God, I love this movie. Bernard Herrmann outdoes himself with the “Concerto Macabre”. youtu.be/lp5fCcAM-s8?...

Today’s strike isn’t just about Starbucks. It’s about a broken system where billionaires & CEOs keep getting richer while the politicians they bankroll gut our wages, healthcare & rights.  Baristas are fighting for a fair contract and for a more just society. #NoContractNoCoffee

Took the #noirvember opportunity to recommend my favorite movie—which I’ve written about at greater length here: www.deadofnightletter.com/sisters/

Indelible Horror Cities— No. 4 • Love Massacre's San Francisco #filmsky #horrorsky

"Hangover Square, when it comes to these genres, inhabits them fully and equally." -- On horror noir and Hangover Square. www.deadofnightletter.com/noirvember-h... #horrorsky #filmsky #noirvember

Hot off the presses: an ALL HORROR NOIR #noirvember newsletter! www.deadofnightletter.com/noirvember-h... #horrorsky #filmsky

Indelible Horror Cities— No. 4 • Love Massacre's San Francisco #filmsky #horrorsky

🚨 dropping a #noirvember special edition all horror noir newsletter later today 🚨 www.deadofnightletter.com#/portal/

For some of us screaming's always been in style.

Hallucinatory Horror— No. 1 • Lindsey Vickers's The Appointment #filmsky #horror

top level cowards hiding their faces and brandishing weapons on their mission to tackle and kidnap grandmas

Hallucinatory Horror— No. 1 • Lindsey Vickers's The Appointment #filmsky #horror

Indelible Horror Cities— No. 3 • The Venice of Don’t Look Now #filmsky #horror

Indelible Horror Cities— No. 3 • The Venice of Don’t Look Now #filmsky #horror

On @elrickane.bsky.social's The Dead Thing: “The melancholy here is recognizable, the atmosphere of a stretch of life where we can find ourselves alienated from a world that doesn't quite feel solid. It’s a perfect mood for a ghost story.”

Indelible Horror Cities— No. 2 • Watcher’s Bucharest #filmsky #horror

Indelible Horror Cities— No. 2 • Watcher’s Bucharest #filmsky #horror

Indelible Horror Cities— No. 1 — Cat People’s New York #filmsky #horror

On Aislinn Clarke’s Fréwaka: “… a movie about the tangle of the mind and history, and [its overstuffed] rooms echo the troubled, cluttered minds of its characters.”

Feels like an Ed Brubaker comic.

These days I have two kinds of music listening days: (1) pretty eclectic, multi-genre, with a fare amount of new music, and (2) just Elliott Smith on repeat.

The nominee to lead the BLM *actively hates the BLM* — He’s a shill for ranching, logging and Big Oil, a rabid anti environmentalist and conspiracy nut. He’s featured in this list of Public Lands Enemies www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pub... Nominees can be blocked. Call your reps.

still seeking 2024/25 horror noir

New newsletter-- “The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror

New newsletter-- “The abiding sense here is that physical reality, if we know how to approach it, will open up to reveal something deeper—a truer, more monstrous reality waiting out of sight.” On the 1925 Phantom of the Opera www.deadofnightletter.com/mask-mind-mo... #filmsky #horror

We are in a long struggle against fascism but tonight I think we get to celebrate. Put on some music, have a drink, eat some good food.

Thinking of a newsletter next week on noir horror (in honor of #Noirvember). Gonna probably talk Hangover Square and Val Lewton, but I always mention something new and I'm drawing a blank. Any 2025 noir horror or horror noir I should know about?

Perhaps the perfect hinge between October and November, I’m thinking about horror and cornfields … www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

Really taking to this wolf mask (too much so probably) 🎃🐺

On Michael Myers’s stillness: “… he's also striking a pose, making a creepy image of himself, and taking his place as an icon.” 🎃 www.deadofnightletter.com/halloween-sp... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

One of the great vacation horror movies. Watch with the Abner Pastoll Road Games for a perfect double feature.

NEW 🚨 In January 2023, LAPD killed three people suffering mental health crises. In response, our Office assessed the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU) & found that LAPD requires a patrol-first, armed response in mental health calls for service. Full report: bit.ly/lapdmeu

“Contemporary horror loves metaphor, but few creators wield it like Solomon …” A short recommendation of @riverssolomon.bsky.social’s Model Home. www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens...

Angelenos—join us this afternoon, if you’re free, in asking that Big Oil pay for the ravages of climate change. www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovem...

“He has lots of ideas, and they serve to expand and develop a master amalgamated Frankenstein that exists in del Toro’s mind.” www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

“… when the fog rolls in, there’s a distinct sense of the natural disaster to it.” www.deadofnightletter.com/fog-frankens... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

On Mica Levi’s score for Under The Skin: “Its delightfully unnerving melding of uneasy strings with buzzing and static effects can feel like a submerged Bernard Herrmann score …” www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #musicsky #horror #cinema

Horror-heads & cinephiles! May I suggest you sign up for my newsletter? A weekly quick-read thinking about horror cinema—about a past title and something new—plus a recommendation. It’s almost Halloween! Feed the newsletter’s maw! www.deadofnightletter.com #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

blood orange at shrine expo hall last night 🩸🍊

“If the slasher feels … like a creature of the 80s, then perhaps it’s only natural to return there.” On Night of the Reaper’s period setting: www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

After The 7th Victim, my favorite horror noir.

Nation of Language at The Fonda Theatre last night.

“Jacob’s Ladder feels, at different moments, like a drama about post-war PTSD, a horror movie about demons among us, a paranoid thriller about a secret military program, and a spiritual tale about the afterlife.” www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

New letter on: - genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder - the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper - Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema

looking back at my watched films on Letterboxd (in order they were added) and damn this run was insane

Thinking about jack-o’-lanterns and “… two ingredients of evocative visuals—live flame and crude faces.” www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema

This week I recommend the project over at @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social. “They’re a direct line to a relationship with a fringe past—beyond the classics, beyond nostalgia-shrouded cult favorites, beyond the video store archive.” www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... @bradfhenderson.bsky.social

“… the monster is always dangerous, always other, never domesticated.” On @bryanfuller.bsky.social‘s Dust Bunny at www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #cinema

This week’s letter on: - the special power in anthologies - keeping monsters dangerous - and the rare experience of a rediscovered lost slasher www.deadofnightletter.com/pumpkin-mons... #horrorsky #filmsky #horror #cinema

A cool thing is this rare situation where the (Tourneur/Lewton) original and the (Schrader) remake both absolutely rule.