Remy Dean 🎃

photograph by Remy Dean of a cluster of more than 20 overlapping glossy brown parasol mushrooms growing from a mossy tump among leaves and twigs

photograph by Remy Dean of a single large beige mushroom with a cupped, concave top showing deep gills on the underside growing in grass and green leaves

the #fungi fiesta continues 🍄

...couple more from recent woodland walks with this cluster growing from a mossy tump & a solo contender

four film stills: left column shows Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter at a window with the shadow of a hand upon her - the image is colour-drained and blue tinted; Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter stands on a narrow ledge by a window where two black dogs look toward camera; a box of old-fashioned dolls; Belén Rueda as Laura standing with a consoling hand resting upon a child whose face is covered by a sack-cloth hood.

Our #Halloween👻 watch-party double-bill:

Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu' (2024) - great full-on Goth remake with fine performance by Lily-Rose Depp, currently my fave version

J. A. Bayona's 'The Orphanage' (2007) - moody, well structured, unsettling ghost story with fine performance from Belén Rueda

YouTube video by ASTERISM ASTERISM - Blink of Ray | Apple Watch | 心臓からのメッセージ CMソング

🎸 🥁 🎤

the ever-reliable ASTERISM deliver more #JRock joy with new song 'Blink of Ray' (...written for Apple Smartwatch Ad, I gather?) breath-taking from start to finish

🎶 youtu.be/pfn1tDIDKSo?... #music

@remydean.bsky.social reviewed SANA and SANA: LET ME HEAR on @arrowplayer.bsky.social www.framerated.co.uk/sana-2023-20...

another timely #Halloween⚰️ RP

four film stills: a man with white hair and white eyes shackled to a wall; a white-gloved priest gestures toward camera with other priest behind him in a crypt; a monk studies a skeleton with a magnifying glass; a young woman enters a candlelit ossuary.

💀 🦇 👻

& another classic go-to #horror #movie for #Halloween🏰

'Catacombs' (1988) "promises everything one expects from #classic #Italian horror in the style of Bava, Fulci & Argento..."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🕸️ medium.com/framerated/c...

Thank you, Masatoshi Nagase
& @thirdwindowfilms.com 🫶

...my #movie #reviews of both these #Bluray box sets can be read @framerated.co.uk

Kaizo Hayashi’s Maiku Hama Trilogy
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Takashi Ishii's 4 Tales of Nami
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Kaizo Hayashi’s Maiku Hama Trilogy — thrilling descent into noir nightmares A trilogy of films about Yokohama private eye Maiku Hama, directed by Kaizo Hayashi.

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed Kaizo Hayashi’s Maiku Hama Trilogy medium.com/framerated/k...

Kaizo Hayashi's Maiku Hama Trilogy (1994–1996) • Frame Rated A review of Kaizô Hayashi's 'Maiku Hama' trilogy, on Third Window Blu-ray, starring Masatoshi Nagase, Shirô Sano & Kiyotaka Nanbara.

"Essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the cinema of Japan and connoisseurs of noir."
Our Maiku Hama box set gets a 4 star review by @remydean.bsky.social for @framerated.co.uk

film still from Maiku Hama Trilogy of a door with Out of Office sign, written in Japanese, hanging on it... look out for my #movie #review coming soon...

too much doing 🙀 entering monk mode...
BCNU 🫶

...this #Halloween #horror #movie recommendation still stands!

Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop

RIP Dave Ball - half of Soft Cell & an extraordinary electro-innovator who had a huge influence on the sonic landscape of my formative years, working with Psychic TV & Virgin Prunes among many others...

tribute @theguardian.com : www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

photograph by Remy Dean of a cluster of 'oyster' mushroom forms growing from a mossy log

photograph by Remy Dean of a 'cep' type mushroom growing on a woodland floor among autumn leaves, twigs and moss

...it's a #fungi fiesta in our local woods🍄

a couple more 'architectural' mushrooms

Three / Three… Extremes — varied showcase of terror and transgression from Asia’s top filmmakers A trio of ghostly tales of terror, each from a different country, form the anthologies Three and Three... Extremes.

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed @arrowvideo.bsky.social’s new ‘THREE / THREE… EXTREMES’ box set medium.com/framerated/t...

YouTube video by 凛として時雨 Official Channel 凛として時雨 『Loo% Who%』 Music Video

just one of many reasons I love #JRock 🎸
exciting stuff as always from TK & the team

凛として時雨 Ling tosite sigure 『Loo% Who%』MV
🎶 youtu.be/Ms3SpSn7gxY?...

found myself referring back to this article in my two most recent #movies reviews @framerated.co.uk

'Day of the Beast' (1995) 🐐 medium.com/framerated/t...

'Three / Three... Extremes' (2002 - 2004) 🥟 medium.com/framerated/t...

must be that #Halloween🎃 time of year again...

photograph by Remy Dean of a small group of mushrooms with pale caps and darker, yellow stems growing from a mossy tump in woodland

it's a #fungi fiesta in our local woods 🍄

a few more two-tone mushrooms - I'm not good on fungus ID but if anyone knows... drop a reply.

photograph by Remy Dean of two pale parasol mushrooms with long slender stalks growing from a mossy mound in a woodland with an out of focus fallen tree in the background

it's a #fungi fiesta in our local woods 🍄

...a couple of translucent & rather elegant parasols in the magical glade

Comets and asteroids visible in the sky tonight Would you like to see a comet tonight? Find out what comets and asteroids you can see in the sky tonight and over the coming weeks?

☄️ ☄️ 🔭

...if it's a clear night, there may be 2 #comets to see tonight:
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/what-...

six film stills: left column top-bottom shows images from 'Memories' - a close up of actress Kim Hye-soo with an urban new-build in the background; from 'Going Home' - a little girl in red looks through a grimed window; from 'The Wheel' a man with curved dagger approaches what appear to be giant burning 'hoon krabok' puppets; right column from top: from 'Dumplings' - the two lead actresses (Miriam Yeung and Bai Ling) pause at a doorway; from 'Cut' - Lee Jun Goo sits on a chair in front of a fireplace in a neo-classical interior with blue walls and black and white chequered floor; from 'Box' - actress Kyōko Hasegawa wears an art deco style half mask and holds a dart in one hand, she is standing in a snowfall.

• newly restored on #Bluray from @arrowvideo.bsky.social

'Three' & 'Three… Extremes' (2002–04)

read my extended #movie #review of this Pan-Asian hexalogy of terror & transgression from 6 top filmmakers

@framerated.co.uk 🥟 medium.com/framerated/t...

#horror #Japan #SouthKorea #Thailand #China

The Day of the Beast — darkly hilarious Satanic mayhem with a heart Bent on committing sins to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian occultist.

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed THE DAY OF THE BEAST for its 30th anniversary medium.com/framerated/t...

Jewels of Empress Eugénie photographed in 2020. The diadem, left, and diamond bow brooch, right, have been stolen. The crown, centre, was stolen but has been recovered. Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images

🎨 🏛️ 🏍️

The Mona Lisa, a gold toilet...
& now the Louvre’s royal jewels:
a brief #history of #art heists...

Penelope Jackson @uk.theconversation.com
🖼️ theconversation.com/the-mona-lis...

@remydean.bsky.social reviewed the @arrowvideo.bsky.social Blu-ray box set ‘Three / Three… Extremes’ www.framerated.co.uk/three-extrem...

four film stills: a group of yokai in the dark; a green-faced demon bends over a sleeping man; the faces of ghosts appear within the circle of a burning wheel; a yokai shamen dressed in white offers his hand to someone off-screen.

🔥 ❄️ 🫘

a few more #Halloween💀 #horror #movies suggestions:

100 MONSTERS
SPOOK WARFARE
ALONG WITH GHOSTS
& Takashi Miike’s audacious GREAT YOKAI WAR👹

my #review of the weird & wonderful #Japanese Yōkai collection (1968-2005)

@framerated.co.uk 👻 medium.com/framerated/y...

The Island (1985) — sharp socio-political parable or derivative slasher fare? Mr. Cheung takes six students to a remote, deserted island, where they discover there are three insane people and their paranoid mother…

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed THE ISLAND on Eureka Blu-ray medium.com/framerated/t...

YouTube video by RTÉ Player Gavin Friday | Ecce Homo live on The Tommy Tiernan Show

Gavin Friday is among my favourite live performers & continues to deliver great songs 🐇

Ecce Homo live on The Tommy Tiernan Show
🎶 youtu.be/Y_Oag3h9zxU?...

two black and white photographs of ships painted with bold geometric patterns: USS ‘West Mahomet’, November 1918 and RMS ‘Mauretania’ bringing troops home from Europe, December 1918

🛡️ ☀️ 🌪️

'The Dazzling Vortex'

Some Vorticists flirted with Fascism but their #art also helped defend the allied navies.

@remydean.bsky.social finds "a rare example of art, abstract art at that, having a proven & quantifiable function..."

🏁 medium.com/signifier/th...

#ArtHistory #history #design

YouTube video by -欣小萌- 天使 or 恶魔？？

"Angel or Devil, I don't care" more exemplary Home Dance from #欣小萌 💞 #XinXiaomeng with a #Halloween🦇 vibe & 2 x Friday nights to go till #Samhain

#music: 'Heaven & Hell Every Day' 💃
by Aiobahn +81 x Nanahira x P Marusama

youtu.be/udwgz6uMnfE?...
(trusting this account has permission to upload)

four film stills: Santiago Segura as José María & lex Angulo as Padre Ángel with a silencing finger raised to his lips; Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Susana lies unconscious on a marble-tiled floor dressed in a red velvet mini-dress and long black coat; three men stand in a circle of candles, looking away from camera as a strange black goat enters the room through an open doorway; Nathalie Seseña as Mina & Álex Angulo as Padre Ángel took toward camera, there is a television and a decorated Christmas tree in the background.

✝️ 🤘 🐐

'The Day of the Beast' (1995) • 30 Years Later

read my retrospective #review of Álex de la Iglesia’s darkly hilarious #horror #movie with plenty of Satanic mayhem & a profound message that's ideal viewing for #Halloween🎃 & #Christmas🎄

@framerated.co.uk ⛧ medium.com/framerated/t...

four film stills: a woman in repose within a coffin with yellow daffodils scattered around her; a man contemplates a clay statue of a woman who is lying in a bed nearby; a women peeps though heavy curtains; a man and a woman with worried expressions with lights reflected in water behind them.

more #Halloween🎃 #Horror #Movies top tips from my reviews published @framerated.co.uk

'Mill of the Stone Women' (1960)

💀 medium.com/framerated/m...

"...a delectable example of Italian Gothic not to be missed by anyone who appreciates the genre & should delight connoisseurs of vintage horror..."