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Vampo Marks
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I'm a slave to the cinema and a horror writer who often wishes life was like an old monster movie. And I voted for her.
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Vampo Marks @vampomarks.bsky.social · Nov 17
Proceeding calmly to the Bluesky echo chamber.
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"...these characters would still make Matango a horror story even without any fungal invasion... Mushroom monsters are not our worst enemy. We've already handily accepted that position ourselves."
#FilmSky #horrorsky #Matango #ishirōhonda
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A ★★★★ review of Matango (1963)
What a nightmare. If I'm ever in a dire, apocalyptic situation, it's stories like these that will probably motivate me to wander off and die alone when faced with the option of cooperating with other ...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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All twelve minutes of this Christmas movie is a Christmas movie, quite possibly one of the best Christmas movies ever, even if the remaining minutes from the movie surrounding it is not.
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"And All Through The House" (Tales From The Crypt)
YouTube video by Count BillStein
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December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party:
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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When people would first meet Christopher Lee, some were put off by his armor of aloofness and authority. But it was just a protective front for a very sensitive soul. Once you got past it, he was a friend, a true friend, with incredible depths of understanding and care.
Good friends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee during the filming of The Gorgon, laughing their asses off.
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The @unboxindustries.bsky.social @transmissiontoys.bsky.social Godzilla Minus One sculpture has had it with lying around doing nothing and is finally going to catch that anti-sea mine fishing boat once and for all. Sculpture by Erick Sosa.
#Godzilla #GodzillaMinusOne #madebyunbox #arttoys
The shot of the sea mine hunting boat from Godzilla Minus One, but instead of the real Godzilla, it's being pursued by the Unbox Industries / Transmission Toys Godzilla Minus One art toy sculpture.
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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(whip pan) "GASP!"
#KnivesOut #WakeUpDeadMan
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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"Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen portrayed people who had lived all the way to very ripe senior years without laying it on thick by acting "old." ... I believed they had lived together for sixty and some odd years together."
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#FilmSky #moviesky #Eternity #romcom #EternityMovie
A ★★★½ review of Eternity (2025)
Eternity is a very sweet and almost old-fashioned type of romantic comedy about the memories of those we've lost and the loves that sustain us in life. The whole cast is a delight, but I particularly ...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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"Klute is almost relentlessly dry and by the book, wearing his conservative calm like armor. Bree also has armor, but it is all brashness, aloofness, and seductive energy. Underneath their respective layers of protection, both of these people are unsatisfied in their lives." boxd.it/bTVwkz
#FilmSky
A ★★★★½ review of Klute (1971)
Klute certainly earns its place in the Pakula "Paranoia Trilogy" by, well, being paranoid as hell. The camerawork by Gordon Willis, combined with the surreal shots of tape recorders and the nightmaris...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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How A Miserable Old Bat Attempted To Ruin Christmas For Someone (But Didn't):
A Moral Lesson Thread
drewgmackie.bsky.social Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 2d
This is a timely reminder to be nice to retail employees, even if you think you are too important to do that.

In the 2000s, I worked at a bookstore, but by the time this story takes place, I was mostly in the cafe. If things got busy, they'd pull me out to work on the other side of the store...
December 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Wake Up Dead Man
Train Dreams
Blue Moon
Predator: Badlands
Keeper
Bugonia
November 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Of the 72 films thus far that I've seen that were were new releases in the United States in 2025, these are my current top 25. More movies still to see & I may still shift their order.
@letterboxd.social #FilmSky #moviesky #movielist #horrorsky #BestOf2025 #TopFilms #BestMovies #BestMoviesOf2025
1. Frankenstein 2. Wake Up Dead Man 3. One Battle After Another 4. Bring Her Back 5. The Ugly Stepsister 6. Weapons 7. 28 Years Later 8. Blue Moon 9. Train Dreams 10. Pee-Wee As Himself 11. Predator: Badlands 12. Superman 13. Bugonia 14. Keeper 15. Die, My Love 16. Caught Stealing 17. A House Of Dynamite 18. The Long Walk 19. Mickey 17 20. Black Bag 21. Companion 22. Sinners 23. Dead Of Winter 24. Cloud 25. Nouvelle Vague
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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"So Victor carries his disdain for Leopold into his adulthood as he tries to make discoveries that his father wouldn’t dare traverse... Frankenstein’s pursuit of revolution is soon overrun by his ego, though. Just like his father, he craves a kind of control that only rots the living around it."
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Ian Fleming wrote CASINO ROYALE in the throes of his own mid-life crisis as he was about to settle down and marry. He was 44 and would be dead 12 years later.

His books are full of Bond imagining his own death, vividly speculating on his plane crashing, etc.

From the first chapter of GOLDFINGER:
James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death. It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix-the licence to kill in the Secret Service—it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional-worse, it was deathwatch beetle in the soul. And yet there had been something curiously impressive about the death of the Mexican. It wasn't that he hadn't deserved to die. He was an evil man, a man they call in Mexico a capungo. A capungo is a bandit who will kill for as little as forty pesos, which is about twenty-five shillings-though probably he had been paid more to attempt the killing of Bond-and, from the look of him, he had been an instrument of pain and misery all his life. Yes, it had certainly been time for him to die; but when Bond had killed him, less than twenty-four hours before, life had gone out of the body so quickly, so utterly, that Bond had almost seen it come out of his mouth as it does, in the shape of a bird, in Haitian primitives. What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one. This had been a Mexican with a name and an address, an employment card and perhaps a driving licence. Then something had gone out of him, out of the envelope of flesh and cheap clothes, and had left him an empty paper bag waiting for the dustcart. And the difference, the thing that had gone out of the stinking Mexican bandit, was greater than all Mexico.
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Tom Stoppard
1937-2025
RIP
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead movie poster Brazil movie poster Empire Of The Sun movie poster
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"...the best of the Benoit Blanc Whodunnits, and an extremely personal, warm, and earnest gesture to both believers and non-believers alike to come together and discuss faith and the Church in terms of how these things can be helpful and healing or destructive and spiteful." boxd.it/bSgKzn
#FilmSky
A ★★★★★ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Wake Up Dead Man is Rian Johnson's masterpiece, the best of the Benoit Blanc Whodunnits, and an extremely personal, warm, and earnest gesture to both believers and non-believers alike to come together...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Post your favorite "Lord Of The Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
The Dead Rabbits from Gangs Of New York
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN is about a vengeful, paranoid, impotent, anti-woke tyrant whose followers fear him and overlook all his hypocrisies… and then he dies! Very inspiring.
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Two men battling their distance from a Thanksgiving dinner and three Whodunnits about Benoit Blanc battling his distance from a murderer's identity.
#LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky #LastFourWatched #moviesky #WakeUpDeadMan #GlassOnion #KnivesOut #PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles
Planes, Trains, And Automobiles, Glass Onion, Knives Out, Wake Up Dead Man
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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‘SINNERS’ and ‘ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER’ will both be re-released in IMAX 70mm theaters on December 12.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The Vault Keeper, The Old Witch, and The Crypt Keeper hawking their EC comics.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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If you see this, post a monster
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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"There's lots of lightning, thunder, pouring rain, howling winds, dark woods, murky mud, skeletons in various gruesome conditions, and the resurrected dead possibly witnessed. And there are various flashbacks and hazy memories that are depicted in full giallo style."
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#WakeUpDeadMan
A ★★★★ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Nary a bunny rabbit, jelly bean, or piece of chocolate in sight... but Wake Up Dead Man is an Easter murder mystery! Congratulations to all those waiting for one! The latest Benoit Blanc Whodunnit fro...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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You're getting sleepy... sleepy... sleeeeepy...
justkeepskeeting.pro de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 9d
this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Star Wars ranking

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. That was the title when I saw it in 1977, okay? I'm done.
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM