The Cultured Curators

The Cultured Curators

@culturedcurators.bsky.social

Two curious people explore culture in its broadest sense. One is a renowned expert, the other a connoisseur of the curious. Together they embark on cultural explorations each episode, taking you along for the ride! We love genre fiction the most 💀👻👾🐙�

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2 months ago
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Korean cinema w/ *spice* spicy titles from South Korea

First one is South Korea, as mentioned recently in an episode of @culturedcurators.bsky.social
They do mainstream spice really well and often in a Historic setting.

The list ever-growing, so do please comment any titles you feel are missing
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2 months ago
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16 Spice and Smut Podcast Episode · The Cultured Curators · 12/23/2025 · 53m

Episode 16 Spice and Smut

In which @rpish.bsky.social and @benhorrible.bsky.social offer holiday gifts as they touch on Korean and Indian Erotic cinema to warm you up during the cold season.

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3 months ago
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15 Foreplay Podcast Episode · The Cultured Curators · 12/02/2025 · 20m

New Episode is up

Ep. 15 Foreplay
In which @rpish.bsky.social and @benhorrible.bsky.social touch on what they've been up to the last few months and tease future pleasures.

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3 months ago
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a woman in a gold dress is standing next to a maid in a hallway ALT: a woman in a gold dress is standing next to a maid in a hallway

It seems I have awakened an end of year list-craze with an hyper focus on Erotic Thrillers specifically from Asian countries!

Watch out Letterboxd and @culturedcurators.bsky.social blog!

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4 months ago
The Tenth Annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival pre screening intro to the film "It Needs Eyes". Six people stand in front of a film screen with the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival logo, they hold microphones.

Also endless thanks to all the folks who came out to @brooklynhorror.bsky.social this week, especially those who came to see "It Needs Eyes" and spoke with us after.

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4 months ago
White text on a black background inside of large red quotation marks reads: “Given that all of us will experience disability and horror in our lifetimes, I consider the work of this festival to be necessary planning for the future.  But let’s have a goddamn good time while we do it. – Ariel Baska, creator of Access:Horror.” The spiky black, red, and white Access:Horror logo is below.

“Given that all of us will experience disability and horror in our lifetimes, I consider the work of this festival to be necessary planning for the future.  But let’s have a goddamn good time while we do it.” – Ariel Baska

Submit to our 2026 film festival: filmfreeway.com/AccessHorror...

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5 months ago

If I was in London, I wouldn't dare miss this.

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5 months ago
An image from the film “Society” by Stuart Gordon (1989)
Depicting dozens of bodies merging in an orgiastic flesh form. This is the act of Shunting

Meanwhile, me and my squad at the Rapture.

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5 months ago

Not enough gay bars hosting Rapture parties

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5 months ago
The 10th annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival in red writing at the top left.
A zombie rat rotting and rabid, rises fiercely, crawling toward the viewer over a flaming brain. in the bottom left in red text it reads.
BrooklynHorrorFest.com
October 16-25, 2025

It's Official! The Cultured Curators will be boots on the ground at the 10th annual @brooklynhorror.bsky.social! @benhorrible.bsky.social will be there in the flesh and @rpish.bsky.social in spirit. Can't wait to see and hang with some of our favorite friends!

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6 months ago

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6 months ago

#Hooptober #Hooptober12

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6 months ago
Sharai, Xero, Karama, and Chuck having a damn Blerdy time on stage

Did somebody order the audio from our live recording at @accesshorror.bsky.social last month? Cause that’s what we’re serving this Tuesday.

Get into this convo about the intersection of disability and horror with convo with Karama Horne and Chuck Collins.

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6 months ago
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Banish With Laughter When everything is funny, nothing is sacred

Back in February I wrote about how constantly making a joke out of everything is destroying us. Been thinking about it a lot lately.

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6 months ago

It's official, The Cultured Curator will be there in person!

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6 months ago
Ariel baska. A caucasion person with chin length light hair, glassed and a crooked smile. They wear a black shirt with a layered patchwork of blue and green stripes atop. The image carries a blur effect adding a mysterious glow to them.

Episode 14 is live

In this episode, Benjamin and Rabia sit down with Horror Activist, film maker, and festival directorAriel Baska to talk about their prolific work surrounding disability advocacy and the Access:Horror Film Festival (Now available to stream on Shudder).
@accesshorror.bsky.social

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6 months ago

Access:Horror is live on Shudder today!

It was such an honor to work with this festival in celebration of disability in horror cinema. The programming is incredible, and the work of this festival and what it represents is surely needed.

Please go give it a watch!

@accesshorror.bsky.social

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6 months ago

Full support! More of this!

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6 months ago
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Hooptober 12 - The Cultured Curators list My 5th year participating via Letterboxd. Great initiative by @cinemonster (check his account for previous lists and info) QUICK EASY RULES: There must be 31 horror films6 countries (other than Italy ...

It’s time for #Hooptober! Yearly horror watch and review challenge. You can find the list and rules on Cinemonster’s LB.

Will post here per title once we start.

Got my letterboxd list ready to go: boxd.it/O54UI

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6 months ago
Posters for.
The Wizard of Ox
Shivers
Bride of Frankenstein
Cemetery Man
Return of the Living Dead Part 2
28 Days Later
The Dead Don’t Die
Starry Eyes
Frankenstein
Blind Beast
Ganja & Hess
The X Files Posters for
Demon Lover
Night Watch
Kenneth Abger’s Fire Works
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Beauty and the Beast
Faust
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the hourglass 
The Beast
Vampyr
The Golem
All the Colors of the Dark
Trick or Treat Poster for
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Burn Witch Burn
Hardware
Thirst
Santa Sangre
I Like Bats
Under The Skin
On yhe Silver Globe
The Wolf House
The Hourglass Sanatorium

Let’s Gooooo! #Hooptober12

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6 months ago

The Cultured Curators' eternal hunger may never be sated!

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6 months ago

FYI: short reviews on my Letterboxd

Long form reviews going up on the @culturedcurators.bsky.social website after the fest (I need sleep first)

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6 months ago
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It’s that time of the year again! @frightfest.bsky.social

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6 months ago
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My little Frightfest 2025 thread:

First movie was The Home with Pete Davidson. Opening the festival 🍀

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6 months ago

Just remembered Shintaro Kago hosts a pooped theme film festival. I have to know these things, so now you do too.

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8 months ago

Amazing thread on how Superman has always been the way he is, James Gunn only took his to his roots. And how history repeats itself.

Doing an interview about this on radio today as well.

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7 months ago

Can’t wait for everyone to become extremely normal* over Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein.

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7 months ago

Just put my votes in. Let’s go Cannibal Mukbang!

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8 months ago

A relaxing way to celebrate Bastille Day!

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