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The Last Broadcast (Stefan Avalos + Lance Weiler, 1998)
Dec
15
1995
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
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Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Dec
11
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in front of the family motel. DP: John L. Russell.
“The mattress is soft and there're hangers in the closet and stationary with “Bates' Motel” printed on it in case you want to make your friends back home envious.”
– Norman Bates
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Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält [Mark of the Devil] (Michael Armstrong + Adrian Hoven, 1970)
Nov
28
cheese
A young, pretty Udo Kier seated at a dinner table. There are various fruits on a platter and Udo's eating cheese. His outfit suggests the 18th century. DP: Ernst W. Kalinke.
“I accuse you of having trampled on the cross, of having ridden to the Sabbath, of throwing the Holy Cross of our Saviour into manure so that the skies grew dark, and the rain fell upon the earth!”
– Albino
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El escapulario [The Scapular] (Servando González, 1968)
Nov
20
Padre Andrés (Enrique Aguilar). DP: Gabriel Figueroa.
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하녀 [Hanyeo / The Housemaid] (Kim Ki-young, 1960)
Nov
13
Adding one more ingredient. DP: Deok-jin Kim.
A memorable kitchen or cooking scene*
“Look at us. We're almost totally dependent on our maid. She cooks and washes for us, and is the first person to greet me when I come home from work. She is entirely at our service.”
– Dong-sik Kim
A housemaid works her way into a middle-class household and takes over the wife's tasks – cleaning, cooking, child rearing.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.
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The Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Phantom Ship] (Denison Clift, 1935)
Nov
11
Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi). DPs: Eric Cross & Geoffrey Faithfull.
“No, I never left the wheel; not for a moment.”
– Anton Lorenzen
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The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby + Howard Hawks, 1951)
Nov
1
Scientists and crew armed to the teeth. DP: Russell Harlan.
Until November 3.
“No pleasure, no pain… no emotion, no heart. Our superior in every way.”
– Dr. Arthur Carrington
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Frank Stein (Iván Zulueta, 1972)
Oct
30
Karloff
A [favourite] Boris Karloff film*
“Well, as I said before, I say again, here's… Here's to a son… to the house of Frankenstein.”
– Baron Frankenstein
Zulueta's mycotoxic fever dream of Whale's Frankenstein.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.
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Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
Oct
28
John Holden (Dana Andrews) standing in Stonehenge's inner circle. He's holding a strip of paper with something written on it. DP: Edward Scaife.
“It's in the trees! It's coming!”
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Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
Oct
26
Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran. DP of The Entity: Stephen H. Burum.
[Favourite] psychological horror*
“A premonition of a horror film”
– tagline
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.
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