named Myra whose life is threatened by a Satanic cult called the Black Order.

The cult was inspired by the Golden Dawn, the secret society of practitioners of the occult led by Aleister Crowley - BOTD in 1875

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 3h

Pleasure (2021)

Harrowing, empathetic drama about a 19-year-old girl from a small town in Sweden who moves to L.A. with dreams of becoming a big-time porn star

Starring Sofia Kappel

Directed and co-written by Ninja Thyberg

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 3h

Images from films starring Aurore Clement - BOTD in 1945

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Toute une nuit (1982)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Marie Antoinette (2006)

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 3h

Sunday mood

Color photo of Vampira carving a pumpkin that looks to be in great pain.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 3h

Images from films shot by cinematographer Donald E. Thorin - BOTD in 1934

Thief (1981)
Purple Rain (1984)
Midnight Run (1988)
Tango & Cash (1989)

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 4h

Japanese poster for TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003)

Directed and co-written by Satoshi Kon - BOTD in 1963

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 4h

Poster for PERFECT BLUE (1997)

Directed by Satoshi Kon - BOTD in 1963

Poster features a painting the movie's protagonist, a former member of a teen idol girl group who is coming apart mentally.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 23h

Poster for the silent romantic comedy THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928)

Directed by Lewis Milestone

Starring Corinne Griffith and Lowell Sherman (BOTD in 1888)

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