#gothic cinema

[faiiryteethh]

this is so sexy i-

#werewolf #werewolves #van helsing #van helsing movie #favorite films #goth #gothic #goth aesthetic #gothic aesthetic #gothic cinema #fantasy creature #lycanthropes #lycanthropy #lycan #lycans #༺☥༻

[thinkingimages]

Barbara Steele in Black Sunday (1960) Dir.  Mario Bava

#Barbara Steele #Black Sunday #Mario Bava #1960 #horror film #gothic cinema #Viy #gothic #horror #novella #Asa Vajda

[fl0werswillgr0w]

#poor things #poor things movie #emma stone #yorgos lanthimos #gothic #gothic cinema #gothic literature #period film #period drama #period fashion #victorian #victorian era #victorian fashion

[reeksoforchids]

“How extraordinarily dull, Edith thought. Oh, dear, I'm only twenty-four; and it appears that I'm already a crotchety misanthrope.”

Nancy Holder,Guillermo del Toro, ‘Crimson Peak’, 2015 (novelisation)

#she is just like me #crimson peak #guillermo del toro #Nancy Holder #gothic literature #gothic quotes #gothic horror #ghost literature #crimson peak quotes #edith cushing #sir thomas sharpe #English literature #gothic academia #dark academia #horror novels #horror movies #gothic cinema

[rainhaunts]

Valerie a týden divů / valerie and her week of wonders (1970)

#valerie a týden divů #valerie and her week of wonders #horror #horror films #czech fantasy #choir invisible #gothic cinema #gothic

[zelihatrifles]

Edward Scissorhands

You may and you may not like Johnny Depp but you would be a fool to deny his talent. And trust Tim Burton to know exactly how to utilise Depp in his weird creations. You feel terrified not by the should-be-scary very-sharp scissors as Edward's hands, but by the too-pastel shades and too-orderly patterns of the houses in the town. The townspeople are inquisitive enough to rudely gossip about the strange man, but also (mostly) polite enough to welcome him with his gardening and hairstyling skills. Winona Ryder's character is almost annoying with her teenage personality but you cannot be too irked with her because you find out that she is the storyteller after all. I'm not daring to attempt a full-fledged review of the film because it is clearly beyond me, but this was a darkly enjoyable watch.

#films #movies #currently watching #edward scissorhands #tim burton #gothic #gothic cinema #johnny depp #impressions not reviews

[a-pint-of-j-and-b]

Castle of Blood | 1964 | Antonio Margheriti and Sergio Corbucci | Italy 

#barbara steele #danza macabra #castle of blood #sergio corbucci #antonio margheriti #margarete robsahm #gothic #gotico #photography #movies #euro horror #cinematography #gothic cinema #gothic films

[rapha-reads]

For my contemporary cinema class, the professor gave us a list of 8 directors and told us to pick one and write an essay about an aspect of their work we want, any one. List is James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, David Lynch, Jan Svankmajer, Jim Jarmusch and Wes Anderson (I know, only one woman, even the prof was sorry about that). Essay is supposed to be 1k words.

I chose Jim Jarmusch because frankly even though I have watched many Camerons, Spielbergs, Coppolas and co, I have zero interest in writing about them. And Only Lovers Left Alive is one of my favourite films.

So I've decided to talk about the Gothic in general and the contemporary Gothic in particular in Only Lovers Left Alive. Because some 6 years ago when I was in third year in the Sorbonne I had a class called "Gothic in Cinema" that I really loved. Problem is. I already have 6 full hand-written pages of notes, and at least 4 more articles to read. For an essay of 1,000 words.

I'm gonna have to choose only ONE aspect, or 2 if I'm economic in my wording (which I won't be because have I said that this essay is in Spanish? yeah. there's that too) of the Gothic or of the movie, and it is killing me to sacrifice like that all the ideas I have floating around my head.

This film is fantastic! And the Gothic is such a deep, mesmerizing genre! There are so many things I could write about: the emptiness of Detroit contrasting with the life of Tanger, the music nervous and slightly electro in Detroit and antic and peaceful in Tanger, when Adam is the one rejecting modernity, all the tragic romanticism of Adam versus the quiet power and elegance of Eve, the colours, the shots like a classical or expressionist painting... There are so many elements! And I found an article by a professor of Writing Studies called "The Contemporary Gothic: why we need it", and this article is fascinating and gave me so many ideas, I could use only that one as a guide and write 5k words...

...

I had forgotten how frustrating and wonderful academia is. I missed it.

#rapha talks #academia #contemporary culture #cinema #only lovers left alive #list of favourite movies #gothic cinema

[hacked-wtsdz]

What does a haunted house mean? What does it conceal within its walls? Is the house haunted or is it the haunting itself? A house that cannot stop the replaying of something horrible or a house that replays it on its own? What is it — haunting? The ocean can’t be haunted, it’s too old, too big, too wild, not defined by what has happened beneath its waves. The house, on the other hand, is built by men for men, its initial point and reason for existence is to serve men. And when something horrible happens beneath its roof, it is chained to the house. Or is the house chained to it? Simply because the house cannot exist on its own, once people stop caring for it it will become wild and uninhabitable, and the only point of a house is for someone to live there. So when nobody is, not even ghosts, what does it become? A shell. Does the house haunt itself because that is what it was made to do — to inhabit, to conceal whatever happens inside? The curse of being man made, the curse of servitude that will endure even when man is gone.

#gothic themes #gothic #haunting #houses #haunted house #thoughts #literature #ghosts #edgar alan poe #gothic literature #gothic cinema

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: gothic

#horror #horror movies #gothic horror #horroredit #moviesedit #filmedit #cinema #horror cinema #horror aesthetic #dracula #frankenstein #the masque of the red death #the fall of the house of usher #the old dark house #the others #the haunting #crimson peak #the devil's backbone #the bride of frankenstein #the uninvited #sleepy hollow #interview with the vampire #the orphanage #bram stoker's dracula #dragonwyck #gaslight #the woman in black #nosferatu #phantom of the opera #dr. jekyll and mr. hyde

[mistymountainmonster]

Vampires, John Carpenter (1998)

#vampire aesthetic #mine #my old posts #horror #goth #gothic #horror aesthetic #horror films #horror movies #vampire core #vampire #vampires #john carpenter #john carpenter vampires #90s horror #90s #film #cinema #cinematography #Sheryl Lee

[ohsofightclub]

scary movie (2000)

#scary movie #scream #ghostface #billy loomis #dark #dark aesthetic #grunge #grunge aesthetic #gothic #goth #horror #goth aesthetic #horror aesthetic #dark grunge #slasher #2014 grunge #cinema

[anatomicalmartyr]

some rare and gorgeous mugshots photos of Conrad Veidt as Cesare the Somnambulist in the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari which I sadly don't know the original source or context for

#conrad veidt #cesare the somnambulist #the cabinet of dr. caligari #if anyone has more info about them please tell me! #das cabinet des dr. caligari #german expressionism #silent cinema #classic horror #goth #gothic #beauty #horror #horror cinema #film #film history #my posts #hulderposts

[superstarwatcher]

#bones and all #cinema #americana #midwest #rural america #southern gothic #ethel cain #southern goth aesthetic #60s 70s 80s 90s #60s vintage #vintage #film

[rainhaunts]

Valerie a týden divů / valerie and her week of wonders (1970)

#valerie a týden divů #valerie and her week of wonders #horror #horror films #czech fantasy #gothic cinema #gothic #choir invisible

[drivemix]

Nosferatu - Vampire of the Night, 1979

#goth #gothic #1970 #nosferatu #count dracula #cinema #70s #70s movies #horror #romance #vampire #dark aesthetic