News just in that Melania has been nominated for a FIFA Oscar.

Wuthering Heights, but in their Australian accents

SOME NEWS, BYE!

Hate nazis? Love horror on the high seas? A fan of George Kennedy, Dick Crenna & Nick Mancuso? Well have I got the film (and audio commentary with @horrornonna.com) for you…

Now Watching: Chain Reactions Five different artists discuss in depth what The Texas Chain Saw Massacre means to them & its lasting impact 50 years after its release. TCM is my favorite movie of all time. My love for this film literally changed my life in ways that I never anticipated.

I share a deep passion for boat horror with @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social, and we were so tickled to get to do an audio commentary for Death Ship together!

So maybe "alleged" Goth Weinstein might get some comeuppance after all?

Look I know there's a lot on right now, but Kino Lorber just announced a 4k release of Alvin Rakoff's classic 1980 Nazi ghost ship banger DEATH SHIP, which includes an audio commentary by myself and @joshnelsonfilm.bsky.social, and another by the fabulous @paulcorupe.bsky.social. On pre-order now!

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Gutted to hear about the passing of the drummer of legendary Australian band Midnight Oil. Hirsty was the engine to powerhouse activist anthems like this one, an anti-war, anti-US imperialism banger which is more relevant in 2026 than I am wholly comfortable with www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Very happy to see this beautiful collection of Lee Isaac Chung's early films has been announced - includes my booklet essay on Abigail Harm, one of my favourite Amanda Plummer performances!

#nw Alexandre Phillipe's Chain Reactions.

Nikyatu is one of the many people in our forthcoming Shudder documentaray 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR - both she and Nanny are amazing! horrornonna.com/1000-women-i...

Every day I read news coming from the US and genuinely marvel that the Dead Kennedys wrote this almost 50 years ago. They fucken knew, man! They saw it coming!

I enjoyed Chain Reactions so much, I picked up the special edition with a handful of different version of Chain Saw. I don't own many documentaries, but I had to have this one. www.patreon.com/posts/chain-...

Australian and NZ tour ~ February / tix at castration.film

Chain Reactions is a really good documentary.

Chain Reactions…an insightful, fascinating discussion on one of my favorite movies. If nothing else, it reminds you how special and influential film is, both on us individually and as a culture. Especially The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Recommend checking out the documentary CHAIN REACTIONS, which offers fascinating analysis of one of the most influential movies of all time, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. Features interviews with Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Takashi Miike, and Karyn Kusama. On Shudder.

I am absolutely fucking gutted: the SXSW Sydney screen team were my family, and we prided ourself on mentoring and nurturing emerging talent that was shunned elsewhere in this county. Shit's fucked, mate. www.bandt.com.au/sxsw-sydney-...

Same book, new home! Absolutely thrilled to be working with the incredible team at @arsenalpulp.bsky.social to bring you Scaredy Cats: The Nine Lives of Felines in Horror in early 2027 🐈🐈‍⬛

SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HIGHBROW MARXIST WAYS, YOU LITTLE BITCH

I'm such a slut for movies about movies and @horrornonna.com and Takashi Miike just blew this one out of the water. What an absolute delight.

I won the Golan Globus for best ninja.

come on over guys, we're going to listen to xtrmntr and watch compilations of nazis slipping

holy fuck it’s real

Chain Reactions is excellent. Chain Reactions, gets at something interesting, by focusing on how subjective experience can be, and still equal in impact. It's streaming on Shudder now. Interesting stuff. www.patreon.com/posts/chain-...

Five fans of TCM - Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama and the great @horrornonna.com - talk about their personal history with the film, alongside its legacy and themes, with some terrific insights, especially regarding the film as being a portrait of America.

Now streaming on Shudder, cuties!

@horrornonna.com Achievement unlocked. HUZZAH!!! Now #MutantFam, if you'll excuse me, I'll be off getting smarter. In fact, as a Bostonian, I'm fixin' to be WICKED SMAHT!!! ( @kierlajanisse.bsky.social written work is next, LOL... )

The year's first essential must-have physical media buy is surely Umbrella's just-announced mammoth 19-disc Universal monster movie box set, including an essay I wrote in the accompanying booklet. On pre-order now!

Quick update on the street art in the socialist badlands of Melbourne's inner north

Heather is literally the best in so many ways, her work is brilliant and you can support her at both paid and free subscriber levels at the un-nazi un-substacked Ghost 👻

A beautiful mail day from extremely clever pussycat @bavalamp.bsky.social who is rapidly developing a very impressive bibliography as both author and publisher. Support these fabulous books!

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You've got to see this great title sequence for the 1958 Swedish proto-Bava thriller MANNEQUIN IN RED.

Sinners has SWEPT the 2025 Alliance of Women Film Journalists awards, the way it should be. So proud to vote amongst these wild weird femmes 💜 awfj.org/2025-eda-awa...

A few new blu-ray titles I've worked on have just been announced thanks to our friends at @vinsyn.bsky.social! First up, I have a video essay on this stunning new release of Catherine Breillat's The Last Mistress (2007)

<Tony Soprano voice> Milla Jovovich is dead to me

I spent the bulk of Christmas Day teaching 14 year old who wants off the algo how to use their brand new CD player. I have never in my life felt more like the holder of sacred arcane knowledge.

At least having a fondness for a certain genre of films makes you easy to buy for. @horrornonna.com making an appearance in the Christmas gifts 2 years running 😆

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

So lovely that CHAIN REACTIONS made this list! Fun fact: my favourite part of my interview didn't make the final cut, where I wax lyrical about how my favourite character in Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Cook - is the exact precise combination of Walter Matthau and Nick Cave

Thrilled to announce this spectacular new blu of Fabrice Du Welz's glorious nightmare CALVAIRE (2004) I co-produced with the legendary @neilsnowdon.bsky.social for Arrow. Extras by @bjcolangelo.bsky.social @harmonycolangelo.bsky.social @willowcatelyn.bsky.social @antbit.projectedfigures.com + more!

I've been working a lot with B recently (and Heather too of course) and if folks are looking for an experienced video editor especially for bluray work and things like that, I cannot recommend him more highly. Razor sharp skills, creative, and clearly has a deep love for and understanding of cinema!

Lovely stuff here. Two fantastic & criminally underrated movies. Real though provoking insights. Watch these movies. Listen to the pod. Watch them again 🤩

It's a Christmas miracle! The new Silent Night Deadly Night reboot is the anti-fascist Christmas movie of my dreams, just a joy from start to finish. Champagne cinema, five stars, no notes, would watch again. Actual film still: