This month on The Thriller Cabinet, writer/critic Mario Dhingsa and myself take a trip to Amity Island for a dip in the water to discuss Steven Spielberg's mighty JAWS (1975). Join us at your peril! Available on Spotify, Apple, and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

This thread is full of excellent suggestions! (I'm especially up for being a Millbury kid.)

This month on The Thriller Cabinet, writer/critic Mario Dhingsa and myself take a trip to Amity Island for a dip in the water to discuss Steven Spielberg's mighty JAWS (1975). Join us at your peril! Available on Spotify, Apple, and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

Happy Boktober

We take to the high seas on next month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast. I'm sure the resident marine life will take kindly to our excursion... Coming Soon!

Join @gemseddon.bsky.social and myself as we discuss Rob Reiner's MISERY (1990) on this month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast. Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans... Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

Another excellent episode with a delightful guest in @gemseddon.bsky.social Loved the clever intro, giggled evilly like an idiot listening to it. This book and movie was a big part of my early teens. Go give it a listen!!

I had the absolute privilege of joining @top100pod.bsky.social to discuss Carol Reed's glorious noir THE THIRD MAN (1949) this month. It's hard to do full justice to such an immortal classic, but I gave it my best shot... Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Absolutely loved chatting it up with the lovely @johnnyrestall.bsky.social about all-things Misery. Such a delight to be able to talk about Stephen King on my 4th podcast appearance! 😊 Listen now and subscribe to The Thriller Cabinet!! It’s dead good!

Join @gemseddon.bsky.social and myself as we discuss Rob Reiner's MISERY (1990) on this month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast. Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans... Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

I had the absolute privilege of joining @top100pod.bsky.social to discuss Carol Reed's glorious noir THE THIRD MAN (1949) this month. It's hard to do full justice to such an immortal classic, but I gave it my best shot... Available wherever you get your podcasts!

Very highly recommend this richly evocative mini album (still in the wild on CD, I believe).

Just finished listening to the latest Thriller Cabinet episode as I was working on my latest doll. Fantastic podcast, please give a listen! #podcast #thrillers

I recommend listening to this because: a) it's a brilliant podcast that will reward your time, and b) they're discussing an excellent film (with barnstorming cinematography from the great James Wong Howe).

So, did he get out of the cockadoodie car or not? Find out next month on the next episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast. Coming Soon...

Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.

Two masterpieces - I very highly recommend recreating this double bill in your own home or obliging venue!

Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult - a documentary directed by Nic Wassell - is now streaming on #BFIPlayer! 📺 Check out my interview with Moviedrome presenter Alex Cox [director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy] for @starburst.bsky.social ✨️ www.starburstmagazine.com/features/mov...

Next episode Tim is joined by @johnnyrestall.bsky.social to discuss THE THIRD MAN.

This trailer really is beautifully tactile and creepy. Can't wait for the finished film to be released!

August’s full moon rises 🌕🌠 Named the 'Sturgeon Moon’ by Native Americans for plentiful fishing, & the 'Grain Moon' in Old English to mark the harvest. Tonight, it shares the sky with the Perseid meteor shower (peaking 12 Aug), so keep an eye out for shooting stars! Moonrise: 21:16*

Join me and @fatscoleman.bsky.social on this month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet as we examine Michael Mann's MANHUNTER (1986) - the first screen adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, but far more than just that... Find it on Spotify, Apple or here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

Stopped to take some pics of these beauties. Lad cycling by shouts ‘They’re chess pieces!’ ‘They’re lovely,’ I say. ‘Yeah,’ he agrees, speeding off to deliver some drive by art knowledge in another part of town. William Mitchell, Basildon, 1966.

I've written a piece for Fangoria celebrating 40 years of FRIGHT NIGHT (1985), particularly the character arc and glorious empathy of Roddy McDowall's Peter Vincent - a truly radical hero who seems more relevant than ever today. www.fangoria.com/fright-night...

Next month on The Thriller Cabinet podcast, we'll be trying to decide just who is hunting who... Coming Soon!

Welcoming my 3rd book into the world

This month on The Thriller Cabinet Podcast, I'm joined by @mrstevehunt.bsky.social to talk CAPE FEAR - comparing & contrasting J. Lee Thompson's 1962 original with Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake. Which will come out on top? Listen via Spotify or Apple, or download here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

Czech poster for GODZILLA, 1956.

Jul 11th 1992 - A University Research video into the paranormal showed the night 2 girls went to bed, only to be awoken by spirits in the BBC Horror/Mockumentary 📽️📅 Ghostwatch (1992)

Delighted to guest on @mrstevehunt.bsky.social's excellent Boxing Movie Podcast discussing the desolate beauty of FAT CITY (1972), starring Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Jeff Bridges and Candy Clark. Have a listen here, or find it on Spotify etc.: boxingmoviepodcast.alitu.com/episode/14a5...

Incredible work from @filmsradiance.bsky.social! Daughters of Darkness has been crying out for a UK Blu-ray release, and the first Daiei Gothic boxset was so good that more is an extremely welcome treat.

This month on The Thriller Cabinet Podcast, I'm joined by @mrstevehunt.bsky.social to talk CAPE FEAR - comparing & contrasting J. Lee Thompson's 1962 original with Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake. Which will come out on top? Listen via Spotify or Apple, or download here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

Delighted to guest on @mrstevehunt.bsky.social's excellent Boxing Movie Podcast discussing the desolate beauty of FAT CITY (1972), starring Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Jeff Bridges and Candy Clark. Have a listen here, or find it on Spotify etc.: boxingmoviepodcast.alitu.com/episode/14a5...

"Everyone who has ever felt the constituent parts of their own sexuality refusing to align should watch [Penda's Fen] and fall in love with their own strangeness." A good piece by Benedict Morrison, just up, and marking Pride. theconversation.com/hidden-gems-...

Next month on The Thriller Cabinet, we'll be meeting Sam and Max. They don't get on well in 1962 or in 1991. But which version is best? Looks like they'll just have to fight it out... Coming Soon!

Smirks knowingly from a darkened doorway...

It was the late Maurice Sendak's birthday yesterday so I'm a bit behind, but this brilliant interview with him is too good not to share, and is well worth your attention for five minutes at any time of year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAj...

40 years ago today, R.E.M. released their third album: the strange, subdued, and endlessly rewarding 'Fables of the Reconstruction.' Here's my article from a few years back celebrating the evasive, rich and utterly beguiling beauty of their first three albums: wearecult.rocks/murmurations...

This month on The Thriller Cabinet Podcast, join me and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social as we travel through time to explore the endless eerie enigmas of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975). Available through Spotify, Apple, or from Libsyn here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

Happy birthday to the late, great Michael McDowell, who would have been 75 today. To celebrate (and to get you reading his great books), we're doing a FLASH ONE-DAY SALE on two of his best novels, THE ELEMENTALS and COLD MOON OVER BABYLON, both just $2.99 today only on Kindle worldwide!

Next month on The Thriller Cabinet Podcast, we're taking a trip through time back to Valentine's Day in the year 1900, for a genteel school trip to the countryside. What could possibly go wrong? Coming Soon...

Out now! Writer, @andrewrihn.bsky.social joins me on the latest episode of the Boxing Movie Podcast to discuss the 1940 James Cagney movie, City For Conquest. Available on all the major podcast platforms. #boxing #moviesky #filmsky

Next month on The Thriller Cabinet Podcast, we're taking a trip through time back to Valentine's Day in the year 1900, for a genteel school trip to the countryside. What could possibly go wrong? Coming Soon...

Times are very tough and we're fundraising! Buy a book today and enjoy 20% off all our titles in The Big Salt Sale! Simply use discount code TheBigSaltSale in our checkout or click the link below! www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The... Happy reading!

Join me and @jamesstoorie.bsky.social on the Thriller Cabinet Podcast as we discuss the dank, watery terrors of Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic film LES DIABOLIQUES (1955). You may never bathe again... Available now via Spotify, Apple, or here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com

New door sign, courtesy of the fantastic @hiddenbritain.bsky.social. (Sadly, it doesn't come with a complimentary supply of vintage synths and magnetic tape.)

Happy birthday to David Byrne. Here are Talking Heads performing Life During Wartime in front of the cool kids at the Mudd Club (somewhat ironically) youtu.be/rmGcgtcIftA

🦇 What does it take to be a bat carer? There is no one path to becoming a bat carer, and in the UK there is no recognised certification. Learning to care for bats involves extensive hands-on training with an experienced rehabilitator. Find out more about bat rehabilitation in the UK: buff.ly/e7kp6xI

This looks brilliant, and you should never miss an opportunity to celebrate Theodor Kittelsen's incredible artwork!

A new drawing in black ink. I'm calling it 'In the woodland glade by moonlight, I saw him.'