Hooptober 12.0 – The Fifth Cord (1971)

Being Film #20 for Hooptober 2025 After seeing Luigi Bazzoni's debut film The Possessed earlier for this marathon, I was even more eager to check out The Fifth Cord, his second foray into giallo, particularly as that film straddled the line between dreamlike noir and paranoid Lynchian nightmare more than what we would come to... Continue Reading →

Hooptober 12.0 – The Possessed (1965)

Being Film #4 for Hooptober 2025 Films like The Possessed, or La Donna del Lago in its original Italian, are the reason I constantly try to seek out new films whenever Hooptober comes around. A proto-giallo that also functions as an Italian noir evoking the dream-like narratives David Lynch would forge just over a decade... Continue Reading →

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