Benoît Lelièvre
@deadendfollies.bsky.social
Literary, Film and Music Critic. Metal af. I'm being serious on www.deadendfollies.com. I come here to shitpost.
The singer from Pissgrave sounds like Dylan from Full of Hell with a lisp #MetalSky #FullofHell #Pissgrave
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The singer from Pissgrave sounds like Dylan from Full of Hell with a lisp #MetalSky #FullofHell #Pissgrave
That moment when someone you know happens to walk by as you’re congratulating your dog for shitting promptly because it’s cold out 😭
December 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That moment when someone you know happens to walk by as you’re congratulating your dog for shitting promptly because it’s cold out 😭
This is the movie my dad didn’t want me to see www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky
Classic Movie Review : Warlock (1989) — Dead End Follies
The film my dad didn’t want me to watch with him.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is the movie my dad didn’t want me to see www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky
Watching them Saddest Day IG stories like 🥺
December 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Watching them Saddest Day IG stories like 🥺
Forgive me Matt Pike, for I had not given this album my full, committed ears when it came out 🥺🙏🏻 www.deadendfollies.com/blog/album-r... #MetalSky #HighonFire #MattPike
Album Review : High on Fire - Cometh the Storm (2024) — Dead End Follies
I’m sorry Matt Pike, for I had sinned against metal.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Forgive me Matt Pike, for I had not given this album my full, committed ears when it came out 🥺🙏🏻 www.deadendfollies.com/blog/album-r... #MetalSky #HighonFire #MattPike
* Grindmother gets on stage last night *
Girl next to me : Uh, is she gonna sing?
Me : Not only she’s gonna sing, but this is technically her band
#MetalSky #Grindmother
Girl next to me : Uh, is she gonna sing?
Me : Not only she’s gonna sing, but this is technically her band
#MetalSky #Grindmother
December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
* Grindmother gets on stage last night *
Girl next to me : Uh, is she gonna sing?
Me : Not only she’s gonna sing, but this is technically her band
#MetalSky #Grindmother
Girl next to me : Uh, is she gonna sing?
Me : Not only she’s gonna sing, but this is technically her band
#MetalSky #Grindmother
"Bruce Springsteen unintentionally proved he could be more truthful alone in a bedroom than he ever could with the most airtight band in America, which is the kind of revelation that must feel both liberating and vaguely insulting to everyone involved.” www.deadendfollies.com/blog/book-re...
Book Review : Warren Zanes - Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making Of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (2023) — Dead End Follies
I dare you to find anything in your life that you love with even half the obsessive, granular devotion Warren Zanes brings to Nebraska.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Bruce Springsteen unintentionally proved he could be more truthful alone in a bedroom than he ever could with the most airtight band in America, which is the kind of revelation that must feel both liberating and vaguely insulting to everyone involved.” www.deadendfollies.com/blog/book-re...
This movie is undead www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky #MovieReview #MovieReviews
Classic Movie Review : Vampire's Kiss (1988) — Dead End Follies
Nicolas Cage will make anything immortal.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This movie is undead www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky #MovieReview #MovieReviews
This movie treats supernatural murder like a form of recreational recidivism and I mean that in the best way possible. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #MovieReviews
Movie Review : The First Power (1990) — Dead End Follies
Nobody is making movies like this anymore and maybe nobody can.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This movie treats supernatural murder like a form of recreational recidivism and I mean that in the best way possible. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #MovieReviews
Jacques Derrida would’ve furiously jacked off www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #FilmSky #Pontypool
Movie Review : Pontypool (2008) — Dead End Follies
Come for the zombies, stay for radio being eerie as shit.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Jacques Derrida would’ve furiously jacked off www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #FilmSky #Pontypool
Why is Glen Powell the new Pedro Pascal all of a sudden?
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Why is Glen Powell the new Pedro Pascal all of a sudden?
It’s been years since a non-Canadian tech-death record made me feel anything resembling an emotion. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/album-r... #MetalSky #deathmetal
Album Review : Demon King - Death Knell (2025) — Dead End Follies
It’s fun. It’s exhausting. And if that contradiction bothers you, congratulations: you’ve finally understood tech death.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s been years since a non-Canadian tech-death record made me feel anything resembling an emotion. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/album-r... #MetalSky #deathmetal
The song about Travis Kelce’s dick made me think of Rihanna. 💅🏻 www.deadendfollies.com/blog/essay-t...
Taylor Swift's Last Frontier — Dead End Follies
The popularity of Taylor Swift, stratospheric, omnipresent, and somehow still expanding, rests on a principle she no longer seems to understand or care about: what she doesn’t say matters infinitely m...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The song about Travis Kelce’s dick made me think of Rihanna. 💅🏻 www.deadendfollies.com/blog/essay-t...
"The movie’s accidental genius is the implication that postwar modernity is the world’s worst roommate for history, loud, entitled, and convinced that repainting a traumatized space makes it new again."
www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky
www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky
Classic Movie Review : The Amityville Horror (1979) — Dead End Follies
Where I tell you whether your parents were right to tell you not to watch it (because they obviously never did).
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November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"The movie’s accidental genius is the implication that postwar modernity is the world’s worst roommate for history, loud, entitled, and convinced that repainting a traumatized space makes it new again."
www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky
www.deadendfollies.com/blog/classic... #MovieSky #FilmSky #HorrorSky
We get ANOTHER Osgood Perkins movie? 😏
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We get ANOTHER Osgood Perkins movie? 😏
It’s supposed to be Thomas Pynchon’s "easy" novel, but it’s not easy easy and, most important, it’s not simple www.deadendfollies.com/blog/book-re... #BookSky #ThomasPynchon
Book Review : Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice (2009) — Dead End Follies
You don’t just read Pynchon. You enter a hall of mirrors built by a man who refuses to show his face even when it’s "supposed" to be easy.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It’s supposed to be Thomas Pynchon’s "easy" novel, but it’s not easy easy and, most important, it’s not simple www.deadendfollies.com/blog/book-re... #BookSky #ThomasPynchon
Where I somehow compare Yorgos Lanthimos to gorenoise god Phyllomedusa. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #FilmSky #MetalSky #Phyllomedusa
Movie Review : Kinds of Kindness (2024) — Dead End Follies
Desire is exhausting.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Where I somehow compare Yorgos Lanthimos to gorenoise god Phyllomedusa. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #FilmSky #MetalSky #Phyllomedusa
"Bell Witch haven’t abandoned doom, but they’re expanding its borders, wandering toward something that’s still heavy but no longer confined by labels or even heaviness itself." www.deadendfollies.com/blog/album-r... #metalsky #doommetal #funeraldoom
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November 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Bell Witch haven’t abandoned doom, but they’re expanding its borders, wandering toward something that’s still heavy but no longer confined by labels or even heaviness itself." www.deadendfollies.com/blog/album-r... #metalsky #doommetal #funeraldoom
The eighties were super weird. We just weren’t advanced enough to understand how much. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #FilmSky
Movie Review : American Ninja (1985) — Dead End Follies
The eighties were even weirder than we remember them to be.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The eighties were super weird. We just weren’t advanced enough to understand how much. www.deadendfollies.com/blog/movie-r... #MovieSky #FilmSky
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I think this is probably my funnest & grossest novel. I wrote it while we were on set filming a movie & I was probably the happiest I'd ever been in my life & I think it shows in the text. a joyous celebration of body horror. you should read it sometime. maybe even review it? tell a friend? 🥹
November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I think this is probably my funnest & grossest novel. I wrote it while we were on set filming a movie & I was probably the happiest I'd ever been in my life & I think it shows in the text. a joyous celebration of body horror. you should read it sometime. maybe even review it? tell a friend? 🥹
Watching Bright Lights, Big City now. Man, Luka Rocco Magnotta really ruined True Faith for everyone 🫠
November 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Watching Bright Lights, Big City now. Man, Luka Rocco Magnotta really ruined True Faith for everyone 🫠
Alright, that ending is legit iconic. They Ubered a cementary into their house 😂 #Poltergeist
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright, that ending is legit iconic. They Ubered a cementary into their house 😂 #Poltergeist