The debut giallo of Sergio Martino has him hit the ground running. Lots of twists, glamour, boobs and blood. Plus that rarity in giallo films, a plot that makes sense! #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober letterboxd.com/davidthlewis...

#nowatching my #hooptober film 14/31 and my pic for a film written by Ernesto Gastaldi, The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh. What's better than a sexy giallo? One which stars Edwige Fenech of course!

Did a #hooptober bonus watch of the film where Nic Cage gives his most twisted performance, Vampire’s Kiss! You could choose to watch it as a satire on shallow yuppies. Or you could join the audience in delighting in Nic eating a pigeon. #filmsky #Letterboxd boxd.it/bfPjor

A film that’s a big influence on what the sound era horrors are going to look and feel like. Good fun, even if they changed the ending to something more Hollywood. #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/bfG1Db

#nowatching my #hooptober film 13/31, book adaptation 4/4 and my silent film pick, The Magician. I remember reading W. Somerset Maugham’s tale of a magician most definitely not based on Aleister Crowley *wink* terrorising Edwardian society and loving it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbzz...

It’s #lastfourfriday This time we have three #hooptober watches, in the form of a Czech examination of the mind of a fascist, British The Last of Us but not really and synthetic fleeeeeesh! Plus a woman gets drunk in Berlin, but arthouse. #filmsky #Letterboxd

Well that was a nice bit of pre-Hays Code horror fun. Helped a lot by having the highest concentration of mad scientists in a single film ever. Also by having Fay Way threaten to shoot the comic relief. #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/bffZ39

#nowatching my #hooptober film 12/31 and my pick for a film from 1932, Doctor X! The cast is a who’s who of thirties Hollywood talent (The director of Casablanca, Michael Curtiz. Fay Way is here in another genre classic) so I’m hyped for some mad scientist goodness!

This year’s spooky season is looking to be my best yet. I’ve got tickets to not one but two horror film fests, @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social & @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social Plus I’m going my first ever #hooptober challenge (with fest films included 😉) with a very kick ass selection. boxd.it/O5OYw

It’s October! Spooky season is finally upon us! 🎃

Well that was rather fun. I do like seeing recognisably British cities in states of decay and overrun with zombies, so I may be biased. But Sennia Nanua is such a great actor in this, and only her second role! #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/be863Z

#nowatching my #hooptober film 11/31 and zombie movie 3/5, The Girl With All The Gifts. Taking a pause from the Romero zombie films too see a British take on a post apocalyptic zombie world.

Sure, slashers and monsters are scary. But what about someone who can justify atrocities in the name of having a more prosperous and interesting life? Now that’s scary! The Cremator, Czech New Wave examination of fascism or Lynchian nightmare? #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/bdAljb

#nowatching my #hooptober film 10/31 and book adaptation 3/4, The Cremator. I’m lucky enough that @cubecinema.com is putting on a screening so I get to experience this with an audience, which I’m sure will improve the experience of this dark comedy.

Well that was certainly one heck of a movie. Bette Davis gives one of the best, and certainly craziest, performances of her life. Not even Joan Crawford can compete with her. Certainly a film that benefits from repeat viewings, so much going on here. #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/bcZu8R

#nowwatching my #hooptober film 9/31 and my pick from Cinemonster’s list of favourite horror films, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane! Another attempt at having a “respectable” film in my list, plus a chance to see the greatest feat of stunt casting ever.

Still one of the most existentially haunting films ever made. And it’s message of just how much civilisation collapsing would suck if we all went to a Hobbesian attitude of all against all. #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/bc9kBb

#nowwatching my #hooptober film 8/31 and zombie movie 2/5, George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead! This was one of the films that probably did the most to turn me into a horror fan. Teenaged me was blown away by how you could do both social commentary and people getting eaten!

Absolute masterpiece from top to bottom. Still adding to my review because I’ve got so much to talk about with this film. But it is possibly the most heartbreaking film in the horror canon. 😢 🔥 #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/bblw4X

#nowwatching my #hooptober film 7/31 and novel adaptation 2/4, Carrie (1976)! Another classic I haven’t watched in a while. But it’s the launcher of so many carriers and got its two female leads Oscar nomination

Apparently at some point somebody asked “what if we remade The Quatermass Xperiment, but filled it with nudity, bonkers special effects and had a script co-written by drugs" And somebody answered “Get me Tobe Hooper!” #filmsky #letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/bbfHLV

#nowwatching my #hooptober film 6/31 and my pick for the Tobe Hooper film, Lifeforce! Been awhile since I’ve seen this demented attack of the evil space aliens who are also hot naked women flick. Hope it’s as good as I remember!

I was only able to get one giallo into my #hooptober list, but I’m glad it was this one. Florinda Bolkan giving the performance of her career in this dreamy mystery. Plus Klaus Kinski doing Evil Mystery Science Theatre 3000. No, really. #filmsky #Letterboxd boxd.it/b9VO3H

#nowwatching my #hooptober film 5/31 and plot with dreams film 1/1 Footprints is from my House of Psychotic Women boxset that been in my to watch pile for far too long. So glad I’ve finally been forced into cracking it open!

It was great being able to work a “respectable” film into my #hooptober list. A great quasi art house examination of lives made unsatisfying and deadly paranoia. #filmsky #Letterboxd boxd.it/b7TNG7

#nowwatching my #hooptober film 4/31 and cult/conspiracy film 1/3. A John Frankenheimer directed, Rock Hudson starring tale of double identities and the costs thereof. Again thanks to @20thcflicks.bsky.social for the disc. 📀

Great fun seventies sci-if/horror film, even if it deviates from Richard Matheson’s novel in some ways that ultimately prove detrimental. But it’s saved by being a lot of fun regardless. Plus a very relaxing soundtrack for the action scenes. #filmsky #Letterboxd #hooptober boxd.it/b7K2Jl

#Nowwatching The Omega Man (1971) film 3/31 for #hooptober Pulling double duty as films in my post apocalyptic and literary adaptation categories. Shout out to @20thcflicks.bsky.social for setting me up with this disc. 📀

Almost forgot it’s #lastfourfriday 😅 This time we have a horror classic revisited for #hooptober a disappointing misfire from Spike Lee, the joy of youth in a time of endless possibilities (aka 1980) and eighties nostalgia done right, with added gore. #filmsky #Letterboxd

#hooptober watch 2/31 My first zombie film of the season and I’m starting with THE zombie film. Mostly because I haven’t watched it for nearly twenty years! 🧟 Good news, it is it’s still a masterpiece of low budget indie horror. #filmsky #Letterboxd boxd.it/b6OFTD

Time to start on my #hooptober list. First off, a stone cold classic that I haven’t seen in nearly two decades, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead!

If you’re looking for an intro to the collaborations between Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, do NOT start with Highest 2 Lowest. It’s such a creative misfire from creatives who can and have done so much better. So disappointing. 🥺 #filmsky #Letterboxd boxd.it/b6k3R5

I grabbed a pass for this mostly on a whim and that I found Chess of the Wind highly intriguing, knowing nothing else about the lineup. Well now the full lineup is here and now I'm extra glad I took the plunge. So much goodness here, now I'm extra stoked for October!

Last minute #hooptober rec for people needing something post apocalyptic: Turbo Kid, eighties nostalgia done right with Sam Raimi comedy gore, fun characters and thrilling bmx bike on bmx bike action. #filmsky #Letterboxd boxd.it/b5dNUh

Happy #hooptober eve! To celebrate I watched a film I couldn’t quite fit into my list, but I wanted to watch anyway. Them! had the genius idea of “what if we took the schlock seriously and also made the film really good?” Plus it’s kinda American Godzilla? #filmsky #Letterboxd boxd.it/b4Df11

So let me get this straight… 110,000 turn up for the far right Unite the Kingdom march and everyone in the media gets obsessed with it. BUT, three times that many show up for the last march for Gaza, and the media can’t ignore it any harder if they tried. Make it make sense?!

It’s #lastfourfriday We have a wildly imaginative fantasy from Yuen Woo-ping and his brothers, a French acid neo-western, people going crazy during lockdown and people going crazy due to having to live next to musicians. #filmsky #letterboxd

I just going to put this out there: I really hope the final shot of #deathstalker is the big bad crawling out of whatever hell he had been tossed into and declaring to the audience “I’ll be back! For revenge! And Deathstalker too!” Cue Deathstalker will return card. youtu.be/GcVrttrXQD8?...

The YouTube algorithm is constantly trying to shovel AI slop and crap low effort content like react vids into my face, but buries refined gold like this? SMH 🫤

I’m attempting my first ever #hooptober ! Got a list of films that plug some gaps in my horror library and some deep cuts from around the world! 🇮🇷 🇸🇳 🇰🇿 🇵🇸 #letterboxd #filmsky boxd.it/O5OYw

Oh no! Another folk zine I’ve not heard of before but I now want every issue of! 😫

I just voted for The Watetshed for Cinema of the Year. So glad that I have a place that screens stuff like Vermiglio, We’re All Going to the Worlds Fair and All About Eve. It’s done so much for my cinema watching range.

Today on #lastfourwatched it’s a case of Oops! All cinema watches. We have two of the hottest horror films out right now, a wildly joyful anime and a low budget martial arts sleaze fest that suggests a radical solution to New York’s housing crisis. #Letterboxd #filmsky

Dang, the American conservative is such a collection of utter wussies. Seeing some kids popping a wheelie gave them such a case of the vapours they declared martial law. And after some mild heckling they have to wait till under military protection before offering a lame clapback. So cringe! 😬

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

While setting up a vigil for the journalists killed in Gaza by Israel the Bristol Beer Bike passed us, and the rowdy gentleman onboard started chanting FREE PALESTINE at max volume And an hour later they came back the other way, and chanted FREE PALESTINE even louder There’s still good in the world☺️

Is it too early to start bookmarking films for #Hooptober ? Because I’ve just found my first absolute must have for my list, A House in Jerusalem. Why? For starters it’s the first ever horror movie from Palestine 🇵🇸 I’m sure I’m going to enjoy digging into this one #Letterboxd #filmsky boxd.it/ErSe

Having a grindhouse cinema club at your local pub is great. Often because of the surprising choices you get shown. Sometimes it some violent exploitation flick, sometimes it’s an indie cyberpunk rock and roll adventure with only 40 logs on #Letterboxd

Found one of my physical media white whales, and at an actually reasonable price. It’s never too early to begin prepping for Halloween! 🎃 #filmsky #physicalmedia #halloween

Last night at @cubecinema.com there was a wild night of sharks, cabaret, improvised surgery, thematic gin cocktails, competitive terrorising and the greatest seagull actor to ever grace the silver screen. 🌊🌊🌊🦈🌊🌊🌊 #Letterboxd #filmsky #sharkweek boxd.it/aES74x