The inimitable Larry Fessenden doing press for TRAUMA: OR, MONSTERS ALL at @overlookfilmfest.bsky.social with Aitana Doyle and lead Laetitia Hollard.

Strongly recommend setting THE FURIOUS in a Louisiana theatre if you can so that the guy behind you can scream DAWGAWWWWWWNE in a Cajun accent at each piece of insane fight choreography. This Raid-esque brawler had THE most raucous crowd reactions of anything at @overlookfilmfest.bsky.social

#OverlookFilmFestival review thread. I’d already seen EXIT 8 at LFF; it’s a liminal Japanese horror game adaptation that sends a guy around the bend in a Möbius strip corridor. Ultimately indebted to Kojima’s PT, this spatially uncanny oddity is my jam, though the backstory/moral felt bolted on.

Horror lovers! @momoshaty.bsky.social and I are at #OverlookFilmFest from today. If you see us around, come and say hi!

Nicholas Winding Refn neo-giallo goodness? Bisexual lighting and leather gloves? A nightmare of murder and fantasy? Two tickets please.

I like this post because “uh guys did you know In The Mouth of Madness is good” is blatent engagement farming, but “I like Ghosts of Mars” is radical transparency, a true baring of the soul, practically trans coded tbh

Great article about a good movie.

I appreciate Ann Lee was 2025 for some, in which case I’m going to be controversial and say the widely-considered-mid Netflix Dad Movie crime thriller The Rip.

LA CABINA is a great slice of absurdist horror.

Got it in one.

Ever so friendly reminder to my fellow journos that if you are interviewing someone by means of an interpreter or translator, the good practice thing to do is credit them by name in the piece

One of the best of the year so far!

Eddington (2025)

Either Iran or Iran-sympathetic forces. Will be interesting to see how far they get.

Set myself a watchlist for March/April. I’m 44% of the way through it. This is what’s left. Any advice on prioritisation gratefully received!

This Easter, why not watch a movie with a crucifixion? THE BONE TEMPLE is on Netflix in the US and VOD in the UK.

This is the perfect time for me to replace that copy of Rape Revenge Films that went walkabout one day… and finally pick up @horrornonna.com’s Found Footage book while I’m at it. Which AH-N book will *you* buy? 👀 🔪

John Cena remains triumphant. A mensch.

I do enjoy how the r/RickyGervais subreddit is entirely composed of people who absolutely loathe Ricky Gervais.

We simply have the funniest people in this Discord. go.bsky.app/LHRqUuX

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a terrible Guy Ritchie gangster knockoff, with a derivative time travel twist. But every 12 minutes it cuts to Keith David & Jimmy Tatro being hilarious in a way that has very little to do with the plot. On Hulu now. ★★½, and that includes one ★ each for David & Tatro.

Top 12 so far this year.

I liked THE DRAMA, but it falls into that hinterland where it’s not daring enough for the Haneke or Von Trier heads (hell, it’s diet Vinterberg/Östlund), but too provocative for the Normies (I saw one critic refusing to see it based on the premise alone! Lord knows what he’d make of Benny’s Video.)

THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAIRCUT

Thank you, astronauts.

It’s a great movie, a shaggy, dislocated mystery that plays like a serious The Big Lebowski refracted through 70s paranoia… but I wish they’d let the original, better title (CUTTER AND BONE).

RIP to Jeff Grant, the man who gave Donald Pleasence his most iconic role in THE SPIRIT OF DARK AND LONELY WATER (yes, beating out Halloween and Wake In Fright) and ushered in the 70s wave of folk horror public information films.

This better not be the LFF reaching into the schedule and fucking it up for their benefit. This feels like the kind of bullshit they’d be a party to. I bet it’s the Surprise Movie too. Dear LFF, if something’s out in the US in the Spring, just refuse it. Just say “no, the people deserve better.”

I for one would welcome vice president bell hooks.

You should not, under any circumstances, rely on the hallucination machine for fact checking.

I can't wait.

Good job to everyone involved in Artemis II. I’m of the generation that watched the Challenger explode, so it passed my bar for a successful launch by not doing that. 🫶

Best new-to-me films I saw in March: 3. About Dry Grasses 2. Rebels Of The Neon God 1. In The City Of Sylvia

I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️

There are some frequencies certain film critics just don’t seem to hear and that’s on them and they need to be aware of that. Here’s @sharai.bsky.social with thoughts!

At a work conference in DC. Here is keynote speaker Salman Rushdie talking about being stabbed in the eye. If you’re wondering what music they used to warm up the crowd, it was of course “Shake It Off” and “Party in the USA.”

Phenomenal hook for a horror story.

Ok, I’ll bite… what’s “Blank Cheque”?

THEY WILL KILL YOU is all very well and good, but if you want a film in which someone chases the forces of death through the secret passages of a grand rain-spattered New York co-op, have I got the movie for you… Dario Argento’s post-giallo psychotronic fugue, INFERNO.

For some people, politics is when Democrats and Republicans, or when taxes, or when bad mom wags a finger and tells you off for doing that thing you like. But when the space soldiers go pew pew pew… it’s not political at all! I wonder what Andy Weir thinks of Starship Troopers.

Can't wait to read this - one of my career lifetime honors was a Stoker nom for long non-fiction last year, and very excited to read through this year's crop of what I'm sure is incredible work!

This is an incredible essay. Stoker nominations mark out the best of the best, and Haunted Thresholds certainly qualifies. Mo maps out the links between female grief and liminal spaces - where trauma takes you out of time and space and into the dead zones of psychological implosion.

The only draft that scares Rob Schneider is the one on his scalp every time he takes his stupid hat off.

As say by Wim Wenders: Every film is political.

The theme for this year's MEETING OF THE MORBID MINDS will be announced tomorrow! If you enjoyed last year's symposium, 'THE HORROR OF BECOMING', you're gonna gasp at what this theme brings! Abstract submissions open tomorrow! Stay tuned for details! 👻 📽️ 📺

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