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Dread by the Decade: Gaslight
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Source Material: Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton
Year: 1940
Genre: Psychological Horror, Mystery
Rating: UR (Rec: PG-13)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles
Editor: Sidney Cole
Writers: A. R. Rawlinson, Bridget Boland
Composer: Richard Addinsell
Cast: Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Minnie Rayner, Jimmy Hanley
Plot: Hoping to conceal a dark secret, a man tries to convince his new wife that she is losing her mind.
Review: A tale of psychological manipulation and domestic abuse that emotionally drains the viewer as much as it captivates them.
Overall Rating: 4.5/5
Story: 4.5/5 - Its handling of mental abuse is shockingly realistic and harrowing. And, though its mystery isn't particularly difficult to figure out, the tension it invokes is thick.
Performances: 4.5/5 - Walbrook is incredible as Paul, so believable in how he portrays an abuser who flips from doting to cruel that it's often hard to watch. Wynyard is similarly great as the fraying Bella.
Cinematography: 4/5 - Good use of layering to create disorienting shots.
Editing: 4/5
Music: 4/5
Choreography & Stunts: 4/5 - The can-can sequence is brief but hypnotic.
Sets: 4.5/5 - Though limited, they're lavish and feel lived-in.
Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4/5 - The costuming is just gorgeous—especially Bella's.
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Trigger Warnings:
Mild violence
Domestic and emotional abuse
Implications of sex under false pretenses
Brief sexual harassment
Misogyny (period appropriate)
Mentions of institutionalization
Classism (period appropriate)
#Gaslight (1940)#Gaslight#Thorold Dickinson#British#psychological horror#Dread by the Decade#review#1940s
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Gaslight (1940) dir. Thorold Dickinson
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A recent edition of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs with a appropriately cut-up cover by Julian House of Intro.
#Naked Lunch#William S. Burroughs#American#literature#surrealist horror#sci-fi horror#cover art#make queue vile
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DAILYFLICKS 20K EVENT: FAVORITE FALL/HALLOWEEN FILM PER MEMBER
↳ MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) — Carlos (@henry-cavill)
Hey, pretty girl, time to wake up.
#Mulholland Drive#American#film#surrealist horror#psychological horror#flashing#gifset#make queue vile
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights & Details, Hell (right panel), 1480-1595
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In dreams, I walk with you
In dreams, I talk to you
In dreams, you're mine all of the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams
Blue Velvet (1986)
dir. David Lynch
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) dir. Jaromil Jireš
#Valerie a týden divů#Valerie and Her Week of Wonders#Czechoslovak#film#surrealist horror#stills#make queue vile
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"Martyr of Apparitions" Emil Melmoth (2023)
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“The Penitent" by Emil Melmoth
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The Preacher's tongue, Emil Melmoth
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Pálida Caricia, by Emil Melmoth, 2022
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Emil Melmoth
#Lamento encarnado#Lament Incarnate#Emil Melmoth#Mexican#art#spotlight#occult#body horror#surrealist horror#gore#make queue vile
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Dread by the Decade: The Man with Nine Lives
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Year: 1940
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror
Rating: UR (Recommended: PG)
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 14 minutes
Director: Nick Grinde
Cinematographer: Benjamin H. Kline
Editor: Al Clark
Writer: Karl Brown
Cast: Roger Pryor, Boris Karloff, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown, John Dilson, Byron Foulger, Charles Trowbridge
Plot: Believing he can cure patients of disease by freezing them, a doctor imprisons live subjects to prove his theory.
Review: A spiritual follow-up to The Man They Could Not Hang (1939), this lifeless film does nothing new with the concept of a scientist driven mad by his pursuits.
Overall Rating: 2/5
Story: 1.5/5 - Dull with flat characters who make inscrutable choices. The majority of it consists of people just delivering clunky exposition or bickering.
Performances: 2.5/5 - Most of the performances are serviceable at best, though Sayers is outright stiff and unnatural.
Cinematography: 2.5/5 - Little of artistic merit save for the use of flickering firelight.
Editing: 3/5
Effects & Props: 2.5/5 - Generic lab equipment. The ice, though phony, is at least interesting to look at.
Sets: 2/5 - Extremely limited and lacking originality.
Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 3.5/5
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Trigger Warnings:
Very mild violence
Medical scenes
#The Man with Nine Lives (1940)#The Man with Nine Lives#Nick Grinde#American#sci-fi horror#Dread by the Decade#review#1940s
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Spooky Sundays 🦠: 哭悲 (2021 | Taiwan)
Stream Time: April 28th @ 8:30pm EST/1:30am GMT.
See below the cut for details and trigger warnings.
Summary: A virus outbreak in Taipei causes people to act out the worst things they can imagine.
Language: English.
Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes.
Rating: R with graphic violence and gore, graphic torture, cannibalism, suicide, self harm, child death, graphic sexual assault (fairly brief but very disturbing), misogyny (critiqued by the film), medical scenes, vomiting.
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No matter how terrifying, I want the truth.
Noroi: The Curse (2005) dir. Kôji Shiraishi
#ノロイ#Noroi: The Curse#Japanese#film#occult#child death#child harm#gore#spoilers#gifset#make queue vile
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THE WICKER MAN (1973) dir. Robin Hardy
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L'Inferno (1911)
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