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Black and white illustration showing two boys caught in the flash of a fireworks explosion

Black and white illustration showing two boys caught in the flash of a fireworks explosion

"The Guy Fawkes burst into a thousand flaming particles"

Artwork by George Soper, 1894

05.11.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜If I’d known the skeletons were real I’d have been even more disgusted’: how we made Poltergeist β€˜Steven Spielberg lit up when I told him I couldn’t do the face-tearing scene. Those are his hands you see in the film. I could never have ripped my face off with the same joie de vivre’

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03.11.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90 Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his β€˜horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working

RIP Peter Watkins

01.11.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screencap: The Blair Witch Project title screen

Screencap: The Blair Witch Project title screen

Screencap: The Burkittsville 7 title screen

Screencap: The Burkittsville 7 title screen

Tonight's double bill πŸ’€

31.10.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Halloween costume and mask: Asteroids

Halloween costume and mask: Asteroids

Halloween costume and mask: Missle Command, Yars Revenge, Centipede

Halloween costume and mask: Missle Command, Yars Revenge, Centipede

Halloween costume and mask: box / packaging

Halloween costume and mask: box / packaging

Atari Halloween costumes, 1983

31.10.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Vector illustration of a gothic haunted house full of pumpkins, ghosts, bats, etc

Vector illustration of a gothic haunted house full of pumpkins, ghosts, bats, etc

This year's Halloween House πŸŽƒ
Enjoy all the treats and spookiness πŸ’€

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The Lonely Shore Welcome to Wyrd Britain, a place of stories of a stranger Britain. <meta name="follow_it-verification-code" content="VTR2HlLjF8yjzh9VKWvz"/>

Ken Russell alert wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

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Squarepusher - Stereotype (Full Album)
YouTube video by Squarepusher Squarepusher - Stereotype (Full Album)

Back to 1994 www.youtube.com/watch?v=om8m...

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Dave Ball, wearing a black leather jacket and red box tie, sitting in the flower bed of a front garden on a suburban street

Dave Ball, wearing a black leather jacket and red box tie, sitting in the flower bed of a front garden on a suburban street

thequietus.com/interviews/d...

23.10.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dave Ball was not some bloke in the background of Soft Cell – he drove their startling, subversive sound Far more than a mute foil to Marc Almond, Ball brought his love of northern soul and strange electronics to bear on some of Britain’s most uncompromising pop

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Dave Ball from Soft Cell slumped over a keyboard. Photography by Peter Ashworth

Dave Ball from Soft Cell slumped over a keyboard. Photography by Peter Ashworth

RIP Dave Ball

23.10.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Let's have aggression with one another and get it out of our systems" πŸ–€

23.10.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10 great French horror films From Eyes Without a Face to Raw, French horror trips the line between realism and the uncanny, and pushes into a realm of profound discomfort.

I'd add Gaspar NoΓ©'s terrifying Climax to this list. And the recent MadS too www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

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Screencap: moody night shot of an industrial truck with searchlight pointed at a couple seated on the road in front

Screencap: moody night shot of an industrial truck with searchlight pointed at a couple seated on the road in front

Screencap: night shot of a car wreck silhoutted in a tree. In the foreground, a silhouetted man pointing a gun to his head

Screencap: night shot of a car wreck silhoutted in a tree. In the foreground, a silhouetted man pointing a gun to his head

Screencap: an empty salt plain desert in bright daylight, low horizon with a man walking left to right in the distance. In the foreground, an ominous skeleton of a large four-legged creature

Screencap: an empty salt plain desert in bright daylight, low horizon with a man walking left to right in the distance. In the foreground, an ominous skeleton of a large four-legged creature

Screencap: night-time view of the living room interior of a house, a man sat on a sofa looking towards the camera, the outside wall having been ripped away

Screencap: night-time view of the living room interior of a house, a man sat on a sofa looking towards the camera, the outside wall having been ripped away

Razorback | Russell Mulcahy | 1984

Good-looking find from this month's horror flicks

07.10.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screencap: Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Text reads: 'The 'Bou-quet' residence, the lady of the house speaking'

Screencap: Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Text reads: 'The 'Bou-quet' residence, the lady of the house speaking'

Screencap: Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Text reads: 'Oh, Violet! It's Violet. Make my excuses to Elizabeth and Emmet'

Screencap: Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Text reads: 'Oh, Violet! It's Violet. Make my excuses to Elizabeth and Emmet'

Screencap: Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Text reads: 'Tell them it's my wealthy sister. Large house, swimming pool, room for a pony'

Screencap: Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Text reads: 'Tell them it's my wealthy sister. Large house, swimming pool, room for a pony'

RIP Patricia Routledge – a Dame, a queen and a legend β™‘

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R.I.P. Patricia Routledge.

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Breaking Baz: Terence Stamp Pre-Shot β€˜Priscilla Queen Of The Desert 2’ Scenes Months Before He Died; Filmmaker Stephan Elliott Says Actor Had β€œTime Of His Life” Stephan Elliot tells Deadline that Terence Stamp spent his final months reprising his role as Bernadette for 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2'.

YES deadline.com/2025/09/tere...

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Screencap: Compositional shot of a quarry in winter taken from above

Screencap: Compositional shot of a quarry in winter taken from above

Screencap: two girls, one sitting on a swing hanging from a tree, watch oversized folkart figures of a man and woman walking past

Screencap: two girls, one sitting on a swing hanging from a tree, watch oversized folkart figures of a man and woman walking past

Screencap: Food jars full of grubs, crickets, maggots, sausages and a wine glass containing dead flies

Screencap: Food jars full of grubs, crickets, maggots, sausages and a wine glass containing dead flies

Screencap: A bleak winter landscape with a derelict building with five standing figures, four on the left wearing beaked white masks

Screencap: A bleak winter landscape with a derelict building with five standing figures, four on the left wearing beaked white masks

La cinquieΜ€me saison / The Fifth Season, 2012

All my favourite things: folklore, superstition and nature fighting back

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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

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Screencap: Robert Redford in All is Lost, sitting alone in a liferaft. Subtitle reads: "Fuck!"

Screencap: Robert Redford in All is Lost, sitting alone in a liferaft. Subtitle reads: "Fuck!"

16.09.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RIP Robert Redford
Gonna give The Old Man & the Gun OST a spin β™‘

16.09.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Subscribers of our newsletter got word this morning and now we are delighted to share with all of you... (btw: The sample frames attached are not representative of the final restoration.)

Coming this December from #DeafCrocodile:

Before Sonic There Was Another Famous Hedgehog…

05.09.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
Film poster for Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st (2011) showing a wilting white rose on a black background

Film poster for Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st (2011) showing a wilting white rose on a black background

Film poster for Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st (2011) showing Anders Danielsen Lie in a soaked shirt chest-high in water

Film poster for Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st (2011) showing Anders Danielsen Lie in a soaked shirt chest-high in water

This film β™‘

31.08.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Hit UK film poster

The Hit UK film poster

The Hit French film poster

The Hit French film poster

The Hit | Stephen Frears | 1984

In memory of Terence Stamp, this film's well worth checking out. Also, Tim Roth's feature film debut

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Second time lucky, here's an update of yesterday's design with corrected Arabic text πŸ™ƒ

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Screencap: Terence Stamp in Pasolini's Teorema, 1968. Seated outdoors on a garden lounger, smoking a cigarette and reading Rimbaud

Screencap: Terence Stamp in Pasolini's Teorema, 1968. Seated outdoors on a garden lounger, smoking a cigarette and reading Rimbaud

Screencap: Terence Stamp in Pasolini's Teorema, 1968. Seated outdoors on a garden lounger, smoking a cigarette and reading Rimbaud. Close up on his crotch

Screencap: Terence Stamp in Pasolini's Teorema, 1968. Seated outdoors on a garden lounger, smoking a cigarette and reading Rimbaud. Close up on his crotch

Terence Stamp in Teorema, 1968. Thanks Pasolini

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Terence Stamp on the cover of the 7" vinyl release of What Difference Does it Make? by The Smiths. Photograph taken from The Collector, 1965

Terence Stamp on the cover of the 7" vinyl release of What Difference Does it Make? by The Smiths. Photograph taken from The Collector, 1965

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17.08.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screencap of Terence Stamp in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Text reads: β€œNow listen here, you mullet. Why don’t you just light your tampon and blow your box apart? Because it’s the only bang you’re ever gonna get, sweetheart”

Screencap of Terence Stamp in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Text reads: β€œNow listen here, you mullet. Why don’t you just light your tampon and blow your box apart? Because it’s the only bang you’re ever gonna get, sweetheart”

RIP Terence Stamp

17.08.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An illustrated portrait of Anas al-Sharif

An illustrated portrait of Anas al-Sharif

A week ago today, Anas al-Sharif was assassinated by the Israeli occupying forces in Gaza. On the day of his death, Anas warned of the imminent invasion of Gaza City. He shared a video, his final tweet, documenting nearby explosions. Less than an hour later, he was dead

#FreePalestine

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