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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Any progressive watching that disgraceful performance was left with no doubt at all about what Clinton would do to get their votes: absolutely nothing. /3

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Clinton, instead, went on an entitled rant about how she was "WINNING," about how she was so much better than Sanders, how her "policies" were so much better than his and looked absolutely appalled that she'd even be asked such a question. Her malignant narcissism on full display. /2

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Toward the end of that primary, Clinton was interviewed by Rachel Maddow, who asked her what she's be willing to grant Sanders' voters to get them onboard with her campaign. Even a moderately competent politician could have knocked that one right out of the park. /1

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Clinton definitely wasn't "great with policies and a great politician." That's part of why she was so hated.

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horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 2d

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. 1970 Terrific debut from Argento put giallo on the radar. Smart, influential and a global success. Not bad for a new guy.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #italianhorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 1d

THE EVIL DEAD (1981)

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

"Join us..."

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Don't assume that. The point of the exercise was to tilt the process in Clinton's favor/in favor of the party Establishment-backed candidate. To make sure no one else, whoever may challenge, had a chance.

Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

lol. Formald A. Hyde

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Less than a year later, in fact, David F. Friedman had THE ADULT VERSION OF JEKYLL & HIDE on the screen, and more would follow in the decades since. But DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE is by far, the best of the lot.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

This wasn't the first time a Jekyll/Hyde movie incorporated a gender-swap--that would (as far as I know) A MODERN DR. JEKYLL, a little-remembered lost film from 1908--and it certainly wouldn't be the last.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

The film was written by Brian Clemens, one of the real undersung stars of late Hammer horror, and beside Stevenson, his riot of a screenplay also manages to work in both the Jack the Ripper and Burke/Hare killings.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Ralph Bates, as Henry Jekyll, manages to turn himself into "Edwina Hyde," the breathtaking Martine Beswick, who seems to be having an absolute ball as his evil alter ego.
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Released on this day--17 Oct.--in 1971, Roy Ward Baker's DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE, Hammer's excellent gender-swapping riff on the Robert Louis Stevenson novella (the studio's 3rd take on it).
#horror #Hammer #classichorror

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

That particular one marshals all of the (rather extensive) available3 evidence into one place and makes the case that yes, Sanders would have probably won.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

A great, crazy, VERY '80s made-for-television horror melange featuring vampires, zombies, ghosts, a great vintage soundtrack, a goofy "Thriller"-inspired song-and-dance number and Wolfman Jack. This was ABC's Halloween offering in 1985 (though it aired the night after). Loads of fun.

AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦 @afizgig.bsky.social · 1d

#NW
The Midnight Hour (1985) 🎥
dir. Jack Bender

'Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned, Pitchford Cove will never be the same again....or will it?'

#31DaysOfHorror 🎃

DVD artwork for the movie The Midnight Hour 1985.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

"he was not going to win the general against Trump."

All of the relevant evidence points in the other direction. That doesn't mean Sanders would have won. It does mean that anyone claiming the contrary not only does so without any evidence but in the face of all evidence.
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Yes, Sanders Would Have Won: Exploding False Clintonite Narratives

News Reviews Dept. — Clintonites in the press and the Democratic party, sometimes aided and abetted by Hillary Clinton herself, have spun a…

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and the Clintonite right--the faction always so vocally down on "purity tests"--are, in fact, the foremost advocates of purity testing. Their first and most important purity test: no progressives. Ever.

Fortunately, they don't really represent anyone.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Don't castigate them too harshly. Such people are looking to their political "leaders" for, well, leadership because that's how the system has always worked. They have entirely failed to realize that, with the burgeoning Trump dictatorship, such context is out the window and absurd.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

The Clintonite-right "leadership is just there to deliver to their big donors whatever those big donors want. At that, they've been spectacularly effective.
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Zombies, Dinosaurs & That Definition of Insanity: Clintonite-Right “Democratic Leadership” & Its…

Last Summer — on Independence Day, no less — I began a Twitter thread devoted to a critique of the Clintonite-right “leadership” in the…

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

The Clintonite-right "leadership" of the Dems are certainly weak, certainly stupid, certainly politically disastrous and are aggressively feeding the U.S. to fascism, just as they have been for years, but to call them "ineffective," one has to evaluate their mission.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-progressive "Democrats"--the Clintonite right--get "hopping mad" that they have exactly what they not only wanted but have, for decades, insisted upon having.
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Zombies, Dinosaurs & That Definition of Insanity: Clintonite-Right “Democratic Leadership” & Its…

Last Summer — on Independence Day, no less — I began a Twitter thread devoted to a critique of the Clintonite-right “leadership” in the…

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

"who still have their Biden/Harris signs, absolutely hopping mad that Jeffries and Schumer are as incompetent as they are."

...which is utterly bizarre. They got the kind of clownish Clintonite-right "leadership" they wanted. They have, in fact, had it for years.

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

Michelle--who is indestructible--was in both MARI-COOKIE (as Sheriff Marga, whose uniform and interrogation techniques are quite memorable) and LUST FOR FRANKENSTEIN.
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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · Feb 21

The most excellent Michelle Bauer as Goddess--the Frankenstein monster--in Jess Franco's LUST FOR FRANKENSTEIN (1998).
#FrancoFriday #JessFranco #JesusFranco #MichelleBauer #LinaRomay #horror #filmsky #moviesky #horrormovie #horrorfilm

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Cinema Cult @jriddlecult.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, Sanders' voters overwhelmingly voted for Clinton, including those ordinarily-inactive voters that he was able to bring into the process. Without him in the race, she would have lost by even larger numbers.

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