Christianne Benedict
@krelllabs.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, Film Writer, Malcontent. She/her if you please.
http://krelllabs.blogspot.com
Bought my tickets for Del Toro's Frankenstein at the Hi Pointe in St. Louis on Friday night. It's a three hour drive and, believe me, I'd rather not, but my local theaters have all failed me. (When
@realgdt.bsky.social
posted this image I knew I would move heaven & earth to see this in a theater).
about 10 hours ago
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I'm the least religious person you know, but I swear the current president continues to tick the boxes of the antichrist. This week's evidence: "They that are filthy let them be filthy still, Let them reach the throne of filthiness with all their might," Revelation 22:11' Cue Johnny Cash.
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Johnny Cash-The_Man_Comes Around
YouTube video by TheJohnnyCashChannel
https://youtu.be/k9IfHDi-2EA?si=tetUaWGKUHW8-Q8k
about 20 hours ago
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Thought the fighter jet dropping shit on protesters thing was made-up. Then I saw it. Everything about it is the worst thing our civilization has ever produced, including the administration who posted it.
1 day ago
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Trans Ferdinand: Robot Princess
3 days ago
Long live the king of the monsterfuckers and a true hero
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Phil Plait
3 days ago
Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.
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I wrote a few thousand words on Corman's version of The Pit and the Pendulum over at my movie blog this week. I'm running out of the Corman Poe movies at this point.
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The Pendulum Swings
βAnd then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.β β Edgar Allan...
https://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-pit-and-pendulum-1961-review.html
5 days ago
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Wrote about Tremors (1990) for my October blogging project. Long overdue, it seems.
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Shakin' All Over
I originally saw Tremors (1990, directed by Ron Underwood) when it was in theaters and then never afterwards. I may have seen bits of it ...
https://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/tremors-1990-review.html
11 days ago
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This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.
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11 days ago
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My horror movies this weekend. One evergreen classic. One fun romp. (1/3)
15 days ago
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Notorious Strangers on a Train Lifeboat maybe
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15 days ago
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I haven't seen an episode of Friends or Love Actually, either. I don't feel like there's a hole in my education, but those are pretty big cultural touchstones.
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16 days ago
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I wrote about the Korean horror movie, H, at my movie blog this morning. It reallllly want's to be Kurosawa's Cure.
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Look Into My Eyes
H (2002, directed by Jong-Hyuk Lee) appeared right at the crest of the K-horror boom of the early aughts, so it found its way into relati...
https://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/h-2002-review.html
16 days ago
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So, I'm on my blogging bullshit again, with a look at T-Blockers for the October Horror movie challenge and for Aaron Christensen's Scare-A-Thon in support of the International Rescue Committee. This had a fast turnaround because I had a bug up my butt about it. Blame (waves arms around) all this.
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Waiting on the Worms
For some incomprehensible reason, my local Pride celebration was held this year on the first weekend of October. The organizers and the lo...
https://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/t-blockers-2023-review.html
17 days ago
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I'm starting my annual October horror film blogging with a look at the first two sequels to 1933's The Invisible Man. Both were released in 1940, so second wave Universal horror. One is pretty good. The other is less so....
krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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Not Fade Away
I'm sure I saw The Invisible Man Returns (1940, directed by Joe May) when I was a kid, but I didn't remember much except some of the spec...
https://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-invisible-man-returns-1940-review.html
19 days ago
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Going to a showing of Alice Maio Mackay's TBlockers tonight at my local art house. Kills three birds with one stone: supports trans art, supports my local indie theater, and it's a horror movie for October. Perfect.
20 days ago
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The Film Canary
21 days ago
The watch begins tomorrow, thanks to
@krelllabs.bsky.social
for the banner image. I'll be sharing all my Letterboxd posts about what I've been watching on here, and you can donate to my fundraiser here. I am sacrificing a weekend to watch all of Human Centipede, that has to be worth something!
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The Film Canary's October Horror Movie Challenge 2025
Every year across October I take part in a challenge born from the old IMDb message boards; across the 31 days of the month, one must watch at minimum 31 β¦
https://www.givewheel.com/fundraising/9478/the-film-canarys-october-horror-movie-challenge-20/
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Elizabeth Bear
25 days ago
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
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Holy shit, y'all.
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26 days ago
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I used to have the BIGGEST crush on Claudia Cardinale. Sic transit gloria mundi.
27 days ago
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I swear, some people will happily tie the noose that this administration uses to hang them. JFC.
about 1 month ago
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Every time I see some conservative say that the "transgender ideology" is "well funded", I just giggle hysterically. My dude, we collectively have about $47 between all of us which we pass around through GoFundMe and Venmo.
about 1 month ago
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My 5 small pleasures vs. doom: 1. Talenti coffee chocolate chip gelatto 2. Waking up with my dog's chin resting on my knees. 3. Thin Man movies. 4. Wandering through my public library with no actual intent. 5. The way my house smells on Thanksgiving.
about 1 month ago
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When Dona opened the coffin, the corpse inside opened its eyes and groaned. Somewhere above her, Arris said, βI thought he was supposed to be dead. I didnβt sign up for a kidnapping.β βHelp me get him up,β she said.
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about 1 month ago
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My mother saw this production when she was a kid. It's the ONLY thing for which I ever envied my mother.
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about 1 month ago
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I wonder if my friend and old Warmaster nemesis
@clewis.bsky.social
has seen this line of 10mm minis. Why, yes. I AM a nerd. Why do you ask?
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Classic Fantasy Battles
Mass Battle on a Grand Scale! Classic Fantasy Battles is a new game system written by Andy Hobday featuring mass battles in the Classic Fantasy setting.Β Kicking off with the Orc Horde, several plasti...
https://wargamesatlantic.com/collections/classic-fantasy-battles
about 2 months ago
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The world is burning, so what do I do? Write about dumb movies from seventy years ago, that's what. Resuming my Cary Grant project with one of his worst movies did not encourage me to finish this, but I worked through it, I guess.
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The Grant Mystique: Dream Wife (1953)
Some years ago I complained that once World War II ended, Cary Grant was content to settle into inane sitcoms rather than the kind of spar...
https://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-grant-mystique-dream-wife-1953.html
about 2 months ago
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This was part of my week in film. Basically, I'm twiddling my thumbs while Rome burns...
about 2 months ago
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I've been to two shows that wound up as live albums. U2 at Red Rocks (Under a Blood Red Sky). The opener was the Eurythmics who kinda sucked live. It was misting rain the whole time, so the experience was kinda bad. The other was Big Star's reunions show in Columbia, MO. Best show I ever attended.
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about 2 months ago
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Met this fella on my walk with the dog this evening. Polyphemus moth. About the size of my hand. The dog was curious about it, but did not try to eat it.
about 2 months ago
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Seated for Honey Don't. Expectations are suitably diminished.
about 2 months ago
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b. wolo
3 months ago
For those interested in this information but unaware of this information, I would like to impart the information that Joe Dante's five-hour supercut The Movie Orgy is available on Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/the-...
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The Movie Orgy (5 Hour Cut), Joe Dante (1968) : Joe Dante : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Movie Orgy is a 1968 film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Jon Davison.It was an evolving compilation of film clips, commercials, and film trailers,...
https://archive.org/details/the-movie-orgy-1968
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If you see this, post a bad woman you love
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2 months ago
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Changed up my four favorite films at Letterboxd today. Freshened up the old profile. The usual caveats apply.
2 months ago
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I will buy every single book that withdraws from the Polari Prize this year. As physical media where possible.
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2 months ago
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Went to a showing of High and Low at my local art house this afternoon and couldn't get in because it was sold out. The line was long enough to fill the theater again. But, sure. Cinema is dead.
2 months ago
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New additions to my TBR pile of shame. I picked up three of these at the bookstore today. Two of these are by trans authors. Get in the habit of buying trans authors and books as physical objects, y'all. Worry about shelf space later.
2 months ago
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Trying to get back into the movie groove. My last four films, per letterboxd.
2 months ago
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Been kicking around the idea that the Eloi in The Time Machine are named after Elon Musk. The next time I read the book or see the movie, I'll probably be on the side of the Morlocks.
2 months ago
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I have just been informed that Ashley Cope's Unsounded is kickstarting actual physical books and I am struggling to remain calm. That comic is freaking *epic*
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Unsounded: Books One and Two
Iron Circus is bringing the celebrated, long-running webcomic Unsounded to print!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/summer-2025-mystery-project
2 months ago
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The life drawing sessions I used to go to were organized by a trans woman who was an egg at the time. She kept scheduling trans models, though, which I appreciated. I've probably showed this before, but this is my favorite drawing from a trans model. I might do something with this.
3 months ago
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I was on my friend Aaron's podcast again talking about Peeping Tom (1960) with his panel of guests. At least I've stopped hiding behind the microphone.
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Ep 126 - PEEPING TOM (1960) β THE CONTROVERSIAL CLASSIC THAT INVENTED THE SLASHER? | HORROR HISTORY
YouTube video by HORROR 101 with Dr. AC
https://youtu.be/1Bg-uyZ1c7k?si=mkVh00OXCHWig5Oe
3 months ago
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Ro Salarian
3 months ago
For any artists dealing with adult content bans, I want to encourage you to get involved in the sex worker rights movement. While illustration is not the same as sex work, we share many of the same struggles, and our fights will be stronger if we collaborate.
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The heat finally broke, so I finally got some good sleep last night, but only about five hours of it. So more dissociating at work after half the day, or falling asleep outright. I should have taken the day off...
3 months ago
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Here are a bunch of horror movies I love. Because I will otherwise start screaming and never stop if I don't distract myself somehow... Thread/
3 months ago
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Interesting that these are the trans-iest Discworld books....
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3 months ago
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Trying to force myself to start writing about movies again, but, ugggh, the movie I chose to write about suuuucks... (It's Dream Wife, a Cary Grant movie from 1953, fwiw).
3 months ago
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R.I.P. Tom Lehrer, who put all of his music in the public domain five years before his passing.
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Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si=-54f8DD7K0xfUFNI
3 months ago
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Watched one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies yesterday. Many previous viewings. I like this as much as any of the Dollars movies and more than at least one of them. Ennio Morricone is in the house, too.
3 months ago
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Seated for Jurassic World Rebirth. Partner wants to watch dinosaurs eat people. She has low standards so I hope this can clear the bar.
3 months ago
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A modest proposal: every trans person in the US should move to Wyoming. We would dominate politics and get two senators & some house reps while revolutionizing the economy because we are as a population among the best educated & most creative people Fuck this woman. This is a punch to the heart.
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3 months ago
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