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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 1d

Prepare thy self for this trailer...

The Price of Milk - Lucinda (Danielle Cormack) lives a fairytale life with dairy farmer Rob (Karl Urban), and his 117 cows. But after a freak car accident she decides to test Rob's love for her by try...

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 2d

I have read a lot of Junji Ito since the 1st of this month. No long dreams yet.

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 2d

The tag line from the Calvaire trailer lives rent free in my head.

"How bad can it get?
Ask the pig."

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 2d

No idea, I'm reposting as a supporter of communities I have some connections to & not as a person who engages with sports or has a ln aerial plugged into his TV.

But probably!

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 2d

Psst do one for Out of the Blue

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 2d

Sports should not be owned by corporations. They exist for communities and they should be organised and protected by communities.

Of course Preston's team has been allowed to die. Northside area, high multicultural diversity, traditionally blue collar.
#auspol

Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 2d

Sad news about the Preston Football Club in Melbourne. A proud 143 year history in the VFA/VFL but no more. The AFL stripped them of their licence and won’t grant them $270k to clear their debts. But the AFL had no problem paying Snoop Dogg several million for 10-15 minutes work. Ridiculous.

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 2d

Can do! This list leans towards the stranger or less discussed from various countries in the last 60ish years. May you find something you love and chills you to the bone!

31 Horrors To Halloween

A list of recommendations from the assortment of horror that lives rent-free in my head. There is no real theme or daily schedule idea to this mix. It is an assortment that is sometimes random weirdne...

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 3d

Horror fans: I have a question I don't know how to put succinctly.

You know how Picnic at Hanging Rock evokes something unique about the Australian landscape and psyche, touching on Aboriginal sacred spaces and colonialism?

Can you think of any horror movies that do that for the US landscape?

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 3d

It’s happened again

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

I'm all for blasting the fascists into space, & yeah - they probably won't survive, but we do need to remember that ejecting all the ruinous lunatics is how we got America in the 1st place. Deal with your shit, don't just kick it down the street/continent/cosmos.

Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

I'm guessing the OP isn't classifying the patriarchal family as 1 of these 'powerful institutions', because there are so many of those. Most cannibal films are either about that or capitalism, & even more often about both.

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

A couple of associated thoughts: A horror of systems generally falls to sci-fi or arthouse; Our dominant ideologies scapegoat the individual or Other & refuse a reality of structural violence inherent to institutions, hence 'Chick tracts'; Is institutional horror more prevalent in 'hippie horror'?

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

Bruce Greenwood in Servants of Twilight is going beyond the full MacGyver with his look, channeling a bit of Dennis Quaid and Patrick Swayze as well!

Bruce Greenwood with beard and flowing Swayze hair

Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

My body isnt being assistive to regular function so taking time-out with Dean Koontz's Servants of Twilight!
Bruce Greenwood, Belinda Bauer, Grace Zabriskie! Christians target a child because he's allegedly the Antichrist. Watch it before you read about it on the news next month!
#31daysofHalloween

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure it's Friends and Love Actually that are the 'cultural hole' and not the absence of those things.

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile the Department of War officially downgrades focus on cybersecurity because it distracts from 'The Mission' of manscaping.

Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I'm the same. I'm on the extreme end of always looking for something new & unfamiliar but a lot of people just love the old grooves to be worn deeper. That's their combo: comfort/familiarity + discomfort/horror. I'm a discomfort + discomfort 😂

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

Get ready for the Christian Nationalists going after Halloween because a) Pagan, & b) ICE is scared of costumes that aren't GI Joe.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

The spacing on those 3 films has long fascinated me. 1960, 1974, 1991, with the last iteration splitting the myth of Gein the cannibal off into an anti-hero while the real aspects of his story are weaponised against minorities. The cultural retconning in all 3 & the fork in the road says a lot.

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

I don't entirely understand but I am far from surprised. Gein shook USA so intensely that it shifted something in the foundations, & then transformed Western culture 3 times with films that reformulated the reality & the myths of Gein. He cast a powerful shadow but the original has long faded.

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

When you discover what else is in the series, Sexy Ed Gein is the most normal decision.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream

Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

Finding personal joy is important. But yeah, also, the distraction machine is still functioning at maximum output & clans fighting for dominance in a field seems extra real weird right now.

Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, over on Netflix we have whatever the hell that Ed Gein series is. I keep seeing discussion of its varied aspects & it sounds like they somehow created a 70s AI bad vibes meme randomiser & asked it to make a serial killer flickbook. Viewer descriptions sound like a real weird, bad trip!

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Ben Buckingham @dissolvedpet.bsky.social · 3d

How fucking dumb & corpo vile do you have to be to go full enshitification in the year that #anime is blowing up like never before? Ask @crunchyroll.com. Why switch from excellent open source subtitling software to paying for Israeli software known to be substandard & genocide adjacent? Ask Sony.

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