Satō's bleak reinterpretation of The Conversation SURVEY MAP OF A PARADISE LOST (1988) also examines voyeurism from an auditorial standpoint, challenging the technology meant to ease connection that further divides & mechanizes a bubble society reeling from its byproduct: lack of sensation.

While Ákos Ráthonyi's THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL (1961) feels most recognizably giallo in its dancer dispatching stocking masked menace & airline insurance sleuth, the daffy smuggler subplot, crazed Kinski & cringe use of Christopher Lee as a Charlie Chan-esque spy are pure krimi kookiness. #Noirvember

My favorite flavor of giallo: fashionable haunted women in existential crisis mode aka haute paranoia

#NowWatching THE BEAST TO DIE (1980), Tōru Murakawa #Noirvember

Folie à deux enfolded in grain & dripping with depressive static, Satō's atypical Pinku rape revenge TURTLE VISION (1991) breaks erotic melancholy down to its visual viscera, meditating on sunsets like a voyeur upon a horny unsuspecting couple & embedding trauma into artfully reflexive tape glitch.

#NowListening Westerman || A Jackal’s Wedding

Portrait of Jennie (1948), William Dieterle // Lolita: Vibrator Torture (1987), Hisayasu Satō #sidebyside #backlitbuildings #filmsky 📽️🏢

Combining the mystique of the Rue Morgue with a deadly Agatha Christie closed circle, Vohrer's THE DOOR WITH 7 LOCKS (1962) has everything Rialto Wallace krimi made legend including stunning photography, ham-fisted hijinks, unhinged science & a MacGuffin locked behind a sinister door. #Noirvember

A key domino in the German krimi film cycle's trajectory, Reinl's lean Wallace caper FELLOWSHIP OF THE FROG (1959) comes complete with chiaroscuro heavy pulp & a real rubik's cube of a plot bearing the eurospy augury of waggish playboy with butler sidekick & a penchant for crime solving. #Noirvember

Ghosts won't kill people because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.

let the bodies hit the floor #BavaBodies Blood & Black Lace // Planet of the Vampires // Kill, Baby...Kill! // Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Ghosts won't kill people because that would just make more ghosts. Isn't that right? Instead, they'll try to make people immortal by quietly trapping them in their own loneliness.

#NowWatching a masterpiece

Beyond pat stalker/thriller, Shunichi Nagasaki's tense V-Cinema giallo style neo-noir STRANGER (1991) set amidst the predawn of Japan's asset bubble burst takes Spielberg's Duel on a gender bender, focusing its more intense moments on the incessant, unsolicited scrutiny women face daily. #Noirvember

A key progenitor of Wong Kar-Wai & Christopher Doyle's tone poems, Patrick Tam's spectacle of sadness MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE (1989) perfects a certain synth driven ocular pageantry that forms lustrous crinkled foils of melodramatic longing to enfold heroic bloodshed's sweet sanguineous candy.

Now that the M+ 4K restoration of Love Massacre is officially making the rounds maybe I can stop yelling at people to watch it—one of the greatest slashers ever made. #Finally #PatrickTamIsLove 📽️🎞️

Night of the Demon (1957), Jacques Tourneur // Messiah of Evil (1973), Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz #sidebyside #horrorhallways #horrorsky #filmsky 📽️

Kicking off #Noirvember with two of my favorite bad husbands #nw

October 31st November 1st

I should've known it was strange You only come out at night SPECTERS (1987), Marcello Avallone #horrorsky #filmsky #spettri #nosferatuitaliano

Barbara Steele▪️Photographed📷Jean-François Hauduroy 1964

Suspiria (1977) Directed by #DarioArgento Starring #JessicaHarper #StefaniaCasini #FlavioBucci #MiguelBosé #BarbaraMagnolfi #AlidaValli #JoanBennett #udokier Music by #Goblin Cinematography by #LucianoTovoli #Suspiria #1970s #Horror #ItalianCinema #cinemaitaliano #HappyHalloween 🎃👻💀🧛‍♂️🦇

#31DaysOfHorror Day 31 BLACK SUNDAY (1960), Mario Bava Consumed by melancholy, a young Moldavian whose body was consecrated by Satan as a vessel for her evil ancestor feels fate's cold hand upon her. But there is no reason to fear the dead. They sleep very soundly...right? Happy Halloween! 😉🎃🖤

#31DaysofHorror Day 30 SUPERSTITION (1982), James W Roberson Somewhere amid shelves of haunted vhs-era golden garbage lies a parsonage of pandemonium & witchcraft where bombastically eurocult pre-La Casa maiming mansions & canuxploi-mutation body horror engage in unholy coupling. Hallelujah. Amen.

#31DaysOfHorror Day 29 THE BRAINIAC (1962), Chano Urueta In this bonkers sci-fi gothic smorgasbord, a baron condemned to charbroil during the Inquisition vows by a passing comet to return when next it appears in the sky for delicious revenge as a wooly, were-rat like, cerebellum sucking diabolo.

This was another absolute surprise for me. I had anticipated the bat crazy plot points—as bare (pun intended) as they were—but not the jaw dropping shot composition. Peak exploitation.

#31DaysofHorror Day 28 THE CURIOUS DR. HUMPP (1969), Emilio Vieyra In what could be The Awful Dr. Orlof as directed by Doris Wishman, a scientist prolongs his life (via a directive from a brain in a jar) by having automatons kidnap the horny populace so he can extract their libidinous lifeblood.

#31DaysofHorror Day 27 SANTO VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN (1962), Alfonso Corona Blake Professor Orloff enlists Mexico’s premier lucha-dorable silver masked matman to protect his daughter from an undead grudge match in this stylish horror hodgepodge where gothic pulp gets piledriven back into the coffin.

#31DaysOfHorror Day 26 THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960), Terence Fisher Cushing at his most crush-worthy burns the bloodlust out of villages & veins while weaponizing a windmill in this Lee-less follow-up that centers a narrative dripping with hazy folkloric terror upon the Norman Bates of vampires.

this lady 😍 #StefaniaCasini

#31DaysOfHorror Day 25 COUNT DRACULA'S GREAT LOVE (1973), Javier Aguirre In a frequently undervalued portrayal, Spain's most legendary lycanthrope sheds his hirsute for a shiny black cape yet still retains the signature lovelorn melancholia that imparts finesse to fog laden splatter.

#31DaysOfHorror Day 24 BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974), Paul Morrissey The blood of these whores is killing me.

Sorry I dropped the ball yesterday! (Shout out to my fellow over-extended folks 👏👊) I will try to catch-up on #31DaysOfHorror picks today. 🎃🖤

Crypt of the Vampire (1964), Camillo Mastrocinque // The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), Jean Rollin

#31DaysofHorror Day 23 CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE (1964), Camillo Mastrocinque While never quite given the same accord as Carmilla cousins The Vampire Lovers or Vampyros Lesbos, this chamber piece grounds itself in folklore & family with a dreary dreaminess indicative of Italian single location gothics.

#31DaysofHorror Day 22 THE DAUGHTER OF DR. JEKYLL (1957), Edgar G Ulmer The child of a were-quack fears she may inherit more than his estate in this backlot monster mash cheapie proximal to I Was a Teenage Werewolf, its salient queer-coded female lycanthropy somewhat undone by a gaslighting twist.

Sorry I dropped the ball yesterday! (Shout out to my fellow over-extended folks 👏👊) I will try to catch-up on #31DaysOfHorror picks today. 🎃🖤

#31DaysofHorror Day 21 THE STRANGE CASE OF DR.JEKYLL & MISS OSBOURNE (1981), Walerian Borowczyk Forming the summit of the one crazy night sub-genre is this ecstatically nihilistic exploration of dualism & anarchical amour, unfolding amidst the rapturous diffusions of a l’age d’or dream state.

#31DaysofHorror Day 20 THE HUNGRY SNAKE WOMAN (1986), Sisworo Gautama Putra Suzzanna is just one iconic spice in this bloated ADHD cinema pie of possessed aerobic dance, dime store Dracs, exploding chests, Amazonian cannibal cabals, kung fu mullets, chainsaw fights & 9.5 weeks of oh my please no.

#31DaysOfHorror Day 19 THE REPTILE (1966), John Gilling In one of Hammer's more keen originals, carnage is wrought in a moody locale by a Conan Doyle/Poe collab curse, the suffering associated with female monstrosity a result of her father's colonialist calamity which parallels incestuous tension.

#31DaysOfHorror Day 18 THE CURSE OF THE DOLL PEOPLE (1961), Benito Alazraki While not exactly I walked with a Chucky on steroids, this creep show of pint-sized practitioners of vengeful voodoo does unearth progressive tropes like cultural insensitivity & a capable shero from its gothic dirt.

#31DaysOfHorror Day 17 DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL (1979), Grigori Kromanov A conformist cop on a false lead is trapped at a screwball hotel by an avalanche in this mescaline fueled Agatha Christie funhouse sci-fi noir that serves up subtextual denouncements of authoritarian suppression of otherness.

#31DaysofHorror Day 16 SWEET HOME (1989), Kiyoshi Kurosawa Part lunatic Obayashi cartoonery, part Tobe Hooper face melter, this auteur filmography curio may bear the shameful fingerprints of post production meddling, yet it still sets the Resident Evil at Hill House stage for those that followed.

#31DaysofHorror Day 15 DOOR (1988) Banmei Takahashi In the giallo that Haneke never made, a nouveau riche housewife already beset on all sides by phallocentric adverts injures a pushy salesman, unleashing a sexually uncomfortable cavalcade of tensions that boil beyond the "safe" domestic boundary.

#31DaysofHorror Day 14 THE WIZARD OF GORE (1970), Herschell Gordon Lewis A reporter investigates a mind-bending magician in this hypnotically dissonant experiment in ordinary patience, its loopy audio, jagged edits & utter disregard for tension the result of a particular hubristic, mad ingenuity.

The Sect (1991, Michele Soavi)

#31DaysofHorror Day 13 ONE MISSED CALL (2003), Takashi Miike Although largely viewed as an unhurried Ring-off whose remake qualifies as a hate crime, this sharp satire is more interested in the ways technology facilitates desensitized morbid spectacle than its urban legend techno slasher brethren.

Watch👏More👏Jean👏Rollin #BOTD Brigitte Lahaie & Cathy Stewart in Jean Rollin's THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (1980) #BrigitteLahaie 🎂 #JeanRollin #filmsky #horrorsky

When the DMs be like "so what films are your vibe" and these are the films...🤷‍♀️📽️

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”