While checking to see if my library had any books about Diabolik, I found AVVENTURE NOIR, the subtitle of which roughly translates to “The Guide to the Followers of Diabolik, Kriminal and Satanik.” I can’t read Italian, but I know what I like.

Letterboxd/Filmsky Last Four Friday A dystopian King adaptation, a near-classic Universal Monster, the answer to a Diabolikal question, and a mismarketed disappointment. #LastFourFriday

Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Dementia 13,’ the low-budget thriller that could, was released on this day in 1963: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

I’ve only seen half a dozen episodes of MOBILE COP JIBAN so far, but its banger of an opening theme is already shooting for a permanent place in my memory banks. Jiban! Jiban! #MobileCopJiban #Tokusatsu

Geez, fat-shame much, Flash? Two panels of Alex Raymond’s FLASH GORDON strip from 1940.

What are the odds that two people are going to try to book the same exact seat for a Monday afternoon screening of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER at this hour of the morning? I should play the lottery today.

Not to be confused with 1985’s THE BRIDE, the previous “fresh take on the classic horror story,” which starred Sting and Jennifer Beals, and did not have an exclamation point in the title.

Drop some TONGUES 😜🖤👅

On a day like this, I can’t help thinking of this banger of a sketch (written by the inimitable Peter Cook) from BEYOND THE FRINGE:

Obligatory Jet Jaguar Repost

I've already seen six of the films in the Criterion Channel's "Nunsploitation" series, but Juan López Moctezuma's ALUCARDA was all new to me. Takes a while for it to get going, but once the man in the goat mask shows up, it gets in gear and hums along until it brings the house (of God) down.

Whoever packs up the mail orders for Cleopatra Records definitely has a good time with the stamps.

I’m fine with the Rapture as long as the man from Mars does not eat my cars and guitars and head

Fall has fallen. Have some more scarecrows.

Fall has fallen. Have some scarecrows.

"The Unhappy Hangman," as performed by the theater troupe at the start of 1964's THE CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD. Overall, not a very good film (in spite of star Christopher Lee's efforts to be suitably creepy), but this sequence is amusing.

A bit of gruesomeness from SCARECROWS. This is from the scene where Bert (yes, that is the character's name) is caught by the killer scarecrows and held down while they gut him and stuff him with straw. First, though, comes the sack over the head. Gotta do the sack over the head. It's traditional.

One more day until the Autumnal Equinox, so have some more scarecrows courtesy of 1988's SCARECROWS.

Plotting world domination on #CobraSunday.

Attn: @phantasma.darkwo.ke

Drop your memorial service look.

🧜💛🐺

The Autumnal Equinox is just two days away, so please enjoy these images of the scarecrow from the GOOSEBUMPS episode "The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight."

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Watched BUGSY MALONE tonight for Paul Williams's 85th birthday, and forgive my questioning the logic of a 49-year-old movie, but by its own conventions, shouldn't everybody apart from Bugsy, Blousey, and the priest be dead at the end of it?

Couples goals.

GIF of the last movie you watched

Happy 85th birthday to Paul Williams, who is still alive.

Letterboxd/Filmsky Last Four Friday Two by Guest, one of Bava’s best, Diabolik doesn’t rest #LastFourWatched

NSFW a band The Polyamorous Spree

“Massacre at Central High,’ released on this day in 1976, proves ordinary people make the scariest monsters. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Post a horror movie everyone should see 🖤

if u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky

Obligatory Judex repost

I was working at a movie theater a decade back, and one of the more surprising hits during my tenure there was A WALK IN THE WOODS, with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, which brought out a lot people who probably hadn’t been to the movies in years, if not decades. That’s star power.

It’s telling that the first thought that crosses my mind whenever a beloved celebrity dies is, “Well, at least they won’t have to deal with all this bullshit anymore.”

“Only you, Lord Giba, would think to occupy a whole town with vegetables!” My decision to get rolling on MOBILE COP JIBAN is already paying off handsomely. #MobileCopJiban #Tokusatsu

I’m more than a little stoked for @criterion.bsky.social’s December slate. These two titles in particular:

Top 5 Bava: Blood and Black Lace, Black Sunday, Diabolik, Black Sabbath, A Bay of Blood Top 5 Argento: Suspiria, Tenebre, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Opera, Deep Red Top 5 Fulci: Don’t Torture a Duckling, A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, The Beyond, Four of the Apocalypse, The New York Ripper

Drop some EYES 👁️🖤👁️

Yesterday’s Half Price pick-ups. Image’s COBRA COMMANDER: DETERMINED TO RULE THE WORLD and DESTRO: THE ENEMY, which are part of the “Energon Universe.” Not sure how deeply I’m going to explore that, but I couldn’t resist these TPBs. #Cobra #CobraCommander #Destro #GIJoe

If you had told me a few months ago that I would like DANGEROUS ANIMALS more than SPINAL TAP II, I would not have believed you, yet here we are.

Also worthy of respect: The guy in the chicken costume who hatches out of the egg in Derek Smalls's place at the beginning of "Rock 'n' Roll Creation."

Just had a terrible thought: Is Big Balls going to get a state funeral?

Mad respect to Christopher Guest for wearing this spandex suit for the first few numbers in THE RETURN OF SPINAL TAP.

Rarest films I've seen by decade: Vagrant (20) New World Order X (13) Maxwell Stein (09) The Pigeon Egg Strategy (98) Death Angel (81) The Mermaid Frolics (77) Mandrake vs. Killing (67) Missile Monsters (58) Outlaw Country (49) Doomed at Sundown (37) Big Stakes (22) The Jockey of Death (15)

The sooner everybody stops talking about him, the sooner he will be forgotten.

Letterboxd/Filmsky Last Four Friday The preeminent mockumentary and its rough draft, a Cameron Mitchell vehicle, and a royal rumble between wrestlers and Satanists. #LastFourWatched

One of the low-key funniest things in THIS IS SPINAL TAP is the way David St. Hubbins pronounces Des Moines and then says he thinks it’s in Indiana.

Happy 85th birthday to the great, perennially underappreciated Brian De Palma. Anybody in the market for a good book on the man and his work would do well to seek this one out: