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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 17h
The Backrooms from BackroomsThe Backrooms from Backrooms, filled with chairsThe Backrooms from Backrooms, featuring a pile of furniture and Chiwetel EjioforThe Backrooms from Backrooms, with a backwards stop sign in the middle of a doorway (?)
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it was important for me to call this out. King, though I love him, has been getting away with nakedly hateful fatphobia for half a century now and the majority of readers seem to have handwaved it, but I can't. (a shout out to @megelison.bsky.social, though, who's been banging this drum for years)
And King has never created a fat character he didn’t insist on treating as a disgusting spectacle. In “Other Worlds Than These,” there’s a particularly insulting episode concerning a family of fat people; King seems to take perverse pleasure in commenting on their “elephantine thighs” and “huge rolls of flesh.” Jack speculates that the family’s front porch “must have been specially reinforced to take the combined weight of such behemoths,” and when the daughter attempts to rape and kill him in his bed that night, she “lands on him like a truck falling off a jack,” breaking the bed frame. I wonder if it has ever occurred to King that fat people read his books, too.
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
eagles now have two 1sts and two 2nds in 2028 lmao
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i shit on his shows plenty but i DO like him when he’s not adapting canonical works in name only, which ofc only makes those works more frustrating
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
green-tinted serial killer horror
man leaning forward in chair meme
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
who am i kidding howie’s gonna bring back stoutland and trade for herbert and they’ll win 11 games next year
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
may the eagles rebuild be long and tortuous
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Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No question about it
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge. A pumpkin-headed figure moves through an autumn cornfield
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 05/10/2026
if jared goff was born in 1974 he would be the greatest quarterback of all time
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i don't want to hear about "miscommunications" between quarterbacks and receivers either. they practice more than enough to be on the same page about everything
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
you bet your ass seeing this DVD made me afraid of rabbits for like 2 years
the DVD cover of Donnie Darko, with 5 floating heads circling the head of a fucked up rabbit
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
crazyyyyy what happens when you're not playing cover 0 every third down
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i love SGH with every ounce of my heart
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it is kinda crazy that the Atlanta baseball team didn't have to change their entire brand when Cleveland did
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
dan's too sentimental to let shep go
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
please god make this easy lions
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
real ball
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
geno smith is so awesome
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
dellamorte dellamore probably the greatest movie of all time, sorry not sorry for the spam
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Fabiola @shedellamorte.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thinking about the biker zombie from Dellamorte Dellamore that looks like it came out of Tetsuo
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Fabiola @shedellamorte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (dir. Michele Soavi)
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Movies from HELL @26mfhpod.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
CEMETERY MAN Michele Soavi • 1994
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Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Cemetery Man (1994) 🎥 Directed by Michele Soavi #FilmSky
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Daily Squibs @dailysquibs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
CEMETERY MAN (Soavi, 1994)
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
offensive wizard sean lewis understands you don’t need yards to score points
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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote this last year and didn’t think anyone would read it (or care). People did read it though. Conversations were had and a few horror people use the word less/have conversations about the use of the word in their work.
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
hopefully this leads to more coaches dabbling in the occult
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/10/2026
It's interesting to me that the American authors conservatives deem acceptable/non-woke/masculine--your Steinbecks, Cormac McCarthys, Faulkners, Hemingways etc--all identify brutality as the fundamental language and original sin of the United States. There's nothing very patriotic about their work.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Earlier this year, I stated that I was working on something comprehensive about CAMP MIASMA. This is a video essay on the history of trans psycho killers and how CAMP MIASMA uses that history for subversion and reclamation. I hope you enjoy it. mubi.com/en/program-n...
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Loving the Monster
Watch truly great cinema. Wherever you are. From iconic, award-winning directors to emerging auteurs. Transformative films from all over the world. Stream Now. Download to watch Offline. Start your fr...
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point.
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
good week of rewatches + new faves for the season #LastFourWatched
Faves: Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, In the Mouth of Madness, The Funhouse, and Harvest Brood

Last Four Watched: Aliens (Rewatch), The Hills Have Eyes (Rewatch), Eaten Alive, and Sator (Rewatch)
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
every day i hope and pray a little bit more that we will be able to return to 2004
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
someone needs to bring back nu metal for the sole purpose of soundtracking horror movies
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH HARVEST BROOD THIS MONTH YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
nothing ever happens FC is eating well
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think most of what is being called body horror these days is actually body splatter. It's more external than internal and that can be fun but it's not the same thing.
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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My concept of body horror is really different from what is being sold as body horror these days. IMO, it is a sense of internal wrongness with oneself that reflects back on the world feeling strange as a result. The internal informs the eventual external depiction of disarticulation with the flesh
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
same day, too? what a treat
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
new SGJ and new Evenson this month, holy moly
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
season 2 will have ewan mcgregor’s danny torrance teaching her how to control her abilities
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i mean this just isn't true lmao
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The Count von Curdles @thecountvoncurdles.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It's my strong desire to make a horror movie that features some really busted, grimy, powered by magic and spite EC Comics zombies.
Zombie covered in cobwebs from BONE SICKNESSZombie with long wispy hair covering its skeletal face like a curtain, from THE HAUNTED MANSIONThe Blind Dead
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gage @altarofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this would be the funniest outcome of the week if the Packers didn't shit down their legs on Thursday
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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
One of the decade’s unsung best. Argue with a wall!
Herman and Lily Munster on a date Grandpa (Dracula) Count Orlok A journal entry saying “Lily + Herman ❤️❤️❤️” 

The Munsters (2022), Rob Zombie
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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Creepshow (1982), George Romero /// The Munsters (2022), Rob Zombie
A woman screaming, backlit by searing red comic book lighting and effects 

Creepshow (1982) Lily Munster backlit with exaggerated cartoon hearts 

The Munsters (2022) Herman Munster backlit by purple comic book lightning effects 

The Munsters (2022) Two waterlogged ocean zombies backlit by orange comic book lighting 

Creepshow (1982)
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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives
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winter @winterk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
ROB ZOMBIE: VINCENT PRICE. DEVIL MAN. FUCK YOU WITH MY CHAINSAW HAND. EDDIE MUNSTER SAMPLE: I wanna bring my spider for show and tell
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