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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 2h

I loved that one!
A playful Margheriti gothic giallo with a school instead of a castle.
From a script co-written by Mario Bava.
The always entertaining Luciano Pigozzi as the 'suspicious peeper'.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 3h

I love his bored-guy acting style in this. It makes menthing of all the mumbly acting in the kind of movies it's a throwback to.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 10h

This is a real gem!
Wonderfully weird genre blend that continuously defies expectations.
Freda keeps us in the dark, steeped in the surreal, and even as it all comes together, your brain will be screaming (or squealing).

Experiencing first-time viewings like this is quite a thrill.
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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 12h

Tragic Ceremony (1972)
Riccardo Freda (director)

Let's get mixed up with some devil worshippers at a remote estate!
I've never seen this one.
📽 #HorrorMovies #HorrorSky #Horror #SpookyMonth 🎃

Blu ray cover for Tragic Ceremony. The art is an illustration in black and green color, showing a woman walking a dark staircase with billowing curtains on the side. She is holding candles.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 12h

Tragic Ceremony (1972)
Riccardo Freda (director)

Let's get mixed up with some devil worshippers at a remote estate!
I've never seen this one.
📽 #HorrorMovies #HorrorSky #Horror #SpookyMonth 🎃

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 12h

Ridiculous fun with some of the most drab comedy line delivery you'll hear. Funny on purpose, but doesn't lean into the "we're doing jokes!" style.
The director would go on to make Blood Diner a few years later.
There's a wonderfully odd dream sequence halfway in that is magical.
Check a look!
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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 14h

The Being (1983)
Jackie Kong (writer/ director)

I had a VHS tape of this in the '80s, and I'd watch it a few times a year.
It's a fun take on '50s sci-fi horror, with a wet and gooey monster.
With Martin Landau, José Ferrer, and Ruth Buzzi.
📽 #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #Horror #HorrorMovies 🎃

Poster for the film The Being. It shows a human-shaped monster holding a dead guy by his arm.
A caption hypes, "The ultimate horror has taken form."

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 14h

The Being (1983)
Jackie Kong (writer/ director)

I had a VHS tape of this in the '80s, and I'd watch it a few times a year.
It's a fun take on '50s sci-fi horror, with a wet and gooey monster.
With Martin Landau, José Ferrer, and Ruth Buzzi.
📽 #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #Horror #HorrorMovies 🎃

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't seen that one.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

Agree! The bookend/framing is usually a tepid twist (they were --- the whole time!), but having this one act as its own segment while tying in the premise is so satisfying.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's one of the better anthology movies.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

Asylum (1972)
Roy Ward Baker (director)

Ending the night with an Amicus anthology film.
I saw this ages ago, it's mostly hazy memory.
It's got Peter Cushing.
Written by Robert Bloch (Psycho).
📽 #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #Horror #HorrorMovies #FridayNightHorror #SeverinFilms 🎃

Blu ray cover for the film Asylum. The art shows a big spooky house, some kind of sinister mechanical doll, an evil doctor, a guy with a gun, a coffin, a hand holding an axe.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

A mesmerizing descent into an inescapable system.
Vampire cars, evil corporation, zombie car culture consumers...
Herz is always playing with his own rulebook and isn't going to deliver in exactly the way you'd predict.
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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

Ferat Vampire (1982)
Juraj Herz (co-writer/ director)

Been sitting on this for weeks!
Vampire car.
Vampire car!
From the director of The Cremator, Beauty and the Beast (1978), and The Ninth Heart.
📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #Horror #Vampires #SpookyMonth #SeverinFilms 🎃

Blu ray cover for Ferat Vampire. It shows a stylized illustration of a car with vampire teeth.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

Ferat Vampire (1982)
Juraj Herz (co-writer/ director)

Been sitting on this for weeks!
Vampire car.
Vampire car!
From the director of The Cremator, Beauty and the Beast (1978), and The Ninth Heart.
📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #Horror #Vampires #SpookyMonth #SeverinFilms 🎃

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

A little wobbly, but not bad.
Perhaps too neat in its comparison of the urban legend and the cycle of abuse.
But it does work pretty well. And doesn't have the perfectly tied up solutions that ruin many stories.
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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Shiraishi Kōji (co-writer/ director)

Starting with a J-Horror from the director of Noroi.
I haven't seen this movie, but I am aware of the urban legend.
📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #JHorror 🎃 #Horror

Poster for the movie Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman. It shows many images of the characters and one of a woman with a mask covering the bottom of her face and she's holding a knife.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 1d

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Shiraishi Kōji (co-writer/ director)

Starting with a J-Horror from the director of Noroi.
I haven't seen this movie, but I am aware of the urban legend.
📽 #FridayNightHorror #HorrorMovies #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #JHorror 🎃 #Horror

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah, the soundtrack is amazing

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 4d

Reached the end of Silent Hill f and I didn't plan to do replays...
But I like the story so much, I went back through for the funny ending and am about halfway through again.

My haute-take: it's the best Silent Hill game.
🎮 ##SilentHillf #VideoGames

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

This is in Severin's box set Danza Macabra volume four.
All of these are full of treasure and worth every cent.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Very good, twisty plot with a lot going on.
Of course, it's a black and white Italian gothic, so I'm set up to like it. But I love it.
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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Terror-Creatures From the Grave (1965)
Domenico Massimo Pupillo (director)

One last movie before vampire's bedtime...
An Italian gothic horror that I don't think I've seen.
It's got Barbara Steele.
From the director of Bloody Pit of Horror.
📽 #HorrorMovies #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #Horror 🎃

Blu ray cover for Terror Creatures From the Grave.
The art shows a castle, a graveyard, an unconscious woman who is perhaps dead, and a face that is half ghoul with a bulging red eye.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Barbara Steele...
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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Classic!

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Terror-Creatures From the Grave (1965)
Domenico Massimo Pupillo (director)

One last movie before vampire's bedtime...
An Italian gothic horror that I don't think I've seen.
It's got Barbara Steele.
From the director of Bloody Pit of Horror.
📽 #HorrorMovies #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #Horror 🎃

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, what a movie.
I love these kinds of Japanese ghost stories.
The long shadow of a crime drives everyone it touches to the brink.
82 minutes of betrayal and darkness.
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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Ghost of Kasane Swamp (1970)
Kimiyoshi Yasuda (director)

Got my copy of the Daiei Gothic volume two, and I am ready to be enveloped by moody atmosphere, betrayal, and revenge.
📽 #HorrorMovies #HorrorSky #SpookyMonth #Horror #Filmsky 🎃

Blu ray cover for Ghost of Kasane Swamp. It shows a samurai and a woman, looking very concerned about something. He has a wound on his forehead. On the other side of the cover is an image of a mysterious ghost figure with tangled hair and a peeling face.

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

Ghost of Kasane Swamp (1970)
Kimiyoshi Yasuda (director)

Got my copy of the Daiei Gothic volume two, and I am ready to be enveloped by moody atmosphere, betrayal, and revenge.
📽 #HorrorMovies #HorrorSky #SpookyMonth #Horror #Filmsky 🎃

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 5d

No Telling (1991)
Larry Fessenden (writer/ director)

Of the movies he's directed, this is the only one I haven't seen. And thanks to these wonderful Vinegar Syndrome sets, now I will.
Fessenden is one of my favorite filmmakers.
📽 #HorrorMovies #SpookyMonth #Horrorsky #Horror #LarryFessenden

Blu ray cover for No Telling. The art shows a man with a camera and a woman. Below them are photographs, a woman posting something to a pole, and a flyer that has a picture of a chimp that reads, "We don't monkey around when it comes to restrainers."

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Hayley Winter @zeroville.bsky.social · 6d

Did you check under the wallpaper for sigils? Or anywhere else?
Because, what if they cursed it in such a way that once you pass through, everything 'outside' is actually the interior of that place?
And the only way to leave would be to go back 'inside', where the malevolent beings are feasting?

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