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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 2h

When is a werewolf #Halloween💀 #horror #movie not a werewolf movie? When it's...

'Wolfen' (1981)

"The film ends with a choice between plausible or a poetic explanations... bloody, poetic, political, heartrending & hauntingly beautiful"

my #review @framerated.co.uk 🐺 medium.com/framerated/w...

a darkly beautiful and most majestic wolf

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 6h

with new album incoming, a timely overview of Peter Milton Walsh & The Apartments - for me, there are so many precious memories attached to this entire discography💕

Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · 12h

New Substack Post. open.substack.com/pub/davegran...

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 16h

Po-Chih Leong's 'The Island' (1985) • sharp socio-political parable or derivative slasher fare?

"unsettling snapshot of Hong Kong’s collective psyche in the mid-'80s" - read my #Bluray #movie #review of Eureka! Masters of Cinema new 2K restoration:

@framerated.co.uk 🏝️ medium.com/framerated/t...

four film stills: a mask made of leaves peers out from among foliage; Hoi-Lun Au as Phyllis, Amy Wai Kwan Kwok as Cindy & Lai-Seung Yuen as Po - three girls looking distressed; and close up of Lai-Seung Yuen as a tearful Po dressed in red traditional Chinese bridal regalia; two of the brothers on a small barge that carries a red coffin across a pool with the third brother at the top of a dead tree, gesturing to the sky.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 22h

RIP Drew Struzan, poster #artist extraordinaire & creator of iconic cinematic imagery such as these two beautiful examples...

tribute via Hollywood Reporter: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... #movies

poster art by Drew Struzan for Blade Runner - a montage of very good portraits of the different main characters - and Pan's Labyrinth - the horned creature holds a young woman in a comforting embrace

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 1d

lovely visuals & plenty of promise... so long as personal 'soapy' drama doesn't drown the plot 🖖 #StarTrek as been very good at getting the balance right many times before🤞

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Official Trailer | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | NYCC 2025

YouTube video by Star Trek

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 1d

'Death Would Be My Best Career Move' is a piece of fragile perfection. Peter Milton Walsh always finds beauty in the shadows ♥️ I love his gravitas & light lyrical touch🕯️

'Death Would Be My Best Career Move'

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Death Would Be My Best Career Move by The Apartments

YouTube video by The Apartments BAND

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𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 @framerated.co.uk · 1d

@remydean.bsky.social reviewed THE ISLAND on Blu-ray from Eureka www.framerated.co.uk/island-1985/

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 1d

#Halloween🎃 #Horror #Movies top tips...

Mario Bava's 'Kill, Baby… Kill!' (1966) is a suspenseful ghost story that sits just as comfortably alongside the Gothic mysteries of Sherlock Holmes as it does with classic Corman or Hammer.

Read my #review @framerated.co.uk 🕸️ medium.com/framerated/k...

four film stills: Fabienne Dali as Ruth adds ingredients to her steaming witch's brew in a bowl; a young girl in white, played by Valerio Valeri, holds a white sphere as she stands in a room near a suit of armour; Erika Blanc as Monica is clutching a creepy doll and looking terrified; Giovanna Galletti as the unkempt Baroness Graps sitting in a spooky room with lots of dust and spider webs.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 4d

Some fascinating facts about spider eyes & although many have poor definition, some species can see with clarity comparable to cats or owls ("Wouldn't've minded seeing an owl.")

How does the world look through a spider’s eyes?
@uk.theconversation.com 🕷️ theconversation.com/how-does-the... #spiders

photograph via The Conversation of a pale jumping spider with shiny black eyes - "Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are among the few invertebrates with large camera-like eyes like those seen in most vertebrates (including us). Their eyesight is sharper than any other spider and is comparable to that of pigeons or cats. Portia africanus can image up to about 75 cm, relying on shape and colour to identify prey. Jumping spiders detect movement with their secondary eyes, which give a blurry image. The spider then turns and focuses its primary eyes onto the object. These give a sharp image. The spider then uses its lateral eyes to judge distance, and when close enough (2-3 cm) it jumps."

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 4d

another timely RP as #Halloween🐺 approaches...

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · Apr 6

get to know me in 3... Films (Horror 1/3)

'Brotherhood of the Wolf' (2001) Christophe Gans' take on the Beast of Gévaudan in a fantastic martial-arts folk horror

medium.com/framerated/b...

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) • 4K Ultra HD [StudioCanal]

In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend are sent to the Gévaudan province to investigate a beast…

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 4d

timely RP as #Halloween🧙‍♀️ approaches...

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · Apr 6

get to know me in 3... Films (Horror 2/3)

'Inferno' (1980) is a gorgeous centrepiece in Dario Argento's 'Three Mothers' trilogy & "takes the 'don’t go in there' trope to a new level..."

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Inferno (1980) • 40 Years Later

An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings…

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 4d

timely RP as #Halloween💀 approaches...

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · Apr 6

get to know me in 3 Films (Horror 3/3)

'The Abominable Dr Phibes' (1971) a work of art that "...belongs as much to the world of Jeeves & Wooster as it does Hammer horror"

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) • 50 Years Later

Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife’s death…

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 4d

on #WorldMigratoryBird day check the arrivals & departures board for some highlights to look out for in your area of the UK - there are some big ones: swans 🦢 ducks 🦆 geese... or would you rather knot?

via @rspb.bsky.social 🪶 www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...

photograph via RSPB of a Knot - small pale grey and brown wading type bird

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 4d

🪨 ⚔️ 🐉

near-complete #fossil skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as new species of ichthyosaur, the "sword-dragon"

via BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

photograph by Dean Lomax of the elongate fossil skull with very large eye socket and long narrow snout with many tiny teeth

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Signifier @signifier.bsky.social · 5d

'From Beyond the Grave — Unearthing Japan’s Forgotten Photographer'

@remydean.bsky.social finds a haunting beauty in the unique #art of Ukai Gyokusen which has finally surfaced after being, very literally, buried in the past

🔲 medium.com/signifier/fr...

#photography #ArtHistory #Japan #history

very damaged ambrotype photograph by Ukai Gyokusen - the image of a man with a shaven head can be discerned, a head and shoulders portrait, but a quarter of his face is obscured by damage to the image

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 5d

valley mist & low cloud lifted with sunrise revealing a beautiful bright autumn day - warm sunshine, hardly a breeze & lots of 🐞 ladybirds, scouting for somewhere to overwinter, perhaps...

[pic 9 a.m] 🌤️

+more #Moelwyns #landscape #photography from #Eryri:
remydean.blogspot.com/p/moelwyns.h...

landscape photograph by Remy Dean of a series of valleys and distant mountains lit with patches of sunshine and shadows cast from low mists and parting clouds

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They 🐍 @themself.bsky.social · Sep 6

💃 dual 💖 nature 🌸 of the goddess 💃

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · Sep 6

MARiA seems to be going through some bother, let's hope things get clearer after the dust settles for all involved - here she shares screen with #Yaorenmao 🧸 #咬人貓 aka Ririchiyo the Biting Cat for #Caturday 😻 more power to the both of them 🫶

宵闇胡蝶 🦋 Midnight Butterfly
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【りりちよ・メイリア】宵闇胡蝶[Yoiyami Kocho] OFFiCiAL【踊っちゃってみた第10弾】

YouTube video by GARNiDELiA

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 5d

correction: 3 weekends to #Halloween👻

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · Oct 7

"Uh-oh, dropped the white flask!" *

4 weekends to Halloween🎃 so revisiting one-frame horror stories from Brian Coldrick's long-running 'Behind You' series of illustrations via: briancoldrick.tumblr.com

* reference to 'This, That and the Other Book 3: This Citadel, Wherein the Elfyn Royal Reside'

Illustration of a child standing in a store room, he has dropped one of the vessels taken from many on the shelves. The caption reads: "he had only wanted to look inside... it was just full of dust." Behind him, a tall translucent skeletal figure is taking form, it is wreathed in a long spine and wears four, horned masks...

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𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 @framerated.co.uk · 6d

On Medium, @remydean.bsky.social reviewed the Daiei Vol.2 box set of Japanese Ghost Stories from @filmsradiance.bsky.social medium.com/framerated/d...

‘Daiei Gothic Vol.2: Japanese Ghost Stories’ — sumptuous essentials of Japan’s supernatural cinema

Classic Japanese ghost stories brought to the screen by masters of the genre, Tokuzo Tanaka and Kimiyoshi Yasuda.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 6d

amazing staging for two phenomenal talents ⛵ recorded live at last year's Mid-Autumn Moon Viewing Festival Gala 🌕 beautiful poetic song - conjures #Xianxia poetics & a tide of deep emotions 🌊

Ghost Huang x Dimash: 'I Came To Honor Mortal Life'
仰世而来 🎶 youtu.be/x2muOlHZVtA?...

Dimash & Huang Xiaoyun - «I Came To Honor Mortal Life» (CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Party 2024)

YouTube video by Dimash Qudaibergen

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 6d

...and again, it seems!
'What Has the #ECHR Ever Done for Us?'

Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · Jun 19

it's time we all watched this (again)

Patrick Stewart in the sketch: 'What Has the #ECHR Ever Done for Us?' A video that was once satire that's now closer to sad reality 😅

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Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us?

After Theresa May says Britain should leave the European convention on human rights, Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough and Sarah Solemani expose the proble...

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 8d

Whatever you think of RTD, he knows television and knows the warning flares need to be sent up. Television and journalism need to start questioning and pushing back. Pushing back hard.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 8d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

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Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · 7d

To acknowledge Halloween/October, here’s a list of all my Hammer film reviews you can read on Medium. medium.com/@frank_c_col... #Hammer #Horror #Filmsky 🧛🧟‍♂️🎃👻👹💀

List: Hammer Films | Curated by Frank Collins | Medium

Hammer Films · Reviews of films made by the legendary British studio. · 13 stories on Medium

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 7d

Daiei Gothic Vol.2: Japanese Ghost Stories (1960–1970)

3 sumptuous essentials of Japan’s supernatural #cinema for #Halloween 👹 my #review of new @filmsradiance.bsky.social #Bluray box set

Demon of Mount Oe
The Haunted Castle
Ghost of Kasane Swamp

@framerated.co.uk 👻 medium.com/framerated/d...

a set of nine images in three columns: first column shows the slip-cases for Blu-rays and to the right of each is two film stills from the respective release: Kazuo Hasegawa as Shuten-dôji embraces Sachiko Hidari as Ibaraki-dôji in ‘The Demon of Mount Oe’ - both wear white kimono; and Sachiko Hidari in partial demonic form as Ibaraki-dôji; a women's face lit by candlelight; a fierce black cat with outstretched front legs and bearing its teeth; a woman is shocked to see a disfigured face behind her, reflected in a circular mirror; a bald man's head is partially obscured by an illustrative splash of red, superimposed on the image.

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Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.social · 7d

'World's End Girlfriend' new song from Radwimps with a nicely shot MV 🏵️ sweet narrative (though if the guy had been 'stalking' the girl it would've landed differently) I note that roof spaces feature very often in Japan's media 🌃

ワールドエンドガールフレンド 🎶 youtu.be/PgRIBlMIGfo?...
#JPop #music

RADWIMPS - ワールドエンドガールフレンド [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by RADWIMPS

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