Grab yourself a half price copy of my books - The Metamodern Slasher Film shorturl.at/wOga0 - The Postmodern Slasher Film shorturl.at/j43ry or any of the excellent books by my fellow members of @horrorstudies.bsky.social @profsaabbott.bsky.social @kte75.bsky.social @russhunter.bsky.social

Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

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'TIME TO WATCH!' Genre Short Film form doesn't get much better than this. Especially when we receive a BRAND NEW #35mm print to screen! Experience @mike-williamson.bsky.social Mike Williamson’s MR STATIC in #35mm 5.1 Dolby Digital audio at GRINDFEST! Screening ahead of XTRO.

GRINDFEST #35mm print checking and assembly continues! #3D #demimoore

New on @letterboxd.social! Nia reflects on the rise of 'women in horror' in the past 15 years ahead of an appearance at @dirtinthegate.bsky.social's Grindfest VII: letterboxd.com/abertoir/sto...

BIG filmic thumbs up to @bournemouthecho.bsky.social, @filmhubsw.bsky.social, @abertoirfest.bsky.social, @horrorstudies.bsky.social #vinegarsyndrome and of course the beautiful art deco Regent for your much valued support in making GRINDFEST an ongoing key event in the film festival calendar!

Coming to the end of day one and reflecting on what great work @kte75.bsky.social and @cinefeline.bsky.social have done to put together a conference that is wide ranging in terms of discipline, cultures, and periods covered while also designing panels that are coherent and compelling. Great day one!

Youth X Horror conference was amazing - the inspiring talks, the meaningful conversations with great people! Thank you @cinefeline.bsky.social and @kte75.bsky.social for the absolutely marvellous work you did to make this happen! ❤️✨💀👻 #youthxhorror #horrorresearch #musicresearch #birmingham

This was the best academic conference I have ever attended. Well done to @kte75.bsky.social and @cinefeline.bsky.social and all who presented/chaired.

24 hours to go!!! @kte75.bsky.social

[posted on behalf of researcher Chloe Gibson] Are You a Horror Film Fan? I am looking for horror fans who are willing to take part in a 30min (max) interview regarding the Halloween film series and requels. If interested, please contact me at [email protected] #horrorNU

Very chuffed to have written the obituary, for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, of the inspiring, multi-talented (and, in my view, underappreciated) British Queen of Horror, Barbara Shelley. RIP Barbara.

There's one week left to register for mine and @kte75.bsky.social's conference all about Youth & Horror! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

For anyone in the Birmingham area over the next week, come and see the Fear in the Bedroom exhibition, curated by @cinefeline.bsky.social Simon Brown and I! #horrorNU

Check out this article about an excellent horror exhibition by @cinefeline.bsky.social and our own @kte75.bsky.social #horrorNU

Registration is now open for Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) For information on how to register and to see the line-up, visit: research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie... #horrorNU

www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/... @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Mine and @kte75.bsky.social's exhibition 'Fear on the Bedroom' opens in just over 2 weeks! If you are in the Birmingham area please come along and revisit horror ephemera of the past through the eyes of a child flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...

JOIN US! Experience new and classic #35mm cinema. We have such sights to show you! -->https://linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i... So chuffed to be overseeing - with the brilliant Cat Lester and Simon Brown - this exhibition, Fear in the Bedroom in May at the Parkside Gallery, Birmingham as part of the wonderful Flatpack Festival. #horrorNU

Twin Peaks 35mm print ready to whisk you away to the surreal world of David Lynch tomorrow night with special introduction from Associate Professor Steve Jones.🍒 Link to tickets in bio☝️ . . #twinpeaks #35mmfilm #davidlynch #dirtinthegatemovies

Unspooling THIS Sunday! Don’t miss your chance to see this ultra rare #35mm event at The Regent. Last remaining tickets -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

All our live 35mm events can be found here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate Thanks for keeping film alive!

We're thrilled to welcome back the Horror Studies Research Group from Northumbria University! Assistant Professor in Media and FIlm, Steve Jones will be introducing our David Lynch tribute 35mm screening of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME

Our own @kte75.bsky.social will be presenting her research on Ghostwatch at @miskatonicihs.bsky.social tomorrow #horrorNU

“You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?” Tickets on sale soon!

Can’t wait for this! And thank you so much @miskatonicihs.bsky.social for inviting me. It’s an honour and a pleasure! 🙏❤️👻

I have just submitted an abstract for the excellent Horror Studies Now Conference 2025. I would highly encourage anybody with an interest in the genre to submit an abstract. It’s a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and meet some really cool people 😁 #HorrorSky

Our own @profsaabbott.bsky.social presenting her inaugural lecture "'It's Alive!': Materiality, Excess and the Nightmare Visions of Horror Animation" #horrorNU

THE LOST BOYS unspools tomorrow night! -> linktr.ee/dirtintuhegate

“Initiation’s over, Michael. Time to join the club!” THIS SUNDAY - Joel Schumacher’s classic 1987 vampire tale comes to Christchurch in blood sucking #35mm! Only a few tickets left -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Call and submissions info here: shorturl.at/XmTjU #horrorNU

Join us for our fangtastic #35mm screening of THE LOST BOYS Feb 16th! Tix here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

The PCC @princecharlescinema.com is under threat. Please sign this petition to help save a one of kind cinema experience for future generations.

The deadline for mine and @kte75.bsky.social's conference on youth and horror is this Monday! See below for the full CFP.

We’re kicking off 2025 and our 10th anniversary with Sergio Leone’s epic classic desert adventure from an original #35mm IB Technicolor print! Cinema in its purest form! Draw for those tickets here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

This January 11th 2025. Experience Sergio Leone’s epic classic desert adventure from an original #35mm IB Technicolor print. Cinema in its purest form! Chase those tickets here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

So pleased to be giving this talk - on my favourite subject - as part of the spring semester of the brilliant Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies events at the Horse Hospital, London! miskatonicinstitute.com/events/i-sti...

"Transnational #Horror Media Now" is the new issue of NRFTS: spooky Oz kids' TV, heavy breathing in MIDSOMMAR, William Castle's THE TINGLER & the fanbase of BATTLE ROYALE. Last two #openaccess! @kte75.bsky.social @jamesrendell.bsky.social @drdantils.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/c...

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Thrilled to see published the special dossier on Horror Fans and Audiences (that I co-edited with @kte75.bsky.social) as part of the New Review of Film and Television Studies' new issue on Transnational Horror Media. You can read our introduction here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So chuffed to see this special dossier, on Horror Fans and Audiences (edited by James Rendell and I) published as part of the New Review of Film and Television Studies' new issue focused on Transnational Horror Media www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/2...

@cinefeline and I would like to share the CFP for our upcoming conference on Youth & Horror. Hope it’s of interest! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac... Youth and Horror: An International Conference, 1-2 July, 2025, University of Birmingham, UK

One of my favourite things to do!

hello! gonna introduce my research: - ecr at salford uni / feminist tv & media studies scholar - wrote a book on women & UK TV comedy and co-writing the book "Television Goes Back to the Future: Rethinking TV's Streaming Revolution" - Co-Pi on "What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry"

🩸PARTICIPANTS NEEDED🩸 Are you a parent of a child who loves #horror? Based in the UK or Ireland? Seeking child interviewees & filmmakers aged 9-15 for a University of Birmingham UK study on children’s opinions of the horror genre! ✨ Please share ✨ & see flyer for details:

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There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

Our venue to start Day 3 of #Abertoir2024! Today we have more short films, Children of the Wicker Man, Bad Film Club, then we head back up to the Arts Centre for FABIO FRIZZI'S ZOMBIE LIVE 🤩 and Grafted!!! www.abertoir.co.uk