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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 21h

Angus Scrimm’s Tall Man looms over its bizarre sci-fi lore and adolescent struggles like a specter; his voice harsh like a crypt slammed shut, his presence that of whistling leaves and screeching steel. Coming of age story where adulthood is a lonley, abstract reality waiting.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 21h

Coscarelli synergizes Carpenters liminal space with Fulci’s vivid filth in a cozy, whispering mortality tale anchored by dreamlike editing and nightmare illogicalities. Adolescent fantasy used as a shield against the grim inevitable truth of growing pains and death.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 21h

PHANTASM still fucking rules. A waxing lyrical dream of sex & death struck between the lingering period of the last summer haze and childhood autumn. Dune filtered through Italo-horror, liminal suburbia, and child wish fulfillment in sleek chrome.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 21h

I think Moore’s Margaret White was the only thing I took away from that movie.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 1d

dinosaur village rv mobile home park, dinosaur statue, route 40, jensen, utah, 1991

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about 15 of my favorite cartoon "Halloween specials," including It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Scooby-Doo, X-Men, Gravity Falls and Over The Garden Wall. www.vulture.com/article/best...

The 15 Best Cartoon Halloween Specials

All seasonally spooky, but nothing too scary for kids.

www.vulture.com

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 23h

Mark Chiarello art for a Hellraiser comic.

A man with pale eyes stares directly at the reader, a hand with a palm facing outward covers his mouth with an exaggerated tooth smile scribbled on it in red. A cenobite lurks behind the man.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible movie

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Clockwork dolls and children’s lullabies and lurid synergy lost in an emerging dream logic rendered cavernous by Dario’s slick location shooting. It’s set pieces flit from nightmare ferocity to screeching dissonance; their gleeful deliverance bursting through the edit.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Suspiria/Inferno’s heightened surrealities bristle beneath its gothic extremes and ferocious sound design while its visual language dwells in a realm still dominated by leather-black gloves + flashing steel. Gorgeously staged and crafted to the very bone.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Argento’s last gasp of Giallo goes out with a hiss; symphonic evil with his lens at its most wicked and hateful. A vicious crossover of his two worlds in formal bravado and gruesome stylization, their echoes channeled through red splashes, shattered glass, and crumbling stone.

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Gayracula @gayracula.bsky.social · Sep 13

Phantasm (1979, dir: Don Coscarelli)

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 2d

Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.

A skeletal figure floats off the ground, wrapped in a cape made of autumn leaves. It wields a scythe adorned with a harvest of gourds.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

Very much feels like that kind of home video you’d shoot around this time of year with your buddies and whatever local props you can scrounge together on a tight little budget. It makes the title monster a legit triumph in regards to the FX/design; Jack-O looks fucking cool!

Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 1d

JACK-O’s quality can be debated but it’s sheer DIY earnestness cannot. A delicious smorgasbord of 90’s Halloween aesthetics; all foam latex/rubber masks/fog machines/dollar store decor/bedsheet ghosts. Whole thing has such an authentic crisp, cold crunch to it.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 2d

Time I finally busted this baby out.

Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 2d

Simone Simon anchors it all with quiet existentialism and whispered intensity while Tourneur/Musuraca’s gorgeous expressionist shadows emphasize her sad, lonely POV. Solace and catharsis cannot be found in the familiar but rather in the dark and the unknowable.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 2d

The All-American lifestyle consumes all that exists outside of it with cultural touchstones lost to exoticism, the foreign reduced to the frightening, and psychosexual anxieties exacerbated by predatory men in power. It’s set-pieces hiss and linger in the isolated fog of it all.

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 2d

CAT PEOPLE (1942) is Lewton/Tourneur stealthily keeping pace with the Universal Monster craze - and even beating them at their own game, in some ways - with its intense focus on repressed sexuality/nationality via some of the most gorgeous pieces of noir lighting ever weaponized.

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 3d

This is nearly overwhelmingly scary on the big screen. It’s a rabid ghost, vicious phantom, of atomic horror’s heyday masquerading in The Exorcist’s bile. Gorgeously blasphemous, and with such nonsense 50s Corman bullshit (complimentary). The Godfucking Devil is evil green slime for Christ’s sake.

A panhandler’s donation can full of bugs and worms and human vomit

A dove crucified and configured in the shape of a crucifix

A man (dead with his body animated by legions of beetles) standing in an abandoned parking lot, looking almost like a herald standing in a black void

Satan’s burn victim arm, pulling out of the demonic claw of the anti God from the mirror portal

Prince of Darkness (1987), John Carpenter

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think I’ve noticed before (or been so pummeled by) how incessant Caroenter’s music is in this? It doesn’t fucking stop. It’s dangerous, unsafe, contaminated. From the first shot, the movie is radioactive with dread and cosmic cancer, ethereal choirs and synthsong like eldritch seraphim.

A woman dragged into the enteral depths of black water with a neon mirror as her only light and tether to our world

Two women possessed by Satan, standing by the reliquary holding him

A blue light shot in a very surreal manner with fog billowing

Found footage fuzz and grit of a female figure standing back with fog and spotlight

Prince of Darkness (1987), John Carpenter

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 3d

Goddamn I’ve been missing out on The Ghoulies

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 3d

The Ghoulies are my friends

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Josh Williams 🎃 @bisexualhorrorfan.bsky.social · 3d

I heard this shit really sells

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 8d

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Spooky Sasquatch @nerdysasquatch.bsky.social · 4d

At a time when billionaires would be all too happy to replace artists with AI slop, I think it's important to celebrate artists like Drew Struzan.

If you've seen a movie poster in the past 30+ years, you've seen something he did. A true master of the craft.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade poster

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