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Movie poster for Witchboard 2: The Devil’s Doorway. A terrified woman with long blonde hair and a white top stares forward as a Ouija board on the table in front of her warps upward into a supernatural vortex. Flames surround the scene. The tagline reads “Everyone’s dying to play.” Actor names appear at the top: Ami Dolenz, Timothy Gibbs, John Gatins, and Laraine Newman.

So I put on Witchboard 2 (1993) expecting a crappy sequel, but turns out it’s as ridiculously great as the first one? What?! 🤣

I’ve never seen a sequel be so lore-perfect to the original.

I’m now so excited to watch Witchboard 3 (1995) as it’s once again written by Kevin Tenney. What a ride 🤣

Talbot & Masterson: Dead Against The Living

New episode out now and it’s a spin-off from Tales from the Scarlet Vault.
Go ghost hunting in Victorian Oxford with Talbot & Masterson!

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Last four are top and tailed by two excellent films I’d known nothing about. Gothic tales courtesy of Vincent Price and outrageously perfect 80s schlock courtesy of a ouija board.

Tonight’s evening watch will be Witchboard 2 and I can’t wait! 👻

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I have such fond memories from my youth when I was far too young to watch it 🤣

Unreasonably excited for the return of Eurotrash to our screens 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

One of my absolute favourites. It’s on my list of films I watch at Christmas / New Year as a yearly tradition

I’m in tbh…! 🤣

YouTube video by Hammer Exclusive Q&A from The Curse of Frankenstein Premiere Behind the Scenes with Hammer Experts

Hard recommend! This panel was fantastic. Melvyn Hayes was an absolute gem. 7pm UK time!

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A pretty fantastic last four. The Hearse (1980) was the only new watch (would’ve been 3.5, but the ending was a bit limp).

Highlight was, naturally, The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) on the big screen in its 4K glory. Can’t get much better than that.

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Yes! 100%! Passive peer pressure ftw 😂

A vibrant autumn tree with bright red and orange leaves stands alone on a patch of green grass. Fallen leaves scatter around its base. Behind the tree are red-brick buildings with tiled roofs and windows, and a cloudy gray sky overhead.

Had to share this gorgeous local tree proudly showing off its best Autumnal colours 🍂

Me too! I’m so influenced by social media 🤣

It’s spooky season.

It’s Friday.

You’re wonderful.

May your (haunted) weekend be full to the brim with excellent (creepy) films and (ghastly) good times.

👻

It’s spooky month, so I begin my little yearly tradition of updating my display name.

🎃 👻 🧛‍♀️ 🧟‍♀️

A theatre screen displays promotional art for the world premiere of the 4K restoration of The Curse of Frankenstein. The artwork shows a dramatic painted scene with a skeletal figure, a monstrous creature looming with outstretched hands (The Creature/Christopher Lee), and a stern-looking man in a white coat (Baron Victor Frankenstein/Peter Cushing) surrounded by laboratory equipment and red liquid in a flask. Text reads: “On behalf of John Gore, welcome to the world premiere for the 4K restoration of The Curse of Frankenstein.” Logos for Hammer, Icon Film Distribution, John Gore Studios, Silversalt Restoration, and Warner Archive Collection are along the bottom.

Three people pose together on a red carpet in front of a backdrop with logos including Hammer, The Curse of Frankenstein, John Gore Studios, Warner Archive Collection, and others. The person in the center wears a long black coat and has a pale, theatrical appearance, (in costume as Frankenstein’s Creature) while the two people on either side, both smiling, wear casual outfits—one in a denim jacket and dark pants, and the other in a cream sweater with a checkered skirt.

Braved a night out on a school night and to the 4K premiere of The Curse Of Frankenstein in London. It was *chef’s kiss*

A big shout out to the two lovely chaps who kept my daughter and I company while waiting for the doors to open. Wonderful to chat classic films while out in the wild.

Behind the scenes shot of Alan Gibson in a white polar neck, holding a large wooden carriage wheel in front of a stern Lee. Lee is dressed as the count and stands with his hands on his hips whilst a tussled Cushing watches on from the side.

Alan Gibson directs Lee and Cushing as they prepare for the opening scene of Hammer’s first modern-day outing for the Count, Dracula A.D. 1972. The maligned but much loved picture began production on this day in 1971. 🖤

THE CREEP TAPES Season 2 Sets Release Date With Stellar Guest Star Lineup THE CREEP TAPES Season 2 returns to Shudder this fall, with new guest stars David Dastmalchian, Robert Longstreet, and more.

FYI: THE CREEP TAPES Season 2 returns to Shudder this fall, with new guest stars David Dastmalchian, Robert Longstreet, and more.

It’s wild to me that it was released before (but close) to Candleshoe. Now I’m imagining Candleshoe as the sequel and that’s such a messed up universe 🤣

DRACULA BUSES When the British Board of Film Censors introduced the H Certificate – the H standing for Horrific – in 1932 in response to Todd Browning’s Dracula and James Whale’s Frankenstein, it had an unintended consequence in Hookland. Forever addicted to petty power, many of its local councils used their devolved competency to ban the showing of any film with an H certificate. Notably both the councils of the county town of Corsham and the cathedral city of Weychester strictly enforced their right to prevent people indulging in some mild cinematic fright. Given Hook landers love for monsters and their well-known disregard for rules, it was perhaps inevitable that the Dracula Buses would come into existence. Organised by Hungarian émigré János Daruvár, every Friday night a chartered bus could be found in both Coreham and Weychester to take their citizens across the council border and into Ashcourt to view H certificate movie – given that Ashcourt Urban District Council took a much more relaxed approach to what its citizens could be exposed to. Known locally as the ʻDracula Buses’, the eccentric Daruvár was happy to thicken his East European accent and wear a cape when driving one of the vehicles which led to him becoming something of a minor celebrity in the county. Local newspaper repors across the decades never fail to mention the party atmosphere on the Dracula Buses and the entertainment ʻCount Daruvár’ would provide to passengers if vehicle broke down on the way to or from a midnight horror showing. The two Tilling ST buses Daruvár bought from London in 1933 remained in service right up until the late 1970s, when the antique red double-decker buses made for a bizarre sight when sporting destinations such as The Exorcist of The Texas Chainshaw Massacre – which were both banned in Weychester and Coreham. One of the buses was even said to be haunted by a passenger who had died from delayed fright after catching the bus to see The Devil Ride’s Out in 1968.

An entry from the #HooklandEncyclopædia, this time on Dracula Buses and the censorship of #horror films. Also, context for later tonight.

Everyone should watch The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976) and Capricorn One (1977).

Very different films (naturally!), but both the epitome of kickass 70s thrillers.

Epic atmosphere, epic actors, epic storytelling. Yes, yes, yes!

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Found it this afternoon in its normal froggy home in the back garden 😄

A brown frog with dark markings sits on a gravel path, facing the camera. Some green grass blades are visible in the foreground.

My garden frog friend was kind enough this afternoon to let me get super close and take an ickle piccie 🐸

Another super successful viewing week.

I went into Caddo Lake (2024) expecting a standard detective drama I could doomscroll to, but no, it was actually an incredible sci-fi mystery that made me tear up?!

Watched the whole thing without looking at my phone!

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A little late night chill with #LaurencePayne #AdrienneCorri #DermotWalsh in...

🖤 THE TELL-TALE HEART (1960) 11:10pm horror #TPTVsubtitles

I really, really enjoyed it. Neat perfect in fact

Alt text: A young Anna Massey, with short brown hair and subtle makeup looks directly at the camera with a soft expression, wearing an orange top and a delicate necklace. The image is from the 1960 film Peeping Tom.

Sunday afternoon viewing of Peeping Tom (1960) and accidentally paused on this wonderful shot of Anna Massey.

Kind of apt, I think.

Oh god! 😭

Animated character Peter Pan stands confidently with hands on hips, wearing a green tunic, tights, and hat with a red feather, against a night sky backdrop with stars and silhouettes of rooftops.

I don’t know wtf I was dreaming about last night, but I woke up this morning lying in a full on Peter Pan pose?

Another Hammer down and another Stephen King adaption I really should have seen by now. Very impressed by both.

The surprise was 1956’s revenge thriller The Killer Is Loose. It was far more absorbing than expected.

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