Mexican gothic

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Mexican Gothic

In-laws can be tricky. Sometimes they say insensitive things at the dinner table, while other times they harbour dark intentions that threaten your life. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia foll…

Six spooky, atmospheric books to read after you've finished Mexican Gothic. These modern horror and dark fantasy combine the classic tropes in new ways.

““The walls speak to me. They tell me secrets. Don’t listen to them, press your hands against your ears, Noemí. There are ghosts. They’re real. You’ll see them eventually.” MEXICAN GOTHIC by @silviamg”

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This series was one of the multiple social experiments of the Mexican photographer to understand human behavior. In this case, it was about seeing the average reaction to an exuberant woman, the model chosen was the burlesque dancer Maty Huitron, who would later become an eminence of the performing arts in Mexico. The impact was so provocative that Nacho López's photos were awarded in 1957 by UNESCO, and later exhibited in stations of the Paris and Munich Metro.

WE ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT BY STEPHEN MACKEY

It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.

A psychological thriller set in 1950s Mexico, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia