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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 4h

It also gets the period right, a grimy, dank 1970s. Matthew Herbert’s score contributes to the cursed atmosphere enormously.

Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 4h

It is clearly in the lineage of folk horror set texts like Robin Redbreast and Nigel Kneale’s Baby, but extrapolates on those rather than being a pastiche (I dread to think what Mark Gatiss would have made of this).

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 4h

Starve Acre is not well-regarded, it seems - many reviews complain of a lack of scares - but personally, I was in a state of unease throughout. No jump scares, no, but this was unremittingly unsettling.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 13h

#NowPlaying Good vibes.

The Modern Jazz Quartet, European Concert

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 14h

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 14h

Gloria Swanson at Studio 54! An actual in-the-wild instance of “X could have…”

Leticia García 🇵🇸 @ms-golightly.bsky.social · 15h

Kate Harrington, Truman Capote y Gloria Swanson en Studio 54. 1978

[Ron Galella]

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 14h

As in Lord Dunsany? That one? 👹

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 14h

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 14h

Sunday

Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 14h

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Citroen DS des d'Arbac de Neuville

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

I’m enjoying (well, maybe not the word) seeing people try to laud Keaton and swerve Allen. Like blanking Sternberg in any account of Dietrich.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

Forget it, Rick. It’s Internet.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

#BillEvans worked with a number of singers, but his duet album with #MonicaZetterlund is a limpid favourite. I love the cover, where she’s affectionately stroking his hair.

Waltz for Debby, by Monica Zetterlund and Bill Evans

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

#DianeKeaton

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

Tijuana Ern #mexicanmorecambeandwise

Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

The Val Lewton production The Ghost Ship (1943) is notably timely, as its core theme is how the structures around authority gone despotic, and ultimately demented, turn a blind eye and even enable it.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, Gerry Anderson shows were rich in communication officers.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

Lieutenant Green, colleague of Captain Scarlet.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

Just took delivery of my @fantagraphics.bsky.social Wally Wood collection, The Spawn of Venus.

An alien lady levels a man with a thought wave after looking inside his mind and discovering filth

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

My apologies to Richard!

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the steer to Gene Vincent’s The Day the World Turned Blue, though Richard Hawley’s observation “if you listen to Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground, I wonder if there was a Gene influence at work on that,” seems the wrong way round.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 1d

What’s that thing about defining insanity as repeating something and expecting a different result?

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Staircase in the Grands Magasins Dufayel department store, Paris, 19th century

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Part of me hopes the Bowie who hid stars that only appear when exposed to a light source on the sleeve of Blackstar also picked this name as a tip-off.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

Can I have two? Albums that actively enraged me.

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Reaky, Hound of Dracula @reaky.bsky.social · 3d

How do you feel about Elvis Costello?

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