I love this film. Really hope some day we will get a nice looking print available. Made me become an A Merritt fan.

I think you're right. Had never heard of this show before but it sounds like something that would have be name on it

I had previously watched this before and always loved it. Currently researching writer Alain Page who wrote the initial treatment and subsequent novelisation so felt it was due a rewatch.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Paris Cinéma Club

Just learnt today that Isabelle Huppert owns not just one but two cinemas in Paris with four screens that show nothing but classic movies.

pariscinemaclub.com

Vale German/Italian actor Mario Adorf, dead at 95. A huge body of work, 383 film, from 1954 to 2023.

Have fun. It's great!

How to read Ulysses Using audio, art, and film to unlock the text.

Got a bit highbrow on Substack and re-posted an old article I wrote in 2012 about how best to tackle James Joyce's ULYSSES.

Lash La Rue 🤠

Should have mentioned these pics are from 2019. I'm just getting nostalgic (and prepping for a new podcast episode to be recorded soon).

Also, oooh, Bluesky threw a warning label at them. Soooo sexually suggestive. That one photo is about 70 years old by now and didn't bother anyone then.

Colorful international film poster featuring Louis de Funès among multiple characters and action scenes, with bold typography and dramatic imagery displayed in a museum setting.

Black-and-white film still featuring Louis de Funès in a theatrical dance scene, surrounded by masked performers in elaborate costumes on a stage.

Museum wall display with posters, photos, and audio devices related to Louis de Funès. A large sketch of him in a hat smoking a cigar appears on the left, with a life-size cutout of him in a police uniform on the right.

Display case with framed black-and-white photographs, including portraits of Louis de Funès wearing a medal and posing with others. Warm lighting and wooden.

Some snapshots from my visit to the Louis de Funès Museum in Saint-Raphaël at the French Riviera. (And, hey, what do I see? Fantômas is there as well!)

Vintage Spanish Fantomas comic cover titled Las vacaciones de Madame Xandú. A woman in an orange outfit is chained to a throne surrounded by skulls, while Fantomas confronts ghostly figures in a green-lit scene. Bright pink background with bold yellow title lettering.

Vintage Fantomas comic cover titled Pacto con el demonio. A large red devil with horns and glowing eyes looms over a man in a cape holding a scroll. Flames and ruins fill the background, with the Fantomas logo above.

Vintage Fantomas comic cover featuring a masked figure conducting an experiment with a baby at a microscope while a young boy reads nearby. Text asks a provocative question about child geniuses. Pink background with Fantomas branding at the top.

Vintage Fantomas comic cover showing a funeral scene. A masked figure lies in a coffin while a grieving older man stands beside it, and two women in revealing outfits kneel nearby. Yellow background with bold Fantomas title above.

Covers for the Mexican comic book series "Fantomas, La Amenaza Elegante". That series is high up on the list of comics I would love to read but can't find any of them archived online and to the best of my knowledge there is no collection of them available to purchase.

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

Album cover for Eartha Kitt - That Bad Eartha

“That Bad Eartha” is high up on my list of favourite albums of all time.

On a fairly short album of less than 40 minutes she casually sings in English, French, Spanish, Turkish and Suaheli, and every one of those songs is a banger.

Italian Barber Calendar for "Seven Blood-Stained Orchids" Looked for one thing.  Found something else.  And just had to get this "Calendarietto da barbiere" for  Sette orchidee macchiate di sangue/S...

Had never heard of the concept of an Italian style barber calendar before but had to have this one for the Krimi/Giallo hybrid "Seven Blood-Stained Orchids".

krimifilm.blogspot.com/2026/04/ital...

First time on Bluesky in 6 months. What’s new y’all? Are we using this for real now?

Still not like the old Twitter but at this stage I am getting a bit more engagement here than on the bird site where everything has totally tanked.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak - a classic. big bummer that the industry moved away from making movies look so beautiful and bright and colorful.

the colors in Vertigo (1958; dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

Guested on a Cult Connections podcast discussing this little oddity.

open.spotify.com/episode/6exz...

Did you ever watch the TV series La Piovra? No idea what the English title was (if it even had one) but it was a major success in Germany at the time (mid-1980s). I only watched the first couple of seasons then but it ran for over a decade. First season was directed by Damiani.

Last night had the rare opportunity to finally watch THE MAD EXECUTIONERS in a cinema when @triskelartscentre.bsky.social screened it and were kind enough to ask me to provide an introduction to it for the audience.
My life's mission is now accomplished and I can die a happy man.

I still gotta watch The cars that ate Paris. One of these days

Invaluable.

The Haunted Screen
Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt.

Lotte H. Eisner.

+2

Posters for last four films watched. From left to right: A Kiss Before Dying 4 Stars A Quiet Place: Day One - 3.5 Stars Picnic at Hanging Rock - 2.5 Stars Seven Blood Stained Orchids - 3.5 Stars (Rewatch)

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The Rah Rah Girls / What Have You Done To Solange? (1972) Trailer -HD YouTube video by Otto Rivers

So strange...

Just came across this trailer for "The Rah Rah Girls" which is in fact an alternate title for "What Have You Done to Solange?" and totally misrepresents the film as a raunchy sex comedy!

youtu.be/7Lg4bzJqM0w?...

The Cult Film Iceberg My descent into AI generated madness

My latest Substack post. Still not sure if that site is worth the effort but will keep posting there whenever I feel I have something to say that doesn't fit better elsewhere.

Das Rätsel des silbernen Halbmonds/Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) Just rewatched  Das Rätsel des silbernen Halbmonds/Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972) in preparation for another article in the next Krimi!...

Just published a set of lobby cards for Krimi/Giallo hybrid "Das Rätsel des silbernen Halbmonds/Seven Blood-Stained Orchids" (1972) by Umberto Lenzi. It was the 32nd and last film being promoted as a Rialto Edgar Wallace film.

krimifilm.blogspot.com/2026/03/das-...

The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards – Honoring the best in classic horror research, creativity and film preservation HOW TO VOTE: Voting is by email only. Simply copy this ballot onto an email (cut-and-paste works fine), and mark your choices with an X, or use bold or a highlight color. We know that can be awkward so you can also just type your picks into an email.

Just found out that we have been nominated for "Best Commentator of 2025" for our commentary on the @vinsyn.bsky.social release of Curse of the Voodoo! Plus my work can be found in other nominated releases - The Man Who Could Cheat Death and Danza Macabra Vol. 4!

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