As promised, info on the Saint Drogo Blu-ray bundles!

Tomorrow! This beautiful Blu-ray can be yours! Featuring special interviews with some of our favorite horror filmmakers, visit monstermakeupllc.com and grab yours tomorrow 🥀

New Saint Drogo trailer!!! Blu-rays will go on sale Friday!

Wrapped 2 more scenes for @monstermakeup.bsky.social’s Queen of the Rats!!!! We got a bunch of shooting days coming up in October too, including some gore effects from the great Brian Paulin!

Get your money ready so you can buy one of my favorite movies

If you haven't seen Saint Drogo, you can now see it on Blu-ray! Support indie and queer filmmakers

THIS FRIDAY, our second feature film SAINT DROGO is finally coming to Blu-ray! With hours of special features including directors commentary, see the film @horrorpress.com calls “a signature blend of quiet rage and grotesque practical effects that would make any gore hound flinch.”

If I had a nickel for every time a democrat candidate who lost to tr*mp decided to write a tell all book about her loss where she takes no responsibility for said loss & further alienates voters & torpedoes any good standing she has with the American people through a book tour, I’d have two nickels.

PROVIDENCE: MICHAEL MICHAEL returns for Part 2: CULT CLASSICS. Initiation is 10/4 at our favorite dive Deadbeats. Come drink the kool aid and get programmed in celebration of the blu ray release of Monster Makeup’s second feature film SAINT DROGO

If you want to read my unorthodox travel blog about my time in my mother’s homeland while looking at some pictures you can! ahernmike.substack.com

When his bff roommate finds a boyfriend, Lewis has to manage his codependence & try to make new friends in Boston’s standoffish gay scene, all the while a ghost begins haunting his apartment Low budget, character driven, Apartment Story = Ghost World + Frances Ha + 🏳️‍🌈 Curious?DM me :) #scriptsky

One of the things I’ll miss most about Portugal is every bathroom my family has is equipped with a bidet.

Terceira, Azores

Got the To Break a Pale Yolk paperback proofs in and they look great! Amazing artwork by @gregory-jacobsen.bsky.social

When his bff roommate finds a boyfriend, Lewis has to manage his codependence & try to make new friends in Boston’s standoffish gay scene, all the while a ghost begins haunting his apartment Low budget, character driven, Apartment Story = Ghost World + Frances Ha + 🏳️‍🌈 Curious?DM me :) #scriptsky

Favorite first time watches of this year: Y Tu Mama Tambien Monster Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind The African Desperate On Becoming a Guinea Fowl All We Imagine as Light Sinners My Neighbor Totoro Secret Mall Apartment Ghostlight Flow Passages

Had a shaving mishap

This will be the most important shot in Queen of the Rats

One of the non-horror things I do is Desert Playwrights' Retreat, a week-long, all-expenses-paid LGBTQ writing retreat in Palm Springs I founded in 2018. We bring in playwrights from all over the country 2x a year. DPR is a non-profit, so tax-deductible donations happily accepted! 1 / 2

"It’s time elite queer festivals and classist programmers recognize that horror has depth under all its blood, and truly, where’s the fun in that plot without a little penis going through a meat grinder?" writes @mikejahern.bsky.social, and we wholeheartedly agree. #horrorsky #indiehorror

Love seeing a straight man’s depiction of a gay couple in film. Fruity pebbles?!? Get it??!

2 more days of filming completed which brings us to the halfway point of Queen of the Rats!!!!

We’re still filming

Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist.

Is it Friday yet? I need the new Ethel Cain album

A great article by @mikejahern.bsky.social Critics & programmers should be mindful when it comes to indie films, especially when created by fellow queer ppl. Indie films are a labor of love created by ppl with day jobs. If you're going to be negative, then focus on big studio films instead

"The suppression of queer art is already in full effect by conservative governments. We cannot continue to segment our own with classist standards of what queer filmmaking “should” be or “should” look like." @mikejahern.bsky.social spoke a LOT of truth. horrorpress.com/editorials/4...

Such an amazing documentary about our little city of Providence and its DIY art spirit. Check it out when it comes to streaming.

Green Room should be on this list and it should be in the top 3

Waiting for my ice cream which is being delivered out the window behind me

Randomly tuned in to watch this season of all stars (skipped the last few seasons) and when did rupaul start raising her hand only halfway for “and may the best drag queen *win*” ?

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl is one of the best movies I’ve seen in years.

30 Days of Queer Slashers: Day Twenty Nine Celebrating Death Drop Gorgeous directed by @brandonperras.bsky.social, Christopher Dalpe, and Michael Ahern You can buy my book Queer Slashers from iupress.org currently 40% off for Pride Month with code UPRIDE25

Wait! Your local micro-budgeted horror film has a MICRO-BUDGET! And stars mostly NON-ACTORS???? WHAT???? How could this be??? Next time I’ll be sure to sell all of my internal and external organs to buy a Sony Venice and cast Anya Taylor Joy for all future projects.

This. Thread. I've seen critics justify unfair ratings on micro budget stuff with the justification that it should be judged as if it were a regular film... except it's not. Microbudget is unique and should be taken into account. If you don't want to, don't review them. And stop tanking ratings.

Imagine if we got a SOPHIE produced Carly album?

Not me with bengay on my back before my DJ set. Pride at 35 👴🏼

Local friends! Queer Arts Fest continues tonight with my friend Rigney and I’s inaugural dance night: MICHAEL MICHAEL

Crazy how two new (old) SOPHIE songs cured my depression.

Update: Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

Finished the first draft of my first ever period piece as part of the writer’s residency I attended. I don’t want to look at it for at least a week, but I’m proud that it’s finished.

STARTS TOMORROW! #Queer #Horror WWW.SOHOHORRORFEST.COM

PSA that Eli Roth does not deserve your support, horror fans.

Watch Queer Horror Day 5

Also for locals! Next week a public reading from the writers in residence (including me!) at Linden Place. Free to come through! RSVP here shop.beyonk.com/c6bsv2z6/exp...

I don’t think many of my followers are local but if you’re in New England and you don’t wanna pay the exorbitant price of a Providence Pride block party, I’ve been curating AS220’s Queer Arts Fest. Check the schedule. Come say hi.