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If you’re looking for something scary this spooky season, consider the anthology from @starsandsabers.bsky.social, OF DREAD, DECAY AND DOOM. It features my story, “Home”—the most suspenseful thing I’ve written. Get it wherever you get your books: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre...

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 02/10/2026

I still don’t understand why this hasn’t been turned into a movie

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 01/10/2026

I recently picked up an old paperback version of the book. It’s so great.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 01/10/2026

This one’s got all three…

Monster Squad monsters: Gill Man, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, mummy, Wolf Man

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 01/10/2026

When you see the price tag for the Kubrick Criterion Collection

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026

Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot

I'm a College Professor. Writing Isnt as Important as We Think.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 28/09/2026

What’s crazy is how they’re warning fans

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 28/09/2026

Roger Ebert almost always got it

Replacement Killers
3/4 stars
ACTION
88 minutes • R : 1998
Roger Ebert
February 6, 1998 3 min read
"The Replacement Killers" is all style. It's a high-gloss version of a Hong Kong action picture, made in America but observing the exuberance of a genre where surfaces are everything. The characters are as flat as figures on a billboard, but look at the way everything is filmed in saturated color, and anything that moves makes a metallic whooshing sound that ends in a musical chord, and how when the hero walks down a corridor at a car wash, it's done with a tilt and a zoom. In a movie like this, the story is simply a device to help us tell the beginning from the end.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 28/09/2026

Also, this is one of the worst reviews I’ve ever read:

English subtitles do not go well with a foreign-language action film. If you spend time reading the titles, then you can't really appreciate the action. But if you stare raptly at the action, then you often don't know the reasons behind what's going on.

"Hard-Boiled" is being presented here in what's described as the "full-length director's cut," which means that it runs 127 minutes. The movie was apparently abbreviated by the Hong Kong censors, who objected to the violence. Just why, I'm not sure. Films as packed with violence as this, but with little in the way of a coherent story to give the violence meaning, are no less serene than "Swan Lake," if somewhat more instructive.

The quaint story involves Tequila, a tough-guy Hong Kong cop, his chaste affection for Teresa, a woman who works in his office, and his unspoken affection for Tony, an undercover cop who goes through pure hell doing his duty.
"Hard-Boiled" often has a smokily atmospheric, Ridley Scott sort of look to it, but until I learn Mandarin, or until someone adds an English language soundtrack to "Hard-Boiled," I'Il reserve judgment about Mr. Woo's place in the hierarchy of action-film directors. Hard-Boiled

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 27/09/2026

Got to see Bruce Campbell live today. Albeit from somewhat far away. Still amazing. And his new movie, ERNIE & EMMA (which is touring Alamo Drafthouses around the country), is great.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 25/09/2026

Wrote 1200 words and am very tired

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 25/09/2026

How would you describe your social media reach?

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 24/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only):

Richard Grieco and Gabrielle Anwar in IF LOOKS COULD KILL

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 23/09/2026

Had to say goodbye to my cat today. RIP, Ruthie. You were the most formidable and fearsome cat the world has ever known. And I’m so grateful you liked me enough to make biscuits on me.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 22/09/2026

“You got plenty put away, T-bones, real angus. If I were you I would be smart, I’d cut loose of this.”

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 22/09/2026

If you’re looking for a good horror read for this year’s spooky season, I highly recommend THOR. It’s a werewolf story told from the perspective of a family’s German shepherd. One of my all-time favorites. It was made into the movie BAD MOON, which is a pretty good adaptation.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 21/09/2026

Also I had no idea it inspired INFERNAL AFFAIRS. Which means THE DEPARTED exists because of this movie.

Influence
Face/Off is said to have inspired Infernal Affairs.
Director Andrew Lau stated he wanted to depict a more realistic situation; instead of a physical face change, Lau wanted to have the characters swap identities. 43! The concept of "bian lian" or "change face", a technique traditionally used in Chinese opera, may have been used here to depict the fluid and seamless morph of Chen and Lau's characters' identities between the "good" and "bad" sides.
Infernal Affairs, in turn, has spawned several adaptations, notably The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/09/2026

Andrew Davis’s directorial run from 1985-1993 is incredible. Masterclass in action filmmaking. (Also, if you haven’t seen CODE OF SILENCE, then you haven’t seen the best Chuck Norris movie.)

1985
Code of
Silence

1988
Above
the Law

1989
The
Package

1992
Under
Siege

1993
The
Fugitive
Yes

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/09/2026

Really loving the audiobook for @harlancoben.bsky.social’s PLOT TWIST. He’s a damn great storyteller and motivational speaker. I’m enthralled and inspired…and also seriously considering the Uber thing. (You’ll know what this last thing is when you read the book.)