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Guillermo Del Toro recommended Beauty and the Beast (1946) in Movies (curated)

 
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
1946 | Fantasy, Romance
6.4 (5 Ratings)
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"Beauty and the Beast may be tenuous and delicate where Eyes Without a Face is overripe and pulpish, but these films are gorgeous, dark poems about fragility and horror. Both fables depend on sublime, almost ethereal, imagery to convey a sense of doom and loss: mad, fragile love clinging for dear life in a maelstrom of darkness. The clash of haunting and enchanting imagery has seldom been more powerful. Eyes Without a Face boasts an extraordinary soundtrack too!"

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Guillermo Del Toro recommended Eyes Without a Face (1960) in Movies (curated)

 
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
1960 | Horror
7.0 (4 Ratings)
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"Beauty and the Beast may be tenuous and delicate where Eyes Without a Face is overripe and pulpish, but these films are gorgeous, dark poems about fragility and horror. Both fables depend on sublime, almost ethereal, imagery to convey a sense of doom and loss: mad, fragile love clinging for dear life in a maelstrom of darkness. The clash of haunting and enchanting imagery has seldom been more powerful. Eyes Without a Face boasts an extraordinary soundtrack too!"

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Jesse Peretz recommended The Child in Time in Books (curated)

 
The Child in Time
The Child in Time
Ian McEwan | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
(0 Ratings)
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"McEwan’s razor-sharp descriptions of human emotion always hit me hard, and I find this to be the most haunting and heartbreaking of his books. A father looks up in the grocery store and realizes his four-year-old missing; the search for her destroys his marriage and his life. I’m a huge fan of McEwan’s—my first feature was based on his short story “First Love, Last Rites,”—but this is the one that stays with me."

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Darren Fisher (2474 KP) rated Ghost Story in Books

Dec 10, 2020  
Ghost Story
Ghost Story
Peter Straub | 1989 | Mystery, Paranormal, Thriller
10
6.8 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
Classic Chiller!
Classic chiller from Peter Straub. An epic tale about a group of ageing men who form The Chowder Society, a place where they share ghosts stories between them, and are united by a terrible secret from the past. Expertly written, solid characters, and genuinely creepy, this is Peter Staub on top form. Essential reading!
Note: If you enjoy this I seriously recommend his equally fantastic ghost story Full Circle (aka Julia/ The Haunting of Julia).
  
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Merissa (14100 KP) created a post

Nov 6, 2025  
⚱️ Two women, centuries apart, bound by a murder—and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

📚 Excerpt: Step into the shadows of Ancient Rome and modern-day mystery in What Remains by Erryn Lee — a haunting blend of history, suspense, and forensic intrigue. Uncover the truth that survived the eruption of Vesuvius… and the lies that didn’t.

#TheCoffeePotBookClub #BlogTour #AncientRome #Vesuvius #HistoricalFiction #DualTimeline #TimeSlipFiction #HistoricalThriller #ForensicFiction, @erryn.lee.author @thecoffeepotbookclub

https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/what-remains-by-erryn-lee
      
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BackToTheMovies (56 KP) rated The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) in Movies

Jun 21, 2019  
The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)
2019 | Drama, Horror, Thriller
2
2.5 (6 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
With it being 50 years since the tragic Manson murders in California we have a year of Manson movies. We have the independent film Charlie Says which explores Manson and his cult in sensitive detail before the tragic night. We have Tarantino’s Once Up A Time In Hollywood which has been given the go-ahead from Sharon Tate’s sister to be made. Then we have this. The Haunting of Sharon Tate. An overly exploitative piece that twists truths to create a narrative and completely trashes the legacy of the late actress.

August 8, 1969, the night that Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger and Steven Parent were brutally murdered. The film focuses on the days before the tragic event. The movie dramatizes the slayings and plays on the notion that Sharon Tate predicted her own death in the days leading up to the slaughter.

Surrounded by bad acting and awful scripting it was a very poor choice to make this film in the first place. Writer-director Daniel Farrands has created an offensive and frankly insulting ‘thriller’. Hilary Duff stars as Sharon Tate and whilst she somewhat looks the part, she doesn’t have that raw magic and flair that Sharon had. This tragic event has been turned into some stock-horror slash um up movie with a psychic paranormal twist.

At one point Manson’s song ‘Cease to Exist’ plays to Sharon over a tape player and the Manson Family stalks Tate and her friends around her home. It really is that bad. The introduction of the movie shows real-life footage as a black and white Hilary Duff talks about her own death. The opening scene of the movie is enough to want me to turn off the film instantly.
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With no care or respect being paid to the real-life counterparts, the movie has very little to say other than ‘you’re going to die soon’. There’s no feeling of empathy. The Haunting of Sharon Tate is just a 90-minute exploitation of a horrific night in Hollywood’s history.

https://backtothemovies.com/exploitative-trash-the-haunting-of-sharon-tate-review/