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Joe Lipsett
@joelipsett.bsky.social
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Film critic (he/him)
🎙️: Horror Queers, Murder Made Fiction, Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr, Anatomy of a Scream Pod Squad
✏️: Bloody Disgusting, QueerHorrorMovies
🏆: Member GALECA, CCA, TFCA
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Time for a “new to me” Jennifer Lynch: 2012’s CHAINED
A dark haired woman in a grey sweater is dragged by the neck by a larger man in a tan jacket
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Time to start the fictionalized version of THE STAIRCASE
A man in blue sweater and glasses (l) hugs himself next to a woman with blonde hair holding a white teacup
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Tonight FYC watch:

THE PLAGUE
A shot from the under the surface of a group of pre-teen boys diving under the water
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Tonight’s FYC watch:

AFTER THE HUNT
A woman with Blonde hair in a black trenchcoat grips the face of a Black woman in a blue denim shirt
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I’m ready to party
Now watching: HEDDA
A stunning Black woman wearing a low cut silver dress and white gloves touches her necklace in a crowded party
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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🤷‍♂️
A Letterboxd review of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein: 3 stars “Beautiful Gowns, Lovely Men”
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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This is a milestone physical media release for me 😍
The Criterion cover of Jonathan Glazer’s movie Birth, featuring a close-up of Nicole Kidman’s face, her eyes brimming with tears
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Watching a tale of two wigs in THE HUNTING WIVES.
A buxom blonde-brunette in a deep green v-cut off the shoulder dress with an *atrocious* wig A man with an obvious curly wig under a beanie answers the door in a white floral button-up
October 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Watching the HANNIBAL S02 finale like…
October 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Well, this should be interesting…
A woman with the upper body of a human and the torso down of a snake wrapped in a red ribbon
October 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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You could kill someone with this tome! 😂
October 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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In advance of #MonsterTheEdGeinStory, lemme just pop this on real quick
The poster for Ed Gein, featuring half of a regular man’s face and half him wearing a skin mask
September 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Time to revisit DARK HARVEST for @hkhspod.bsky.social
A teenage boy standing in a corner field in a white t-shirt and denim jacket, holding a pitchfork, with white and black skull face makeup
September 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Watching little seen/discussed Gein title DERANGED and we are off to a great start with this wig line
A close up of an old woman’s face with a very obvious black wig line across her forehead
September 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Lemme just throw POSSESSOR on for a hot sec
Two bodies lie prone on medical tables next to each other with bizarre headsets over their faces
August 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Here we go again 😅
A dark haired man with his shirt open to expose his bloody chest stares at two deformed female-coded creatures dressed in leather
August 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The way this movie is about to become @jennferatu.bsky.social and @genadoesthings.bsky.social’s whole personality
The poster for Netflix’s Frankenstein, featuring Oscar Isaac standing with his back to camera in a dilapidated room with the title in cursive across the middle
August 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Spent the day at the ROM’s Auschwitz exhibit and I gotta say, there were more than a few uncomfortable reminders of what a certain administration is doing (or aims to do)
A picture of a ballot for the 1936 German parliamentary election that only lists one candidate: Adolf Hitler
August 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Starting the weekend with Jennifer Lynch’s SURVEILLANCE, a movie I remember liking back in the day, but don’t recall much of
A woman in a dark suit and white collared shirt sleeps in the passenger seat of a car (slightly out of focus) while a man in the same outfit purses his lips in the driver’s seat
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I thought it was a swimming movie, but it’s actually a track film. 😅
Still fits the bill for @thequeergaze.bsky.social 😂
An overhead shot of two topless boys clutching onto each other in the water
August 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I have such fond memories of Sundance’s ANATOMY OF A SCENE.

It taught me a ton about the technical elements and thought process that goes into the smallest details of a production.

I guess YouTube vids have taken this over, but it was nice to have the crew’s insight recorded for posterity.
A promo for Sundance Channel’s Anatomy of a Scene, featuring a white man in a baseball cap sitting in a chair (bottom right) below text of the title and the time it aired
August 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Starting the day with some gay.
The poster for Riley, featuring two shirtless teen boys sitting on the roof of a car in front of a football field at dusk
July 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Nobody puts Helena in a box.

Now Watching:
The poster for Boxing Helena: a black rectangle with a blonde naked man stretched over a box with a dark haired woman with a sheet covering her midsection inside
July 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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A lot of things suck, but at least I own Pécheurs
The 4K of the movie Sinners, featuring two Black male twins in front of a yellow/red setting sun with two women - one white presenting, one Black - below.
July 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Haven’t seen this in 20+ years, soooo…
The bright yellow poster for crime film The Way of the Gun, featuring an ensemble cast in black and white in a loose V under the title
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM