Daniel Robichaud
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Reader, scientist, essay writer, fictioneer, poet, movie watcher, hubby, fadda.
Two women find romance, hijinks, and plenty of trouble on the way to Europe in Howard Hawks’ fabulously entertaining musical-comedy, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES.
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Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls with a popular show. Their dance numbers are all the rage, and in fact has attracted the attention of Lorelei’s …
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When baddies target Brett Macklin’s friends and family, he must spread himself thin to save them. Can he save those he loves most, or has his actions doomed them all? Violence begets violence in GUILTY,
#LeeGoldberg’s
final entry in The Jury series.
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No One Comes to the Game Weightless: Lee Goldberg’s The Jury: Guilty
When Brett Macklin took on the mantle of Mr. Jury to avenge his father, a cop that was burned to death by a gang of hoodlums, he never imagined the strange journey his decision to take the law into…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/25/jury4-book/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Three vloggers expect naughty fun when they break into a rundown Christmas theme park. Encountering Krampus and a very real (and depressed) Santa, they soon find themselves up to their necks in silly b-movie fun. SLAY BELLES
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Adventure Girls Save Christmas: Slay Belles (2018)
When the Adventure Girls decide to leave the city to do a little exploring of an abandoned, run down, doomed to be bulldozed Christmas themed amusement park, they go all out. Dahlia (Susan Slaughte…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/slay-belles-2018/
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A desperate woman moves into a wealthy home as the maid, only to discover nothing in the Winchester House is as ideal or idyllic as it seems in
#PaulFeig’s
twisty thriller, THE HOUSEMAID.
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Actions Have Consequences: The Housemaid (2025)
Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney) is in need of a job, any job. She’s got a great resume (a lie), she’s got a record, she’s sleeping in her car, and she’s bathing in public restroom sinks. When she …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/housemaid-2025/
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The road to opening night of a stage show has never been crazier than in Michael Frayn’s NOISES OFF. The film adaptation is a treat, and it’s our Friday comedy this week.
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Now I Know How God Felt Sitting Out There in the Dark … Very Pleased He Had Taken His Valium: Noises Off (1992)
When a stage production does its dress rehearsal less than 24 hours before its premier, and the cast still don’t know their lines, still have questions about motivation, still can’t seem to get it …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/noises-off-1992/
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Brett Macklin returns for a third dose of pain and suffering, this time tackling a copycat killer working a racist agenda.
#LeeGoldberg’s
thriller PAYBACK is a wild ride into 1980s era action/adventure.
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You Vicious, Sadistic Bastard: Lee Goldberg’s The Jury: Payback
Brett Macklin is enjoying a brief respite from his tours of duty as Mr. Jury. According to official reports following the destruction of a kiddie porn ring, his vigilante identity is dead. So, when…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/jury3-book/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A town of goblins lures a hapless family in with promises of farm living and free veggie meals. Will the family escape before they become the main dish? TROLL 2 is deeply silly but fun if taken in the proper spirit.
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You Can’t Piss on Hospitality: Troll 2 (1990)
The Waits family is about to embark on a new adventure, swapping houses with a family in the half abandoned town of Nilbog for a month. The Waits will live like farmers, and the Present family will…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/troll-2-1990/
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The end of the world arrives in the form of a darkness erasing pieces of the world in
#AlexWoodroe’s
cool, 1980s-set
#horrornovel
, THE NIGHT SHIP.
#FlameTreePress
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? Alex Woodroe’s The Night Ship
Rosi is accompanying her forced marriage fiancé Gigi on one of his runs, transporting lumber across 1980s Romania and using his truck as a delivery system for the contraband she’s looking to unload…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/night-ship-book/
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CW and Madison return, stalking and out-manuevering one another in the engaging and beautifully shot satiric suspense sequel, INFLUENCERS.
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Now You’re Thinking Like a Psychopath: Influencers (2024)
CW (Cassandra Naud) is living in southern France with her lover Diane (Lisa Delamar), taking a lovely holiday across the countryside when her old life comes a’calling. The room she’d paid for at a …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/now-youre-thinking-like-a-psychopath-influencers-2024/
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A photographer and a working-man butt heads, share hijinks, and eventually fall in love in the delightful screwball comedy, NO TIME FOR LOVE.
#ClaudetteColbert
#FredMacMurray
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A Common-Sense Institution: No Time For Love (1943)
Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert) is a modern woman, a photographer with an eye for telling details that her editor doesn’t quite understand but her publisher/fiancé is indulging. Her latest job …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/no-time-love-1943/
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The Jury (Brett Macklin) returns to deal out more vigilante justice in thriller writer
#LeeGoldberg’s
action/adventure epic. ADJOURNED pits Macklin against some truly wicked baddies who deserve every gruesome end they meet.
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Make Them Pay: Lee Goldberg’s Adjourned
Following the personally motivated war against the punks who killed his dad, Brett Macklin has been trying to get back to normal, laying low and enjoying a relationship with his girlfriend, Cheshir…
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNEDAY: A newly broke child of privilege (Walter Matthau) decides to wed someone rich … and maybe murder her for her money in
#ElaineMay’s
quirky 1971 comedy, A NEW LEAF.
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Paddle Like Hell for Shore: A New Leaf (1971)
When Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) discovers he has frittered away his inheritance, he faces an unfortunate dilemma about his continued existence. Had he any useful skills, he could get a job; he d…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/paddle-like-hell-for-shore-a-new-leaf-1971/
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Daniel Robichaud
Jeremy C. Shipp
21 days ago
Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last. A signal boost would be a colossal help.
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A man heads to the sticks for a chance at some big money in
#BrandonMassey’s
tale of spectral rural horror. He will not like what he finds in the BACKWOODS.
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Be Out by Dark: Brandon Massey’s Backwoods
Nick is in a bind. His business partner, Omar, made a deal with a shady guy called Shango who is jealous of the business’s successes (and Omar’s showy spending). Shango has decided to up his vig ro…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/backwoods-book/
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A new evil rises to plague the survivors of
#EmmaTammi’s
adaptation of the first flick in the famed franchise. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 is creepy, surreal horror with a good sense for fright.
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Fixer Upper: Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)
Once upon a time, there was a crazy man named William Afton (Matthew Lillard) who kidnapped kids and butchered them, hiding the remains in the animatronics of his family restaurant. The spirits of …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/5naf2-2025/
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My ghostly short story, “I’ll Hear You, My Dear, at Twilight Time,” has just been published. It appears in the December 2025 issue of parABnormal Magazine.
#Hiraeth
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PARABNORMAL MAGAZINE December2025 | Hiraeth Publishing
parABnormal Magazine features stories that focus on the paranormal, including ghosts, spectres, witchcraft, the afterlife, and the occasional bit of dark magic. This issue also include three articles ...
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Three young women move into an apartment together with a mission in this golden era rom com pitting
#LaurenBacall
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#MarilynMonroe
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#BettyGrable
against wealthy mankind. HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
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Setting the Bear Trap: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall) not only knows what she wants but how to get it. Rent a high class apartment with three like minded friends, and then use the address as a kind of lure for a certain ki…
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When a man is pushed to the edge by the brutal murder of his father and the inability of the System to punish the guilty, he will take up his dad's .357 and pay the wicked back with bullets in JUDGMENT,
#LeeGoldberg’s
first entry in THE JURY SERIES.
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Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Lee Goldberg’s Judgment
Brett Macklin is more than a car enthusiast; he is the sort of mechanic who sees an issue and brings out the best a car can be with his keen eye and deft talent. His own car, a 1959 Cadillac, is lo…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/goldberg-judgment-book/
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Horror Tree
26 days ago
The Trembling With Fear drabble cupboard is looking bare, which means we're all in danger and need more 100 word stories! Questions/details:
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A former gangster moll and her drive-in operated by reformed gangster hoods is visited by the evil spirit of a dead gangster hellbent for revenge in the wonderfully odd, RUBY.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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They’re All Dead; They Just Don’t Know It: Ruby (1977)
In 1935, gangster moll Ruby Claire (Piper Laurie) agrees to accompany young, sexy, dangerous mobster Nicky Rocco (Sal Vecchio) on a romantic evening by the lake. However, their time together is int…
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Meka discovers dark dreams lead to a darker destiny than she ever imagined in
#KalynnBayron’s
Mary Shelley and Poe influenced YA horror novel, MAKE ME A MONSTER.
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Alive! Alive! Alive! Kalynn Bayron’s Make Me A Monster
Meka Redwood has a pretty good life. Sure, her family owns the funeral home, and, at only seventeen years old, she’s Ithaca, New York’s youngest certified mortician’s assistant, able to officially …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/make-me-monster-book/
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A dog tries to protect his master from supernatural forces in the wonderfully effective and heartbreaking flick, GOOD BOY
@shudder.com
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We Don’t Deserve Our Pets: Good Boy (2025)
Dealing with a chronic health issue, Todd (Shane Jensen) has decided to leave the big city and head out to his grandfather’s place. He and his best friend, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever name…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/we-dont-deserve-our-pets-good-boy-2025/
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The residents of a small wharf town seethe with passions and ambitions that none of them will be able to realize … without a little betrayal and sin in
#FritzLang’s
adaptation of
#CliffordOdets
play, CLASH BY NIGHT.
#noirvember
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Love Because We’re Lonely. Love Because We’re Frightened. Love Because We’re Bored: Clash by Night (1952)
When Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns home to Monterey, California, she’s running away from a life spent taking care of men and running toward an ideal of being taken care of by someone else. H…
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Can PI Max Thursday dodge bullets, babes, and the bottle long enough to find his missing son? GUILTY BYSTANDER is a tough, stylized, and entertaining as hell crime film.
#NOIRvember
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There Is Strength in the Weakest of Us: Guilty Bystander (1950)
Max Thursday (Zachary Scott) is a drunk hotel detective sleeping off his latest binge when his ex-wife Georgia (Faye Emerson) arrives with some truly disturbing news: their young son is missing. Ma…
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A drifter finds himself up to his neck in trouble when he happens to meet the physical requirements for an unscrupulous banker’s wicked plan.
#GlennFord
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#JanisCarter
sizzle in FRAMED.
#Noirvember
@criterionchannl.bsky.social
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Lambert Luck Is Always In, Always Bad: Framed (1947)
When mining engineer Mike Lambert (Glenn Ford) came to the small town, he was driving a truck with lousy brakes. Ended up dinging local miner, Jeff Cunningham (Edgar Buchanan) on his truck’s bumper…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/framed-1947/
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A sailor comes out of a blackout to find himself with a bundle of cash. He's also one of the last people to see a woman before she got herself perished. To clear his name, he’ll have to figure out whodunit in DEADLINE AT DAWN.
#noirvember
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A Non Compos Mentis Tour of the Dark Side: Deadline at Dawn (1946)
When Navy sailor Alex Winkley (Bill Williams) comes to, he’s chatting with a newsstand owner. In his pocket is a wad of bills, amounting to $1400. He’s not sure where that came from, but he suspect…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/deadline-at-dawn-1946/
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A one-eyed jack of all trades plays detective, looking for answers in a Hollywood murder. He gets more than he bargains for in
#RobertBloch’s
SHOOTING STAR.
@hardcasecrime.bsky.social
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The Big Dealers and the Little Squealers, The Future Killers and the Future Victims: Robert Bloch’s Shooting Star
Mark Clayburn wears a lot of hats, including literary agent, writer, and even private detective. It’s that last hat that his old, fair weather friend Harry Bannock needs, coming to his office with …
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/shooting-star-book/
about 1 month ago
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: Lines blur between gothic horror and mad science in the Hammer Horror flick about … THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Perpetrating Perpetual Life: The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
In 1890s Paris, Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) is a renowned doctor with a passion for sculpting. His latest project is to be unveiled in a private affair. The familiar faces of the city’s wea…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/man-cheat-death-1959/
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A hitman on the run from the law and in search of the man who betrayed him gets tangled up with an actress in the 1950s remake of This Gun For Hire and
#JamesCagney’s
sole shot in the director’s seat, SHORT CUT TO HELL.
@kinolorber.com
#NOIRvember
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Strays: Short Cut to Hell (1957)
A lonely gunman waits for the time of his next hit. Kyle Niles (Robert Ivers) has no interest in other people, certainly not the seductive maid Daisy (Yvette Vickers) who cleans his room. He is a w…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/short-cut-hell-1957/
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Hap and Leonard return for a case that starts with a hog on meth, builds with unearthed bodies in a backyard, and ventures crazier directions with a group of hatchet wielding women taking on the meth industry in Joe R. Lansdale’s HATCHET GIRLS.
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Of Pigs and PIs: Joe R. Lansdale’s Hatchet Girls
When Belinda shows up at Brett Sawyer Investigations, she brings an unusual problem. The neighbor’s hog has been getting out, running wild, eating pets, and otherwise attacking her and her children…
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A greasy spoon is a hot bed of stolen secrets in the gritty (and surprisingly humorous) late entry noir, SHACK OUT ON 101.
#LeeMarvin
is pretty great in this early role.
@kinolorber.com
#Noirvember
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One Spicy Tomato Amongst Spies Galore: Shack Out on 101 (1955)
Kotty (Terry Moore) was used to fending off the advances of handsy men. It went with the trade of working as a waitress at George’s (Keenan Wynn) Shack out on 101. But she never had to deal with a …
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At the tail end of WWII, a physicist is recruited by OSS to discover the state of the Nazi nuclear weapons program in the proto-noir espionage hybrid, CLOAK AND DAGGER.
@kinolorber.com
#noirvember
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Undercover Physicist: Cloak and Dagger (1946)
In the latter months of World War II, the American OSS realizes they don’t have enough scientific minds in their ranks so they turn to Manhattan Project physicist Alvah Jesper (Gary Cooper). It tur…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cloak-and-dagger-1946/
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A murderer in black hat, coat & gloves is on a rampage, but why? The police are delving into the situation, but can anyone stop the murderer? REFLECTIONS IN BLACK is a nasty giallo with plentiful nudity and light mystery.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Vice Wears Black Stockings: Reflections in Black (1975)
When a woman lets a figure in black into her house, she expects someone she knows. Instead, it is a killer who has come for her life. But why? What is the motive for Nelly’s (Daniela Giordano) brut…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/reflections-in-black-1975/
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A spiritual sequel to Massimino’s Schoolgirls in Peril giallo films, RINGS OF FEAR finds a police investigation into a murdered student with dangerous connections.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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How Many Crimes Involve Disembowelment with a Massive Wooden Phallus? Rings of Fear (1978)
When a teenager’s body is pulled from a waterway, she has been wrapped in plastic like leftovers and blandly discarded. Angela Russo’s death stems from the worst assault imaginable, practically dis…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/rings-of-fear-1978/
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Eve Ronin returns in search of the identity and cause of death for recently unearthed skeletal remains in
#LeeGoldberg’s
gripping police procedural thriller, BONE CANYON.
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Controlling Your Narrative: Lee Goldberg’s Bone Canyon
Los Angeles Couty Sheriff’s Department homicide detective Eve Ronin is fresh from her last case when she’s called out to the canyons in the Santa Monica Mountains to inspect some human remains. A s…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/everonin2-book/
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Dario Argento’s 2001 giallo got a new 4K UHD release, so it’s time to consider SLEEPLESS. Great turn by star Max Von Sydow, some memorable murder set pieces, and a bizarre mystery. Check, check, check!
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Non Ho Sonno: Sleepless (2001)
When a murderer stalks Turin, the police are stumped as to the crimes. They turn to the brilliant, retired investigator Ulisse Moretti (Max Von Sydow) for some help because he tackled a similar ser…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/sleepless-2001/
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WEIRD WATCH WEDNESDAY: A killer is stalking victims in the low budget Long Island giallo, 5 DEAD ON THE CRIMSON CANVAS
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Color Me Blood Red: 5 Dead on the Crimson Canvas (1996)
When Gloria Streeb (Liz Haverty) shares a glass of wine with her artist husband, she offers a bit of gentle criticism. Instead of accepting it graciously, Richard (Simeon Moni Daevski) lashes out a…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/crimson-canvas-1996/
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The killer stalking Rome’s sex workers forces them to work together to unmask him in
#FrancoFerrini’s
SWEETS FROM A STRANGER @VinegarSyndrome
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Sex Workers … Assemble! Sweets from a Stranger (1987)
A serial killer is stalking the prostitutes of Rome, brutalizing them with a straight razor and finishing the job with a bolt gun. When the police seem helpless (and possibly uninterested) in doing…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/sweets-from-stranger-1987/
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A photographer might have seen too much in the quirky science fiction giallo, OBSESSION: A TASTE FOR FEAR.
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Killing for the One I Love: Obsession: A Taste for Fear (1987)
Diane (Virginia Hey) is a photographer specializing in erotic images. Sometimes these dabble with BDSM imagery, as in the scene between a masked gunwoman and a threatened victim. Often, these invol…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/obsession-atff-1987/
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Giallo mystery mashes together murder with sexy international espionage in the Rome-set suspense yarn, MYSTERE
@vinsyn.bsky.social
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Dagger Eyes: Mystère (1983)
High end sex worker Mystère (Carole Bouquet) is living her best life, meeting and bedding interesting people, and enjoying time with her best friend Pamela (Janet Agren). Sadly, all this ends after…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/mystere-1983/
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A woman drinks to excess and blacks out, but soon worries that her rendezvous with a handsy jerk might have ended in murder in
#FritzLang’s
THE BLUE GARDENIA.
#NOIRVember
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Venomous Newspaper Noir: The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) and her friend Crystal Carpenter (Ann Sothern) and Sally Ellis (Jeff Donnell) live together in a shared apartment and work together at the phone company. While her friend…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/blue-gardenia-1953/
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A 3rd terror tale from noir master Cornell Woolrich is adapted in the Argentine noir, IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE. A child murderer is on the loose & only a child can find him. But will the pursuer save his friend or join the victims?
#NOIRVember
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The Final Door: If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
Third grade student Lucho Santana (Néstor Zavarce) is a terrible student, a class clown who prefers to draw angry pictures of his grade school teacher rather than take notes about grammar. He has a…
https://consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/die-before-wake-1952/
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Two tales of terror from noir master Cornell Woolrich exploring pain and anguish are adapted into an exemplary film noir in the Argentinian picture, NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR.
#NOIRVember
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Anguish and Pain: Never Open That Door (1951)
An Argentinian film from the post World War II era, which employs noir mood and stylistics to tell a tale of dark fate, chance, and crime also happens to use some splendid horror film elements as w…
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Roman returns home when his father is hospitalized and soon learns his little sister is taking care of the family crematory biz while youngest brother Dante has made deals with metaphoric devils in
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Everything Burns: S. A. Cosby’s King of Ashes
Roman Carruthers has made a good career for himself in Georgia, working as a financial whiz and consultant for high end celebrities, helping them turn their money into more money by (mostly) legal …
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The stranger appears with offers of protection from misfortune. Miss a payment and your prized possessions might disappear. Maybe a boat, maybe a dream, maybe a daughter ... OUT OF THE FOG.
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The Man Who Collects the Money Always Comes Back: Out of the Fog (1941)
A stranger has come to the small seaport, and his arrival is heralded by fire. A boat has been torched off the nearby pier. Not the small fishing boat belonging to tailor Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitc…
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Easy Rawlins swaggers into the 1970s.
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An Hours-Long Conversation Whittled Down to a Few Sentences: Walter Mosley’s Farewell, Amethystine
The 1960s are over, and Easy Rawlins is sliding into the 1970s as Walter Mosley’s sixteenth book in the long running series begins. Easy is recovered from the events of Blood Grove, moving on with …
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The stranger appears with offers of assistance, but what is his agenda? The supernatural did not often blend with noir sensibilities back in the day. ALIAS NICK BEAL is one example where they do and work beautifully.
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The Incorruptible Enemy of the Legions of Evil: Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell) is spearheading a do-gooder cause, prosecuting a wicked hoodlum when he finds himself up against the wall. Although he made no mention of ledgers implicating the hoo…
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A man who sees the future finds himself besieged by visions of trauma and terror. When they hit home, he disappears for a while. He is then compelled to return. Is he really psychic or a homicidal maniac? THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES
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It’s All Right Now: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Jean Courtland (Gail Russell) is so terrified of the night, that she’s willing to destroy herself instead of face it. Her attempt to throw herself in front of a moving train is flummoxed however, w…
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Ray Milland plays a man trying to solve a crime he did not commit but has been nicely framed for, all before the guys trying to frame him finish their work. THE BIG CLOCK is a taut (and sometimes humorous) noir flick.
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The System of Irrelevant Clues: The Big Clock (1948)
The editor of the Crimesways magazine, George Stroud (Ray Milland), is an expert at tracking down missing persons thanks to what he calls “The System of Irrelevant Clues,” a large chalk board where…
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When a man saves a woman on a rainy night, he is charmed by her attentions. However her boyfriend has an angle for her to play. Will the hapless fellow realize the situation before they bleed him dry? SCARLET STREET
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For Cat’s Sake, I Didn’t Do It! Scarlet Street (1945)
Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a reliable cashier with dreams of painting, but he has no faith in his own talents. After an appreciation dinner with his coworkers and their boss J. J. Ho…
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