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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and Grogu

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Still can’t believe the Chicago Sun-Times used the phrase “this is what’s the matter with splatter” in their review of AMITYVILLE GLORYHOLE.

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Last night’s Last Dinner Party (date night for Mom & Dad)!

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

With news of QVC filing for bankruptcy, I felt compelled to throw on Evil Dead II for the umpteenth time tonite (staring none other than QVC’s own Rick Domeier as Ed Getley).

Still from Evil Dead II, featuring Rick Domeier as Ed Getley

Rick Domeier (QVC) smiling and wearing sparkly blue sunglasses

Still from Evil Dead II, featuring Rick Domeier as Ed Getley in full Evil Ed makeup

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Bluesky before Claude code/Bluesky after Claude code

Still of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) smiling and wearing sunglasses from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.

Distorted AI image of Freddy Krueger (source: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini/discussions/4427)

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Feels like the start of a horror film about zombified cars (“They should have stayed buried…”)

Image from Boston Globe’s Instagram, published 4/16/26; picture of dirty sedan next to massive pile of filthy snow; headline reads: That big snow pile in Somerville? The cars buried in it are emerging.

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Been very into this new record by Knumears lately; mix of nostalgia for 90s and early 00s screamo/hardcore etc., but also sounds fresh in its heaviness and urgency knumears.bandcamp.com/album/direct...

knumears.bandcamp.com

Directions, by knumears

10 track album

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Read this @bloody-disgusting.com headline about the new Godzilla movie in the style of this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=vbp9...

Bloody Disgusting promo image of new Godzilla film with headline: Godzilla Minus Zero Brings Godzilla to New York City?!

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Aimee Mann - Lost in Space Beck - Sea Change Dijon - Absolutely Tinashe - 333 (Deluxe) Deftones - White Pony Air - Talkie Walkie Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles Pretty much any Steely Dan record for a perhaps obvious response!

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The whole thing, but especially 1:30-1:40 (“all those nights in the basement…”) youtu.be/aAD6lJiHBdA

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Thursday - War All The Time

YouTube video by ThursdayVEVO

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If ever there was a week proving that reality is scarier than fiction! "Archival Anxiety" is here just in time to highlight docu/mocku films like CROPSEY & THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE and their gothic reflection of modern life. #KristopherWoofter @anthempress.bsky.social anthempress.com/books/archiv...

The cover of the book "Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror" featuring a blurry photo of a movie cameraman as seen through a large spider web.

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Boosting this. One of the best in the game; deeply thoughtful, passionate, invigorating work on the genre (that, personally, has influenced my thinking and research; I also literally taught her excellent work on found footage in my seminar on the subject just last week).

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy Dr. Richard Kimble Day everyone

Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive wearing an olive-green sateen fishtail parka with a hoodie underneath and a kelly green derby hat with gold trim. his hands are in his pockets, he's looking furtively behind him (at us), surrounded by people in a St. Patrick's Day parade.

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Oscar’s Frisco City, AL

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

If you see this post a vampire who is not Dracula.

“Monster Tales” / “Nosferatu Bites”! (David “The Rock” Nelson, 2002)

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Still thinking about it this morning

Still from Beware! The Blob (1972): kitten in a field

Still from Beware! The Blob (1972): a woman picking up fallen red roses

Still from Beware! The Blob (1972): a cop screaming as he’s attacked by The Blob

Still from Beware! The Blob (1972): spray painted structure reading “love” with the Blob in the background

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 24/01/2026

The ongoing invasion of our cities by a dangerous and out-of-control federal administration must be stopped.

STATEMENT ON ICE SHOOTING
OF ALEX PRETTI

After another gruesome act of fatal violence by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis, all Americans must demand that the Trump Administration end its deadly, unlawful, and unconstitutional occupation of the Twin Cities.

The ongoing invasion of our cities by a dangerous and out-of-control federal administration must be stopped. This week, the City of Boston led 44 cities around the country in supporting the federal lawsuit to end the illegal ICE surge in Minnesota.

Our hearts are with Alex Pretti's loved ones and the people of Minnesota and we share their grief. While we mourn once again a tragic and needless death, we urge the court to take immediate action to stop the violence, end the occupation, and help local leaders in the Twin Cities restore peace to these communities under siege.

MAYOR MICHELLE WU

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Here here! It’s been great to be able to contribute to Horror Lex in this way, and means a lot as a horror scholar!

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

(1/8) Welcome to the Horror Lex Year in Review! We have stats about what everyone was writing about in 2025, based on data from 500+ works of nonfiction about horror & horror-adjacent films. Follow them all with this: #HorrorLex2025

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I posted too soon! The class is officially SOLD OUT! Thanks to all that signed up! You can still purchase tickets to individual screenings open to the public, however.

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The @thecoolidge.bsky.social PROJECTIONS screening series & the connected course I’m teaching at the cinema (“Dystopia Now?”) kicks off tonight w/ IDIOCRACY (apt for J6…)! Tickets still available here: coolidge.org/events/proje...

Promo for January 6 screening of Idiocracy at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Mud And Sand (1922) : 333s

Screenshot from VHS tape, video frame at 333 seconds.

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

My Letterboxd year in review is paltry, but we welcomed a baby girl into the world in 2025, so hardly time for new watches at home and especially at the cinema (I also never log rewatches, a habit I might break this year)! Love that Thomerson is my main guy from the TRANCERS marathon I snuck in…

Letterboxd year in review, featuring 71 films logged, 38 reviewed, and 119 hours watched for 2025, along with “Most Watched Actor” and Most Watched Director

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far? 2020: Palm Springs 2021: Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar 2022: Halloween Ends 2023: The Pope’s Exorcist 2024: Rap World 2025: The Phoenician Scheme

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

“Death of cinema” arguments seem as old as the medium itself. Things do seem different now post-pandemic & amidst unchecked monopolization; Godfrey Cheshire’s words way back in 1999 for NY Press appear prophetic/doom-y, yet they are also a reminder of cinema’s fluidity & *exciting* instability

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Lol realized as soon as I made this and posted it that the industry is actively advocating for this very thing, so it should probably actually read:

You wouldn’t watch Lawrence of Arabia in a cinema (meme based on You wouldn’t steal a car - Hollywood anti piracy ad)

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Alex Svensson @alsven.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The new Planet Hollywood isn’t looking so hot!

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