Orloff's Cabinet of Curious Things

Otherworldly art, movies and books with a heavy dose of classic glamour - probably NSFW on occasion.

[doctororloff]

'Il Boat del Mambo' - the intro and theme song to Season 4 of the popular but scandalous '90s Italian gameshow, 'Colpo Grosso'.

[watching-pictures-move]

Blue Rita (Franco, 1977)

[watching-pictures-move]

Blue Rita (Franco, 1977)

[willowaddison]

[doctororloff]

Häxan, 1922

@herroliness

[uspiria]

The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) dir. Jean Rollin

[uspiria]

The Shiver of the Vampires (1971) dir. Jean Rollin

[splatteronmywalls]

[doctororloff]

@herroliness

[doctororloff]

What's this? People want to get rid of nudity in movies? We'll see what Lina Romay has to say about that!

[womeninthewindow]

The vampire lovers (Roy Ward Baker, 1970)

[talesfromthecrypts]

Average 2020s movie being "too political": girl power! quick background kiss between two gay extras! one single black guy!

Average "non-political" 70s movie: the government is hiding a global conspiracy that is warming the planet and will kill us all and also the cops are evil

[talesfromthecrypts]

Vampire movie being popular means I have to read things like “having to be invited in comes from that old vampire movie The Lost Boys”

[talesfromthecrypts]

We have to do something about the lack of vampire history taught in our schools

[venustapolis]

Cabin with ghostly accession (Krebs Lith. Co, 1887)

[photos-de-france]

Emmanuelle est à l'affiche du cinéma Le Celtic de Concarneau, Finistère, 1974.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Skeleton Frolic | 1937 — directed by Ub Iwerks it's easy to imagine this inspiring a young Ralph Bakshi

[enchantedbook]

The Awakening of the Poet' by Gabriel Ferrier, 1899.

[enchantedbook]

Gustave Dore's illustration to Dante's Inferno, 1900.

[oldhollywood]

Chorus girls in Dancing Lady (1933, dir. Robert Z. Leonard) Photo by Ted Allan (via)