I’ve been saying it has to do with switching DPs from Navarro to Laustsen (because except TSOW, nothing since the change has looked as good as what came before), but I’m sure Netflix house style plays a part too.

Silver Shamrock motherfucker.

Respect my contentionthatHalloween5isbetterthanHalloween4becauseJamie’straumabondedclosenesswithTinaismorepoignantthanherrelationshipwithRachelbecauseofnotinspiteofthefamilialdistance or expect my resistance.

On behalf of my fellow metalheads, I’d like to offer our counseling services to liberals working through the feelings of discovering somebody you thought was cool is a r*pe apologist with a Nazi tattoo.

*Stares in average american millennial man*

I wrote about the 20th anniversary of DOOM TNT motion picture for @pastemagazine.bsky.social Fun fact! It’s the only entry in Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s filmography where he’s credited simply as “The Rock.” Also, sorry I didn’t have nicer things to say. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/doom/...

This piece by @812filmreviews.com was helpful in working through my “young critic” feelings on being asked to intro Deathgasm II at the Virginia Film Festival. Coincidentally, Robert Daniels will be at the VAFF this week & I hope we get a chance to chat. www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-d...

Just realized the word “screen” is a contronym in two different ways. As a verb it means to make something invisible or to make something visible. As a noun, it means something designed to be seen through or something designed to be opaque.

Only nerds listen to Warren Zevon.

Went apple picking today & somehow got the most Halloweenish photo that has nothing overtly Halloween about it.

Anyone local to Charlottesville, there is a short-notice action at Western Albemarle HS this evening w/ @happyscenesbyemma.bsky.social

Presenting Chappell Bone. Yes she will wear this for the rest of October.

Check me out on @drach101.bsky.social’s podcast talking about one of the most gorgeous horror movies ever made! Premieres in an hour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnG2...

Less than 24 hours till @nighttidemag.bsky.social’s first ever #horrorstudies Zoomposium! Listen to me yap about swimming pools! & a to bunch of people who are doubtless smarter talk about things that are doubtless more important. www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of...

I probably need my cinephile card revoked bc PT Anderson is one of the “great filmmakers” I’ve decided i can basically skip. I’ve only seen boogie nights and the master, and I didn’t like the master. OBAO seems exquisitely counterinsurgency programmed.

A little discussed example of the Mandela effect is remembering Thom Yorke as a competent singer who wasn’t sharp on absolutely everything

So when are they gonna start trying to dismantle Halloween? Now or will they wait another year?

6 days until I present in my 1st #horrorstudies symposium! The support of the v cool @momoshaty.bsky.social—who didn’t know me from Adam but apparently decided I had worthwhile things to say—has been huge in me getting words out there. @nighttidemag.bsky.social is a great platform, & going places!

There are very few famous people I’ll ask for a picture with, but Bob Mould is one.

The Long Walk aka “Can Somebody Just Do It Already?”: The Movie

Just 2 short weeks until I present at my first #horrorstudies symposium alongside the fabulous @momoshaty.bsky.social & the rest of the @nighttidemag.bsky.social crew. Kick off October by feeding your head! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of...

Anybody have curriculum resources for broad, interdisciplinary Horror Studies at the high school level? I’ve decided to pitch an elective to my school for next year. Will run it under the Contemporary Media & Art course code so incorporate lit, film, video games, etc.

A Clive Baker character costume contest but nobody’s allowed to do Pinhead or Candyman. Predetermined winner is whoever can pull off the Butterfield gold pants.

Book update! S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema now has a release date! My chlorinated progeny will surface into the world on December 11th. Pre-orders are live in all the places you get books, but especially direct from @mcfarland.bsky.social mcfarlandbooks.com/product/spla...

Excited to give a talk at the virtual #horrorstudies symposium facilitated by the fabulous @nighttidemag.bsky.social! You’ll never guess what my presentation is about… #horrorsky #filmsky

Excited to give a talk at the virtual #horrorstudies symposium facilitated by the fabulous @nighttidemag.bsky.social! You’ll never guess what my presentation is about… #horrorsky #filmsky

Favorite isn’t interesting so I’m gonna post the worst one.

Yoooo October is closer than you think…

I may not be the best at either, but guaranteed I rap better than almost any horror critic, & write better horror criticism than almost any rapper. New album is live at fellowmanrap.bandcamp.com & it’s being SUPER BURIED by the algorithms for reasons not mysterious. youtube.com/watch?v=vD-d...

For my money “The Man Who Walked Home” by James Tiptree Jr. is the best time-travel story ever written.

Summer may be waning, but it's still hot enough to risk a dip in the pool - or, maybe not if you take a look at this list of #horror movie swimming pools by @cullenwade.bsky.social www.horrorhomeroom.com/chlorinated-...

If you like this & would be interested in, say, 96,000 more words on the topic, boy do I have good news for you! Big ups to @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social & @dawnkeetley.bsky.social for being first to ask me to do one of these. www.horrorhomeroom.com/chlorinated-...

Jamie Lee Curtis lowkey had a weird career trajectory bc I can’t think of another nepo baby who started off with 6 straight low-budget slashers, like your parents are Hollywood royalty why are you doing Canadian tax shelter horror

Psyched my story “The Disappearance of Ways of Being” found a home in this beaut from @angrygablepress.bsky.social. “Lost film” with a twist—what if a movie was widely available one day & lost the next?—told by an elderly set dresser who can’t seem to remember & can’t seem to forget. a.co/d/bZ3iyUh

Releasing today.

Narrator: “The movies did not, in fact, reject AI.” www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

I generally keep this account focused on my writing, but alongside my many varied pursuits, I’m also in a punk band! We put out our first demo a few weeks ago & today is Bandcamp Friday, in case you want to help us fund stickers & other merch. muttergutter.bandcamp.com/album/demo

I haven’t done one of these “one like =“ things but I could use a distraction & horror hot takes are my favorite.

We now need $4825 to publish the first all Black women fantasy graphic novel anthology from @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social We are almost there! Please less than 5k now with 13 hours left #sdcc #comicbooks #Blackbooksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Bone Face was good yall. #filmsky #horrorsky www.deafsparrow.com/2025/07/22/b...

today years old when I realized “the air that I breathe” is about the afterglow of some good sex & it’s not subtle

I have a few ppl on my *other social media* who are into that sovereign citizen buffoonery, &, like…I get not wanting to answer to anybody, but just because language sounds legalese-ey doesn’t mean it is. Bro just be gay & do crime like the rest of us. (Gay part optional but encouraged)

Ended up back on the floor of the dollar store & if you are a huge fan of this movie, please don’t tell me, cuz it hurts. www.horrorgeeklife.com/2025/07/20/d...

IKWYDLS reboot made some back-half decisions I wasn’t in love with but I’m *riding* for this movie because of how girly it is. We haven’t had a bigtime teen girl oriented slasher in a while & it’s been needed.

lol @ the idea that I need a better reason not to watch the ari aster covid movie than “ari aster covid movie”

One of my most underrated reviews, i fucking ate. boxd.it/1YIwsx

New Clipse AND new Raekwon, cocaine is really having a moment

fuck no, snub harder