Tis the season etc etc

A lovely treat for friends in Turkey: the DVD of our dear Can Evrenol's ultra-violent angry lady revenge banger SAYARA includes a translated version of the interview I did with him for Film International (thanks again @msorrento.bsky.social!) Buy here: www.kitantik.com/product/Dvd-...

Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.

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

Essential follow-up viewing! Thank you @horrornonna.com While I may describe my experience as 'luxuriating in its presence', you address things more directly. Entertaining and insightful!

It was an absolute joy to work on CALVAIRE and I'm very excited for folks to check out my video essay! I dove into the Gothic elements at play, and how perceiving a final girl is free from bio-essentialism. This strange horror movie has more than a little in common with "Stag Dance."

Also, I know there are more important things going on, but I just wanted to mention my site since it's been a while. My new goal is to hit 375 subscribers before the end of the year & I'm 6 away from that. Eek! Free & paid subs are available: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io

Still can't believe we lost this wise prophet

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

When you get a PhD you have to wear a funny hat. IT'S CALLED FASHION OKAY?

<rolls up newspaper and shouts in a loud booming voice> HIRE TRANS FILM CRITICS!

It's here!!! The culmination of 18 months of hard work, and the contributions of 27 insanely talented writers, artists and editors. #DarkestMargins from 1428 Publishing features a Foreword by @horrornonna.com and cover art by Kim Thompson, and is available now! shorturl.at/rsgWQ

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!

Irish filmmaker Kate Dolan is a truly lovely person and a talented director and does not deserve to be caught in a shitstorm like this. Check out her 2021 feminist Samhain folk horror film You Are Not My Mother if you'd like to support her!

It's important to share images like this right now: this photo is Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins and Bilal Rauf (special adviser at the Australian National Imams Council) at an interfaith vigil in Sydney for the Bondi victims. We can ban guns! We can fight antisemitism without defaulting to Islamophobia!

Oh hey, @arrowvideo.bsky.social's new Limited Edition CHEAP THRILLS release is available for pre-order! I've got an essay in the collector's booklet alongside @thehorrorchick.bsky.social. Also included is a new audio commentary by @horrornonna.com. Proud to share a byline with some of the best. 🫡

I'm gonna take a few days out from social media because Australia is about to lose its goddamned mind (I'm on email for folks who need me). This is a small country of 27 million: we haven't had anything of this scale since 1996. There's a lot of misinfo about Australian gun laws, so quick refresher:

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!

I just can’t believe how much power people abdicate all the time by not actually leveraging the “more of us than there are of them” reality of the proletariat!

What I dont get is how - in the face of this and the widely shared experience of HRT - any gen x women at all can become terfs. Many cis and trans women share the experience of HRT! Many older cis women especially have had hysterectomies so don't have what this dipshit archaically calls a "womb"!

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:

Unboxing @darkskyfilms.bsky.social Chain Reactions! cc: @horrornonna.com #texaschainsawmassacre #physicalmedia

I found another incredible Tubi gem. Now watching.

The book draws from four years of research and lived relationships; the film offers a visual counterpart to that work. Used together, they give readers and viewers a clearer sense of how belonging, belief, and extremism intersect, useful for book clubs, classrooms, and discussion groups.

I reviewed the extraordinary @darkskyfilms.bsky.social CHAIN REACTIONS Blu-ray mediabook, featuring 8 different versions of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. A great doc featuring @horrornonna.com, @pattonoswalt.bsky.social, @stephenking.bsky.social and more, made even better by a great box set.

Josie Experiment: Adam C. Briggs & Sam Dixon’s unravelling 8mm odyssey/oddity A GRAND MOCKERY (2024) is "a portrait of an artist as a young damaged man". Re-screens 7.30pm tonight at @spectacletheater.com, NYC via @yellowveilpictures.bsky.social, with Briggs Q&A. projectedfigures.com/2025/07/21/a...

It's five years today and feels like it was yesterday. This fucking sucks! Doing my annual re-read of this piece, and warmly invite you to do the same as a little memorial ritual - for both JAn and his idol, Anthony Bourdain 💜

HE IS RISEN 🙏

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Heads up for those doing a Sundance announcement trawl: aside from Mia, producers Sam and Kristina are the big names to flag here for the horror folk amongst you. They are the two key women who - as Causeway Films - played major roles in bringing us The Babadook, Talk to Me and Bring Her Back.

The Nightmare Sequence is out now in Australia, the UK, North America and is coming soon to Italy through Wojtek Edizioni, translated into Italian by Enrico Terrinoni 🙏🏽💜

Opening night pics.

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

I won an award for Best Film Critic (under 1,000 words) from the LA Press Club! Is this what a sense of accomplishment feels like?!

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Exactly two years ago today Alex Philippe called me while I was at a Sepultura gig and said "Hey! Come to LA and let me interview you about Texas Chain Saw Massacre!" I did, and you can now watch the end result here, either on physical media or streaming 💜

Sweeet. Got my CHAIN REACTIONS documentary Bluray from @darkskyfilms.bsky.social that comes w 8 different aesthetically interesting versions of TCM + a mediabook chock full of essays & goodies. Featuring Patton Oswalt, Stephen King, Takashi Miike, the lovely @horrornonna.com & others! So excited 🤘🏼📽️🩸

Watched Chain Reactions, an engrossing documentary about the personal & cultural impact of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. "Horror is a genre in conversation with itself" theory stays winning. Great to see @horrornonna.com between Takashi Miike & Stephen King (who is still salty about The Shining lol)

It’s truly a lifelong dream to finally say… MAN FINDS TAPE is now available for rent or purchase! 👀 www.magnetreleasing.com/manfindstape...

had never seen this one before; I hope Steve got to while he was still around… cc @horrornonna.com @averysafecat.bsky.social @wendycloudberry.com @davisqueue.bsky.social @artofcoop.bsky.social @theorchidshow.myatproto.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=ye5L...

MUPPET 👏 BABY 👏 RONDO 👏HATTON 👏

I will take literally any excuse to post this photo: me with a decidedly festive Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, who are not only extraordinary filmmakers but proper actual bona fide sweethearts 💜

My mate Lee organised a screening of A GRAND MOCKERY at LHÍ last month. as @suspiraserhead.bsky.social says - the vibes on this film are very much fucked (Complementary)

🚨 FOUND FOOTIE FAM, IT IS HAPPENING 🚨