I’ve never seen anything quite like Lindsey C. Vickers’ The Appointment (1982) before? The laced arsenic of implication that almost, ALMOST, codes this as a folk horror Fire Walk With Me is so subtle in the nearly unbearable slow burn. Whole thing is a pretty gruesome trance.

"NORTH BY NORTHWEST" (1959) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll 🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Psycho III (1986) Director Anthony Perkins

It's not April Fools Day, but here are a few reviews that celebrated (or otherwise) Paramount's tricksy 1986 quasi slasher!

Sie tötete in Ekstase (She Killed in Ecstasy), Jess Franco (1971)

LORNA (1964, Russ Meyer) Russ Meyer movies had the best openers @matthewsouthworth.bsky.social

With viscid tongue lodged firmly in reptilian cheek, ‘The Relic’ takes a bite at the mid-budget monster flick blueprint, its droll comportment, shadow-swathed setting, and game perfs the backbone of a charmingly boisterous, scientifically preposterous beast. Released on this day, January 10, 1997.

Magic, madness, metempsychosis: David Lynch’s self-produced, self-distributed epic of oneiric uncanniness INLAND EMPIRE (2006) "mesmerises the viewer with its overlapping tales of toxic Tinseltown". Screens 2pm today at NFT4, BFI Southbank. projectedfigures.com/2023/04/26/i...

De Palma Does Hollywood: Fleshing Out the Split-Screened Study of Voyeurism & Illusion in BODY DOUBLE - @aheartofgould.bsky.social

"blends suburban hyperreality with mythic journey to show that the more you change, the more you stay the same": Todd Solondz’s dark American dream PALINDROMES (2004). projectedfigures.com/2026/01/10/p...

SUPERNATURAL 1933◾️Director Victor Halperin◽️ Cinematographer Arthur Martinelli◾️

1st edition paperback book for In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

Hope everyone is staying safe and warm and kicking off the new year with a refreshing glass of beef fizz.

Well that’s me sorted for the next few hours

Inland Empire (2006), David Lynch. A hypnotic maze that embodies Lynch at his most immersive and complex. Relax, drift, and let the dream unfold. Don’t look for answers, they’ll find you-or not. Laura Dern is astonishing, anchoring the film with an emotional core that cuts through time and space📽️🎞️

Spanish film poster for SISTERS (1972 - Dir. Brian De Palma) Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Entertainment Weekly (December 13, 1991)

Clue gained a cult following since its release 40 years ago on December 13, 1985. Costume designer Michael Kaplan avoided dressing each character to match their colorful alias. The menswear reflects not just trending fashions of 1954 but also each man’s respective profession and personality.

Happy ‘Clue’ Day to all who celebrate… In a film stuffed with sparkling turns, Brennan’s Mrs. Peacock twinkles just that little bit brighter.

Happy ‘Clue’ Day to all who celebrate… In a film stuffed with sparkling turns, Brennan’s Mrs. Peacock twinkles just that little bit brighter.

It's Christmas and darker nights, so *of course* time for ghosts and chilly horror. Well, for some of us... I've decobwebbed, dusted down and resurrected my piece on the 1979 adaptation of M.R. James' Casting the Runes, which I like a lot. arowofopengraves.co.uk/2025/12/10/a...

Trailer for Don’t Open Til Christmas (1984, Edmund Purdom)

Orca (1977) Dir. Michael Anderson — What do you get when you cross Jawsploitation with a stone-cold killer whale, great actors, and a score that punches above its weight? you get a film that is Equal parts pulp mayhem and genuine heartbreak somehow both bonkers and moving. More than meets the eye🎞️📽️

#NW. Found a listing on eBay for this old Blockbuster screener. Would love to know what the “Put the Pieces Together” Contest entailed! Fun fact: Pic’s costar, Joanne Whalley, went to my high school, & my mum knew her grandmother. Had quite the Hollywood run in the 80s/90s. Jo, that is. Not grandma.

The remarkable end-papers for 1966’s Rupert Annual, by Alfred Bestall.

An icy excursion through eclectic genre terrain, ‘Dead of Winter’ (1987) marries the elaborate mien of a spoofish Agatha Christie with the forlorn spirit of a psychological chamber piece, its diligent weirdness enriched by the ruminative piano score and a furiously fun, snowballs-to-the-wall finale.

An icy excursion through eclectic genre terrain, ‘Dead of Winter’ (1987) marries the elaborate mien of a spoofish Agatha Christie with the forlorn spirit of a psychological chamber piece, its diligent weirdness enriched by the ruminative piano score and a furiously fun, snowballs-to-the-wall finale.

Getting into the spirit.

In a genre that typically hasn’t allowed its ladies to be droll, flawed, complex human beings built of ambition, courage, sorrow, eccentricity, and brainpower, the richly feminist ‘Black Christmas’ (1974) stands tall. That it was weaved by a bunch of blokes makes it all the more rare and impressive.

In a genre that typically hasn’t allowed its ladies to be droll, flawed, complex human beings built of ambition, courage, sorrow, eccentricity, and brainpower, the richly feminist ‘Black Christmas’ (1974) stands tall. That it was weaved by a bunch of blokes makes it all the more rare and impressive.

Four Christmas movies to know me by…

Four Christmas movies to know me by…

Christmas giallo!

Thanksgiving mood board:

Thanksgiving mood board:

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love 🎥🎬

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love 🎥🎬

Share a Christmas movie #filmsky

appreciation post for Kathleen Turner’s blue dress in Ken Russell’s CRIMES OF PASSION (1984)

The Face of Another (🇯🇵 1966) dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara

Night of the Demon (1957), Jacques Tourneur // Messiah of Evil (1973), Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz #sidebyside #horrorhallways #horrorsky #filmsky 📽️

I wrote this collection of short stories inspired by classic radio horror shows, series like One Step Beyond and The Twilight Zone, British ghost stories, and my general predilection for the macabre. It really seems like the time of year you should be reading it*. *Other times of year are available

Convince me this isn’t Parker Posey. You can’t.

Contributor copy arrived! Very proud to have penned and narrated a visual essay for this exquisite Umbrella release of perhaps the most frightening, viscerally enthralling serial killer flick ever made—Gerald Kargl’s ‘Angst’ (1983). Order yours here, if you dare: bit.ly/43Va1Wu

Contributor copy arrived! Very proud to have penned and narrated a visual essay for this exquisite Umbrella release of perhaps the most frightening, viscerally enthralling serial killer flick ever made—Gerald Kargl’s ‘Angst’ (1983). Order yours here, if you dare: bit.ly/43Va1Wu

‘Halloween’ reshaped as European arthouse, the bold, rebellious ‘Revenge of Michael Myers’ mightn’t be everybody’s cup of pumpkin spice, but, through its deviant disposition, majestic visuals, outré perfs, and chilly air of menace, it concocts a fascinatingly playful postlude to the prosaic part 4.

A product of the halcyon days before the slasher formula became set in stone. You can see the influence of Argento and Carpenter on CURTAINS, but the movie also borrows from 70s psychodramas. The whole affair is scrumptiously loopy, never more so than in a kill involving ice skates and a scythe.

Hooper’s ‘Toolbox Murders’ remains one of the truest evocations of drive-in horror cinema since bell-bottoms were the zenith of style; a fiercely efficient slasher flick built not on pastiche and postmodern snark, but an enticingly peculiar mystery, solid perfs, and a dense air of inescapable dread.