Sure sex is great, but have you ever been so terrified of female sexuality that you create a psychogenic fugue state/phantasmic ourobourous in which you act out a noir fantasia of carnality and VERTIGO tropes before collapsing into the realization that you’re actually OJ Simpson?
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We Kill for Love 2023
An epic sweat-sheened and neon-hummed and cocaine-decored exploration of Why We Like To Watch. A monolithic (but essential and breathless and deeply horny) three hours, it's like the LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF of fuck-noir, in which erotic thriller creatives and film scholars and general perverts come together to trace an arc from films noir to thrillers erotic, and celebrating/interrogating everything in between.
(Full disclosure, I’m in this thing, talking about noir and De Palma and BASIC INSTINCT and stuff)
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Night Moves 1975
“You're not one of those ‘intent on the truth’ types, are you?”
“Well, not religious about it, no, but I…”
A film where the ellipsis speaks louder than words.
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Opera 1987
If not the best Argento film (though it might be??), then certainly the most Argento film—every aspect of genre fetishism and the director’s tics/ obsessions are dialed to a self-aware “11” of black leather and red herrings, synesthete hyper-color and bloodied ultra-violence, Grand Guignol setpieces and, well, operatic grandeur.
A heavy metal opus of pure cinema.
PS: absolutely no surprise that the film was woozily and wildly shot by PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE’s camera operator Ronnie Taylor.
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Hellraiser 2022
Well this certainly was the 11th entry in a horror film franchise.
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Rebel Ridge 2024
“I have a feelin tonight’s gonna get pretty dark.”
“Isn’t that what nights do?”
Saulnier’s first blood and last stand. See it with a crowd if you can.
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