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I don’t want to alarm you, but something very sinister is going on here…

teacher / giallo enthusiast / general reprobate
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Umberto Lenzi + Carroll Baker = Love

Orgasmo (1969) // So Sweet…So Perverse (1969) // A Quiet Place to Kill (1970) // Knife of Ice (1972)

#Giallo #UmbertoLenzi #CarrollBaker #MyQueen #filmsky
The one-stop-shop for all your holiday nunsploitation needs, Kōyū Ohara's WET ROPE CONFESSION (1979) doesn't' just have a sex auction ewe won't believe, but also whipping, sapphic sisters getting in flagrante with breadsticks, odd racial fetish, toilet licking, disco dancing & a madcap meet-cute.
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#NowWatching Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996), Peter Chan
December 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
‘Tis the season…
of Jess Franco’s FACELESS 🎄💉
December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As modern imitators aiming for the transgressive combustible that is Moctezuma’s ALUCARDA (1977) churn out empty hyperbolic nonsense, swear your fealty to the OG 666 with a sanguinary princess streak as it couches exquisitely explicit blasphemy within romantic echo chambers of yonic yarling.
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Assisted by crime tv stalwart Jürgen Roland, Josef von Báky's THE STRANGE COUNTESS (1961) with Lil Dagover as manic eyed, venerable Gloria Swanson adjacent Countess Moron (yes, MORON) achieves a climactic krimi comingling of old sensibility fantastic with steely hardboiled edge. #Noirvember
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
find no interest in the racks and shelves just 10,000 reflections of my own sweet self

The Velvet Vampire (1971), Stephanie Rothman // Daughters of Darkness (1971), Harry Kümel // Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977), George Barry // Immagini di un convento (1979), Joe D'Amato

#sidebyside #mirror 📽️
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Mesmerically heartbreaking chamber piece AL OTRO LADO DEL ESPEJO (1973) is Jess Franco's most beautifully restrained meditation on female neurosis, a tragic heroine both bride & groom to the violent trauma unsuccessfully dislocated in a reflective nether realm of erotic self-destruct. #FrancoFriday
February 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I visited Hong Kong once as a teen, and saw Simon Yam wearing a skintight, full body jumpsuit straight out of The Running Man. All I could do was point at him, slack-jawed, and he smiled and said “Yes, it’s me.” Almost died right there and then.
Here's wishing you and yours a very fruitful Yamsgiving

Simon Yam in John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)

#HappyThanksgiving2025 #HappyYamsgiving #GiveThanks #SimonYam #filmsky
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here's wishing you and yours a very fruitful Yamsgiving

Simon Yam in John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)

#HappyThanksgiving2025 #HappyYamsgiving #GiveThanks #SimonYam #filmsky
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), Dario Argento // Angel Dust (1994), Gakuryū Ishii

#filmsky #gialloscience if you know you know 📽️👁️
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
May 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Arne Mattsson recaptures the spine-tingling snap of Damen i svart with inheritance ruse VITA FRUN (1962) after the third Hillman mystery fell victim to the law of diminishing returns, backloading budget conscious lake lore & somnambulant suicide with a humdinger of a sting op séance. #Noirvember
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Satō's bleak reinterpretation of The Conversation SURVEY MAP OF A PARADISE LOST (1988) also examines voyeurism from an auditorial standpoint, challenging the technology meant to ease connection that further divides & mechanizes a bubble society reeling from its byproduct: lack of sensation.
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
While Ákos Ráthonyi's THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL (1961) feels most recognizably giallo in its dancer dispatching stocking masked menace & airline insurance sleuth, the daffy smuggler subplot, crazed Kinski & cringe use of Christopher Lee as a Charlie Chan-esque spy are pure krimi kookiness. #Noirvember
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My favorite flavor of giallo: fashionable haunted women in existential crisis mode aka haute paranoia
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#NowWatching THE BEAST TO DIE (1980), Tōru Murakawa #Noirvember
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Folie à deux enfolded in grain & dripping with depressive static, Satō's atypical Pinku rape revenge TURTLE VISION (1991) breaks erotic melancholy down to its visual viscera, meditating on sunsets like a voyeur upon a horny unsuspecting couple & embedding trauma into artfully reflexive tape glitch.
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#NowListening

Westerman || A Jackal’s Wedding
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Portrait of Jennie (1948), William Dieterle // Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987), Hisayasu Satō

#sidebyside #backlitbuildings #filmsky 📽️🏢
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Combining the mystique of the Rue Morgue with a deadly Agatha Christie closed circle, Vohrer's THE DOOR WITH 7 LOCKS (1962) has everything Rialto Wallace krimi made legend including stunning photography, ham-fisted hijinks, unhinged science & a MacGuffin locked behind a sinister door. #Noirvember
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A key domino in the German krimi film cycle's trajectory, Reinl's lean Wallace caper FELLOWSHIP OF THE FROG (1959) comes complete with chiaroscuro heavy pulp & a real rubik's cube of a plot bearing the eurospy augury of waggish playboy with butler sidekick & a penchant for crime solving. #Noirvember
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Ghosts won't kill people because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
let the bodies hit the floor

#BavaBodies Blood & Black Lace // Planet of the Vampires // Kill, Baby...Kill! // Hatchet for the Honeymoon
November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Ghosts won't kill people because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#NowWatching a masterpiece
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM