#arthouse horror

[horror-aesthete]

Demons (Dèmoni), 1985, dir. Dario Argento

[ladamarossa]

Brigitte Lin in Love Massacre (1981)

[renaissancecowboy]

possession (1981)

[orpheuslookingback]

Watching 1 horror film everyday in October 24/31

The Wolf House (2018), dir. Joaquin Cocina & Cristobal Leon

[a-pint-of-j-and-b]

Movie: Nazareno Cruz y el lobo (Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf)

Director: Leonardo Favio

Year: 1975

Country: Argentina

Genre: Horror

"Nazareno Cruz is a young Gaucho living in a rural town. He is known for being the seventh son of his father, and so he is seen by the locals as the victim of the werewolf curse. Despite this he lives happily in the community. When Nazareno is about to turn 18 he meets Griselda and they both fall in love. Soon after, "Mandinga" (the Devil) presents himself to Nazareno and explains that his curse is real. Mandinga makes Nazareno a proposition: if Nazareno gives up his love, he will receive in exchange his freedom and many riches. Nazareno refuses the deal and eventually turns into a werewolf, becoming involved in a series of tragedies."

[schlock-luster-video]

On August 3, 2016, Lost Highway was screened at the Locarno Film Festival.

[bbybitchbrat]

How I wish he’d talk to me 🥺

[thatslimyfem]

one of these days i tell ya

[frankenhorror]

I like the movie Under the Skin a lot, from a couple different angles. It doesn't match up with the book very well at all, it's so much more abstract and there's a lot left to implication.

How do we know if the alien creature's default state is even female. How do we know if it even sees itself as one gender or the other, do typical binary sex and gender even exist within whatever culture it was birthed from. It could also be the case that it's just following orders from higher up and working with what was assigned.

Obviously Scarlett's character knows what the human "shell"/"skin" is meant to be used for, there's no explanation needed there. But there's absolutely none - not even a flicker, really - about how the being got to Earth, why it was truly sent there, that's all art-house obscurity and guesswork. The movie wants you to think about the character and why the behavior is so strange.

She can speak to others based off what's likely a script that was somehow fed to her before she appeared, but she reacts to a guy getting cozy and trying to fuck her like she has no idea that's even a physical fact of the body she inhabits - to the point of picking up a lamp and pointing the light between her legs.

Tbh the film becomes queer to me in that moment because for all we know, the alien's original shape was male, whatever that could mean - it was only assigned to a female shape for its mission on Earth.

Everything in the cinematography feels so surreal and full of an odd alien sterility because there was never a person there at all.....nothing but a shiny black living thing that simply adapted to fit the shape it wore.

Earth has its binaries and roles, which can be very rigid: the species the creature in Under the Skin belongs to knows exactly how to exploit them. They send out hunters, like Scarlett's character, as well as "clean up crew" creatures to accompany the hunters.....because Scarlett's character does know and see another like her on Earth, who cleans up after her "mess" when she allows a would-be victim to escape out of pity.

The problem is that when a human male wants to rape her, her facade completely falls apart. Literally. She likely never anticipated something like that occurring, which could have been the case because it may never have happened to one of her species before...... which parallels how it's perceived when men confess to being victims of rape, especially when the perpetrator is female.

Because that could never happen......right? And yet it does.

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[horror-aesthete]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 1989, dir. Peter Greenaway

[ladamarossa]

Love Massacre (1981)

[mater-argento]

Original international posters for arthouse horror anthology "Spirits of the Dead" (1968)

[orpheuslookingback]

100 Essential Films: Honorable Mentions

House (1977), dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

[schlock-luster-video]

On August 26, 1983, Arrebato debuted in Portugal.

[elastijubilee]

A24 Films I'm Most Looking Forward to Seeing

Past Lives (It's out but I haven't seen yet)

Y2K (Rachel Zegler stars and Kyle Mooney directing)

Problemista (Julio Torres who wrote a lot with Cecily on SNL, wrote and directed this surreal story about a toymaker)

Talk to Me

Priscilla

MaXxXine

The Zone of Interest