#Psychic Killer

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Psychic Killer (1975) - Belgian Poster

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Psychic Killer, 1975.

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Psychic Killer (1975)

My rating: 4/10

Surprisingly dull and plodding, for a movie about a guy killing people with his mind, with a rather nasty misogynistic streak throughout. Highlights, which are few and far between, include

- the guy having visions of the people he hates being cartoonishly, over-the-top evil

- a rather cute cat

- that one horny police guy being driven off a cliff so we don't have to look at his awful jacket anymore.

Beyond that, there just isn't much here, and certainly nothing that can hold a candle to Dr. Phibes in terms of medical malpractice revenge thrillers.

[head-vampire]

Psychic Killer (1975)

Art by Robert Tanenbaum

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i wish i wasn't so exhausted because i want nothing more than to sit here and properly pick apart the inherent but unconventional ways their dom/sub dynamic presents itself between kant and bison. bc it's definitely always been there esp in these last few episodes but in episode 10 it was in everything. everything.

the pool scene was obvious. i already pulled that apart. but it was also in the way kant's reaction to being told off for being distracting during the mission was so different from the way bison reacted when kant told him off - bison basically looks like he's indulging a pouting child, while kant's face drops and he gets all sad looking. and it's in how different their reactions were to the being distracted too, how kant whined about how bison had promised not to distracted while bison firmly tells kant off for even trying.

and it's in how pissed and hurt kant when he finally saw bison in that car park - imo not so much because bison had told him they needed to stay away from each other, but because bison had been sneaking around watching kant when kant had no way of seeing bison or knowing he was alright at all, and that was so unfair to him, because that's not how it was supposed to work between them. they had just found their equilibrium and here bison was knocking it off kilter by giving and receiving while simultaneously withholding kant's ability to give and receive back. and that's not how they were supposed to work.

and it's in how silly kant was. how rambly and cute when he talked about the titanic experiment he saw or when he tried to get bison to reenact the king of the world scene. but also the way kant was just a brat the entire episode - going kinda rogue while on mission and mentioning the narc thing when he knows it pisses bison off and constantly pushing and pushing and pushing bison to find where the line is where bison will stop indulging him and start reprimanding him.

and it's the way bison does reprimand him and how kant listens. and it's in the way kant's eyes got all big and pleading when bison got all pissy and asked him if he wanted another scratch - and dare i say that and the pool scene were the first real little glimpses we see of what kant's like in actual subspace. and it's in the way you see bison notice that and realise kant's reacting positively, and how he reacts to that reaction with clear desire, but also decides to store that info away as opposed to acting on it bc it's not the time or place.

and most of all it's in kant asking bison to teach him to be like him. in kant handing himself over to bison the assassin and going 'use me. please please make use of me. mould me into a weapon you can wield.' and bison refusing to do that. refusing to make a killer of the boy he loves. in bison knowing kant's limit when kant doesn't and not crossing it. of protecting him from himself. but also making use of him anyway. knowing kant well enough to know that that's what he needed. to be used. because being used is being useful, and being useful is what kant has learned will have him kept around. and bc right now they don't have the time or spare energy to start unpicking that knot, bison meets it where it is: he finds uses for kant while also doing everything he possibly can to give kant agency and control: you don't have to do this. i can take it from here. will you help me with one more thing?

i know i've missed so much that i will kick myself for later. i also know this is incoherent. i've got maybe 10 hours of sleep in the past week. but i can't stop thinking about this fucking dynamic. it's so unique and yet so well defined in what it is. and i know the people that don't get that dynamic won't get what i'm trying to point at with this post. and tbh i get it! as obvious as it is there's also something elusive about it! it reminds me of that kaveh akbar quote where he's says trying to describe god is like trying to imagine a bladeless knife with no handle. the more language you try to put to kant and bison's dynamic, the more it recedes from view.

[jamnsketch]

black fingernails, red wine

[here-lies-beetlejuice]

The Halloween fun has begun 🤡🔮🎃

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obligatory killer purple guy joke

(thank you to @gennytherator06 for the suggestion!)

alt. versions under the cut:

right: void with white and psychic with pink eyes and syringe instead of yellow; left: void and psychic both with purple instead of yellow

[shih-coulda-had-it]

What animal do you think users are one for all?

I don’t wanna limit myself to just one per… take these with the disclaimer that it’s just one iteration of an answer! This is purely based on vibes instead of anything symbolic.

Yoichi: Weasel

Kudou: Red fox 

Bruce: Badger

Shinomori: Elk

Banjo: Wolverine

En: Fruit bat

Nana: Leopard

Toshinori: Lion

Izuku: Black-footed cat

[elizakai]

gahdamn being in a fandom for close to ten years makes a bitch forget vital canon information

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Cannot BELIEVE that literally every single Sonic AU in this fandom casts Tails/Nine as Cyn when Sage is RIGHT THERE.

[pavlikbuonarroti]

don't read immortal days it does things to your brain. i can't watch films anymore without going and how would PHILL feel about this. would phill make myeol watch this. would phill have this in his dvd collection for the sake of collecting it but kind of hate it for being sappy and how many seconds could he hold fast against myeols big wet eyes when he asks to watch it because it has a dog on the cover. what would myeol rate this on letterboxd. does the MCU exist in the ID universe. actually pivoting back to the topic of letterboxd yes i think myeol has a letterboxd on account of phill absolutely has a letterboxd and myeol sees him logging stuff and hes been watching so many films lately he might as well download it too. myeol always leaves a comment, but pre myeol, phill only ever logged star ratings; no one else on the app is a real human (to him) and not only do their opinions not matter, but also they don't deserve to see his Enlightened, Mortal Takes. they wouldn't get it. he only starts leaving actual reviews as a devious ploy to inspire feelings of kinship in myeol so that he'll stick with him forever like, maybe if myeol reads enough letterboxd reviews he'll fully understand him. in practice, however, most of his reviews are just showing off film trivia like a peacock trying to impress it's mate or in this scenario, it's employee, or alternatively theyre the letterboxd equivalent of pulling myeols pigtails. i can very clearly imagine them chatting for hours back and forth in the comments section of a review for the last film they watched before myeols shift finished. checking each others activity before bed like a ritual. this got ahead of me because it's 2am what was i talking about. uh. phill would like creep (2014). on behalf of him being kind of a creep, like the creep from creep (2014).

[sillyandquiteawkward]

feeling seen watching cecilily interview the person who made emerald seaglass and they laugh (with love) at the mutual realization and respect that there would be people who love of veluza and bruxish. ME MEEEE I LOVE THEMMMM

[pinkapple-kombucha]

Once Lisbon realized she was no longer Jane’s boss she really started to lean into the wackiness of Jane’s ideas.