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David Rider ✅
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Chicagoland indie horror author of three novels: #WeAreVanHelsing Books One and Two, and #AncasUndeadPlaylist. Contributing author to anthologies from Dead Sky Publishing […]

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Did anyone else get super creeped out when Dr. Raven broke the fourth wall and talked to us?
#thecreationofthehumanoids #Svengoolie
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Cheers! And I swear I didn’t plan on wearing this shirt today because of tonight’s movie.
#thecreationofthehumanoids #Svengoolie #weylandyutani
Indie horror author David Rider, seen from the collar down, is wearing a Weyland-Yutani shirt and holding a salt-rimmed margarita glass; Svengoolie is on TV in the background
December 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Maxine falling in love within an hour is weird enough—but that she settles for a guy who calls himself “The Cragis” is straight up sad
#thecreationofthehumanoids #Svengoolie
December 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The real reason Esme loves Pax is he’s not programmed to complain about her smoking
#thecreationofthehumanoids #Svengoolie
December 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The Order of Flesh and Blood are like frat bros with fancy pants and jackboots
#thecreationofthehumanoids #Svengoolie
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Man, the Blue Man Group needs a new name
#thecreationofthehumanoids #Svengoolie
Three bald, non-blue humanoid creations from The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
December 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I encourage every Sven viewer tonight to follow my wife’s lead: when a character says “robot,” repeat it aloud with Dr. Zoidberg’s pronunciation: row-bit
#thecreationofthehumanoids #Svengoolie #futurama
December 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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It's Saturday night and MeTV’s horror host #Svengoolie is presenting a science fiction movie from the sixties about artificial beings who are threats to the survival of the human race and intent on conquering the world—which sounds implausible and unlike anything ripped […]

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The poster from The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) features the tagline “NEVER HAS THE SCREEN BROUGHT YOU A MORE SHOCKING REVELATION!” and depicts male scientists creating humanoid females (mostly) in giant glass cylinders—and the point is driven home with the following: “MAN'S OWN CREATION! CAN HE CONTROL MACHINES THAT PRODUCE PEOPLE?” and adds nonsense about them coming out of WORLD WAR III; we also see a dude forcing a woman to stare at his cleft chin while pondering the question “WAS SHE ONE OF THE GREEN-BLOODED PEOPLE?” and this final question below a robot’s face: “WAS THIS MONSTER CREATED BY AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER?”
December 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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A majority of #americans didn’t get what we *really* wanted for Christmas 🙁
#maybenextyear #christmas2026
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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After bouncing between several coffee shops, which were tasty but far to loud and crowded for my liking, I FOUND THE LIBRARY! And it's quiet and there are very few people here and there are lovely comfortable spaces to work!!

Libraries are the best!!!
December 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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His federal funding was cut off, but Eric Roberts managed to book travel down to Puerto Vallarta and rent an SUV for his team?
#sharktopus #svensquad #houseofsvengoolie #Svengoolie
December 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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It's Saturday night and MeTV's #svensquad is presenting what looks to be a lame monster movie featuring a shark-octopus hybrid—but what’s more interesting is that there’s an actual mythological sea creature in Caribbean folklore called the Lusca with those traits […]

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The poster from the TV movie Sharktopus (2010) describes the aquatic creature attacking a bikini-clad girl as “HALF-SHARK. HALF-OCTOPUS. ALL KILLER.”
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Peter Cushing is the most hardcore Van Helsing
#thebridesofdracula #Svengoolie
Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, cauterizing his bitten neck with a burning iron, in The Brides of Dracula (1960)
December 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I’ve got a new name for my morning alarm
#thebridesofdracula #Svengoolie
Screenshot of an iPhone’s alarm, set for 5:59 a.m., and labeled “Cock Crow”
December 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The way the Baroness talks about her horrible, inhuman son reminds me of this lady
#thebridesofdracula #Svengoolie
Mary Trump with a weird, lopsided hairstyle
December 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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It's Saturday night and MeTV is presenting a horror movie featuring a cast of creepy characters living in a creepier guy’s basement—something #Svengoolie can’t relate to at all, am I right? 🧛🏼‍♂️
#thebridesofdracula
The light-green poster from The Brides of Dracula (1960) has the tagline “THE MOST EVIL, BLOOD-LUSTING DRACULA OF ALL!” and features a cast of lovely women and some dude sorely in need of a manicure who—despite the name being mentioned twice—is not Dracula at all
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Chekhov’s radiator hose
#duel #Svengoolie
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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It's Saturday night and MeTV’s horror host #Svengoolie is presenting an action-thriller written by Richard Matheson and directed by Steven Spielberg—guaranteeing viewers the most pedal-to-the-metal, pulse-pounding Saturday night in recent memory
#duel
The 1972 theatrical release poster from the TV movie Duel (1971) has the tagline “The most bizarre murder weapon ever used!” and depicts Dennis Weaver’s screaming face; his reaction can be interpreted as blinding rage at Universal’s marketing team for including the copy “The killer's weapon a 40 ton truck! The victim's only defense a startling trap!” next to the image of a truck crashing into a car and going off a cliff—literally the last few moments of the movie that reveal a major spoiler about the trap
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Three characters so far have problems with shadows passing over them. Wait until they see mummies climbing trellises.
#themummystomb #Svengoolie
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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This is a town where citizens can call the sheriff’s home number
#themummystomb #Svengoolie
December 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Anyone else catch the tombstones waving in the breeze? 😜
#themummystomb #Svengoolie
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Kharis loves himself a tana leaf smoothie
#themummystomb #Svengoolie
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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It's Saturday night and MeTV’s horror host #Svengoolie is presenting Lon Chaney Jr. in the second Universal movie featuring Kharis the mummy—in a movie with a runtime shorter than Doug Graves’ patience with Sven’s jokes
#themummystomb
The poster from The Mummy’s Tomb (1942) depicts the bandaged monster saving a well-dressed woman from a museum fire (or maybe carrying her over rough terrain because she lost her shoes); the portraits of the three male actors below don’t get funnier than the shocked expression on Dick Foran’s face that seems to say, “You served me a fluffernutter after I specifically told you of my peanut allergy?!”
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Stopped by Krampus’ Secret Bookshoppe to chat with indie horror author #alecojulius at #twobrothersroundhouse in Aurora

#bookstodon #books #indieauthor #horrorAuthors #indiehorror #supportindiehorror #horrorcommunity #krampus
Indie horror authors Aleco Julius and David Rider of the HWA Chicagoland chapter stand next to each other behind a signing table full of Al’s books; Rider is holding a paperback copy of the horror anthology RED LINE - Chicago Horror Stories The exterior of Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora, Illinois on a cold winter day A cardboard standee of the Krampus, wearing a Santa hat, by a sign on an easel reading “Krampus Secret Bookshoppe”
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The Dead Can’t Die keeps delivering the unexpected using the bones of a traditional zombie movie. I found it offbeat and fascinating.
#thedeadcantdie #horror #horrormovies
#letterboxd
A three-and-a-half-star Letterboxd rating from indie horror author David Rider for The Dead Can’t Die (2019) featuring the film’s poster
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM