so angry this turned out not to be right

Matt Simon@mattsimon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My understanding is that Disclosure Day is a fan event for the 1994 erotic thriller Disclosure.

OK--10 still under-appreciated horror movies that I love - The Last Winter - Hangover Square - Panna a netvor - Cannibal (2013) - The Mephisto Waltz - Angel Dust - Iron Rose - Always Shine - Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person - Arrebato

mx. emotion@mx-emotion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

because it's fun, here's a list of ten horror movies that i deeply love that i feel are still under-appreciated - Death Line - Hagazussa - The Eyes of My Mother - The Company of Wolves - Parents - Calvaire - Berberian Sound Studio - The Humans - Celia - Eaten Alive

For sale: ventriloquist dummy, never haunted.

For the folks talking Juraj Herz, I did a Herz horror roundup a few years ago. www.deadofnightletter.com/watchlist-th...

WATCHLIST: The Distinctive, Uninhibited Horror Films of Juraj Herz

After a year of figuring out this newsletter thing, I’ve spent a spell looking back and thinking about where I’d like it to go. I created Dead of Night primarily as a place to explore “the edges and p...

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Pacino and Katharine Isabelle doing a scene together in Insomnia is my Pacino and De Niro doing a scene together in Heat

"Slowness here doesn’t feel slow. It feels alive, vulnerable, and fragile." New at Dead of Night on Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. www.deadofnightletter.com/exhilarating... #filmsky #horrorsky

need to be specific these days that I write about horror and not “the horrors”

There should be one Criterion Closet title that, if pulled, triggers a hidden door that leads to the Criterion Dungeon.

Cyclosporapunk is a subgenre of science fiction set in a dystopian future in which the most dangerous weapon is bagged lettuce.

bad news the bad thing we aren't reacting to appropriately continues apace

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com

Night crowd: ICYMI, I narrated the critically important doozy of a 19th C. tale "The Yellow Wall Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman for @pseudopod.org. Note CWs. If able, I hope you'll take some time to celebrate 20 Years of PseudoPod with this I-wish-it-were-not-timely story about believing women.

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2w ago

Listen to my extremely reasonable descent into Victorian madness. This unreliable narrator is, frankly, entirely relatable and this story is based on the author's own harrowing experiences. This story changed medical history for women. It is a difficult piece. I was beyond honored to narrate it.

Friends I worry you won’t believe me but the woman sitting next to me on the flight I just took HAD BOTH HER FEET **IN** THE SEATBACK POCKET.

I love PAPERHOUSE and am baffled it isn't brought up in film circles more often. Hypnotic, dark, a triumph of production design. This needs rediscovery and loving restoration. A secret classic.

GenreVision Movie Club@genrevision.com · 2w ago

If you only check out one episode from our month of Other Worlds Than These, make it PAPERHOUSE. Both @drewdietsch.bsky.social & @travisnewton.bsky.social are championing this underseen visionary gem from the director of CANDYMAN. Here's hoping for a 4K announcement!

On the trucker in horror (from this week’s edition of Dead of Night): The trucker in the popular imagination might be an everyman or a folk hero, but, in other contexts, especially in horror, might also be someone to fear. #filmsky #horrorsky 1/8

On the trucker in horror (from this week’s edition of Dead of Night): The trucker in the popular imagination might be an everyman or a folk hero, but, in other contexts, especially in horror, might also be someone to fear. #filmsky #horrorsky 1/8

One of the great director-actor collabs. Brilliant stuff.

Gaijin Rando@gaijinrando.bsky.social · 2w ago

Images from films starring Hideko Takamine and directed by Mikio Naruse - BOTD in 1905 Lightning (1952) Floating Clouds (1955) Flowing (1956) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

repost for the nighttime freaks

Matt Simon@mattsimon.bsky.social · 2w ago

This week at Dead of Night: - the trucker and the killer on the road via Road Games (1981) - the strange project that is the Faces of Death narrative feature - Symbolist visual art for horror-heads www.deadofnightletter.com/death-on-the... #filmsky #horrorsky

This week at Dead of Night: - the trucker and the killer on the road via Road Games (1981) - the strange project that is the Faces of Death narrative feature - Symbolist visual art for horror-heads www.deadofnightletter.com/death-on-the... #filmsky #horrorsky

It’s Subscribe Sunday (a thing I made up) Subscribe to Dead of Night (free) for weekly short-form writing about the horror archive, a new release, and a recommendation. The image below depicts the subscriber experience. www.deadofnightletter.com #filmsky

Quick thread: I think the attitude about being expressed here "critics" comes down to how many critics seem to believe it's their job to tell people what art (movies in this case) should be, often by way of denigrating what audiences like. 1/x www.patreon.com/alexapagliuc...

The Art of Fear and The Power of the Frame: Audiences and Assumptions | Alex Pagliuca

“Horror – as an interest, passion, or profession – has fandoms and sub-fandoms; it has cliques; it has little fiefdoms. If horror is your bu

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Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not caring about criticism is, as it ever has been, pure affectation. The “not caring” is usually loaded with evidence of ongoing consumption & criticism is everywhere. If noBOdY cAReS aBoUt cRiTiCisM, there would be no podcast networks.

need to be specific these days that I write about horror and not “the horrors”

Learned at The Getty that Man Ray took a portrait of Teresa Wright with a pre-Columbian statue that turned out to be a forgery.

I’m experimenting with publishing some of my horror writing directly on this website. #filmsky #horrorsky First up, on creepiness and ventriloquist dummies, via Attenborough's Magic (1978). 1/

Great piece on Byzantium. I myself had a good time thinking and writing about it several months ago. www.deadofnightletter.com/gothic-beach/

Anton Bitel@antbit.projectedfigures.com · 3w ago

"uses vampiric tropes to mythologise a long history of women’s abuse and exploitation by men": Neil Jordan’s contemporary gothic BYZANTIUM (2012) screens 8.40pm tonight at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social, London. projectedfigures.com/2013/05/31/b...

It’s Subscribe Sunday (a thing I made up) Subscribe to Dead of Night (free) for weekly short-form writing about the horror archive, a new release, and a recommendation. The image below depicts the subscriber experience. www.deadofnightletter.com #filmsky

Happened upon some skellies at the Getty Center today.

“… extravagantly violent scenes, a white dress drenched in blood, castles and woods, and supernaturally beautiful people in absurdly plush attire.” thinking this morning about Queen Margot www.deadofnightletter.com/a-perfect-vi...

I’m experimenting with publishing some of my horror writing directly on this website. #filmsky #horrorsky First up, on creepiness and ventriloquist dummies, via Attenborough's Magic (1978). 1/

“The end of USAID, which Elon Musk fed “into the wood chipper”, will cause an extra 14 million deaths through 2030, including 4.5 million in children under the age of 5.” Monstrous stuff. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Here’s an estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll.

The end of USAID, which Elon Musk fed “into the wood chipper”, will cause an extra 14 million deaths through 2030, including 4.5 million in children under the age of 5. SpaceX shares are $141.10 as of...

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Matt Simon@mattsimon.bsky.social · 3w ago

This week at Dead of Night: - creepy puppets via Attenborough's Magic - shifting identification btw slasher & victim via Shoenbrun's Camp Miasma - erotic thriller vibes, and sex as a doorway to becoming in @sarahgailey.bsky.social's Spread Me www.deadofnightletter.com/puppet-creepy/ #filmsky