Cemetery Man aka Dellamorte Dellamore
Directors love Magritte. William Friedkin modeled the iconic Exorcist streetlight image after the painting Empire of Light. Director Michele Soavi was inspired by the shrouded kiss depicted in The Lovers II for his 1994 film Dellamorte Dellamore (translation: Of Death, Of Love).
The Strangers
“Because you were home.” That’s it. The best home-invasion movie ever made is built on a foundation of senselessness.
Black Sabbath
Mario Bava was a living embodiment of Italian genre cinema, working credited and uncredited on nearly a hundred films.
Trans Girl Suicide Apartment
Roman Polanski’s The Tenant as a phantom trans text