Mark Gellis (@mgellis.bsky.social)

Mark Gellis

@mgellis.bsky.social

Husband. Father. Retired professor. Mean old boomer. Occasional war gamer. Command: Modern Operations scenario writer. Anime, sci-fi, and horror fan. I love the Northwoods. Fond of cats. Am Yisrael Chai!

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Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...classic horror from south of the border... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #horror #movies #horrormovies #Letterboxd #vampires

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of The Bloody Vampire (1962)I love Mexican gothic horror. Tracking down these films in Spanish with subtitles can be a pain, but the English dubs are often terrible, so it’s worth the effort. Count Cagliostro (Antonio Raxel) has...

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Movie of the day...supporting locally made films (whether or not it's actually a good idea)... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #horror #movies #horrormovies #Letterboxd #monsters #MarshallThompson #Wisconsin

letterboxd.comA ★ review of Bog (1979)I watched this because it was filmed about 25 miles from where I live. It’s really dreadful. A hitherto unknown creature living in a lake in the Northwoods begins a reign of terror. Local doctor Brad ...

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Movie of the day...one of the absolute classics... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #film #horror #horrormovies #Letterboxd #FredericMarch

letterboxd.comA ★★★★½ review of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)We all know this story, too. Here is one of the versions you have to see. Fredric March is unforgettable, not only because he is so monstrous as Hyde but because he is so sympathetic as Jekyll. Henry ...

Mark Gellis

@mgellis.bsky.social

Movie of the day...look, they can't all be winners... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #film #horror #horrormovies #Letterboxd #scifi #yeti

letterboxd.comA ★ review of The Snow Creature (1954)Another low budget yeti movie. This one has a few amusing plot points, though. Early on, the yeti kidnaps the wife of one of the Sherpas. When the entitled white guys who have hired the Sherpas to gui...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...One of the Italian classics... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #movies #horror #horrormovies #witches #Letterboxd #BarbaraSteele #MarioBava

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Black Sunday (1960)One of the classics of Italian horror. The story is rather simple. Two traveling doctors accidentally revive an evil princess who, along with her lover, was executed 200 years earlier for practicing b...

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Movie of the day...it's those damn aliens again... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #horror #horrormovies #aliens #Letterboxd #scifi #film #movies

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)Dumb, but cute. Hapless teenagers trying to enjoy a date at Lover’s Lane and doofuses looking to make a quick buck are terrorized by little green men. It’s pretty silly, but it works as well as it doe...

Mark Gellis

@mgellis.bsky.social

Movie of the day...Is it Earthly? Let's see... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #horror #scifi #film #movies #horrormovies #Letterboxd #JohnCarradine

letterboxd.comA ★½ review of The Unearthly (1957)This is like an Ed Wood movie, except Ed Wood didn’t make this one. Mad scientist Dr. Charles Conway (John Carradine) is conducting illegal experiments involving an artificial gland at his private cli...

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Movie of the day...this one has ghosts AND cats... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #movies #horror #horrormovies #Letterboxd #ghosts #cats

letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Black Cat Mansion (1958)The Japanese love cat-infused ghost stories. A doctor (Toshio Hosokawa) recalls how he and his wife Yoriko (Yuriko Ejima) moved to a small town in the country to help treat her tuberculosis. But their...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...don't forget your spacesuit... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #movies #horror #Letterboxd #scifi #Martians

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of The Angry Red Planet (1959)A cult classic with some genuine appeal. Once again, we have a story in which annoying people go to a strange place, piss off what lives there, and bad things happen to them. This time they go to Mars...

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Movie of the day...its turtles (or at least one big, flying turtle) all the way down... (If you like my reviews, you can read all of them on #Letterboxd. In fact, you might want to join Letterboxd yourself. It's fun!) letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #horror #scifi #Gamera #kaiju #movies #film

letterboxd.comA ★ review of Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)Okay, I did it. I watched all five of the Gamera films featured on the third season of Mystery Science Theater 3000. What can I say? The last one is really awful. It seems to be in some sick competiti...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...this may not be on your radar, but it should be... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #film #filmsky #Letterboxd #mystery

letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Thirteen Women (1932)I love discovering little-known treasures of dark cinema. I had heard about this film, but I had not had a chance to see it until now. Women who were part of a sorority in college have started to meet...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...one of my old favorites... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #film #filmsky #Letterboxd #monsters #scifi

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)This was one of my absolute favorites when I was a kid. A monster that appears to be the Creature from the Black Lagoon’s uglier, more irritable cousin (it looks suspiciously like someone borrowed the...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...save yourselves! It's too late for me... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #Letterboxd #scifi #kaiju #Gamera

letterboxd.comA ★ review of Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)Wow. That was…special. I feel like someone just drove a railroad spike through my head. Poorly supervised children find a flying saucer and manage to steal it and launch it back to its home planet. Du...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...watch it in French... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #Letterboxd #monsters

letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)Rather long, but mostly worth it. Gévaudan, a region in the southern France, is being terrorized by a strange beast. People think it may be a wolf. At the orders of his superiors in Paris, Sir Grégoir...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...Lucio Fulci vs. New York (I think Fulci wins)... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #giallo #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #LucioFulci

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of The New York Ripper (1982)A police lieutenant and a psychiatrist work to catch a crazed killer. A crazed killer who sounds like an angry duck. Fulci is in fine form here. The movie throws a cast of suspects at us that includes...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...I know people love Gamera, but... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #Letterboxd #scifi #kaiju #Gamera

letterboxd.comA ★½ review of Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)The English dub of a Gamera movie can truly be a perfect storm of awful. A construction company is trying to build a highway. They’ve been delayed by volcanic eruptions and also by farmers who do not ...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...more Godzilla... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #film #filmsky #Letterboxd #scifi #Godzilla #kaiju

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)Solid monster matinee entertainment from the 1960s. A young fisherman searching for his missing brother, two idiots, and a thief end up shipwrecked on a mysterious island. An island controlled by a si...

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Movie of the day...more people climbing mountains who really shouldn't be climbing mountains... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #scifi #yeti

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of Man Beast (1956)Ah, yes. Another movie where annoying people go to a strange location, irritate what lives there, and some of them die. This time, it’s the Himalayas and they’re looking for a yeti. Actually, one of t...

Mark Gellis

@mgellis.bsky.social

Movie of the day...don't drink the water... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #WilWheaton #HPLovecraft

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of The Curse (1987)A cheesy but tolerable adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space.” Zack (Wil Wheaton), his mother (Kathleen Jordon Gregory), and his younger sister (Amy Wheaton), live on a farm with Za...

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Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #film #filmsky #Letterboxd #scifi

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of The Unknown Terror (1957)[FYI...Friends, I will be taking a vacation for a week or so and may have limited access to the Internet. If I don’t post reviews for a while, or post them less consistently than I usually do, that’s ...

Mark Gellis

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Movie of the day...don't lose your head... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #film #filmsky #Letterboxd #gothic #ChristopherLee #JohnnyDepp

letterboxd.comA ★★★★ review of Sleepy Hollow (1999)A love letter from Tim Burton to fans of old school horror movies. In 1799, New York City constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), disliked by his superiors for his insistence on using modern scientific...

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Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #Letterboxd #FoundFootage

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of The Last Broadcast (1998)Some good ideas, but it did not hold my interest. This mockumentary about fictional murders asks what really took place in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey when the cast and crew of a low budget cable t...

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Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #scifi #Letterboxd

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)It’s another process shot extravaganza from Bert I. Gordon. Colonel Glenn Manning (Glenn Langan) is one of the military officers observing a test of the new plutonium bomb. When a small plane inexplic...

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Movie of the day...more snakes...well, one large snake... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #OliverReed #monsters #snakes

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of Spasms (1983)Not what I expected from the title. Jason Kincaid (Oliver Reed) is a wealthy industrialist who suffers from visions. He believes he is somehow psychically connected to a large and unique poisonous ser...

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Movie of the day...with tentacles... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #monsters

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of Kraken (2026)A monster movie with a lot of potential, but ultimately a bit disappointing. Marine researcher Johanne (Sara Khorami) is sent to investigate unusual happenings at and around a salmon farming facility....

Mark Gellis

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21 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #RoddyMcDowall

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of It! (1967)A very curious British attraction. Assistant museum curator Arthur Pimm (Roddy McDowall) discovers a grotesque statue after a warehouse burns down. Soon afterwards, his boss is mysteriously killed. Th...

Mark Gellis

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20 Sept

Movie of the day...this one is a doozy... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #movies #moviesky #film #filmsky #Letterboxd #demons

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of Alucarda (1977)What the hell did I just watch? It’s a Mexican horror movie filmed in English. I suppose there’s a plot…a young woman gives birth, tells someone who might be a servant to take the baby the convent, an...

Mark Gellis

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19 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #Letterboxd #Bigfoot #monsters

letterboxd.comA ★ review of Night of the Demon (1980)More reasons I don’t go camping. Professor Bill Nugent wakes up in a hospital, hideously disfigured. Several of his students are missing. They were searching for Bigfoot. He tells the police and his d...

Mark Gellis

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18 Sept

Why did it have to be snakes? Because snakes are awesome. letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #movies #moviesky #scifi #Letterboxd #snakes

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of King Cobra (1999)Sometimes you just need a dumb-ass creature feature. King Cobra delivers. In fact, as dumb-ass creature features go, it's one of the good ones. Scientists genetically engineer an extraordinarily aggre...

Mark Gellis

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18 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #monsters #horror #horrormovies #movies #horrorsky #moviesky #Letterboxd #kaiju

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Dogora (1964)I’m surprised this one is not better known. A strange alien creature moves into orbit around Earth and blows up one of our satellites. At the same time, a tremendous number of diamond thefts start bei...

Mark Gellis

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16 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #Letterboxd #comedy #parody

letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010)An entertaining horror comedy. Our story begins with several college students going camping in the woods of West Virginia. They cross paths with a couple of…well…hillbillies, Tucker (Tyler Labine) and...

Mark Gellis

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15 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #horrormovies #BelaLugosi

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of Invisible Ghost (1941)All right, this is a weird one. Charles Kessler (Bela Lugosi) lives with his daughter Virginia (Polly Ann Young). Years ago, his wife ran off with another man. Every year, on their anniversary, Kessle...

Mark Gellis

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14 Sept

Movie of the day...Japanese spirits AND sword fights! What's not to love? letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #film #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #moviesky #filmsky #Letterboxd #yokai #ghosts

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)A ghostly tale of justice. Gangsters planning to ambush one of their enemies are warned by an old man not to shed blood on sacred ground or they will be cursed. In fact, he tells them, this would be a...

Mark Gellis

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13 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #movies #moviesky #filmsky #Letterboxd #giallo #PaulNaschy

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975)It’s Paul Naschy! And he’s not a werewolf this time! Someone is killing prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, and others, leaving ornamental dragonflies as calling cards. Tough police inspector Paolo Scap...

Mark Gellis

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13 Sept

Just say no, kids... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #filmsky #film #movies #moviesky #exploitation #Letterboxd

letterboxd.comA ★ review of One Way Ticket to Hell (1955)Also known as Teenage Devil Dolls, this cautionary tale about addiction is basically Dragnet’s younger, dumber brother. Cassandra Leigh (Barbara Marks), the child of a frequently divorced mother, star...

Mark Gellis

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12 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #horror #horrormovies #film #filmsky #moviesky #horrorsky #Letterboxd #mummies

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of The Cat Creature (1973)A surprisingly good made-for-television movie. Appraiser Frank Lucas (Kent Smith, who starred in the original Cat People) is taking inventory of an estate full of ancient artifacts when a thief (Keye ...

Mark Gellis

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11 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #horror #movies #horrormovies #horrorsky #filmsky #moviesky #Letterboxd #monsters #JohnSaxon

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of Blood Beach (1980)This really isn’t a very good movie, but I always have fun when I watch it. Ruth (Harriet Medin) is walking her dog on the beach when she is dragged under the sand by…something. Hearing her screams, h...

Mark Gellis

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10 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #Letterboxd #DavidLynch

letterboxd.comA ★★★★ review of Rabbits (2002)David Lynch’s experimental film Rabbits is one of the most unsettling things I have ever watched. Edited from the shorter chapters of an original web series, the story takes place in a single room, th...

Mark Gellis

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9 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #movies #moviesky #robots #scifi #Letterboxd

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of Chopping Mall (1986)A low budget horror film featuring killer robots. Someone gets the brilliant idea to guard shopping malls with armed security robots. They will patrol at night, detaining any intruders they encounter....

Mark Gellis

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8 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #LanceHenriksen

letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Pumpkinhead (1988)I had forgotten how much fun this one is. Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) is a widower with a young son who runs a small country store. His son is accidentally killed by a young man on a dirt bike, who pa...

Mark Gellis

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7 Sept

Movie of the day...and it's kind of a weird one... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #kaiju #scifi #monsters #Godzilla

letterboxd.comA ★★½ review of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)They just got weird in the 1990s, didn’t they? A UFO landing in Japan turns out to be time travelers from the 23rd Century who claim Godzilla will someday destroy Japan. Because they are such nice guy...

Mark Gellis

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6 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #movies #moviesky #scifi #Letterboxd #PaulFrees

letterboxd.comA ★★ review of Space Master X-7 (1958)Yet another movie where people are not careful with something that comes from outer space. Surprisingly, most of them don't die in this one. A probe returns to Earth with spores from outer space. Irri...

Mark Gellis

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5 Sept

Movie of the day...this one is a winner... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #RobertEggers #vampires

letterboxd.comA ★★★★½ review of Nosferatu (2024)We all know the story. The real question is whether Robert Eggers knows how to tell it. In a word, yes. This is a truly brilliant version of the classic vampire tale. The cast (including Lily-Rose Dep...

Mark Gellis

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4 Sept

Sometimes, you just have to sit and wonder how a movie even got made. Seriously, someone had to approve this project... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #scifi #film #filmsky #Letterboxd

letterboxd.comA ★ review of From Hell It Came (1957)This is another one I saw when I was a kid. Even then, I didn’t think it was very scary. Time has not improved it. On a nameless, generic Pacific island, the local witch doctor and one of the native w...

Mark Gellis

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3 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #horror #horrorsky #film #filmsky #anime #animesky #movies #moviesky #Letterboxd #demons #fantasy

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma (1989)Dark fantasy anime inspired by Japanese history. It is the days of the warring kingdoms, the days of Oda Nobunaga. It is also a time of demons, yoma, inhuman creatures rising from the corpses of those...

Mark Gellis

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2 Sept

Movie of the day... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #BBC #movies #moviesky #horror #horrorsky #horrormovies #ghosts #foundfootage #Letterboxd

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of Ghostwatch (1992)A pretty good horror mockumentary, and it’s fun, but except for a few moments it’s not really very scary. The film is supposedly the livestream of a BBC investigation into a haunted house. A single mo...

Mark Gellis

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1 Sept

Just another day in Italy... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #filmsky #horror #horrormovies #mystery #giallo #horrorsky #Letterboxd #movies #moviesky

letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Death Walks at Midnight (1972)A complicated but satisfying giallo. Fashion model Valentina (Susan Scott) gets talked by her boyfriend journalist Gio (Simón Andreu) into taking an experimental hallucinogen so he can write an articl...

Mark Gellis

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1 Sept

He's not like everybody else... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #film #filmsky #Letterboxd #Lovecraft

letterboxd.comA ★★★½ review of Re-Animator (1985)Some horror movies depend on detailed, nuanced realism, carefully presenting an utterly believable fictional world, so that when an element of the fantastic is introduced we can suspend our disbelief....

Mark Gellis

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31 Aug

Movie of the day...with John Saxon! letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #film #horror #movies #moviesky #horrormovies #horrorsky #filmsky #Letterboxd #scifi #aliens #JohnSaxon

letterboxd.comA ★★★ review of The Night Caller (1965)A fairly effective mix of science fiction and horror. Following what may be the oddest theme song to be performed over opening credits in the history of cinema, a mysterious spherical object enters Ea...

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30 Aug

Ants...it had to be ants... letterboxd.com/m_gellis/fil... #movies #moviesky #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky #scifi #Letterboxd #film #filmsky #ants

letterboxd.comA ★½ review of It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977)It…is ants. Not giant ants, mind you. Just ants. Construction near Lakewood Manor has disturbed a large colony of ants. Normally, this is not a big deal, but there is something wrong with these ants. ...