P.G. Wodelouse

I thought it was some of his best work

Alright, Socrates

Before Victor Mature was a serious leading man, he was Victor Immature, a very silly children’s entertainer who once poured a bucket of gunge over a furious Frank Sinatra and custard pied Larry Olivier

Same energy

Black and white photo of man in raincoat standing beneath Blackpool Tower after the rain has fallen

‘Once the holiday ended’ (dir: Richardson, 1959), written by John Osborne, starring Tom Courtenay and Mary Ure

Because he wears it when he travels back in time to have an affair with a saucy barmaid in 1940s London?

Mrs McKenzie, would you please come and collect your husband? He’s placed himself in a ball of iridized black glass and is using its strange energy to hover around the park scaring children again

How my horse do at Chepstow?

🙌

It’s OK to disagree :)

Sterling Hayden as the cigar chewing mental General Jack D. Ripper in Dr Strangelove

So too Sterling Hayden describing struggling to deliver the lunatic General’s monologue in Dr Strangelove, and Kubrick saying he didn’t know how to help but that the authentically unhinged look apparent in his eyes by the 37th take might turn out in editing to be exactly what they were looking for

Alex (middle) cheerfully sings Singin’ in the Rain while he and his Droogies deliver a despicable attack on a disabled old man and his beautiful younger wife in their own home

Loved hearing Malcolm McDowell talking about the way Kubrick created an environment for spontaneity on set that resulted in the capturing of wholly unexpected and unforgettable moments e.g. Alex breaking into Singin’ in the Rain during the sadistic home invasion in A Clockwork Orange

A bearded Kubrick standing next to a camera looking very intently on a scene with dark, intense eyes from beneath angular eyebrows

Watched Kubrick on Kubrick

So refreshing hearing him* speak about his own films and the way he saw the world without artifice or a sense that he’s being pressed into saying showy, crowd pleasing things

*as opposed to wanky critic or talking head

I’ve got one!

Fake ghost hunters, haunted children, thieves on the make, and more, all fill a hotel crumbling into the sea, a pub haunted by tragedy, a graveyard with buried treasure, and other places where that door can no longer quite be closed…

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Intervals of Darkness Buy Intervals of Darkness by Newman, Ray (ISBN: 9798334373464) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

@raynewman.bsky.social has a new collection out this year, but before then, Municipal Gothic and Intervals of Darkness can already be yours to invoke troubled dreams (but, you know, the fun kind)

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Phengaris There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Birds sing in ...

You could (and really must) go for some cosmic and very human eco-horror, from @anna-orridge.bsky.social

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I Would Haunt You if I Could Publisher — Bookshop.org — Waterstones — Amazon Kobo – Kindle – Weightless Books These are strange, paranoid tales, no less dangerous or jagged for the comic matter-of-fact way in which they are tol...

Will @seanbirnie.bsky.social's collection of tales haunt you? You really should find out. (Spoiler alert: they will)

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Fleischerei by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin - filthy loot press Perfect Bound // 4×6, 146pgs “Fleischerei examines how consciously and intentionally we can adopt the obsessions of others, how willful our abandoning of our own will can be, and how persistent we mus...

How about @miseryvulture.bsky.social's charming, light romantic comedy Fleischerei* (*please note, contents may actually include gnarly emotions. And cannibalism.)

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Thought Satan’s Slave would be a bit of fun somewhere in the realms of Jess Franco/Rollin/Hammer/kitschy Spanish horror but turned it off after five minutes because of an unnecessarily graphic depiction of sex-murder that felt like snuff

Need a gentle cleanser. Like something starring Wendy Craig

You have a detective’s eye

An AI (I presume) image of an attractive brunette woman from a dodgy dating site digital ad

You look totally chilled here. Not shaken at all

image showing the cover art for a podcast titled General Witchfinders: The British Horror Podcast. The artwork features a stylized, woodcut-style illustration in shades of mustard yellow and black. It depicts three men dressed in 17th-century attire, including wide-brimmed hats and large collars, resembling stereotypical witchfinders or Puritans. Below the illustration, the title General Witchfinders is written in a large, white, gothic-style font. Underneath that, a purple banner contains the subtitle The British Horror Podcast in a bold, sans-serif white font. At the very bottom of the image, there is a small profile icon and text that reads podcasts by revoltingross.

Updated cover art

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Oh my word 😲😆

Don’t be sorry

Yes, didn’t just mean for that shot. There are a load of amazing tricks throughout the film that I’ve read about but my personal perspective is that it’s more magical to wonder how they happened rather than actually knowing

Tremendous and much-talked about moment in which yer man appears to climb into a film

Just watched Sherlock Jr, my first Buster Keaton

Headline thoughts are:

- Delightful

and

- How in the living fuck did he/they do that?!?*

*also, I kind of don’t want to know. Magic of cinema and all that

What they said x

Todd Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5 Canal through Musandam Peninsular Map RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Geoengineering for the under-fives

A very silly film

Represent!!!!

Not many of these left - if we did new ones what should we put on them?