Michael Varrati
@michaelvarrati.bsky.social
Filmmaker/screenwriter of a bunch of indie horror flicks and some made-for-TV movies your mom likes. Co-host of Midnight Mass.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come sounds like a haunting on the edge.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come sounds like a haunting on the edge.
On pink, we wear Wednesdays.
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
On pink, we wear Wednesdays.
What a great time for me to remind everyone about a favorite movie of mine: 1988's BLADES, which serves as a parody of JAWS, but rather than a shark in the water...it's a sentient lawnmower on a golf course. It's absurd and gets strangely cinematic at the end. I remain a loud champion of this film.
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
What a great time for me to remind everyone about a favorite movie of mine: 1988's BLADES, which serves as a parody of JAWS, but rather than a shark in the water...it's a sentient lawnmower on a golf course. It's absurd and gets strangely cinematic at the end. I remain a loud champion of this film.
While I get the exploitation cinema appeal of taking a popular property or character that’s entered into the public domain and making them a slasher, I’d love to see someone do a more direct adaptation of a work with one unique tweak. Who’s bold enough to do THE SOUND AND THE FURRY?
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
While I get the exploitation cinema appeal of taking a popular property or character that’s entered into the public domain and making them a slasher, I’d love to see someone do a more direct adaptation of a work with one unique tweak. Who’s bold enough to do THE SOUND AND THE FURRY?
You know what? A VERY JONAS CHRISTMAS MOVIE was wildly delightful and I'm going to say it. Also, Billie Lourd is comedy gold.
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
You know what? A VERY JONAS CHRISTMAS MOVIE was wildly delightful and I'm going to say it. Also, Billie Lourd is comedy gold.
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TONIGHT!!! Thrilled to be returning to @bbdragula.bsky.social with my ghoul-friend @darrenstein.bsky.social. Had such a fantastic time shooting this really GREAT episode! Watch on
@shudder.com
#bouletbrothersdragula #bouletbrothers #darrenstein #peacheschrist
@shudder.com
#bouletbrothersdragula #bouletbrothers #darrenstein #peacheschrist
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
TONIGHT!!! Thrilled to be returning to @bbdragula.bsky.social with my ghoul-friend @darrenstein.bsky.social. Had such a fantastic time shooting this really GREAT episode! Watch on
@shudder.com
#bouletbrothersdragula #bouletbrothers #darrenstein #peacheschrist
@shudder.com
#bouletbrothersdragula #bouletbrothers #darrenstein #peacheschrist
BLADE RUNNER (1982, Dir. Ridley Scott)
When spam emails open with “I am a real human lol” I do not believe it. So maybe don’t use that sentence in your cold contact correspondence with me. 🤖
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
BLADE RUNNER (1982, Dir. Ridley Scott)
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Strega Nona fanart! I think more of us should draw fanart of our childhood faves. What were the kids’ books that you remember fondly?
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Strega Nona fanart! I think more of us should draw fanart of our childhood faves. What were the kids’ books that you remember fondly?
"...and I'm in the corner, watching you witch her...oh, oh-oh..." - Me, workshopping my BLAIR WITCH musical.
November 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"...and I'm in the corner, watching you witch her...oh, oh-oh..." - Me, workshopping my BLAIR WITCH musical.
I still think there needs to be a production company named “Eh 24” that’s dedicated to Canadian arthouse cinema.
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I still think there needs to be a production company named “Eh 24” that’s dedicated to Canadian arthouse cinema.
In the immortal words of Silent Bob:
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
In the immortal words of Silent Bob:
Stephen Sondheim's Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster. A Dick Wolf Production.
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Stephen Sondheim's Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's Monster. A Dick Wolf Production.
Not a comment or critique on the content of this film in any way, shape, or form...but I'm obsessed with the choice to include the quotation marks in the "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" title here, as if to say..."is it though?" Or at least encourage the use of quote fingers when speaking of it out loud.
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Not a comment or critique on the content of this film in any way, shape, or form...but I'm obsessed with the choice to include the quotation marks in the "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" title here, as if to say..."is it though?" Or at least encourage the use of quote fingers when speaking of it out loud.
Listening to some Neil Young records...not because it's his birthday, but because it's a day.
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Listening to some Neil Young records...not because it's his birthday, but because it's a day.
The latest fashion...in murder! On this week's @midnightmasspod.bsky.social, Peaches and I are celebrating 1980's DRESSED TO KILL! We're joined by artist Drusilla Adeline and filmmaker Sam Irvin to talk De Palma, problematic faves, set stories, and more! midnightmass.buzzsprout.com/1796691/epis...
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The latest fashion...in murder! On this week's @midnightmasspod.bsky.social, Peaches and I are celebrating 1980's DRESSED TO KILL! We're joined by artist Drusilla Adeline and filmmaker Sam Irvin to talk De Palma, problematic faves, set stories, and more! midnightmass.buzzsprout.com/1796691/epis...
Wild to think that there's a junior exec walking around Manhattan right now who, within a month, will be sent by her firm back to her hometown to close a local business, only to run into a former-flame turned tree-farming cookie enthusiast who'll change her life via the power of Christmas.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wild to think that there's a junior exec walking around Manhattan right now who, within a month, will be sent by her firm back to her hometown to close a local business, only to run into a former-flame turned tree-farming cookie enthusiast who'll change her life via the power of Christmas.
Necromancy or some sort of occult practice usually works. Though I can't promise the results won't leave you both shaken and stirred.
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Report: Amazon Is Struggling to Think How to Bring James Bond Back From the Dead
Daniel Craig's permanent exit in 'No Time to Die' is apparently causing issues for the next 'Bond' film.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Necromancy or some sort of occult practice usually works. Though I can't promise the results won't leave you both shaken and stirred.
gizmodo.com/amazon-james...
gizmodo.com/amazon-james...
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Get ready! At midnight, we're releasing an all-new episode celebrating a movie that is all about showing off the latest fashion...in murder.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Get ready! At midnight, we're releasing an all-new episode celebrating a movie that is all about showing off the latest fashion...in murder.
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Actual icon. The modern horror landscape wouldn't be the same without her, not to mention her outstanding work across many other genres. In many ways, it's wild that her last name was Hill, because she moved mountains.
Happy Birthday to the late Debra Hill, co-creator of Halloween (she was raised in Haddonfield, NJ) and the force behind such sleepover classics as Clue, Adventures in Babysitting, The Dead Zone and Big Top Pee-Wee.
#debrahill #clue #halloween
#debrahill #clue #halloween
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Actual icon. The modern horror landscape wouldn't be the same without her, not to mention her outstanding work across many other genres. In many ways, it's wild that her last name was Hill, because she moved mountains.
Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN releasing to streaming the same weekend as Bram Stoker's birthday is a fun little Gothic coincidence, especially since John Polidori's THE VAMPYRE was written as part of the same contest wherein Mary Shelley wrote her novel...and THE VAMPYRE directly influenced DRACULA.
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN releasing to streaming the same weekend as Bram Stoker's birthday is a fun little Gothic coincidence, especially since John Polidori's THE VAMPYRE was written as part of the same contest wherein Mary Shelley wrote her novel...and THE VAMPYRE directly influenced DRACULA.
…a conceit which Curtis brought to DRACULA first while cribbing from himself in his 1973 adaptation starring Jack Palance. It’s pretty grand, really: Barnabas was directly inspired by Dracula…and, in turn, Dracula lore was culturally altered because of Barnabas. Vampires beget vampires.
I haven’t seen Besson’s DRACULA, but it’s so wild how “Mina is the reincarnation of Dracula’s bride” has become part of the accepted lore. None of this is from the book; he’s directly pulling from Coppola’s 1992 film, which was cribbing from DARK SHADOWS (and maybe THE MUMMY), as was FRIGHT NIGHT 🤣
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
…a conceit which Curtis brought to DRACULA first while cribbing from himself in his 1973 adaptation starring Jack Palance. It’s pretty grand, really: Barnabas was directly inspired by Dracula…and, in turn, Dracula lore was culturally altered because of Barnabas. Vampires beget vampires.
It is no longer enough to reanimate the dead. You must also yassify the dead.
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It is no longer enough to reanimate the dead. You must also yassify the dead.
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference