Ending #JanuaryGiallo with SO SWEET, SO DEAD @cinematicvoid.bsky.social

Poster for the movie Tenebrae 1982.

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Tenebrae (1982) 📽
dir. Dario Argento

'An American author, Peter Neal, becomes involved in a series of murders inspired by his own violent novel while promoting it in Rome'

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Last night of #JanuaryGiallo might as well go out with a banger! 💪🏻📽🥃

#JanuaryGiallo Day 31

MURDER OBSESSION (1981) Riccardo Freda

Containing the skeletal remains of the same Piccioni fumetto that inspired Deep Red, Freda's esoteric farewell to horror is an operatically crude mixture of overheated gothic desire & grindhouse gore with gloriously off-the-wall pacing.

Last four watched: Opera, The Ice Tower, Deep Red and Kiss Me Deadly.

This week's #LetterboxdFriday ends #JanuaryGiallo with two of Argento's most stylish films. Completing my #LastFourWatched are a chilly modern fairy tale and a brutal atomic age noir.

Poster for the movie Death Knocks Twice 1969.

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Death Knocks Twice (1969) 📽
dir. Harald Philipp

'When private detective Bob Martin is investigating a stolen diamond necklace, unknown to him, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail'

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Poster for the movie Blood Link 1982.

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Blood Link (1982) 📽
dir. Alberto De Martino

'Haunted by psychic visions of murder, an American man travels to Europe where he learns that a rash of murders are being committed by someone who looks exactly like him'

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Poster for the movie The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire 1971.

The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971) 📽
dir. Riccardo Freda

'A corpse is found in the trunk of a car that belongs to the Swiss ambassador to the UK. Speculations run wild, as more people around the ambassador keep falling victim to the vicious killer'

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Poster for the movie The House Of The Yellow Carpet 1983.

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The House Of The Yellow Carpet (1983) 📽
dir. Carlo Lizzani

'A couple decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of her stepfather. One day, while he is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit begins a twisted a nightmare'

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#JanuaryGiallo Day 27

5 DONNE PER L'ASSASSINO (1974) Stelvio Massi

A widowered author aka tv's Paul Temple must clear his name in a spate of expectant mother slayings in this prescient genital nightmare giallo ripping up joy trails years before the concept developed a New York state of mind.

Poster for Death Carries a Cane AKA Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio AKA Tormentor (1973)

careful where you look

I would travel all over Rome for Nieves...

I LOVE this shot

Film 20 of #JanuaryGiallo
The month is winding down, so it feels only right to spend some more time with Nieves Navarro. Here she is billed as Susan Scott and unfortunately the print from Full Moon (titled as Tormentor) is muddy and trimmed to all hell.
#NowWatching 📽️
Death Carries a Cane (1973)

Poster for the movie Ombre 1980.

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Ombre (1980) 📽
dir. Giorgio Cavedon

'Artist Renato, a man with murderous intentions, meets Monica, a young university student who lives in a dismal house in the Lombardy suburbs. But all is not as it seems'

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#JanuaryGiallo Day 26

THAT HOUSE IN THE OUTSKIRTS (1980) Eugenio Martín

While vaguely reworking Rebecca's elemental thematics, Martín's pregnancy peril thriller dissects with subtle skill the barbaric treatment of women within the stigmatized medical systems of mental & reproductive health.

Poster for Tenebrae. A blonde woman's head and torso hang horizontally, a line of bright blood across her pale neck. Text: Dario Argento. Tenebrae. January Giallo at the Little Theatre. Thursday, Jan. 29. Details at TheLittle.org.

And we've saved a stylish Argento classic for our last #JanuaryGiallo: TENEBRAE

📅 Thursday, Jan. 29 | 7:30pm @thelittletheatre.bsky.social

🎟️ Info+tix: thelittle.org/tenebrae/

Presented w/partners @cinematicvoid.bsky.social + @amcinematheque.bsky.social

#RochesterNY #ROC #AnomalyFilmFest #horror

Poster for the movie So Sweet... So Perverse 1969.

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So Sweet... So Perverse (1969) 📽
dir. Umberto Lenzi

'An unhappily married Parisian industrialist is pulled into a web of lust and deception after he seemingly rescues his new neighbor from her abusive boyfriend'

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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) 📽
dir. Emilio P. Miraglia

No synopsis for this one, just do yourselves a favour and watch it! I'll be telling Barbara Bouchet I rewatched it tomorrow in person 😯🤘🏻🖤

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#JanuaryGiallo Day 24

ANIMA PERSA (1977) Dino Risi

A contemporary gothic character study with notes of Jekyll & Hyde that leans into the more disturbing or subversive aspects of fairy tales, this Venice set giallo forces perspective like a blown-up painting detail or a peephole.

#LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday. An Arthurian legend, the first two Argento giallos and a masterpiece from Resnais.

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Poster for the movie Nothing Underneath 1985.

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Nothing Underneath (1985) 📽
dir. Carlo Vanzina

'A Wyoming park ranger arrives in Milan to visit his fashion model twin sister after experiencing a premonition of her death, only to discover that she has gone missing'

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#JanuaryGiallo Day 23

HOTEL FEAR (1978) Francesco Barilli

Using setting as a mirror for a tormented psyche, this period giallo never fully commits to mystery, gothic or female centric paranoia thriller milieu, dwelling in its own paradoxically sunny dark of grotesque intention.

Poster for the movie Death on the Fourposter 1964.

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Death on the Fourposter (1964) aka Sexy Party 📽
dir. Jean Josipovici/Ambrogio Molteni

'A party of young people gather in a mansion for an occult experiment in which deaths are predicted by a psychic. Soon it turns into more than just an experiment'

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#JanuaryGiallo Day 22

BLOODY SEX (1981) Manuel Esteba

Akin to Antropophagus in more ways than one, this gothic giallo’s primal drone slowly burns down its own framework of sprawling sinister setting atop poorly interred shame with the clever charm of a z-grade continuity lapse.

Poster for The Spider Labyrinth (1988)

I want your skull... I need your SKULL!

Hanging out, watching movies

BIG Barbara Steele energy

Film 19 of #JanuaryGiallo
I first saw this thanks to one of the film's earliest champions, @fookthis.bsky.social and it has become regular viewing ever since. A very happy belated birthday! Thank you for everything you and Eric have done 🎥 🙏
#NowWatching 📽️
The Spider Labyrinth (1988)

Poster for the movie Hotel Fear 1978.

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Hotel Fear (1978) 📽
dir. Francesco Barilli

'A mother and her daughter run a hotel during the late stages of WWII. The mother suddenly dies, and the daughter finds herself alone with her sleazy guests'

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#JanuaryGiallo Day 21

SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1987) Franco Ferrini

Italy’s essential workers mobilize against a killer in frequent filone scrittore Ferrini’s sole directorial effort inspired by Fritz Lang’s M with a social realist approach bafflingly chaste yet subtle as a cattle gun.

Poster for the movie Deadly Inheritance 1968.

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Deadly Inheritance (1968) 📽
dir. Vittorio Sindoni

'There are a number of inheritors to a fortune who are getting killed by a mysterious somebody whom we do not see. Each death is novel, but not terribly graphic. Who did it?'

#JanuaryGiallo 🥃

Poster for Felidae. A cartoon tuxedo cat with a red tipped tail walks in front of a setting yellow sun. Text: Akif Pirinçci's Felidae. Francis, der berühmte Katzendetektiv, löst den aufregendsten Vier-Pfoten-Fall seines Lebens. World of Animation and January Giallo at the Little Theatre. Friday, Jan. 23. Details at TheLittle.org.

Coming up next for #JanuaryGiallo: FELIDAE (New Restoration 2024) 🐈‍⬛

📅 Friday, Jan. 23 | 7:30pm @thelittletheatre.bsky.social

🎟️ Info + tix: thelittle.org/felidae/

Presented w/ partners @cinematicvoid.bsky.social + @amcinematheque.bsky.social.

#RochesterNY #ROC #AnomalyFilmFest #horror

#JanuaryGiallo Day 20

NIGHT OF VIOLENCE (1965) Roberto Mauri

Banned upon release for obscenity, this early fumetto style mystery directly addresses changing attitudes towards premarital sex & aristocratic convention while exposing potential sociopathic costs of untreated post-war trauma.

Poster for The Last Fashion Show AKA Sotti il vestito niente III (2011)

Folks standing by a grave

Richard E. Grant examine a LIVE model

The clueless looks tells me they are cops

Film 18 of #JanuaryGiallo
It's odd choice to continue this series that barely held any true threads between the 1st and the 2nd entry, let alone do it 23 years later, but models are still dying so I guess there's that.
#NowWatching 📽️
The Last Fashion Show AKA Sotti il vestito niente III (2011)

Poster for the movie Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods 1972.

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Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods (1972) 📽
dir. Sauro Scavolini

'An old professor rents a mysterious old villa, and finds a tape recorded by a previous occupant, detailing her debauched lifestyle and the events leading to her murder'

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