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Justin Sheppherd
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UK/English (well, Scouse, which is almost the same thing)
#TheFilmCrowd
Old horror films/comics/telly.
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Black-and-white photo of THE GOONS (when they were down to three, after Michael Bentine left). SPIKE MILLIGAN is on the left, facing right, looking at PETER SELLERS, who is facing left. They both appear to be trying to make the other laugh while keeping their own faces straight. It's not going well. HARRY SECOMBE is standing between them, facing the camera, with a straight face. One of them is holding up a teacup and saucer; we can't see which of them is doing it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

I *might* be OK, as long as no one slugs him, or slips him a mickey...
Black-and-white publicity shot for the 1980's TV series PHILIP MARLOWE, PRIVATE EYE. Powers Boothe (as Marlowe) in crumpled jacket and fedora, standing outside his office. The words "PHILIP MARLOWE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR" are written across the frosted window set into the door.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Why yes; they *are* all Nicolas Cage movies. Why do you ask?
poster for the film CON AIR. Poster for the film ADAPTATION poster for the film MOM AND DAD. Poster for the film DREAM SCENARIO.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Udo Kier, 1944-2025
#RIP, you one-in-a-million.
Udo Kier as Dracula in BLOOD FOR DRACULA. Udo Kier as Frankenstein in FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN. Udo Kier in MELANCHOLIA. Udo Kier in SWAN SONG.
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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A movie that takes place where you're from.

NO SURRENDER (1985), a blistering dark comedy about the futility of hatred, set in a run-down nightclub in Liverpool, one New Year's Eve.
Black-and-white lobby card for the 1985 Liverpool-set comedy film NO SURRENDER. We're in the run-down nightclub in which the film is set, with the bar in the background. Actors MICHAEL ANGELIS, BERNARD HILL (both in dark evening suits and bow ties) and JOANNE WHALLEY (in a white dress), are looking out-of-shot to our right, with "WTF?" or "Oh, God; what now?" looks on their faces.
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Happy (extremely delayed) #FrightfulFriday, Barry!
Also happy "I just remembered Jeffrey Combs is in THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS" Sunday!
#filmsky #horrorsky
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🎵I don't want
Anybody else
When I think about you
I touch myself...🎵
The Pope, rocking the mic.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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🎵When I was just a baby
My momma told me "Son...
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die...🎵
The Pope, looking like he's singing into a microphone.
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Yep. Uncredited, but his character is called "Phil"
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part of Robert Quarry's filmography, including an uncredited turn in HOUSE OF BAMBOO.
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Forgot to mention; #TheFilmCrowd favourite Cameron Mitchell!
Last seen by us in Mario Bava's BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, if I remember correctly.
shot of Cameron Mitchell from Mario Bava's BLOOD AND BLACK LACE.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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For anyone unsure what "Pachinko" is, it's a form of low-stakes gambling, based around machine that are not dissimilar to the western "Bagatelle" toy, that is wildly popular in Japan, taking the same space as slot machines do over here.
A photo:
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An old Pachinko machine.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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And the theme for December, at least with MY choices, will be "A Very Barry* Crapmas" ;)
#TheFilmCrowd

*Yes; THAT Barry is back!
photo of film maker Barry Mahon, in an RAF uniform, standing beside a WWII fighter plane with a big grin on his face.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Proving there's a Jess Franco film for virtually any prompt ;)
OK; this one's a bit of a turkey, but it does have some Franco regulars in it, so not COMPLETELY worthless...
DVD cover for Jess Franco's 1971 plane crash / jungle survival movie X312: FLIGHT TO HELL.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The one-and-only Michael Ripper. One of THOSE faces in British cinema and television, who was absolutely everywhere, though rarely in large roles. But he always gave everything, no matter how small the role.
Most famous for a ton of smaller/medium-size roles in Hammer Horror movies.
Signed black-and-white photo of British actor Michael Ripper, wearing a dark suit and smiling to the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Well, *A* top 4 80's films. The "low-budget horror/sf" edition ;)
Poster art for the 1981 classic ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. Poster art for the 1987 vampire western NEAR DARK. Poster art for Stuart Gordon's classic horror/comedy RE-ANIMATOR. Blu-ray cover for the low-budget sf classic TRANCERS.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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'tis the season, so I'm very tempted to choose one of my favourite Noirs, but I'll also always take the opportunity to mention a Jess Franco film. So...
Cover for the Redemption Blu-ray of Jess Franco's GRITOS EN LA NOCHE (aka THE AWFUL DOCTOR ORLOFF - that 2nd "f" comes and goes)
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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THE FALLING (2014)
A mystery with a point. Kind of "Picnic At hanging Rock" with 1960's schoolgirls, but also not. Great work from Carol Morley. And that cast; fantastic.
Poster for the 2014 mystery/coming-of-age/chiller film THE FALLING. A bunch of teenage girls in 1960's British school uniforms are sat on a grassy incline in a forest clearing, while the faces of two of the girls, played by Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh, can be seen, seemingly formed out of the branches above the other girls.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Yep. Phew!
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Ray Liotta in his blue-tinted sauna (and terrifyingly skimpy budgie-smugglers) in REVOLVER.
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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This one sort of counts twice ;)
Publicity photo of legendary actor Humphrey (DeForest) Bogart in the film role that made him a star, as villain Duke Mantee in the 1936 film THE PETRIFIED FOREST. He's in classic 30's gangster attire; dark waistcoat over lighter shirt, dark pinstripe pants, cigar in grinning mouth, and he has a rifle on his lap.
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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A personal favourite film.
Colourised lobby card for the classic dark fantasy movie from The Val Lewton Cycle THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE. Simone Simon (as "Irena") is holding a very sad-looking Ann Carter (as "Amy). The ad line, which woefully misrepresents the film, reads "The Black Menace Creeps Again!"
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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"...MATRON!"
Image of Kenneth Williams from the British comedy film CARRY ON CRUISING. He's dressed in the white dress uniform of an officer on a cruise ship, and the title of the film can be seen in red block capitals to the left of him.
November 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Clint JINX!
(CLINX?)
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double DIRTY HARRY reference on BlueSky.
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Evening, all.
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#Noirvember
#RobertRyan
Title card for the 1952 Film Noir ON DANGEROUS GROUND. The title is superimposed in white over a black-and-white shot of a city scene at night, and in the pouring rain.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Tetris Attack. A late SNES game, translated and reskinned from the Japanese game Panel De Pon. A block matcher, which I was obsessed with, way back when, and which I do still play.
In-game shot from the SNES game TETRIS ATTACK.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Picked at random from my hernia-inducingly large CD collection ;)
Close-up shot of my copy of The album VIENNA by Ultravox, with the edge of my left thumb just visible on the far left, and casting a slight shadow over the picture.
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM