Reddit - thank you.

Posting this again because I need to find an illustrator to help me with a project. Anyone currently taking commissions? Let's talk about details and quotations.

I've largely given up interviewing but made an exception for cutie Mickey Reece, who is a total sweetheart and also the living embodiment of truly independent genre filmmaking. At Film International, we talk about his career as the 'Soderbergh of the Sticks' and his latest film EVERY HEAVY THING 🖤

Mamdani's win reveals for all of us that it IS possible win office and not be a complete fucking weirdo. You don't have to support genocide, throw the environment, trans folk or First Nations people under a bus or publicly felate billionaires. Proud to be a member of the @vicsocialists.bsky.social

Watching PBS's live stream of PBS's Mamdani's HQ party and I have seen no less than 3 (three) goths thus far we did it my little batlings well done

Congrats to Mira Nair’s son, this is nowhere near the level of achievement as directing Mississippi Masala but a good start

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Right, then! I know what I'm watching tonight! Thanks, @horrornonna.com ! archive.org/details/dont...

Adam Ant's "Prince Charming" from 1981 was and remains the zenith of queer goth pop perfection. Play this loud if you've not heard this before, and even louder if you have 🔊🔊🔊

“CHAIN REACTIONS” doc coming to Blu-ray with eight (!) versions of the original “TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE” https://ow.ly/e7Hb50XlVnc

“Performative reading” is the anxiety of an illiterate culture

Don't Bother to Knock is a film noir that stars Marilyn Monroe as a character straight from a horror movie. She is simply superb in it, and every horror fan should know this film just for her performance.

Love love love this photo just posted on @imaginefff.bsky.social's IG stories of @adamsfamfilms.bsky.social and @kierlajanisse.bsky.social together at the screening of our documentary 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR 💜

WEBSITE EXCLUSIVE! Get the latest book I co-edited with Clint Enns, TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER for a special price through Dec 10th. 23 essays, 332 pages, designed by Luke Insect in full colour! ONLY AT www.spectacularoptical.com

My book, Fulci's Inferno, is the first major new writing on Lucio Fulci in years, and the first to fully analyse the themes across his work. It analyses his entire career, and includes over 50 photos. This book took 8 years to research and write. I hope you're gonna love it. Link in bio.

On November 17 and 24, @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I will be on TCM talking about films featured in our book. More details to come.

Can't describe how proud I am to have an audio commentary on this. YOU ARE NOT ME was disgracefully slept on by critics, most of whom entirely missed the fact it's one of the most masterful horror films about the othering of immigrants made this century. This powerhouse is worth a blind buy.

Debbie Rochon is a fucking icon, and this film is a minor masterpiece. Everything I want from a horror movie: Lynn Lowry! Feminism! Violence! Model Hunger makes a special appearance in our doc 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR, and it was such an honour to be asked to contribute a video essay to this release 🖤

A true gift from the weird film heavens, Teuvo Tulio is a bona fide original and I am thrilled to have a booklet essay included here on his early 70s Sirkian smut extravaganza SENSUELA

Pro-tip: if you are thinking of getting this, I'd strongly recommend you move sooner rather than later to avoid disappointment...

I love E.L. Katz's pitch black 2013 banger CHEAP THRILLS more than life itself, and absolutely tickled to bits to have an audio commentary on this just announced blu-ray from our friends at Arrow!

Noelle is extraordinary, and this book is essential 🤍

Chain Reactions (2024), written and directed by Alexandre O. Philippe boxd.it/Okbi

It's been hard keeping this quiet, so glad it's finally anounced! CR director Alex Philippe and I share an obsession with how materiality changes a film, and this is our Exhibit A Australian vhs and Slovakian betamax are the MVPs here: the redubbing on the latter is genuinely something to behold!

Been waiting to share this for a while: remember, dear internet, when I wrote death monologues for everyone who dies in UNDER SIEGE? Well, those stories will be collected as part of Arrow Film's new UNDER SIEGE release!

I'm relaunching my little imprint with a new website, new social media presence, and a new varied slate of projects - follow the official bluesky account at @spectacularoptical.bsky.social - books, films, screenings + more!

The trailer for MAN FINDS TAPE is alive and folks can finally get a peak at the madness we cooked up. DECEMBER 5 📼👀🌀 youtu.be/N-1l8s6c1Po?...

A beam of light in the darkness of the world from Naarm last night. I'm proud to live in a state that has accomplished something so important in passing Australia's first Indigenous treaty. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land 🖤💛❤️

Castration Movie Volume 2 is perfect Halloween viewing 🎃 digital.louiseweard.com/l/castration...

“LE VAMPIRE” - photograph by Pablo Volta - 1962. #bats #spooky #horror #Halloween #photos #pablovolta

Reposting some spooky short stories leading up to Halloween! Here's one called EYES LIKE SAUCERS, inspired by those rumours that Spielberg was hired by the government to make first contact seem... adorable.

PODCAST ALERT Mike Muncer of The Evolution of Horror podcast kindly allowed me to bang on about one of my favourite subjects, the film known as SECONDS (1966). Listen. Learn (maybe). Love (Mike, definitely - he's a mensch). emmawestwood.net/2025/10/18/e...

Lovely review of our doc 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR today by the great Kate Robinson over at @dreadcentral.bsky.social!

DR BIRTHDAY HAS ENTERED THE CHAT 💜

It's been 25 years since we wrapped SESSION 9. Here are some dumb photos I took in between gathering leaves, running fog machines, strapping tool belts on actors and finding stuff for the coin cache. flickr.com/photos/russf...

Recorded before he shat the blanket by working with noted shithead Johnny Depp, I honestly think The Innkeepers is Ti West's best film and was (at the time anyway) proud to have an audio commentary on this forthcoming release. Horror dude auteurs stop making me ambivalent about your work challenge!

Thrilled to have a video essay on Umbrella's just-announced SUICIDE CLUB 4k alongside a commentary from J-pop idol @archivistariel.bsky.social and a booklet essay by enigmatic hacker Kat Ellinger. Produced by Nicole McControversey, this is a thoughtful, fearless release that tackles The Hard Stuff

Wicked. Looking forward to diving into this from @arrowvideo.bsky.social, particularly the commentary from @horrornonna.com that’s been a looooong time coming 🖤

I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects

Yep yep Naarm 13 November I'll be at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image how you say ACMI to moderate a chat with Adam and Sam after a screening of their Sitges and SXSW Sydney award-winning super-8 shot experimental bogan gothic magnum opus A GRAND MOCKERY. Join us!

Prieboy-era Wall of Voodoo gothifying the living shit out of The Beach Boys' "Do It Again"

This image crossed my tumblr dash a few days ago and made me laff:

This whole damned album - and this Billy Idol cover in particular - is my go-to to convert newcomers to Rowland S Howard. Aside from anything else, I genuinely can't believe it's not been used as a centrepiece track in a horror movie yet

So amazing to see the festival poster for my film blown up and displayed at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social !!!

#29 Chain Reactions, a great piece of critical analysis from a set of brilliant creatives (including @pattonoswalt.bsky.social & @horrornonna.com & @stephenking.bsky.social) on one of the best horror movies of all time. boxd.it/btqdIL

1/2 I'm posting a horror book and movie every day until Halloween. Today is non-fiction day. Let’s start with 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR 1898 – 2018 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. This amazing book presents the stories of women from around the world who helped shape modern horror.

Woohoo! Just announced is the Collector’s Edition from #umbrellaentertainment for Sion Sono’s amazing film, SUICIDE CLUB! Grab a copy cuz it has an essay from the amazing @horrornonna.com and a commentary by me, along with other FABULOUS features!!!