Mar 20, 2023
Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), written and directed by Benjamin Christensen
https://uncannyarchive.com/haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922
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Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), written and directed by Benjamin Christensen
https://uncannyarchive.com/haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922
The Hands of Purple Distances (1962), Sava Trifković
The Lure (2015), dir. by Agnieszka Smoczyńska. Polish stylish dark fantasy synth-pop musical with grotesque elements belonging to the body horror genre - following the story of two mermaids, Gold and Silver, performing in a nightclub. As a feminist re-interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (loosely connected), inspired by the director's experiences as well, the film contains underlying commentaries on the exploitation of women, the Madonna-whore complex, and misogyny. In a lush visceral Lynchian realm in Warsaw, femininity shows an animalistic side. Since the angelic voice of mermaids was meant to be a way of luring men into water so they can be eaten, in the first place, eventually Gold, one of the mermaids, becomes thirsty for human blood, which causes a conflict between the sisters.
- Diana Marin
Dead Ringers (1988), dir. David Cronenberg
Read Dead Ringers (1988): The Uncanny Double – Narcissistic Symbiosis:
Uncanny Cinema, Psychopathology, Unreality, Eerie topographies
A Woman Possessed (1975), dir. Mario Mercier
Daguerreotype portraits dated 1850-1860.
“The uncanny entails another thinking of beginning: the beginning is already haunted. The uncanny is ghostly. It is concerned with the strange, weird and mysterious, with a flickering sense…of something supernatural. The uncanny involves feelings of uncertainty, in particular regarding the reality of who one is and what is being experienced. Suddenly one’s sense of oneself…seems strangely questionable.”
— Nicholas Royle, The Uncanny
Concept: A marathon of eerie, mostly sapphic, erotically-charged vampire horror films. Enjoy. Happy Halloween! Blood and Roses (1960), dir. Roger Vadim Daughters of Darkness (1971), dir. Harry Kümel The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), dir. Jean Rollin Las Vampiras / Vampyros Lesbos (1971), dir. Jesús Franco Requiem pour un Vampire (1971), dir. Jean Rollin Thirst (2009), dir. Park Chan-Wook La Vampire Nue / The Nude Vampire (1970), dir. Jean Rollin The Devil's Plaything / Vampire Ecstasy (1973), dir. Joseph W. Sarno Vampyres (1974), dir. José Ramón Larraz The Hunger (1983), dir. Tony Scott