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Published: Umbrella Ent, Fangoria, 88 Films
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Published: Umbrella Ent, Fangoria, 88 Films
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✍️ TrashToTarkovsky.com
#NW. Found a listing on eBay for this old Blockbuster screener. Would love to know what the “Put the Pieces Together” Contest entailed! Fun fact: Pic’s costar, Joanne Whalley, went to my high school, & my mum knew her grandmother. Had quite the Hollywood run in the 80s/90s. Jo, that is. Not grandma.
December 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#NW. Found a listing on eBay for this old Blockbuster screener. Would love to know what the “Put the Pieces Together” Contest entailed! Fun fact: Pic’s costar, Joanne Whalley, went to my high school, & my mum knew her grandmother. Had quite the Hollywood run in the 80s/90s. Jo, that is. Not grandma.
An icy excursion through eclectic genre terrain, ‘Dead of Winter’ (1987) marries the elaborate mien of a spoofish Agatha Christie with the forlorn spirit of a psychological chamber piece, its diligent weirdness enriched by the ruminative piano score and a furiously fun, snowballs-to-the-wall finale.
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
An icy excursion through eclectic genre terrain, ‘Dead of Winter’ (1987) marries the elaborate mien of a spoofish Agatha Christie with the forlorn spirit of a psychological chamber piece, its diligent weirdness enriched by the ruminative piano score and a furiously fun, snowballs-to-the-wall finale.
Getting into the spirit.
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Getting into the spirit.
In a genre that typically hasn’t allowed its ladies to be droll, flawed, complex human beings built of ambition, courage, sorrow, eccentricity, and brainpower, the richly feminist ‘Black Christmas’ (1974) stands tall. That it was weaved by a bunch of blokes makes it all the more rare and impressive.
December 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In a genre that typically hasn’t allowed its ladies to be droll, flawed, complex human beings built of ambition, courage, sorrow, eccentricity, and brainpower, the richly feminist ‘Black Christmas’ (1974) stands tall. That it was weaved by a bunch of blokes makes it all the more rare and impressive.
Four Christmas movies to know me by…
December 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Four Christmas movies to know me by…
Thanksgiving mood board:
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thanksgiving mood board:
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love 🎥🎬
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love 🎥🎬
Convince me this isn’t Parker Posey.
You can’t.
You can’t.
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Convince me this isn’t Parker Posey.
You can’t.
You can’t.
Contributor copy arrived! Very proud to have penned and narrated a visual essay for this exquisite Umbrella release of perhaps the most frightening, viscerally enthralling serial killer flick ever made—Gerald Kargl’s ‘Angst’ (1983). Order yours here, if you dare: bit.ly/43Va1Wu
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Contributor copy arrived! Very proud to have penned and narrated a visual essay for this exquisite Umbrella release of perhaps the most frightening, viscerally enthralling serial killer flick ever made—Gerald Kargl’s ‘Angst’ (1983). Order yours here, if you dare: bit.ly/43Va1Wu
Allusions to Expressionism are clear, Draper’s fondness for jagged lines & irregular curves never more prevailing than in pic’s closing portion, where the bowels of Myers’ abode assume a bizarre, Gothic-like texture; the cobwebbed, candlelit environment a figurative reflection of a fractured psyche.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Allusions to Expressionism are clear, Draper’s fondness for jagged lines & irregular curves never more prevailing than in pic’s closing portion, where the bowels of Myers’ abode assume a bizarre, Gothic-like texture; the cobwebbed, candlelit environment a figurative reflection of a fractured psyche.
Even the most vehement of pic’s critics would struggle to decry the work of DoP Robert Draper, his delicious command of shadow and silhouette—in unison with left-field framing & an intricate palette of glittery pinks, moody blues, and autumnal orangey-browns—intensifying the narrative audaciousness.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Even the most vehement of pic’s critics would struggle to decry the work of DoP Robert Draper, his delicious command of shadow and silhouette—in unison with left-field framing & an intricate palette of glittery pinks, moody blues, and autumnal orangey-browns—intensifying the narrative audaciousness.
‘Halloween’ reshaped as European arthouse, the bold, rebellious ‘Revenge of Michael Myers’ mightn’t be everybody’s cup of pumpkin spice, but, through its deviant disposition, majestic visuals, outré perfs, and chilly air of menace, it concocts a fascinatingly playful postlude to the prosaic part 4.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
‘Halloween’ reshaped as European arthouse, the bold, rebellious ‘Revenge of Michael Myers’ mightn’t be everybody’s cup of pumpkin spice, but, through its deviant disposition, majestic visuals, outré perfs, and chilly air of menace, it concocts a fascinatingly playful postlude to the prosaic part 4.
Of the multiple gifts ‘Ed Wood’—Burton’s best—bestowed upon us, Martin Landau’s messianic mirroring of Bela Lugosi was the biggest: a feat of thesping so rich, so marinated with poise, intellect, humour, and heartache, I doubt even Lugosi himself would’ve dared fault it.
Released on this day, 1994.
Released on this day, 1994.
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Of the multiple gifts ‘Ed Wood’—Burton’s best—bestowed upon us, Martin Landau’s messianic mirroring of Bela Lugosi was the biggest: a feat of thesping so rich, so marinated with poise, intellect, humour, and heartache, I doubt even Lugosi himself would’ve dared fault it.
Released on this day, 1994.
Released on this day, 1994.
A moment’s silence please for the terrifically accomplished Curtis Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016), whose decade-long deluge of thrillers—running the gamut from seriously good to god tier—yielded some of the late twentieth century’s most scrumptious cinematic pulp.
September 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A moment’s silence please for the terrifically accomplished Curtis Hanson (March 24, 1945 – September 20, 2016), whose decade-long deluge of thrillers—running the gamut from seriously good to god tier—yielded some of the late twentieth century’s most scrumptious cinematic pulp.
Fuck you, hot choccy. Didn’t want you anyway
September 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Fuck you, hot choccy. Didn’t want you anyway
It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
September 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Conqueror Worm”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 3/3
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
September 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
—Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 2/3
The sea has a laugh
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
September 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The sea has a laugh
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
And the cliff a frown;
For the laugh of the sea is wearing him down.
—Herbert Ashley Asquith, “The Frowning Cliff”
‘Messiah of Evil’ (1973) / ‘The Fog’ (1980)
#SideBySide 1/3
Post a horror movie everybody should see.
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Post a horror movie everybody should see.
Post a movie you *love* with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score…
September 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Post a movie you *love* with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score…