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Published: Umbrella Ent, Fangoria, 88 Films
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✍️ TrashToTarkovsky.com
Convince me this isn’t Parker Posey.
You can’t.
You can’t.
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Convince me this isn’t Parker Posey.
You can’t.
You can’t.
Contributor copy arrived! Very proud to have penned and narrated a visual essay for this exquisite Umbrella release of perhaps the most frightening, viscerally enthralling serial killer flick ever made—Gerald Kargl’s ‘Angst’ (1983). Order yours here, if you dare: bit.ly/43Va1Wu
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Contributor copy arrived! Very proud to have penned and narrated a visual essay for this exquisite Umbrella release of perhaps the most frightening, viscerally enthralling serial killer flick ever made—Gerald Kargl’s ‘Angst’ (1983). Order yours here, if you dare: bit.ly/43Va1Wu
Allusions to Expressionism are clear, Draper’s fondness for jagged lines & irregular curves never more prevailing than in pic’s closing portion, where the bowels of Myers’ abode assume a bizarre, Gothic-like texture; the cobwebbed, candlelit environment a figurative reflection of a fractured psyche.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Allusions to Expressionism are clear, Draper’s fondness for jagged lines & irregular curves never more prevailing than in pic’s closing portion, where the bowels of Myers’ abode assume a bizarre, Gothic-like texture; the cobwebbed, candlelit environment a figurative reflection of a fractured psyche.
Even the most vehement of pic’s critics would struggle to decry the work of DoP Robert Draper, his delicious command of shadow and silhouette—in unison with left-field framing & an intricate palette of glittery pinks, moody blues, and autumnal orangey-browns—intensifying the narrative audaciousness.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Even the most vehement of pic’s critics would struggle to decry the work of DoP Robert Draper, his delicious command of shadow and silhouette—in unison with left-field framing & an intricate palette of glittery pinks, moody blues, and autumnal orangey-browns—intensifying the narrative audaciousness.
‘Halloween’ reshaped as European arthouse, the bold, rebellious ‘Revenge of Michael Myers’ mightn’t be everybody’s cup of pumpkin spice, but, through its deviant disposition, majestic visuals, outré perfs, and chilly air of menace, it concocts a fascinatingly playful postlude to the prosaic part 4.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
‘Halloween’ reshaped as European arthouse, the bold, rebellious ‘Revenge of Michael Myers’ mightn’t be everybody’s cup of pumpkin spice, but, through its deviant disposition, majestic visuals, outré perfs, and chilly air of menace, it concocts a fascinatingly playful postlude to the prosaic part 4.
Of the multiple gifts ‘Ed Wood’—Burton’s best—bestowed upon us, Martin Landau’s messianic mirroring of Bela Lugosi was the biggest: a feat of thesping so rich, so marinated with poise, intellect, humour, and heartache, I doubt even Lugosi himself would’ve dared fault it.
Released on this day, 1994.
Released on this day, 1994.
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Of the multiple gifts ‘Ed Wood’—Burton’s best—bestowed upon us, Martin Landau’s messianic mirroring of Bela Lugosi was the biggest: a feat of thesping so rich, so marinated with poise, intellect, humour, and heartache, I doubt even Lugosi himself would’ve dared fault it.
Released on this day, 1994.
Released on this day, 1994.
A moment’s silence please for the terrifically accomplished Curtis Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016), whose decade-long deluge of thrillers—running the gamut from seriously good to god tier—yielded some of the late twentieth century’s most scrumptious cinematic pulp.
September 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A moment’s silence please for the terrifically accomplished Curtis Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016), whose decade-long deluge of thrillers—running the gamut from seriously good to god tier—yielded some of the late twentieth century’s most scrumptious cinematic pulp.
Fuck you, hot choccy. Didn’t want you anyway
September 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Fuck you, hot choccy. Didn’t want you anyway
It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
September 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
September 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
The sea has a laugh
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
September 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The sea has a laugh
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
Post a horror movie everybody should see.
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Post a horror movie everybody should see.
Post a movie you *love* with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score…
September 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Post a movie you *love* with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score…
Norman Bates made him a megastar, but Tony Perkins (d. 12 Sept 1992) was anything but a one-trick pony. An actor of great scope & depth, he could stir a rainbow of dispositions—funny, naive, aloof, dark, psychotic—with just the flicker of a grin or the raising of a brow. Devastatingly gorgeous, too.
September 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Norman Bates made him a megastar, but Tony Perkins (d. 12 Sept 1992) was anything but a one-trick pony. An actor of great scope & depth, he could stir a rainbow of dispositions—funny, naive, aloof, dark, psychotic—with just the flicker of a grin or the raising of a brow. Devastatingly gorgeous, too.
For the love of literature, make stepback covers cool again!
September 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
For the love of literature, make stepback covers cool again!
Just now struck me that Walter Grauman, whose name I’ve seen emblazoned upon a million eps of ‘Murder, She Wrote’, was also the mastermind of my two favourite lift-themed thrillers: ‘Lady in a Cage’ (1964) and ‘Nightmare on the 13th Floor’ (1990). I really must probe the rest of his filmography.
September 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just now struck me that Walter Grauman, whose name I’ve seen emblazoned upon a million eps of ‘Murder, She Wrote’, was also the mastermind of my two favourite lift-themed thrillers: ‘Lady in a Cage’ (1964) and ‘Nightmare on the 13th Floor’ (1990). I really must probe the rest of his filmography.
All of Them Witches: ‘Suspiria’ (1977, Dario Argento) / ‘Terror’ (1978, Norman J. Warren)
#SideBySide 1/3
#SideBySide 1/3
September 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
All of Them Witches: ‘Suspiria’ (1977, Dario Argento) / ‘Terror’ (1978, Norman J. Warren)
#SideBySide 1/3
#SideBySide 1/3
God bless thrifting.
September 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
God bless thrifting.
*Where* was her Outstanding Guest Emmy!?
August 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
*Where* was her Outstanding Guest Emmy!?
‘Deep Red’ (1975) / Dir. Dario Argento / DP: Luigi Kuveiller
August 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
‘Deep Red’ (1975) / Dir. Dario Argento / DP: Luigi Kuveiller