This is genuinely so underrated, Ewa Aulin I love you

This is genuinely so underrated, Ewa Aulin I love you

Massively underrated

Massively underrated

Convoluted as fuck but with so much style, salaciousness, horror, class and trash you just cannot do anything but love it. There’s just something that instantly appeals to me about films like Death Smiles at Murder, how the horror is found within our often repressed melodramatic tendencies, in the desires, the affairs, the love, betrayal, self interest and self destruction of our casts of characters, just sprinkle in some undead, a giallo killer, gore and mystery also a pinch of queerness for good measure, throw a cat in there and what you have is the perfect kind of “Body” film shot in a way that makes daylight so gothic and eerie, scored with delicacy and aura, unveiling with nostalgic elliptical flashback heavy structure (resembling trying to read a old novel that you’re somewhat aware of while being drunk off your head) that quickly you begin to lose yourself to the film. There’s a real artistry here that while, flawed, dated, kinda unsubstantial and certainly male gazey and cis straight nonetheless is busy doubling in the wild, in the macabre and weird that it’s still admirable and even enjoyable at parts. Half of this makes no sense to me, it is kinda nightmarishly put together from the low budget to the random flippant pace to the bewildering plot, basically you cannot explain this only sum it up or describe elements, it is very haphazard but committed for the emotions are so straightforward (fear, sexy, frights, shock, disgust, happiness) to the point that there is something innocent to the whole experience, like catching something on the TV, from somewhere real static and far that you aren’t suppose to. The only thing I sorta hate about this movie is the title cause hmmm it doesn’t quite make sense in context with the story? For me Death Smiles at Murder sounds like typical Giallo detective affair this is not that, maybe it doesn’t matter either way cause this is just one out of a million things about this movie that will leave you smiling out of pure bewilderment.

Convoluted as fuck but with so much style, salaciousness, horror, class and trash you just cannot do anything but love it. There’s just something that instantly appeals to me about films like Death Smiles at Murder, how the horror is found within our often repressed melodramatic tendencies, in the desires, the affairs, the love, betrayal, self interest and self destruction of our casts of characters, just sprinkle in some undead, a giallo killer, gore and mystery also a pinch of queerness for good measure, throw a cat in there and what you have is the perfect kind of “Body” film shot in a way that makes daylight so gothic and eerie, scored with delicacy and aura, unveiling with nostalgic elliptical flashback heavy structure (resembling trying to read a old novel that you’re somewhat aware of while being drunk off your head) that quickly you begin to lose yourself to the film. There’s a real artistry here that while, flawed, dated, kinda unsubstantial and certainly male gazey and cis straight nonetheless is busy doubling in the wild, in the macabre and weird that it’s still admirable and even enjoyable at parts. Half of this makes no sense to me, it is kinda nightmarishly put together from the low budget to the random flippant pace to the bewildering plot, basically you cannot explain this only sum it up or describe elements, it is very haphazard but committed for the emotions are so straightforward (fear, sexy, frights, shock, disgust, happiness) to the point that there is something innocent to the whole experience, like catching something on the TV, from somewhere real static and far that you aren’t suppose to. The only thing I sorta hate about this movie is the title cause hmmm it doesn’t quite make sense in context with the story? For me Death Smiles at Murder sounds like typical Giallo detective affair this is not that, maybe it doesn’t matter either way cause this is just one out of a million things about this movie that will leave you smiling out of pure bewilderment.

Convoluted as fuck but with so much style, salaciousness, horror, class and trash you just cannot do anything but love it. There’s just something that instantly appeals to me about films like Death Smiles at Murder, how the horror is found within our often repressed melodramatic tendencies, in the desires, the affairs, the love, betrayal, self interest and self destruction of our casts of characters, just sprinkle in some undead, a giallo killer, gore and mystery also a pinch of queerness for good measure, throw a cat in there and what you have is the perfect kind of “Body” film shot in a way that makes daylight so gothic and eerie, scored with delicacy and aura, unveiling with nostalgic elliptical flashback heavy structure (resembling trying to read a old novel that you’re somewhat aware of while being drunk off your head) that quickly you begin to lose yourself to the film. There’s a real artistry here that while, flawed, dated, kinda unsubstantial and certainly male gazey and cis straight nonetheless is busy doubling in the wild, in the macabre and weird that it’s still admirable and even enjoyable at parts. Half of this makes no sense to me, it is kinda nightmarishly put together from the low budget to the random flippant pace to the bewildering plot, basically you cannot explain this only sum it up or describe elements, it is very haphazard but committed for the emotions are so straightforward (fear, sexy, frights, shock, disgust, happiness) to the point that there is something innocent to the whole experience, like catching something on the TV, from somewhere real static and far that you aren’t suppose to. The only thing I sorta hate about this movie is the title cause hmmm it doesn’t quite make sense in context with the story? For me Death Smiles at Murder sounds like typical Giallo detective affair this is not that, maybe it doesn’t matter either way cause this is just one out of a million things about this movie that will leave you smiling out of pure bewilderment.

Convoluted as fuck but with so much style, salaciousness, horror, class and trash you just cannot do anything but love it. There’s just something that instantly appeals to me about films like Death Smiles at Murder, how the horror is found within our often repressed melodramatic tendencies, in the desires, the affairs, the love, betrayal, self interest and self destruction of our casts of characters, just sprinkle in some undead, a giallo killer, gore and mystery also a pinch of queerness for good measure, throw a cat in there and what you have is the perfect kind of “Body” film shot in a way that makes daylight so gothic and eerie, scored with delicacy and aura, unveiling with nostalgic elliptical flashback heavy structure (resembling trying to read a old novel that you’re somewhat aware of while being drunk off your head) that quickly you begin to lose yourself to the film. There’s a real artistry here that while, flawed, dated, kinda unsubstantial and certainly male gazey and cis straight nonetheless is busy doubling in the wild, in the macabre and weird that it’s still admirable and even enjoyable at parts. Half of this makes no sense to me, it is kinda nightmarishly put together from the low budget to the random flippant pace to the bewildering plot, basically you cannot explain this only sum it up or describe elements, it is very haphazard but committed for the emotions are so straightforward (fear, sexy, frights, shock, disgust, happiness) to the point that there is something innocent to the whole experience, like catching something on the TV, from somewhere real static and far that you aren’t suppose to. The only thing I sorta hate about this movie is the title cause hmmm it doesn’t quite make sense in context with the story? For me Death Smiles at Murder sounds like typical Giallo detective affair this is not that, maybe it doesn’t matter either way cause this is just one out of a million things about this movie that will leave you smiling out of pure bewilderment.

1973 | Joe D'Amato | Klaus Kinski | Italian Horror

This doesn’t feel like a D’Amato film at all. I don’t exactly know what it feels like, but whatever that is, it isn’t my jam.

I mean it’s got Klaus Kinski in a small supporting role so there’s that, the score surely isn’t bad but not that great either and the performances are fine I guess. There are some nice kills and effects, but it’s the vibe that doesn’t appeal to me. I realize more and more that I’m not the biggest fan of this kind of horror. By that I mean horror set in the early 1900s out in the country. The setting doesn’t really work for me more often than not. Furthermore, neither the romance nor the revenge part did much for me.

“La morte ha sorriso all'assassino” might be my so far least favorite D’Amato film. I know lots of people think this is one of his best and I get why, it just isn’t for me, unfortunately.

1973 | Joe D'Amato | Klaus Kinski | Italian Horror

This doesn’t feel like a D’Amato film at all. I don’t exactly know what it feels like, but whatever that is, it isn’t my jam.

I mean it’s got Klaus Kinski in a small supporting role so there’s that, the score surely isn’t bad but not that great either and the performances are fine I guess. There are some nice kills and effects, but it’s the vibe that doesn’t appeal to me. I realize more and more that I’m not the biggest fan of this kind of horror. By that I mean horror set in the early 1900s out in the country. The setting doesn’t really work for me more often than not. Furthermore, neither the romance nor the revenge part did much for me.

“La morte ha sorriso all'assassino” might be my so far least favorite D’Amato film. I know lots of people think this is one of his best and I get why, it just isn’t for me, unfortunately.