Shut in(n): Stefan Lernous’ surreal psychodrama HOTEL POSEIDON (2021) offers a day and night in the life of a man who cannot move on or check out from his squalid hotel home. Now on #ArrowPlayer (selected by Dan Martin) https://projectedfigures.com/2021/08/11/hotel-poseidon-2021-at-fantasia/

Mad Men of Japan: Yasuzo Masumura's GIANTS AND TOYS (1958) is a bittersweet satire of rapid postwar change, set in the cutthroat world of candy advertising. Now on #ArrowPlayer (selected by Dan Martin). Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/giants-and-toys-yasuzo-masumura-blu-ray

"a vibrant Tarantino-esque clusterfuck": Katsuhito Ishii's SHARK SKIN MAN AND PEACH HIP GIRL (1999) is on #ArrowPlayer (UK/Ireland) from today. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

"naïve, but macabre at the same time": Dario Argento's directorial debut THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) takes a reflexive look at violent art and its effects. Available from today on #ArrowPlayer https://projectedfigures.com/2018/06/03/the-bird-with-the-crystal-plumage-1970/

"Coming out the same year the Red Army Faction was founded, Rudolf Thome’s thriller focuses on a revolutionary cell dedicated less to resisting state imperialism than to overthrowing patriarchy itself": RED SUN on #ArrowPlayer from today. For #LWLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-june/

"Putting the gory in allegory, Romero’s film shows the madness of the Vietnam war in all its viral contagion": THE CRAZIES (1973) is on #ArrowPlayer from today https://projectedfigures.com/2017/07/16/the-crazies-1973/

"Putting a fist up America’s hidden dynastic structures and pulling them inside out so that the terrible things underneath are revealed for all to see," Brian Yuzna's class satire cum body horror SOCIETY (1989) on #ArrowPlayer from today https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/08/society-1989/

"Dario Argento’s artful giallo pits a chauvinistic pianist against a psychotic killer, as both race to the primal scene of trauma": DEEP RED (1975) on #ArrowPlayer from today https://projectedfigures.com/2022/12/21/deep-red-profondo-rosso-1975

"a fast-moving, dynamic heroine trapped, paradoxically, in the stasis of a society primed to repress female progress or escape": Jung Byung-gil's melo-actioner THE VILLAINESS (AK-NYEO, 2017), on #ArrowPlayer from today. https://projectedfigures.com/2018/01/29/villainess-ak-nyeo-2017

Hammer time: Park Chan-wook's OLDBOY is "a tour-de-force of vibrant filmmaking from start to finish, manipulating the viewer like a master hypnotist, before revealing its final, awful dilemma." On #ArrowPlayer from today. https://projectedfigures.com/2013/12/03/oldboy-2004/

Fourth night in a row that I've watched a film - tonight it was Find A Place To Die (1968). Another fun spaghetti western, starring Jeffrey Hunter of "Original Captain Pike" fame.

Nothing too taxing with this one, but an enjoyable little flick all the same.

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Film tonight - Vengeance Is Mine (1967)

Carrying on with Arrow Player's latest spaghetti western box set. Not sure I'd pay £45 for the physical set, nice as it is, but I'd consider adding the digital editions to my iTunes/Apple TV library.

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"Shohei Imamura’s disruptive docudrama uses the true story of a serial killer to show the darker side of Japan’s modernisation": VENGEANCE IS MINE (1979) is on #ArrowPlayer (UK/Ire/US/Can) from today https://projectedfigures.com/2023/06/24/vengeance-is-mine-1979/

"In the annals of feminist genre filmmaking, this feels pioneering": Emma Tammi’s feature debut THE WIND (2018) "brings demons and delusion to an isolated homestead on America’s historic frontier lands". On #ArrowPlayer (UK/Ire/US/Can) from today. https://projectedfigures.com/2020/09/03/the-wind-2018

"one of the most straightforwardly insane villains ever to have appeared in cinema, creating a bizarre world in his own damaged, demented image." Teruo Ishii's HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN (1969) on #ArrowPlayer from today https://projectedfigures.com/2019/03/10/horrors-of-malformed-men-edogawa-rampo-zenshu-kyoufu-kikei-ningen-1969

" Assonitis’ tale of two sisters – and of insanity running in the family – still leaves its central mystery unresolved after the curtain has dropped." MADHOUSE (1981) is now on #ArrowPlayer https://projectedfigures.com/2018/01/15/madhouse-1981

http://foritismansnumber.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-gore-gore-girls-1972.html

A bit of Herschell Gordon Lewis for today.

#review #MovieReview #blog #blogger #film #movies #cinema #filmastodon #cinemastodon #mastomovies #ArrowPlayer #streaming #TheGoreGoreGirls #HerschellGordonLewis #horror

"Putting a fist up America’s hidden dynastic structures and pulling them inside out so that the terrible things underneath are revealed for all to see," Brian Yuzna's class satire cum body horror SOCIETY (1989) now on #ArrowPlayer https://projectedfigures.com/2015/06/08/society-1989

"satisfyingly silly sci-fi horror omelette mixes pulsating alien eggs, ham acting and liberal amounts of cheese": Luigi Cozzi’s CONTAMINATION (1980) now on #ArrowPlayer https://projectedfigures.com/2015/02/16/contamination-1980

"Where's Donnie?": Richard Kelly's DONNIE DARKO (2001) reimagines It's A Wonderful Life and The Last Temptation of Christ for Halloween. An *extraordinary* debut. On #ArrowPlayer https://projectedfigures.com/2016/10/31/donnie-darko-2001/