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The Year Halloween Went Quiet

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 1d

💭 How do you protect your peace when the noise outside feels too close?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 1d

🕯️ Outside, the world feels louder than ever. Inside, she lets the silence fill the room.

This week’s REEL Talk reflects on grief, isolation, and what it means to live inside the quiet while the world keeps spinning.

📖 Story on Substack:

#reeltalkseries #creativewriting #filmcommunity #isolation

Some years the dark feels too real to pretend.

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Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 5d

💭 What would you do if you found three masked figures waiting at the end of the bridge?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 5d

🎬 Halloween night is over, but the streets still hold their breath. A late jog. A bridge. Three figures that do not belong.

📖 Read “Take One” on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/take-one

#Halloween2025 #HorrorStory #CinematicStorytelling #horror #homeinvasion #spookystory #shortstories

Take One

Cinematic Short Story

When the Credits Roll | Halloween (1978)

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 7d

Do you remember the first time you heard that piano theme?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 7d

🎬 John Carpenter’s Halloween taught me what fear could sound like and how filmmaking could breathe. It shaped the genre, but it also shaped me.

📖 Read “In His Shape” on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/in-his-shape

#Halloween #JohnCarpenter #Horror #slashers #michaelmyers #filmmaking

In His Shape

Slashers taught me how to see what’s really there.

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Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 8d

Have you ever felt watched when you thought you were alone?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 8d

🎃 This Halloween week REEL Talk looks past the masks and porch lights to the quiet truths that horror reveals. The scariest things aren’t hiding in the dark, they’re standing right in front of us.

📖 Read the full story on Substack:

#halloweenstories #horrorreflection #slashers #halloween #horror

The Ones in the Light

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 13d

Do you believe every town has its own ghost story, or are some legends meant to stay buried?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 13d

Teens in Bonnie and Clyde costumes spend Halloween night stealing candy off porches and laughing like nothing can touch them. 🎃

Then they take the wrong bowl, and an old urban legend wakes in the fog. 🕯️

Read: Where the Fog Sleeps

#cutdeeper #halloweenstory #urbanlegendhorror #supernaturalhorror

Where the Fog Sleeps

Cut Deeper | Episode 04

When the Credits Roll | It: Welcome to Derry

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 14d

If you grew up watching It, which version stayed with you longer Tim Curry or Bill Skarsgård?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 14d

Some nightmares never leave Derry 🎈
This week When the Credits Roll looks ahead to It: Welcome to Derry (2025), the HBO prequel uncovering how fear began.

Read “Where the Fear Began” here:
open.substack.com/pub/beyondco...

#whenthecreditsroll #itwelcometoderry #stephenkingadaptation #pennywise #it

Where the Fear Began

When the front door stops feeling safe

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Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 16d

Do you still open the door for trick-or-treaters, or has Halloween changed for you too?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 16d

Fear used to knock for fun on Halloween.
Now it doesn’t need a costume. 👁️

A reflection sparked by Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor and the real stories seen through cam footage.

Read full “After the Knock”

#truecrimewriting #halloweenfear #reeltalkseries #netflixdocumentary #theperfectneighbor

After the Knock

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 20d

💭 What would you do if you heard a whisper outside your bedroom window on Halloween night when the light goes out?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 20d

An eight-year-old boy sorts Halloween candy under a flickering light as the curtain moves against the still air. 🎃

A cinematic horror short about fear, a whisper at the bedroom window, and the creature that steps inside when the light goes out. 🔦

#horrorwriting #shortstory #halloweenhorror

Hunger of Shadows

Cut Deeper | Episode 03

When the Credits Roll | Interview with the Vampire

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Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 21d

💭 What stayed with you after watching Interview with the Vampire The love, the loss, or the silence that came after?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 21d

🎬 AMC’s Interview with the Vampire reminds us that monsters are not the story. Love is. The Vampire Lestat continues Anne Rice’s legacy through Louis, Lestat, and Claudia, stories of race, queerness, and memory that refuse to die.

#AMC #InterviewWithTheVampire #TheVampireLestat

The Night That Stayed

Sheila Atim steps into the fire Aaliyah lit.

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Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 23d

💭 What did Aaliyah’s Akasha change for you?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 23d

🩸 Sheila Atim rises as Akasha in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Lestat Season 3. A reflection on legacy, immortality, and the Black women who keep rewriting the myth.

📖 Full story on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/when-akash...

#AMC #InterviewWithTheVampire #annerice

When Akasha Rose Again

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Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 27d

💭 Would you open the door?

Beyond Couture Films @beyondcouturefilms.bsky.social · 27d

🎬 A midnight knock. A bag that isn’t yours. Some deliveries should never be answered.
Cut Deeper | Episode 02: I Have Your Delivery is live now.

📖 Full story on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/i-have-you...

#cutdeeper #psychologicalhorror #modernhorror #storytime #writers #horrorshort

I Have Your Delivery

Cut Deeper | Episode 02