🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our special guest: Jörg Buttgereit! The cult director of #Nekromantik, Schramm, and Der Todesking joins us to launch the updated Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit by David Kerekes. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Remember Remember The Actor Ron Pember Born on this day And NOT in November

Great product placement there from Tunnocks. #Artemis

Repressed sexuality, confounded identity: José Ramón Larraz's SYMPTOMS (1974) offers doll's house gothic. RIP Angela Pleasance. projectedfigures.com/2016/06/05/c...

Vale Angela Pleasence. So sad to hear this.

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Mark Goodall. Mark's books include the Gathering of the Tribe series (newest instalment just out!) and Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Mondo Film Lens. He joins our music panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Jennifer Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social Jennifer is the editor of Fight Your Own War and contributor to various Headpress titles, and joins our Music from the Margins panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

It’s April 10, and that can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 370th anniversary of Jón Jónsson and his son Jón Jónsson being burnt at the stake in Iceland for attacking a priest (called Jón, obviously) with witchcraft and for casting fart spells on a girl using fart runes 🧵

RIP, il magnifico* Mario Adorf (1930-2026) (*was actually German, born in Switzerland, appeared in films by Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, Wilder, Peckinpah, Siodmak, Chabrol etc but I shall chiefly remember him from his Italian films for Corbucci, Argento, Di Leo, Lado et al)

I'm doing my first event for THE LAST TUESDAY SOCIETY! Will be talking about FREAKS and opening up my archive and looking at the three different versions of the screenplay I have and all other kinds of stuff! To book a ticket for 13th of July: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/freaks...

Vale Paul Seed, actor who moved behind the camera. None of the obits mention his time in the 70s as a member of Manchester Library Theatre's regular company, so I will. A charismatic and memorable performer who made a top rank director.

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer, critic, podcast host, and author of a forthcoming book on BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, he chairs our New Voices in #Horror panel. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

🎶 WHEN THE MOON HAS A MARK THAT IS LAVA AND DARK THAT'S A MARE 🎶

At St. Edith's, Eaton under Heywood, there is the most wonderful apotropaic marking I've seen. The "W" or "VV" symbol, linked to the Virgin Mary, was believed to invoke her protection. Post-Reformation, it remained a powerful apotropaic sign. #Apotropaic #Churches #Churchcrawling #history #Folklore

When you order Alfred Hitchcock off Temu....

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Will Dupere An emerging screenwriter, Will's projects include TWATTER, comedy play The Supreme Court, and #horror short The Shedding. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-... #manchester #manchesterevents

Currently watching William Castle produced and Richard Matheson created TV horror anthology Ghost Story (retitled mid season as Circle of Fear) with scripts by Jimmy Sangster, Robert Bloch and D C Fontana.

Watched The Birthday (2004). Best to go in blind and stay with it. A film of two halves, Just as it gets tedious the remarkable ending kicks in. Corey Feldman gives a career best performance, though he does seem to be channeling Peter Falk. Worth a visit.

What’s wrong, babe? You’ve hardly touched your Easter stigmata cookies.

IT’S HERE! Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities. 👉🏼 Pre-orders for The Green Issue are now open worldwide! helleborezine.com/products/the-green-issue

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social Andy is the author of Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of #NigelKneale and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he joins our Nigel Kneale panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

I found this folly whilst in Farringdon, built by a rather interesting guy called Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Wilson who put up signs saying please dont feed the giraffes, dyed the local pigeons and ate meals of only one colour

Whenever I go church crawling, I obsessively look for graffiti. Recently, in All Saints Church, Claverley, I hit the jackpot when I found this fantastic little guy ✨️ #history #churchcrawling #churches #historicgraffiti #churchesoftheworld

How brilliant is this concept kit, Lego Fawlty Towers! Incredible detailing throughout. beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Lakkaya Palmer Lakkaya is a #horror writer & filmmaker & joins us to discuss her short film The Shedding. We're hoping her PhD research on ferocious fatherhood soon becomes a book 🙏 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

I will never see this poster without seeing chickens now...

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: @tobyhadoke.bsky.social Actor, writer & comedian, Toby joins our #NigelKneale panel! His book on The Quatermass Experiment was published by @tenacrebooks.bsky.social in 2025. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Keith Flint's dad has got some moves!

Just read in Doctor Who Magazine that actor Colin Bell, who was the voice of radio DJ Barty Willis in the Beasts episode During Barty's Party, passed away on 2nd January this year. I've updated his profile page on the Book of Beasts Blog. Rest in peace Colin. thebookofbeasts.blogspot.com/2022/09/

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: Andy Cowan @vinylslam.bsky.social Author of B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop, MOJO jazz columnist, + owner of outsider label/press Skill, he joins our Music from the Margins panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Tonight's washing up music is Django Django ft Self Esteem - Complete Me. Boogie! Boogie! www.youtube.com/watch?v=26v-...

TGIF...... and on Friday, We Dance

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: BRONTË SCHILTZ @bronteschiltz.bsky.social An author, journalist, and PhD candidate researching the televisual #Gothic, Brontë joins our #NigelKneale panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

The Wages of Fear 1953 d Henri-Georges Clouzot s Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck and Véra Clouzot.

Superb work.

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈 Introducing our panelists: ANDREW SCREEN @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social Author of The Book of Beasts, contributor to @forteantimes.bsky.social, @horrified.bsky.social & more, he's on our Nigel Kneale panel! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Today: proofing the updated edition of @davidkerekes.bsky.social's Sex Murder Art, ready for our special event in May featuring Jörg Buttgereit! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-...

Ominous seating arrangements.

Ken Russell showing Vanessa Redgrave how blasphemous he wants her performance to be during the making of THE DEVILS (1971)

My photograph of the ISS tonight looks like Paddington coming for me after I flatline on the operating table

The godless eldritch horror screeches his ululating call to the rain slicked gun metal sky. A million windows shatter. His batting eyes down helicopters. The uhf hum of his bow tie empties stomachs for a mile. Quatermass weeps, then, throat hoarse, issues the command. ‘Blobby blobby blobby’

Len Deighton has, sadly, died but this is another excuse to listen to the title sequence of Richard Rodney Bennett’s mad Billion Dollar Brain score for 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, tons of percussion incl. xylophone and marimba, Ondes Martenot and 3 grand pianos. youtu.be/efvhQ8kWIEY

Currently having a beer in a pub where he was the landlord for a few years, The John O Gaunt in Lancaster.

#OnThisDay 2018 : Jim Bowen passed away, he was best known as a comedian and presenter on the ITV quiz show Bullseye from 1981 to 1995.

Headpress is celebrating 35 years of books on cults films, TV and music with a one day event. I will be on the panel The Kneale Inheritance discussing the influence of Nigel Kneale with @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @accordingtojond.bsky.social

Kittens update, both are now 12 weeks old. Pablo and Pepper have settled in well after slowly letting them have the run of the house. Pepper (left photo) is especially cute and Pablo has the most adorable pink nose.

English Settlement [Virgin Records, 1982]

Herefordshire rural watch is folk horror

Headpress is celebrating 35 years of books on cults films, TV and music with a one day event. I will be on the panel The Kneale Inheritance discussing the influence of Nigel Kneale with @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @accordingtojond.bsky.social