Mat Colegate

My cat Mothman will watch anything with David Carradine in it. He really loves that guy.

...preferring instead to concentrate on the 'craft' on display and what a great win it was for the horror community that such nakedly vicious films could make so much money. They are some of the emblematic pieces of art of the Trump era: naked misogyny as a money spinner. Fuck these films to hell.

The focus on mutilating attractive women, in a way that's gloatingly devised to appeal to the most moronic of male viewers ("Who's going to want you now, b*tch?" should be the tagline for the whole series) is so obvious that it astonishes me how few critics picked up on it...

Slasher Semantics: Terrifier, Art the Clown, and Graphic Depictions of Sexual Assault David Howard Thornton says there’s one line Art the Clown will never cross. I say he’s already crossed it.

The 'Horror Critical Establishment' completely dropped the ball on pointing out what was obvious to anyone with a functioning braincell: that the Terrifier films are misogynistic garbage in a way that no amount of fig leaf 'final girl' characters can erase.

'A STITCH IN TIME' by Robert C. Parker, "Goes like chained lightning" (The Scotsman), is "an invigorating and challenging chiller" (The Sunday Times)...

Don't TEMPT me Frodo!

Evidence of last night's cinematic atrocities. 'Angst' (1983) and 'Zombi 4' AKA 'After Death' (1989).

"IT'S FOR ME' EMBOUCHURE"

He's been a member of CI5 and RIO.

"THAT'S A TRUMPET YOU SLAG!"

Finally found photo evidence of Doyle from 'The Professionals' being a Magma man...

You're a day late for our annual trip to see Iron Maiden tribute band Ed Force One at the Fleece! (They were great).

Proper drop, that.

Compliments of the season...

DEFINITELY a Christmas movie. Hope you're all having a great day. X

Culinary Class Wars on Netflix is insane. A real-life science fiction martial arts tournament in which a horde of plucky underdogs take on a pantheon of grand masters in the casualty strewn fields of high cuisine. It's Lone Wolf and Cub meets Ready Steady Cook in a fucking planetarium.

DAS IS NICHT MULL!

Can you mull lager?

Best of the year, for my money.

Cool. Can I get Bobby Gillespie to do some 'guest vocals' as well? Kills two birds with one stone, dunnit?

The audio equivalent of driving a Ford Probe through the Euro tunnel.

YouTube video by dansolo21 Ghetto Puppets - My Mind Is Playing Tricks On Me

It's all been downhill for the internet since this, hasn't it?

A bumper crop this evening, it seems! Next time.

Tonight! Fellows of London, attend!

Both great in Briz on Wednesday. And I'm playing New Rivs tonight an'all if you fancy a double whammy.

We're all just watching Rick Stein on the off chance he'll burn himself on a pan and start swearing up a storm aren't we? Like watching Formula One and hoping there'll be a crash.

As sad as I am about the death of Udo Kier I take comfort in the fact that in his back garden he kept a lone carousel horse that he called 'Max Von Sydow'. Rejoice, then. We cannot hope to trap such greatness in our fallen world.

The film of the same name might be even better.

Much as I enjoy Race Across the World, I can't help but think it would be much better if John Hannah narrated it in character as Batiatus from Spartacus: Blood and Sand. "Now these limp f*cking boy-lovers must make their way across the Gulf of f*cking Mexico..."

I'm playing New River Studios on the 28th of November as part of this excellent line up. First show in a while, and, to be honest, I play so irregularly nowadays that it may be the last show in a while as well. Hopefully see some of you down there.