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Les Yeux sans Visage (1959)

Posted in Film, tagged , , on January 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Les Yeux sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face)
Directed by: Georges Franju
Release: 1959
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob
More gothic gems~ Finally saw this legendary French arthouse horror classics Eyes Without a Face. The premise: a doctor’s beautiful daughter was disfigured in a car accident caused by himself. The title of the film refers to the iconic image [...]

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1974)

Posted in Film, tagged , , , , , on December 23, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a hauntingly beautiful, ethereal, atmospheric film directed by Peter Weir, it left me desperately intrigued and mystified.
The premise: Valentine’s day, 1900 – A group of students and teachers from an upper-class all-girl boarding school went picnic at the Hanging Rock, a landscape attraction in Australia. Four girls and [...]

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Tre Passi Nel Delirio (1968)

Posted in Film, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Tre Passi Nel Delirio (1968)

Terrance Stamp (looking circa 1985 but it’s really the 60s).
Also known as ‘Histoires Extraordinaire‘ or ‘Spirits of the Dead‘ in US. This Italian+French production consisted of 3 seperate stories by 3 different directors and casts. All stories were adapted from Edgar Allen Poe. Starring bunch of good looking and [...]

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The Monk

Posted in Novel, tagged , , , , , on May 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

The Monk (1796)

by Matthew Lewis
Another Gothic related entry~ ^_- I have a BLAST reading this, it’s a pity this novel is burdened with the status of “Classic Literature”, when in fact it is a galloping over-the-top, exploitative sensational shock entertainment (you know, trashy like Wuthering Height). It is a DAMN good read! I feel ashamed [...]

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The Bloody Countess

Posted in History, tagged , , , , , , on January 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

The Bloody Countess: The Atrocities of Erzsébet Báthory
Author: Valentine Penrose
Release Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Creation Books
Pages: 189
Erzsébet Báthory, the beautiful 17th century Hungarian Countess who tortured and killed more than 600 girls and bathed in their blood, was not as widely known as the infamous Vlad the Impaler (immortalized as Dracula by Bram Stroker), nevertheless [...]

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Rebecca

Posted in Novel, tagged , , , , on October 24, 2004 | Leave a Comment »

Rebecca (1938)
by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca is a gothic classic with the wonderful traditional macabre elements: murder mysteries, gruesome death, young-girl-old-man relationship, incest, big mansion with dark secrets, obsession, and (in the gothic tradition of Jane Eyre) a dark brooding elderly husband tormented by a dark past. I had this book for few years and somehow [...]

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