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/ female PhD student // cinema / horror / Gothic // elegant onscreen violence /

[whosthatknocking]

A Cure for Wellness (2017) dir. Gore Verbinski

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Kyua aka Cure (1997), dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

[fortheloveofhorror]

anthony perkins hosting the horror show, 1979

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Is it just me, or did the set design in science fiction and fantasy movies used to be a lot more… epic? I mean, look at this:

(From the top: Brazil, The Neverending Story, Blade Runner.)

Each of these has texture and weight and presence; they have created huge and impressive landscapes for their characters to inhabit. Each gave me a certain feeling when I first saw them, a kind of mix of excitement and tension that I think must be awe. Too many modern movies just seem like a cgi smear.

[geekwarrior77]

Auryn

[starrywisdomsect]

Barbara Steele in “Terror Creatures from the Grave.” (1965)

[ultrakillblast]

THE WARRIORS (1979)

[dr5tr4ng3l0v3]

The Devil’s Backbone, 2001 by Guillermo del Toro

Criterion Collection # 666 

Cover Art by Guy Davis

[purecinema]

Withnail and I, 1987, dir. Bruce Robinson

[booksmarthoney]

Tyrone Power photographed by Eliot Elisofon, 1958

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Moira Shearer as Victoria Page

Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov

Marius Goring as Julian Craster

The Red Shoes (1948)

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Poster illustration I just finished up for Poltergeist (1982)!

[vadsig]

House Of Wax (1953)

[kuutamosonaatti]

I seek a fallen star. She fell not far from here. And when I find her, I shall take my great knife and cut out her heart while she still Iives. And the glory of our youth shall be restored.

[mademoisellelapiquante]

Glynis Johns as Princess Mary Tudor in The Sword and the Rose - 1953

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[neoninmyeyes]

Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai in Eastern Promises by David Cronenberg