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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This looks essential!

Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Coming soon from Eureka: Swedish noir! I'm very excited about this set, a labour of love from the acquisitions stage through to production (and all five films are incredible – not a weak one in the lot). Features Ingrid Bergman, Hasse Ekman, Eva Henning & Gustaf Molander. Perfect Noirvember viewing.

Box set art for the Masters of Cinema box set Stockholm After Dark: Swedish Noir, featuring A Woman's Face (1938), June Night (1940), While the Door was Locked (1946), While the City Sleeps (1950) and Hidden in the Fog (1953). The artwork by Mute depicts Sven-Eric Gamble as Jompa in While the City Sleeps – he is running with a pistol in his hand. He is wearing a fedora on his head, a sheepskin coat, a green jumper and cream shirt. Blue buildings tower above him, the skyline between them in yellow forming the image of the Swedish flag.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Tell you what, starting a Blu-ray label isn't easy (as both me and @eddiefalvey.bsky.social will tell you) but I couldn't be happier with the Chasm Films line-up so far and am excited about our recently acquired fourth title. You can grab the first three here: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/collections/...

Cover art for the Chasm Films release of Mulberry Street (2006), featuring new art by Heather Vaughan. A woman's face is turned to the right in anguish, blood streaming from her eyes and her teeth growing to resemble a rodent's. Beside her, cascades of rats run out of the New York skyline.

Cover art for the Chasm Films release of The Last Circus (2010), featuring art by Nick Charge. The art is coloured in shades of brown. On the left, the face of a wide-eyed smiling clown, a chunk of flesh missing from his cheek. On the right, a smirking clown with a scarred face. They are mirrored, divided by a rope – at the bottom of the rope is an acrobat hanging in a sling. Below the acrobat is the title in yellow.

Cover art for the Chasm Films release of Taxidermia (2006), featuring art by John Dunn. A man (Marc Bischoff as Lajoska Balatony) stands naked in front of a green painted background. His body is painted in hues of green and red. There is stitching down his chest and his right arm is raised in the air. Subtle lines separate his lower arms and his head from his body.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sometimes if you want something doing, you've got to do it yourself. The third Chasm Films release is Jim Mickle's Mulberry Street, featuring a new feature-length documentary on the making and legacy of the film. You can pre-order here: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/mul...

Slipcover for the Chasm Films release of Mulberry Street (2006), featuring new art by Heather Vaughan. A woman's face is turned to the right in anguish, blood streaming from her eyes and her teeth growing to resemble a rodent's. Beside her, cascades of rats run out of the New York skyline.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fairytale Fan? Delighted to show my art for INTO THE FOREST, an amazing collection of vintage fairytale films, & the just announced BENEATH THE TREES boxset! An amazing project to work with @craigimann.bsky.social to illustrate the boxes and interiors for these. info: eurekavideo.co.uk #art

fairytale boxset art a sinister wizard in the forest

fairytale boxset a masked figure in the forest

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When I joined the website we don't talk about (2009 I guess), Sam Neill was in the habit of following literally anyone who followed him. No pretensions, no questions asked. I guess eventually he couldn't keep up with it, but I always thought that said something about him. Anyway, rewatch Dead Calm.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We're continuing our run of popular German genre cinema at Eureka with Eastern Trails: The Western at DEFA. Putting this one together has been incredibly fun.

Cover art for the Masters of Cinema box set Eastern Trails: The Western at DEFA, featuring artwork by Colin Murdoch. Gojko Mitić, playing a Native American warrior, stands atop a cliff edge with a rifle in his hands, a blue lake, trees and a mountain behind him. In the distance, there is a canoe on the lake. A taco band in teal features the name of the box set in yellow, and then the titles in the box in white: Chingachgook the Great Serpent (1967), Fatal Error (1969), Apaches (1973) and Blood Brothers (1975).

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Tipping My Fedora @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Just got my contributor copy of Mario Bava's sensational DANGER: DIABOLIK. Eureka's box set is a thing of beauty, jammed with insightful and entertaining extras. I just knew when I started reading the comic book 45 years ago it would eventually pay off! eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/danger...

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’m staying in a film-themed hotel in Łódź with original Polish poster art on every wall and a Wajda mural painted on the building opposite. It’s the best hotel I’ve ever stayed in and the room even comes with a massive telly… but motion smoothing is switched on so there goes the TripAdvisor review.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

You know when you finally see a bonafide masterpiece years after everyone else does and it rightly blows your socks off? Last night I watched Ashes and Diamonds. Holy shit.

Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chełmicki in Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds. Standing against a stark black background, he is a young man with black hair, wearing sunglasses, a white shirt and a military jacket. He is pointing a pistol at the camera.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Yesterday we announced the second release in the Chasm Films catalogue: Álex de la Iglesia's incredible, blackly comic horror show The Last Circus, replete with a roster of new extras and a director interview. Grab it from @filmsradiance.bsky.social here: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/the...

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Very sad to hear that Tony Stella has passed away. He was an incredible talent. Here’s my favourite piece of art he produced for us at Eureka, for Cruel Tale of Bushido.

CRUEL TALE OF BUSHIDO art by Tony Stella.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Our new label Chasm Films is set to release its first title – György Pálfi's Taxidermia – later this month, and it's lovely to see that we made it onto @letterboxd.social's latest ShelfLife list. You can pre-order directly from @filmsradiance.bsky.social here: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/tax...

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Fast Cars and Fresh Kills: on screens and shelves this month • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

The Wachowskis’ pioneering live-action cartoon, a masterwork by Lucrecia Martel and a divisive midnight-movie gem are among the selections in this month’s edition of Shelf Life.

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Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The 1984 BBC drama THREADS depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield, where hundreds of local men, women and children had volunteered to be extras. [TRAILER LINK] youtu.be/4U5Zb0fqimA

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SURVIVORS: THE SPECTRE OF THREADS (2026) TRAILER

YouTube video by Severin Films / Intervision Picture Corp.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Great weekend at Culture Shock festival (by @celluloidscreams.bsky.social). My pick of the retrospectives the Estonian sci-fi noir Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, my favourite of the new films the Kazakh alien visitation film Stinker. Huge thanks to all who saw Eureka’s The Devil from Mill Mountain, too.

Poster for Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel featuring original Soviet poster artwork. At the top rigjt of the poster is a woman’s face in blue, a space scene behind her. Bottom right, in white, a middle-aged man in a suit, his face in shadow. On the left, a building on a snowy mountain in shades of white and blue. English text reads:

DEAD MOUNTAINEER’S HOTEL
A FILM BY GRIGORI KROMANOV

Poster for Stinker. The wooden boards of a wall lit in blue, covered in a child’s drawings in luminous paint: hearts and flying saucers. Between two of the boards there is a pair of reptilian alien eyes, backlit in green. English text reads:

STINKER
A FILM BY YERDEN TELEMISSOV

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Our feature documentary Survivors: The Spectre of Threads will soon be out in the world as part of the new 4K UHD release of the most harrowing film ever made from @severinfilms.bsky.social. You can pre-order it now (and please do!). You can also grab a traffic warden pin badge while you’re at it.

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Threads [3-Disc 4K UHD w/LE Slipcase + Postcard]

“THE MOVIE THAT SCARRED A GENERATION FOR LIFE.”British Film Institute THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE THREE DISC COLLECTION INCLUDES 7 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURESAND BONUS DOCUMENTARYSURVIVORS: THE SPECTRE O...

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Severin Films @severinfilms.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Coming soon!

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I watched Red Planet on the new 4K UHD from @arrowvideo.bsky.social last night and either it’s actually quite good or I just have a soft spot for films released when I was 10-12 years old, but either way I had a very good time.

Arrow Video 4K UHD of Red Planet (2000) featuring art by Matt Griffin. A space helmet is set against a starry sky, the rocky red surface of Mars beneath it with four small figures walking through the Martian landscape in the distance. The tagline reads “NOT A SOUND. NOT A WARNING. NOT A CHANCE. NOT ALONE.”

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Just announced by Eureka, Into the Forest: Folktales at DEFA, featuring five East German Märchenfilme alongside new commentaries, video extras, three animated shorts from the DEFA archives and a stacked book of essays. This has been a dream production project. Pick it up.

Box set art for the Masters of Cinema release INTO THE FOREST: FOLKTALES AT DEFA, featuring art by Carly A-F. On the front-facing art, a wolf stands in front of a figure wearing a devil mask, who in turn is standing in front of a castle on a clifftop. They are surrounded by the dark branches of trees.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The second annual Culture Shock festival (from the folks at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social) kicks off at Sheffield's Showroom Cinema in just two weeks. You won't find more eclectic genre programming – Possession, A Chinese Ghost Story, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, R.O.T.O.R. – anywhere else.

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Culture Shock: Festival of Fantastic Film | Showroom Cinema

Join us for the second edition of Culture Shock: Festival of Fantastic Film, a genre film festival from the makers of Celluloid Screams that celebrates classic and contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, horror...

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I've just realised it's been 10 years now since I made my first contribution to a Blu-ray release. I wrote an essay on Wolfgang Petersen's Enemy Mine (still a firm favourite) for Eureka in 2016. A decade later, I'm producing discs for them – all thanks to this underrated little sci-fi film, I guess.

The Eureka Classics release of Wolfgang Petersen’s Enemy Mine, in a clear amaray case and featuring original poster artwork: Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr (in make-up as the alien Drac) face each other in front of a blue and purple hued space scene. The case is being held up in front of shelves filled with Eureka releases.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Just been reminded – by an exciting email from Severin – that I forgot to share this piece from the Sheffield Tribune when it was published. We've talked to a lot of people about Threads and our upcoming documentary Survivors: The Spectre of Threads, but this is my favourite interview we've done.

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Threads and the making of the Sheffield mind

"The film had genuinely traumatised him in a way that has made him ready for the end of the world at any moment"

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

One of my favourite pieces of art I have ever commissioned, by the exceptionally talented @carlydraws.bsky.social.

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John Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I've finally got my framed #ArtOfAction poster, featuring my introduction to #TheAdventuresOfRobinHood (1938), on the wall. You can read "Robin Hood And The Stuntman Lost In Time" below. #FilmSky

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Sean Phillips @seanphillips.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Did a new Blu-ray cover… whysoblu.com/cecile-is-de...

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Picked up the BFI’s new release of Strongroom and absolutely loved supporting feature The Man in the Back Seat. Incredibly nippy at 57 minutes(!), it’s a very tense crime thriller that follows two petty crooks desperately trying to offload their injured victim without getting caught. Great stuff.

Title card for The Man in the Back Seat (1961), with the title written in white block capitals against the leather seats in the back of a car.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Eureka's May titles have just been announced, all of them a total blast to work on: Buster Keaton's masterpiece The General on 4K UHD, an excellent and underseen outing for Inspector Maigret in Maurice Tourneur's Cécile is Dead and Frank Beyer's controversial Trace of Stones, one of DEFA's finest.

Slipcase artwork for the Eureka / Masters of Cinema release of The General. Packaging design by Nick Wrigley.

Slipcase artwork for the Eureka / Masters of Cinema release of Cécile is Dead. New artwork by Sean Phillips.

Slipcase artwork for the Eureka / Masters of Cinema release of Trace of Stones. New artwork by Carly A-F.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 24/02/2026

Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It has made my day to see Eureka's release of Jakob the Liar – the only East German film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award – top the @avforums.bsky.social list of Top 10 Blu-rays for February 2026. It was a genuine honour to produce this one and I'm really very proud of it.

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Top 10 Blu-rays (UK) for February 2026

Another month - is it February already? - another packed release schedule in 1080p blu-ray land. Lets see which ones are worth picking up, shall we?

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We've been working on Chasm Films, a new home video label dedicated to underground world genre cinema, for ages – so it's great to see our first release announced with huge thanks to @filmsradiance.bsky.social for hosting us. Taxidermia is beautiful, bonkers and a world Blu-ray premiere. Pick it up.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Of all the new-to-me films I watched last year, the one I think about most often is Piotr Szulkin's War of the Worlds: Next Century. A radical approach to the familiar alien invasion narrative about the evils of media manipulation (and martians obviously). Available on disc from Radiance.

Three large rectangular signs affixed to the side of a grey apartment building read “MARTIANS LOVE LAW.” The signs are white with blue text outlined in red. Residents are hanging red and blue flags from nearby windows. A television camera is visible in the bottom right of the frame.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I had a blast talking about the mighty Rear Window (a personal all-timer) with @fatscoleman.bsky.social for @top100pod.bsky.social. I really love this film and hope it comes across in our discussion.

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The Top 100 Greatest Films Of All Time @top100pod.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

💥NEW EPISODE!💥This month Tim is joined by @craigimann.bsky.social from Eureka Entertainment to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW (1954). Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Top 100 Greatest Films Of All Time @top100pod.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Ho ho ho and Merry Christmas! With so many classic films screening on UK television over the Christmas period, I thought I'd start a thread of what to look out for over the coming days...

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a poster for absolute cinema shows a man sitting in a chair

ALT: a poster for absolute cinema shows a man sitting in a chair

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Just done the ritualistic flick through the seasonal Radio Times and pleased to see that 1) the BBC has remembered films made before 1980 and 2) New Year’s Eve on BBC Four is wall-to-wall Jaws programming. What better way to welcome 2026 than watching Jaws 2.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Great to see a Eureka release make it onto the Sight and Sound Discs of the Year (in the current issue of the print magazine) for the second year running. A very fun one to work on, co-produced by myself and Jacob Milligan.

Packshot of the Eureka Classics release MARTIAL LAW: LO WEI'S WUXIA WORLD, featuring THE BLACK BUTTERFLY (1968), DEATH VALLEY (1968) and VENGEANCE OF A SNOWGIRL (1971). Artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju).

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

As part of the BFI's Too Much season celebrating melodrama, The Phantom of the Opera is screening at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield on Sunday 30 November with an intro by me and a live score by HarmonieBand. Grab a ticket, it'll be a one-off experience!: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/too-muc...

A picture of Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera accompanied by text reading:

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

& LIVE SCORE BY HARMONIEBAND

30 NOVEMBER 2025

SHOWROOM CINEMA

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Prizes up for grabs before tomorrow's Masters of Cinema screening of Message from Space at the Showroom, Sheffield: Shogun's Samurai (not even released until Monday!) and our collection of the first three films in the excellent Abashiri Prison series. Tickets: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

Masters of Cinema releases of Shogun's Samurai (cover art by John Dunn) and Prison Walls: Abashiri Prison I–III (cover art by Tony Stella).

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Next weekend, Masters of Cinema presents Kinji Fukasaku's Message from Space (often unofficially called Japanese Star Wars) at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield. This is such a fun film, recommended to any fan of science fiction or special effects cinema. Tickets: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

A picture of a space ship from Kinji Fukasaku's Message from Space, accompanied by the text:

MASTERS OF CINEMA PRESENTS

MESSAGE FROM SPACE

15–16 NOVEMBER
(PG) / DIR. KINJI FUKASAKU

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Went to see Relay yesterday, which is both one of the best films I've seen at the cinema all year and one of the most surprising. A proper old-fashioned paranoid suspense thriller with shades of The Conversation and Enemy of the State. They don't (very often) make them like this anymore.

Illustrated poster for Relay (2024), featuring the images of stars Lily James nd Riz Ahmed above the New York City skyline and a telecommunications machine for the deaf. The tagline reads:

NO CALLERS ARE IDENTIFIED

NO CONVERSATIONS ARE RECORDED

NO PHONE RECORDS ARE KEPT.

NOW SPEAK CLEARLY AND WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED SAY:

"GO AHEAD."

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The Mixed Reviews @themixedreviews.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And then we had a howling good time on the podcast with our guest @craigimann.bsky.social to talk about the history of Werewolves on Film: open.spotify.com/episode/5TOy...

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102 - Werewolves on Film (with guest Craig Ian Mann)

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A great weekend at @celluloidscreams.bsky.social (15 years on from my first, which is wild). Highlights: Descendent (alien abductions and familial dramas), Head Like a Hole (a modern Outer Limits episode about bullshit jobs) and doc Silver Screamers (in which senior citizens make a horror movie).

The screen in Screen 4 at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield. A slide is displayed in red with white text that reads:

CELLULOID SCREAMS
SHEFFIELD HORROR FILM FESTIVAL
23–26 OCTOBER 2025
SHOWROOM CINEMA
PRESENTED BY ARROW VIDEO

Poster for Descendent, featuring a man facing away from the viewer, silhouetted as they look into a bright light in the sky; this image is reflected in the eye of a non-human creature resembling a deer.

Poster for Head Like a Hole, featuring a man in a white shirt and black tie on a red background. His face is replaced by a hole, in which we can see another man wearing a white shirt and black tie, sitting on a chair. The tagline reads: "Work yourself to death."

Poster for Silver Screamers. Several older men and women are facing the viewer, a man at the front holding a camera. The tagline reads: "Lights! Camera! Arthritis."

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Had an amazing time at @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social last weekend as ever. Highlights: Bone Lake (a twisty erotic thriller with great gore effects), Dead by Dawn (an inventive and very Polish neo-giallo) and Redux Redux (lo-fi sci-fi with a Terminator vibe), plus Bulk, Portal to Hell and Mag Mag.

Poster for Bone Lake, featuring a close-up of a woman licking blood from a knife. The tagline reads: "This movie gives great word of mouth."

Posted for Redux Redux, featuring a woman standing over a burning man tied to a chair. The tagline reads: "Revenge is a vicious cycle."

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Larry Fessenden’s Depraved is coming to 4K UHD later this month via IFC and OCN. I wrote an essay to accompany the set, which hopefully just about captures how much I love this movie. Thanks very much to @jlalibs.com for the opportunity. Pre-order a copy here: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

Cover for IFC/OCN’s 4K UHD release of Larry Fessenden’s Depraved with art by Chris Barnes.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Prizes up for grabs before the Masters of Cinema screening of The Cat and the Canary at Showroom Cinema tomorrow: The Man Who Laughs on Blu-ray and The Old Dark House on 4K UHD. Come and see a great film and maybe win some other great films. Tickets here: showroomcinema.org.uk/film/masters...

Eureka / Masters of Cinema releases of THE OLD DARK HOUSE and THE MAN WHO LAUGHS.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Very proud of Wrack and Ruin: The Rubble Film at DEFA. It collects some of the earliest and most important East German films, all made in the immediate aftermath of WWII. Producing this box involved many, many hours of digging through the DEFA / PROGRESS Film archives – all of them worth it.

Eureka / Masters of Cinema box set WRACK AND RUIN: THE RUBBLE FILM AT DEFA featuring cover art by Carly A-F.

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