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Benjamin Frankenberg @benhorrible.bsky.social · 14d

If I was in London, I wouldn't dare miss this.

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · Sep 9

Do you like WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR? 👀
How about BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW? 👀
Do you like a horror of stillness, dissociation and dread, like the worst trip you’ve ever had? Hurrah! come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social in London on September 30th (payday!) and gaze into the abyss with us. 😱

Shoegaze Horror: Bad Vibes, Liminal Loops and Deadly Dissociation (London) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies

Enter the dreamlike, destabilising world of Shoegaze Horror, where cinema trades story for sensation and transforms atmosphere into dread.

miskatonicinstitute.com

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Benjamin Frankenberg @benhorrible.bsky.social · 18d

Meanwhile, me and my squad at the Rapture.

An image from the film “Society” by Stuart Gordon (1989)
Depicting dozens of bodies merging in an orgiastic flesh form. This is the act of Shunting

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 20d

Not enough gay bars hosting Rapture parties

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The Cultured Curators @culturedcurators.bsky.social · 25d

It's Official! The Cultured Curators will be boots on the ground at the 10th annual @brooklynhorror.bsky.social! @benhorrible.bsky.social will be there in the flesh and @rpish.bsky.social in spirit. Can't wait to see and hang with some of our favorite friends!

The 10th annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in red writing at the top left.
A zombie rat rotting and rabid, rises fiercely, crawling toward the viewer over a flaming brain. in the bottom left in red text it reads.
BrooklynHorrorFest.com
October 16-25, 2025

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The Cultured Curators @culturedcurators.bsky.social · 26d

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Rabia | RPISH @rpish.bsky.social · 27d

Time to start #HOOPTOBER12!

I just saw that one of my list entries got added to Netflix: The Blackening

Haven’t rewatched it since release and it really deserves a rewatch.

To follow my list and review check here:

boxd.it/O54UI

Hooptober 12 - The Cultured Curators list

My 5th year participating via Letterboxd. Great initiative by @cinemonster (check his account for previous lists and info) QUICK EASY RULES: There must be 31 horror films 6 countries (other than Italy...

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The Cultured Curators @culturedcurators.bsky.social · 26d

#Hooptober #Hooptober12

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Blerdy Massacre @blerdymassacre.bsky.social · Sep 2

Did somebody order the audio from our live recording at @accesshorror.bsky.social last month? Cause that’s what we’re serving this Tuesday.

Get into this convo about the intersection of disability and horror with convo with Karama Horne and Chuck Collins.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Sharai, Xero, Karama, and Chuck having a damn Blerdy time on stage

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 28d

Back in February I wrote about how constantly making a joke out of everything is destroying us. Been thinking about it a lot lately.

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/banish-wit...

Banish With Laughter

When everything is funny, nothing is sacred

houseofmirrors.substack.com

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The Cultured Curators @culturedcurators.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's official, The Cultured Curator will be there in person!

The Cultured Curators @culturedcurators.bsky.social · Sep 3

Episode 14 is live

In this episode, Benjamin and Rabia sit down with Horror Activist, film maker, and festival directorAriel Baska to talk about their prolific work surrounding disability advocacy and the Access:Horror Film Festival (Now available to stream on Shudder).
@accesshorror.bsky.social

Ariel baska. A caucasion person with chin length light hair, glassed and a crooked smile. They wear a black shirt with a layered patchwork of blue and green stripes atop. The image carries a blur effect adding a mysterious glow to them.

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Benjamin Frankenberg @benhorrible.bsky.social · Sep 1

Access:Horror is live on Shudder today!

It was such an honor to work with this festival in celebration of disability in horror cinema. The programming is incredible, and the work of this festival and what it represents is surely needed.

Please go give it a watch!

@accesshorror.bsky.social

FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · Sep 1

📆Oh, it’s September? New month = new streaming guide!

Here are all the horror titles hitting streaming services this month. Which titles are you most excited to add to your watchlist? (Continued in comments)

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The Cultured Curators @culturedcurators.bsky.social · Aug 28

Full support! More of this!

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is fucking cool. www.fangoria.com/the-toxic-av...

THE TOXIC AVENGER To Wipe Out Medical Debt With Non-Profit Partnership

Macon Blair’s THE TOXIC AVENGER is set to mop up at least $5 million in crushing medical costs thanks to an inspiring new partnership between Cineverse and national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt.

www.fangoria.com

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Rabia | RPISH @rpish.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s time for #Hooptober! Yearly horror watch and review challenge. You can find the list and rules on Cinemonster’s LB.

Will post here per title once we start.

Got my letterboxd list ready to go: boxd.it/O54UI

Hooptober 12 - The Cultured Curators list

My 5th year participating via Letterboxd. Great initiative by @cinemonster (check his account for previous lists and info) QUICK EASY RULES: There must be 31 horror films6 countries (other than Italy ...

boxd.it

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Benjamin Frankenberg @benhorrible.bsky.social · Aug 27

Let’s Gooooo! #Hooptober12

boxd.it/O4akE

Posters for.
The Wizard of Ox
Shivers
Bride of Frankenstein
Cemetery Man
Return of the Living Dead Part 2
28 Days Later
The Dead Don’t Die
Starry Eyes
Frankenstein
Blind Beast
Ganja & Hess
The X Files

Posters for
Demon Lover
Night Watch
Kenneth Abger’s Fire Works
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Beauty and the Beast
Faust
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the hourglass
The Beast
Vampyr
The Golem
All the Colors of the Dark
Trick or Treat

Poster for
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Burn Witch Burn
Hardware
Thirst
Santa Sangre
I Like Bats
Under The Skin
On yhe Silver Globe
The Wolf House
The Hourglass Sanatorium

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The Cultured Curators @culturedcurators.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Cultured Curators' eternal hunger may never be sated!

Rabia | RPISH @rpish.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Cultured Curators are eating well this rest of the year with Frightfest, Brooklyn Horror, Imagine and more

@culturedcurators.bsky.social @benhorrible.bsky.social

a cartoon character with its mouth open and the words nom nom nom below it

ALT: a cartoon character with its mouth open and the words nom nom nom below it

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Rabia | RPISH @rpish.bsky.social · Aug 24

FYI: short reviews on my Letterboxd

Long form reviews going up on the @culturedcurators.bsky.social website after the fest (I need sleep first)

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Rabia | RPISH @rpish.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s that time of the year again! @frightfest.bsky.social

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Rabia | RPISH @rpish.bsky.social · Aug 21

My little Frightfest 2025 thread:

First movie was The Home with Pete Davidson. Opening the festival 🍀

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Benjamin Frankenberg @benhorrible.bsky.social · Aug 21

Just remembered Shintaro Kago hosts a pooped theme film festival. I have to know these things, so now you do too.

Benjamin Frankenberg @benhorrible.bsky.social · Nov 22

Not sure who needs to know this, but the legendary Shintaro Kago is organizing a film festival and looking for short video works on stool, feces and excrement. 💩 🤷‍♀️

A school girl. Her face is obscured by a series of escheresque hands in a wreath around her face. between the fingers a series disembodied mandibles circling a lone eyeball. Her hands seem to reach as if to try to touch her horrid face. Like a halo a circle of dismembered fingers in great numbers radiate from her head squid eels and other tentacled creatures join in a series of concentric circles around her in disorienting fashion.

A praying school girl, a number of disembodied hands radiating around her, some holding knives. Disembodied eyeballs float through the air in a spiral formation a knot work of trail tracks whirl around each other and fill the space. Tiny trains with fetus' aboard them ride the tracks. her face is a series of misplaced jaws.

a young woman with outstretched hands stands. a bisected chicken hobers at the lower corners circles of disembodied limbs, fetuses and hands, make strange geometries with the repetitions. her face is a mess of flesh strung up by string. surgery lights are the backdrop.

A poster for the Unco Film Festival Vol. 14. It reads "May, 2025, Tokyo", "We are looking for short video works on stool, feces and excrement!! Live-action dramas, comedies, animations, etc." "Organized by Shintaro Kago". The image is a blonde woman with pigtails her head erupts in a strangle mangle of pipes with valves and nozzles.

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Rabia | RPISH @rpish.bsky.social · Jul 15

Amazing thread on how Superman has always been the way he is, James Gunn only took his to his roots. And how history repeats itself.

Doing an interview about this on radio today as well.

Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · Jul 11

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...