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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 5d

Horrortober #14: Somnium (2025) An interesting first feature from writer/director Racheal Cain, about a small town wannabe actress who moves to LA and gets a job at an (evil?) sleep clinic that “changes lives” through people’s dreams. It mostly works though shakily at times. #filmsky 📽️

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 5d

Horrortober #13: Son of Frankenstein (1939) The mad doctor’s son inherits his father’s castle and finds the monster is still alive but controlled by a local weirdo named Ygor (Bela Lugosi!). Loads of fun but more complicated and thus less indelible than its predecessors. #filmsky 📽️

A still from Son of Frankenstein featuring stars Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, and Bela Lugosi.

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 8d

Horrortober #12: Ghostbusters (1984) Just fun to have on while I do stuff, I've seen this movie numerous times and have yet to get tired of it. The more recent entries just don't capture the same vibes for me at all, sad to say, but this is of course a favorite. #Filmsky 📽️

A still of stars Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, and Bill Murray in full gear as the Ghostbusters (1984).

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 8d

Horrortober #11: The Woman in the Yard (2025) Danielle Deadwyler stars in what I believe is supposed to be a meditation on grief and depression but I mostly just found to be an unpleasant experience of watching a mentally ill woman yell at her kids and also her dog which is worse. ;) #Filmsky 📽️

A still from The Woman in the Yard (2025).

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 8d

Horrortober #10: Presence (2024) A haunted house movie told entirely from the point of view of the ghost, by which I mean the camera is moving around in these long takes observing (and occasionally moving objects) a family going through some tough emotional times. YMMV, but I liked it. #Filmsky 📽️

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 8d

Horrortober #9: Rift (2017) Kanopy describes this as a "Gay Icelandic Psychological Thriller," which feels like a brand new sentence. In practice I thought it had some good elements (especially the sweeping local scenery) but is too long and is somehow both predictable and overly opaque. #Filmsky 📽️

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 9d

Horrortober #8: Arcadian (2024) A very bare bones little post-apocalypse thriller with Nicolas Cage (a toned down version) and his two teenage sons in a farmhouse that is attacked every night by monsters that are at first unseen and then seen but so weird they're hard to comprehend. #Filmsky 📽️

A still of star Nicolas Cage in Arcadian (2024).

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 10d

Horrortober #7: Ganja & Hess (1973) An experimental, Afro-centric sort of vampire movie, about an anthropologist whose weird friend stabs him three times with a special dagger and now craves blood, along with the wife of the guy he killed who has no problem shacking up with the killer. #Filmsky 📽️

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 10d

Horrortober #6: Night of the Lepus (1972) You might think someone making a movie about huge, bloodthirsty rabbits killing people would be a comedy, but this movie takes itself deadly seriously and is thus completely ludicrous. Janet Leigh and DeForest Kelley are among the rabbit fighters. #Filmsky 📽️

A still of the giant rabbits in Night of the Lepus (1972).

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 11d

Horrortober #5: Until Dawn (2025) An adaptation of a video game that tried to give the player the experience of being in a horror movie, it's definitely eating its own tail but it's also trying to have at least some fun. For those who want horror movies a little meta but just a little. #Filmsky 📽️

A still of the cast of Until Dawn (2025).

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 11d

Horrortober #4: They Live (1988) John Carpenter somehow got somebody to give him action movie money to make "Wake Up Sheeple: The Movie." Roddy Piper findsa pair of sunglasses that let's him see that human society is all being controlled by evil capitalist aliens. #Filmsky 📽️

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 11d

Horrortober #3: I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Before Romero, there were still zombie movies, but they were about using Voodoo to control people. This may be the best of that bunch, from Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur, it's actually done its research on Voodoo and is visually interesting. #Filmsky 📽️

A still from I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 12d

Horrortober #2: Pulse (2001) A real nose for general creepiness and an early, spot-on take on the internet bringing about apocalyptic loneliness has kept this film in the conversation over a few decades despite containing some of the stupidest characters I've ever seen in a movie. #Filmsky 📽️

Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 13d

Horrortober #1: Longlegs (2024) It's time again for us to feature only horror movies for a month and we decided to start with this very strange serial killer type story with perhaps the weirdest ever appearance by Nic Cage, and I know that's a high bar. #Filmsky 📽️

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 14d

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) Kind of a horror kaiju film about what if we actually dealt with the collateral damage in these things and also what if Godzilla was kind of a turtle thing. Ends in Kyoto getting stomped rather than Tokyo for a change of pace. Better than you might think. #Filmsky 📽️

A still of Gamera in Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)

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Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 14d

Life Is Sweet (1990) Mike Leigh directs this "comedy/drama" about a working-class family in N London and their travails over a couple of eventful days. Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent play the central couple, though Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, and Jane Horrocks steal a lot of scenes. #Filmsky 📽️

A still of cast members Allison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Rea, and Timothy Spall in Life Is Sweet (1990).

Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 15d

The Avengers (2012) If there isn't still a sort of visceral joy in some of this movie for you it's really not for you and that's fine. Director Joss Whedon was credited/blamed for putting a lot of jokes in but his serious dialogue has this strange almost mannered quality. Anyway it's fun. #Filmsky 📽️