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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 1d

ULYSSES 31 - THE KINGDOM OF HADES (1981): CBBC Broom Cupboard-era favourite, famous for its sing-a-long theme tune, had more than its share of dark moments. Here, the dead of Hades literally turn their back on the living, their touch decaying everything in their path...

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 2d

"The Guy Fawkes burst into a thousand flaming particles"

Artwork by George Soper, 1894

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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 4d

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‘If I’d known the skeletons were real I’d have been even more disgusted’: how we made Poltergeist

‘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’

www.theguardian.com

Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 6d

RIP Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90

Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight's double bill 💀

Screencap: The Blair Witch Project title screen

Screencap: The Burkittsville 7 title screen

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 6d

Atari Halloween costumes, 1983

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

Halloween costume and mask: box / packaging

Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 7d

This year's Halloween House 🎃
Enjoy all the treats and spookiness 💀

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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 9d

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

The Lonely Shore

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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 13d

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Cover album artwork for Stereotype. Text reads: Binary Communicatiions - Acid for the 90s

Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 14d

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

Squarepusher - Stereotype (Full Album)

YouTube video by Squarepusher

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 14d

thequietus.com/interviews/d...

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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 14d

🖤 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 14d

RIP Dave Ball

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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 15d

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

Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 15d

The @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social library is so good

Bette Davis
Legendary Actress
"I think without doubt that video- games are absolutely horrendous. Mentally they're horrendous. I think it's better that families play real games together. Checkers. Scrabble. Monopoly I think it's ridiculous to try and play those games or others like them on a TV screen. If I were bringing up children today I wouldn't allow it. I think it's terrible on their eyes; I don't think the next generation of people are going to have any vision! Half the time they're in there playing those games they should be outside playing other things. Or reading books. I've heard that people think they are therapy: come on. Let's have aggression with one another and get it out of our systems."

In Videogaming Illustrated, Number 3, Dec 1982

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · 19d

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

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.

www.bfi.org.uk

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · Oct 7

Razorback | Russell Mulcahy | 1984

Good-looking find from this month's horror flicks

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: 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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · Oct 3

RIP Patricia Routledge – a Dame, a queen and a legend ♡

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: 'Tell them it's my wealthy sister. Large house, swimming pool, room for a pony'

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · Oct 3

R.I.P. Patricia Routledge.

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · Sep 29

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

Breaking Baz: Terence Stamp Pre-Shot ‘Priscilla Queen Of The Desert 2’ Scenes Months Before He Died; Filmmaker Stephan Elliott Says Actor Had “Time 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'.

deadline.com

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · Sep 25

La cinquième saison / The Fifth Season, 2012

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

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: 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

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 17

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.

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.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · Sep 16

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

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · Sep 16

RIP Robert Redford
Gonna give The Old Man & the Gun OST a spin ♡

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Deaf Crocodile @deafcrocodile.bsky.social · Sep 5

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…

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Matt Lyon @mattlyon.bsky.social · Aug 31

This film ♡

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

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