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Deadly Theremin
Hosted by Thais Bignardi · EN
To all the Children of the Night: This podcast was designed to be a monologue on horror movie iconography. Each Wednesday, I will release a new episode analyzing my favorite motion pictures while drinking. I strongly recommend that you watch the movies before listening to Deadly Theremin. Also, pour yourself a drink, and prepare to embrace the darkness with me. We'll cover soundtrack, curious facts, philosophy, history, art, and spoilers. Lots of spoilers.You have been warned. Enjoy. Or not. Whatever.
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Gratian: The Real Life Werewolf (1995)
May 21, 202500:14:39Tap to summarizeYou can watch the full documentary on YouTube here. It is a short story of a real life werewolf told by the inhabitants of this small village in Romenia. Gratian receives food and clothing from the villagers, so that when he turns into a werewolf, he doesn't go after people's sheep. Much beyond the subject in question itself, this episode draws attention to documentary film as a genre, and how the director Thomas Ciulei proposes a non-colonial gaze to oral history, and non-scientific methods for documenting the life of people.
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The Cursed (2021)
Jan 28, 202500:16:54Tap to summarizeReleased in the Sundance Film Festival in the cursed year of 2020 as Eight for Silver, The Cursed is a 19th-century victorian gothic folk horror featuring a familiar monster as an allegory for dwelling identities within the same body: the civilized human and the bestial monster. Desaturated color pallettes and muted, modest garments set the tone for foggy gray skies by day, and nightmares inhabited by human scarecrows and silver fangs by night. Directed by Sean Ellis, The Cursed is a suprisingly slow-burn lycanthrope film supernaturally reprimanding white colonialism, extending the legacy of violence to a whole lineage within this small oligarchic society.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Sep 23, 202400:13:02Tap to summarizeA car crash and a new beginning. Carnival of Souls depicts the solitude of provincial living in the southwest United States in the 1960s from the perspective of a woman who also works as a church organ player. Despite her efforts to live a normal life, she is haunted by a ghostly presence that leads her into learning wild secrets about her own existence. This is my season finale, an incredibly interesting series of plot twist coming from many levels fading in and out in style between scenes. The episode contains huge spoilers so I recommend you watch it first. R.I.P.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Jul 9, 202400:12:49Tap to summarizeAfter an year-long hybernation period, I have returned from the darkness bringing you Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a film that flatens many existences and realms once separated by the restrictions of time, space, and societal norms. A beautiful visual rendering of a book from 1983 called A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Buddhist abbot Phra Sripariyattiwet. A terminal illness thins out otherwise physical barriers of existence as Boonmee navigates through past lives to find reason and understanding.
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The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Aug 25, 202300:17:11Tap to summarizeLegend goes that the last person to die on New Years' Eve becomes the Coachman in charge of collecting the souls of the dead until someone else takes their place in this nefarious task. The Phantom Carriage is a silent-film from what is known as the Golden Era of Swedish cinema. Directer and Starred by Victor Sjostrom, this classic is a masterclass in special effects and spectral superimposition with the most beautiful soundtrack by Matti Bye.
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His House (2020)
Dec 20, 202200:17:13Tap to summarizeIt's hard to believe this was Remi Week's debut film. His House blurrs the lines of real horror with traditional elements of fictional horror, bringing together an incredibly deep approach to the dichotomic commitments regarding the cultural memory of war refugees. It's delicate, and monstrous simultaneously. You can't miss this.
Transcribe →Ringu (1998)
Oct 4, 202200:19:07Tap to summarizeDirected by Hideo Nakata, the J-horror masterpiece Ringu was based on a book released a few years earlier and it tells the tale of the vengeful spirit of a child that comes out of the screen to kill you if you watch their Stan Brakhagesque cursed tape! Sadako's aesthetic has become an universal pop culture symbol for fear and the deadly presence of beings from the aftelife in relation to elements familiar to us and present in our daily lives, such as TV devices -- and VHS tapes.
Transcribe →The Shining (1980)
Jul 19, 202200:20:30Tap to summarizeA new season begins in this Deadly Theremin with one of the most famous films of the horror genre. Directed by Stanley Kubrik and based on a novel with the same name written by Stephen King, The Shining touches classic themes that frightens, in a suspense-building-but-also-already-kind-of-there atmosphere, different generations since its first release. It speaks directly to our most primal fears in a brutal fashion (yes, I am thinking about the elevator of blood).
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Bacurau (2019)
Dec 6, 202100:53:38Tap to summarizeA season finale não podia terminar em melhor companhia. Convidei meus grandes amigos de longa data para analisar Bacurau do Kleber Mendonça Filho e Juliano Dornelles. Um filme que vai abordar todos os esqueletos no armário da sociedade brasileira usando a lingua franca dos westerns estado-unidenses, violência e uma trilha sonora incrível.
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La Casa Lobo (2017)
Nov 1, 202100:13:09Tap to summarizeSimplesmente sensacional! Esse stop-motion de terror chileno que faz alusão aos contos de fadas dos irmãos Grimm, produzido ao longo de cinco anos e contando a narrativa de um membro de uma colonia-seita alemã que ainda existe no Chile, entrou pra lista de melhores filmes que eu já assisti. Os diretores conseguiram criar uma experiência imersiva a partir do rompimento com as barreiras entre figuração plana e volumétrica, sem falar da impressionante manipulação de materiais diante das câmeras por toda a equipe.
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