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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 19h

been a while since I went hard on patina

A pseudo-Roman mask helmet thingy. It's greenish and bent and there's a red jewel in one of its eyes.

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 5h

Carpenter’s Mouth of Madness tackles head on the evil in believing in Revelation. Rapture is selfish, sociopathic. People as inward fanatics assured in faith, justified in whatever cruelty it demands of them, because they “know” how it ends. Let the world burn. “I’ve read to the end.”

A young boy aged to an exaggerated old man on a bicycle

A demonic child

In the Mouth of Madness (1994), John Carpenter

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 5h

John’s last greatest. Stephen King’s ballooning legacy ribbed into one of the few equals to Stuart Gordon’s Lovecraft absurdity (and easily surpassing it). Like Prince of Darkness, gallingly nasty to Christendom and the very idea of faith rotting inside of you as an ignorance, an infection.

A person’s eyes, extreme close up and caught in catch light, the irises fragmented

Sam Neill having a great time at the movies

Sutter Cane peeling his face (and the space behind him) like paper

In the Mouth of Madness (1994), John Carpenter

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 5h

It’s a wicked hoot and a half, sharply funny and oozing with a cackling glee, but FUCK it’s so scary. Prince of Darkness feels radioactive and creeping, echoing. This is an aggressive mental breakdown of some of Carpenter’s all-timer editing and scope at the pitch of a villain’s laughter.

A naked old man handcuffed to the ankle of his wife behind a hotel counter

Blood dripping upside down against white

A painting of a couple taking a stroll along a river bank

A gilded tower cathedral

In the Mouth of Madness (1994), John Carpenter

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 5h

Sam Neill understood the assignment to a degree that would carry (or catapult) a lesser movie, but here he’s only one working part in a true blue fucking triumph. The Apocalypse Trilogy closes with its Rapture, the legacy of horror itself the new gospel of the Wall of Monsters’ invasion of cinema.

Sam Neill peeling a horror poster to reveal himself on another

Space torn open like the pages of a book revealing pure back within

A woman contorted horrifically, crab walking while her neck is twisted to be in the “right” position

In the Mouth of Madness (1994), John Carpenter

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 6h

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The Count von Curdles @thecountvoncurdles.bsky.social · Apr 29

It's my strong desire to make a horror movie that features some really busted, grimy, powered by magic and spite EC Comics zombies.

Zombie covered in cobwebs from BONE SICKNESS

Zombie with long wispy hair covering its skeletal face like a curtain, from THE HAUNTED MANSION

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mega them @megathem.bsky.social · 1d

alright arnold

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 14h

Michiko Ikeda’s editing is so beyond special. The storytelling and tempo of this movie remains so unique, the whole thing is paced and cut like this scene, and with the mood and look it’s kinda the only one that feels it could have just as easily been made by Hong Kong’s best.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 16h

It's fun to see people on here reappraise Godzilla's "monster island" era where, with relatively little budget to spend on big city sets, Godzilla was typically dropped somewhere sweaty and tropical. These flicks have a vibe all their own.

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Kly (𝔐egalith) @klyart.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of sudden expenses are putting me in a real bind. I'm opening emergency comm slots with negotiable prices!
Please dm me with any offers, time is of the essence.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Scrimm flexes his gothic chops and delicious devilish scripture while studio budget gives way to bespoke set-pieces and bombastic style; you can practically feel Coscarelli kicking his feet behind the camera during the last hour. That quad-barrelled shotgun is still total dopamine.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

More conventional, more slicker, but Coscarelli still retains his adolescent fantasia in the spirit of it all. Only this time it’s funnelled into gun splatter, chainsaw swordfights, bucketloads of goop/slime, and pulpy practical SFX-heavy gore.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

PHANTASM II sheds the original’s mournful tone and artful ambiguity for amped-up action and sprawling excess. The quiet whisper of the first film turned explosive, lonely suburbs traded for cross-country apocalypse where familial death and abstract fate still thrums in the gut.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN on the big screen this Wednesday! 😮‍💨

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · Oct 25

Art by • Simon Bisley

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 1d

Art by • Bernie Wrightson

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Gustav Örn Samuelson @mechabarbarian.bsky.social · 8d

Glass Cannon.

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Trevor Henderson 🍉 @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 1d

This is the ideal title card. All others aspire to be as perfect as this title card.

A matte painting of a gloomy castle, with a grey sky. The title THE BRIDES OF DRACULA looms in red and white letters like torn drapery, sharp and ragged

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Stan Winston’s renditions of the icons are gorgeous to behold, maybe the best any of them have ever looked, while led by a stunning Duncan Regehr as Dracula; Lee’s bestial fury inhabiting Lugosi’s silhouette with snarling relish & ice-cold domination.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

The Stephen King/Goonies optics of it fluctuate between legit endearing and weirdly mean while the monster mash mayhem/foggy gothic artifice always prevails. Suburban monster kid fantasies carved from popcorn/soda crowds and drive-in matinee memories.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a time capsule - for better and for worse - but Dekker’s affection is so hard to shake off. A lifetime of model kits, theater standees, and an overall pop culture genesis of the Universal Monsters realized with handsome anamorphic and late night creature feature dreams.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Coughing Baby vs Hydrogen Bomb

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 6d

A product of the halcyon days before the slasher formula became set in stone. You can see the influence of Argento and Carpenter on CURTAINS, but the movie also borrows from 70s psychodramas. The whole affair is scrumptiously loopy, never more so than in a kill involving ice skates and a scythe.

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