On mornings like these, you almost forget about all the gun violence and drug trafficking ❤️❤️❤️🏔🏔🏔

Vale Udo Kier. A true legend with the wildest career. I was lucky enough to get to hang out with him when he was working on Guy Maddin's Spiritismes/Seances project. He refused to learn my name and would just call me 'ze British guy!' and tickle me when he saw me ❤️

Everyone's talking about Rental Family but still nobody talks about Rent-A-Kid 😢

Let the swede bashing commence!!

It's a dark, rainy November evening with a chill in the air - no better time to pay a visit to Fetch Priory! Just don't ask those nice scientists about what they got up to last night...

"dissects the horrific meeting point of fairytale and modernity with surgical precision": Georges Franju's fantastique EYES WITHOUT A FACE (LES YEUX SANS VISAGE, 1960) screens 4.15pm today at @abertoirfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2015/06/30/e...

Take a bit of good old filth. Cream together with a spoonful of plain nonsense. Throw in the apple cores very hard, put the lot in a shallow tin and bake in a high oven for two weeks. Result? This!!

'I will be a God!' Every horror trope imaginable descends on Fetch Priory; cults, eldrich horrors, slavering monsters, ghosts...and Martin and I are raring to face them all! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Adolescents, insects, and the (r)evolution of the giallo form: PHENOMENA (CREEPERS) (1985), Dario Argento's favourite of his own films, is "a phantasmagorical horror headtrip truly worth going ape about". Screens 6.15pm today at @abertoirfest.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2015/06/29/p...

The menace is afoot with clicky technology summoning an ancient evil, Ma Tyler is on the move, and who the hell did let the Doctor go? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Seasons change, but does everything have to? Emmy Award winner @quantick.bsky.social's IMAGINE A FRIEND is a heartfelt and dream like novella out March 10, 2026. Cover reveal and preorders coming soon! Read more about the book: www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagin... #books #literature #fantasy

Looking for a fun yet inexpensive Christmas gift for the #DoctorWho fan in your life? I have lots of art prints for sale, check 'em out! (Reposts very appreciated!) 🙂 www.ebay.co.uk/usr/scotgra-57

"This never happened to the other fella. BECAUSE HE'S DEAD."

Finally I have been given an opportunity to discuss the Fetch Priory orgy!!! Such fun!

I wrote about the trademarks of Ben Wheatley, from folk horror and clumsy violence to class commentary and dark comedy, for The National Science and Media Museum ahead of their Q&A screening of his new film Bulk! blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/inside-the-m...

On the latest #DoctorWho Too Hot For TV I am joined by @martang66.bsky.social to talk about two mid 00's Big Finish stories, the Seventh Doctor story 'House of Blue Fire' and the Fifth Doctor story 'The Emerald Tiger'. www.buzzsprout.com/864883/episo...

Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans is the jewel in the crown of 90s Doctor Who spinoffs. I was thrilled to interview the director, Kevin Jon Davies (who also directed the BEST EVER Doctor Who doc 30 Years in the TARDIS), about how it all came together www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Nostalgia fester: Ti West’s slow-burn chiller THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009) "lovingly recreates the Satanic panic of the Eighties". Now on Steelray Blu-ray Collector's Edition in the US exclusively from Dark Sky Selects @darkskyfilms.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2015/08/25/t...

#Sheffield this coming Sunday ... (14+ years warning) Talking all things Shakespeare with a little bit extra on the side

Just had to pay out an unexpected £160 for a new car tyre, so yeah yeah, if you know anyone who might like a haunted lino print that'd be really nice, yeah yeah... 🚗 🛞

“Pray tell. The Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

Go get this, Mutants! 👇

Consistently one of the best Big Finish ranges - amazing work all round

I was delighted to write the introduction to a new edition of Josephine Tey’s THE DAUGHTER OF TIME, which you can read today at @crimereads.bsky.social:

The campus sheep are taking care of the grass and the lizards are waking up 😍

Gorgeous film

Jean Marsh has died at the age of 90. Brian Shuel's 1961 photograph of the actor hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery and is one of the most striking images in the collection

RIP Jean Marsh. God she was good.

✨Georges Franju BOTD, 1912 🎂 While I adore the dreamy fantasia of Eyes Without a Face and Judex, I do have a soft spot for the gaudy pop pulp nonsense of his final film, Nuits Rouges (1974), full of mad disguies, masked villainy, undead slaves and underground secret society shenanigans...

Last few hours of the Mistmantle Kickstarter! It's a world of intrigue and murder. Love and loss. Squirrels and otters. Hedgehogs and moles. And nasty nasty ravens. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pur...

I wrote about 2009 sci-fi horror Pandorum and why we deserve more studio-funded outer-space nightmares with lovely big and scary practical sets. hatfulloffilms.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/p...

Excellent news!! The Final Sacrifice is possibly the greatest MST3K episode. Every riff is perfect.

NEW journal! HORROR issue! OPEN access! Scaffold Journal's "The Power of Horror Compels You: Exploring Historical & Modern Genre Conventions" has essays on Filipino horror, Leatherface, Halloween franchise, CARRIE, Covid-19, more. @drfolettolucas.bsky.social ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/J-...

Every fucking day, mate.

The Blu-ray Collector's Edition of BLACK DEATH (2010) is out from today via Umbrella Entertainment, including my booklet essay "God is absent: faith, transgression and manmade hell in Christopher Smith’s folk horror Black Death" shop.umbrellaent.com.au/collections/...

"Welcome to America, Miss LePen."

Yay!! The Mistmantle Chronicles reprint box set hit the funding target in just over an hour! Can't wait to have this on the shelf www.kickstarter.com/projects/pur...

Me, finishing the first Mistmantle book: "I DON'T THINK I CAN EVER BE NEUTRAL ABOUT OTTERS EVER AGAIN"

"a truly postmodern concoction, where, along with the village's properties, narrative norms are deconstructed brick by brick": A TOWN CALLED PANIC (2009) screens 8pm tonight at the French Inst. Of Scotland Auditorium for @manipulatearts.bsky.social projectedfigures.com/2022/04/29/a...

Seems the right day for it: Catherine Breillat's ROMANCE (1999) "takes its heroine on an explicit, abstract quest, via love, sex and birth, to find fulfilment in a male other" projectedfigures.com/2020/04/12/r...

Gorgeous photo! I cannot believe how many people don't remember Hale-Bopp! It was just up there in the sky like this for MONTHS.

I wasn't aware of HorrorLex until very recently @horrorlex.bsky.social but what a wonderful idea and I bloody wish it had been around when I was writing my PhD!!!

Le dernier message de la race humaine

Imagine spending this much on something you can do at home with just a lump of crystallised carbon and a big lamp @louisejameson.bsky.social

Aside from THE MAGNIFICENT EVERYTHING ELSE, David Lynch helped to bring Nadja into the world and that...well, that was just a saintly thing to do youtu.be/TLEASy1bvZg?...

I loved David Lynch's work, especially the final Twin Peaks series, because it suggested strongly that the weird world, not the real world, is the true world.

I would agree if it weren't for the existence of those giant centipedes that live in caves and snatch bats out the air. Irredeemable.

When we look back on 2024, we will speak of it with such fondness. The last year before the ravages of the space plagues. The time before the Turbo Badgers. You never know when you are living your best life, so enjoy yourself now.