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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. For more, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tomorrow morning, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at @meccsa.bsky.social 2026, hosted by the University of Leicester. Here, we’ll be introducing our feature-length documentary, SCUM OF THE EARTH: CREATING AMERICA’S RURAL COMMUNITIES OF HORROR, which premieres internationally at 11:25am

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. To access the full CfP, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [20/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [19/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [18/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [17/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [16/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [15/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [14/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [13/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [12/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [11/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [10/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [09/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [08/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [07/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [06/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [05/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [04/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [03/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [02/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. [01/20] #BookChallenge 🤓📚

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