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The Demon (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Il demonio
director: Brunello Rondi actor: Daliah Lavi / Frank Wolff …
other title: 恶魔 / Il demonio …
Highly unusual, powerful and tragic horror film, which shows ignorance and superstitions of Italian province. A girl is believed to be possessed by the devil and the cause of the tragic events that occur in the small town where she lives. Israeli actress Daliah Lavi (who the same year plays in Mario Bava's "Whip and the Body") portrays young, ignorant country girl named Purificazione, who herself convinced that she is really responsible for all misfortunes. Director Rondi was acclaimed Italian screenwriter, who works with many great Italian directors, including Fellini, Rosselini, De Sica. "Il Demonio" was based on true facts.
March 29, 2025 watched
I started at a 3, but worked up to a 3.5 after sleeping on it, and having given myself a few days, I might even be closer to a 4.
Regardless, Daliah Lavi gives a delightfully devilish performance that really keeps the whole thing afloat.
Sticking with a 3.5 for now, but we'll see what happens on a rewatch in the future.
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Clearcut (1991)
Clearcut
director: Ryszard Bugajski actor: Ron Lea / Graham Greene …
other title: 狼族尖兵 / 아더는 영혼을 살해했다 …
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
March 15, 2025 watched
Greene is a literal, figurative, and possibly supernatural/metaphysical force of nature attempting to take down the white folk who've done his people wrong, including those who think they're helping when they so clearly aren't.
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Consume (2017) IMDb TMDB
Consume
director: Michael Peterson actor: 朱利安·布莱克·安蒂洛普 / Wilma Pelly …
Residential school survivor Jacob struggles to hang onto his family as his demons threaten to manifest.
March 11, 2025 watched
A bit of a shaky start grows into an interesting melding where a real-life tragedy (cultural genocide against indiginous people at the hands of the Canadian government) meets an evil spirit from Algonquin folklore. The meat on this bone would benefit by being given a full-length treatment.
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You Are on Indian Land (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
You Are on Indian Land
director: Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell actor: Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell
The territory of Akwesasne straddles the Canada-U.S. border. When Canadian authorities prohibited the duty-free cross-border passage of personal purchases - a right established by the Jay Treaty of 1794 - Kanien'kéhaka protesters blocked the international bridge between Ontario and New York State.
March 11, 2025 watched
A short but effective documentary about indigenous folks blocking a bridge between U.S. and Canada in peaceful protest of customs/duty-free on their land, never being given the time of day by the Canadian government for their voices to be heard.
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The Ballad of Crowfoot (1968) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Ballad of Crowfoot
director: Willie Dunn
Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production unit at the NFB. The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals, told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19th-century Siksika (Blackfoot) chief who negotiated Treaty 7 on behalf of the Blackfoot Confederacy. The IFC’s inaugural release, Crowfoot was the first Indigenous-directed film to be made at the NFB.
March 11, 2025 watched
A moving, folk music video/documentary of sorts.
Watched it twice in a row, once without commentary and once with.
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Lokis (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Lokis
director: Janusz Majewski actor: Malgorzata Braunek
other title: 熊 / The Bear …
Pastor Wittenbach is to examine the library's rich noble family of Poland and Lithuania. And finds that family has some family secrets. It is said that one family member, the young earl, was born from a combination of women and a bear. In this film, the viewer but often must rely only on their judgments, since there is very little response. The film is very ambiguous. Difficult to distinguish whether an old woman or the witch. This is a problem of this film. At that time, and it is that TV is very good, but hardly enough to be seen.
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Siege (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Self Defense
director: 保罗·多诺万 / Maureen O'Connell actor: 汤姆·纳迪尼 / 布伦达·巴济内 …
other title: 惊悚12小时 / Self Defense …
During a police strike in Nova Scotia's capital city, a gang of hoodlums end up unintentionally causing the owner of a gay bar to be killed. This escalates into a string of murders with a lone survivor trying to not be next.
Feb. 18, 2025 watched
ACAB: All Canadians (named Chester) Are Badass.
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Stones of Death (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Stones of Death
director: James Bogle actor: Zoe Carides / Tom Jennings …
other title: 亡灵墓地 / Kadaicha …
The residents of a housing development find themselves in trouble after they discover that their development was built on top of a sacred aboriginal graveyard, on which a curse was placed upon anyone who disturbed it.
Feb. 13, 2025 watched
More of a mild 80's teen slasher rooted in folk tale than a straight up folk horror, I found this to be a lot of fun and I'm not sure why people are so down on it. That's on them, I suppose.
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The Dreaming (1988) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Dreaming
director: Mario Andreacchio actor: Arthur Dignam / Penny Cook …
other title: 远古熟睡 / ザ・ドリーミング
When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.
Feb. 12, 2025 watched
Wrestles in a dream-like way with themes of colonization, inherited trauma, perhaps a dash of guilt... all through the magical energy of a stolen object. To survive, one must help others, not be a greedy dumdum.
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A White Spot on the Back of the Head (1979) IMDb TMDB
Tache blanche sur la nuque
director: Viðar Víkingsson actor: Sigurdur Pálsson / Kristín Jóhannesdóttir …
other title: Tache blanche sur la nuque
An adaptation of the Icelandic ghost story of "The Deacon of Dark River", set in 1970s France.
Jan. 31, 2025 watched
This student film from the guy that directed *Tilbury* is better than *Tilbury*. Not by much! But it is, even as it reeks of "film, as made by student".
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Tilbury (1987) IMDb TMDB Douban
Tilbury
director: Viðar Víkingsson actor: Róbert Arnfinnsson / Helga Bernhard …
other title: 穿军装的怪物 / 틸버리
In the year 1940 when there were British forces in Iceland, a country boy goes to Reyjavik to work for the army. He also wants to know what became of his childhood sweetheart. He soon discovers that she's having an affair with a British soldier. Moreover, he starts to suspect that the soldier, instead of being an officer and a gentleman, is in fact a very peculiar kind of monster.
Jan. 25, 2025 watched
I have no idea what the hell I just watched. This is easily the weirdest movie of the *All Our Haunts* boxset so far, and it was either anti-Semitic or poorly mocking Nazi sympathization.
The 1.5 stars is for how it humorously portrayed the Americans at the end - Hershey's is terrible! - because the rest of this was not. my. bag.
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Lake of the Dead (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
De dødes tjern
director: Kåre Bergstrøm actor: André Bjerke / Bjørg Engh …
other title: 死人之湖 / De dødes tjern
Probably the best Norwegian movie ever.
For younger generations of Norwegian film enthusiasts, Andre Bjerkes "De dødes tjern" is held to be one of the best Norwegian films ever to be made. This film-noir is a "must see" for everybody with a liking for classic cinema!
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Viy (1967)
Вий
6.8 (21 ratings) director: 康斯坦丁·叶尔绍夫 / 格奥尔基·克罗帕乔夫 actor: 列昂尼德·库拉夫廖夫 / 纳塔利娅·瓦利 …
other title: 邪灵 / Вий …
The movie follows the original tale in a somewhat loose fashion, but manages to retain the majority of the images and action.
A seminary student must survive three nights in prayer guarding the deceased witch maiden while she, along with an army of hellish demons, try to lure him out of his Holy Ring of Chalk.
Dec. 27, 2024 watched
A seminarian makes mischief and kills a witch. Well that witch is gonna give him three times the mischief and kill him back! Just delightful.
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The Portrait (1915) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Портрет
director: Wladyslaw Starewicz actor: Андрей Громов / Ivan Lazarev …
other title: Le Portrait / 肖像 …
A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.
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The Queen of Spades (1916) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Пиковая дама
director: 雅科夫·普罗塔扎诺夫 actor: Ivan Mozzhukhin
other title: 黑桃皇后 / Пиковая дама …
While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
Dec. 27, 2024 watched
The torment of losing at cards, but also the torment of the old crone that you accidentally killed, but actually just mostly the cards thing, will drive you mad.
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