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Lucky McKee

@luckymckee.bsky.social

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Filmmaker: MAY, THE WOMAN, THE WOODS, OLD MAN + more TV Director: POKER FACE, MASTERS OF HORROR + more Musician: OOGLADAAR - https://linktr.ee/oogladaar Novelist: THE SECRET LIFE OF SOULS, I’M NOT SAM + more

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 4d

Making this music vid reunited me with lifelong friend - and brilliant doc filmmaker @kevinfordmedia.bsky.social - We’ve been making movies together since we were little kids. There’s nothing quite like the feeling & comfort of making stuff with someone you’ve known forever. ❤️

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Just Another Piece in a Puzzle - Official Music Video

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 9h

Don't forget, if you're looking for a horror movie to watch this Canadian Thanksgiving, our horror-review index is back online. No, we have not reviewed HALLOWEEN III, even though that's the title graphic. Yes, it's irritating.
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Halloween Horror-Review Index - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 2d

Nosferatu

Watercolor painting of Lily Rose Depp in front of a purple sky with Count Orloks eyes looking down on her.

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 2d

Monsters don’t die if you keep feeding them.

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 2d

Highly recommend this one. Loved it.

Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4d

☁️ Now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's wild new thriller CLOUD! ☁️
Japan's master of suspense strikes again with this hypnotic, darkly funny action-thriller about a young black-market reseller whose online price gouging earns him dangerous enemies.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about MAY for my horror column. This movie was a favorite of mine when I was a teenager, and I wrote about why and how it spoke to me then, and how my relationship to the film has evolved in the time since.

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a still image from Lucky McKee's "May" of Angela Bettis in a near close-up as the titular character. She has her thumb in her mouth. She is in a veterinary clinic and the details of the room are out of focus.

Ginger Snaps and May were two of my favorite movies when I was fourteen years old. They helped me deal with with the two dominant feelings of my adolescence: gender dysphoria and loneliness. Those two feelings tend to intertwine for young trans people. In my own experience, they did so ruthlessly. My dysphoria negatively impacted my life to such a degree that I was home-schooled from the age of fifteen or sixteen (I genuinely can’t remember), put on a heavy anti-depressant and had to routinely see a childhood psychologist to figure out what was wrong with me (it was dysphoria, but I wasn’t in a safe situation to bring it up). Being taken out of the public school system made it much more difficult to create lasting friendships, which exacerbated my loneliness and inability to relate to others. Homeschooling me was a decision that was made without my consent, and it hampered my skills of socialization, and the friends that I did have in middle school eventually stopped seeing me. I’ve gotten better at being a person, and forging relationships with people since transitioning, but I have still retained some of those bad habits and coping mechanisms that I instinctively learned when I was a teenager. One of those coping mechanisms was cinephilia. I felt like I didn’t have anyone to talk to, but I had movies. It worked for me then, but now I can look back on it and realize that it was a pretty sad state of affairs. I’m still trying to find the balance between living my life, and watching movies. Lucky McKee’s May was one of those films that I luxuriated in. Angela Bettis’s strange, anti-social veterinarian technician, who wanted nothing more than to have a boyfriend, and friends to call her own, was disarmingly familiar. I treated watching it like soaking in a warm bath. Revisiting it this week, felt odd, like coming back to an old habit better left in the rear-view, but I still liked the taste.

May begins with a brief prologue that shows the start of her difficulty socializing with her peers. The film takes viewers all the way back to elementary school, and May, with very long blonde hair, is wearing an eye-patch to obscure her lazy eye. Her mother—a cosmopolitan type—implores her to cover the eyepatch with her hair so her classmates will treat her equally. She ignores this advice until a young boy approaches her and innocently asks if she is a pirate. She shakes her head no. The bell rings. And she drapes her hair over her eyepatch. May’s mother keeps a prized doll locked in a glass case, and the doll itself is exquisitely Gothic, with a red gown, raven’s hair, and pale features. May fixated on this lovely creature, and substituted her need for friends with a budding relationship to this plastic creation. We never see May converse with her mother, but she gravitates to the doll in her worst moments. The film never shows the doll speaking, but May can hear her, nagging her insecurities, bringing her inner turmoil to her teeming, embodied psychosis. This is ostensibly a slasher film wearing the skin of a Frankenstein-riff, as May kills acquaintances of hers, severing her favorite body parts, and building a best friend of her own. But because the film is so careful, and precise about showing viewers the integrity of May’s inner-life, it is in actuality the rare horror film to genuinely grapple with the horrible shape of catastrophic loneliness.

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 2d

May, from the mind of @luckymckee.bsky.social it's available now on the Criterion Channel as part of the 2000s horror collection.

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 3d

Gonna be a wild Thursday night in the McKee home…

DVD of the Lon Chaney film West of Zanzibar

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 4d

Feel like I’m the only person that enjoyed the hell out of that movie. 😅 Nice to see this. 🙂

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 4d

Still working on this

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 4d

Just Another Piece in a Puzzle - Official Music Video

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 10d

Aunt Gladys

Watercolor portrait of a terrifying Amy Madigan in the movie WEAPONS.

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 8d

It’s finally here! Check out the full music video for our band Oogladaar’s hit song “Just Another Piece in a Puzzle”! Crazy how we’re number one on every chart! Still can’t believe we knocked Taylor off her number 1 spot. The power of independent art, am I right? youtu.be/_TkGnWv20A4

Just Another Piece in a Puzzle - Official Music Video

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 5d

Why am I doing this? Fabric print, folds and flowers?! At least her hair is up 😑

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 5d

There’s about 50% likelihood I fuck up this Nosferatu painting.

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 7d

Put Super Mario or Captain America in there next time and watch those likes explode!

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 7d

I’m just going to keep posting random bits. Really proud of this thing.

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

It was tough to turn down all the IMAX screens for this weekend but we wanted to leave room for the little guys like Avatar and Taylor! Sometimes it’s hard to do the right thing.

Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty nuts that our first music video has only been out a few hours and it’s already paid off our house! THANK YOU, OOG-HEADS!

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Just Another Piece in a Puzzle - Official Music Video

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

My wife animated this amazing music video for a friend’s band… so cool getting to watch her do this!

Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 9d

Check out this music video I animated for the band CHILE! youtu.be/MhxwZ5osH5s

C H I L É - Aranea

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Vanessa McKee @vanessamckee.bsky.social · 8d

My 8 year old kept asking why I draw such gross things and if the video is about nature killing us 🤣

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

Awwwww. ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you!

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty nuts that our first music video has only been out a few hours and it’s already paid off our house! THANK YOU, OOG-HEADS!

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Just Another Piece in a Puzzle - Official Music Video

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

😂😂😂

Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, so many… BRING HER BACK is the darkest/scariest of this year so far… also try older stuff like..

EDEN LAKE
MARTYRS
I SAW THE DEVIL
LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE
ANGST
BLACK CHRISTMAS…

…and on and on and on… hahaha.

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Lucky McKee @luckymckee.bsky.social · 8d

😂😂😂