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To Feel like a wolf and Foxy - 70s Occult TV movies vol. 3: CURSE OF THE...
THE POSSESSEDNBC - May1.1977It may be wrong but just wait until you see a handsome young pre-Star Wars Harrison Ford playing a girl's school biology teacher having an affair with with Wheezy (Ann...
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10 Weird/Cool Gems Streaming Free on TubI (your cinema shelter from the late...
Hey, come check out my contributing post for the amazing B&S Movies site: Ten from Tubi Week 12.I've become a huge fan of Sam Panico and B&S, thanks to his encyclopedic yen for Mexican...
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It's Called Scissoring: IN FABRIC (2018)
I heard about Flux Gourmet being totally weird. Well, a new Peter Strickland film is a time for nervous celebration! 'Celebration' because anything by old Strick-9 (his cool nickname, I just decided)...
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HALLOWEEN (1978) - A 10-Step Deconstruction of Carpenter's Secret Recipe
(updated from orig. 2012 version) Every time I've seen HALLOWEEN it's been in a different visual format. I was only 12 when it hit theaters and transformed my grade school cafeteria into a never-ending...
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Hauntology for Red October: SPOTIFY PLAYLIST for Walking through the Windy...
Hey man, Halloween is a week away so I wanted to share my weird mixes. Acidemic is so much more than just weird and accidentally or intentionally artsy/psychedelic movies.Check out these groovy and...
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Calling All Macabre Bakers: Netflix's Callously Canceled CURIOUS CREATIONS OF...
It's one of Netflix's unforgivable crimes ---prompting me to cancel my subscription after 20 years--that they only gave us one short season of this very curious show. The reason is clear: it doesn't...
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"Absolute" October: 10 Seasonal, Classic Picks: Atmospheric, Uncanny &...
October - the time when the old classics should come out, and old horror fans like me dust off the gems that do it for us every year, the grand perennials, some since we were knee-high to Zuni Fetish...
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CozZilla! - 10 Reasons Luigi Cozzi's 1977 GODZILLA Remix
In honor of Godzilla's 68th birthday (Nov 3) here's my praise and love of my favorite version of that original classic, a truly one-of-a-kind remix by the great Luigi Cozzi. Impossible to find anywhere...
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ONCE YOU KISS A STRANGER (1969) + Selections for Acidemic's Chthonic Lady Series
Hey ho, just a note to let you know I'm still writing, just not posting as much as my brain's too foggy to keep on topic (I keep drifting, like a Tennessee Williams heroine). Still, I may be blocked...
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Reviving the Wind: YOU AND THE NIGHT (2013)
You and the Night (2013) aka "Les rencontres d'après minuit" Dir Yann Gonzalez's tale of an orgy magically turned into a winter bonding session, has such a "alone and slutty on Xmas" vibe I felt I hard...
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The Mystical Dissociation of Lucio: AENIGMA (1987)
No eyes were harmed during production of this picture"Every professional performer I've ever seen always does the exact same thing in the exact same moment in everything they do.... They know when the...
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Badass Ladies too Dangerously Cool for DVD: 9 Should-be Classics Held Back by...
In honor of Women's History Month, here's a list of films you may not even know about as they feature morally ambiguous / evil female supervillains that are powerful enough they may be a threat to...
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Camptown Ladies F--k You Up: DARKTOWN STRUTTERS (1975)
As an addendum to my previous post, let me sing the praises of one of the weirder catches in my endless trawl through the YouTube depths-- DARKTOWN STRUTTERS (1975). Written by wild George Armitage,...
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It's Only an Apricot. It's Only an Apricot: "MANOS"& Myth
"Trash that contains the element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art" - --- Douglas SirkSome of us love 'bad' or trash or...
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All-Seeing Blindness: THE BIRDS' omniscient POV and the Oedipal Anti-gaze
Today we're using a single shot in Hitchcock's 1963 classic THE BIRDS as a jumping off point for a fusion of Freud, Jung, Paglia, Wood, and Zizek that will catch HALLOWEEN, FORBIDDEN PLANET, PSYCHO,...
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It's Jory Time!
Confession: I'm a late-blooming Joryhead, what the kids all call a "Joryphile," or a Jory Doodie, or a Jory Rider. A lot of film snobs won't even know who I'm talking about, but they'll notice him...
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Sex Negative: Lucio Fulci's THE DEVIL'S HONEY (1986)
"Sex is nostalgia for when you used to want it... Sex is nostalgia for sex." - Andy Warhol “The male has to will his sexual authority before the woman who is a shadow of his mother and of all women....
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Kubrick Variations / The Acidemic Stanley Kubrick Conspiracy Reader
Facebook reminded me I posted the above collage 10 years ago--they must really want me to write about it. I made it, and many others, after being bowled over by Rodney Ascher's ROOM 237, for my gushing...
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Truth vs. Reality: 10 Reasons PARANORMAL: CAUGHT ON CAMERA
When you're no longer afraid of being scoffed at for not scoffing at it--NY's hottest club is: Paranormal... Caught on Camera. Let go the need to have a secure frontier of the known, and surrender to...
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CinemArchetype 28: The Elemental
Getting into the pagan dark magic of the earth, air, fire, and water is as easy as doing almost nothing.... and as hard as doing less. Just like the truth about alien involvement in our evolution...
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