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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it! 🙏🏼😊

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Professor Xavier MendIk @cine-excess.bsky.social · 18d

Very excited to say that after a tremendous amount of hard work by the festival team the schedule for Cine-Excess 2025 goes live next week!

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · 14d

See you there! #CineExcess

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · 18d

“Where bodies twist and femininity turns monstrous, horror reveals its darkest truths.” See you soon! @nighttidemag.bsky.social

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you!

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · Sep 7

Can’t wait

NightTide Magazine @nighttidemag.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sharing our speaker tiles for #NightTideMag's first Horror Symposium, THE HORROR OF BECOMING, taking place on Oct 4th & 5th.
In our BODY HORROR BLOCK:
@tugcekutlu.bsky.social

Grotesque Metamorphosis: Body Horror, Gender, and the Monstrous Feminine in The Ugly Stepsister

🎟️ tinyurl.com/3fcmnauw 👻📽️📚

Tuğçe Kutlu / The Ugly Stepsister: Still of grotesque transformation, for Tuğçe Kutlu’s talk Grotesque Metamorphosis: Body Horror, Gender, and the Monstrous Feminine in The Ugly Stepsister, Body Horror, at NightTide Magazine’s Meeting of the Morbid Minds: The Horror of Becoming.

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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sharing our speaker tiles for #NightTideMag's first Horror Symposium, THE HORROR OF BECOMING, taking place on Oct 4th & 5th.
In our BODY HORROR BLOCK:
@tugcekutlu.bsky.social

Grotesque Metamorphosis: Body Horror, Gender, and the Monstrous Feminine in The Ugly Stepsister

🎟️ tinyurl.com/3fcmnauw 👻📽️📚

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you see this, post a bad woman you love.

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank you! That makes me happy ☺️✌️

Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · Jun 19

Can’t wait

Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com · Jun 19

The first part of Picnic @ 50 will be hybrid, and features my keynote, followed by a bunch of colleagues (incl. @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social and @tugcekutlu.bsky.social) dialing in remotely. If anyone's interested in tuning in to the hybrid bit, let me know, and I'll sling you the Google Meets link.

A screenshot of text from the Picnic @ 50 symposium programme, reading as follows:

"Programme

9-9.30am Arrival and Registration

9.30-10.30am Keynote: Dr. Stephen Morgan (King’s College London)
‘“Waiting a Million Years, Just For Us”: Picnic at Hanging Rock and the
possessive logic of settler national cinemas’

10.30-10.45am Coffee/Tea Refreshment Break

10.45am-12.15pm Panel 1

‘The making of Picnic… inside Australia’s film and television studio system’ - Quentin Turnour (National Archives of Australia, Audiovisual Preservation)

‘Aftermath: Picnic at Hanging Rock and the Australian response’ - Stephen Gaunson (RMIT University)

‘Sylvia Lawson and the critical reception of Picnic at Hanging Rock’ - Sam Twyford-Moore (University of Technology, Sydney)"

A screenshot of text from the Picnic @ 50 symposium programme, reading as follows:

"12.15pm-1.30pm Panel 2

‘A séance with Lady Lindsay: candles for Miranda and the flickering
trans/nationalisms of Picnic’ - Allison Craven (James Cook University)

‘The unseen Indigenous figure: Refiguring the Gothic in Picnic at Hanging Rock’ - Carl Reinecke (University of Warwick/Monash University)

‘Unresolved Mysteries: Reappraising the Gothic and Colonial Undertones of Picnic at Hanging Rock’ - Tuğçe Kutlu (Ankara University)"

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 31

The online hate for Bella Ramsey is sickening. Isabela Merced looks nothing like the game Dina, but she is conventionally attractive. Pedro looks nothing like Joel but he is a man. Everyone is perfectly cast. The obvious problem here is patriarchy and toxic male fandom. Go touch some grass #TLOU

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 31

The Last of Us Ep 6 had me single tearing throughout. Once in a while, the show gives us such an episode that we forget all about the infected and the Apocalypse. Ep 6 is that, just like Bill and Frank’s episode. At that moment, it’s only ever about love #TLOU

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 29

Now watching Stage Fright (2014). This is the definition of camp, absolutely enjoying it

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 27

The new bedside lamp was a terrible idea, because what the actual hell?

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 22

Always a pleasure to talk to Mo ✌️

Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · May 22

So psyched about this and I’m so glad to get to share it! I got to sit down with @tugcekutlu.bsky.social of Death & Other Things podcast on death & horror lit. Such a great time! Give a listen…then check out Tuğçe’s incredible theories on grief and death. 👻
open.spotify.com/episode/4OrZ...

Episode 10: Death and Horror Literature / Mo Moshaty

Death and Other Things (Ölüm ve Diğer Şeyler) · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 16

#FinalDestinationBloodlines had me holding back tears with that Tony Todd goodbye speech. Like I am here to enjoy brutal deaths, why are you making me sad?

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 15

Oh I have something ready. I love this!

Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · May 15

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 14

That entire scene had me howling, no joke. Everyone should see #Sinners

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 14

Cornbread saying “being kind to one another!” #Sinners

Real Queen of Horror @lovelyzena.bsky.social · May 14

What's a horror movie scene that unexpectedly made you laugh?

In my latest video, I share my list of Top 3 Funniest Scenes in Horror Movies. Full video: youtu.be/ZzOd57g2AHY

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 12

So comphet (compulsory heterosexuality) is still alive and well through the Apocalypse. This, being called slurs and the fact that Ellie and Dina don’t even know what a rainbow flag is… These are way scarier to me than the actual Clickers #tlou

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 12

And again in episode 1 when Ellie and Jesse are speaking at the party, Jesse says that they will not be getting back together this time. Ellie asks why he would say that. Just as he is about to say something, Dina joins them. Fantastic writing #tlou

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 12

So ep 4 of The Last of Us. When Dina told her side of the story, I immediately remembered the previous episode and how she told Ellie that the reason Jesse is not happy may be Dina herself. I love the writing on this show #tlou

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 12

What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film?

The Sentinel (1977)

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!

Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · May 7

An insightful online talk by @miskatonicihs.bsky.social the reasons why mourning in horror cinema may have risen in the last two decades.

Many thanks to lecturer @tugcekutlu.bsky.social for this wonderful talk.

#horrorcinema #horrortrauma #griefinhorror #horroracademia

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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social · May 2

I love The Hallow, had fun writing this. I hope you’ll enjoy! @nighttidemag.bsky.social

NightTide Magazine @nighttidemag.bsky.social · May 2

It's First Friday over at #NightTideMag, which means our resident grief guru @tugcekutlu.bsky.social has another Grief Horror dissection for you in 2015's The Hallow, where a grieving family learns that some wounds run deeper than the forest floor. 👻📽️
nighttidemag.com/2025/05/02/m...

WHEN GRIEF GROWS TEETH: HOW THE HALLOW TREATS NATURE AND LOSS

In The Hallow (2015), grief seeps through the soil as a young family confronts the haunting cost of intrusion, loss, and nature’s unforgiving wrath.

nighttidemag.com

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