Thanks so much Jeff!

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Hey lovely folks; I'm largely offline for a couple of months, so please forgive me if I don't respond to messages or interact with posts. Nothing bad, don't worry.

Saturday Night is one of my favourite films of the decade.

Want real insight into making indie #horror and balancing art with what sells? I’ve profiled Andy Edwards, who’s nailed it without losing his unique voice. First in my new series on the careers of indie 😊 amicushorror.co.uk/lawrie-brews... #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily

After next week I'm going to be largely offline for a couple of months, so if you need something out of me before that it's probably best to give me a shout over the next few days (don't worry, it's not a bad thing)

Finally caught up with The Monkey. Bloody excellent.

15 years ago, DVD & Blu-ray Review magazine called me a 'funny guy' before proceeding to trash my then-latest movie. I used the 'Pat Higgins is a funny guy' pull-quote for years, knowing it was the only positive sentence in the piece. Ah well, the magazine's long gone and I'm still hilarious.

In the queue for Record Store Day. Happy and cold. Using my kid's unfinished thermos of coffee as a hand warmer.

Just revisited Fright Night 2011 remake and had a blast with it.

I was expecting these to be quite unpleasant but surprisingly they're rank

Now playing: Nemesis the Warlock on the C64 for the first time since the 80s. I had forgotten the way monsters sometimes burst out of your dead foes. This was hardcore onscreen violence for 1987. #retrogaming

Found this bad boy when tidying up my movie room. Bought it in a little shop in Exeter in about '93. Seems a little under UK Quad size, weirdly. What a lovely poster. #horror #evildead

Fourteen years ago on social media, I was openly ruminating on the possibility of writing Mermaids vs Yetis

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Since March 2018, Powertool Cheerleaders Vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead has been a daily part of my life. From scripting to pre-production, all the way through to sorting out distribution and marketing, not to mention two years of actually shooting the thing in the middle. (1/)

Decades too late, I FINALLY saw Friday the 13th Part III in wonderful 3D as intended. Had an absolute blast with it. My new favourite F13 viewing experience, overtaking Jason X in a theatre on opening weekend. It'll never be my favourite franchise, but goddamn I love 80s 3D.

If there were 11 days in a week rather than 7 would it make time feel like it was passing faster or slower?

Playing Split Fiction with my kid and I'm loving the hell out of it so far

We went to see an episode of QI being filmed in the 00s. Never saw it air. It had Rich Hall make a brilliant joke about time travel (which I guess may not have made the edit). We've been trawling iplayer looking for it for an hour now. No joy whatsoever. Can't remember the other panelists, alas.

Why am I watching Bio-Dome? Even more terrifyingly, why am I watching Bio-Dome AGAIN?

Flashback to Cannes 2008. Feels like yesterday. I associate this fest with the smell of Lush's Sonic Death Monkey shower gel, which I had then but got discontinued shortly after. It's now available again, and the smell transports me.

Watching Glastonbury 97 footage on YouTube and drowning in nostalgia for the worst mud I've ever experienced

The reviews are in for Rumpelstiltskin following our premiere. You can check it out for yourself from 7th of April

Well, now I've got to rearrange my 10 greatest gigs of all time because I saw Airborne Toxic Event in Islington tonight. So who gets bumped FFS? Nirvana? Bowie? Springsteen? I can't do this. I should stick to mediocre live bands instead.

We popped into SoS Records in Leigh-on-Sea to ask a question about Record Store Day and accidentally bought stuff

I hadn't heard the term 'contranym' until this week and what bothers me isn't that I hadn't heard the term, bit that I'd never actually noticed that such words existed.

Apparently, Wallis and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit is heading back to cinemas. Anecdotal evidence suggests that movie fucked up Gen Z in the same way that Return to Oz fucked up Gen X.

In the great history of "chord changes that wreck you and you're not sure why" I don't think anything's ever going to beat the change on the word 'fate' on The Killing Moon.

My kid informed me that Nintendo cartridges have a bittering agent applied to stop kids eating them, and now my whole family is sitting around licking our way through a box of Switch games

Back to my Night Gallery box set. I've seen every single original Twilight Zone so have have I allowed so much of this collection to go unwatched?

I'm about to watch Lavalantula, a spiders/lava movie starring the cast of Police Academy. I am extremely pleased with this choice.

Ran a session this afternoon about using Adlerian psychology to make more convincing characters when writing for the screen. Somehow managed to go off on a tangent about what a great band The Airborne Toxic Event are.

So these damn things taste so much like their stated flavour that it's off-putting. First few crisps, I was oddly revolted by the texture/flavour mismatch. Then suddenly I could NOT stop eating them, guarding the bowl against others like a stray dog with a brisket. I was left unsettled.

LIVE SHOW THREAD! Our Folk Horror show is coming to Derby QUAD on Friday 21st March! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be taking a fun look at the entire genre - there's fewer than 40 tickets left for this one, so don't delay! (1/3) Tickets: bit.ly/3WlOy4P

It's a beautiful sunny morning, the sky is blue and I regret to inform you that you've just lost The Game.

I just caught myself watching two different episodes of BJ and the Bear on two different devices at once. Not sure if I'm appalled or proud of myself.

Alright, so my family just did blind taste test on 7 different brands of milk chocolate, because that's the sort of thing we do on a Saturday afternoon. We ate a small piece of chocolate and scored it. Really surprised by the results. In bottom place was...

We all deserved better than (gestures wildly around)

We've been uploading a bunch of never-before seen shots from Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead to the Instagram account, so if you're on that platform give us a follow!

Had great fun on the Scream Princess Podcast with the always-wonderful Dani Thompson youtu.be/cBIubUsq2E4?...

Playing the old Activision Ghostbusters on the C64 mini. I was so ridiculously excited playing this back in '84 and the nostalgia runs deep.

Today's mission is to use the phrase 'sour beans' instead of 'sour grapes' and see if we can make it happen

Hey there, new followers! I love talking about films. My latest one is called Powertool Cheerleaders vs the Boyband of the Screeching Dead. If you watch it, please let me know what you think! Indie horror forever!

After countless vinyl nights, our first cassette night has involved rather more pencils than would be considered ideal

I had such a great time at this event and I'm chuffed that £2252 was made for such a brilliant cause!

So Goths for Breakfast is today. 13 fantastic talks on subjects dark and wonderful, raising money for a fantastic cause. I'll be talking about making low budget horror movies at 1pm. Join us? Jooooooooin us!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1141089402...

This looks like an amazing set of talks for anyone interested in horror, gothic literature or supporting a great charity!