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Deep Red (1975)
Dario Argento’s Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1975) is a suffocating film, as if you can slowly feel a noose tightening around your neck. Although it was not to be his last giallo, it’s perhaps his maximum giallo. It is also a horror … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Creepy Dolls, Daria Nicolodi, Dario Argento, David Hemmings, giallo, Goblin, horror, Italy, Mystery, psychic, Slasher
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Thirteen Women (1932)
Twelve women – friends who were formerly sorority sisters – write to that great fortune-teller, the Swami Yogadachi (C. Henry Gordon), asking that he read their horoscopes. Each receives a doom-laden response. “It is ordained that someone close to you … Continue reading
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Tagged 30's, horror, Myrna Loy, psychic
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Nightmare Alley (1947)
They didn’t call them noirs then; they were just crime pictures – cheap, pulpy, sensationalistic. The papers turned up their noses but audiences flocked to them, so studios kept making them. But if we didn’t have crime pictures as deeply … Continue reading
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Tagged 40's, Carnival, film noir, hard boiled, psychic, Tarot
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