A holiday #Caturday pic of Miss Giselle under our tree.

Hello new people! Glad to see more folks joining Bluesky :) If you'd like to follow more horror artists, I put together this little starter pack! Hope it's useful for newcomers! go.bsky.app/73vzeaV

Lots I liked about Stranger Things: Volume 2 and some aspects I didn’t like, including the sidelining of major characters. Here’s my full review: www.thehorrorlounge.com/post/strange... #StrangerThings

It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films

For the late night crowd: My end of the year piece looking at the dominant theme in horror on screen for the year. As you might be able to tell from the title, this year, it looks like we are terrified about what's happening to our children. 🎥👻 🎥 www.patreon.com/posts/year-i...

There are some Christmas movies I need a break from this year, Home Alone being one of them because I watched it the last several years. That said, I never tire of Gremlins, my annual Christmas Eve watch!

In remembrance of Saint Joe Strummer... youtu.be/96UtZPLiT90?...

New episode! @anna.rose_reads and I are breaking down our favorite reads of 2025 by category. This year was stacked with great books, so we have a lot to say Listen wherever you get your podcasts

I just dunno about Matt Damon playing Odysseus...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2...

www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m... “60 Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit. “The public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.”

I used some sage in the house and wrote my manifest list. Happy Winter Solstice! Now, the days get a little bit longer.

Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

A few thoughts on what Netflix’s increasingly likely acquisition of Warner could mean for horror fans and movie lovers more broadly #moviesky #filmsky www.thehorrorlounge.com/post/here-s-...

In a year overflowing with incredible horror, it's hard to narrow it down! But in the end, we managed. Here are Fango's top picks for the best horror movies of 2025. Did yours make the list?

Quite a good year for the horror genre. These aren't full-blown nominations yet, but it's still cool to see horror shortlisted across so many Oscars categories. #filmsy #horrorsky #moviesky www.thehorrorlounge.com/post/sinners...

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2025’s horror books were a lifeline. This difficult list features Wilkes, Bennett, Onoh, Hill & so many more. These authors mainline dread & deliver pure joy. Read, share, & argue with me. #HorrorBooks #BestOf2025 gnofhorror.com/best-horror-... 💙📚

Aca-Alien-Colleagues Abstract emergency for the Alien Franchise Companion on readings of Alien (or intersections with Predator) in relation to idigeniety, decolonialism, and folklore/folkhorror. If of interest drop me a line and/or a 300 word abstract to: [email protected]

I ended up enjoying the new Silent Night, Deadly Night much more than I thought I would! Has anyone else seen it yet? #filmsky #horrorsky www.thehorrorlounge.com/post/4-reaso...

🎶 These are a few of my favorite memes 🎶🎄

This just in: The Oscars telecast will move from broadcasting to streaming in 2029, switching from ABC to YouTube — a watershed moment for the entertainment business. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/m...

BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.

I'm probably most excited about Buddy and The Best Summer. I saw Undertone earlier this year at Fantasia, and it's really, really good and creepy as heck! #filmsky #horrorsky www.thehorrorlounge.com/post/sundanc...

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says: Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and is "score settling." Vance only supported Trump for "political" reasons. Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine user.” Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

Some favorite witchy movies that aren't Wicked (no offense to Wicked, though). #filmsky #horrorsky www.thehorrorlounge.com/post/tired-o...

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

Rob Reiner, at worst, should have won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At best, he should have received an honorary Oscar. It's possible he turned it down multiple times, but this should be rectified.

I have taught Mary Shelley's Frankenstein A LOT over the years, so I really enjoyed writing this piece about some key differences between her novel and Guillermo del Toro's wonderful adapation. #filmsky #horrorsky www.thehorrorlounge.com/post/3-key-d...

Sundance announced its line-up today, including its Midnight section. Happy to see The Undertone is in the line-up. I saw that movie at Fantasia earlier this year, and it's a creepy little film that really crawls under the skin.

After Jesse Buckley’s performance in Hamnet, I cannot wait to see her in The Bride!

Jared Kushner's financing role in Paramount's $108 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery injects Trump-family interests into one of the biggest media battles in years, raising concerns over whether the president's influence could tip the scales. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

Horror absolutely dominated IMDb's most popular films and TV shows of 2025, with titles like WEAPONS and WEDNESDAY earning spots on the list.

Mike P. Nelson's Silent Night, Deadly Night remake is a festive and bloody watch, certainly better than the last several sequels. Full review below. The movie releases in theaters on Friday. #filmsky #horrorsky horrorbuzz.com/movies/silen...

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Man, Hamnet is one long emotional gut punch and one heck of a film.

Yes, it's better that Netflix acquired Warner Brothers compared to the far-right Ellison family, who owns Paramount. But theaters were already struggling, and Netflix isn't too keen on larger theatrical releases. Frankenstein and Train Dreams are recent examples. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

If you're into cosmic horror or found footage, then I recommend Man Finds Tape, out today in limited theaters and VOD. #Filmsky #horrorsky brianfanelli.com/2025/12/05/m...

I’m fascinated by how many of these schmucks seem determined to return not just to the 50s, but to an imaginary form of the 50s derived from sitcoms. I demand a national screening of the movie Pleasantville!

Part of the reason I love PTA, he never bad mouths other movies and only lifts up other films and filmmakers. As we all should be. (I mean those of us working in the industry, critics you keep doing your thing. We need cultural criticism, it is so so valuable!)

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

Remembering poet Gwendolyn Brooks who died #OTD in 2000. One of the most highly regarded, influential & widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. First Black author awarded the #Pulitzer Prize for #poetry, for her book 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 (1950). #booksky www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendo...

#TrainDreams #DennisJohnson #DavidFear I have fallen in love with "Train Dreams" by Dennis Johnson when it was published in a collection of the "O. Henry Awards" in the late 1990s. Now director Clint Bentley has turned it into a movie. David Fear's review captures the essence of "Train Dreams".

This piece is fantastic (as is everything Kat writes) but I don't know how to make the studios and the PR groups that represent them understand that their reliance on Twitter and unspoken "requirement" for entertainment journos & critics to use X makes "being harassed" part of our job description.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Only 3 weeks until the days start getting longer again ⛅ Hang in there, SAD people ❤️

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...

#NightTideMag's December Monthly Macabre is PRE-CODE HORROR! It challenged censorship, moral panic, & taboo desire. It also weaponized difference; often villainizing disabled, queer, & racialized bodies. It’s a DEEPLY complicated era worth reexamining. Pitch us your essay @ nighttidemag.com/pitch 👻📽️

In 25 years of teaching creative writing, by far and away the two most common traits I've seen among successful writers are that they read avidly and that they support other writers enthusiastically.

Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores? We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.