Rathan Krueger
@darknessopera.com
Mythmaker, heathen, and ginger-enthusiast.
LIKE RED ON A ROSE now available in paperback wherever books are sold, and eBook.
DarknessOpera.com
LIKE RED ON A ROSE now available in paperback wherever books are sold, and eBook.
DarknessOpera.com
This box set shows major studios haven't given up on #physicalmedia: 114 uncut shorts and hours of featurettes and commentaries.
Thanks, @warnerbrothers.bsky.social. As for @warnerbrostv.bsky.social, please release CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA. The weirdos need their Blu-ray candy.
#Animation
Thanks, @warnerbrothers.bsky.social. As for @warnerbrostv.bsky.social, please release CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA. The weirdos need their Blu-ray candy.
#Animation
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This box set shows major studios haven't given up on #physicalmedia: 114 uncut shorts and hours of featurettes and commentaries.
Thanks, @warnerbrothers.bsky.social. As for @warnerbrostv.bsky.social, please release CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA. The weirdos need their Blu-ray candy.
#Animation
Thanks, @warnerbrothers.bsky.social. As for @warnerbrostv.bsky.social, please release CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA. The weirdos need their Blu-ray candy.
#Animation
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
With my 4,500th movie, after waiting 22 years, I'm finally done with the blowhard.
And a guy shouldn't call anyone a SAG embarrassment when he's only in SAG since he and his pals put him in things, and the best he could do on his own merit's a gag on GOLDEN GIRLS.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
And a guy shouldn't call anyone a SAG embarrassment when he's only in SAG since he and his pals put him in things, and the best he could do on his own merit's a gag on GOLDEN GIRLS.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
With my 4,500th movie, after waiting 22 years, I'm finally done with the blowhard.
And a guy shouldn't call anyone a SAG embarrassment when he's only in SAG since he and his pals put him in things, and the best he could do on his own merit's a gag on GOLDEN GIRLS.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
And a guy shouldn't call anyone a SAG embarrassment when he's only in SAG since he and his pals put him in things, and the best he could do on his own merit's a gag on GOLDEN GIRLS.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
The annoying thing about writing this script is I had to cut myself off from certain horror movies for months since I knew their influence would jump from subconscious to blatant.
Now that I'm pages from the end, those bastions of cinematic terror and violent delights make their presence succinct.
Now that I'm pages from the end, those bastions of cinematic terror and violent delights make their presence succinct.
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The annoying thing about writing this script is I had to cut myself off from certain horror movies for months since I knew their influence would jump from subconscious to blatant.
Now that I'm pages from the end, those bastions of cinematic terror and violent delights make their presence succinct.
Now that I'm pages from the end, those bastions of cinematic terror and violent delights make their presence succinct.
In Japan, #comics are widely accepted as a medium to tell tales far beyond superheroes. Anything goes: from history lessons to ganglands to sports, from geology to biology to fantasy, from fashion schools to candy stores to street racing...
...to a woman battling #anorexia.
#Manga
...to a woman battling #anorexia.
#Manga
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This Small Business Saturday, support a bookstore and an indie publisher by picking up this book about the complicated lives of a mortician and a waitress before and after their sapphic romance begins.
Doubles as a snapshot of the last 20 years in and around Chicago.
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
Doubles as a snapshot of the last 20 years in and around Chicago.
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This Small Business Saturday, support a bookstore and an indie publisher by picking up this book about the complicated lives of a mortician and a waitress before and after their sapphic romance begins.
Doubles as a snapshot of the last 20 years in and around Chicago.
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
Doubles as a snapshot of the last 20 years in and around Chicago.
bookshop.org/p/books/like...
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The big lesson from THOUGHTS & PRAYERS: leave it to America to turn violence against children into a billion-dollar enterprise instead of stopping violence against children.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The big lesson from THOUGHTS & PRAYERS: leave it to America to turn violence against children into a billion-dollar enterprise instead of stopping violence against children.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Watched SCARLET EMPRESS for the first time in a long time. Still dueling with DEVIL IS A WOMAN (adapted from the same story Buñuel used for THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE) for my favorite Dietrich/von Sternberg team-up.
He knew how to fill a frame.
#Movies
He knew how to fill a frame.
#Movies
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Watched SCARLET EMPRESS for the first time in a long time. Still dueling with DEVIL IS A WOMAN (adapted from the same story Buñuel used for THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE) for my favorite Dietrich/von Sternberg team-up.
He knew how to fill a frame.
#Movies
He knew how to fill a frame.
#Movies
A film that takes place where you're from. Even gets a shout-out in an iconic shot.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A film that takes place where you're from. Even gets a shout-out in an iconic shot.
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Many visualists watch Hitchcock, so I don't. However, I AM CUBA is still a secret handshake. A lot of it's in the films of Terrys Gilliam and Malick, and of Gaspar Noe.
And kudos to Bowie for attaching himself to CHRISTIANE F., making sure people saw it.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
And kudos to Bowie for attaching himself to CHRISTIANE F., making sure people saw it.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Many visualists watch Hitchcock, so I don't. However, I AM CUBA is still a secret handshake. A lot of it's in the films of Terrys Gilliam and Malick, and of Gaspar Noe.
And kudos to Bowie for attaching himself to CHRISTIANE F., making sure people saw it.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
And kudos to Bowie for attaching himself to CHRISTIANE F., making sure people saw it.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
The fine folks at Women and Children First agreed to stock my novel.
If you're in the Andersonville area of #Chicago and want to read about the complicated lives of a mortician and a waitress before and after their sapphic #romance begins, or other #LGBTQ books, pop in and peruse.
#Booksky #Indie
If you're in the Andersonville area of #Chicago and want to read about the complicated lives of a mortician and a waitress before and after their sapphic #romance begins, or other #LGBTQ books, pop in and peruse.
#Booksky #Indie
November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This has been a fantastic year at @arrowvideo.bsky.social for New Line Cinema, with a cowabunga of a release next month.
Won't/can't pick a fave, not with THE CELL and DARK CITY looming, but I can say that this is the most fun. And why I'll be tormenting folk with the likes of Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Won't/can't pick a fave, not with THE CELL and DARK CITY looming, but I can say that this is the most fun. And why I'll be tormenting folk with the likes of Squirrel Nut Zippers.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This has been a fantastic year at @arrowvideo.bsky.social for New Line Cinema, with a cowabunga of a release next month.
Won't/can't pick a fave, not with THE CELL and DARK CITY looming, but I can say that this is the most fun. And why I'll be tormenting folk with the likes of Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Won't/can't pick a fave, not with THE CELL and DARK CITY looming, but I can say that this is the most fun. And why I'll be tormenting folk with the likes of Squirrel Nut Zippers.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Loved the look of del Toro's #Frankenstein? Doff your cap to @guydavisart.bsky.social, who's designed for him since PACIFIC RIM.
Before that, he did sequential art, and you can easily find his galleries in the Mystery, Horror, Noir, and Superheroism sections of the Four-Color Museum.
#Comics
Before that, he did sequential art, and you can easily find his galleries in the Mystery, Horror, Noir, and Superheroism sections of the Four-Color Museum.
#Comics
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Loved the look of del Toro's #Frankenstein? Doff your cap to @guydavisart.bsky.social, who's designed for him since PACIFIC RIM.
Before that, he did sequential art, and you can easily find his galleries in the Mystery, Horror, Noir, and Superheroism sections of the Four-Color Museum.
#Comics
Before that, he did sequential art, and you can easily find his galleries in the Mystery, Horror, Noir, and Superheroism sections of the Four-Color Museum.
#Comics
I was pleasantly surprised by how open and honest people were in WICK IS PAIN. Usually, franchise folk tend to be guarded or hide behind bluster.
Instead, they were SOME KIND OF MONSTER with everything.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Instead, they were SOME KIND OF MONSTER with everything.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I was pleasantly surprised by how open and honest people were in WICK IS PAIN. Usually, franchise folk tend to be guarded or hide behind bluster.
Instead, they were SOME KIND OF MONSTER with everything.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Instead, they were SOME KIND OF MONSTER with everything.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
Something for your #Noirvember in 1951 NYC:
"When a beloved children’s show host winds up dead in a seedy motel room under sordid circumstances, his son steps into to his father’s shoes on-screen, and into his decadent double-life off-screen."
#Comics #Noir
"When a beloved children’s show host winds up dead in a seedy motel room under sordid circumstances, his son steps into to his father’s shoes on-screen, and into his decadent double-life off-screen."
#Comics #Noir
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Something for your #Noirvember in 1951 NYC:
"When a beloved children’s show host winds up dead in a seedy motel room under sordid circumstances, his son steps into to his father’s shoes on-screen, and into his decadent double-life off-screen."
#Comics #Noir
"When a beloved children’s show host winds up dead in a seedy motel room under sordid circumstances, his son steps into to his father’s shoes on-screen, and into his decadent double-life off-screen."
#Comics #Noir
#SpookySeason means shilling for #horror, and shill I shall.
Robert Englund gets his Walk of Fame star today. Good Guy Rob offered today to John Carpenter, who better for #Halloween, but Good Guy John abstained.
Celebrate with his autobio, HOLLYWOOD MONSTER, and doc, HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES.
Robert Englund gets his Walk of Fame star today. Good Guy Rob offered today to John Carpenter, who better for #Halloween, but Good Guy John abstained.
Celebrate with his autobio, HOLLYWOOD MONSTER, and doc, HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES.
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#SpookySeason means shilling for #horror, and shill I shall.
Robert Englund gets his Walk of Fame star today. Good Guy Rob offered today to John Carpenter, who better for #Halloween, but Good Guy John abstained.
Celebrate with his autobio, HOLLYWOOD MONSTER, and doc, HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES.
Robert Englund gets his Walk of Fame star today. Good Guy Rob offered today to John Carpenter, who better for #Halloween, but Good Guy John abstained.
Celebrate with his autobio, HOLLYWOOD MONSTER, and doc, HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES.
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM