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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 28m

One of Peter Cushing's best performances - a terrific crime movie spin on A Christmas Carol.

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 59m

Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 classic matinee today stars #PeterCushing #AndreMorell in the #HammerFilms thriller

💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 42m

New obsession

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 42m

Oct 14th 2046 - Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green) gives STEM (his neural implant), permission to take over his body when he's attacked while looking for evidence into his wife's murder.

📽️📅 Upgrade (2018)

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 2h

It's not out until Boxing Day, but last night I was lucky enough to see Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value. An amazingly moving, near-perfect family drama: up there with the best of Bergman. And just when I thought it couldn't get any better, this absolute beauty comes up over the end credits ...

Labi Siffre - Cannock Chase

YouTube video by Groovy Attack

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Neil Snowdon @neilsnowdon.bsky.social · 2h

The Gorgon is among my very favourite Hammer Horror films. Nice to see more people falling for it.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8h

“I wasn’t prepared for how absolutely sumptuous this movie looks. Every single frame could be framed and hung on a wall. This might be the most visually gorgeous film I’ve watched all month. Maybe all year.”

unquietthings.com/31-days-of-h...

31 Days of Horror, Day Thirteen: The Gorgon

f I discovered The Gorgon through Jack’s piece last year in A Morbid Scholar’s Treasury of Euro Gothic Cinema, where he enthuses about this Hammer Horror film that replaces the usual va…

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 1h

In 2 days time it's Mayhem Film Festival at @broadwaycinema.bsky.social in Nottingham - 4 days of horror, sci-fi and cult cinema. Below is a write up of all the premieres and previews we're screening, but there's also 2 shorts programmes, late night EVENT HORIZON & the magnificent CHESS OF THE WIND!

Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social · 28d

We delve into all the Premieres and Previews at this year's Mayhem in a new post on our Letterboxd page:
letterboxd.com/mayhemfilmfe...

Premieres and Previews at Mayhem 2025

A story on Letterboxd.

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 1h

Iago is the first men's rights advocate in literature and the reason Coleridge couldn't discern a motive for him was because he actually liked women, not because there isn't one.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 1h

I wish you were too!

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 1h

T-shirts (2025) photograph by Anne Billson

A woman in charge of a stall on the seafront at Sitges, surrounded by t-shirts depicting images and logos from horror and sci-fi films such as Night of the Living Dead, Metropolis, Eraserhead etc

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 3h

In position for Ion de Sosa's BALEARIC (2025) at Prado. Already seen people trapped in a swimming pool by a rabid chimpanzee (PRIMATE). This one is people trapped in a swimming pool by savage dogs. I sense a theme. #Sitges

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 3h

Last night I watched a 1971 movie by the cinematographer of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, a softcore porno movie that combined an incredible galaxy-spanning cosmic horror scenario with being filmed what looks like $150. It was incredible.
letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...

A ★★★★ review of The Toy Box (1971)

An absolutely inexplicable film, I kept imagining that the script could be the work of Kilgore Trout, in some doomed attempt to break into the Russ Meyer-era smut market, it has the same cosmic, galax...

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 3h

There's loads of capital L literature written by people who aren't "straight white (often older) men" and it's weird that people feel the need to pretend otherwise

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Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com · 20h

2 of our latest Japanese films heading to Nottingham this week to play @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social
Toshiaki Toyoda's TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS 次元を超える plays Thurs Oct 16
Yuriyan Retriever's MAG MAG 禍禍女 plays Sat Oct 18
www.mayhemfilmfestival.com/line-up

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 4h

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 4h

At the premiere of the restored version of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), I was on a panel discussion with Lucy Bolton, Wayne Drew, Melvyn Hayes, Mike Muncer and David Pirie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFcw...

Exclusive Q&A from The Curse of Frankenstein Premiere Behind the Scenes with Hammer Experts

YouTube video by Hammer

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 4h

Me too.

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 5h

NEW GROUP (2025) is probably the most Junji Ito you can get without Junji Ito having anything to do with it. Written and directed by Yûta Shimotsu (Best Wishes to All). #Sitges

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 5h

Robert Wynne-Simmons' pioneering THE OUTCASTS (1971) screens 4.30pm today at @sitgesfilmfestival.bsky.social. Here's something I wrote for the BFI on Irish horror. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

10 great Irish horror films

With landmark Irish horror film The Outcasts now available on BFI Player, we choose 10 more tales of fear and folklore from the Emerald Isle.

www.bfi.org.uk

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Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social · 14h

Krzysztof Penderecki drinking alone.

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Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 14h

LOVE IN THE TIME OF TWILIGHT (Tsui, 1995)

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 14h

Good news, though the lack of UK/US publishing coordination in this age continues to amaze me. US bookstores order pallets of Persephone Books to feed hungry readers...because it's too hard to publish in two countries (and US pubs can't be bothered)? Dawn Powell: here, Library of America; UK? Zip.

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Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social · 16h

Our October releases are out now 💿 Take a bite out of two Euro Horror classics from Harry Kümel, a new set of Japanese Ghost Stories plus François Truffaut's charming snapshot from the summer of '76.

Available now at radiancefilms.co.uk & other retailers

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Jul 6

For just $30 an hour I will watch streaming shows with your parents and tell them whether something is a flashback

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Parkin @parkinkatt.bsky.social · 17h

COMFYS SCRITCHES

Photo of a ginger and white cat lying on a human lap, getting a head scritch and looking very happy about it.

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