Fiona Watson
@monsterfromid66.bsky.social
Edinburgh based screenwriter/video essayist. Masters Of Cinema. Arrow. Criterion. Owner of an ADHD/AuDHD brain. Manual not included.
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The new PTA, second time around, in 70mm.
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One Battle After Another After Another
So, Filmhouse was showing ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in 70mm, and Fiona hadn’t seen it, and I was tired of her asking “What is that?” every time I brought it up, so we went and she …
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November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The new PTA, second time around, in 70mm.
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RIP #JackShepherd, the best (or, at least, the most human) #Renfield in any adaptation of #Dracula you care to mention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0m...
Count Dracula BBC 1977 - Renfield scene
YouTube video by cihy13
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November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
RIP #JackShepherd, the best (or, at least, the most human) #Renfield in any adaptation of #Dracula you care to mention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0m...
God help me. I want one of these.
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
God help me. I want one of these.
This is unblievably disturbing. #freebirth #theguardian #antiscience www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is unblievably disturbing. #freebirth #theguardian #antiscience www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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I've invented a cure for the #commoncold. Here's the recipe. Ingredients - Tesco Finest Chicken Stock, Baxters French Onion Soup, fresh bulbs of garlic, extra virgin olive oil. Roast a garlic bulb in the oven with olive oil (wrap in tin foil), then combine ingedients. Voila! Almost instant health!
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I've invented a cure for the #commoncold. Here's the recipe. Ingredients - Tesco Finest Chicken Stock, Baxters French Onion Soup, fresh bulbs of garlic, extra virgin olive oil. Roast a garlic bulb in the oven with olive oil (wrap in tin foil), then combine ingedients. Voila! Almost instant health!
An evocative moment from #TheTerror Season 1, a show which I can't stop going on about even though it was dropped 7 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEl...
The Terror S01E04 Exclusive Sneak Peek | 'Last Sunset' | Rotten Tomatoes TV
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November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
An evocative moment from #TheTerror Season 1, a show which I can't stop going on about even though it was dropped 7 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEl...
This is favourite in our house, #ElishaCookJr getting very excited on his drums in Phantom Lady. #Noirvember
22. Favorite Musical Performance in a Film Noir
Everything about this is GOLD, from the set-up, to the direction, to the energy that you can feel resonate from the celluloid, to Elisha Cook Jr.'s expression which is frankly, unsettling.
#NoirvemberChallenge #Noirvember #FilmNoir
Phantom Lady (1944)
Everything about this is GOLD, from the set-up, to the direction, to the energy that you can feel resonate from the celluloid, to Elisha Cook Jr.'s expression which is frankly, unsettling.
#NoirvemberChallenge #Noirvember #FilmNoir
Phantom Lady (1944)
You Like Jive? 1944 Phantom Lady Jazz Drum Solo Robert Siodmak Ella Raines Elisha Cook Jr. Film Noir
YouTube video by BS
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November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is favourite in our house, #ElishaCookJr getting very excited on his drums in Phantom Lady. #Noirvember
D wrote about #BorisKarloff in The Bells a while back. I'd never seen him in a silent before. dcairns.wordpress.com/2018/10/28/t...
The Sunday Intertitle: Your sins shall find you out
The reassuring smile of Boris Karloff Weird coincidences. We have a great view of the moon from our front window, in the early evening. During the full moon, we had a double bill of John Carpenter&…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
D wrote about #BorisKarloff in The Bells a while back. I'd never seen him in a silent before. dcairns.wordpress.com/2018/10/28/t...
@realgdt.bsky.social I'm mortified by that overfamiliar post. I sent it when I was not quite well (mood disorder) and my ADHD impulse control problems weren't being managed. I wanted to take it back shortly after I sent it but it was too late. I'm sorry and ashamed.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@realgdt.bsky.social I'm mortified by that overfamiliar post. I sent it when I was not quite well (mood disorder) and my ADHD impulse control problems weren't being managed. I wanted to take it back shortly after I sent it but it was too late. I'm sorry and ashamed.
I'm late to the #BorisKarloff #birthday party, which was yesterday, but by a strange coincidence I rewatched The Bells (1926) on Sunday in which Boris does a startlingly realistic impression of Dr Caligari. It's worse when he smiles.
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm late to the #BorisKarloff #birthday party, which was yesterday, but by a strange coincidence I rewatched The Bells (1926) on Sunday in which Boris does a startlingly realistic impression of Dr Caligari. It's worse when he smiles.
Well this is terrifying.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Well this is terrifying.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria #RSD. Probably the worst part about having #ADHD/Autism. www.youtube.com/shorts/3toII...
New episode out now!
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November 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria #RSD. Probably the worst part about having #ADHD/Autism. www.youtube.com/shorts/3toII...
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A #neurotypical NT friend asked me rececently what being #ADHD #neurodivergent ND was like. I told her it was like being flayed alive (all the overwhelming sensory stuff) then dragged around by a madman (my own oversensitised, overactive brain). Many NTs think you're making it up. They have no idea.
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A #neurotypical NT friend asked me rececently what being #ADHD #neurodivergent ND was like. I told her it was like being flayed alive (all the overwhelming sensory stuff) then dragged around by a madman (my own oversensitised, overactive brain). Many NTs think you're making it up. They have no idea.
Segments of #Universal's first sound horror movie #TheCatCreeps discovered! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWaE...
Films historians excited about 1930 footage discovered at IU Library Archives
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November 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Segments of #Universal's first sound horror movie #TheCatCreeps discovered! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWaE...
#Podcast #Christmas #TheTerror #ScottOfTheAntarctic #TheRedTent #film #snow #nature #survival #horror #polarexpeditions #extremeweather Repost because I realised you couldn't see it properly. soundcloud.com/fiona-watson...
ShadowcastFrozenWastes1
podcast
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November 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
#Podcast #Christmas #TheTerror #ScottOfTheAntarctic #TheRedTent #film #snow #nature #survival #horror #polarexpeditions #extremeweather Repost because I realised you couldn't see it properly. soundcloud.com/fiona-watson...
#JackTheRipper #truecrime #film #tv #comics #graphicnovels #AlanMoore #horror #serialkillers #conspiracytheories #Victorian #History #podcast Our show on Jack The Ripper films. The #Edinburgh police arrive mid broadcast but let us off with a caution about pod-crime. soundcloud.com/fiona-watson...
AutumnOfTerror
Listen to AutumnOfTerror by Fiona Watson #np on #SoundCloud
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November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#JackTheRipper #truecrime #film #tv #comics #graphicnovels #AlanMoore #horror #serialkillers #conspiracytheories #Victorian #History #podcast Our show on Jack The Ripper films. The #Edinburgh police arrive mid broadcast but let us off with a caution about pod-crime. soundcloud.com/fiona-watson...
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
Would anyone out there like to hear our podcast about #JackTheRipper movies.
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Would anyone out there like to hear our podcast about #JackTheRipper movies.
#IrvingBerlin #MadelineKahn #BusterKeaton This song was reputedly written about Buster Keaton. Irving Berlin had shares in Keaton's company and knew him reasonably well. Still waters run deep, eh?
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Madeline Kahn - You'd Be Surprised!
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November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#IrvingBerlin #MadelineKahn #BusterKeaton This song was reputedly written about Buster Keaton. Irving Berlin had shares in Keaton's company and knew him reasonably well. Still waters run deep, eh?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVtT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVtT...
#BelaLugosi #Monogram I can't believe D watched this without me. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/t...
To Wong Fu, Thanks for Nothing
“[…] this madmanchurian,” says a bloke within minutes of the commencement of THE MYSTERIOUS MR. WONG, “suggested” by a story by cult author Harry Stephen Keeler and di…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#BelaLugosi #Monogram I can't believe D watched this without me. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/t...
Last night I completed the task of proof reading @dcairns.bsky.social's latest Whitsuntide novel. He's been at me for months to complete this so he can publish. So what does he do instead? Look at back copies of #FamousMonstersOfFilmland instead. I ask you! www.amazon.co.uk/stores/David...
David Cairns: books, biography, latest update
Follow David Cairns and explore their bibliography from Amazon's David Cairns Author Page.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Last night I completed the task of proof reading @dcairns.bsky.social's latest Whitsuntide novel. He's been at me for months to complete this so he can publish. So what does he do instead? Look at back copies of #FamousMonstersOfFilmland instead. I ask you! www.amazon.co.uk/stores/David...
#MentalHealth No shit Sherlock. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Electroconvulsive therapy may have more adverse effects than thought
Study calls for depression treatment to be suspended for more research after reports of heart problems and emotional blunting
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November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
#MentalHealth No shit Sherlock. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Breaking the Keaton Code. When #BusterKeaton was 18, he kept a coded diary which wasn't broken until fairly recently. The results are hilarious. I love Buster's vaguely threatening message to the unfortunate Mr Poland and I'm sending time travelling healing vibes to Keith's nether regions.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Breaking the Keaton Code. When #BusterKeaton was 18, he kept a coded diary which wasn't broken until fairly recently. The results are hilarious. I love Buster's vaguely threatening message to the unfortunate Mr Poland and I'm sending time travelling healing vibes to Keith's nether regions.