Tourist Trap is formally and stylistically an adept proto-slasher film, but underneath the genre baggage, it’s potentially the closest thing to a Thomas Ligotti film adaption I’ve yet to see.
Ligotti’s central metaphor of the mannequin, doll, and puppet as a conduit for his view of the deeply uncaring and inhuman evil of the universe is re-appropriated into a less cosmic story of a psychotic egomaniac impresario of a mannequin museum, who uses his telekinetic power over inanimate objects to…
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Tourist Trap 1979
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Until the Light Takes Us 2008
Gylve is just like my dog spike. They both can be naughty boys I can’t help but love because of their cute and goofy nature. Unfortunately my dog would also still love a Nazi who was very kind and affectionate towards him.
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Madhouse 1974
Beautiful later amicus/aip co-pro with Vincent Price out front and Peter Cushing in a limited, but welcomed supporting role. It may be the most modern of the aip/hammer/amicus/corman ilk in its fixations - film’s fascination with itself as a medium and self referentiality, light trekking into Hitchcock/Freudian territory as well as some exploration into the nature of horror film. I’m really surprised I don’t see this one mentioned more, it’s good and it left me thinking. Price’s cover of “day…
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Riders of Justice 2020
Fantastic film about the spirit of giving and the magic of Christmas.
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