{"id":6708,"date":"2015-10-28T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2015-10-28T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T02:28:43","slug":"johns-horror-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/johns-horror-28\/","title":{"rendered":"John D&#8217;Amico&#8217;s Horror on YouTube #28 &#8211; Andalusian Superstition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/andal.jpg\" alt=\"andalusian\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xDsdfl9G2Is\" target=\"_blank\">Andalusian Superstition<\/a>\u00a0(1912) | Dir. Segundo de Chomon\u00a0| 10 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Segundo de Chomon is one of the hidden gems of early cinema. His work is wild and imaginative and often right on the borderline of a nightmare. Andalusian Superstition is one of his more ambitious works, and I think it would surprise a lot of viewers to see how unusual it all still is. It\u2019s about a man kidnapped by gypsies (I know, I know, but it was 1912) and the weird things he finds in a cabinet of curiosities. There\u2019s imagery in these early silents that you just don\u2019t see anywhere else\u2014like if Carpenter\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001CW7ZWG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001CW7ZWG&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=smufil-20&amp;linkId=NF5ULL5ZCIOZLKOT\" target=\"_blank\">The Thing<\/a> was made by scrapbooking\u2014which, alongside the by-hand colorization, give it a dreamy homemade vibe that captivates and hypnotizes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Segundo de Chomon: Superstition andalouse\/ Andalusian Supersticion (1912)\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDsdfl9G2Is?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6509\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/andal.jpg\" alt=\"andalusian\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xDsdfl9G2Is\" target=\"_blank\">Andalusian Superstition<\/a>\u00a0(1912) | Dir. Segundo de Chomon\u00a0| 10 min.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Every day in October, a recommendation from John D&#8217;Amico\u00a0of a horror\u00a0movie or TV episode available for free on YouTube. Enjoy:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1157,5100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-johns-reviews","category-youtubehorror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}