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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 5h

🏥🔪🩸 There are moments that feel more at home in a spoof than a serious horror film, others just drag on for way too long! And Barbi Benton's tits aren't that special that they alone would save this mess even if the filmmakers might've banked on just her charms to suffice. #HospitalMassacre #XRay 📽️🎞️

Frame from the slasher horror film 'Hospital Massacre' (1982), also known as 'X-Ray', 'Be My Valentine, or Else' or 'Ward 13'. Close-up of a menacingly smiling brown haired boy (Billy Jayne as Young Harold Rusk) wearing a red jacket and a grey shirt standing outside of an open window peeking in through the white curtains.

Frame from the slasher horror film 'Hospital Massacre' (1982), also known as 'X-Ray', 'Be My Valentine, or Else' or 'Ward 13'. Dark haired medical doctor (John Warner Williams as Dr. Dan Saxon) wearing a white lab coat standing on the foreground on the left edge of the frame with his back to the camera. He's looking at the silhoutte of a buxom woman (Barbi Benton as Susan Jeremy) getting undressed behind a hospital privacy screen.

Frame from the slasher horror film 'Hospital Massacre' (1982), also known as 'X-Ray', 'Be My Valentine, or Else' or 'Ward 13'. Woman with dark brown hair (Barbi Benton as Susan Jeremy) wearing white underwear and a white hospital gown standing with her back to the camera at the middle of the frame on the ground. She's looking at three hospital patients that are completely bandaged from head to toe. The patients on the left and right are lying on hospital beds. The one on the middle is seated in a device.

Frame from the slasher horror film 'Hospital Massacre' (1982), also known as 'X-Ray', 'Be My Valentine, or Else' or 'Ward 13'. Close-up of a woman with dark brown hair (Barbi Benton as Susan Jeremy) peeking from behind a filing cabinet with files stacked on top of it.

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 5h

🏥🔪🩸 I've always said that the producing cousins Golan-Globus tended to peddle trash but at least it quite often turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable. That's not the case with #HospitalMassacre, also known as #XRay, though. Such a poor effort even by 80s slasher movie standards. 📽️🎞️

Poster for the slasher horror film 'Hospital Massacre' (1982), also known as 'X-Ray', 'Be My Valentine, or Else' or 'Ward 13'. Directed by Boaz Davidson. Starring Barbi Benton, Charles Lucia, Jon van Ness, John Warner Williams and Den Surles.

On the poster an illustration from above of a buxom brown haired woman lying on a gurney covered to her chest by a green sheet. Her arms are being held down by hands. And there's a third person with gloved hands holding a knife in his left hand above the distressed woman. On top of the poster there's a tagline "You have nothing to fear... Until they operate!" in red letters. There's another tagline "The movie that will scare the life out of you" in yellow letters below the film's title under the illustration.

Frame from the slasher horror film 'Hospital Massacre' (1982), also known as 'X-Ray', 'Be My Valentine, or Else' or 'Ward 13'. Close-up of a woman's (Barbi Benton as Susan Jeremy) face with dark brown hair. There's a hand holding a needle right in front of her face on the bottom right corner of the frame.

Frame from the slasher horror film 'Hospital Massacre' (1982), also known as 'X-Ray', 'Be My Valentine, or Else' or 'Ward 13'. Close-up of a masked man dressed in surgical scrubs and a white lab coat holding a knife in his raised right hand.

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 11h

Techically yesterday was mothership's birthday but since it was decided that we would celebrate it today... #IMadeThis 🍰

A slice of cheesecake with a red lingonberry glaze on a plate.

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a couple of unexpected pathogens may have helped hasten the soldiers' demise.

What killed Napoleon's army? Scientists find clues in DNA from fallen soldiers' teeth

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a couple of unexpected pathogens may have helped hasten the soldiers' demise.

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 17h

Kids who have NEVER actually lived in a monoculture seem to live under the impression that we still do...? 😕

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 18h

Teacher. When kids tell me their favourite streamer/YouTuber, I pretend I've never heard of that person before. The kids absolutely lose their minds.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 18h

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 1d

⛪ And IF the film's title sounds familiar... 😏 Salma Hayek's character (Santanico Pandemonium) in From Dusk till Dawn got its name from #SatánicoPandemoniumLaSexorcista. #SatanicPandemonium 📽️🎞️

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 1d

⛪ That said, I'm sure fans of exploitation films, esp. nunsploitation, will get some enjoyment out of #SatánicoPandemoniumLaSexorcista as well. There's certainly enough T&A available. #SatanicPandemonium 📽️🎞️

Frame from the Mexican nunsloitation horror film 'Satánico Pandemónium (La Sexorcista)'/'Satanic Pandemonium' (1975). Young nun (Cecilia Pezet as Sister Maria) wearing a light blue and white nun's outfit kneeling (on the right) in front of a catholic shrine (on the left) in the woods.

Frame from the Mexican nunsloitation horror film 'Satánico Pandemónium (La Sexorcista)'/'Satanic Pandemonium' (1975). Close-up of a young woman (Cecilia Pezet as Sister Maria) with a short brown haired looking anguished in a darkened room.

Frame from the Mexican nunsloitation horror film 'Satánico Pandemónium (La Sexorcista)'/'Satanic Pandemonium' (1975). Close-up of a young nun (Cecilia Pezet as Sister Maria) wearing a light blue and white nun's outfit standing at a doorway looking mischievous.

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 1d

⛪ Not that I expected this nunsploitation horror flick to be actually scary but even though leading lady Cecilia Pezet is admittedly quite easy on the eyes I must say that I didn't find #SatánicoPandemoniumLaSexorcista particularly titillating either. 🫣 #SatanicPandemonium 📽️🎞️

Poster for the Mexican nunsloitation horror film 'Satánico Pandemónium (La Sexorcista)'/'Satanic Pandemonium' (1975). Directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares. Starring Cecilia Pezet, Enrique Rocha, Delia Magaña, Verónica Ávila and Daniel Albertos.

On the poster an illustration of the head of a young nun on the right, a bloody handprint on the left and the silhouttes of a winged devil with horns and naked dancing women.

Frame from the Mexican nunsloitation horror film 'Satánico Pandemónium (La Sexorcista)'/'Satanic Pandemonium' (1975). Two half-dressed nuns in a room. Dark haired woman (Clemencia Colín as Sister Clemencia) sitting on the bed on the left with a barechested woman (Cecilia Pezet as Sister Maria) with short brown hair leaning against her back with her right hand reaching around to touch the other woman's breast underneath her white robe that's been pulled down from her shoulders.

Frame from the Mexican nunsloitation horror film 'Satánico Pandemónium (La Sexorcista)'/'Satanic Pandemonium' (1975). Young barechested woman (Cecilia Pezet as Sister Maria) with short brown hair standing in a room with both of her hands wrapped around her throat with her arms covering her breasts.

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 2d

🏫🩸🪓 Sure #CuttingClass has its moments but unfortunately too few too rarely. Jill Schoelen makes for lovely scream queen. And if Brad Pitt tickles your fancy it's his first major movie role. But otherwise you have to be a proper slasher film buff to enjoy this. 📽️🎞️

Frame from the teen slasher 'Cutting Class' (1989). Close-up of a hand holding a bow and arrow in a foggy swamp.

Frame from the teen slasher 'Cutting Class' (1989). Close-up of a smiling dark haired young woman (Jill Schoelen as Paula Carson) wearing a white shirt and a dark coat.

Frame from the teen slasher 'Cutting Class' (1989). Dark haired young woman (Jill Schoelen as Paula Carson) wearing a yellow shirt (on the left) facing a dark haired young man wearing a dark blue shirt and a yellow jacket and a brown haired young man (Brad Pitt as Dwight Ingalls) wearing a blue shirt and a green and blue coat holding a folder (on the right).

Frame from the teen slasher 'Cutting Class' (1989). Close-up from underneath a trampoline of a bloodied dead body lying face down on it.

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 2d

🏫🩸🪓 Some people seem to be under the impression that #CuttingClass would be a slasher film parody. It isn't! Not even unintentionally. Even though it's admittedly pretty poor overall even by 80s teen slasher standards. So not one you either love OR hate like some reviewer claimed back in the day. 📽️🎞️

Poster for the teen slasher 'Cutting Class' (1989). Directed by Rospo Pallenberg. Starring Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Brenda James, Roddy McDowall and Martin Mull.

On the poster on a blue background images of the film's three stars side by side. From left to right: a young dark haired man (Donovan Leitch as Brian Woods) wearing a yellow high school T-shirt, a young dark haired woman (Jill Schoelen as Paula Carson) wearing a blue shirt and a brown haired young man (Brad Pitt as Dwight Ingalls) wearing a yellow high school T-shirt and holding onto a red gym rope with his both hands.

Frame from the teen slasher 'Cutting Class' (1989). Close-up of a single hand appearing from underneath a high school gymnasium's bleachers.

Frame from the teen slasher 'Cutting Class' (1989). Darkly lit high school store room. A woman standing with her back to the camera next to a photocopier on the foreground. A man walking towards her in the background.

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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Can't make this up: "'Trumpery' became a fashionable word" in 1840s England to describe the overuse of cheap decorative elements on houses. (Muthesius, Stefan. The English Terraced House. Yale U Pres, 1982. p242.)

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 3d

🍰 Not much of a looker but tastes yummy. 🤤 Kind of like yours truly. 😆 #IMadeThis 🥧

Carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting in a round glass dish.

A slice of carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting on a plate.

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 4d

🎼... except this version of #ThePhantomOfTheOpera visions its Phantom as some sort of a gothic horror Freddy Krueger. 🙄 'Cos apparently why wouldn't you if you've managed to cast Robert Englund? 📽️🎞️

Frame from the horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). View from above through the elevated walkway of a stagehand (Terence Beesley as Joseph Buquet). The feet of the person standing on the walkway above visible in the foreground of the frame.

Frame from the horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). A dark haired woman (Jill Schoelen as Christine Day) standing at a wardrobe in a darkly lit dressing room. The shadow of a man wearing a brimmed hat visible on the mirror on the wardrobe's opened door.

Frame from the horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). View inside a darkly lit underground lair. A man (Robert Englund as Erik Destler) dressed in a red cape (with his back to the camera) standing in front of a pipe organ on the left. An unconscious woman (Jill Schoelen as Christine Day) wearing a white dressed on a chair on the right. Two large candelabras with lit candles on both sides of the pipe organ. More lit candles on the foreground on the right edge of the frame.

Frame from the horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). View inside an underground lair. There's a right hand wearing a red glove holding a push dagger on the foreground on the left pointing towards a moustached man (Terence Harvey as Inspector Hawkins) holding a revolver on the right.

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 4d

🎼 The 80s film adaptation of #ThePhantomOfTheOpera from one half of the producer duo Golan-Globus is very much style over substance. Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing 'cos the film does admittedly look quite good... 📽️🎞️

Poster for the horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). Based on Gaston Leroux's novel 'Le Fantôme de l'Opéra' (1910). Directed by Dwight H. Little. Starring Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Lawrence and Terence Harvey.

On the poster an image of a facially disfigured man covering the lower part of his face with a lower half of a skull that he's holding in his right hand covered in a red glove. On top of the poster there's the beginning of a tagline "Robert Englund was "Freddy" that continues on top and after the film's title as "Now he's the... Phantom of the Opera The Motion Picture An all new nightmare!".

Frame from the horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). Victorian alleyway at night. A man dressed in a black hat and a long coat is confronted by three armed robbers. One holding a knife in his right hand is standing with his back to the camera on the foreground on the left edge of the frame. The other two are standing in the background at the end of the alley.

Frame from the horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). Two people, a man on the left and a woman on the right, with their backs to the camera in a darkened underground lair. He's sitting playing a pipe organ and she's standing next to him. There's a bunch of lit candles all around the lair.

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 5d

I wish the kids would realize sooner rather than later that since we're ultimately in existence such a finite amount of time that you'd be better off doing/wearing/reading/listening to/watching/eating etc. WHATEVER pleases you instead of chasing every fad and trend out there. It's quite liberating!

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 5d

Do people just lose their ability to detect sarcasm as they get older? 🫤 Or is it just that people forget what a sarky cunt yours truly tends to be if you just don't see/interact with each other anywhere near as much you used to? 🤔

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 5d

🎼 The film's finale esp. is quite lacklustre. Therefore the only noteworthy thing about #ThePhantomOfTheOpera ends up being, as usual, the #HammerHorror aesthetics, esp. the Phantom's lair set. Otherwise it sadly falls to the more forgettable end of the Hammer Films' spectrum. 📽️🎞️

Frame from the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1962). Audition held at a theatre stage. Three men sitting with their backs to the camera on the front rows of the auditorium. A dark haired woman wearing a white shirt and a blue skirt is performing on the stage. There's a man playing the grand piano to the left of her and another man standing at the front of the stage looking at her. There are seated women waiting for their turn on both sides of the stage.

Frame from the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1962). Close-up of a brown haired man (Michael Gough as Lord Ambrose D'Arcy) wearing a tailcoat sitting next to a dark haired woman (Heather Sears as Christine Charles) wearing a pink dress. He's sitting on the left, she's on the right. They're facing each other. He's looking lecherous, she's looking distressed.

Frame from the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1962). Grey haired man (Herbert Lom as The Phantom/Professor Petrie) wearing a grey face covering mask wearing a dark suit standing next to a pipe organ in an underground lair and pointing the index finger of his right hand at a seated dark haired woman (Heather Sears as Christine Charles) wearing a purpleish dress on the right edge of the frame (with her back to the camera).

Frame from the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1962). View of an underground lair. There's a pool of water on the foreground. There's a stone walkway leading up to ledge where a grey haired man (Herbert Lom as The Phantom/Professor Petrie) wearing a black suit is sitting with his back to the camera playing a pipe organ.

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 5d

🎼 I don't usually have a lot of expectations for #HammerHorror films but I must admit that I was quite surprised how tasteful, lacking of genuine proper horror elements and ultimately dull (esp. for a less than 90 min film) #ThePhantomOfTheOpera actually was. 📽️🎞️

Poster for the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1962). Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Thorley Walters, Michael Gough, Harold Godwin, Martin Miller and Liane Aukin.

On the poster an illustration of a masked man wearing a cape standing on a burning chandelier that's falling onto the panicked crowd in an opera. On the bottom right of the poster there's a blue tinted image of a masked man wearing a cape carrying an unconscious woman in his arms with the tagline "The Greatest THRILL CLASSIC of All Time!!!".

Frame from the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1962). Close-up of a masked man (Herbert Lom as The Phantom/Professor Petrie) watching through a hidden lookout on a theatre wall.

Frame from the British Hammer Film Productions' horror film 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1962). Dark haired woman (Heather Sears as Christine Charles) wearing a purpleish Victorian dress sitting on the edge of a pool of water in an underground lair.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 6d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 6d

I must admit that I was quite surprised how much of a drag #Maniac actually was for a b-horror/exploitation movie. 😯 Esp. since it's also less than 90 mins in length. Even the "gruesome" graphic violence feels pretty tame compared to what you see in horror films these days. 📽️🎞️

Poster for the B-movie slasher 'Maniac' (1980). Directed by William Lustig. Starring Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Gail Lawrence, Kelly Piper, Rita Montone, Tom Savini and Hyla Marrow.

The poster has an illustration of a man wearing a brown jacket, a blue shirt and jeans from the waist down standing in a puddle of blood holding a knife with a bloody tip in his right hand and scalped blonde hair in his left. There's a tagline "I warned you not to go out tonight" (in white letters) in between the man's knees right above the film's title.

Frame from the B-movie slasher 'Maniac' (1980). Close-up of a moustached dark haired man (an obvious dummy) wearing a white shirt sitting behind the wheel of a car with a man on the car's hood pointing a double barreld shotgun directly at his face.

Frame from the B-movie slasher 'Maniac' (1980). Close-up of a fair haired woman (Kelly Piper as Nurse) peeking around the corner from inside a public toilet cubicle. There's a turqoise wall with smudgy writing in the background.

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 6d

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

Frame from the film 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York' (1992). Close-up of a bearded brown haired man (Daniel Stern as Marv) wearing a brown coat (on the left) and a shorter older man (Joe Pesci as Harry) wearing a black beanie, a green scarf and a brown coat (on the right). The man on the right has his hands raised. The palm of his right hand has a burn scar (the letter M inside a circle).

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JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 6d

📚 #ReadingNow Gaston Leroux: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra 📖

Cover of the English language edition of Gaston Leroux's Gothic horror novel 'Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'/'The Phantom of the Opera' (1910).

On the cover an image of a wide stairway lit up by large candelabras. High archways visible on the higher floor where the stairs lead.

JMS @jmsaasta.bsky.social · 7d

IF artificial intelligence brings about universal basic income I stop being a luddite in a heartbeat! But otherwise I'll continue to vehemently avoid and oppose that shite. 😠

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