@marioscido.bsky.social
Humanities instructor, independent filmmaker, MUFF supporter, Monstrum conjurer, hysterical cinephile, and golem scholar.
The book I wrote: https://anthempress.com/grand-guignol-cinema-and-the-horror-genre-hb
https://www.monstrum-society.ca/
The book I wrote: https://anthempress.com/grand-guignol-cinema-and-the-horror-genre-hb
https://www.monstrum-society.ca/
Kelly Reichardt re-imagines a genre, here the heist film with THE MASTERMIND through a critique of American male individualism, which is everywhere in mainstream US cinema (from superheroes to brutalists), but here understood as the banal stupidity of bad decisions made with no success in sight.
December 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Kelly Reichardt re-imagines a genre, here the heist film with THE MASTERMIND through a critique of American male individualism, which is everywhere in mainstream US cinema (from superheroes to brutalists), but here understood as the banal stupidity of bad decisions made with no success in sight.
Chantal Akerman shooting "Jeanne Dielman."
December 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Chantal Akerman shooting "Jeanne Dielman."
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“Watching Soraya Martinez Ferrada shrug off how she ‘didn’t know’ she was illegally charging tenants for utilities was crazy. As if not knowing magically makes it okay for a tenant to have to choose between paying you for illegal charges or eating that week?”
#polmtl
#polmtl
I ran for office for Montreal's nightlife community — and against landlords, Airbnb apologists and NIMBY creeps
I ran as a Transition Montréal candidate in the 2025 Montreal election, and all I got was 100 leftover campaign tshirts I can't sell.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Watching Soraya Martinez Ferrada shrug off how she ‘didn’t know’ she was illegally charging tenants for utilities was crazy. As if not knowing magically makes it okay for a tenant to have to choose between paying you for illegal charges or eating that week?”
#polmtl
#polmtl
Udo Kier’s only tweet:
www.theculturist.com/home/rip-udo...
www.theculturist.com/home/rip-udo...
December 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Udo Kier’s only tweet:
www.theculturist.com/home/rip-udo...
www.theculturist.com/home/rip-udo...
I love this picture! And happy birthday to the great Barbara Steele!
December 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I love this picture! And happy birthday to the great Barbara Steele!
"A man of genius who gets shit on as a child!... and that scars! That hurts! Have you ever been hit by lightning? It hurts... not [like] if his parents took his freaking life... and his money, and tell you to do this... and to do that, and if you don't..." Quiz Kid Donnie Smith in MAGNOLIA, 1999.
December 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"A man of genius who gets shit on as a child!... and that scars! That hurts! Have you ever been hit by lightning? It hurts... not [like] if his parents took his freaking life... and his money, and tell you to do this... and to do that, and if you don't..." Quiz Kid Donnie Smith in MAGNOLIA, 1999.
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Born on this day 1888 (d. 1931), Happy Birthday, F. W. MURNAU! 🎉
December 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Born on this day 1888 (d. 1931), Happy Birthday, F. W. MURNAU! 🎉
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The Voyeurs (2021) Michael Mohan
December 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Voyeurs (2021) Michael Mohan
Shooting Rodan in "Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster" (1964).
December 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Shooting Rodan in "Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster" (1964).
This is not only about the "the shattered promise of democracy," but how the American Dream of Ellis Island continues to be a powerful discourse in the USA on both sides of the spectrum, and even in some of the films by Rob Reiner.
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is not only about the "the shattered promise of democracy," but how the American Dream of Ellis Island continues to be a powerful discourse in the USA on both sides of the spectrum, and even in some of the films by Rob Reiner.
Filho's SECRET AGENT is fantastic and a reminder that what is happening in the US right now, like universities having their funding cut, already happening in the global south - like Brazil under dictatorship. It feels like an Elio Petri film, genre and politics mixing - about the archive of memory.
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Filho's SECRET AGENT is fantastic and a reminder that what is happening in the US right now, like universities having their funding cut, already happening in the global south - like Brazil under dictatorship. It feels like an Elio Petri film, genre and politics mixing - about the archive of memory.
Un felice Natale con il giallo italiano PROFONDO ROSSO (1975)!
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Un felice Natale con il giallo italiano PROFONDO ROSSO (1975)!
Monstrum vol. 8, no. 2 (December 2025), a special issue on "Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror" is live! Guest-edited by horror scholar and fiction writer Mike Thorn. Here:
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v8-...
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v8-...
December 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Monstrum vol. 8, no. 2 (December 2025), a special issue on "Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror" is live! Guest-edited by horror scholar and fiction writer Mike Thorn. Here:
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v8-...
www.monstrum-society.ca/monstrum-v8-...
Find of the day at Le Vacarme on the Plaza!
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Doris Wishman - Something Weird - The Best Of - LP/DVD
1 LP + 1 DVDDoris Wishman was one of the most prolific female filmmakers that most people have never heard of. The pint-size sleaze queen helmed a variety of oddball exploitation classics that feature...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Find of the day at Le Vacarme on the Plaza!
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Everything about PSYCHO 2 (1983) works: the direction, the script, the look (Cundey), the casting, and even the music by Goldsmith. Was the film disliked so much because in the middle of the slasher boom, people expected from the daddy of slashers, a slasher, instead of a beautifully crafted giallo?
December 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Everything about PSYCHO 2 (1983) works: the direction, the script, the look (Cundey), the casting, and even the music by Goldsmith. Was the film disliked so much because in the middle of the slasher boom, people expected from the daddy of slashers, a slasher, instead of a beautifully crafted giallo?
Horror fans know that when the Cannes crew does not like a horror film it is a very good sign.
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Horror fans know that when the Cannes crew does not like a horror film it is a very good sign.
Happy 45th birthday to the movie that taught me the "cine-assaultive" power of montage: RAGING BULL.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Happy 45th birthday to the movie that taught me the "cine-assaultive" power of montage: RAGING BULL.
From the great people at Criterion:
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From the great people at Criterion:
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***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on February 9th on #4K in the UK from @studiocanal.co.uk: #TheStraightStory (1999)!
David Lynch’s portrait of one man’s real journey across America’s heartland starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton Filmed along the 260-mile route that
Coming on February 9th on #4K in the UK from @studiocanal.co.uk: #TheStraightStory (1999)!
David Lynch’s portrait of one man’s real journey across America’s heartland starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton Filmed along the 260-mile route that
December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on February 9th on #4K in the UK from @studiocanal.co.uk: #TheStraightStory (1999)!
David Lynch’s portrait of one man’s real journey across America’s heartland starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton Filmed along the 260-mile route that
Coming on February 9th on #4K in the UK from @studiocanal.co.uk: #TheStraightStory (1999)!
David Lynch’s portrait of one man’s real journey across America’s heartland starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton Filmed along the 260-mile route that
Thinking of my dad as yesterday was the second anniversary of his death.
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Thinking of my dad as yesterday was the second anniversary of his death.
Most say film noir, but I think it is Grand-Guignol cinema. The returning veteran played by Robert Ryan stalking Van Heflin is a theme from the theatre. ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948) has gorgeous gritty cinematography making it the most intense film of the decade - add to this also pre-PSYCHO Janet Leigh.
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Most say film noir, but I think it is Grand-Guignol cinema. The returning veteran played by Robert Ryan stalking Van Heflin is a theme from the theatre. ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948) has gorgeous gritty cinematography making it the most intense film of the decade - add to this also pre-PSYCHO Janet Leigh.
GINA (Denys Arcand, 1975) is a marxist-feminist rape revenge film about a stripper who is a worker connected to oppressed textile workers in small town Québec that is owned by Anglo money. Made in the context of the rising sovereignty movement in the 70s - a frigid surreal nightmare of a film.
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
GINA (Denys Arcand, 1975) is a marxist-feminist rape revenge film about a stripper who is a worker connected to oppressed textile workers in small town Québec that is owned by Anglo money. Made in the context of the rising sovereignty movement in the 70s - a frigid surreal nightmare of a film.
