horror &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:horror @settima@zirk.us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:37:32 +0200 Misterios de la magia negra [Mysteries of Black Magic] (Miguel M. Delgado, 1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mwys <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Misterios de la magia negra [Mysteries of Black Magic] (Miguel M. Delgado, 1958)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Misterios de la magia negra (1958)/div div class="caption" Two well-dressed women, one of them prostrated on a stone slab. DP: Víctor Herrera./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #April #MiguelMDelgado #GustavoCésarCarrión #VíctorHerrera #horror #witches #Mexico #1950s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Misterios de la magia negra [Mysteries of Black Magic] (Miguel M. Delgado, 1958)

Apr

12

Misterios de la magia negra (1958)

Two well-dressed women, one of them prostrated on a stone slab. DP: Víctor Herrera.

#FilmDuJour #April #MiguelMDelgado #GustavoCésarCarrión #VíctorHerrera #horror #witches #Mexico #1950s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-mwys Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The Gruesome Twosome (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2cjp <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Gruesome Twosome (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1967)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" 1967/div div class="img" The Gruesome Twosome (1967)/div div class="caption" The March 27, 1967 newspaper headlining CAMPUS PUZZLED! and GIRLS VANISH and FATE STILL A MYSTERY. It's Monday. DP: Roy Collodi./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #HerschellGordonLewis #ElizabethDavis #GretchenWells #ChrisMartell #LarryWellington #RoyCollodi #horror #comedy #mystery #gore #USA #1960s ★★½/div /section ]]>

The Gruesome Twosome (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1967)

Mar

27

1967

The Gruesome Twosome (1967)

The March 27, 1967 newspaper headlining CAMPUS PUZZLED! and GIRLS VANISH and FATE STILL A MYSTERY. It's Monday. DP: Roy Collodi.

#FilmDuJour #March #HerschellGordonLewis #ElizabethDavis #GretchenWells #ChrisMartell #LarryWellington #RoyCollodi #horror #comedy #mystery #gore #USA #1960s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2cjp Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100 Sisters [Blood Sisters] (Brian De Palma, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0vyy <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sisters [Blood Sisters] (Brian De Palma, 1972)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Sisters (1972)/div div class="caption" Danielle and Dominique Blanchion (Margot Kidder) – one beaming one gloomy – wearing bathing suits. In the background, Emil Breton (William Finley) in a therapy pool – fully clothed – with a woman and small child. DP: Gregory Sandor./div div class="txt" "Did you know that the germs can come through the wires? I never call and I never answer. It's a good way to get sick. Very, very sick… That's how I got so sick! SOMEONE CALLED ME ON THE TELEPHONE!" ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #BrianDePalma #MargotKidder #JenniferSalt #WilliamFinley #BernardHerrmann #GregorySandor #horror #mystery #crime #USA #1970s ★★½/div /section ]]>

Sisters [Blood Sisters] (Brian De Palma, 1972)

Mar

27

Sisters (1972)

Danielle and Dominique Blanchion (Margot Kidder) – one beaming one gloomy – wearing bathing suits. In the background, Emil Breton (William Finley) in a therapy pool – fully clothed – with a woman and small child. DP: Gregory Sandor.

“Did you know that the germs can come through the wires? I never call and I never answer. It's a good way to get sick. Very, very sick… That's how I got so sick! SOMEONE CALLED ME ON THE TELEPHONE!”

#FilmDuJour #March #BrianDePalma #MargotKidder #JenniferSalt #WilliamFinley #BernardHerrmann #GregorySandor #horror #mystery #crime #USA #1970s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0vyy Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pj57 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The City of the Dead (1960)/div div class="caption" Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson), exploring. DP: Desmond Dickinson./div div class="txt" – Burn witch, burn witch, burn! – Dig that crazy beat, man. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #JohnLlewellynMoxey #DouglasGamley #DesmondDickinson #VulcanFilms #horror #witches #mystery #ChristopherLee #VenetiaStevenson #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960)

Mar

3

The City of the Dead (1960)

Nan Barlow (Venetia Stevenson), exploring. DP: Desmond Dickinson.

– Burn witch, burn witch, burn!

– Dig that crazy beat, man.

#FilmDuJour #March #JohnLlewellynMoxey #DouglasGamley #DesmondDickinson #VulcanFilms #horror #witches #mystery #ChristopherLee #VenetiaStevenson #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pj57 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 1958/div div class="img" First Man Into Space (1959)/div div class="caption" A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull./div div class="txt" "The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½/div /section ]]>

First Man Into Space [Satellite of Blood] (Robert Day, 1959)

Feb

28

1958

First Man Into Space (1959)

A newspaper headline for February 28, 1958 reading THE HIGHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. DP: Geoffrey Faithfull.

“The conquest of new worlds always makes demands of human life. And there will always be men who will accept the risk.”

#FilmDuJour #February #RobertDay #BillEdwards #BuxtonOrr #GeoffreyFaithfull #drama #SciFi #horror #UK #1950s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/first-man-into-space-1959 Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/murders-in-the-zoo-1933 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Murders in the Zoo (1933)/div div class="caption" A couple walks into a room, only to discover a lifeless man and a headless snake. DP: Ernest Haller./div div class="txt" "You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?" ### – Eric Gorman /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #February #AEdwardSutherland #LionelAtwill #KathleenBurke #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #ErnestHaller #horror #comedy #animals #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Murders in the Zoo (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933)

Feb

20

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

A couple walks into a room, only to discover a lifeless man and a headless snake. DP: Ernest Haller.

“You don't think I sat there all evening with an eight-foot mamba in my pocket?”

– Eric Gorman

#FilmDuJour #February #AEdwardSutherland #LionelAtwill #KathleenBurke #RudolphGKopp #JohnLeipold #ErnestHaller #horror #comedy #animals #PreCode #USA #1930s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/murders-in-the-zoo-1933 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, 1928) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-man-who-laughs-1928 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, 1928)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" 1690/div div class="img" The Man Who Laughs (1928)/div div class="caption" A hand-painted carnival banner reading "URSUS ye Philosopher presents THE LAUGHING MAN. Don't fail to see GWYNPLAINE who was deserted at ye age of ten on ye night of ye 29supth/sup of January 1690 by ye Villainous Comprachicos on ye coast of Cornwall. This little boy has grown up and is now known as THE LAUGHING MAN". DP: Gilbert Warrenton./div div class="txt" "What a lucky clown you are! You don't have to wipe off your laugh." ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #PaulLeni #VictorHugo #MaryPhilbin #ConradVeidt #OlgaBaclanova #CesareGravina #GilbertWarrenton #BookAdaptation #clowns #circus #drama #horror #HumanMarvels #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, 1928)

Jan

29

1690

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

A hand-painted carnival banner reading “URSUS ye Philosopher presents THE LAUGHING MAN. Don't fail to see GWYNPLAINE who was deserted at ye age of ten on ye night of ye 29th of January 1690 by ye Villainous Comprachicos on ye coast of Cornwall. This little boy has grown up and is now known as THE LAUGHING MAN”. DP: Gilbert Warrenton.

“What a lucky clown you are! You don't have to wipe off your laugh.”

#FilmDuJour #January #PaulLeni #VictorHugo #MaryPhilbin #ConradVeidt #OlgaBaclanova #CesareGravina #GilbertWarrenton #BookAdaptation #clowns #circus #drama #horror #HumanMarvels #PreCode #USA #1920s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-man-who-laughs-1928 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tarry-dan-tarry-dan-scarey-old-spooky-man-1978 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (1978)/div div class="caption" Tarry-Dan (Paul Curran) observing kids at the school's gate. DP: Peter Bartlett./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #JohnReardon #PaulCurran #ColinMayes #JeremyBarlow #PeterBartlett #horror #mystery #TVMovie #UK #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (John Reardon, 1978)

Jan

10

Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man (1978)

Tarry-Dan (Paul Curran) observing kids at the school's gate. DP: Peter Bartlett.

#FilmDuJour #January #JohnReardon #PaulCurran #ColinMayes #JeremyBarlow #PeterBartlett #horror #mystery #TVMovie #UK #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tarry-dan-tarry-dan-scarey-old-spooky-man-1978 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/altered-states-1980 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" Wed/div div class="img" Altered States (1980)/div div class="caption" Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) in his tank. Around him visions of clouds, fishes, the ocean. DP: Jordan Cronenweth./div div class="txt" "I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get?" ### – Eddie Jessup /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #KenRussell #PaddyChayefsky #WilliamHurt #BlairBrown #BobBalaban #CharlesWhiteEagle #JohnCorigliano #JordanCronenweth #SciFi #horror #psychedelic #BodyHorror #drugs #BookAdaptation #USA #1980s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)

Jan

7

Wed

Altered States (1980)

Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) in his tank. Around him visions of clouds, fishes, the ocean. DP: Jordan Cronenweth.

“I'm a man in search of his true self. How archetypically American can you get?”

– Eddie Jessup

#FilmDuJour #January #KenRussell #PaddyChayefsky #WilliamHurt #BlairBrown #BobBalaban #CharlesWhiteEagle #JohnCorigliano #JordanCronenweth #SciFi #horror #psychedelic #BodyHorror #drugs #BookAdaptation #USA #1980s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/altered-states-1980 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Last Broadcast (Stefan Avalos + Lance Weiler, 1998) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yt52 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Last Broadcast (Stefan Avalos + Lance Weiler, 1998)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1995/div div class="img" The Last Broadcast (1998).jpg)/div div class="caption" An anxious looking camera man in the woods on grainy VHS stock. DP: Lance Weiler./div div class="txt" "At 10 PM, in what will be the last broadcast, Fact or Fiction goes live." ### – David Leigh, the filmmaker /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #StefanAvalos #LanceWeiler #DavidBeard #JimSeward #ReinClabbers #MichelePulaski #ADRoso #mystery #horror #USA #1990s/div /section ]]>

The Last Broadcast (Stefan Avalos + Lance Weiler, 1998)

Dec

15

1995

The Last Broadcast (1998)

An anxious looking camera man in the woods on grainy VHS stock. DP: Lance Weiler.

“At 10 PM, in what will be the last broadcast, Fact or Fiction goes live.”

– David Leigh, the filmmaker

#FilmDuJour #December #StefanAvalos #LanceWeiler #DavidBeard #JimSeward #ReinClabbers #MichelePulaski #ADRoso #mystery #horror #USA #1990s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-yt52 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100