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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 8h

Day 11 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Van Helsing

While it's no masterpiece of cinema, this still remains to be an entertaining homage to the Universal Monsters with it's cool designs & action, fun performances, great cinematography and awesome music score.

#Halloween2025 #Horror

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 10h

Am very sad to hear about the passing of the legendary Diane Keaton.

She was amazing in so many unforgettable classics from the iconic Godfather Trilogy to Father of the Bride, Annie Hall, The First Wives Club and Manhattan.

R.I.P - Diane Keaton (1946-2025) ❤️

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 1d

Day 10 of #31DaysOfHalloween - The Return of the Living Dead

This is still an iconic and hilarious flick for it's incredibly fun performances, great practical & makeup effects and unforgettable zombie designs.

Arrow Video's new 4K release looks excellent!!

#Halloween2025 #Horror #Comedy

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9 of #31DaysOfHalloween - The Banana Splits Movie

This personally still remains to be a very entertaining horror comedy adaptation for it's fun performances, funny comedy, great practical effects, music with some extremely cool & gory deaths.

#Halloween2025 #Horror

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 3d

Day 8 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Killer Klowns from Outer Space

This still remains to be one of the all time best horror comedies for it's very entertaining performances, excellent practical effects, awesome & unforgettable designs and brilliant music.

#Halloween2025 #Comedy

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 3d

Had the rest of this week's new UK 4K home media releases arrive today.

Also had Arrow Video's upcoming 4K UHD release of - The Return of the Living Dead - arrive early from Zavvi UK.

Diva was surprisingly only £15 when I ordered it!!

@ultrahdbluray.bsky.social #PhysicalMedia #Film #Horror

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 4d

Day 7 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Horror Express

This still remains to be a thrilling horror classic over 50 years later from it's extremely good performances, great atmosphere, makeup effects, cool visuals, creepy tension and excellent music score.

#Halloween2025 #Horror

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 5d

Day 6 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Spawn

While the CGI effects are very dated, this still remains to be an fun flick because of it's fun performances, great makeup effects & extremely cool designs.

The new Arrow Video 4K release looks very impressive!

@ultrahdbluray.bsky.social #Halloween2025 #Horror

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 5d

Picked up some new UK 4K UHD releases today from HMV Coventry.

Turns out - Hereditary - has been released on Standard 4K in the UK as an HMV in-store exclusive.

Have another Three 4K releases to arrive through the week.

@ultrahdbluray.bsky.social #PhysicalMedia #Film #Horror

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 6d

Day 5 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Basket Case

Sure it may not be a horror masterpiece, but it's understandable why this has found a cult following with it's great effects considering it's limited budget, cool kills, gritty atmosphere and funny use of humour.

#Halloween2025 #Horror

Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 7d

Day 4 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Project Silence

This is a very cool and effective South Korean disaster thriller with a very engaging premise & tension along with really good performances, action sequences, some impressive CGI effects.

Really worth watching!!

#Halloween2025 #Thriller

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 7d

Just Watched - Him

I personally had a good time with this Horror film.

While it's understandable why this isn't hitting with audiences given it's pacing and not so subtle themes, it's still brilliantly acted with stunning cinematography & visuals and cool 3rd act.

#HimMovie #Horror

Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 7d

Just Watched - The Smashing Machine

This was personally a great biographical drama.

Fantastic and career high performance by Dwayne Johnson with an excellent supporting performances especially by Emily Blunt with very emotional drama and great cinematography.

#TheSmashingMachine #Cinema

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 8d

Day 3 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Overlord

This continues to be an brilliant Horror Action flick from it's excellent performances, awesome action, gore effects, creepy visuals, great build-up and extremely satisfying 3rd act.

Deserves a much bigger following!!

#Halloween2025 #Horror

Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 8d

Am playing - Ghost of Yotei - and there's an awesome detail where if you're currently out in the rain and bring up the map, you'll see rain drops actually hit the map.

#GhostofYotei #PlayStation5

Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 9d

Day 2 of #31DaysOfHalloween - Corpse Bride

20 years later and this still remains to be an excellent fantasy film with it's incredible stop-motion animation, beautiful visuals, great voice acting very funny comedy and wonderful music.

Stunning new 4K Remaster!!

#Halloween2025 #Animation

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 9d

The series did get released on standard 4K a few weeks later in the UK so it's not hard to get on the format now.

They might've just stopped manufacturing the Steelbook release to save costs.

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 9d

Had the Superman 4K Replacement Discs arrive today.

Was surprised on how easy it was to get these replacements sent, despite having originally bought them 2 years ago.

@ultrahdbluray.bsky.social #PhysicalMedia #Superman

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 10d

Started off #31DaysOfHalloween with the Unrated Versions of - M3gan & M3gan 2.0

It's understandable why these films don't appeal to everyone, but I personally find them to be entertaining Horror/Sci Fi flicks with some cool kills when they're not censored.

#Halloween2025 #Horror

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 10d

Probably 😄

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 10d

Oh they probably do.

I have a cat so I don't have to take it out for walks.

Don't have to worry about neighbours either as the walls are quite good at muffling sounds 😄

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 10d

Just had - Ghost of Yotei - on PS5 arrive early today thanks to HMV.

Absolutely love Ghost of Tsushima so I've been incredibly excited to see what @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social has worked on with this sequel.

#GhostofYotei #PhysicalMedia #PlayStation5

Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 11d

I had an LG 4K Player.

I can't complain much though as it lasted quite some time as it also played Blu-ray 3D releases as well 😄

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 11d

Had to get this new 4K UHD Blu-ray player today as my old 4K Player stopped working this morning.

Had to happen just before Broketober 😂

@ultrahdbluray.bsky.social #PhysicalMedia

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Jordan Carpenter @jordancarp3nt3r.bsky.social · 12d

Just Watched - The Strangers: Chapter 2

This was personally a solid 2nd part to the Trilogy.

Like the first film it's nothing groundbreaking, but it's still well acted with some good tension and cool use of sounds.

Still very intrigued to see Chapter 3.

#TheStrangersChapter2 #Horror

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