A preemptive apology to everyone who thought my account was mostly laidback but now sees me going "OHHHHH HEEEEEEEEY A MOVIE" for several hundred posts.
Bringing Up Baby (1938) is said to be the first Hollywood movie to use the word "gay" in the homosexual sense. The line reading by Cary Grant is certainly ebullient. #vintage#gay#cinema
Harlequins, supernatural Victorian music boxes, a wolf's tale, occult rituals, invasions of Triffid-like hogweeds, hermaphrodites, Gog & Magog, aliens, the Pied Piper, King Canute, souls of unbaptised children, the devil and the apocalypse...
Musical #folkhorror in the very year the term was 1st coined. #NowPlaying#progrock
William Friedkin, who directed The Exorcist, read the darkly surreal story on the rear cover of Live and engaged Peter Gabriel to collaborate with him on a future film project (which, sadly, never came to fruition). #folkhorror#horror#progrock#cinema