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Alain de Botton, Essays in Love | Madonna - Like A Prayer | Like A Prayer official music video (1989, dir. Mary Lambert) | The Obsessives - You’re My God | John Keats, letter to Fanny Brown (Oct 13, 1819) | Depeche Mode - Martyr | The Nun and the Devil (1973, dir. Domenico Paolella) | Zolita - Holy | Nicole Dollanganger - 700 Club | Lana Del Rey - Religion
#this is my first one of these :) the alain de botton quote gave me the idea#hope u all like it#web weaving#religion as a metaphor for love#alain de botton#madonna#the obsessives#john keats#depeche mode#martin gore#lana del rey#the nun and the devil 1973#domenico paolella#zolita#nicole dollanganger#film#parallels#lyrics#music videos#Christianity#catholicism#catholic imagery
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Title The Nun and the Devil (1973)
Vote: 6/10
Movie that talks about power and oppression within a nunnery. Interesting representation of monastic life and how sometimes women, especially noble ones, were forced to take vows even if they resisted.
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MY MAN CRUSH MONDAY IS...PATRICK WILSON
SPOOKY SEASON EDITION
FULL NAME: Patrick Joseph Wilson
DATE OF BIRTH: July 3, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH: Norfolk, Virginia
AGE: 50
SIGN: Cancer
BEST KNOWN FOR: Portraying Chris Mattson in Lakeview Terrace; Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II in Watchman; Mr. Shaw in Prometheus; Josh Lambert in Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, and Insidious: The Red Door; Ed Warren in The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Annabelle Comes Home, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and The Nun II. Ross Humboldt in In the Tall Grass; and Orm Marius/Ocean Master in Aquaman and the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
HEIGHT: 6 feet tall
#mcm#man crush#man crush monday#man crush mondays#mcm 2023#patrick wilson#spooky season edition#insidious#insidious chapter 2#the conjuring#watchmen#nite owl ii#ed warren#annabelle comes home#in the tall grass#aquaman#aquaman and the lost kingdom#orm marius#cancer
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HORROR MOVIE RECS
♦ top tier ★ all-time fave
slashers:
♦intruder
friday the 13th part 2
sleepaway camp 2
stage fright
scream
★♦cold prey (Fritt velt) 1 & 2
texas chainsaw massacre 1 & 2
wrong turn
halloween 1 & 2 & H2O
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors 1987
Child's Play 1 & ♦2
★♦Curse of Chucky
Phantom of the paradise
Popcorn 1991
Club Dread
My Bloody Valentine 1981
★♦Society 1989
♦Psychopath AKA Der Poppen Murders
The Funhouse 1981
Peeping Tom
happy brithday to me 1981
black christmas
★♦Sceance
Maniac (the one with elijah wood)
hell fest
♦Just before dawn 1981
Maniac Cop
scifi horror:
The Curse of Frankenstein 1957
♦The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958
★♦Bride of Frankenstein 1935
★♦the stuff
★♦the fly 1958
★♦invasion of the body snatchers 1978
★♦the thing
♦the faculty
★♦from beyond
★♦re-animator 2
★♦prince of darkness 1987
Quatermass and the Pit 1967
♦Pandorum
Dr jekyll and sister hyde
★♦the brood
★♦its alive 1974 & it lives again 1978
killer klowns from outer space 1988
Quaatermass and the Pit 1967
hauntings/curses:
★♦burnt offerings 1976
haunting in connecticuit
conjuring 1 & 2
insidious 1 & 2 & 3 & 5
★♦ evil dead 1 & 2 & 2013
final destination 1 & 2 & 5
house (hausu) 1977
Kairo (pulse) 2001
the grudge (japanese & american)
♦ dark water
Night of the Demon 1957
♦The changeling 1980
★♦The Hole in the Ground 2019
Whispering Corridors
folk horror:
midsomar
♦ Viy 1967
♦ impetigore 2019
★♦ the wickerman 1973
Burn Witch Burn
the medium
catholic horror:
♦ The Devil Rides Out 1968
★♦ the sentinel 1977
nun II
♦ exorcist III
weirdos:
♦basket case 1 & 2
♦it follows
A dark song
★♦The Perfection
The Empty Man
★♦The Skull 1965
Beyond the Black Rainbow
dead ringers
i, madman 1989
messiah of evil 1973
★♦The People under the Stairs 1991
★♦The Reflecting Skin 1990
★♦Carnival of Souls
zombies:
★♦the video dead
dawn of the dead 1978 & 2004
dead and buried
i walked with a zombie
♦plague of the zombies
The Serpent and the Rainbow
monsters:
★♦Sweetheart 2019
The Gate 1987
The invisible Man 1933
♦Wishmaster 1997
Warlock
♦the mummy's shroud 1967
vampires:
Shadow of the Vampire 2000
★♦ Martin
★♦Captain Kronos -vampire hunter
The Brides of Dracula 1960
★♦the night stalker & the night strangler
salems lot 1 & 2
★♦son of dracula 1943
subspecies 1 & 2 & 4
from dusk til dawn
Vampire Hunter D 1985
werewolves:
the howling 1981
ginger snaps
the beast must die!
death traps:
★♦The Pit and the Pendulum 1961
saw
escape room
★♦Theatre of Blood 1973
The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971
haunt
found footage:
♦Host 2020
Unfriended 1 & 2
Cloverfield
Final Prayer
Gonjiam: haunted asylum
grave encounters
hellhouse LLC
★♦Willow Creek
★♦noroi the curse
occult
★♦ghostwatch
♦V/H/S 1 & 2 & viral
★♦ ALL the Amicus horror anthologies are worth watching
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Stats from Movies 701-800
Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes
Ringu (1998) had the most votes with 1,327 votes.
Chillerama (2011) had the least votes with 360 votes.
The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage
Beetlejuice (1988) was the most watched film with 80.9% of voters out of 780 saying they had seen it.
Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.4% of voters out of 491.
The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage
The Nun 2 (2023) was the least watched film with 70.6% of voters out of 633 saying they hadn’t seen it.
Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "No" votes with 9.2% of voters out of 491.
The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage
Beetlejuice (1988) was the best known film, only 0.4% of voters out of 780 saying they’d never heard of it.
The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage
Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) was the least known film, 90,4% of voters out of 491 saying they’d never heard of it.
The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.
The Uninvited (1944)
The Crazies (1973)
Witchfinder General (1968)
The Conspiracy (2012)
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
The Evictors (1979)
The Birds (1963)
Ice Spiders (2007)
Rubber (2010)
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Akira (1988)
The End of Evangelion (1997)
The Woman in Black (2012)
Milfs vs. Zombies (2015)
Knife + Heart (2018)
It's a Wonderful Knife (2023)
Attachment (2022)
Gothic (1986)
Jakob's Wife (2021)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
The Fog (2005)
The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Angel Heart (1987)
Tumbbad (2018)
The Snow Woman (1968)
Sugar Hill (1974)
Saloum (2021)
WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
Sound of Violence (2021)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)
Death Laid an Egg (1968)
Baskin (2015)
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
The Haunting of Julia (1977)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Megan Is Missing (2011)
Ringu (1998)
Three... Extremes (2004)
Trench 11 (2017)
Out There Halloween Mega Tape (2022)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
The Driller Killer (1979)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Demonic Christmas Tree (2022)
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Motel Hell (1980)
Shallow Ground (2004)
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Morgan (2016)
Sputnik (2020)
Devil's Pass (2013)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Dagon (2001)
We Are Still Here (2015)
We Are What We Are (2013)
Somos lo que hay (2010)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Midori (1992)
The Believers (1987)
Troll 2 (1990)
Chillerama (2011)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
The Mortuary Collection (2019)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
House (1985)
Flatliners (1990)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Crimson Peak (2015)
Frailty (2001)
Hell Night (1981)
Eyes of Fire (1983)
Sister Death (2023)
Tonight She Comes (2016)
Bad Dreams (1988)
Dead Snow (2009)
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)
Veronica (2017)
The Nun II (2023)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Maniac (1980)
Man's Best Friend (1993)
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters (2020)
The Reptile (1966)
She Creature (2001)
Beetlejuice (1988)
The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
Kandisha (2020)
So Vam (2021)
Bit (2019)
Death Proof (2007)
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“In my dreams I often ask the nuns for forgiveness, but they cannot hear my pleas for they are far too entranced by the lord, and I cannot listen to their answers for I am far to entranced by the Devil.” -Sofia (Goncharov 1973)
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Duck's Halloween Movie Picks!
I love Halloween and spooky season in general. So here's my list of many, many (but not all) horror movies to watch this October!
🧠 Zombies 🧠
Sometimes dead is better.
Night of the Living Dead (1968) & (1990)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Overlord (2018)
Pet Semetary (1989)
Dead Snow (2009)
Dead Alive (1992)
#alive (2020)
Train to Busan (2016)
Little Monsters (2019)
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Zombie (1979)
Wonderfully Witchy
It isn't Halloween without a witch.
The Witch (2015)
The Craft (1996)
Practical Magic (not a horror movie but I don't care, I love it) (1998)
Hocus Pocus (a true classic) (1993)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Don't Knock Twice (2016)
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Ghastly Ghouls
Ghosts, Demons, and Poltergeists oh my!
Includes but is not limited to: haunted houses and/or people, demons, cursed objects, beings from other dimensions, etc.
The Exorcist (1973)
Insidious (2010)
The Conjuring (2013)
The Nun (2018)
Poltergeist (1982)
Verónica (2017)
Hellraiser (1987) & (2022)
Candyman (1992) & (2021)
Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
The Shining (1980)
Evil Dead (1981)
The Fog (1980)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
House on Haunted Hill (1959) & (1999)
The Frighteners (1996)
House (1985)
Hell House LLC (2015)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Gonjian: Haunted Asylum (2018)
Possession (1981)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Ringu (1998)
The Entity (1982)
Vicious Vampires
Because they're bloody sexy.
Nosferatu (1922)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1999) plus all the other million dracula movies
Interview with a Vampire (1994)
30 Days of Night (2007)
Boys From County Hell (2020)
Underworld (2003)
Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)
Near Dark (1988)
Salems Lot (1979)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Fright Night (1985) & (2011)
Stakeland (2010)
The Black Water Vampire (2014)
Werewolves
Fluffy and vicious, the perfect combo.
Dog Soldiers (2002)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Night of the Wolf: Late Phases (2014)
Ginger Snaps (2001)
The Wolf Man (1941) & (2010)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Cursed (2005)
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Howl (2015)
The Howling (1981)
Silver Bullet (1985)
Wer (2014)
Bad Moon (1996)
The Beast Must Die (1974)
Miscellaneous Monsters
All monsters need love, not just the classics.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
The Mummy (1999)
Frankenstein
Wishmaster (1997)
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Feast (2007)
IT (1990) & (2017)
The Descent (2005)
Jaws (1975)
Jeepers Creepers 1 + 2 (2001) & (2003)
Horror Express (1972)
Cold Ground (2017)
Devil's Pass (2013)
The Ruins (2008)
Cabin in the Woods (2011)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Under Wraps (1997)
The Babadook (2014)
Slashers
Because people are scary too.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Friday the 13th (1980)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Halloween (1978)
The Collector (2009)
House of Wax (2005)
The Strangers (2008)
The Crazies (1973) & (2010)
SAW (2004)
Scream (1996)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) & (2006)
The Burning (1981)
The People Under The Stairs (1991)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Terror Train (1980)
Stage Fright (2014)
You Might Be The Killer (2018)
The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Hell Fest (2018)
Revenge (2018)
The Invitation (2016)
Audition (1999)
It Came From Space!
As if space isn't scary enough on it's own.
Includes: anything sci-fi related, not just space stuff.
The Thing (1982)
Alien (1979)
Predator (1987)
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Event Horizon (1997)
DOOM (2005)
Monsters (2010)
Re-Animator (1985)
Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
Pandorum (2009)
Chopping Mall (1986)
The McPherson Tape (1989)
Extraterrestrial (2014)
Always Anthology
The more the scarier!
Creepshow (1982)
Creepshow 2 (1987)
Tales from the Hood (1995)
V/H/S (2012)
V/H/S: 2 (2013)
V/H/S: 94 (2021)
V/H/S: 99 (2022)
Body Bags (1993)
Asylum (1972)
Trick 'r Treat (2015)
All Hallows' Eve (2019)
Holiday Specials
We can't leave out these holidays during spooky season!
My Bloody Valentine (1981) & (2009)
Prom Night (1980)
April Fool's Day (1986)
Black Christmas (1974)
#horror#horror movies#movie suggestions#halloween#spooky season#friday the 13th#a nightmare on elm street#the texas chainsaw massacre#duck did it
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THE KING’S GREY MARE (★★☆☆☆)
— reviewing the blueprint of all Ricardian novels
I debated with myself for a long time if I should try to write a review for this book. My dislike was so strong despite my already low expectations for the story, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to be impartial in my review. I’ve given up on trying to be impartial and instead decided to explain to you how I feel about this story. This is a not-so-short review of the historical fiction novel The King’s Grey Mare written by Rosemary H. Jarman. Read at your leisure!
The first thing I need to tell you is that this book is, as explained by @lady-plantagenet, a story about Elizabeth Woodville, but not about Elizabeth Woodville’s life per se. Although it starts at the time of Elizabeth’s youth at the court of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou (a theory that has been deemed unlikely by now) and ends at her death, the story follows a few other people near Elizabeth Woodville who impact on her life. The narration seems to be a strange mix of the third-person omniscient point of view and third-person limited. It’s like the narrator sometimes focuses on the thoughts of a certain person and that person impacts the way the narrative is told, even to the point of repeating what was said before. It sounds confusing, but Jarman strangely manages to pull it off.
The second thing about this book is that it was published in 1973 and you can tell how dated it is, not only by the way the author chose to make Elizabeth Woodville a platinum blonde to convey her superior beauty—which weirdly became the standard portrayal for Elizabeth Woodville since then—but also by some very touchy aspects of the story that are racist, sexist, xenophobic, as well as scenes based on dubious consent that are meant to be read as the epitome of romance. Although the author claims to be sympathetic to Elizabeth Woodville, I thought she made a perverse use of this historical figure, depleting her of all internal logical and sensible actions, rendering her only a pretty doll filled with spite in order to be a channel for a literal demon, Melusine. Even Elizabeth’s mother, Jacquetta, is described as possessing ‘a devil-virgin’s smile’.
[Elizabeth] rose naked from the water and came to him, her wet hair shrouding her body like a tumult of silver weed. This was Isabella, his bride, no longer the image of an untouchable saint, but wanton, mischievous, maddening.
It is a pretty passage, but Jarman’s depiction of Elizabeth borders on dehumanising several times. Not even the man who loves her (in this case, John Grey) sees her as a person, but as a nymph, a demon. Throughout the novel, Elizabeth’s unnatural beauty is used against her to associate her with the water demon Melusine. It’s like the author punishes her for her beauty, the uncanny cold beauty the author herself decided to give her. Although Jarman tries to excuse the inexcusable actions she imparts on Elizabeth Woodville as choices beyond her control (as, according to her, Elizabeth was simply an instrument of fate), that does not explain why she makes Elizabeth so cruel and devoid of any kindness. In turn, it allows other characters to treat Elizabeth with the utmost harshness because, according to the story’s internal logic and evidence, she deserves it. This is Edward IV at the time he was supposed to have fallen in love with her, for pity’s sake:
He flung down the knife and sprang up. His towering shadow blotted the sun. He cursed her, calling her wanton, bloodless, jade, a whore that should be a nun, though there was no cloister devious enough to hold her.
Really, in face of his treatment, only Jacquetta’s witchcraft and a love potion could explain why Edward married Elizabeth at all, especially as in this story Edward IV is undoubtedly already married to Eleanor Talbot (and Elizabeth knows it). Elizabeth Woodville in this story submits to her mother’s grandiose dreams of making her queen of England so she can take revenge on Warwick and the house of York who slew her first husband, Sir John Grey, at the 2nd Battle of St Albans. No at any time she’s loyal to the Yorkist cause, which feeds on the Ricardian claim that the Woodvilles were Lancastrians painting themselves in Yorkist colours in order to snatch the crown and soil the throne with their impure and grasping blood. Elizabeth not only engineers the deaths of Warwick, Clarence and Desmond, but also is responsible for the murder of Desmond’s two little boys, something I had never heard anywhere. I can only assume it’s the author’s moralising justification for the way Elizabeth would come to lose her two children. At one point in the story, a random character asks: ‘Why is the Queen’s Grace so full of hatred?’
Of course, there’s no explanation for Elizabeth’s unrelenting unkindness other than it makes Elizabeth’s enemies, especially Richard III, look better in comparison. Whilst Elizabeth made her tongue the ‘tool of blackness’, Richard’s benedictions literally lift her unspoken curses against Warwick. Whilst she rages, plots revenge and pinches her daughter so hard it breaks her skin, Richard of Gloucester is so good not even his enemies can find a sensible excuse to hate him. This is Dorset and Elizabeth about Richard at different points in the story:
‘Richard of Gloucester,’ he added disdainfully. ‘The King’s pet and popinjay. He sickens me with his talk of loyalty, his fussing with weapons, his book-learnt strategy. And Edward listens to him.’
‘The people love Richard! They love him better than they loved his brother [citation needed]. They admire him for his new statutes and his justice. Whatever the barons say, he has won the people’s heart!’
Jarman couldn’t be more impartial in her story even if she tried. Richard’s enemies hate him because he is so [checks smudged writing on hand] loyal, learned, and loved by the people. At some point, inexplicably, Hastings decides to ally himself with Elizabeth—Jarman blames it on Elizabeth/Jane Shore seducing him to the Woodville side because, obviously under the sexist logic in which her story operates, with the exception of a few individuals all women do is lead men astray. Even as Hastings takes Elizabeth’s side, he hates her so much that his decision is only explained by the author’s internal need to make Richard of Gloucester execute him in an act of undoubted justice. In the story, they even say Hastings got a trial before his execution, something that did not in any way happen in real life.
Hastings about Richard of Gloucester: ‘Tomorrow I shall engineer the killing of one who was dear to me, to a man I loved. One who himself loved me well, who rode with me against Lancaster, when he was a sickly stripling youth. Gloucester, who took my hand, not two moons ago – Jesu! who took my hand today! – saying: ‘Thank God for you, Will Hastings. Thank God for you, in these times of strife and madness.’
Hastings about Elizabeth Woodville: ‘And Elizabeth, upon whose coming I once looked with spleen and disapproval, shall be again supreme. Elizabeth, who put down venom like a ratcatcher throughout the court. Elizabeth, whose policies are loathed by me. She who broke her sovereign’s heart with Desmond’s death, and used her brother like the most skilled provocateur to bring wretched Clarence to a bubbling end. Elizabeth, who split the soul of Warwick until he knew neither day from night, nor friend from foe. Elizabeth, whose messages I meekly bear, whose will I wreak! [...] Woodville and Lancaster wench, you never warmed my lust. Yet to Edward, you were Bathsheba, Salome …’
It is absolutely vile to say the least. You could say the author is simply being ‘historically accurate’ in depicting men’s hatred of women if the text itself didn’t justify this hatred. In fact, Elizabeth truly did everything that Hastings is accusing her of in this story. Men’s hatred against women is morally justified in this novel at every turn, so it makes it even more stunning how kindly Richard III treats women, even the ones who acted against him. He welcomes not only his nieces but also Elizabeth to his court even if no chronicle ever said that he did welcome Elizabeth, and he treats Elizabeth/Jane Shore with remarkable leniency. At no point in the novel it’s mentioned Richard made Shore perform a walk of shame in the city of London, or that he wrote to Shore’s second husband trying to dissuade him from marrying her.
‘That is Lady Lynom. She was released from prison last fall. She is married now to the King’s Solicitor-General.’
‘But she was a traitor! Conspirator and harlot – condemned by the King!’
‘He pardoned her,’ said the man, dipping his head on his chest as if to weight his words. ‘He showed her mercy.’
Parts of history are omitted, bent and twisted to satisfy Jarman’s vision of Richard III as a tragic benevolent king who met his unfair end at the hands of a spiteful woman & her grasping kin and by the devious plotting of a man & his mother led by their delusions of grandeur. The story makes it clear that England becomes a worse place after Henry Tudor takes over, and, shockingly but not completly unexpected, his Welsh and Breton men are blamed for much cruelty. At Elizabeth of York’s coronation, Jarman makes them massacre civilians and, disgustingly and pointedly, a little innocent boy. All because they were unaware of English customs and decided to attack the population when confronted by English people and their traditions. I was shocked, but unfortunately, xenophobia is not an uncommon aspect to be found amongst Ricardians when talking about the Tudors.
Weigh my words, and before you run back to your mistress shed a tear. For England and Plantagenet; their curse is accomplished.
‘After today, I have had enough of Tudor’s England. We will leave at once.’
Weirdly, and this will sound like going off on a tangent, this novel also depicts a character of colour, a character described as a ‘moor’ named Salazar who came from Spain after Tudor’s victory. For no reason, he acts as the novel’s magical negro for two seconds. Jarman describes him in terms such as ‘tall, coal-black and mysterious, more elemental than man’, ‘he gathered her to his coloured breast’, ‘he looked down at her, so fair and small against his own dark mystery’. I am....... disgusted, but I feel like it was important to point this out. There was literally no reason for Jarman to include this character of colour whilst being racist about this addition.
Everyone who is associated with the Tudors is described as visually repugnant: Reginald Bray is a shadowy man who stinks and lives ‘like a hog’; John Morton has a ‘bulky body’, a fleshy face, ‘all wattles and dewlaps’, a ‘lizard eye’. Henry Tudor himself is described as having ‘dry, rust-coloured hair’, an almost lipless mouth, eyes that ‘were as cold as a preying bird’s’ — to sum up: ‘he looked like a starved infant offering macabre love’. He’s nothing but a paranoid mess who literally pisses himself on the field of Bosworth, a man not ‘altogether sure of his own manhood’ who coughs as though he had always had tuberculosis, who is constantly looking for reassurance in the pikes of his bodyguards, who uses Elizabeth of York as a baby-maker, and who betrays Elizabeth Woodville and kills her sons in the name of some obscure motto (‘Tudor must destroy Plantagenet’). Disappointing but not surprising for such a novel.
Accordingly, even ‘neutral’ characters are unable to offer any sympathy for the Tudors. This is John Grey thinking about child bride and rape survivor Margaret Beaufort when she was still in her early teens:
Secretly he thought of Margaret Beaufort with distaste. She flaunted at court as if her descent were of the most royal. Her bravado made no pretence at covering old history. The Beauforts were merely descended from John of Gaunt and his mistress, Kate Swynford. Bastards all, legitimized by Richard II with the proviso that none of the line should ever aspire to the Crown. Yet Margaret strutted like an Empress; her small black eyes could intimidate. There was something unnatural about her.
‘Didn’t you know? She wed and buried him almost within the year. She has a son, Henry, two years old. Poor Edmund never saw the child.’
‘Holy Jesu! What killed him?’
‘Margaret’s terrible learning, so they say,’ chuckled John. ‘With her philosophy and Greek, her disputations and dissertations, Edmund, unsure of his own wit, pined and died.
I could go on and on about the double standards about the Beauforts and all the other Plantagenet bastards who are depicted as noble and praiseworthy in Ricardian novels but I’m tired and this review is already long enough. In this novel John of Gloucester, Richard III’s bastard son, is a fine youth whose only ‘fault’ is his undying loyalty to his father and who is unjustly framed and executed by Henry VII, something that didn’t happen in real life. He engages in a little unnecessary and dull romance plotline with his cousin Grace Plantagenet, Edward IV’s natural daughter who is one of the only good female characters in this novel. She loves Elizabeth Woodville even though Elizabeth is nothing but unkind to her—she loves Elizabeth like a dog loves its master despite the kicks it receives, presumably because for a Ricardian author there’s nothing more inspiring than the motto ‘Loyaulté me lie’ and loyalty beyond reason is the noblest quality a person can display. Grace is so good she even tames wild animals that set out to attack her.
In contrast, fair-weather Elizabeth of York is a fickle, insipid girl who cries at every turn only to laugh scandalously loud at the next moment. Interestingly though, perhaps to prove her weak character, she doesn’t cry at her father’s death, only when she hears she won’t be considered a princess anymore. Of course, she also cries when she’s about to marry Henry VII and when she’s jilted by Richard III, the uncle she fell in love with. She’s a girl who says ‘how should I know?’ when asked about her brothers, who is ‘content to lie and wait, and reckon nothing’. Ricardian authors often make use of Elizabeth of York to prove Richard III’s worthiness but they don’t even bother to give her a full-fleshed personality. Irrational behaviour is, of course, a trait that the younger Elizabeth shares with her mother, who comes to regret her spiteful behaviour at the end of her life, after she trusted Henry Tudor only to be betrayed and imprisoned by him. Henry is the one ‘who should have earned all her hatred, all her destructive powers. She realized numbly that these had been expended on others less worthy of them’.
Perhaps the vilest thing about this novel is the way it blames Elizabeth Woodville for the death of her two sons. Jarman even has Elizabeth admit that much to herself:
I killed them. She twisted, shuddering [...] I killed them. I among others put them to death by whispers, destroyed my sons through word of mouth [...] The souls of those I love, Melusine! and their bodies too! I killed them. Like the Greeks, who, to ensure victory, act it out beforehand, I wrote their doom in chapter and verse. I cleared the road for Tudor, Beaufort, Morton. And the man who kept my sons safe I had killed with ignominy.
What else can I say? This story has all the hallmarks of a true Ricardian novel: Social justice warrior Richard III, too good, too cultured, too pure for this world? Check. Irrational, wild, vengeful and coldly beautiful Elizabeth Woodville? Check. Jacquetta the love witch of Luxembourg? Check. Despicable Henry Tudor who literally pisses himself on Bosworth Field? Check. Crying mess Elizabeth of York in love with her uncle? Check. Fragile as glass Anne Neville doomed to die from the start? Check. Woodville women serving a vengeful, bloodthirsty demon named Melusine who gives them mysterious powers? Check, check and check. It’s so extra, it even has Bishop Morton raising a young Thomas More in his household with the purpose to create a true story master to blacken Richard III’s name forevermore.
What I didn’t know was that Rosemary Jarman was at least original about the above points and every other Ricardian novel that came after Jarman’s novel in fact took from her story. I’m giving it two stars because the prose is truly beautiful at times, and there’s some interesting use of narrative foils (for example, Elizabeth Woodville and her ‘sin-eater’ Grace Plantagenet) that would be better applied to original characters than pigeonholed into historical figures. It loses three stars for poorly veiled historical innacuracy, awful characterisation, and sexist, racist and xenophobic narratives. The narration is beautiful but at times hollow in my opinion, unable to inspire any emotion. If you’re one who is looking for beautiful prose but who gets angry at the twisting of historical facts, this is not a novel for you. It will only give you a headache.
#oof.......#elizabeth woodville#margaret beaufort#henry vii#elizabeth of york#book review#rosemary jarman#the king's grey mare
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The Nun and the Devil (1973)
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I know it doesn't matter what women wear when they are sexualized by men, because men sexualize women who live as modestly as possible. The genre of nunsploitation is proof of this:
The Lady of Monza (1969), The Nun and the Devil (1973), School of the Holy Beast (1974), Flavia the Heretic (1974), Suor Emanuelle (1977)
And these are just older films. The genre of nuns in porn is still very present.
A woman can take a vow of celibacy for life and all these men will think about is a) having sex with/raping these women or b) other woman sexually exploiting/abusing these women
#nuns#nunsploitation#exploitation of nuns#catholic church#catholicism#radfem#radical feminism#radical feminist#libfem#liberal feminist#liberal feminism#feminism#feminist theory#intersectionality#intersectional feminist#intersectional feminism#gender roles#feminism in religion#catholic feminism#sexualization
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The Conjuring Universe Chronological Timeline
1952
The Nun
1955
Annabelle: Creation
1967
Annabelle
1971
The Conjuring
1972
Annabelle Comes Home
1973
The Curse of La Llorona
1977
The Conjuring 2
1981
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
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Screencaps from my October highlights, four were brand new watches, the rest were rewatches (I watched more, but some films I weren't worth it)
Candyman (1992)
Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971)
Messiah of Evil (1973)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Nun (2018)
The Ring (2002)
Also this single shot from Dario Argento's Phenomena which has ruined my life ever since
#Phenomena is really fun though#Jennifer Connelly can talk to bugs and Donald Pleasance has a chimpanzee#The soundtrack is beyond inappropriate (read: great)
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Since the only movie I'm watching tonight is 200 Cigarettes, I've got my list of movies I watched for the first time this year. It's a little low (158 instead of the usual +/- 200) but... well, it's been a year.
Property is No Longer a Theft (1973, Ello Petri)
Zola (2021, Janicza Bravo)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021, Michael Showalter)
A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021, William Eubank)
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015, Gregory Plotkin)
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014, Christopher Landon)
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012, Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost)
The Nun (2018, Corin Hardy)
Hell-Bound Train (1930, Eloyce & James Gist)
Family Plot (1976, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Witch of King’s Cross (2020, Sonia Bible)
Teknolust (2002, Lynn Hershman Leeson)
Giant (1956, George Stevens)
Castle in the Sky (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
Messiah of Evil (1973, Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz)
House (1986, Steve Miner)
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014, Adam Robitel)
A Woman is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021, Kier-La Janisse)
The Tragedy of MacBeth (2021, Joel Coen)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson)
Last Night in Soho (2021, Edgar Wright)
Thelma (2017, Joachim Trier)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)
Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski)
In the Earth (2021, Ben Wheatley)
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021, Lisa Immordino Vreeland)
9 (2009, Shane Acker)
Chimes at Midnight (1966, Orson Welles)
WeWork, or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021, Jed Rothstein)
Enemies of the State (2020, Sonia Kennebeck)
A Glitch in the Matrix (2021, Rodney Ascher)
Citizenfour (2014, Laura Poitras)
The Cremator (1969, Juraj Herz)
Angst (1983, Gerard Kargl)
Death on the Nile (1978, John Guillerman)
The Power of the Dog (2021, Jane Campion)
Nightmare Alley (2021, Guillermo Del Toro)
Mirror (1974, Andrei Tarkovsky)
House of Gucci (2021, Ridley Scott)
Free Guy (2021, Shawn Levy)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L Mankiewicz)
Say Amen Somebody (1982, George T Nierenberg)
Poison Ivy (1992, Katt Shea)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
Zatoichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano)
Pale Flower (1964, Masahiro Shinoda)
Nobody (2021, Ilya Naishuller)
A Time to Kill (1996, Joel Schumacher)
Murder by Numbers (2002, Barbet Schroeder)
Antlers (2021, Scott Cooper)
Drive My Car (2021, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg)
Superman II (1980, Richard Lester)
West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg)
Licorice Pizza (2021, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Batman (2022, Matt Reeves)
You Can’t Kill Meme (2021, Hayley Garrigus)
Being the Ricardos (2021, Aaron Sorkin)
Summer of Soul (2021, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
Talk to Me (2007, Kasi Lemmons)
The Night House (2021, David Bruckner)
Here Comes the Devil (2012, Adrián Garcia Bogliano)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010, Paul W.S. Anderson)
The Ritual (2017, David Bruckner)
The Bye Bye Man (2017, Stacy Title)
Creep (2014, Patrick Brice)
From Within (2008, Phedon Papamichael)
X (2022, Ti West)
Moonfall (2022, Roland Emmerich)
Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)
The Purge (2013, James DeMonaco)
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020, Danny Wolf)
Caligula (1979, Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione & Giancarlo Lui)
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932, Dorothy Arzner)
The Alchemist Cookbook (2016, Joel Potrykus)
Spoor (2017, Agnieszka Holland)
Cliffhanger (1993, Renny Harlin)
Runaway Jury (2003, Gary Fleder)
A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954, Hiroshi Inagaki)
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955, Hiroshi Inagaki)
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956, Hiroshi Inagaki)
Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022, Akiva Schaffer)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
Men (2022, Alex Garland)
Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan)
Saint Maud (2019, Rose Glass)
Bernie (2011, Richard Linklater)
Pineapple Express (2008, David Gordon Green)
Voyeur (2021, Myles Kane & Josh Koury)
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985, Alan Metter)
Conspiracy Theory (1997, Richard Donner)
Experiment in Terror (1962, Blake Edwards)
The Nightingale (2018, Jennifer Kent)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945, John M. Stahl)
Black Widow (1954, Nunnally Johnson)
The Bob’s Burgers Movie (2022, Loren Bouchard & Bernard Derriman)
Incantation (2022, Kevin Ko)
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989, Don Bluth)
Nope (2022, Jordan Peele)
House of Bamboo (1956, Samuel Fuller)
Jurassic World: Dominion (2022, Colin Trevorrow)
The Black Phone (2022, Scott Derrickson)
The Presidio (1988, Peter Hyams)
Barbarian (2022, Zach Creeger)
Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann)
Vengeance (2022, BJ Novak)
Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg)
Don’t Worry Darling (2022, Olivia Wilde)
Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982, Amy Holden Jones)
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, Halina Reijn)
Dead and Buried (1981, Gary Sherman)
Blonde (2022, Andrew Dominik)
Phantasm II (1988, Don Coscarelli)
Hellraiser (2022, David Bruckner)
The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)
Next of Kin (1982, Tony Williams)
The Funhouse (1981, Tobe Hooper)
Dream Demon (1988, Harley Cokeliss)
The Hidden (1987, Jack Sholder)
Prince of Darkness (1987, John Carpenter)
White of the Eye (1987, Donald Cammell)
Halloween (2018, David Gordon Green)
Halloween Kills (2021, David Gordon Green)
Halloween Ends (2022, David Gordon Green)
Terror Train (1980, Roger Spottiswoode)
The House by the Cemetery (1981, Lucino Fulci)
Strange Behavior (1981, Michael Laughlin)
Road Games (1981, Richard Franklin)
Final Destination (2000, James Wong)
Daughters of Darkness (1971, Harry Kümel)
Matango (1963, Ishiro Honda)
Thirst (2009, Park Chan-Wook)
Wolfen (1981, Michael Wadleigh)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)
The Dark Corner (1946, Henry Hathaway)
Encino Man (1992, Les Mayfield)
The Good Nurse (2022, Tobias Lindholm)
Son in Law (1993, Steve Rash)
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler (1978, Ulrike Ottinger)
Henri-Georges Cluzot’s “Inferno” (2009, Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea)
The Blue Dahlia (1946, George Marshall)
Pearl (2022, Ti West)
Amsterdam (2022, David O. Russell)
Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, Rian Johnson)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh)
Song of the Thin Man (1947, Edward Buzzell)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941, W.S. Van Dyke)
RRR (2022, S.S. Rajamouli)
Another Thin Man (1939, W.S. Van Dyke)
Saaho (2019, Sujeeth)
Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund)
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Top 10 horror movies about demons
The top ten horror movies about demons include:
The Exorcist (1973) - A classic masterpiece that shocked audiences with its terrifying portrayal of demonic possession.
Drag Me to Hell (2009) - A loan officer cursed by a supernatural entity in a chilling tale directed by Sam Raimi.
Prey for the Devil - A film that revisits the theme of demonic possession with a personal twist involving a nun and her past experiences.
Curse of the Demon - A genuinely scary classic horror film that delves into the occult and satanic cults.
Prince of Darkness - A late '80s horror film by John Carpenter that embodies the essence of demonic horror.
The Exorcism of God (2021) - A modern take on exorcism with a guilt-ridden priest facing the consequences of a past exorcism.
The Devil Inside (2012) - A film that keeps viewers guessing about the true nature of the terrors until the end.
The Devil's Doorway (2018) - A movie that explores the thin line between demonic possession and mental illness in a haunting setting.
The Wailing (2016) - A film that delves into the horrors of demonic forces in a mysterious and intense narrative.
Race the Devil - A unique film blending paranoia and satanic undertones in a thrilling storyline.
These movies offer a diverse range of demonic horror experiences, from classics like "The Exorcist" to more modern takes on the genre like "Drag Me to Hell" and "The Exorcism of God."
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The Nun and The Devil was about the 20th Nun related movie I watched in the last quarter. Why is that? Well, because I got really into reading the 10th Anniversary Edition of House of Psychotic Women. The Nun and The Devil was mentioned a lot and my Italian genre deep dive knowledge is really lacking. I've improved some of it, but the team over at Genre Grinder still manages to be the top of the heap regarding it. So, what is a neophyte to make of The Nun and The Devil? Nuns aren't sexy. Italians and Brits and all them Euros love getting creepy with Nuns. Naturally, Italian cinemas demanded a lesbian sex drama starring a former Miss Britain as the lead sexy nun. About 30 minutes into The Nun and The Devil, I realized that I was watching The Little Hours if not played for comedy. Not being familiar with director Domenico Paolella, I immediately started looking up his prior work. The results were interesting, but not informative. Then, I tried to seek out the UK and US cuts of the film that attempted to rebrand this sex terror film into something that would play in those lands. The results were disappointing. So, what's the big takeaway of The Nun and The Devil. Well, if you ain't Ken Russell, then don't try stepping on his toes. This film is so far away from The Devils, that it might as well not have tried to step into the ring. Italian cinema of the 1970s Italian cinema of the 1970s really ran the gamut. The decade started off with the rise of Argento and the artfully designed Giallos, then ended with Fulci and others rising to Grindhouse power. That being said, it was a fascinating time to see a lot of new idea take form and break out of the dumping ground of American influence and start finding its way as a unique cinematic voice. That all would start to melt by the 80s, outside of Italian horror. But, it was a good effort. The Nun and The Devil isn't the best example of Italian cinema of the 1970s. It's interesting fare that will come up in many exploitation books and even House of Psychotic Women. So, if you're chasing down that kind of fare...give it a shot. Twilight Time and special features on disc The Nun and The Devil Twilight Time Blu-ray comes stacked with a commentary, interviews, featurettes and a trailer. When you hear the name Twilight Time, you pretty much expect it. I know things have changed since SAE took over after Nick Redman's death. But, damn...if I don't admire the effort so far. The A/V Quality is still the same as you can see in The Nun and The Devil screenshots. Plus, you get a non overpowering LCPM 2.0 that is true to the original theatrical exhibition. I love what we're getting here and I would wholeheartedly recommend giving it a watch. The Nun and The Devil is now available!
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Give Up This Day
Announcer (Clark Cable): You are nearing the end of our Channel 85 broadcast cycle. At this time, we are proudly required to present our community spokesman for the religion of your choice. And now, Rear-Reverend Sport Trendleberg will give up this day.
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Rev. Trendleberg: Good morning, or good evening, or good afternoon. How difficult to know what time it is when you’re locked in a tiny room with artificial light.
Let me scare you with a little story:
A fruit underwent a Danish operation and became a nun. Well, every day, she went for a quick dip in the same canal outside the monastery. One day, unable to kick her habit, she dove in, and dragged down by the heavy black garments, drowned, and was found by a fisherman of a different face…eh, f-faith, who happened by. He was a common man; and when he asked his god, or devil, why this had not happened to him, he got no reply. And so, he took her shoes and walked away, preferring not to get involved.
So then, what are we afraid of? Fear, like pain, may just be god’s way of hurting us.
Good bless you, and god-night…and please don’t touch that dial.
~ “TV or Not TV” (1973)—Proctor & Bergman (Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman of Firesign Theatre fame.)
👉Take a trip into the surreal world with Fred Flamm, director of washed and un-watched programing, co-owner and co-partner with his co-operator Clark Cable, re-producer at Channel 85.
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#firesign theatre#proctor & bergman#comedy#phil proctor#peter bergman#tv or not tv#don't crush that dwarf#hand me the pliers#waiting for the electrician or someone like him#in the next world you're own your own#george leroy tirebiter#comedy writing#Fred Flamm#Clark Cable
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