{"id":18188,"date":"2025-12-13T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18188"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:13:28","slug":"reflection-in-a-dead-diamond-2025-cattet-forzani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18188","title":{"rendered":"Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025, Cattet &#038; Forzani)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m following the story (lol), Young Mr. Diman (Yannick &#8220;brother of Jeremie&#8221; Renier) played Superspy John in a movie series, got recast after his movie vs. diamond Serpentik failed.  Now older Connery-looking Mr. Diman (Fabio Testi of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17385\">a Zulawski movie<\/a>) is getting kicked out of his hotel after trying to pay with fake diamonds, and thinks Older Serpentik (Maria de Medeiros) might be living next door.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deaddiamond2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deaddiamond5.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>But really it&#8217;s just a fragmented romp of distilled genre pleasure.  Maybe half dreamed\/imagined (there&#8217;s a character who hypnotizes victims into believing they&#8217;re in a film).  A surprisingly high number of <em>Hellraiser<\/em>-reminiscent scenes, what with the fishhook-haired woman raking people&#8217;s faces off, all the skin-cutting in closeup (sometimes with hooks), and fragments of victims&#8217; exploded faces on the ground.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/year-end-2-145078482\">Sicinski liked it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deaddiamond1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deaddiamond3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/deaddiamond4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;m following the story (lol), Young Mr. Diman (Yannick &#8220;brother of Jeremie&#8221; Renier) played Superspy John in a movie series, got recast after his movie vs. diamond Serpentik failed. Now older Connery-looking Mr. Diman (Fabio Testi of a Zulawski movie) is getting kicked out of his hotel after trying to pay with fake diamonds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2081,1828,1310,1868],"class_list":["post-18188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-car-crash","tag-cattet-forzani","tag-espionage","tag-mask"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}