The ANNA & THE APOCALYPSE soundtrack has all-time bangers in both categories, btw.

The two best Christmas song sub-genres are “Christmas is sad, actually” and “I want to fuck Santa.”

This was so good. I was expecting a schlocky direct-to-video B-movie, but it turned out to be a very solid, dark psychological dream thriller that leans hard into paranoia. And it's a Christmas movie!

Writing some last-minute Christmas cards and sad to see I’m almost out of my gorgeous @ciaraioch.bsky.social cards. Will have to pick up more for next year 🎄Nollaig shona daoibh go léir 🎁

Black Christmas (1974) Directed by #BobClark Starring #OliviaHussey #KeirDullea #MargotKidder #JohnSaxon #MerryXmas 🎄🎁⛄😊 #BlackChristmas #Horror #Horrorfilms #Xmas #XmasMovies #Cultfilm #CultMovies #1970s

Today we have gathered here to celebrate our Queen and saviour, the one and only Edwige Fenech🎂❤️🥳

As fun an Xmas flick as you could hope for. Instead of sentimentality or gloom or lessons about the true meaning of the holiday, what the movie offers is the pleasure of watching its charming trickster antihero expertly play the bandits and the local law enforcement against each other, YOJIMBO-style

I'm watching The Wrong Trousers and it's bonkers to watch it now, since a provincial museum in the north of England in an animation from 1993 has better security than the Louvre.

The Bishop’s Wife (1947) #filmsky

Now (re)watching: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) It’s a CanCon Christmas! #filmsky

Woo!!!

Love a Christmas noir murder mystery, and this is one of the best 🎄 @indicator.bsky.social

Remember the Night (1940) 🎄❤️🎬 Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray ftw #filmsky #moviesky #cinema

Now (re)watching: SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT (1972) #filmsky

Alastair Sim pictured in what is for many the favored version of the Charles Dickens story: from 1951, "Scrooge" - as released in Britain - or "A Christmas Carol" as it was titled in the U.S.

Also, I know there are more important things going on, but I just wanted to mention my site since it's been a while. My new goal is to hit 375 subscribers before the end of the year & I'm 6 away from that. Eek! Free & paid subs are available: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io

Equinox Flower 1958 Ozu w ridiculously loaded cast — all so good — Tanaka, Saburi, Ryu, Arima, Kuga, Naniwa, Sada(!) & Ozu leverages Yamamoto’s Undercurrent persona & she steals the show

#BOTD Jack Nance y David Lynch durante el rodaje de Twin Peaks (1990).

2025 MOVIE THEATER THREAD: I saw a deranged number of movies theatrically this year and this is an ongoing thread of some memories and observations about ALL of them #Filmsky 📽️

Substantial stack still remaining before Xmas… (not including 2 black christmases!)

Just finished. It’s curious. It’s called that but no mention of Lawrence or Mark. Mentions the original run of AGSFC but not that it’s an ongoing thing.

Reminder that Kurosawa’s Scandal is also a Christmas movie. 🎄

Been singing this all day.

The Vourdalak is on Film4 tonight. I haven't seen it but there has yet to be a bad version of that story (Bava, Ferroni).

BEST FIRST TIME WATCHES OF 2025 The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) Baby Face (1933) Under Siege aka Panic makers (1980) Caged (1950) (2/4)

Gonna tell my kids The Legend of Hell House (1973) is a heartwarming Christmas film🎄

Fanny makes a mincemeat omelette, because that's an entirely normal thing that human beings make and eat

Now watching another holiday classic, Tokyo Godfathers #Filmsky 📽️

Once again, I'm massively impressed by the research done by @twinpeaksblog.bsky.social! More incredible bits of detail about the #TwinPeaks Georgia Coffee commercials. (I never knew who *really* owned that cool car until today!)

no idea if this will be a good movie or not, I’m just ecstatic to see a poster like this for an upcoming movie — peak of the artform, IMO

I haven't had time to talk about this. But I think Anna and the Apocalypse should be your new favorite Christmas movie and Heather sells it beautifully. This is really worth your time to read and then go watch the movie which is brilliant

Ethically speaking, I don't care for how Luigi is handling this mansion situation. A lot of these ghosts aren't bothering anybody. One guy is spending his afterlife playing pool. One lady is enjoying a ghost bath, and Luigi creeps up on her and turns her into a painting. That's fucked up, Luigi

let me hold your hands in mine and look you dead in the eyes this dark solstice night and say. to you. that there is almost nothing on this earth i love more than saying stupid shit into the internet and let neither of us ever forget it

Revisiting a festive favourite, THE FIFTH SEASON (2012), annoyingly trapped on an old Belgian DVD. A small farming community is plunged into an endless winter following their annual solstice celebrations. Superstition and paranoia takes hold - chilly bleakness, 'tis the season..!

Me throughout the Welcome to Derry finale:

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

Coming Thursday #Art

Miriam Hopkins, publicity shot for All Of Me (1934).

Great piece on the best Coen Bros movie

If she's ever in London, Megan's near the Design Museum knows how to treat a dog right. Here you see the water bowls and beds available to canine customers

Farewell to producer, actor, collector, archivist, and curator of the legendary Bob’s Basement, Bob Burns. Beloved by generations of filmmakers and fans, Bob did meaningful work on both sides of the camera and lived a life most of us could only dream of. Rest in peace, sir.

🚨 The sold-out Christmas cards are now back for a FINAL limited time restock, grab 'em before they're gone! #SpéirGorm bsky.app/profile/ciar...

#HillfortsWednesday Less than a fortnight ago, I was enjoying the views from Crug Hywel, a brilliant Welsh site that gave the nearby town of Crickhowell its name.

A hero, someone we can all look up to

Who needs personal space when they have an Uggi?

When you mistakenly think Bluesky is Twitter

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) 🎬🎄❤️ Directed by Shane Black

Still thinking about the woman working the register at Aritzia yesterday, who, when starting to ring up a gift card for a man, said, “You don’t want to at least *try* to pick something out?” Incredible and necessary energy.