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this was such a great panel, i am so looking forward to following all three of these scholars’ ongoing projects on trans horror

Had an absolutely lovely time at the Horror Studies Now! conference this year - thanks to @horrorstudies.bsky.social for a great event and to my fantastic co-panelists @marsnicoli.bsky.social and Patrick Poulin for a lovely time charting the contours of the emergent field of trans horror.

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. To access the full CfP, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk

The Horror Studies Research Group are hosting the Horror Studies Now conference next week. Want to dig up more from the world of horror studies? Check out reading list MI6022: The Modern Horror Film. northumbria.rl.talis.com/index.html #NorthumbriaLibrary @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Have you seen the termite version of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY? It stars Clint Eatswood.

We're baaaaaaack! The fourth annual Haunted Futures Conference will take place on September 29th and 30th @ucc.ie. This year we propose to explore the theme of 'Spaces in Crisis' and will be accepting abstracts until July 24th

Hi all, I’m very proud to announce the forthcoming release of the sequel you’ve all been waiting for: Style and Form in the Slasher Film II: Beyond Hollywood While I don’t advise buying from Amazon, this at least has the cover posted. amzn.eu/d/0ecdCQuL

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️

dr. robby: we have a patient in er room 1. health is at 1%. ideas, people me: 1 dose of the correct kind of medicine, stat! dr. mohan: oh my god. patient’s health is now 100% dr. robby: do you want to ride motorcycles with me me: no. i have to go home and post on bluesky — the world’s #1 site

I highly recommend Tom Noonan's film WHAT HAPPENED WAS. He was a fantastic writer and director in addition to being one of the great character actors his generation. WHAT HAPPENED WAS is a romance for people who have been worn down by life and themselves and who don't trust love, but still want it.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

My Silent Hill series concludes with RETURN TO SILENT HILL. I loved this movie, and I hope it finds its audience someday. www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

This post points out something I’ve said before: the best Silent Hill film is I Saw The TV Glow

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Wes Craven’s #Scream academic conference alert 🔪 on 16 Dec 2026 at Bangor University UK. Deadline for is 1 Jun. Information attached. This looks like it will be a grand time. If the conference dinner isn’t a murder mystery featuring Ghostface, that’ll be a missed opportunity…

Been watching through some Tobe Hooper movies I haven't seen in the first few days of the new year and I'm fond of MORTUARY. A horror movie for kids about the horrible creeping rot of small town America. SALEM'S LOT is about the same thing & so is POLTERGEIST & TEXAS CHAINSAW & oh you get the idea

My New Year’s resolution is to be even more of a hater to “A.I.” A soul-murdering scam to create a generation of dead-inside drones - if you use it on the reg you’re a clown at best and if you promote it you’re lower than the shit on Satan’s hoof, sorry I don’t make the rules etc.

Arbitrary as the exercise is, did enjoy compiling a lil' list of my favourite first-time watches from last year and another one of my favourite films of 2025. Here's to more.

You can’t even lure children into your gingerbread house to eat them any more without being cooked in your own oven. I blame Hansel culture

Apparently I'm out in paperback! And it looks to be on sale, so if you're looking for a £35 stocking stuffer, boy do I have a recommendation for you... #fanstudies

Francis Fukuyama ...? Francis "The End of History" Fukuyama ...?! Historic run of terrible ideas with that one man, damn.

RIP Rosa von Praunheim, truly one of the best to ever do it. A brilliant provocateur, an artist of the highest order, forever eager to mash genres, someone who wanted more and better for queer people, someone not afraid to stand against the tide and be proven right again and again. Thank you. ♥️

Every time I hear someone talk about the state of modern cinema I want to shout ‘watch better films then!’, there’s no need to ever talk about a disney produced film from an artistic standpoint, watch In Fabric, watch La Chimera, watch Decision to Leave, watch The Peasants, watch Boy and the Heron

A stellar read, and one whose concepts around the idea of trans "film images" over trans "representation" are stuff that I'd love to see disseminated and used in criticism/academia.

Had a great time talking about transgender haunted houses at @hauntedfutures.bsky.social today! Thank you for having me, and to my excellent co-panelists :)

How furry research is spread

For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation! bcmcr.org/research/cul...

Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies

Very much enjoyed presenting my work at this morning's Birmingham Cine-Excess symposium! Many thanks to my excellent co-panelists and to moderator extraordinaire @danieljsheppard.bsky.social <3

If someone wants to wake up for 10am on a Thursday in October, they can hear we warble about the greatness of Resident Evil: Retribution, one of the masterpieces of modern arthouse cinema. ... And George Romero too, I guess.

My friend and colleague @lerelle.bsky.social needs research participants for their PhD project. The research focuses on intersectionally minoritised queer people's experiences using dating apps. So could you please take a look at this and share it if you can? (1/3)

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score.

This was Greene's personal favourite, and in my opinion, best work. #nowwatching

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

I got my copy and you should get yours.

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

Wrote a research blog post bridging the theoretical gap in my thinking between a paper I gave last year about furry video games and non-human humanity and the paper I’m giving at this year’s @furrystudies.org. 😁 bcmcr.org/research/an-...

This is progressive thinking. While idiot politicians and media talking heads over here, are talking about stopping the boats

It's the remix to Audition Holding tryouts for women The way you injured your body destroyed your ballet ambition You can afford some CDs Let's get a room by the sea That's a nice rubber apron baby kirikirikiri

"Bring Her Back" is so good. So good.

The Swimmer (1968)

After doing the ultimate 9/11 film twice, makes sense that this franchise would do the ultimate Brexit film with "28 Years Later". Adored it. An extraordinary mix of poetic postapocalyptic fairytale and of ruthless satire.

Fantastic first morning of the @bcmcr.bsky.social #TIS25 conference. We've had presentations exploring transgressive bodies and subversive genders through furriest, bots, veganism, the good samaritan, India's Hijras, trans and non binary youth, menstrual cooking, and mediated drag cultures. 🐶🤖🍃✝️🇮🇳👱🩸💃

DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

June 22nd Frameline !! tickets on sale now, so proud of this film🥹 TW for graphic self h*rm/su*cide