@alexpagliuca.bsky.social
Writer. Film lover. Horror evangelist. Anti-fascist. Night owl. Misfit toy. Pragmatic idealist, and skeptic at the same time. Autistic. AI is for suckers. All I want is to be an honest man and a good writer.
the proud boys' lawyer thinks he redacted the email addresses of the over 2000 people who donated to the fundraiser for the lawsuit, but here's the thing: no he did not lol
I wrote about The Bride!, maximalist fantasy filmmaking, and the degree to which genre and market have dwindled the ideas of what is acceptable within a maximalist fantasy and studio film. Free to all.
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Messy. Angry. Wild. Peculiar. Frenetic. Exhilarating. Awesome.
Maggie Gyllenhaal resurrects a legend with ferociously fearless enthusiasm. It doesn’t all work and I could care less. Loved every go-for-broke second.
Jessie Buckley is phenomenal.
#TheBride
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This is incredibly bad. Incredibly bad.
This is how you start the process of criminalizing all opposition to the fascist machinery of power and it happens quickly once this kind of bar is set and accepted as normal.
They’ve been beyond accountability for so long that you can *hear* the smarm at the audacity of a reporter asking an elected a question.
We are a cruel and sadistic nation, because we have allowed people who see other human beings as nothing but perspective objects that might produce coins, like creatures in a video game, lie to us and spend endless wells of money convincing us they are correct in how they see the rest of us.
Yeah, House of Usher wasn’t original or timely, at all.
The lack of imagination in considering the vast number of different ways storytelling serves human beings and culture, by people who write about different mediums, and for me especially horror and the related genres, is pretty disappointing.
Thank you, @bookriot.bsky.social and Emily Martin!
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More than any film in the 21st century, I think Compliance explains how we got where we are today.
I loved season one. I was just hoping season two wouldn’t have a big drop off in quality, and I ended up feeling season two was even better. An excellent season of television.
Red-band trailer crawls out for Alice Maio Mackay’s “THE SERPENT’S SKIN” https://ow.ly/kAzM50Ytc1q
My lupine horror comedy The Howling turns 45 years young (!) today. Who here first saw it in theaters? On VHS? Cable?
Celebrate with a fresh still from my Renfield Collection. Custom autographs from yours truly are available upon request!
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I wrote about what I think is one of the most important films of the 21st century, and why, despite being excellent, it only ever found a small cult following. Free to all.
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People want something different, until someone like Boots Riley comes along, and then they’re like, “Not like that.” 😂
We started filming The Exorcist on Friday 13th because of course we did 😩
Thanks to all who rode to our financial rescue by visiting our homegrown arts bookstore mzs.press. You rule! Special thanks to my lady Judith (aka @mzspress.bsky.social), whose stewardship is what makes the store special. Check out her latest baby, the music section: mzs.press/Music-Collec...
✨MARK YOUR CALENDARS✨ Starting March 24, visionary filmmaker Bi Gan’s ravishing third feature RESURRECTION — his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape — will begin streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel alongside a new Meet the Filmmakers interview with the writer-director!
GIVE IT TO ME NOW!
The best horror/fantasy show on tv right now, hands down.
This is SOOO cool. Many thanks to Dee on the review of CLAIRVIOLENCE! I’m so proud of this freaky lil collection! 👏🏾👏🏾🖤
I loved Jawbone and am really excited about this one
Photo from last night’s Daniel Kraus event: Grady Hendrix, Nat Cassidy, me, and superstar reader Mox at the IFC Center.
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James Gunn's SLITHER is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a theatrical rerelease and a brand new 4K steelbook from Visions Home Video.
Happy Friday the 13th to all who celebrate. May your teenagers be horny and slow.
SLANTED is THE SUBSTANCE in high school halls. The director and cast join us to discuss their new horrific social satire, growing up in the age of filters, and more. Full interview right here.
This is pretty wild and also why you absolutely should never trust a white guy with "woke" in his handle.
I don’t know about that… TCM is whatever genre you’d call the original, then there’s Hooper’s OTT comedy sequel, and the sequels which are basically slasher films, but… like 3 different timelines?
Evil Dead changed pretty drastically too.
Sharing again! Today is the 45th anniversary of THE HOWLING, a film I love dearly so I decided to write about some of its themes & why Karen White is such a badass. Please give it a read if you’re so inclined: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/45-years-lat...
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