Samm Deighan Pro

Author, film critic, podcaster, George Eastman aficionado

Favorite films

  • The Untold Story
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
  • The Margin
  • Exiled

All
  • Red Lips

    ★★★

  • The Lady Hermit

    ★★★★

  • Rape and Death of a Housewife

    ★★★½

  • Two Undercover Angels

    ★★★★

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Rape and Death of a Housewife

1978

★★★½ 2

This isn't really a pink film, but it is a wild story about disaffected teens in the countryside who rape and accidentally kill a woman. It's a sensitive drama about youth crime, responsibility, and justice, but it also has gang rape and necrophilia.

Two Undercover Angels

1969

★★★★ 3

Jess Franco's krimi-Eurospy crossover has a sublime level of camp and I wish all the Red Lips movies were as delightful as this one. There's all sorts of random elements, including a crazy painter, a monster named Morpho, and people constantly being killed by someone just offscreen. If it was just a little gayer, it would be a five star movie.

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Nosferatu

2024

★★★½ Watched

Producer's guild preview screening with a Q&A from Robert Eggers. I'm not angry, which is something? Incredibly beautiful soundscapes as always and there were some great performances (Bill Skarsgard has a monopoly on these roles for a reason and his vocal work is a feat). Bonus points for the obvious butoh and Zuławski influences, and for the suggested necrophilia. As usual Eggers gets in his own way but why on earth was Depp not given top billing? She and the…

Immaculate

2024

★★★½ 5

I can't believe I finally liked a new horror movie. A hot priest wearing giallo gloves is really the secret sauce if you're a recovering Catholic though.