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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · Nov 8

So I occasionally post about:
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Zack Snyder
Film in general but silent, classic era, Hammer, 60s-70s British film, musicals
Nancy Drew (2019) and Tom Swift
British cult TV mostly The Young Ones
Musical theatre
Champions Online
Gothic rock, punk, post-punk etc.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 13h

The scene from Pandora’s Box (1929). Louise later said she was aware of director G.W. Pabst’s symbolism of Lulu swinging happily on an erect male muscle. Pabst also portrayed the characters of Schigolch and Quast as two more men greedily exploiting the innocent Lulu.

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 13h

Louise as Lulu feels the impressive biceps of strongman Rodrigo Quast (Krafft-Raschig) after an introduction by her original “patron” — and perhaps, her former pimp — Schigolch (Carl Goetz). A publicity still from Pandora’s Box (1929).

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 1d

Louise in costume for Pandora’s Box (1929).

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, side note: As I somehow remembered from when I got way too into reading about her as a 15 year old, that's the actual Bathory coat of arms that keeps appearing as a set detail. Neat!

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

Vampire Lovers as where Hammer started struggling to be shocking and relevant in a world moving much faster than they were.
Basically, one of those films I want to like more than what's actually there. Still maybe one of my favourite Hammers.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

feels like it's exploring the subtext that should be there.
Anyway, oh wow that's Ingrid Pitt's boob. We've seen nipples in Hammer before, but it's never felt this blatant. But she's supposed to be bathing in blood, so it can be excused as plot relevant? You can probably pinpoint this and The

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

Plot is a bit lacking - Ilona suddenly jumps from being held captive in the shack to being held in the castle, like I'd nodded off?
And for a film about the ultimate lesbian boogeywoman, it's so very straight. Even when Nigel Green tells a sex worker she's being hired for a woman, it never really

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

where aging is the horror - Pitt's sudden reversions to her true appearance are jump scares, more horrific each time.
This really does rattle along nicely with the court intrigue, and for a Hammer, "rattle along nicely" is a welcome change of pace from the usual plod.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

This was one of my first Hammers, furtively taped off late night Channel 4, and I certainly thought there was going to be more of Ingrid Pitt whipping servants and bathing in blood and not quite so much of her in gross old lady makeup. Maybe I'm getting sensitive to this, but this is a horror film

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

So what better to pair with Dracula's Daughter than Countess Dracula? My run through the Hammer Dracula cycle has reached the point where this slots in, and... Yeah, I was going to watch something longer, then it was late and this is a comfortable 93 minutes.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder for myself, want to watch this after Halloween season.

DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 1d

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 2d

Is the inter-war period the exact moment American Anglophilia began? WWI being a lesson in "we've got more in common"?

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 2d

Louise on the cover of VU magazine, June 1929. Original photo by Studio Lorelle, Paris.

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 2d

Out of curiosity, what's with the Anglophilia that runs through the early Universal Monsters? I guess Dracula and Invisible Man being set in England is down to the source material, but then there's Werewolf of London as the first Wolfman film...

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 2d

Countess Zaleska's motivations never really make sense, and she seems to die just because it was time to end the film.
Feels like using the Swan Lake theme again would really have worked for this one.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 2d

(She hypnotises and sucks on a woman... Pretty much all offscreen.) And seeing this pick up directly from Browning's Dracula (the bodies are literally still warm) is kind of cool.
This might actually be my favourite of the Monsters so far, but that's entirely down to Holden's presence.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 2d

I have very mixed feelings on Dracula's Daughter. The opening comedy bit is painful, and it continues Dracula 1931's belief that Whitby is some kind of district of London. (Carfax Abbey has even relocated there!) Yet, damn, Gloria Holden is just so beautiful. And there's queer subtext!

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 2d

My attempt to watch all of the Universal Monsters films has reached Dracula's Daughter and Son of Frankenstein. Yes, it's Universal Monsters Kids time.

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Soylent D Cracker🏳️‍🌈 @cinemacultist.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, they released this

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously what is this? Can't see Kiss of the Spider Woman but I can see this?

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 3d

Last night I woke up from a dream so unsettling I think I dissociated temporarily. Never seen a film scarier than what my subconscious can casually throw at me.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 3d

So I'm up late because tomorrow is the day I booked off for Kiss of the Spider Woman, which isn't releasing here, but oh well, it's a day off in October.

Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 3d

"And now it's owned by people that will kowtow to Trump. And there's a huge disconnect between the spirit of Star Trek and the spirit of Marvel Comics in which they were conceived, and the people that now own them. It's really bizarre." - Stewart Lee www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfc...

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Lady Penelope York @ladypenelope.bsky.social · 3d

"What's really bizarre is all those franchises now are owned by companies that have just bent over backwards for Trump... It's really weird to think that Disney owns Marvel Comics, and Marvel Comics was invented by liberal autodidact Jewish antifascists and... acid-fried hippie dropouts...