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Successfully bearing the weight of its sleight-of-hand plot, A Perfect Getaway works from the edge of your seat through the first watch, and the comfiest depths of your couch for subsequent viewings. A solid cast and fun script make something special out of what could have been a standard hunter/hunted tour.#aperfectgetaway #millajovovich #timothyolyphant #redsnapper

Somewhere at the crossroads of The Ruins and Hostel, mediocrity lurks. Turistas manages to never fully commit to anything, not even its own premise. The scenery and one strategically placed plantain are salvaged from the wreckage of this lazily-driven bus. #Turistas #notwithoutmykidneys #killerplantains

Still the gold-standard for effective claustrophobia, the inadvisability of sequels, and not tweaking alternate endings. #TheDescent

Lost in the shuffle of a decade dominated by garish and often childish extremes, The Ruins remains an underappreciated example of pacing, keeping the gore powder dry for maximal effect, and knowing when to look away.#TheRuins #JenaMalone #killervines

Suspiria retold with bugs and an unhinged final act, Phenomena delivers in some brilliant flashes of atmosphere what it misses in cohesiveness. #giallo #giallomonth #phenomena #argento #jenniferconnelly

Fraught with tension and foreboding, Avati's Windows stands in contrast to our other gialli this month. Taking place in a dying, rural village, its treatment of social decay has an organic feel to it that seems at first far outside the aesthetic of the main run of gialli, even as it makes use of all the tropes and framework in ways that somehow still feel surprising. And for all that, we still get a strange manservant.#giallo #giallomonth #housewithlaughingwindows #avati #manservantlidio

By turns fun, trashy, nonsensical, and beautiful, Lizard is everything terrible and wonderful about Fulci in one bright, crazy package. #Fulci #Lizardinawomansskin #Giallomonth #Hippies #redheads

Our first Giallo Month kicks off with the Bava classic.#Giallomonth #Bloodandblacklace #Bava

A worthy sequel, and a great use of "Total Eclipse of the Heart." Time will tell if this stands up to rewatch as well as its predecessor, but all signs point to yes. Bonus points for the Scarface joke running through from the original installment.#readyornot #readyornot2 #hereicome #hideandseek #scarface