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Chasm Films @chasmfilms.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We were thrilled to launch our label with the world Blu-ray premiere of György Pálfi's Taxidermia back in May. We love this incredible blend of body horror, black comedy and social satire. The limited edition is still in stock via @filmsradiance.bsky.social: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/tax...

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. The text below the cover art reads LIMITED EDITION OUT NOW.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Like folk and fairy tales? I illustrated the cover, back and an inside cover for each of these 5 fantastic vintage fairytale films from DEFA! Check out Eureka's insta for an unboxing- www.instagram.com/p/DePU76ZlCiZ/ #art #fairytale #movies

beneath the trees 2 box art
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box art back with small pics of each cover

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Chasm Films @chasmfilms.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hello – we're Chasm Films, a boutique home video label dedicated to weird and wonderful contemporary world genre cinema (generally 1990 to present, but don't hold us to it!). You can buy our discs via our friends @filmsradiance.bsky.social here: www.radiancefilms.co.uk/collections/...

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks Anne. We're working away on the special features at the moment. I hope you enjoy it when it lands.

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

This looks essential!

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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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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I love this film, it's so lurid and filmic – feels a world away from the realism of Texas Chain Saw in a lot of ways, despite the similarities in content.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

God there’s a question… not digitally, I don’t have a copy anymore. But I can do the old fashioned “take pictures of the pages”! DM me your email and I’ll sort it tomorrow. 👍

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Ha, of course I remember mate. Will let you know next time I make it down there, it's been an age!

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

At the BFI? Haven't done an intro down in London for a while! I occasionally talk nonsense before films in my native Sheffield though. I introduced DEFA's The Devil from Mill Mountain at this year's Culture Shock festival in Sheffield back in May. I'm sure there will be more in future.

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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

Oh, I love The Omen III (apart from its insane ending). Such a great movie.

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

Totally, his pigs were the ultimate timeline cleanse.

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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 · 01/07/2026

This one's a favourite of mine, and a go-to whenever I fancy something with a proper 1950s robot in it.

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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 · 29/05/2026

Oh no, I misread the roman numerals and thought you had Howling V up next, but it is in fact the dreaded Howling VII… god help you…

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I wish you all the luck in the world. For what it’s worth, I think 2-6 are all watchable. 7 is perhaps the worst film I’ve ever seen. As you come in to land, Reborn will look like a bonafide masterpiece in comparison.

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

Sadly I can’t, no. My first post was very much a joke but I will freely admit that I did have a bash at turning it off!

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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 · 22/05/2026

Hope you enjoyed the second bit.

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

I thought A Generation and Kanał were near-perfect films so I wasn’t quite prepared for just how good this is (or, to show you I’m softening on the matter, how noirish it is).

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

Just incredible, will be thinking about it for weeks.

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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 · 15/05/2026

I don’t know if it’s your bag but I really loved the Comic Art Museum and I recommend seeing if there’s something you like the look of on at Cinema Nova because it’s one of the best I’ve ever been to, it’s a cinema with dive bar aesthetics (even in the screen!).

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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

Oh, I know – I reposted it yesterday! Lots of exciting things happening at the moment.

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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 · 26/04/2026

I saw Nevada on Friday and loved it so perhaps it’s finally time to put this in the to-watch pile and actually, you know, watch it.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I keep taking this off the shelf and then inexplicably not actually watching it. I must have put it in the to-watch pile about six times. Let me know how it is.

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Sure, if you follow you should be able to DM me and I’ll drop you an email for our PR team.

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

Artwork by the incredibly talented @carlydraws.bsky.social, and I can't wait for the world to see her interior artwork too.

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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 · 22/04/2026

Ha, I was being facetious but people seem to be enjoying it and I’m proud of what we’ve done with it. I actually don’t have a physical copy of it yet, looking forward to seeing it in the flesh!

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ours is the best one though. Thanks for your interview, it’s great.

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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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