Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 12h

31 Days of Horror: R-Point, a really amazing unknown Korean horror film about Korea's involvement in the Vietnam war, and the virtues of buying random DVDs in thrift stores rorschachisgay.substack.com/p/day-31-r-point

Day 31: R-Point

A hidden gem about Korea's involvement in the Vietnam War, and the virtue of buying old random DVDs you find

rorschachisgay.substack.com

1

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 1d

31 Days of Horror: Heart Eyes. i wanted to write about a movie i don't like, and I didn't like this at all
substack.com/home/post/p-...

31 Days of Horror: Heart Eyes

I hate slasher movies made after 2001

substack.com

1 3

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 2d

31 Days of Horror: The Collector (1965)
a surprisingly nuanced and beautiful looking movie about how you'll never win against a man who's setting the rules

substack.com/home/post/p-...

31 Days of Horror: The Collector (1965)

Not a love story

substack.com

1 1 2

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 3d

yeah i felt like i had to... theres two men who die in the film and they die off screen. I feel like if I had more time I could have dug deeper into it but i think it comes back to my conclusion about the film being oblivious to the cycle it's part of

1

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 3d

thank youuu yes i agree! like despite it being intended for a full theatrical release the slight illegality of how it felt for so long made the shoddiness of it feel almost intentional. it being on Amazon Prime somewhat dulls that

1 1

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 3d

31 Days of Horror: Patrick
a film i wanted to like, didn't, that made me think about disability rights more than it probably wanted me to
rorschachisgay.substack.com/p/31-days-of...

31 Days of Horror: Patrick

Traversing into Ozploitation

rorschachisgay.substack.com

1 2 4

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 4d

BLUSH it's a crazy fucking movie but i think the visuals alone are so effective. love it

1 1

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 4d

31 Days of Horror: Possum

A film I love that is a deeply tormented, dark story about abuse rorschachisgay.substack.com/p/31-days-of...

31 Days of Horror: Possum

A film about pain

rorschachisgay.substack.com

1 1 5

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 5d

31 Days of Horror: The Curse of Frankenstein

I tried again to like a Hammer Horror film, but found instead a strangely dry take on the novel with very little monster or humanity in it
open.substack.com/pub/rorschac...

31 Days of Horror: The Curse of Frankenstein

I try, once again, to like a Hammer Horror film.

open.substack.com

1 2 4

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 5d

31 Days of Horror: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

a hidden gem of a movie about homophobia, oppression, and incest in the suburbs

open.substack.com/pub/rorschac...

31 Days of Horror: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

Incest and homophobia in the suburbs

open.substack.com

1 2 5

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · 5d

31 Days of Horror: The Poughkeepsie Tapes

I'm watching a horror movie everyday this month. I watched The Poughkeepsie Tapes and wrote about why I love it and why I think it's not very good
rorschachisgay.substack.com/p/31-days-of...

31 Days of Horror: The Poughkeepsie Tapes

On loving something deeply questionable.

rorschachisgay.substack.com

3 4 6

Reposted by Ransom

Chris Plummer @chrisplummer.bsky.social · May 24

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

150 4.5K 15K

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · Apr 21

amazing episode can you please also leak the marvel snap deck to the people 🙏

Reposted by Ransom

Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · Apr 17

I was interested in the immersive use of camera and continuous takes in THE STUDIO, ADOLESCENCE, and THE PITT. So I interviewed their DPs Adam Newport-Berra, Matthew Lewis, and Johanna Coelho, for GoldDerby. www.goldderby.com/article/2025...

One-take wonders: How ‘The Studio’, ‘Adolescence,’ ‘The Pitt’ created movie-like magic

Once an occasional big-screen feat steered by the legendary likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Paul Thomas Anderson, long takes — aka one-shots or “oners” — are now a staple of prestige e…

www.goldderby.com

1 8 41

Reposted by Ransom

Christopher La Vigna @chrislavigna.bsky.social · Mar 31

What if we kissed at the HELLRAISER merch photo shoot?

9 190 560

Reposted by Ransom

male fishwife @hostile1968.bsky.social · Mar 31

words by jenny holzer #tdov #transdayofvisibility

6 180 610

Reposted by Ransom

Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · Mar 24

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

150 2.8K 17K

Reposted by Ransom

poxei @poxei.bsky.social · Mar 17

Severance!!!!!!! #art

15 1.1K 4.4K

Reposted by Ransom

Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · Mar 9

welff ii. gouache on paper, 2017

8 420 1.8K

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · Feb 25

that's a good point. that's the thing, I definitely believe people at the time had reason to be upset but the distance makes it so hard to really put myself in that mindset. the context is so important

1

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · Feb 25

yeah something that stuck out to me in the essays i read at the time is that it felt like there was an escalating series of events where the NYPD response was so over the top/violent and it made everything more desperate. constant uncaring police violence in the film as in life

1

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · Feb 24

idk, I find it odd because when you see the film itself... you can argue that friedkin as an outsider cannot depict a really meaningful gay world but i really don't think you can say the film is overtly or really even subtextually homophobic

10

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · Feb 24

i do have a feeling, a little bit, that some of the backlash was based around not wanting gay men to be seen as having bad/kinky/deviant sex, or maybe even as having sex at all.

1 9

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · Feb 24

people really thought the film would get them killed. that it would incite mass violence. just from featuring BDSM and violence. i think the fact none of them had seen it made it worse because then it was all their own conjured demons of what the film might be

1 8

Ransom @rorschachisgay.bsky.social · Feb 24

like there was a very significant number of gay men who believed if the wider population saw that the leather and BDSM communities existed then gay men would be killed. ive lived through widespread backlash to bad movies but ive never seen it taken as gravely as this film was

1 8