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Tyler Dean

Tyler Dean

@tmdean.bsky.social

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Literature professor and writer with a penchant for the Gothic, vampiric, and decadent. Guillermo del Toro but sadder and hornier. Check out my pop culture articles on reactormag.com/author/tyler-dean/

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Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Sep 16

My newest #80sFantasyFilmClub article is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social. This time we’re looking at the childhood nightmare, #ReturntoOz. Go and comment. Share the article. Marvel at Fairuza Balk’s best performance!
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Return to Oz: Is This a Horror Movie or a Kids' Movie? - Reactor

Dorothy is committed to an asylum, and it only gets weirder from there...

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Aug 19

My article for @reactorsff.bsky.social on Ridley Scott’s #Legend is up! Go comment and bask and reshare! reactormag.com/legend-faeri...

Legend: Faeries, Unicorns, and Tim Curry's Six-Pack - Reactor

What exactly is going on in this movie? Why isn't Tom Cruise wearing pants?

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Aug 15

#Alien:Earth uses #PeterPan as a focal point and uses the same quote from #PeterandWendy to anchor its read as I used for the backbone of my dissertation chapter on it. Noah Hawley’s a smart guy—what can I say?

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jul 24

Where there’s a whip…

My article on the horrors of revisiting a beloved flop is out at @reactorsff.bsky.social Comment on the site or share it here. My god though, what a nightmare.

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The Animated Return of the King: Sadly, Nostalgia Has Its Limits - Reactor

Rankin/Bass' follow-up to "The Hobbit" is so much messier than you might remember...

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jul 8

My #80sFantasyFilmClub article on the Bakshi and Frazetta “masterpiece,” #FireandIce, is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social As one canny commenter already said, “it’s the only film where every frame could be spray painted on the side of a van.” Go and comment!

Fire and Ice: Swords, Sorcery, and Very Little Clothing – Reactor

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 17

A few days late, but my article on #theneverendingstory for @reactorsff.bsky.social is up! It’s the latest in my #80sfantasyfilmclub series and (perhaps) the most traumatic!

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The NeverEnding Story: Childhood Trauma and the Stories That Change Us - Reactor

An emotional touchstone for a generation of fantasy-loving kids...

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 12

Definitely my dear. I’m safe. My people are safe. I hope you are doing well in these strange times.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 12

It’s not Mad Max out here, even a little bit. But it’s feeling more and more like Logan’s Run

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 12

Police carrying guns with less-lethal and gas canister rounds looking at suspicion at anyone who drives by them. Police looking intently at a man on an overpass waving a Mexican flag.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 12

But it’s not quite fair to say “business as usual.” What there is is a LOT of is police. Police in riot gear blocking freeway entrances. Police cars, sirens on, in quarter mile lines barreling down the freeway.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 12

I live just north of Downtown and have to pass through the curfew zone to get almost anywhere. It’s not Mad Max out here.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 12

I’ve seen a lot of posts, aimed at non-Angelenos, about how it is all business as usual here. About how there are no rioters, no looting, no urban warfare with “military-aged illegal aliens.” The details are true.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 10

Always happy when the winds of fortune blow our sociopathic opportunist governor back onto the vaguely right side of history. I’ll enjoy the next few days of it!

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 9

I definitely could see the puffs of gas rounds going off from the Freeway earlier in the ride. This is what fascism and resistance to it looks like. I am so proud of my city for standing up to Trump’s jackbooted thugs and I hope we can continue to resist the tide of inhumanity he he sends our way.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Jun 9

Fire at the Protests in DTLA. Was not close enough to see the source though, if reporting is accurate, I believe this is a burning WayMo (Google’s self driving rideshare vehicle).

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · May 14

#BurkeAndHare (2010) the wacky, buddy comedy about the famous graverobbers turned murderers is #GreatestShowman levels of tonally misguided.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · May 13

My article on #ClashoftheTitans is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social for the #80sFantasyFilmClub! It’s the only Ray Harryhausen/Laurence Olivier collaboration in existence so treat it with reverence. Make @lisarinnaofficial.bsky.social proud!

Clash of the Titans: Perseus, Medusa, Claymation, and Camp - Reactor

Greek myth served up by acting legends and Harryhausen creatures — what's not to love?

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · May 1

My article on #Yellowjackets and the weaponization of Xennial nostalgia is up at @artforum.com
Share it far and wide!

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Good Will Hunting

Tyler Dean interrogates the combination of Millennial angst and supernatural horror that suffuses the nostalgia-drenched Showtime series, Yellowjackets.

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Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Apr 30

My newest article in the #80sFantasyFilmClub, on the transformationally campy #Beastmaster is up at @reactorsff.bsky.social
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The Beastmaster: Fantasy Classic or Transcendent Schlok? - Reactor

Rip Torn! Murderous ferrets! Are you not entertained?!

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Apr 4

Update. Mark Zuckerberg was the hidden through line

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Apr 4

This #ARealPain #AlienRomulus double feature I accidentally arranged for myself is real weird

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Apr 3

Interesting! I hadn’t considered the Monty Python of it all. Also, it is easier to have ruins and set dress then less than build a full castle set or refurbish an existing one.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Apr 3

My unfortunately timely #Willow article for @reactorsff.bsky.social #80sfantasyfilmclub is up! The late #ValKilmer is every bit as charming as you remember

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Willow: Lessons in Bravery, Hope, and Having Fun With Fantasy Tropes - Reactor

If you grew up loving this film, you're not alone.

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Apr 1

#TheGorge has big “this was written during Summer 2020” energy

Tyler Dean @tmdean.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is how we sleep when I sleep alone: CPAP in, flat on back, cat on chest
#catsofbluesky