David Bordwell does a great analysis of the filmmaking here. He sternly disapproves.

I thought this was a better Eva movie than the latest "Rebuild" joint. What a miserable, confused piece of work that was.

L Is for Libido is pretty great. I heard people talk up the orgasm short from the Amer team but damn if Tjahjanto didn't blow them away.

His "segment" in ABCs of Horror has to be the Westiest Ti West you'll ever see. It's so half-assed yet somehow devoid of any self-awareness, anything to grab onto in his defense. Jesus.

Dancy, you scoundrel! I condemn you, sir, in the strongest possible terms!

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That's exactly how I read that at first…

Is there something about Brian Wood I'm missing? I've got the first Massive trade, read some Mara, Star Wars, and Northlanders (absolutely hated the dialogue in there) and his writing just doesn't do anything for me. Does he get so much work because he's inoffensive and easily slots into any given book?

There's a sweetness (strange as it is) to the relationship between Wood and Arnezeder that makes the inevitable murderin' harder to take. The ending really made me uneasy.

Really liked this film. It definitely substitutes a neon-hot feverishness for the Spinell-sweaty sleaze of the original, but it's unpleasant and never felt needlessly exploitative/sexist. The two leads have a believable rapport even with Wood's dialogue being obviously dubbed most of the time. I guess my biggest…

Everybody do the Lindelof! Shuffle, shuffle, spin, and then look around awkwardly, unsure how to finish!

There's nothing like "Hole in the Sky" here, though - he hardly even tries. It's like listening to eight versions of the Dog the Bounty Hunter theme song, all in the same octave.

All the bands that crib from Sabbath these days and they pick Brad Wilk? Huh.

Interesting that you'd call Berberian Sound Studio an homage. I didn't get much affection for giallo tradition out of it. Strickland basically stops a centimeter short of saying giallo were just a way for the filmmakers to get off via sexual violence, and then deliberately shows a dude going insane from the sheer…

Have you seen Shock/Beyond the Door 2? I think he co-directed with his dad. Always been curious about that one. Also, Cemetery Man is a stone-cold classic. Absolutely gorgeous cinematography and there's some bonkers stuff in there.

Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key!!!!

Oh, Lizard in a Woman's Skin. Some of the best-shot, legitimately surreal stuff ever to sneak into a giallo. Also love the conspicuous zooms into the lead actress's face whenever someone mentions the murder. The forbidden lesbian (dum-dum-dum!) plot is pretty balls but whatever.

New York Ripper is almost irredeemably bad. I say almost because I have a theory that the way it descends from typically colorful, flashy giallo to flatly-lit, bluntly shot naked women getting razored-up is a comment on the genre. But probably not. Good fodder for film crit papers, though. They eat that shit up.

Eh…misogyny is pretty much ingrained in these joints. The defining images are always nude/semi-nude women being cut to ribbons. Sure, certain giallo like Crystal Plumage make an effort to engage the sexist stereotypes but that was over almost before it began, smooshed beneath a succession of increasingly graphic and…

I see where you're coming from but they've already gone to the rape scene well, which Top of the Lake wisely avoided. Lake is all about patriarchy and sexual violence but never depicted rape for rape's sake - I don't think The Killing is smart enough to do that. We're going to get the dead girls and the sexually…