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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · Aug 11
Saw Donkey Skin over the weekend and I am thinking about the cat throne.
From Donkey Skin: A king sitting on a throne that resembles a giant, white cat.
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 3h
it’s so good
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 3h
On Mica Levi’s score for Under The Skin: “Its delightfully unnerving melding of uneasy strings with buzzing and static effects can feel like a submerged Bernard Herrmann score …”

www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #musicsky #horror #cinema
album: Under The Skin
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 2d
Horror-heads & cinephiles! May I suggest you sign up for my newsletter?

A weekly quick-read thinking about horror cinema—about a past title and something new—plus a recommendation.

It’s almost Halloween! Feed the newsletter’s maw!

www.deadofnightletter.com #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Dead of Night
A meditation on horror cinema and its tributaries.
www.deadofnightletter.com
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 2d
blood orange at shrine expo hall last night 🩸🍊
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 2d
“If the slasher feels … like a creature of the 80s, then perhaps it’s only natural to return there.”

On Night of the Reaper’s period setting: www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Poster: Night of the Reaper
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 2d
After The 7th Victim, my favorite horror noir.
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Linda Darnell as a callous chanteuse who charms a troubled composer (Laird Cregar, in his final role) in HANGOVER SQUARE (1945).

John Brahm's gaslight Noir w/ an unforgettable Bernard Herrmann score is the perfect bridge from Halloween to Noirvember. #FilmSky #FilmNoir
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 2d
Nation of Language at The Fonda Theatre last night.
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 3d
“Jacob’s Ladder feels, at different moments, like a drama about post-war PTSD, a horror movie about demons among us, a paranoid thriller about a secret military program, and a spiritual tale about the afterlife.”

www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Elizabeth Peña and Tim Robbins in Jacob’s Ladder
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 3d
New letter on:

- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin

www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Tim Robbins on a subway platform in Jacob's Ladder
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 4d
looking back at my watched films on Letterboxd (in order they were added) and damn this run was insane
my watched films on Letterboxd (in order they were added): spectrum reverse spectrum, Lawrence of Arabia, playtime, red rooms, El, last life in the universe, son of Frankenstein, Dracula’s daughter
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 6d
Thinking about jack-o’-lanterns and “… two ingredients of evocative visuals—live flame and crude faces.”

www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
Sam and a flaming jack-o’-lantern from Trick ‘r Treat
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 9d
This week I recommend the project over at @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social. “They’re a direct line to a relationship with a fringe past—beyond the classics, beyond nostalgia-shrouded cult favorites, beyond the video store archive.”

www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... @bradfhenderson.bsky.social
Pumpkin / Monster / Secret Past
This week we're mainlining Halloween vibes, thinking about dangerous rabbits, and meeting a long lost slasher . . . From the Grave. Three ideas from horror cinema's past. It’s officially October, ...
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 10d
“… the monster is always dangerous, always other, never domesticated.”

On @bryanfuller.bsky.social‘s Dust Bunny at www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema
Sophie Sloan as Aurora in Dust Bunny
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 11d
This week’s letter on:

- the special power in anthologies
- keeping monsters dangerous
- and the rare experience of a rediscovered lost slasher

www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #horrorsky #filmsky #horror #cinema
Sam from Trick ‘r Treat
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 11d
A cool thing is this rare situation where the (Tourneur/Lewton) original and the (Schrader) remake both absolutely rule.
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Join #FrightClub and post along Tuesday's feature, Cat People (1982), at 10:00 PM ET. Available on Prime. A co-watch with our #FullMoonFrights friends!

Let's have a purrrrfectly good time.
Poster for Cat People (1982), famous blurry image of a wet Nastassja Kinski, looking feline and sexy Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole Directed by Paul Schrader
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 13d
“Its visual beauty gives it parallel emotional registers—induces a desire to look and not look. Glamour and gloom together …”

www.deadofnightletter.com/glamour-gore...
Christie/Sutherland dressing in Don’t Look Now
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 13d
immaculate October vibes

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Marquee that reads “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark in 35mm” / neon
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 14d
Seated for the Terror Vision/Beyond Fest world premiere of a 4K restoration of long lost 80s synthy slasher Silent Death 😱
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15d
Was lucky to catch a print at the Academy Museum.
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15d
Also: wild the degree to which Rosita Quintana is a dead ringer for Lana Del Rey.
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15d
(I should really credit this precise thought to my wife)
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15d
a movie about the perils of being too good looking
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15d
Caught another Buñuel banger last night.
Poster: Susana
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15d
watched recently—pretty harrowing!
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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15d
“Its ‘Beast’ is a hybrid creature with a bird’s head and sharp claws—a character surging with carnal and violent energy.” On Herz’s Panna a netvor (“The Virgin and the Monster”): www.deadofnightletter.com/glamour-gore... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
The Monster in Panna a netvor. The Monster’s claws at Julie’s throat in Panna a netvor. Julie hugs the Monster from behind in Panna a netvor. Monster POV in in Panna a netvor.
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