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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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Erich Kettelhut
Production drawings for Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
#ErichKettelhut #Metropolis #FritzLang #FilmSky
Production drawing by Erich Kettelhut for Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Production drawing by Erich Kettelhut for Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Production drawing by Erich Kettelhut for Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Production drawing by Erich Kettelhut for Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Indelible Horror Cities—
No. 5 • Tenebrae's Rome

#filmsky #horrorsky
a busy street in Rome a pool with cubic architectural embellishments rectangular shapes characterize the exterior of a building a man in a window, the city below reflected
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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“… toward a horror of revisitation …”
On Charlie Polinger’s The Plague www.deadofnightletter.com/devil-plague... #filmsky #film #horrorsky
Devil / Plague / Bride
Thinking about The House of the Devil, dir. Ti West, 2009; The Plague, dir. Charlie Polinger, 2025; and Attirement of the Bride, Max Ernst, 1940.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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While folks mostly know Stewart Thorndike from her iconic appearance in Eyes Wide Shut, she's also a truly great horror filmmaker.

Her 2014 Rosemary's Baby remake Lyle is a masterpiece, and 2023's Bad Things is now on blu from Shudder (w/ my booklet essay!)

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stewart thorndike and tom cruise in the xmas party scene in kubrick's eyes wide shut
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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“It’s difficult not to read an accusation in its gaze.” - On Max Ernst’s Attirement of the Bride

www.deadofnightletter.com/devil-plague... #filmsky #horrorsky
Max Ernst’s Attirement of the Bride
December 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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solidarity
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This week thinking about

- 80s setting and genre freedom in House of the Devil
- a horror of revisitation in Charlie Polinger’s The Plague

and recommending

- an accusatory stare in Max Ernst’s Attirement of the Bride

www.deadofnightletter.com/devil-plague... #filmsky #horrorsky
Poster: House of the Devil
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Every day more vile things happening to immigrants in this country and around the world. Every person on this earth matters, especially those who’ve risked so much to start over somewhere new. No one is free until we all are.
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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“There’s a crushing sense of hope in her performance, and flashes of despair as she senses how—even if he’s sensitive, child-like—he’s also impenetrable.” www.deadofnightletter.com/stamp-toy-ph... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar in THE COLLECTOR.
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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“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
October 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Plague time 💀
Slide on theater screen: The Plague.
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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“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
October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Indelible Horror Cities—
No. 1 — Cat People’s New York

#filmsky #horror
still: shadowy sidewalk still: woman looking back down an unevenly lit street still: Irena in Cat People at the zoo on a misty night Oliver and Alice from Cat People, Tourneur's wild shadows marking the space
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Took the #noirvember opportunity to recommend my favorite movie—which I’ve written about at greater length here: www.deadofnightletter.com/sisters/
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 4 • Under The Skin

#filmsky #horrorsky
still: Under The Skin/reflection in a mirror still: Under The Skin/red light in a hallway still: Under The Skin/a misty road still: Under The Skin/practical lighting, shadow on the wall
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 3 • Picnic At Hanging Rock

#filmsky #horrorsky
Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: backlit girl, arm extended Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a picnic at the base of Hanging Rock Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a hazy landscape Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: walking through the trees
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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“… its quiet surrealism makes a hypnotic, hypnagogic (soporific for some) experience.” - On Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky
Françoise Pascal in Iron Rose
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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“… its quiet surrealism makes a hypnotic, hypnagogic (soporific for some) experience.” - On Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky
Françoise Pascal in Iron Rose
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 4 • Under The Skin

#filmsky #horrorsky
still: Under The Skin/reflection in a mirror still: Under The Skin/red light in a hallway still: Under The Skin/a misty road still: Under The Skin/practical lighting, shadow on the wall
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 3 • Picnic At Hanging Rock

#filmsky #horrorsky
Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: backlit girl, arm extended Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a picnic at the base of Hanging Rock Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: a hazy landscape Still from Picnic At Hanging Rock: walking through the trees
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This week thinking about

- Village of the Damned (1960) &
- Keeper

and recommending

- Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky
The children in Village of the Damned
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 2 • Mark Jenkin's Enys Men

#filmsky #horror
a standing stone at the door a red jacket and stone a woman in a red jacket in the background, stone in the foreground reddish lens leak framing an image of a stone
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Hallucinatory Horror—
No. 2 • Mark Jenkin's Enys Men

#filmsky #horror
a standing stone at the door a red jacket and stone a woman in a red jacket in the background, stone in the foreground reddish lens leak framing an image of a stone
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
mattsimon.bsky.social
This week thinking about

- Village of the Damned (1960) &
- Keeper

and recommending

- Jean Rollin’s Iron Rose

www.deadofnightletter.com/village-cabi... #filmsky #horrorsky
The children in Village of the Damned
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM