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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 12h

Stop making a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the beginning and make a movie worse by adding the narration from CHILDREN OF THE CORN.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 13h

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT is like putting RETURN TO SALEM'S LOT and SUBSPECIES in a blender, with a dash of HOWLING VI: THE FREAKS and just a pinch of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 for flavor. That might not sound like much to some, but all of those movies are at the core of my being.

Meagan Navarro @hauntedmeg.bsky.social · 13h

Did you know that Fangoria released a horror movie in the 90s in which a vampire is let loose from an underwater crypt, creating a wave of vamps who sleep submerged in water with their lungs floating outside their body? It's called CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, starring Karen Black (on Tubi).

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 16h

I will never not think it's the coolest thing in the world that these two long-gestating passion projects from visionary directors not only escaped Development Hell but wound up being released within a year of one another.

Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 19h

The bewildered nurse at the beginning of CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS is the best indicator early on that this cult is just the Smith's Grove staff. She is so clearly a new hire who suddenly found herself at a ritual sacrifice. Huge "I just fucking work here" energy.

Nurse Mary in "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers"

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing to try to do a post for every day of October, and for today's essay I finally wrote about my favorite Guillermo del Toro film, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE. A beautifully somber deconstructive ghost story about all the different ways to feel frozen in time. nbrehmer.medium.com/an-insect-tr...

An Insect Trapped in Amber: The Haunted Empathy of ‘The Devil’s Backbone’

I first discovered this movie, as I’m sure many others did, during Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments in 2004. That introduced me to a lot…

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing to try to do a post for every day of October, and for today's essay I finally wrote about my favorite Guillermo del Toro film, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE. A beautifully somber deconstructive ghost story about all the different ways to feel frozen in time. nbrehmer.medium.com/an-insect-tr...

An Insect Trapped in Amber: The Haunted Empathy of ‘The Devil’s Backbone’

I first discovered this movie, as I’m sure many others did, during Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments in 2004. That introduced me to a lot…

nbrehmer.medium.com

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 1d

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 1d

All three versions of NOSFERATU absolutely master the depiction of the long, perilous journey to the castle, just to get there, take one look at the guy and go "oh shit oh fuck"

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 1d

Embry is deeply unsettling in it, not in an over-the-top scary way but (and I hate to say this given the circumstances of the episode) a very believable "guy you might actually run into on the street" kind of way.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 1d

The MASTERS OF HORROR episode INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD features a creative choice I've always genuinely, deeply loved which is that we don't find out our two main characters' names until 30 minutes into a 50 minute episode.

Don Coscarelli's "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road"

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about SCARECROWS, a movie that proves that sometimes the less we know about a situation, the better, shaping ambiguity into palpable cosmic dread. medium.com/@nbrehmer/th...

“They Don’t Want Me”: The Rural Cosmic Horror of ‘Scarecrows’

Scarecrows, even though it was released in 1988, was a film I first discovered through the pages of Fangoria, when it hit DVD in 2007. I…

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, which lasts because it does the impossible task for a film of authentically recreating how it feels to hear a campfire story, to be told a scary local legend that creeps into your mind and lingers there, for the first time. nbrehmer.medium.com/the-blair-wi...

‘The Blair Witch Project’ and the Power of Oral Folklore

Many great movies were lucky enough to be celebrated when they first came out, many were massive hits, but a very few have transcended…

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 2d

Wrote about THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, which lasts because it does the impossible task for a film of authentically recreating how it feels to hear a campfire story, to be told a scary local legend that creeps into your mind and lingers there, for the first time. nbrehmer.medium.com/the-blair-wi...

‘The Blair Witch Project’ and the Power of Oral Folklore

Many great movies were lucky enough to be celebrated when they first came out, many were massive hits, but a very few have transcended…

nbrehmer.medium.com

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 2d

If you want a book that does explain how he did it, I of course have but one recommendation.

"How I Did It" by Victor Frankenstein, book from "Young Frankenstein"

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to wind up buying this because I'm simply too curious about the scientific annotations for a book that doesn't really go into *how* he did it at all.

caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 2d

I spied this on my timeline and was intrigued and now it's mine. mine. Mine!

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 3d

Turned on FearFest just in time to hear the "What did I just say? Did I say there's a petting zoo in the basement? NO! There are GHOSTS in the basement" line in THIRTEEN GHOSTS. That's all I wanted.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 3d

Listen, it's a good remake, but I'm never going to stop laughing at TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE '03, a movie with Texas in the title, kicking off with "Sweet Home Alabama."

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 3d

This was the first piece in my "Histories of Horror" column way back at Council of Zoom. Finally got it back online. A deep dive into the origins and inspirations behind THE MUMMY. medium.com/@nbrehmer/hi...

Histories of Horror: The Mummy

This article was originally written as the inaugural entry for my “Histories of Horror” column at Council of Zoom.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 3d

Now watching a banger.
"I think that an evil house attracts evil men."
"But, if a house attracts evil men..."
"Why did it attract me?"

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 3d

This was the first piece in my "Histories of Horror" column way back at Council of Zoom. Finally got it back online. A deep dive into the origins and inspirations behind THE MUMMY. medium.com/@nbrehmer/hi...

Histories of Horror: The Mummy

This article was originally written as the inaugural entry for my “Histories of Horror” column at Council of Zoom.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 3d

Finally wrote in-depth about one of my favorite tragically overlooked horror movies ever made.
"As an adult, Simon is haunted by the ghosts of the things he has done. As a boy, he's haunted by the ghosts of the things he is going to do. It is a film about a doomed life." medium.com/@nbrehmer/gu...

Guilt is a Cycle, Hate is a Ghost, and Time is a Killer in ‘The Ugly’

Films like The Ugly are why I wanted to write about horror movies in the first place. So many spaces exist now for horror fans to…

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 4d

Watching FRANKENSTEIN and eating an apple cider donut. I am feeling the season in my bones.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday to my favorite author.

A collection of Clive Barker books. Including: Incarnations, Weaveworld, Hellbound Heart, Great and Secret Show, Cabal, Books of Blood, In the Flesh, Abarat, Tortured Souls, Sacrament, Everville, Imajica, Galilee, Coldheart Canyon, The Thief of Always, The Damnation Game

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 4d

The middle section of HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE, with the skyscraper built as a monument to Hell, and Pinhead taking root within it and slowly transforming it, could almost be seen as a loose adaptation of Clive Barker's "Down, Satan!"

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 4d

2000s nostalgia is seeing SICK GIRL for the first time and being so sure that Misty Mundae was about to kickstart a huge, legitimate indie horror career that part of you is still waiting for it to happen in 2025.

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