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Alan Maxwell
@anthemsprinter.bsky.social
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I'm a Fifer. I love the following: FILMS! (Scottish, Irish, documentary, short films, horror, cult movies) MUSIC! (Everything from traditional folk to electronic weirdness) THEATRE! (Especially Scottish and Irish) BOOKS! HAGGIS! Letterboxd: GhostOfTheRegal
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 50m
Continuing the #31DaysOfHorror with films #12 and #13. This feels like a Saturday night double bill: tick another video nasty off the list (some Ivan Reitman-produced Canuxploitation!), followed by Italian zombie trash which feels like something I should have seen but somehow never have.
Poster for the film Death Weekend, under its alternative title of The House by the Lake, showing a spooky looking house and a man forcefully holding his hand over a scared woman's mouth Poster art for Zombie 4: After Death, showing a bloody, decaying hand and a pool of blood coming out from behind a metal gate
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1h
Another update for the "books I've read in 2025" thread: a Booker prize winner, a Skye-set family drama, a play by a playwright I love which had sadly just finished by the time I visited London this year, and a collection of short stories which I believe is the first Shirley Jackson I've ever read.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, Dancing in the Shallows by Clare Reddaway, The Brightening Air by Conor McPherson and The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1h
(It also afforded me the opportunity to pop into Futtle and stock up on their top notch kombucha.)
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1h
Cracking day of theatre on either side of the Silvery Tay today, with The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' best play (yes, it is, get over yourself, Streetcar fans) at Dundee Rep this afternoon then down to the Byre in St Andrews this evening for touring production Common Tongue. Both excellent.
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 10d
People who enjoyed my ethnomusicologal folk horror movie might also enjoy my ethnomusicologial folk feelgood documentary, by the way (and I drew those opening titles myself, nice to see them again)

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Watch While You Live, Shine | Disney+
Eccentric musicologist explores ancient melodies, revealing forgotten treasures.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 11h
#31DaysOfHorror film #11: Saturday morning Corman!
A skeleton presides over an open coffin and three black robed witches dance around a graveyard in a vintage lobby card for the 1957 film The Undead
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 11h
You'll have some job getting your clown costume clean again too!
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 23h
Can't have #31DaysOfHorror and not fit in a little bit of Amicus fun. Film #10 - time to revisit an old favourite.
Poster for 1973 film Vault of Horror, showing a face and hands emerging from a crypt and a few other people peeking out from behind graves.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1d
Solid enough start followed by two of VistaVision's weaker travelogues.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Last four Letterboxd ratings: 3/5 and 3.5/5 for a couple of "VistaVision Visits..." travelogues, 4.5 for Wake Up Dead Man, and 4 for Lust of the Vampire
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BILL RYAN @faceyouhate.bsky.social · 1d
Today for @thebulwark.com I take a look at the short fiction of one of the great American genre writers, Charles Beaumont.

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The Hopeless Horror of Charles Beaumont
The writer died before his fortieth birthday—but left behind an influential catalogue of stories and unforgettable Twilight Zone episodes.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1d
Did Dylan or Springsteen ever have a TV special where they wander round Falkland Palace with Andy Williams or sing carols with a bunch of school kids in the old church in St Monans? DID THEY FUCK
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1d
I did also travel to Belfast for 48 hours to watch Translations 3 times - basically, I'm appointing myself chief Friellie gatekeeper
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1d
New Katherine Priddy album announced, whoop whoop
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Katherine Priddy - Matches (Official Video)
YouTube video by Katherine Priddy
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 1d
Paid my first visit to the Crucible in Sheffield a couple of weeks back for Dancing at Lughnasa. Arrived in Sheffield, watched the matinee, watched the evening performance, then went home. I am 100% Friellie.
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Castles in Space @castlesinspace.bsky.social · 2d
@warringtonruncorn.com

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
Public Works and Utilities
Vinyl, Compact Disc and Digital
CiS194
10th October, 2025
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All good record stores.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 2d
I live part way between Culross and Kirkcaldy.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 2d
I have not yet watched it. Let's just say yes.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 2d
I've no idea, I'd probably mix them up too to be fair.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 2d
Well I really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man. Bold move in this day and age having a main character who is both a priest and a decent bloke.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 3d
"Wake Up Dead Man" sounds like the first half of the title of a spaghetti western. The second half would presumably be something like "Sartana is Waiting" or "There's a Bullet for Django"
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Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · 4d
PERFECT BLUE is newly remastered and back in cinemas, so I wrote a primer on the screen work of Satoshi Kon for the BFI!

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Where to begin with Satoshi Kon
As Perfect Blue returns to cinemas, we introduce the small but perfectly formed oeuvre of Satoshi Kon, a visionary of grown-up animation whose films blur the boundary between reality and fantasy, and ...
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 4d
Still melts my brain to think of the kind of slop that Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers achieved fame with and then they just casually dropped this all-time banger as a b-side.
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Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Waiting!
YouTube video by DJ Roland Vinyl (Vinyl DJ Roland)
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 4d
Right then, back to horror duty. Time for some Italian fun again.
#31DaysofHorror film #9
Vintage lobby card for the 1957 film Lust of the Vampire, under its Italian title of I Vampiri, showing a black and white photo of a woman walking down a gothic looking stairway, and a yellowish painting of a man's face with hand clawing out in front of him
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 4d
And on the subject of cinematic tartanry, how am I only discovering this film now? Here's hoping this gets an outing near me...
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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 4d
🎬 European Premiere Alert!
We’re thrilled to announce that our restoration of Maurice Tourneur’s THE WHITE HEATHER (1919) will have its European premiere at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 44 this October 9 at 3:15 PM (local time)! ✨
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 4d
Well that was... about 85 minutes.
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Alan Maxwell @anthemsprinter.bsky.social · 4d
An unseasonal interuption to my October horror viewing because I just discovered this one is finally available and obviously I'm too excited to wait until Christmas.
Poster for the 2025 film A Scottish Christmas Secret. A young couple stand looking happy, the man clutching some kind of secret book, with snow, mountains and a castle in the background.
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