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Hot Snake (1978)
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other title: Víbora caliente / 毒蛇
A sadistic and ruthless outlaw has been terrorizing the town of Hot Snake. A bounty hunter named Emiliano is hired by the local sheriff to hunt down the outlaw after he murders a woman and steals money belonging to the Army. Warned by a local bruja not to take the bounty, Emiliano soon finds himself the target of a mysterious man who seeks to settle a personal vendetta.
Watched
Feb. 13, 2026
Bounty hunting in the West, three-layer deep revenge, and a soothsaying bruja with her flautist partner make for an enjoyable watch.
A good score and fine camera work elevate it some as well.
Great to see baths being taken, too!
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Retake - Making the World's First Haida-Language Feature Film (2018)
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Retake follows the journey of co-directors Gwaai Edenshaw (Haida) and Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot'in) as they work to produce The Edge of the Knife, a feature-length film told entirely in the critically-endangered Haida language. The film tells the story of a traditional Haida legend, showcasing the Haida culture in many ways that have never been seen by a broad audience.
Edge of the Knife (2018)
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格瓦伊·埃登肖 / 海伦·黑格-布朗 actor: 泰勒·约克 / Curtis Brown …
other title: 刀刃 / SGaawaay K'uuna …
Edge of the Knife is a feature length Haida language film about pride, tragedy, and penance. Adiits’ii, the lead character in the film, is mentally and physically pushed to the brink of survival and becomes Gaagiixiid/Gaagiid - the Haida Wildman. The Gaagiixiid is one of Haida’s most popular stories, sustained over the years though song and performance. This project is a community initiative with strong support from the Haida people as well as from the Council of the Haida Nation.
Nalujuk Night (2021)
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other title: Nalujuk Night (short film)
Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal, and otherworldly. Snow crunches underfoot as they approach their destination: the Inuit community of Nain. Despite the frights, Nalujuk Night is a beloved annual event, showing that sometimes it can be fun to be scared. Rarely witnessed outside of Nunatsiavut, this annual event is an exciting chance for Inuit, young and old, to prove their courage and come together as a community to celebrate culture and tradition. Inuk filmmaker Jennie Williams brings audiences directly into the action in this bone-chilling black and white short documentary about a winter night like no other.
Watched
Feb. 4, 2026
A cute, short doc about the Labrador Inuit new year tradition of Nalujul Night. When the kids wish a happy new year to the Nalujuit with such trepidation, well that's enough to warm my heart and also melt all the ice and snow that covers their community.
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Haida Carver (1964)
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On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the manner of his grandfather, who taught him the craft.
Watched
Feb. 4, 2026
Informative short doc about the dying art of Haida totem carving and its downsizing from massive tree trunks to black slate. I hope the art has survived and demand a follow up doc!
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The Nightside of the Sky (2024)
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In this experimental short film specially commissioned from celebrated Métis filmmaker Rhayne Vernette for Severin's All the Haunts Be Ours vol. 2, images from The White Reindeer are reanimated through contact printing and optical printing.
A Witch Drum (1982)
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other title: Noitarumpu
In a barren, snowy Lapland landscape a man in a reindeer sled escorts a shaman's corpse to its final resting place. In the pale moonlight the fear is starting to take over, since something has awakened the shaman.
The White Reindeer (1952)
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★ 6.8 5 ratings
艾瑞克·布隆伯格 actor: 米丽亚米·库奥斯马宁 / 卡莱尔沃·尼西莱 …
other title: 白色驯鹿 / Valkoinen peura …
The Finnish film 'White Reindeer' is marketed in the USA and Britain as a horror movie, but that's not precisely accurate. This is a stark, moody film but not a scary one. It purports to be an authentic Lapp folktale about a woman named Pirita who turns into a white reindeer in order to feed upon men. This story has elements of both the vampire and the werewolf legend, as well as the succubus. Apart from reindeer being native to Lapland, I can't imagine why the reindeer was chosen as the species for this folktale's version of the shape-changer legend. Bats and wolves are predators, and therefore scary. The reindeer is a domesticated herbivore that serves humans ... not very spooky, is it? In one sequence, the were-reindeer woman sprouts fangs. Actual reindeer don't have fangs, so why should these be part of her transformation? Female reindeer have antlers, so why doesn't Pirita sprout antlers? Speaking of superstitions and myths: early in this film, a black cat scurries across the path of an approaching sledge, but the director gives this so little emphasis that it appears to have no significance. In Cornwall, it's considered *good* luck to have a black cat cross one's path, and this same thing is considered *bad* luck in America. Do Lapps have any superstitions concerning black cats? Mirjami Kuosmanen, the actress who plays the central role in this film, is quite pretty ... but her performance as a native of northern Lapland is weakened by the fact that she is clearly wearing makeup. Due to the low production budget, we never actually see Pirita changing into the reindeer ... but the director cleverly gets round this by having his leading lady lunge towards the camera, then cutting to a shot of a reindeer in the same position. Still, I was hoping we would see a shot of a woman's shadow changing shape ... or a series of human footprints in the snow abruptly becoming hoof-marks. The Lapp landscape in this movie is starkly beautiful and awesome but never frightening. The photography is excellent. There are two impressive dissolve shots involving flames, and a splendid montage sequence. I was extremely impressed by a night sequence over a bonfire. During the Midnight Sun sequences, there are two shots featuring a weird colonnade of white pillars: these appear to be artefacts of the Lapp culture, but we never learn what they are. A sequence in which a carved vertrebra dances magically across a shaman's drum has an eerie pagan power that made me think of Nijinsky's staging of 'The Rites of Spring'. My one complaint about this film -- a minor grievance -- is that we never learn the time period in which the main action occurs. These Laplanders possess milled coins, a rifle, and loomed curtains. One sequence takes place at a prayer service that is clearly Christian, featuring a minister in geneva bands. Are we watching scenes in the twentieth century, or some earlier time? I'll rate this moody, compelling (but not frightening) film 8 out of 10. Oh, my deer!
Watched
Feb. 1, 2026
A folksy Nordic tale of a woman born a witch that learns of her shape-shifting powers later in life. Sadly, as is the case with most witchiness or shape-shiftery, they sure don't do her or her community any favors.
A really great watch!
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Soultangler (1987)
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Pat Bishow actor: Tom Ciorciari / Pierre Devaux …
other title: 失魂落魄 / The Soultangler
The mad scientist Anton Lupesky invents a drug that can free the souls of the users and allow them to posses the bodies of corpses. The horrible side effect is sometimes fatal hallucinations, that leave the survivors incurably mad.
The Enchanted (1984)
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Royce Hagan returns from the sea to claim and inhabit a 2000 acre ranch in one of the last wild places left in central Florida. Old family friend Booker T Robertson is welcoming but warns him not to get "too close" to a strange family living in the woods nearby. Royce falls in love with Twyla, the oldest daughter, and discovers the bizarre secret of the Hole in the Wall and the enchanted people who live there.
Psychomania (1971)
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唐·夏普 actor: 乔治·桑德斯 / 贝里尔·瑞德 …
other title: 精神狂躁症 / 死亡机车 …
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977)
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★ 6.4 7 ratings
other title: 悲愁物语 / 悲愁物語 …
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
Watched
Jan. 10, 2026
About as much fun as watching the marketing machine and entertainment industry build up a celebrity can be! Reiko gets chewed up and spit out as her star rises and the price of fame and fandom takes its toll (on both sides, I suppose).
Loved that guy with the flowers, and I laughed everytime he showed up.
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Our Selves Unknown (2016)
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‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes the book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its raw material, reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design into pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.
To Fire You Come at Last (2023)
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other title: 마침내 찾아온 불길 / 你终将至
In rural 17th-century England, a group of men gather to carry a coffin on the long walk to the local graveyard for burial. Much ancient folklore and superstition surround the pathway to the church, and several of the party are afraid to walk it after dark. Squire Marlow, the grieving father of the dead man, promises to double their wages if they agree to make the mysterious journey full of unexpected revelations.
Blood Beat (1983)
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Fabrice A. Zaphiratos actor: Helen Benton / Terry Brown …
other title: Blood Beat - Pulsschlag des Schreckens / 热血沸腾 …
Sarah and her boyfriend have decided to spend Christmas at his home in rural Wisconsin. However, upon arriving, she begins to feel a strange presence around her, and a mysterious figure garbed in a Samurai outfit begins murdering the townsfolk.