Ben Pahl Robinson
@benpahlrobinson.bsky.social
Screenwriter (Shudder's CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, SATRANIC PANIC, TBLOCKERS, BAD GIRL BOOGEY, SO VAM & OUR EFFED UP WORLD, THE SERPENT'S SKIN), occasional director, so so author, autistic. He/him.
https://benpahlr.wixsite.com/benpahlrfilm
https://benpahlr.wixsite.com/benpahlrfilm
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Screenwriting
CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, SATRANIC PANIC, TBLOCKERS, BAD GIRL BOOGEY, SO VAM on Shudder & some available on awesome Vinegar Syndrome Blu-rays.
Alice Maio Mackay's THE SERPENT'S SKIN prem @ Fantasia!
Directing/Art
New analog horror THE COMMON PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PIT PEOPLE👇
Screenwriting
CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, SATRANIC PANIC, TBLOCKERS, BAD GIRL BOOGEY, SO VAM on Shudder & some available on awesome Vinegar Syndrome Blu-rays.
Alice Maio Mackay's THE SERPENT'S SKIN prem @ Fantasia!
Directing/Art
New analog horror THE COMMON PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PIT PEOPLE👇
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Leaving Spotify can be difficult, that’s why we had @janus.bsky.social put together this guide to find a more sustainable way to release, discover, and listen to music so you can kick Spotify for good 😜
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
How To Ditch Spotify and Support Music in the Age of AI Slop
There’s no shortage of reasons to quit Spotify in 2025. Artists and fans have been departing the platform in droves because they’re fed up with the company paying artists virtually nothing, using algo...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Leaving Spotify can be difficult, that’s why we had @janus.bsky.social put together this guide to find a more sustainable way to release, discover, and listen to music so you can kick Spotify for good 😜
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...
Online age verification is a tempting idea. I'm a dad, I get it, but what's being proposed isn't just an ID check, it's a list of your kid's faces and data. A list in the hands of increasingly totalitarian governments, tech companies, and dysfunctional AI.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Online age verification is a tempting idea. I'm a dad, I get it, but what's being proposed isn't just an ID check, it's a list of your kid's faces and data. A list in the hands of increasingly totalitarian governments, tech companies, and dysfunctional AI.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
It's not protection, it's surveillance.
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Pray for today.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL is here.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL is here.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL | Short Transgender Folk Horror Film
YouTube video by Robyn Adams
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Pray for today.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL is here.
THE ESTROGEN GOSPEL is here.
Jesus, been to Threads lately? It's a cesspool.
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Jesus, been to Threads lately? It's a cesspool.
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THE TELEPHONE, my micro-short film starring Josh Neal, featuring a score by Joe Stockton, is now available to watch.
Shot this back in 2022 as my first film project here in Sweden. Give it a quick watch and let me know what you think.
youtu.be/zRm_39aVKIc
#scriptsky #filmsky
Shot this back in 2022 as my first film project here in Sweden. Give it a quick watch and let me know what you think.
youtu.be/zRm_39aVKIc
#scriptsky #filmsky
THE TELEPHONE
YouTube video by Chad Michael Ward
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
THE TELEPHONE, my micro-short film starring Josh Neal, featuring a score by Joe Stockton, is now available to watch.
Shot this back in 2022 as my first film project here in Sweden. Give it a quick watch and let me know what you think.
youtu.be/zRm_39aVKIc
#scriptsky #filmsky
Shot this back in 2022 as my first film project here in Sweden. Give it a quick watch and let me know what you think.
youtu.be/zRm_39aVKIc
#scriptsky #filmsky
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Drop something MIRRORED.
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Drop something MIRRORED.
That cancelled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.
Brimstone. TV executives belong in hell.
Brimstone. TV executives belong in hell.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
That cancelled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about.
Brimstone. TV executives belong in hell.
Brimstone. TV executives belong in hell.
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Currently in the murky waters that is editing, which is both fun and frustrating. Also still raising money to help cover production and post expenses. We're £260 away from our £7500 stretch goal. Indie filmmaking, as always, needs all the help it can get. Details: tinyurl.com/FairyDustKS
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Currently in the murky waters that is editing, which is both fun and frustrating. Also still raising money to help cover production and post expenses. We're £260 away from our £7500 stretch goal. Indie filmmaking, as always, needs all the help it can get. Details: tinyurl.com/FairyDustKS
I grew up working class. I remember drawing with short pencils my mum stole from work.
When I fell for film there were no video phones & 8mm/VHS was too expensive.
So I couldn't make films as a kid.
If I had a camcorder I would have made movies. If I had AI I would not have made movies. It would.
When I fell for film there were no video phones & 8mm/VHS was too expensive.
So I couldn't make films as a kid.
If I had a camcorder I would have made movies. If I had AI I would not have made movies. It would.
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I grew up working class. I remember drawing with short pencils my mum stole from work.
When I fell for film there were no video phones & 8mm/VHS was too expensive.
So I couldn't make films as a kid.
If I had a camcorder I would have made movies. If I had AI I would not have made movies. It would.
When I fell for film there were no video phones & 8mm/VHS was too expensive.
So I couldn't make films as a kid.
If I had a camcorder I would have made movies. If I had AI I would not have made movies. It would.
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BY THE HAND OF GLORY SHE RISES AGAIN
A visual poem that I shot with Soja during a very brief trip to Dartmoor back in 2024. Annabella Rich provides the emotionally stunning voiceover.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIP...
A visual poem that I shot with Soja during a very brief trip to Dartmoor back in 2024. Annabella Rich provides the emotionally stunning voiceover.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIP...
By the Hand of Glory She Rises Again
YouTube video by Chad Michael Ward
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
BY THE HAND OF GLORY SHE RISES AGAIN
A visual poem that I shot with Soja during a very brief trip to Dartmoor back in 2024. Annabella Rich provides the emotionally stunning voiceover.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIP...
A visual poem that I shot with Soja during a very brief trip to Dartmoor back in 2024. Annabella Rich provides the emotionally stunning voiceover.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIP...
You’re kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are coming to rescue you.
Pretty sure they'd be the abductors.
Pretty sure they'd be the abductors.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
You’re kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are coming to rescue you.
Pretty sure they'd be the abductors.
Pretty sure they'd be the abductors.
A movie that takes place where you're from ✨️
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from ✨️
Damn. Udo Kier was one of a handful of big actors I've quietly dreamed of working with, or writing for, one day.
Vale Udo Kier.
Vale Udo Kier.
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Damn. Udo Kier was one of a handful of big actors I've quietly dreamed of working with, or writing for, one day.
Vale Udo Kier.
Vale Udo Kier.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love... 🎥🖤
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love... 🎥🖤
Me as your bsky therapist.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Me as your bsky therapist.
Looking for a shit-kicking job.
Saw this a job ad.
Oh fuck off.
Saw this a job ad.
Oh fuck off.
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Looking for a shit-kicking job.
Saw this a job ad.
Oh fuck off.
Saw this a job ad.
Oh fuck off.
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On this vital as ever Trans Day of Remembrance, I give thanks to heroes like @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social fighting the good fight ✊ bit.ly/43XkjF4
Alice Maio Mackay interview: on The Serpent's Skin and finding trans power in horror | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
The young Adelaide director talks to ScreenHub about The Serpent's Skin and building trans solidarity in the film industry.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
On this vital as ever Trans Day of Remembrance, I give thanks to heroes like @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social fighting the good fight ✊ bit.ly/43XkjF4
Share a tv series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Share a tv series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
ALIEN, if produced by Roger Corman (it nearly was). I imagine he would have gone with the working title STAR BEAST.
This is what happens when I can't sleep.
Give it a heart on @posterspy.com, if you do heart it.
This is what happens when I can't sleep.
Give it a heart on @posterspy.com, if you do heart it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
ALIEN, if produced by Roger Corman (it nearly was). I imagine he would have gone with the working title STAR BEAST.
This is what happens when I can't sleep.
Give it a heart on @posterspy.com, if you do heart it.
This is what happens when I can't sleep.
Give it a heart on @posterspy.com, if you do heart it.
Great to see someone discuss deep focus and immersion, as well as critique the tendency to consider shallow focus as "cinematic". Other things too. Great video essay.
Why don't movies feel "real" anymore? My deep dive into the first principles of cinematic immersion is out now on YouTube: youtu.be/tvwPKBXEOKE
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Great to see someone discuss deep focus and immersion, as well as critique the tendency to consider shallow focus as "cinematic". Other things too. Great video essay.
Related, I once went to a special screening of Tarkovsky's Stalker, one of my favourite movies, with a live performance by Lisa Gerrard & Dead Can Dance.
The music was exquisite, but it did not marry with the movie at all. I found myself detaching from the screen and daydreaming to the music.
The music was exquisite, but it did not marry with the movie at all. I found myself detaching from the screen and daydreaming to the music.
Went to see Back to the Future scored live by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra last night.
Amazing but weird: after a while I stopped noticing the score was being played before me.
A reminder that cinema is a big collaborative art, an army of talented people, but when it's working you don't notice.
Amazing but weird: after a while I stopped noticing the score was being played before me.
A reminder that cinema is a big collaborative art, an army of talented people, but when it's working you don't notice.
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Related, I once went to a special screening of Tarkovsky's Stalker, one of my favourite movies, with a live performance by Lisa Gerrard & Dead Can Dance.
The music was exquisite, but it did not marry with the movie at all. I found myself detaching from the screen and daydreaming to the music.
The music was exquisite, but it did not marry with the movie at all. I found myself detaching from the screen and daydreaming to the music.
Went to see Back to the Future scored live by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra last night.
Amazing but weird: after a while I stopped noticing the score was being played before me.
A reminder that cinema is a big collaborative art, an army of talented people, but when it's working you don't notice.
Amazing but weird: after a while I stopped noticing the score was being played before me.
A reminder that cinema is a big collaborative art, an army of talented people, but when it's working you don't notice.
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Went to see Back to the Future scored live by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra last night.
Amazing but weird: after a while I stopped noticing the score was being played before me.
A reminder that cinema is a big collaborative art, an army of talented people, but when it's working you don't notice.
Amazing but weird: after a while I stopped noticing the score was being played before me.
A reminder that cinema is a big collaborative art, an army of talented people, but when it's working you don't notice.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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