Kristina
@suspiriosa.bsky.social
movie fan who writes a bit. she/her
Co-host of the podcast Psychotronic Sisters https://www.youtube.com/@psychotronicsisters
blog https://hqofk.wordpress.com/
Co-host of the podcast Psychotronic Sisters https://www.youtube.com/@psychotronicsisters
blog https://hqofk.wordpress.com/
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Tenement (1985), Siege (1983), Enemy Territory (1987): Part I
YouTube video by Psychotronic Sisters
youtu.be
New episode of Psychotronic Sisters!
Join us for a chat about 3 siege in the city thrillers, long nights of citizen self defense in:
Siege (1983)
Tenement (1985)
Enemy Territory (1987)
Available on YT & wherever you get podcasts
youtu.be/W3YyUkU9Sjo?...
Join us for a chat about 3 siege in the city thrillers, long nights of citizen self defense in:
Siege (1983)
Tenement (1985)
Enemy Territory (1987)
Available on YT & wherever you get podcasts
youtu.be/W3YyUkU9Sjo?...
Reposted by Kristina
Czech poster for ALIEN (1979)
Directed by Ridley Scott - BOTD in 1937
Directed by Ridley Scott - BOTD in 1937
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Czech poster for ALIEN (1979)
Directed by Ridley Scott - BOTD in 1937
Directed by Ridley Scott - BOTD in 1937
Reposted by Kristina
Reposted by Kristina
Sepia-toned opening sequence in THE BEYOND (1981, Lucio Fulci)
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sepia-toned opening sequence in THE BEYOND (1981, Lucio Fulci)
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Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, 1952)
DoP: George E. Diskant
DoP: George E. Diskant
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, 1952)
DoP: George E. Diskant
DoP: George E. Diskant
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Steve Brodie and Audrey Long in Desperate (1947) 🔫
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Steve Brodie and Audrey Long in Desperate (1947) 🔫
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
drop something MIRRORED
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
drop something MIRRORED
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Saw a piece on the fragmentation of the internet and… I think that’s a good thing? Assuming we survive to tidal wave of AI slop, the internet was at its best when it was little islands of nerdiness.
Now we just need to get pop-pop off facebook
Now we just need to get pop-pop off facebook
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Saw a piece on the fragmentation of the internet and… I think that’s a good thing? Assuming we survive to tidal wave of AI slop, the internet was at its best when it was little islands of nerdiness.
Now we just need to get pop-pop off facebook
Now we just need to get pop-pop off facebook
New episode of Psychotronic Sisters!
Join us for a chat about 3 siege in the city thrillers, long nights of citizen self defense in:
Siege (1983)
Tenement (1985)
Enemy Territory (1987)
Available on YT & wherever you get podcasts
youtu.be/W3YyUkU9Sjo?...
Join us for a chat about 3 siege in the city thrillers, long nights of citizen self defense in:
Siege (1983)
Tenement (1985)
Enemy Territory (1987)
Available on YT & wherever you get podcasts
youtu.be/W3YyUkU9Sjo?...
Tenement (1985), Siege (1983), Enemy Territory (1987): Part I
YouTube video by Psychotronic Sisters
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
New episode of Psychotronic Sisters!
Join us for a chat about 3 siege in the city thrillers, long nights of citizen self defense in:
Siege (1983)
Tenement (1985)
Enemy Territory (1987)
Available on YT & wherever you get podcasts
youtu.be/W3YyUkU9Sjo?...
Join us for a chat about 3 siege in the city thrillers, long nights of citizen self defense in:
Siege (1983)
Tenement (1985)
Enemy Territory (1987)
Available on YT & wherever you get podcasts
youtu.be/W3YyUkU9Sjo?...
also at our YT channel, extra video tributes, clips, and trailers, like this one
youtu.be/N-s1xD7mYMw?...
youtu.be/N-s1xD7mYMw?...
Siege, Tenement, Enemy Territory (Trailer)
YouTube video by Psychotronic Sisters
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
also at our YT channel, extra video tributes, clips, and trailers, like this one
youtu.be/N-s1xD7mYMw?...
youtu.be/N-s1xD7mYMw?...
Reposted by Kristina
New episode, about the different cuts and big names involved in the experimental noirish horrorish "one crazy night" film Dementia (1955)...
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
Dementia (1955), This Week’s New Episode
This week at Psychotronic Sisters, our discussion of the film Dementia (1955). Or is it 1953, or 1957? Well, listen in to learn why that is even a question. Hear how the movie was inspired by a dre…
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New episode, about the different cuts and big names involved in the experimental noirish horrorish "one crazy night" film Dementia (1955)...
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
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Even more so because we never had cancel culture. We had the beginnings of a suggestion of cancel culture and most privileged people and every vector of institutional power treated it like the biggest moral hazard the world has ever seen and spent an astonishing amount of effort to shut it down.
Honestly, we could have used a lot more cancel culture.
Insights from Larry Summers
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Even more so because we never had cancel culture. We had the beginnings of a suggestion of cancel culture and most privileged people and every vector of institutional power treated it like the biggest moral hazard the world has ever seen and spent an astonishing amount of effort to shut it down.
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It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
@fulciseyefetish.bsky.social thanks for the repost!
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
@fulciseyefetish.bsky.social thanks for the repost!
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Gentle reminder that I am going to be on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (!!!!) on Monday for an evening of programming that we put together. I hope you'll be able to tune in. Love y'all.
My prime time program with TCM on November 17th covers Robert Altman's COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME and the Gay Bar Christmas Picture SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE. SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE doesn't screen anywhere very often and doesn't have a DVD in circulation.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Gentle reminder that I am going to be on TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (!!!!) on Monday for an evening of programming that we put together. I hope you'll be able to tune in. Love y'all.
New episode, about the different cuts and big names involved in the experimental noirish horrorish "one crazy night" film Dementia (1955)...
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
Dementia (1955), This Week’s New Episode
This week at Psychotronic Sisters, our discussion of the film Dementia (1955). Or is it 1953, or 1957? Well, listen in to learn why that is even a question. Hear how the movie was inspired by a dre…
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New episode, about the different cuts and big names involved in the experimental noirish horrorish "one crazy night" film Dementia (1955)...
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
links and notes at
psychotronicsisters.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/d...
plus our newsletter subscription info
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reminder that you can follow CMBA on Letterboxd,
where you can also find the latest blogathon entries, updated all week
letterboxd.com/clmba/list/e...
where you can also find the latest blogathon entries, updated all week
letterboxd.com/clmba/list/e...
Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror
Classic Movie Blog Association's fall blogathon is Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror Movies with horror themes, from early silent cinema through the pre-Code era up to 1934. Themes of societal unease, t...
letterboxd.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
reminder that you can follow CMBA on Letterboxd,
where you can also find the latest blogathon entries, updated all week
letterboxd.com/clmba/list/e...
where you can also find the latest blogathon entries, updated all week
letterboxd.com/clmba/list/e...
Reposted by Kristina
We talked about the weirdness of Dementia/Daughter of Darkness and how Ed MacMahon said "hawrer" @suspiriosa.bsky.social
youtu.be/t9fUfYF3C8A?...
youtu.be/t9fUfYF3C8A?...
The Wild World of Dementia (1955) and Daughter of Horror (1957)
YouTube video by Psychotronic Sisters
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We talked about the weirdness of Dementia/Daughter of Darkness and how Ed MacMahon said "hawrer" @suspiriosa.bsky.social
youtu.be/t9fUfYF3C8A?...
youtu.be/t9fUfYF3C8A?...
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Speakeasy reads the epic evil in
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
@suspiriosa.bsky.social
hqofk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t...
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
@suspiriosa.bsky.social
hqofk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t...
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Sometimes I wonder why I put off seeing a classic for so long, especially when I find out it’s a masterpiece and a new favourite. I love director Fritz Lang’s movies but other than M and Metropolis…
hqofk.wordpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Speakeasy reads the epic evil in
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
@suspiriosa.bsky.social
hqofk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t...
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
for CMBA Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon
@suspiriosa.bsky.social
hqofk.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/t...
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I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing
And then you'll say. Wait a second.
Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
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Part 2 of our talk about The 4th Man, Dead and Buried, and Videodrome. I think we surprised ourselves with where we went with this one 🤣
#podcastrecs
youtu.be/P6De5kN-Y1U?...
#podcastrecs
youtu.be/P6De5kN-Y1U?...
The 4th Man (1983) and His Psychotronic Brothers, Part 2
YouTube video by Psychotronic Sisters
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Part 2 of our talk about The 4th Man, Dead and Buried, and Videodrome. I think we surprised ourselves with where we went with this one 🤣
#podcastrecs
youtu.be/P6De5kN-Y1U?...
#podcastrecs
youtu.be/P6De5kN-Y1U?...
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Had a fantastic talk with Esther Bley about their amazing Queer Animation database project:
www.watchingclassicmovies.com/2025/11/watc...
www.watchingclassicmovies.com/2025/11/watc...
Esther Bley of Queer Animation
YouTube video by Watching Classic Movies
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Had a fantastic talk with Esther Bley about their amazing Queer Animation database project:
www.watchingclassicmovies.com/2025/11/watc...
www.watchingclassicmovies.com/2025/11/watc...
Reposted by Kristina
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Veronica Lake by Richard Avedon 1947 🖤
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Veronica Lake by Richard Avedon 1947 🖤