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Alain Elliott

@wightblood.bsky.social

180 followers 330 following 210 posts

Writer for hire & author of Home Sweet Home, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas & Everyone Was Dying and, Wight of the Living Dead Also retro gaming/Nintendo, Arsenal F.C., all things horror & other ramblings

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · Oct 28

Looking for more people to follow so these are the things I will be mostly posting about:
#retrogaming
#N64
#Nintendo
#NintendoSwitch
#Horror
#HorrorBooks
#HorrorMovies
#Arsenal
#IndieAuthors

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 1h

Guess my flavour sour beer time
#beersour

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 22h

Might have to get this. Looks fantastic and like something I'd love

Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social · 9d

Want to mix up your holiday flavors this Halloween season? I've got a whole chapter dedicated to horror movies in the new edition of Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas. #filmsky #booksky 📽️ 📚 preorder-movie-little-christmas.carrd.co

One-sheet for Black Christmas (1974) aka Silent Night, Evil Night - the US distributor originally changed the name so audiences wouldn't think it was a movie about Black people, no lie.

One-sheet for Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out)

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 22h

The comedy in this always takes me by surprise. It's all a bit silly in the best possible way

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 22h

I own but have never actually watched it, soooo, why is White Christmas nit a Christmas movie??

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 22h

Great list but it's somehow missing Home Alone?!
I'll be doing a top or maybe 50 this year

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 22h

I've started a Christmas horror facebook page! So if you want to check out old reviews of Christmas horror plus news on all things new, please join and check it out!
www.facebook.com/groups/69740...

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 1d

Good question and not one I'd thought about before! I'd say scheduling

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 1d

Holidate and Love Hard were surprisingly good. Was Happiest Season Netflix? I enjoyed that one too

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 1d

There was a brief moment when I thought this was talking about a sequel to the excellent Nicolas Cage festive film The Family Man! Still looking forward to this though

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 1d

#StardewValley or #AnimalCrossing
Which one should I get?
#NintendoSwitch

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 4d

Organising some more #Christmas physical media. Today some books!

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely. Glad you loved it too. I hope plenty more people check it out, it deserves to be seen

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 7d

As a big horror and Nintendo 64 fan, this looks very very cool

Mark Kurko @kurkogames.bsky.social · 8d

🎃 Banjo Kazooie Halloween 2025🎃
youtu.be/64tnwQ8la1M

Banjo Kazooie Halloween 2025

YouTube video by Mark Kurko

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 7d

Caught a preview of I Swear on Monday and I highly recommend it. Important subject matter, fantastic performances all round and very funny
#ISwear

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · Jun 29

Director William Stead has filmed a small budget horror movie, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST CHRISTMAS, that stars Lauren Staerck, Shayli Reagan and Julia Quayle. It's likely to debut on various FAST streamers this holiday season.

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Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 11d

For people like me, who bought the Nintendo 64 on day one, what was the official line about the price drop 2 months later and the freebie?
I know some people got Mario Kart 64, I got a controller. I was 13 so my mum did all the complaining to get it!
#RetroGaming #Nintendo64 #N64 #retrogames

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 11d

My Nintendo 64 collection

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 11d

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 12d

Arsenal really unlucky not to be 2 up at half time. Would like to see an early 2nd half goal to make things a bit simpler

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 12d

That's interesting know. I've found similar results on a smaller scale

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 12d

Delayed and cancelled trains meant an almost 5 hour journey to London but Refused were awesome at Brixton Academy last night!

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 12d

The charity shop told me DVDs and blu-rays were free, so I took a few!

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 15d

I know it's supposed to be a horror movie a day in October but I'm setting up myself up for failure if I try that. So here's what I'm going for. A good mix I think. Plus some on streaming I'm sure
#Halloween2025 #Horror

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 18d

I think we'll start with eze, odegaard, saka and gyorekes. So even if we're a little cautious we should create plenty enough to win

Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social · 18d

This sounds very cool!

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 20d

Christmas anime series SANDA streams on Amazon Prime Video on October 3.