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Flinching with Delight

@flinchwithdelight.bsky.social
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I blog on horror - mostly movies, but books and tv sometimes too. Not concerned with criticism per se, so much as digging into whatever I find good or interesting in a given work.

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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I feel he never got the respect he deserved. If I could retroactively hand out oscars...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Price so often gets reduced to a twirled, melodramatic mustache, but the nuance he brings to this movie blows me away. Love it!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don't know enough about painting to describe what so impresses me, but I love something about soft application of colors that make a really bold image - that and shaping Karloff's face with the highlights. Just gorgeous!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I love that whole era of posters, but I think this is probably the most beautiful!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I really liked the movie, but some day I'd love to see the movie the poster is selling!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Aah, my first impulse (which I knew couldn't be correct) was Rabbi of the living dead. I was just tickled at the idea of this rabbi having to spiritually council a congregation of zombies. :) Awesome poster!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I was looking forward to The Bride! but when it came out, there was so much anti-buzz that I shrugged and gave it a pass. Just watched it and I haven't loved something new this much in years. Every 10 minutes, I was like, "I love it so far - maybe it'll get bad soon." Then it ended. 5 stars!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Everytime I swipe 'tomorrow', it always shows 'tinnitus'. Makes for some odd sentences.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Wow do I have zero wig game. I've been watching the clip loop for 3 minutes and I can't figure which one is wearing the wig in question. Are they BOTH wearing wigs?
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I don't know if it's a popular app or not, but I've been using Podcast Addict for years and I can't find you guys there. :(
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Is that really real? Like they were actively advertising how irritating Bob is? If so, this might be the greatest movie poster ever!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Falling down a Daliah Lavi rabbit hole and just checked out Il Demonio (1963). Gorgeous, funny, terribly sad - late Italian Neorealism and early Folk Horror. Super interesting, and Lavi is great in it! More in the link: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/12/03/i...
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Italian Neorealism Folk Horror: Il Demonio - Flinching with Delight
As is regretfully so often the case, it’s been a minute since my last post. There is some kind of irony in the fact that as a horror blogger, I can so rarely successfully publish a post during October...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Looked at this so many times and smiled, and then I noticed the "ass juice." Ass juice? I guess everyone is thankful for different things.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I was solidly impressed with the feat of making the film and managing the dog actor, but at some point, I was like, "this is all just a metaphor, isn't it?" and then all the haunted house stuff lost its teeth.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
But, hey, I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I always felt the original was kind of accidentally great. Can't imagine you can trip backwards into greatness twice...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I never really get mine up till the week of Halloween. Then I leave them until it's time to decorate for Xmas. Then that stuff's gonna be there till Valentines...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I love Lee, but Lavi stole the show for me. I haven't seen her in anything else, but I was really impressed with her.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Finally checked out Bava's The Whip and the Body and loved it! Gothic, kinky, beautiful, eerie, and Daliah Lavi is amazing. But Christopher Lee didn't do his own voice and the English dub is weird, so I really recommend the Italian version. flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/09/27/t...
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Working out the Kinks: The Whip and the Body - Flinching with Delight
It’s so good to give things second chances. Years ago, I’d tried watching today’s film, having read that it was really worth checking out, and I just couldn’t get into it, couldn’t get past certain od...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I just watched The Whip and the Body and loved it!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I never refused to stop using the word. I do want to be respectful - but I am sad to lose it. It's a good word with a good meaning and a good sound. Which is doomed to carry the taint of a cruel racist use that for some will always resound regardless of a speaker's intent or knowledge of that use.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
In the case of an adj that predates its noun being used as a slur, I don't think one is 'adding a y to a slur.' And there are derogatory adjectives out there that negatively say that something is 'like a hated group'. I don't think this has had that use. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it has.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
But I would mourn the loss of this word. It seems a shame, if it's negative use has mostly faded into obscurity, to resurrect that meaning and give up all variations, especially given that, for example, the adjective form, so popular to describe this season, I think never had a racial connotation.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Good example with the swastika. If I visited someone's home and they had a big swastika on the wall, I would leave... but, also, if I went into a Buddhist temple, I wouldn't find it offensive. Context is important. And I want to be respectful and not use hurtful terminology thoughtlessly,.. .
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Question intended in good faith - do racists today still use the word as a slur? It feels old fashioned, like it had solid non/pre-racist origins, a stint as a slur, and then it returned to its original meaning and is widely and positively used. In such a case, does the stink of a slur ever fade?
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Continuing my journey down the rabbit hole of "Lesbian Vampire" flicks, I just checked out The Female Vampire, The Velvet Vampire, We Are The Night, and The Moth Diaries. Some great, some frustrating, I share detailed thoughts here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/08/28/l...
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Return of the Lesbian Vampires (Part 6) - Flinching with Delight
I’ve been at this for about 4 years now, having written about 184 horror movies new and old in all sorts of sub genres – slashers, hauntings, monster movies, possessions – I try to cast a wide net and...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
How does it compare with their earlier work? I've only read 'The Worm and His Kings' and loved the ideas but struggled to stay with it somehow.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A flip side is the looming specter of imposter syndrome- no matter how obsessively you watch, study, and read about films, there will forever be huge, embarrassing blind spots, and it's easy to feel like, 'geez, if I still haven't seen x,y, or z, why should anyone care what I think about anything?'
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
It's funny. When I first saw the title, I somehow got mixed up and thought it was Sixteen Candles. Then I looked at the pics and was like, "I didn't remember John Hughes featuring much blood...oh...oops..."
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Why do we do these things to ourselves? Set myself the homework of catching up on some lesser liked 90s horror sequels (Candyman 2, Slumber Party Massacre 3, TX Chainsaw 4, Howling 5, Halloween 6). Some were good fun. Some...weren't. Thoughts in the link: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/08/05/n...
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Not ‘that’ bad – 90s horror - Flinching with Delight
Just as we are forever dissecting the divisions between the generations, prosecuting their comparative strengths and weaknesses in order to passive aggressively complain about millennials, zoomers, an...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
And then I just read that he knew he had stomach cancer at the time of filming, informed the producers, and was allowed to improvise his final lines. What a goodbye. I go to these movies for fun deaths. I don't expect grace and beauty.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Since it's on HBO I just caught up with Final Destination: Bloodlines. Damn, that was fun, but I wasn't prepared for how much the Tony Todd of it all was going to make me cry...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
While it drags a bit in the middle, it totally beats Scream to the punch in how it draws critical attention to the tropes of its genre at the same time as fully enacting them, and doing it all while the slasher was still young, in its heyday. Sorry for the rant. I just think it's really special. :)
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I knew nothing about how the film got made, but I could feel the camera's eyes rolling, asking "this is what you wanna see, huh? Satisfied yet?" And I just fell in love. I agree it doesn't work as parody, but I think it's so much richer than that. It is the very thing it is criticizing.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I've gotta say, I was really surprised on how luke warm to negative the responses were on this one given my deep and abiding love of this movie. I remember when I first saw it, I'd put it on in the background, expecting little and when it got to the shower scene, I was floored by the irony...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I can't recommend the Ocean City, MD Boardwalk Haunted House enough - got to ride it for the first time since I was a kid recently and it blew me away with how great it was! More here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/07/07/d...
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Dark Ride - Flinching with Delight
I had the absolute best experience recently. I spent the end of May and most of June in Ocean City, MD, where I come every summer to help my family mount their pirate show at Jolly Roger Amusement Par...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Rode it twice, bought the t-shirt, got to chat with the owner a bit - it's a real family business. Just the best time!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
And I just did it today. AMAZING!!! Seriously, it's really something special. And clearly loved and taken care of.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
How do you read the end of The Stand? I love King, but that was one ending that felt like a fizzle rather than a bang to me.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
With St. Paddy's tomorrow, I wanted to finally watch Leprechaun 4: In Space, and while I was at it, thought I could run some space set horror sequels (Jason X and Hellraiser: Bloodlines). I went for the silliness, but rather liked all of them. More here: flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/03/16/b...
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But in Space! - Flinching with Delight
It’s obvious that within horror (or anything for that matter), certain trends occasionally pop up and can dominate for a while before fading away. Some are truly short lived, and some are evergreen. V...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Ok, I'm sold! My folks still live in OC. Next time I visit, I'll do the ride through. Thanks!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Oh yeah - when I was a kid, there was a walk around one - where Ripley's Believe it or Not is now. I remember it being cool.
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It's funny. I'm surprised by your profile pic. For some reason, I'd always imagined you looked like James Spader. :)
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Did you ever do the ride through haunted house on the boardwalk? It was probably lame - I don't remember, but it looked so great on the outside!
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I don't know why I slept on Jean Rollin so long - in the last couple of years, he's become an absolute favorite. Something about his films is just so warm and comforting. Happy 50th to Lips of Blood! flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/03/07/l...
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Rollin on with Lips of Blood - Flinching with Delight
For years of being a horror fan, I’d been loosely aware of Jean Rollin and his whole vibe, but I had never ventured in to check it out. Happily, with this blog compelling me to follow my completionist...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I far too optimistically first read that as 'he's hiding or is lost.' One can dream...
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I know it's better for the film to have people go to the cinema, but is there any news re: streaming/vod? The country where I live doesn't even have a release date - we often get things months after the US, if at all... :(
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Flinching with Delight @flinchwithdelight.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just finished and loved Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . Also sent me down a spiral on "Good for Her" horror, which I really respond to, and why so much of it seems to be written and/or directed by men. flinchingwithdelight.com/2025/02/03/w...
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls and “Good For Her” Horror - Flinching with Delight
I am a Grady Hendrix Fan. Since picking up his 2016 novel, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which I read all in one sitting on a transatlantic flight, trying to hide my embarrassingly ugly crying from the s...
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