My 300th horror film of the year and 200th classic film of the year was the resplendent The Masquerade Of The Red Death (1964). Delighted to give this honour to the equally glorious Vincent Price. 2025 horror list: boxd.it/BYXUG 2025 classics list: boxd.it/BYYmK #filmsky #horrorsky

Currently winning at life because someone made a “your mum” joke at my child and her friends jumped into defend me. Apparently I’m “too awesome” for anyone to take the piss out of.

Winner of the week: the Arrow release of The City Of The Dead (1960) - free to view on YouTube. Stellar Amicus-adjacent work from Milton Subotsky with nuanced use repetition to enhance the tale. The image of Barlow holding the giant cross aloft was haunting af. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Halloween means spooky marathons, so working my way through rewatches of Fear Street and Hell House LLC. Tonight is Fear Street: 1666 (2021), Hell House LLC: Origins (2023), and Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025). Happy Halloween spooky chums! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Our Samhain horror 'zine is out now: 76 pages of fresh nightmares, haunted nostalgia, and British strangeness. A fine fireside read for the turning of the year. #GeneralWitchfinders #Zine #HorrorZine #BritishHorror Buy it here tinyurl.com/gwZINE Please repost

The Collector (1965), utterly brilliant. So close to perfection. So, so close. The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and, in particular, Gothika (2003), not as good as I remember. Twenty years sure does change taste. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

New 'Zine available (very) soon!

I’ve watched Inferno (1980) twice in one week, and I think it’s now my favourite Argento simply for being utterly batsh*t. The theme song is currently living in my head rent free. Far better than it has any right to be, à la the theme for Lifeforce (1985). youtu.be/MxPig78E844?...

Clusters of ringless honey mushrooms sprouting up everywhere and so my yearly shroom-watch begins. Afternoon-shrooms and pre-sunrise-shrooms. 🍄‍🟫

Scratched the itch of rewatching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). It gets better every time and I hate the sound of chainsaws more every time too. Hard recommend for From A Whisper To A Scream (1987). Amicus-vibing portmanteau with 80s slasher violence. Fab! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

So I put on Witchboard 2 (1993) expecting a crappy sequel, but turns out it’s as ridiculously great as the first one? What?! 🤣 I’ve never seen a sequel be so lore-perfect to the original. I’m now so excited to watch Witchboard 3 (1995) as it’s once again written by Kevin Tenney. What a ride 🤣

New episode out now and it’s a spin-off from Tales from the Scarlet Vault. Go ghost hunting in Victorian Oxford with Talbot & Masterson! open.spotify.com/episode/0rj1...

Last four are top and tailed by two excellent films I’d known nothing about. Gothic tales courtesy of Vincent Price and outrageously perfect 80s schlock courtesy of a ouija board. Tonight’s evening watch will be Witchboard 2 and I can’t wait! 👻 #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Unreasonably excited for the return of Eurotrash to our screens 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

Hard recommend! This panel was fantastic. Melvyn Hayes was an absolute gem. 7pm UK time! youtu.be/XFcwv3qCUVQ

A pretty fantastic last four. The Hearse (1980) was the only new watch (would’ve been 3.5, but the ending was a bit limp). Highlight was, naturally, The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) on the big screen in its 4K glory. Can’t get much better than that. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Had to share this gorgeous local tree proudly showing off its best Autumnal colours 🍂

It’s spooky season. It’s Friday. You’re wonderful. May your (haunted) weekend be full to the brim with excellent (creepy) films and (ghastly) good times. 👻

It’s spooky month, so I begin my little yearly tradition of updating my display name. 🎃 👻 🧛‍♀️ 🧟‍♀️

Braved a night out on a school night and to the 4K premiere of The Curse Of Frankenstein in London. It was *chef’s kiss* A big shout out to the two lovely chaps who kept my daughter and I company while waiting for the doors to open. Wonderful to chat classic films while out in the wild.

Alan Gibson directs Lee and Cushing as they prepare for the opening scene of Hammer’s first modern-day outing for the Count, Dracula A.D. 1972. The maligned but much loved picture began production on this day in 1971. 🖤

FYI: THE CREEP TAPES Season 2 returns to Shudder this fall, with new guest stars David Dastmalchian, Robert Longstreet, and more.

An entry from the #HooklandEncyclopædia, this time on Dracula Buses and the censorship of #horror films. Also, context for later tonight.

Everyone should watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976) and Capricorn One (1977). Very different films (naturally!), but both the epitome of kickass 70s thrillers. Epic atmosphere, epic actors, epic storytelling. Yes, yes, yes! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

My garden frog friend was kind enough this afternoon to let me get super close and take an ickle piccie 🐸

Another super successful viewing week. I went into Caddo Lake (2024) expecting a standard detective drama I could doomscroll to, but no, it was actually an incredible sci-fi mystery that made me tear up?! Watched the whole thing without looking at my phone! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

A little late night chill with #LaurencePayne #AdrienneCorri #DermotWalsh in... 🖤 THE TELL-TALE HEART (1960) 11:10pm horror #TPTVsubtitles

Sunday afternoon viewing of Peeping Tom (1960) and accidentally paused on this wonderful shot of Anna Massey. Kind of apt, I think.

I don’t know wtf I was dreaming about last night, but I woke up this morning lying in a full on Peter Pan pose?

Another Hammer down and another Stephen King adaption I really should have seen by now. Very impressed by both. The surprise was 1956’s revenge thriller The Killer Is Loose. It was far more absorbing than expected. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

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Spotted Mission To Mars (2000) on tv for a trashy, fun rewatch and got excited. Turns out I was a dolt. It was, in fact, very bad tv movie Escape From Mars (1999). Even worse, I sat through the whole thing…?!

Very guilty of being on my phone while watching a film this week. I need to revisit The Discovery (2017) as I was more listening than watching. I'm 100% sure I missed nuances, and rating it 3.5 based on mostly what I heard means it deserved more of my attention. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Guys, we made it to Friday. Congratulations all round 🥳

Finally!! I’ve waited so long to have it in my paws 🥲 @arrowvideo.bsky.social youtu.be/fHbMODPzNQg?...

"Don't worry, Mr. Flagg, she whispered. "He'll never make it to Nebraska." It’s been a long, long time since a book has sent such a shiver down my spine… Courtesy of the short story The Tripps by Wrath James White.

Gosh, I just had the best nap while re-watching Longlegs (2024). That was an unexpectedly relaxing film apparently?

Join their battle against Victorian crime! Tonight at 8pm on #TPTV SERGEANT CORK (1963-68) Starring #JohnBarrie as Cork & #WilliamGaunt as Marriott. With EXCLUSIVE introductions by William Gaunt! #TPTVsubtitles

Tonight at 9pm... It's in the trees... it's coming! NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) #TPTVsubtitles

Because I am an adult with adult money, another plushie has come home with me. This time a giant Fuggler. The whole family walked back from town each hugging a different one, much to the amusement of passer-by’s.

My evening horror rewatch is Needful Things (1993). Except it turns out I’ve never seen it? No idea how I’ve managed to convince myself this is a film I’ve seen many times. The book must’ve really left an impression.

Modern watches dominated this week. I didn’t really believe that Heart Eyes (2025) was a rom-com, but it 100% is and it really tickled me throughout. Would love to see a sequel. Also loved the little flourish from Letterboxd when you review it. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

This extremely introverted person is doing a brave thing. I’m going to the Leicester Square screening of The Curse Of Frankenstein! Excited!!!

A thread: all the episodes we’ve released so far… Episode 1. Marking The Grave (an introduction) www.spreaker.com/episode/mark...

Talk about unlocking a core childhood memory 🧪

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Tonight is a big bag of Skips with shitty horror movies kind of night. 🔪 🧛‍♂️ 💀 👻🍿

Classic horror week with two from Amicus, one from Hammer, and one from Bel-Air. Unintentionally three Peter Cushing’s, but also Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Lon Cheney Jnr, Basil Rathbone, Anton Diffring, Nigel Green, and more! I feel enriched! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Petition to bring back credits at the start of movies.