Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Absolutely my favorite Yotsuya Kaidan adaptation after Nobuo Nakagawa’s (which gets a lot of clear references and shot-for-shots here). 361
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Jumping into Kinji Fukasaku’s Crest of Betrayal (1994), his smoothie of 47 Ronin with Yotsuya Kaidan, completely blind and on a Halloween whim and can I get a HEEEEELL YEAH?? 270
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A little thrilled to hit some of my (few, born and raised on those Draculas 😅) Hammer blindspots this Halloween, and there really is SO much fun to be had with Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974). A gasping clasp at fading relevancy that’s just about as perfectly autumnal as you could want? 282
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(How do I explain my deep personal and slightly perturbed acquaintanceship with Nabil Shaban to my non-Doctor Who Letterboxd bedfellows…?) 062
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Unfortunately I don’t think Jamil Dehlavi’s Born of Fire (1987) is anywhere near the skull bullet I was counting on an Islamic Dunwich Horror to be, but it’s worthwhile a look if just because I had to come up with that sentence. Tepidly lyrical. GREAT images. 143
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mr. Vampire II (1986) is so much goofy fun. I love the jiāngshī so, so, SO much. 01710
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Like absolutely there are all-too-real torture demons and Hell witches running around slashering people to mincemeat, but it is all in the lens of how a child would see it, and exaggerated and worsen. It went far from home in an overnight school full of strange and scary adults. Skinamarink!!! 1113
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I showed my brother Suspiria and I really honed in on the aspect that the story was originally 8 to 10-year-olds in a boarding school for little girls. It really is mesmerizing how every single thing is scary because it is exactly how these things would be warped by a kids’ over active imagination. 1254
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026because sometimes you have to rewatch Demons and Demons 2 just to feel something 1156
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Suspira (1977), Dario Argento The Night of the Hunted (1980), Jean Rollin 373
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026While not quite the quality of The Grapes of Death or The Living Dead Girl (his two best), and definitely one of his more awkwardly porny outings, Jean cast something morose and thoughtful towards human connection surviving, despite it all and without recall, a zombie outbreak at its most subdued. 032
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Jean Rollin’s The Night of the Hunted (1980) is where environmental horror and medical abuse nightmares seep and creep into the mind, body, and soul. A near future of Earth’s polluted destruction as a viral bleeding memory, people slowly losing their names and will in a lonely and empty metropolis. 142
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout (1978): an Evil Cucking Movie™ with a more interesting tease of supernatural lore than it utilizes, but you can only have a good time with a slow burn of British complacency masking great evil that sluts out Alan Bates, Tim Curry, and John Hurt all in equal measure. 252
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And God, WHAT a slasher mask? I’ve seen the big ice skating chase ‘n kill before, but it really is such a phenomenal sequence, and I dunno. I find this fucker, mask and body language and slow-mo fever fugue and all, genuinely so distressing? 0152
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Maybe I just have too much love in my heart (or too much wine in my glass), but I kinda loved Curtains? You can reeaaaaaaaally see the giallo influence in its crumbly cohesion, dreary dreaming, and scuffed logic, and there's so much merit in the slasher genre already eating itself like that by 1983? 27115
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Franco’s half-hearted Victoriana and characteristic fugue state of storytelling is stripped to either Cassavetesesque realism or flatout broken diegesis. Immersion as a corrosion, the out-of-frame fakery and wires integral to every shot and cut. Dracula was real, and his name was Christopher Lee. 032
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, Vampir (1970) might just be the most interesting Dracula film ever made. Raw footage, B-roll, outtakes, effects and makeup tests, and BTS scraps from Jesús Franco’s own already eclectic Spanish gothic adaptation edited into a rough-yet-slippery reshape of the novel. 122
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Despite the Night (2015), Philippe Grandrieux The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), John Cassavetes A Better Tomorrow II (1987), John Woo The Meetings of Anna (1978), Chantal Akerman 022
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Rendezvous with Death (1980), Sun Chung The Blackout (1997), Abel Ferrara Beau Travail (1999), Claire Denis La Chimera (2023), Alice Rohrwacher 112
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Favorite first watches of September 2026: Camp (2025), Avalon Fast Ticket of No Return (1979), Ulrike Ottinger Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989), Ulrike Ottinger Mononoke the Movie: Chapter III: The Curse of the Serpent (2026), Kenji Nakamura and Tomoaki Koshida 143
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mononoke the Movie: The Ashes of Rage (2025), Kiyotaka Suzuki and Kenji Nakamura 1113
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mononoke The Movie: Phantom In The Rain (2024), Kenji Nakamura 173
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In many ways it is truly frightening and nerve wracking how quickly (and miserably) the last three years have flown, but thank fucking God we got this, man. The way every single piece of all three films click, ring, and just explode. Jesus fucking Christ this is so good. 042
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026With his finale, chief director Kenji Nakamura’s The Curse of the Serpent (co-directed with Tomoaki Koshida) has knocked the entire Mononoke trilogy so far out of the park that it’s a shooting star across the kaleidoscope sky. Words fail me. Never kill yourself. 193
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I cannot stress enough how every person in this bar needs to clear an evening asap and watch Ulrike Ottinger’s Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989) absogoddamnlutely flipfuck immediately. Cultural immersion and pure, border-crossing empathy and joy. A reward of moviemaking. 1164
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A pretty definitive cinematic depiction of how truthfully all-encompassing depression is, the isolation of being surrounded by so many losing their patience with you, desiring and requesting pieces and parts of you that you can’t even give to yourself anymore. 032
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Found Chantal Akerman’s The Meetings of Anna (1978) so miserably worthwhile. Bressonian in many ways, but the immersive frames of lengthy takes and eons of silence can’t be filled with viewer projection because they’re already full-to-bursting with feeling, pain, loneliness. 162
Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Something of a lost Shakespeare draft (or several overlapping drafts of completely different plays) adrift in a Jean Rollin fantastique brain fog that’s juuuuuuuuuuuust a little on the soppy side of unglued. Rivette dissociation is something else. 153
