Sammael the Desolate One
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Writer and film fanatic fond of black comedies, sci-fi, animation and films about dysfunctional families. https://sspthinksfilm.com He/him
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#31DaysofHorror Day 19 - The Woman in Black (1989). A low-key but incredibly eerie TV movie adaptation of Susan Hill’s chilling and melancholy story. It makes you wait for it, but it does feature a real change-your-shorts scare in the last act and a final image that will linger. #Horrorsky
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Couple of dicks arresting a protestor
#31DaysofHorror Day 18 - Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996). This looks quite striking and Doug Bradley is entertaining as ever as Pinhead, but the plot is incomprehensible nonsense and attempted expansion of the mythology just leaves you cold. #Horrorsky
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Who is a good boy? Is it the dog? Is it the film? Here's our review of the latest canine-focused horror movie, 'Good Boy'.
#filmsky #moviesky #horror #goodboy #dogs
Good Boy (2025) Review
Will the dog die, or will they save the day?
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#31DaysofHorror Day 17 - Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (2004). Or: A Canadian Werewolf in Rehab. This follow-up to the emo coming-of-age horror classic approaches real-world issues with maturity and livens things up with plenty of blood, body horror and gallows humour. #Horrorsky
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Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.
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#31DaysofHorror Day 16 - Frankenstein (2025). Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited passion project is a rich, layered and affectionate adaptation of Mary Shelley, with all of his usual visual motifs and a new Creature performance to beat in Jacob Elordi. #Horrorsky
#31DaysofHorror Day 15 - X: The Unknown (1956). This early sci-fi horror from Hammer borrows from Quatermass and mines nuclear paranoia to create something surprisingly tense and effective, arguably only let down when the radiation-hungry monster is finally revealed. #Horrorsky
Paranorman is still an amazing movie
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RIP to Drew Struzan, the man behind the most iconic film posters of all time, all by hand, all by skill and talent, and alwyas (as especially in the case of the 24hr completion of the poster for The Thing, without having seen the film), with a sprinkle of genius.
#Drewstruzan #filmsky #moviesky
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With this week marking what would have been Thatcher's 100th, I asked the local council in Grantham why they were holding ThatcherFest in her memory.

Fair play, the answer made me laugh:

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#31DaysofHorror Day 14 - The Witch’s Mirror/El espejo de la bruja (1962). This Mexican horror does a lot with its 75 minutes, going from occult scares to supernatural revenge to surprisingly gory mad science, all tied together by a gothic aesthetic and a macabre sense of humour. #Horrorsky
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For the Epsteinth time, swear her in
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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They could end this story a year or two BEFORE he first played Dracula on stage and they'd *still* need to cut 1/3 of the story out because people wouldn't believe one guy lived that much life.
#31DaysofHorror Day 13 - Carry on Screaming! (1966). One of the most consistently funny, and sharpest genre spoofs in the Carry On canon, with a prime Kenneth Williams turn and some killer one-liners. #Horrorsky
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Frights for all the family this week on SecondCut. In our haunted house this week are I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957), The Haunted Mansion (2003) and Paranorman (2012). Come join us live for spooky shenanigans for squirts and seniors.
#filmsky #moviesky #podcast #halloween #horror #familyhorror
#31DaysofHorror Day 12 - The First Purge (2018). The fourth Purge movie explores the origins of the annual night of legalised crime in a brash, fairly visceral action-horror. It’s not subtle, but feels more depressingly relevant with each passing year. #Horrorsky
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I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.
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celebrities as lord of the rings characters: thread
#31DaysofHorror Day 11 - Frankenstein (2015). Bernard Rose’s cyberpunk version of Frankenstein is gruesome, bleak and upsetting, bordering on nihilistic, while being one of the more faithful takes on the key moments from Shelley’s original text. #Horrorsky
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One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.