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Richard Wells

@slipperyjack.bsky.social

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👁️ Occasional Graphic Designer for telly & film 🔥 I also make Spooky Lino Prints that you can buy if you want 📍Black Country (middle of the UK) https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · Jan 14

Oh hi there, #portfolioday

I'm a guy who does

👁️Spooky Blu ray covers for Arrow Video
👁️Spooky props for spooky movies
👁️Spooky album covers
👁️Spooky lino prints

👉 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Blu Ray covers for The Exorcist III, The Brotherhood of Satan, and Incubus

Three tarot card designs for the motion picture Tarot (2024): Death, The Hanged Man, and The Devil

Album covers for Black Harvest and This Heathen Land by Green Lung

Three spooky lino prints featuring Nosferatu and Haxan.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 13h

Could be flippin' awful, but I'm intrigued..!

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 13h

Heh, I *think* I might be at a crew screening down in Bristol then, not sure yet. I am there next week though for that Oh Whistle live score thing...

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 13h

Oh yeah, Ian from Flatpack told me about that the other week! I have not seen this flick..

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 13h

A damn shame Liam Gavin hasn't made a follow up, it was a cracking debut...

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

Woman facing a doorway with arcane symbols with title A Dark Song and accolades including Outstanding abd An Utterly Unique Film.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 15h

Second favourite, Drew..!

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 21h

My *major* occult discovery POSSESSED, a novel by Rosalie and Edward Synton (real surname Corse-Scott), has a cover! It's out on December 4 - I'm *really* excited for you to read the book and my 5,000 word introduction which gives life to the authors and a critical overview of the novel.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 3d

See also Carpenter's The Thing (revisited the other night). The received wisdom that it bombed due to audiences only wanting 'optimistic alien movies' in the wake of E.T. makes no sense to me...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a double exposure Polaroid I captured last year at Castlerigg stone circle. The looming spirit of the stone..!
#StandingStoneSunday

Double exposure Polaroid. In the lower half sits Castlerigg stone circle with the lake district fells behind. Overlaying the sky is an upside down close up shot of the tip of one of the stones.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a double exposure Polaroid I captured last year at Castlerigg stone circle. The looming spirit of the stone..!
#StandingStoneSunday

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

- Love the swirling score by Augustin Viard (produced by Warren Ellis), performed on the ondes Martenot, a kind of early electronic keyboard invented in 1928. A vibe somewhere between a theremin and glass harmonica. More ondes Martenot movie scores, please..!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCg-...

Earwig Theme (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

Autumnal oneiric bangers!
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's mysterious and hypnotic EARWIG (2021). A neat adaptation of the bizzaro B. Catling source novella, and very much at one with the director's previous uncanny masterpieces. Big fan! All that gloom and disquiet, mmm...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Ally!
Next batch of Professionally Defaced copies available on Halloween, folks..!
✨💀✨

Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 4d

65/2025 was Tales Accursed: a folk horror anthology ed. @slipperyjack.bsky.social, who was fucked over by the Unbound debacle and deserves to SELL OUT of this gorgeous and beautifully-chosen anthology. Each one a delight, but The Country-Side by Elinor Mordanut was new to me and !!! I loved it

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

Aww, thanks both..!

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like four-for-four, happy to hear Lucile Hadžihalilović continues to make my favourite films...

Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 5d

Color me dazzled by Lucile Hadžihalilović's THE ICE TOWER, an unsettling hall-of-mirrors meditation on enchantment in the blinding lights of idolatry, cinema, and fantasy. One of the most dreamily arresting films you will see this year. My four-star review for @ebertvoices.bsky.social:

The Ice Tower movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

This is not so much a film you watch as one you wake up from, shivering.

www.rogerebert.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6d

It’s 185 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This wouldn’t be especially notable if we didn’t also consider what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig

The Kiltinane church Sheela Na Gig – a strange, naked, stone female figure, with one hand raised, and the other holding open her vulva. The stone was actually sideways when she was found, but it's easier to see her and her... features this way

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to this, I'll be at the Brum event. "...An experimental ghost story combining an immersive live soundtrack and cinematic storytelling drawing on the British supernatural." Yes please..!

Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social · 5d

+'WREN'S NEST' // LIVE DATES+

Chuffed to announce I'll be performing my new live AV set 'Wren's Nest' alongside the sublime 'The Balloonist' (solo project of Ben from epic45) at 3 venues around the UK this winter. I'll also be announcing a few more dates in the coming weeks.

+Ticket links in bio+

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

One of my work colleagues signed up for roller skating lessons which he said would place on the top floor of Trenchard Street car park. I must check up on him...

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

Hurrah, glad you enjoyed, a seasonal icon...

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Old School Zero Is A Haunted House This Month @oldschoolzero.bsky.social · 5d

Watched this today. Sumptuous shots from start to finish, a perfect blend of low budget and artistic pretension, and mood, mood, mood. A lovely addition to the crinkly leaves film canon.

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 16d

Happy first day of Autumn from Jean Rollin's La rose de Fer (1973)...

Autumnal shot from The Iron Rose. A clown walks through a leafy cemetery.

Autumnal shot from The Iron Rose. Françoise Pascal walks across a hazy field with a glowing sunset behind.

Autumnal shot from The Iron Rose. Françoise Pascal walks alongside a stationary freight train in the mist.

Autumnal shot from The Iron Rose. Françoise Pascal embraces a mossy stone cherub atop a grave in an old cemetery.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

I see the third film in the Anaconda Franchise featured John Rhys-Davies...

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

An even stronger factoid when I first read it as Michael Madsen. I have no memory of Matthew Marsden's pop career, but I do remember he appeared in the second film in the Anaconda Franchise 🤷‍♂️...

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

I've done the work and can confirm that Mario Bava's classic horror anthology BLACK SABBATH (1963) is the best film to watch by candlelight along with the sound of a named storm raging outside...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe I'll do a daily phantom in the run up to the big day 💀...

Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, someone *did* want it, thanks..!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 6d

Looks like dad is now fully back in the game following his illness. Here's his latest carved phantom, on a base of what he tells me is American black walnut, fancy...

Pine wood carved sheet ghost on a workbench.

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