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Vampo Marks
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I'm a slave to the cinema and a horror writer who often wishes life was like an old monster movie. And I voted for her.
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Vampo Marks @vampomarks.bsky.social · Nov 17
Proceeding calmly to the Bluesky echo chamber.
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If you see this, post a rabbit 🐰
#BadBunny
February 16, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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President Epstein, not only bringing us the worst of the worst, but the stupidest and most incompetent of the lot.
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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"It's a pleasure to watch him scamper ahead, over, and below everyone in his way. And he navigates flights of stairs like a pinball in a machine, appropriate for a star like Cagney and his dancer's skill with a staircase."
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#FilmSky #precode #comedy #JamesCagney #MervynLeRoy
A review of Hard to Handle (1933)
James Cagney wheels, deals, flims, flams, scampers, and scrams in Hard To Handle, a very silly 1932 con artist comedy from Mervyn LeRoy. Unlike with High Pressure, the plot of this caper involves all ...
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February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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"...a grand display of how quickly and wittily William Powell can burn through paragraphs of dialog filled with bravado, big ideas, and reams of bullshit... a promotional hustler who can sell anything, inspire anyone, and build empires out of nothing." boxd.it/d8G1Ap #FilmSky #precode #comedy
A ★★★½ review of High Pressure (1932)
High Pressure hits the ground running and barely pauses for breath for the next 73 minutes. This nutty 1932 Mervyn LeRoy comedy is a grand display of how quickly and wittily William Powell can burn th...
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February 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Cowardly, dishonorable, malicious serial killer behavior. It's all being recorded. And it'll all be evidence at the trials. #ProsecuteICE #AbolishICE
February 15, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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The Friday the 13th of this double holiday weekend is finding me not so much feeling the love as finding me rather cross...

#madebyunbox #Vampyres #unboxindustries #vampire #FridayThe13th #ValentinesDay #PresidentsDay
An Unbox Industries vinyl John Kenn Mortensen's Vampyres figure being held at bay by a hand holding a crucifix.
February 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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"You can see the cinematic DNA of The Public Enemy that trickled down to the works of Coppola, Scorsese, and the rest (even the gun store scene in The Terminator!)" boxd.it/d732AD
#FilmSky #precode #gangstermovie #JamesCagney
A ★★★½ review of The Public Enemy (1931)
Cagney and violence are the two biggest features of this early gangster classic. You can see the cinematic DNA of The Public Enemy that trickled down to the works of Coppola, Scorsese, and the rest (e...
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February 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Three pre-code gangster dramas featuring a twice doomed Ann Dvorak, an incredible Paul Muni (in the better original Scarface), & Cagney slinging grapefruit and hot lead, plus a Bud Cort B-horror tribute with dueling Bills (Pullman & Paxton). #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #precode #gangstermovie
The Public Enemy, Scarface (1932), Brain Dead (USA, 1990), Three On A Match
February 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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If you take Concerta/Methylphenidate recreationally or for any other reason than its prescribed purpose, I hope you fall into a sewer and get stuck there. This shortage is fucking with my ADHD and my ability to function.
February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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well, fuck Michael's. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/02...
Michaels sues Chicago muralist after artist claimed property infringement
Jordan Nickel, known as the artist POSE, sent Michaels a cease-and-desist order last month after it used his imagery in an advertisement for spray paint. The craft store sued Nickel this week claiming...
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February 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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"Howard Hawks crafted a truly amazing picture with Scarface: gorgeous, shadowy cinematography of a first rate cast portraying finely detailed characters at war in some incredible action sequences."
boxd.it/d6hpll #precode
#FilmSky #moviesky #PaulMuni #HowardHawks #gangstermovie
A ★★★★★ review of Scarface (1932)
I finally caught up with this masterpiece and it deserves all of the hype as a classic of the gangster genre and cinema in general. Howard Hawks crafted a truly amazing picture with Scarface: gorgeous...
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February 12, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Scarface: Shame Of A Nation (1932, Howard Hawks)
#FilmSky #precode #gangstermovie #PaulMuni
February 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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"...the highlight is Bud Cort as the extremely paranoid but frequently funny Halsey, who has a complex conspiracy theory for everything. Cort brings a lot of eccentric energy to his scenes...Recommended for fans of classic Twilight Zones, dream-reality Cronenberg films..." boxd.it/d5YaGl
#RIPBudCort
A ★★★½ review of Brain Dead (1990)
"Black and white and red all over..." Bud Cort memorial rewatch of this fascinating, one of a kind 1989 Roger Corman-produced oddity, made from an early 60s Charles (Twilight Zone) Beaumont script tha...
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February 12, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Pre-code language for a cocaine addiction in Mervyn LeRoy's Three On A Match (1932). #FilmSky #moviesky #precode
February 12, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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Bud Cort
1948-2026
RIP
Bud Cort undergoes a routine brain surgery procedure in Brain Dead (1990).
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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That feeling when you can't remember if you left your keys in the ruins of Tokyo Tower or in the rubble of the Diet Building.

#Godzilla #hiyagodzilla #godzilla1991 #HokkaidoVersion #godzillatoyphotography #godzillafigure #godzillatoy #GodzillaVsKingGhidorah
Hiya Toys Exquisite Basic Godzilla 1991 figure from Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah, posed in a pensive manner, stroking his chin indecisively, indifferent to Tokyo burning in the background.
February 11, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Wait until you realise you are older than, for example, Peter Sellers (died at 54), Warren Oates (53), Robert Shaw (51), Laurence Harvey (45), Steve McQueen (50) etc will EVER be. Unlike you, all these people are and will always be grown-ups.
February 11, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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I saw this in theaters twice. It goes to some dark places, but it's incredibly funny, original, and profound. Hathaway's best movie.
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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"And the self-loathing keeps rising to a boil behind Randall's eyes waiting to blow, an explosion that can't be stopped no matter how much speakeasy whiskey he drinks or how much soap he rubs on his hands."
boxd.it/d4vGdD #FilmSky #moviesky #precode #EdwardGRobinson #boriskarloff
A ★★★★★ review of Five Star Final (1931)
"What, will these hands ne'er be clean?" - Macbeth by William Shakespeare Edward G Robinson's Joseph Randall washes his hands all day. It's the first thing we see him doing. He washes them again and a...
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February 10, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Boris Karloff as a reporter caught checking out a woman's body in the pre-code newspaper drama Five Star Final, released in 1931 just about two months before Frankenstein.
#FilmSky #moviesky #boriskarloff
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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What’s the difference between Woody from Toy Story and Donald Trump?

Woody goes LIMP whenever a child enters the room!
a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while sitting at a table with other men .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while sitting at a table with other men .
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February 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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On top of everything else that sucks about this garbage movie, of course it's a thief. #Melania

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Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood demand Phantom Thread music removed from Melania film
Director and composer of 2017 drama allege breach of agreement after score reused in controversial documentary
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February 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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"What was a really delightful surprise was the casting of George Zucco against type as droll but heroic policeman who is equally at ease trading funny barbs with Ball or giving villains a sock to the jaw... Why couldn't Zucco have gotten more plum roles like this one?" boxd.it/d3vjU1 #FilmSky
A ★★★★ review of Lured (1947)
Warning to Karloff fans: While Lured is a delightful mystery-thriller and Karloff is great in it, he's an early red herring only in two adjoining scenes. Granted, Karloff is featured in the most surre...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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"... about how you look at movies and how those same movies look back into you. Art affects you, cinema impacts you, and horror movies can change you forever in wonderful, weird, unexpected, and disturbing ways." boxd.it/d3tdV9
#FilmSky #moviesky #horrorsky #TheTexasChainSawMassacre
A ★★★★★ review of Chain Reactions (2024)
Chain Reactions is about more than The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It's about more than horror movies. It's even more than about cinema. It's about art itself, how we find art, and how in turn, art disc...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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Tatsuya Nakadai as the protagonist of The Human Condition trilogy, in a scene where he is near to freezing to death, with the current local weather superimposed: 4° Clear Feels like -16°
February 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM