Greetings again, from out here in the depths.
Hopefully everyone who’s been reading along has enjoyed Twisted Parallels since it’s recent inception. Here at Father Son Holy Gore, the focus is usually on lengthy articles that are more like essays than reviews. While there are so many dedicated and massively appreciated readers who keep coming back to indulge in those article-essays, Father Gore always wants to make sure every type of reader is welcome here. That’s why these editions of the column have been left relatively visual, other than the basic information on directors and cinematographers, and these introductions.
Edition #12 contains a bunch of classic visual references. Of course there are many side-by-sides in this column series that are unintentional by the filmmakers. This doesn’t mean they aren’t relevant. What it often reveals is how we, as viewers, have the imagery of classic movies ingrained in our minds. Those who consider themselves cinephiles have the vast spread of cinematic knowledge that allows the eye to catch similar instances of imagery from one movie to the next.
Here, you’ll see Stanley Kubrick, Mario Bava, Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Demme, and newer names like Ben Wheatley and Ari Aster, as well as New York genre greats Abel Ferrara and Larry Fessenden, alongside splatter flicks, slashers, True Detective, an entry in the V/H/S trilogy, and one of the greatest horrors ever made.
So, what are you waiting for?
The terror and the beauty’s all here. Drink it in.
#11 available here.
An ape wields a bone as a weapon
2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth
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A person tears out a bloody piece of rib cage
Body Melt
Directed by Philip Brophy
Cinematography by Ray Argall
An octopus slithers through a corpse
A Bay of Blood
Directed by Mario Bava
Cinematography by Mario Bava
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A snake slithers from a dead body’s mouth
Sleepaway Camp
Directed by Robert Hiltzik
Cinematography by Benjamin Davis
An axe-wielding, hag- masked maniac.
The Comeback
Directed by Pete Walker
Cinematography by Peter Jessop
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A psychopath in an old hag’s mask
Curtains
Directed by Richard Ciupka
Cinematography by Robert Paynter
A dead face and maggots
The Comeback
Directed by Pete Walker
Cinematography by Peter Jessop
v.
A face full of ants
Hereditary
Directed by Ari Aster
Cinematography by Pawel Pogorzelski
A blindfolded woman ready to be sacrificed
Kill List
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Cinematography by Laurie Rose
v.
A blindfolded woman about to be killed in a ritual
True Detective
Season 1, Episode 7: “After You’ve Gone”
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cinematography by Adam Arkapaw
A murderer in a clear mask
Alice Sweet Alice
Directed by Alfred Sole
Cinematography by A series of cameramen
v.
A rapist in a clear mask
Ms. 45
Directed by Abel Ferrara
Cinematography by James Lemmo
v.
A psychopath in a clear mask
V/H/S
“Second Honeymoon”
Directed by Ti West
Cinematography by Ti West
A rape victim wields her gun
Ms. 45
Directed by Abel Ferrara
Cinematography by James Lemmo
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Clarice Starling holds her gun on Buffalo Bill
The Silence of the Lambs
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Cinematography by Tak Fujimoto
The dance of death
The Seventh Seal
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Cinematography by Gunnar Fischer
v.
The struggle between man and beast
No Telling
Directed by Larry Fessenden
Cinematography by David Shaw
Leatherface and his chainsaw
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Cinematography by Daniel Pearl
v.
Angela gives tribute to Leatherface
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