Peter Marra

No, it was Detroit. Interesting to hear this happened more than once!

Unusual You

When I saw The Lure, someone fainted and spilled out of their chair onto the floor during the scene where the mermaid tail is surgically replaced with the legs.

Program for Carrie: The Musical at Wayne State Universit. The silhouette of a teenage girl surrounded by flames.

Finally saw a production of Carrie: The Musical!

The Conjuring 5 is going to be weird.

Movie poster for Oh, Hi! showing actors Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman siting in bed.

I loved this weird little movie!

Me with my pink skeleton wearing a black baseball cap that reads "Horror Daddy" in pink font.

Full on spoopy queer whatsit @gayhorrorpod.bsky.social

In 'Knives and Skin,' Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Film critic Molly Henery digs into the effervescent suburban noir of Jennifer Reeder's 'Knives and Skin' for her Uterus Horror column.

"The friends really do want to have fun, lighthearted lives. Yet they are drowning in their rural town, weighed down by societal expectations, gender roles, and predatory men." You know her, you love her: @mollyhenery.bsky.social is back at Certified Forgotten with a piece on KNIVES AND SKIN.

Horror Streamer Shudder Built a Decade of Growth By Prioritizing Bold Filmmakers Over Trends and Algorithms: ‘Programmed for People Who Love the Genre’ The team behind horror streamer Shudder focuses on supporting filmmakers over obsessing over trends and algorithms.

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Twink Death: HELLBENT AT 20 How This Gay Slasher Kicked Off The Queer Horror Genre Roughly two decades ago, a film crew walked backwards down Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood so queer horror could run. Revisiting Paul Etheredge’s HELLBENT.

Roughly two decades ago, a film crew walked backwards down Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood so queer horror could run. Revisiting Paul Etheredge’s HELLBENT.

I made a trip to a not very close theater to see this before it left cinemas. I regret nothing. One of my favorite things is what I like to call pulp genre miscellany, or an amalgam of tonally dissonant commonly derrided film genres. This is it. A ghost story musical coming of age apocalypse movie.

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This year, Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry are getting a stylish makeover in celebration of the Jim Henson Company’s 70th anniversary, and they admire their new look in a new behind the scenes video:

An orange cat named Kevin

Kevin!

Seeing this tonight!

I have seen this!

I regret this news. I've mot experienced that yet. I don't think.

Though I did learn recently my students often only know parts of songs because they've heard snippets on TikTok.

You can't reach where I need scratchin'

Cover image of Vitamin C, The Itch. A close-up of the singer with orange hair biting her finger and staring into the camera.

Went to see Joseph Kahn's horror comedy ICK (in which characters commonly refer to "the ick") and my ADHD would not stop replaying the forgotten Y2K Vitamin C pop single "The Itch" in my head.

a silhouette of a man in a hat is standing in the dark Alt: a silhouette of a man in a hat is standing in the dark

Make Summerween real

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Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”

I did!

I did this same double-feature yesterday!

I know what you did last summer, diva.

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Random Fact

The Black-Footed Cat (presented in the video clip) is the deadliest extant species of feline. They have a success rate of approximately 60%.

Based on that same metric, Dragonflies are the deadliest extant predator in the Animal Kingdom with a success rate of approximately 95%.

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The cover of the book "Queer Slashers" with an adorable pastel-colored, cartoon drawing of killer Jason Voorhees, who's gathering flowers into a bouquet, his face in a happy squint.

Friends of Dorothy, meet lovers of Leatherface. @thepetermarra.bsky.social's "Queer Slashers" is now out in ebook from Indiana UP, focusing on films made by queer filmmakers like ALL ABOUT EVIL, SERIAL MOM, and STRANGER BY THE LAKE. Paper formats coming soon.
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