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🎃🔪The Kyler Feyville Horror 4: The Evil Escapes 🔪👻 @kylerfey.bsky.social · 10h

Incredible. That universe’s Steve Miner directed some bangers that we did not get here in our stupid universe.

Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

ASH WEDNESDAY (Steve Miner, 1982)

A homicidal maniac, obsessed with penitence and sacrifice, escapes from his lunatic asylum on Shrove Tuesday. Taking refuge in the basement rec-hall of a Catholic church, he wreaks his insane vengeance during a parochial school sock hop.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 10

BACK CHAT (2020)

A Hollywood agent (Elizabeth Olsen) and a celebrity crisis manager (Aubrey Plaza) spend a weekend flirting and falling in love while babysitting a troubled actress (Kristen Stewart) who is sleeping with both of them.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 10

BACK CHAT (Michelle Usher, 2020)

A Hollywood agent (Elizabeth Olsen) and an elite celebrity crisis manager (Aubrey Plaza) spend a weekend flirting and falling in love while babysitting a troubled actress (Kristen Stewart) who is sleeping with both of them.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 10

DAUGHTER OF HEAVEN (Richard Eichberg, 1930)

An ambitious newspaper woman (Louise Brooks) convinces local shopgirl (Anna May Wong) to masquerade as a Chinese princess-in-exile. The resulting political machinations & cases of mistaken identity set San Francisco society on fire.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 10

HORSE OF THE INVISIBLE (Terence Fisher, 1960)

Occult detective Thomas Carnacki (Peter Cushing) investigates the legendary curse of the Hisgins family, by which every eldest daughter has been murdered on the eve of her wedding by a ghostly horse.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 10

GATEWAY OF THE MONSTER (Jimmy Sangster, 1972)

The last film of Hammer Studio’s Carnacki Trilogy. Starring Donald Pleasence as Thomas Carnacki, Yutte Stensgaard as Eva, Arthur Lowe as Peters the Butler, and John Carson as Lord “Tuppy”Sunderland.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 10

GATEWAY OF THE MONSTER (Jimmy Sangster, 1972)

Every guest who spends a night in “the grey room” of Sunderland castle is found dead from strangulation by morning. Occult detective Thomas Carnacki & his devoted niece (Yutte Stensgaard) investigate, helped by the family’s doughty butler (Arthur Lowe).

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

THE BITTER BREAD OF LIFE (Metin Erksan, 1963)

An extremely eligible young bachelor falls in love with a young widow. Their engagement exacerbates all the pettiness and moral hypocrisy of their rural village. Starring Türkan Şoray and İzzet Günay.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

DEAR CHARLIE MANSEN (Stephen Chbosky, 2021)

An alienated high-school student (Ben Platt) yearns for respect and status. He finds himself the center of a fast crowd after writing a review of The White Album. With Anna Kendrick as Susan Atkins and Brittany Snow as Squeaky Fromme.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

THE MARITIME SAILORS' CATHEDRAL (Taylor Hackford, 2019)

Alone on tour and snowed in at a Michigan hotel room, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot (Bryan Cranston) becomes transfixed by a local news story concerning the sinking of a freighter called the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

THE DUNWICH HORROR (Jacques Tourneur, 1946)

Scholars at Miskatonic University (Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Ray Milland) are forced to do battle with a horrific multidimensional entity when rural oddball Wilbur Whateley (Vincent Price) attempts to steal an ancient grimoire.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

ASH WEDNESDAY (Steve Miner, 1982)

A homicidal maniac, obsessed with penitence and sacrifice, escapes from his lunatic asylum on Shrove Tuesday. Taking refuge in the basement rec-hall of a Catholic church, he wreaks his insane vengeance during a parochial school sock hop.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

Emanuelle Nera in Vietnam (Bitto Albertini, 1975)

Mae “Emanuelle” Jordan (Laura Gemser) is a globe-trotting, hedonistic investigative photo-journalist on assignment in Southeast Asia. Her erotic escapades spark a sexual revolution that threatens to overshadow the Viet Cong.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

THE DEVIL’S BRIDE (Paul Leni, 1934)

Occult detective Jules de Grandin (Leslie Banks) races to prevent a worldwide Satanic cult from committing a series of kidnappings, assassinations, crucifixions, and ritual virgin sacrifice. Paul Wegener costars.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

THE MAIDEN RETURNS (Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1970)

An audacious con-woman (Monica Vitti) falsely claims to be Joan of Arc, risen from the dead. She convinces Joan’s unscrupulous family to support her claims and travels the country accepting lavish gifts from her many admirers.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

THE IPCRESS FILE (Michel Hazanavicius, 2007)

British secret agent Harry Palmer (Alan Rickman) investigates a series of apparent assassinations, in which Russian scientists living in London are poisoned with a rare polonium isotope.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

BIG ADVENTURE (Kevin Morton, 1985)

Secret agent P. W. Herman (James Brolin) helps a brilliant industrial designer named Dottie (Morgan Fairchild) recover the stolen X-1 experimental motorcycle, which contains a secret compartment filled with microfilm. “Based on a true story!”

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

NEGATION (Roger Christian, 1994)

While campaigning in the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc (Emma Thompson) occasionally catches a glimpse of the horrific darkness that lies at the heart of her chief companion-in-arms, Gilles de Rais (Rutger Hauer).

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

SUPER-TRAIN (Gerry Anderson, ITV series, 1981 - 1983)

The Conductor and attendant-stewards of a nuclear-powered cross-country luxury-class bullet-train deal with terrorists and corporate spies while facilitating amorous and/or humorous misadventures amongst their passengers.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Aug 12

LA PASCUALITA (Sofia Aguilar, 2005)

The owner of a bridal shop in Chihuahua becomes convinced that one of her mannequins is possessed by the vengeful soul of a bride who went missing in the 1930s.

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Fred Smith @coyotefred.bsky.social · 16h

Tease. (In this reality, I used to live around the corner from a vacant lot which used to be the house that was used for Trina's family's home.)

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Mar 4

FEARFEST (Matt Freel, 1988)

A college film society organizes an all-night marathon dedicated to a cult 1950s horror director (Tom Atkins) who was famous for outlandish publicity gimmicks. Starring Matt McCoy, Heather Thomas, Tom Villard, Corinne Bohrer, and Jon Gries.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Mar 4

LETTER TO JEAN-LUC (Guy Debord, 1972)

A point-by-point and tit-for-tat response to Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin’s polemic LETTER TO JANE. Jane Fonda minutely dissects the political & social ramifications of a photograph taken of J-LG during the May ‘68 strike in Paris.

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Mar 4

BACKCOUNTRY (Dan Ford, 1984)

A group of high school friends celebrate graduation at a remote beachfront cabin. Little do they know that the surrounding woods are haunted by a feral and murderous inbred family. Starring George Clooney, Laura Dern, Demi Moore, and Jason Alexander

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Multiversal Streaming @multiversalplus.bsky.social · Mar 4

NINE INCH STILETTOS ON A BLOODY CATWALK (Franco Pietrangeli, 1992)

In this taut and stylish giallo, designer Anna Falchi is stalked by a murderous lunatic during fashion week in Milan. Co-starring Raymond Lovelock, Ania Pieroni, John Steiner, Mario Brega, and Cinzia De Ponti.

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