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Screaming Is the Only Useful Thing You Can Do 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @undercoverthumbsup.bsky.social · Oct 1

Horrorthon 2025 begins!

This year I'm rewatching films I've not seen for a long time.

Day #1 - Creepshow (1982)
George A. Romero
⭐⭐⭐⭐

Every story a banger, dripping in fantastic comic-book style lighting. Just a hoot.

Made this gif because young Joe Hill looks at horror with the same love I do.

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And that was 31 rewatches in October! What a month. I also watched the new V/H/S (not great) and the original Night of the Living Dead. Love horror so much.

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Day #31 - Ride With the Devil (1975)
Jack Starrett
⭐⭐⭐

Peter Fonda and Warren Oates as two motorcycle heads who drag their wives along on an RV trip to Aspen - they run into satanists and action ensues. I remember liking it way more, but it has its moments.

💥88/199
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Day #30 - Let the Right One In (2008)
Tomas Alfredson
⭐⭐⭐⭐

A beautiful, haunting gothic masterpiece. I actually forgot how much I love this film - it's so cold, and cruel and great. Beautifully shot and acted with a story that just fucking vibes.

🦇4/101
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Day #29 - The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Ken Russell
⭐⭐⭐⭐

Absolutely bat-shit and fun. Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amanda Donohoe (especially) throw themselves into a weird, wild world and commit to the bit as hard as possible. Ken Russell a UK treasure.

🚬3/63
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Day #28 - Cronos (1992)
Guillermo Del Toro
⭐⭐⭐½

A film about eternal life vs. love for younger generations and how the two are opposed. Beautifully shot and acted, some really entertaining characters/touches. A vampire film with a heart that beats.

🦇35/101
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Day #27 - Suspiria (1977)
Dario Argento
⭐⭐⭐⭐

My friends and I played the tune on our phones and jumped around waving our torches like maniacs in a tunnel in Kelvingrove Park shouting "WITCH", many moons ago. Substances may have been involved.

Film owns.

👹5/132
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Day #26 - The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Wes Craven
⭐⭐⭐½

A family road trip to California breaks down in the WRONG place. It's a grimy cannibal story - Wes peppers in some nastiness to the all-American family, which adds a lot of colour. A war between the classes?

🦴13/41
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Day #25 - Don't Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Roeg
⭐⭐⭐

I was excited about this, I remember it not particularly clicking with me when I was younger. I have to say it did slip away from me like a shadow across Venice on a re-watch, also. THAT ENDING, tho.

😵115/149
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Day #24 - Videodrome (1983)
David Cronenberg
⭐⭐⭐⭐

Come for the body horror but stay for the conspiracy and kink. So packed with interesting ideas, it transcends. CIA programming and technological effects on the human psyche...

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!

🧪 9/221
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Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 10d

The Your Party Scotland branch has deleted their account because a bunch of trans people asked why they are comfortable to work with so many transphobes.

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Day #23 - From Beyond (1986)
Stuart Gordon
⭐⭐⭐½

It's weird, it's sexy and it has bi-sexual lighting. Love Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft films - always adds a bit of off-kilter 80's weirdness that makes them so watchable.

📼 15/66
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Day #22 - [REC] (2007)
Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
⭐⭐⭐

I remember being blown away by this, not the best rewatch, but likely because of found footage burnout. A lot of shouting and shaky cam as people go "ruuuhhh" into the camera - amazing last 10 minutes!

📼 18/76
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Day #21 - The Hitcher (1986)
Robert Harmon
⭐⭐⭐⭐

A serial killing hitch-hiker decides to make a young man's life hell, trapping him in a twisted game of cat and mouse in a small Texas town.

Rutger Hauer helps deliver a thriller never to be forgotten.

👨‍💼 10/100
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Day #20 - Demons (1985)
Lamberto Bava
⭐⭐⭐½

A grimy eighties horror that tastes like American popcorn cooked on a Ferrari's engine fumes. Bava proves he can deliver teen-friendly scares and still make room for some insane blood and effects. Great ST, too!

🙀 10/78
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Day #19 - Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Robert Hiltzik
⭐⭐⭐½

It's 80s, it's camp, it has a bunch of creative kills and insane performances (Aunt Martha owns). I remember the first time I saw that final shot and it genuinely frightened me. The noise, the face, wow!

🔪 23/172
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Day #18 - Halloween III (1982)
Tommy Lee Wallace
⭐⭐⭐⭐

Don't listen to the Myers freaks, the Halloween films becoming an anthology series would have rocked. A sci-fi mystery with folk horror elements, truly strange ingredients and led by the great Tom Atkins.

🧪 26/221
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Day #17 - In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
John Carpenter
⭐⭐⭐½

Sam Neill in a Stephen King pastiche that works so damn well, incorporating cosmic horror and fun practical effects. A mystery that creeps under your skin with a perfect ending. Loads of scary fun.

👾 10/66
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Day #16 - The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Rob Zombie
⭐⭐⭐⭐

A love-letter to seventies cult movies and a commentary on the worshipping of serial killer outlaws and bounty hunters in Americana. It's very brutal, but the comedic moments peppered in go a long way.

🩸 11/94
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Day #15 - The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Jean Epstein
⭐⭐⭐⭐

This film is directed to hell and back, I utterly loved it when I first saw it and the rewatch was just as exciting. Superimposition, bold camera movement, close-ups, frenetic editing. Haunting.

📣 1/25
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 19d

#OtD 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8730...

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Day #14 - Ginger Snaps (2000)
John Fawcett
⭐⭐⭐½

A werewolf story with likeable outcast characters going through puberty is genius, and this has all the great hallmarks of 2000's school sub-culture! A hidden gem of a werewolf movie.

🐺 5/38
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Screaming Is the Only Useful Thing You Can Do 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @undercoverthumbsup.bsky.social · 20d

With the nights getting darker and cosy hobbies beckoning - has there been a better time to delve into GTA roleplay, on a welcoming and inclusive UK server? Usually active 8pm-til-late, it's like being in a soap opera or action movie! @happyfuntime.bsky.social
Check out some events HFT has lined up!

Community meeting at Hill Valley Church, every Thursday 9pm

Pub Quiz Night at Three Hawker Boys, 26th October

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 20d

People who side with the monsters who do this are monsters themselves

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Day #13 - Peeping Tom (1960)
Michael Powell
⭐⭐⭐⭐

Released the same year as 'Psycho' and just as good, should be celebrated as the massive influence it is - a sleazy, psychologically disturbing proto-slasher. Karlheinz Bohm's Mark is up there with Norman.

👨‍💼 9/100
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