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Beyond Couture Films
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Broadcasting & Media Production Company
Crafting Diverse Narratives in Horror, True Crime, & Paranormal Genres. Celebrating Resilience & Challenging Conventions. #diversityinfilm
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📺 This week’s rewatch of S1 E1 revisits how the pilot treats addiction, anxiety, and grief as everyday life, and how watching often replaces care.

📖 Read “Euphoria S1 E1: Pilot” on Substack

#Euphoria #Zendaya #HBOMax #EuphoriaRewatch #TVAnalysis
Pilot
Euphoria: S1 E1
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January 7, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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📵 Nonstop headlines rewire attention, turning every moment into a reaction.
REEL Talk asks how speed replaces reflection and how silence becomes clarity.

📖 Read “When Everything Is a Reaction”
#mediafatigue #doomscrolling #attentioneconomy #reactionculture
When Everything Is a Reaction
Choosing distance, attention, and the work that remains
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January 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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A Winter Night That Watches Back looks at how Black Christmas builds its fear through quiet moments, human danger, and the feeling of being watched from inside the house.

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#HolidayHorror #FilmCommunity #PsychologicalHorror
A Winter Night That Watches Back
WHEN THE CREDITS ROLL: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
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December 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Silent watchers are a real thing online and in real life. This REEL Talk looks at why some people study your life quietly and what that behavior says about them.

📖 “The Truth About Lurkers” on Substack.

#SocialBehavior #DigitalCulture #CinematicVoices #substackread #substackwriter
The Truth about Lurkers
What they hide reveals who they are.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Cut Deeper Volume One is complete. Eight standalone horror stories shaped during a heavy season. The full anthology is now live on Substack.

Read it on Substack:

#HorrorAnthology #ShortHorrorWriting #SubstackWriter #FilmCommunity #HorrorCommunity
Cut Deeper: Volume One
Eight stories from a dark season
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November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Stranger Things 5 lands with weight that stays long after the last scene. This look at Hawkins breaks down how the story grew and why the final season hits different.

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#StrangerThings5 #HawkinsFinalSeason #StrangerThingsCommunity #StoryAnalysis #FilmCommunity
The Last Light Over Hawkins
When the Credits Roll | Stranger Things
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November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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👁️ The holidays reveal the truths people hide. I wrote about accountability, peace, and emotional weight during this season.

Read “When the Holidays Show the Truth”

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#HolidayReflection #FamilyDynamics #EmotionalHonesty #PersonalEssay #SubstackWriter
When the Holidays Show the Truth
A look at accountability, peace, and emotional weight
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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🌒 This week Cut Deeper follows a man descending alone through a silent hospital where each hallway turns colder and something begins to move with him. A haunting story about Sins and consequence.

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#WritingCommunity #HorrorReaders #ShortStoryHorror #CinematicFiction #IndieWriters
The Holding Floor
Every sin waits for its turn.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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🌒 The Vampire Diaries & The Originals became a place I returned to during hard seasons, a familiar room when life felt heavy.

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#WritingCommunity #TVNostalgia #PersonalEssays #ScreenwritingCommunity #StorytellingCommunity
A Place That Still Knows My Name
When the Credits Roll | The Vampire Diaries
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November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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🖤 This REEL Talk is about truth, voice, and what happens when survivors refuse to stay quiet anymore.

📖 Read on Substack.

#WritingCommunity #SurvivorStories #PersonalEssays #MemoirWriters #CreativeNonfiction
The Truth They Fear
Survivors are done being quiet.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🎬 A late night highway stop turns uneasy fast when the silence around the car feels watched, as if something in the dark already knows they are there.

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#HorrorStories #WritingCommunity #HorrorWriters #CinematicShortStories #ShortStoryWriters
No Direction
Cinematic Short Horror Story
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November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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💚 The cracks in Emerald City were never just glass. They were truth trying to get through.

Wicked: For Good approaches, asking what we kept in Oz and what we lost trying to make it shine.

📖 Story on Substack

#writingcommunity #filmwriting #cinematicstorytelling #musicalfilms #whenthecreditsroll
What We Left in Emerald City
When the Credits Roll | Wicked
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November 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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👁️ We call them monsters, but most were made long before they ever broke.

This week’s REEL Talk looks at the films that made us question who the real villain is.

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#writingcommunity #horrorwriters #filmwriting #cinematicstorytelling #reeltalk
Rooting for the Monster
Sometimes the threat is the one we created.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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🌧️ During a hurricane storm, a woman is trapped inside with her memories and a puzzle given to her from an old antique shop. As the pieces fall into place, something unseen begins to unfold.

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#horrorstories #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #cinematicshortstory #shortstorywriters
It's Never Just a Puzzle
Cinematic Short Horror Story
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November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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🚨 The first sound isn’t chaos. It’s control.

This week we look at The Purge and how a siren became the sound of permission. A story about order, fear, and how collapse always starts quietly.

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#horror #writing #cinematicstorytelling #filmmaking #storytelling
The Sound of Permission
When the Credits Roll | The Purge
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November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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🕯️ Outside, the world feels louder than ever. Inside, she lets the silence fill the room.

This week’s REEL Talk reflects on grief, isolation, and what it means to live inside the quiet while the world keeps spinning.

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#reeltalkseries #creativewriting #filmcommunity #isolation
The Year Halloween Went Quiet
Some years the dark feels too real to pretend.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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🎬 Halloween night is over, but the streets still hold their breath. A late jog. A bridge. Three figures that do not belong.

📖 Read “Take One” on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/take-one

#Halloween2025 #HorrorStory #CinematicStorytelling #horror #homeinvasion #spookystory #shortstories
Take One
Cinematic Short Story
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October 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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🎬 John Carpenter’s Halloween taught me what fear could sound like and how filmmaking could breathe. It shaped the genre, but it also shaped me.

📖 Read “In His Shape” on Substack: beyondcouturefilms.substack.com/p/in-his-shape

#Halloween #JohnCarpenter #Horror #slashers #michaelmyers #filmmaking
In His Shape
When the Credits Roll | Halloween (1978)
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October 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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🎃 This Halloween week REEL Talk looks past the masks and porch lights to the quiet truths that horror reveals. The scariest things aren’t hiding in the dark, they’re standing right in front of us.

📖 Read the full story on Substack:

#halloweenstories #horrorreflection #slashers #halloween #horror
The Ones in the Light
Slashers taught me how to see what’s really there.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Teens in Bonnie and Clyde costumes spend Halloween night stealing candy off porches and laughing like nothing can touch them. 🎃

Then they take the wrong bowl, and an old urban legend wakes in the fog. 🕯️

Read: Where the Fog Sleeps

#cutdeeper #halloweenstory #urbanlegendhorror #supernaturalhorror
Where the Fog Sleeps
Cut Deeper | Episode 04
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October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Some nightmares never leave Derry 🎈
This week When the Credits Roll looks ahead to It: Welcome to Derry (2025), the HBO prequel uncovering how fear began.

Read “Where the Fear Began” here:
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#whenthecreditsroll #itwelcometoderry #stephenkingadaptation #pennywise #it
Where the Fear Began
When the Credits Roll | It: Welcome to Derry
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October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Fear used to knock for fun on Halloween.
Now it doesn’t need a costume. 👁️

A reflection sparked by Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor and the real stories seen through cam footage.

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#truecrimewriting #halloweenfear #reeltalkseries #netflixdocumentary #theperfectneighbor
After the Knock
When the front door stops feeling safe
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October 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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An eight-year-old boy sorts Halloween candy under a flickering light as the curtain moves against the still air. 🎃

A cinematic horror short about fear, a whisper at the bedroom window, and the creature that steps inside when the light goes out. 🔦

#horrorwriting #shortstory #halloweenhorror
Hunger of Shadows
Cut Deeper | Episode 03
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October 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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🎬 AMC’s Interview with the Vampire reminds us that monsters are not the story. Love is. The Vampire Lestat continues Anne Rice’s legacy through Louis, Lestat, and Claudia, stories of race, queerness, and memory that refuse to die.

#AMC #InterviewWithTheVampire #TheVampireLestat
The Night That Stayed
When the Credits Roll | Interview with the Vampire
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October 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🩸 Sheila Atim rises as Akasha in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Lestat Season 3. A reflection on legacy, immortality, and the Black women who keep rewriting the myth.

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#AMC #InterviewWithTheVampire #annerice
When Akasha Rose Again
Sheila Atim steps into the fire Aaliyah lit.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM