Justinallec807
@justinallec807.bsky.social
NWO based. Books, bikes, boulders, bloodbaths, bowls, blastbeats. Dad, husband, horror writer. He/him. Writing at justinallec.ca
Big enough to right the leaning tower.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Big enough to right the leaning tower.
The reinforcement of his perspective really works well throughout without going full black and white barking. Indy's knowledge of the situation is very diff from what the clues/conventions tell us - he's anxious bc his master is acting weird/doesn't smell right, not bc of a possession.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The reinforcement of his perspective really works well throughout without going full black and white barking. Indy's knowledge of the situation is very diff from what the clues/conventions tell us - he's anxious bc his master is acting weird/doesn't smell right, not bc of a possession.
2025 rush
Mileage will vary, but I liked it, because Indy is a very good boy: make a boring-ass haunting story new by committing to the perspective (no expo dump, whooo!), then getting surreal and effectively scary in the back half. Some doggo betrayal (and cold treatment) keep the feels up.
Mileage will vary, but I liked it, because Indy is a very good boy: make a boring-ass haunting story new by committing to the perspective (no expo dump, whooo!), then getting surreal and effectively scary in the back half. Some doggo betrayal (and cold treatment) keep the feels up.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
2025 rush
Mileage will vary, but I liked it, because Indy is a very good boy: make a boring-ass haunting story new by committing to the perspective (no expo dump, whooo!), then getting surreal and effectively scary in the back half. Some doggo betrayal (and cold treatment) keep the feels up.
Mileage will vary, but I liked it, because Indy is a very good boy: make a boring-ass haunting story new by committing to the perspective (no expo dump, whooo!), then getting surreal and effectively scary in the back half. Some doggo betrayal (and cold treatment) keep the feels up.
Two recent Tynion (and a ton of others) GNs. Exquisite Corpses is like 'Purge x Ahnold Running Man' so mostly fancy killers + victims, but it's got potential. Let this One be a Devil is a cool historical look at the Jersey Devil, kinda overlapping meta/folk tales, neat approach, done in one book.
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Two recent Tynion (and a ton of others) GNs. Exquisite Corpses is like 'Purge x Ahnold Running Man' so mostly fancy killers + victims, but it's got potential. Let this One be a Devil is a cool historical look at the Jersey Devil, kinda overlapping meta/folk tales, neat approach, done in one book.
"Don't look at me! I'm hideous!"
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Don't look at me! I'm hideous!"
Driving the family sedan straight into a black hole of violence. @blacktopkid.bsky.social burns best intentions and leaves only ashes.
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Driving the family sedan straight into a black hole of violence. @blacktopkid.bsky.social burns best intentions and leaves only ashes.
Oh did you say space opera *and* Culture?
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Oh did you say space opera *and* Culture?
imo, there's no 'elevated horror' of the 2010s without this bleak monster ruining the contest before it's begun. Unrepentantly bleak on all levels, unreal ache from Maskall, Smiley, Buring (unsung scream queen), tactile violence (hammer time), an ending that slams your fingers in the door.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
imo, there's no 'elevated horror' of the 2010s without this bleak monster ruining the contest before it's begun. Unrepentantly bleak on all levels, unreal ache from Maskall, Smiley, Buring (unsung scream queen), tactile violence (hammer time), an ending that slams your fingers in the door.
"BLOOD AND DEATH ARE WAITING
LIKE A RAVEN IN THE SKY
I WAS BORN TO DIE!!!"
- Manowar, 'Hail and Kill'
LIKE A RAVEN IN THE SKY
I WAS BORN TO DIE!!!"
- Manowar, 'Hail and Kill'
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"BLOOD AND DEATH ARE WAITING
LIKE A RAVEN IN THE SKY
I WAS BORN TO DIE!!!"
- Manowar, 'Hail and Kill'
LIKE A RAVEN IN THE SKY
I WAS BORN TO DIE!!!"
- Manowar, 'Hail and Kill'
Yeah, it's "The Thing but sexy" but of course @sarahgailey.bsky.social packs in some blistering frustration + loneliness, so it's horniness but also regret and yearning and horniness and despair and apocalypse and horniness...a quick n nasty lil scifi story.
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yeah, it's "The Thing but sexy" but of course @sarahgailey.bsky.social packs in some blistering frustration + loneliness, so it's horniness but also regret and yearning and horniness and despair and apocalypse and horniness...a quick n nasty lil scifi story.
A big ol' puzzle piece just fit and now I can see the whole picture. Bava turning the lights on in a room I didn't know was there, tho everyone's blood-lusty and screeching about inheritance, insects, and octopuses. What a trip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A big ol' puzzle piece just fit and now I can see the whole picture. Bava turning the lights on in a room I didn't know was there, tho everyone's blood-lusty and screeching about inheritance, insects, and octopuses. What a trip.
Diabolical pairing of Argento + Soavi on consecrated ground. Add a brutal medieval intro to real Satanic madness, a cursed church (loudly, "THE CHURCH"), dusty catacombs, ancient secrets, blasphemous wrongness (aimed at Barbara Cupisti in all her glory), it's like a Mercyful Fate song manifesting.
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Diabolical pairing of Argento + Soavi on consecrated ground. Add a brutal medieval intro to real Satanic madness, a cursed church (loudly, "THE CHURCH"), dusty catacombs, ancient secrets, blasphemous wrongness (aimed at Barbara Cupisti in all her glory), it's like a Mercyful Fate song manifesting.
2025 rush
Giddily running + flipping around the theater making schink-schink-kaboom noises w my pretend shoulder cannon. What an absolute blast.
Giddily running + flipping around the theater making schink-schink-kaboom noises w my pretend shoulder cannon. What an absolute blast.
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
2025 rush
Giddily running + flipping around the theater making schink-schink-kaboom noises w my pretend shoulder cannon. What an absolute blast.
Giddily running + flipping around the theater making schink-schink-kaboom noises w my pretend shoulder cannon. What an absolute blast.
Me clanging a big metal triangle dinner bell thing labeled 'cosmic horror': FAUX TRUE CRIME! GOOD EATING! FAUX TRUE CRIME!
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Me clanging a big metal triangle dinner bell thing labeled 'cosmic horror': FAUX TRUE CRIME! GOOD EATING! FAUX TRUE CRIME!
Really think that horror comic anthos are my fav type, gimme a volume w like 5 fucked up stories, diff styles, genres, whatever. @merkanaut.bsky.social lending me 1 + 2 of Boom!'s Hello Darkness, lots of good stuff (Gailey! Chloe! Tynion!) but 'The War' by Ennis + Cloonan is a new Threads, damn.
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really think that horror comic anthos are my fav type, gimme a volume w like 5 fucked up stories, diff styles, genres, whatever. @merkanaut.bsky.social lending me 1 + 2 of Boom!'s Hello Darkness, lots of good stuff (Gailey! Chloe! Tynion!) but 'The War' by Ennis + Cloonan is a new Threads, damn.
I've seen Gore's a few times so much was already spoil't, but now I can put that film in the 'pretty decent cover song' category. The differences are stark: tighter script, tighter shooting, a story more interested in haunting and the culmination to one horrible act. Less window-dressing, if y'know.
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I've seen Gore's a few times so much was already spoil't, but now I can put that film in the 'pretty decent cover song' category. The differences are stark: tighter script, tighter shooting, a story more interested in haunting and the culmination to one horrible act. Less window-dressing, if y'know.
Like look at this! I'm doing the thing where once the kids go to bed I curl up with this picture book instead of whatever I'm reading.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Like look at this! I'm doing the thing where once the kids go to bed I curl up with this picture book instead of whatever I'm reading.
Mary who Wrote Frankenstein by Linda Bailey, illus by Julia Sarda. Kids book going deep enough into Shelley's life to connect-the-dots for inspiration for Frankenstein and make Byron look bad, Sarda's precise layouts + colour, bold characters selling the drama. Good storytime reading.
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Mary who Wrote Frankenstein by Linda Bailey, illus by Julia Sarda. Kids book going deep enough into Shelley's life to connect-the-dots for inspiration for Frankenstein and make Byron look bad, Sarda's precise layouts + colour, bold characters selling the drama. Good storytime reading.
Sacrebleu, une voyage l'enfer! The puppet(!) goes for top billing (obv) but really impressed w each aspect - merciless w the vampire horror, a fabulous setting (country vs city, sure), completely blown away w the pairing of Kacey Mottet Klein + Ariane Labed and how they danced throughout.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Sacrebleu, une voyage l'enfer! The puppet(!) goes for top billing (obv) but really impressed w each aspect - merciless w the vampire horror, a fabulous setting (country vs city, sure), completely blown away w the pairing of Kacey Mottet Klein + Ariane Labed and how they danced throughout.
dubious sequels wknd
RAISED IN MEAT, you say??
I mean, the audacity, the pure 'fuck you alllll'-edness of it has me reeling. And smiling.
They knew how to burn down franchises by the later 80s.
RAISED IN MEAT, you say??
I mean, the audacity, the pure 'fuck you alllll'-edness of it has me reeling. And smiling.
They knew how to burn down franchises by the later 80s.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
dubious sequels wknd
RAISED IN MEAT, you say??
I mean, the audacity, the pure 'fuck you alllll'-edness of it has me reeling. And smiling.
They knew how to burn down franchises by the later 80s.
RAISED IN MEAT, you say??
I mean, the audacity, the pure 'fuck you alllll'-edness of it has me reeling. And smiling.
They knew how to burn down franchises by the later 80s.
dubious sequels wknd
2025 rush
I mean I'm not NOT going to want to hang out with a demonic Ethan Hawke doing his best Kurt Browning ice routine ('Curtains' amiright??), but overall this feels churned out from lesser Nightmare sequels, tired Blumhouse gunk, and not know how 'winter' works.
2025 rush
I mean I'm not NOT going to want to hang out with a demonic Ethan Hawke doing his best Kurt Browning ice routine ('Curtains' amiright??), but overall this feels churned out from lesser Nightmare sequels, tired Blumhouse gunk, and not know how 'winter' works.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
dubious sequels wknd
2025 rush
I mean I'm not NOT going to want to hang out with a demonic Ethan Hawke doing his best Kurt Browning ice routine ('Curtains' amiright??), but overall this feels churned out from lesser Nightmare sequels, tired Blumhouse gunk, and not know how 'winter' works.
2025 rush
I mean I'm not NOT going to want to hang out with a demonic Ethan Hawke doing his best Kurt Browning ice routine ('Curtains' amiright??), but overall this feels churned out from lesser Nightmare sequels, tired Blumhouse gunk, and not know how 'winter' works.
dubious sequel wknd
Still convinced that this an okay witch flick, years past the expectations. The meta-FF works for me, it's an earlier ex of what we're seeing w witches nowadays which I've always liked, Kim is absolutely awesome, Tristane's arc is sad, the skeezy sherrif - just enough goodness.
Still convinced that this an okay witch flick, years past the expectations. The meta-FF works for me, it's an earlier ex of what we're seeing w witches nowadays which I've always liked, Kim is absolutely awesome, Tristane's arc is sad, the skeezy sherrif - just enough goodness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
dubious sequel wknd
Still convinced that this an okay witch flick, years past the expectations. The meta-FF works for me, it's an earlier ex of what we're seeing w witches nowadays which I've always liked, Kim is absolutely awesome, Tristane's arc is sad, the skeezy sherrif - just enough goodness.
Still convinced that this an okay witch flick, years past the expectations. The meta-FF works for me, it's an earlier ex of what we're seeing w witches nowadays which I've always liked, Kim is absolutely awesome, Tristane's arc is sad, the skeezy sherrif - just enough goodness.
Gloomy times, getting to know Bava and Barbara Steele (new crush, obv). The castle action is great, umpteen secret passages, but those "outside" scenes? WHOA - fog starts rolling thru twisted trees, dank tombstones, and the painted backdrops, me just muttering 'oh yess' at the gothic splendor.
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Gloomy times, getting to know Bava and Barbara Steele (new crush, obv). The castle action is great, umpteen secret passages, but those "outside" scenes? WHOA - fog starts rolling thru twisted trees, dank tombstones, and the painted backdrops, me just muttering 'oh yess' at the gothic splendor.
you're not alone
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
you're not alone