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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Is it an adhd thing to never want to tick the “don’t show me this again” box on even the most annoying app reminders? I don’t know the future; maybe I’ll desperately want whatever thing I’m currently dismissing but not even remember it’s a possibility…

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Advances in the world of special effects!

An article with the title “New Plastic Masks Replace Sculpturing” claims “As fast as photography and almost as simple is a new process for making more accurate reproductions of head and bust than a sculptor can. Casts of heads can be made at low cost in 35 minutes.
A new type of plastic material, invented by Miss Harriet Meyer, Is the secret of the process. This plastic substance, with which she covers the entire head of the subject, accurately reproduces every strand of hair and minute line.
Yet the material does not stick to the subject. No oil is put on the face.
The subject can assume any expression he may wish to have reproduced.
The plastic material is applied with a brush and a brass cage pressed in place. The mask Is then dried with an electric blower.
After drying the mask, still flexible, is removed. It is then used to produce the finished head in plaster of Paris or bronze.
It is claimed the plastic material does not cause discomfort to the subject and no tubes are necessary to permit the subject to breathe easily.”

The photos look horrifying; highlights include the person mid cast smoking through the (presumably flammable) “plastic” material and the “brass cage” which looks like a gibbet crossed with a medical external fixator.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Checking a detail of a short film I worked on and look what the second result is if you search “bald” on imdb!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I saw a deeply creepy reel on instagram announcing a new ai/robotic “companion”. I had the same response I’m sure most of you fine people will have had. So I made this. (Trigger warning: I used some ropey “free” ai in there. Sorry.)

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Next Thursday I get to subject audiences to a favourite wtf movie of mine, courtesy of the generous hospitality of the lovely folks at My Eyes! My Eyes! It’s sort of a secret title but not really. I’ll also be making a clip show to go with it!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Why the hell aren’t pitta breads sold in ziplock bags?

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Rob Simpson @drumeggsfilms.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Part 3: F. One of the better working class-sploitation movies made in the UK & EIRE back in the day. Me & @knowhereandy.bsky.social chat to @danmartin.bsky.social about his origins plannings effects shots. Watch and Subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsRC...

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The Early Career of an FX Maestro — Johannes Roberts’ F with Dan Martin

YouTube video by The Geek Show

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Found in the attic. Crazy to think how long ago this was.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Pitch for a TV series: A single camera, local government drama about the newly elected mayor (and the subsequent administrations- I see this thing as multi season) trying to deal with the Jason “situation” in the quiet hamlet of Crystal Lake. Kind of like if Friday the 13th did Shin Godzilla.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I think I’m stuck in traffic behind the dead wife of Kazuhiko Amamiya! #ExtremelyNicheReferences #IExplainItInTheAltText,IfYouWereWonderingWhatTheFuckI’mOnAbout

A photograph of a BMW painted an unusual (custom?) sky blue and bear the license plate RI EKO, which is probably coincidentally the name of actress Rieko Miura, who played the character Chizuko Honda/Kobayashi, wife of detective Yosuke Kobayashi in the series MPD Psycho, and whose abduction and murder is the exciting incident for the entire show as well as the reason for the psychological break that causes Kobayashi to develop the multiple personalities (including analytical Kazuhiko Amamiya) that make himself the titular “Multiple Personality Detective: Psycho”.

It’s a tenuous joke.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It’s not historically accurate unless you get to drink the in-use preservation fluid with a friend. A friend you then have sent to the gulag because, while off his face on Leninade, he confides in you that he thinks your wife is hot?

A screngrab of a game called “Embalming Lenin’s body” on the google play store featuring not-at-all historically accurate cartoon depictions of his corpse in a morgue.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Radio 6 was playing Juice Newton’s Angel of the morning as I was driving today and I think the lyrics are “Just call me angel of the morning (angel) Just touch my teeth before you leave me, baby” How weird. (I am not looking to be corrected.)

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’m very excited to discover Jan Kounen has a new film out but what an incredibly brusque synopsis!

Screen-grab of the synopsis of The Shrinking Man from imdb

It reads “Plot: The Shrinking Man (2025)
Shipbuilder inexplicably shrinks, gets trapped in basement, few inches tall. Must fight for survival in now-hostile ordinary household environment. Sci-fi premise, no explanation given for shrinking phenomenon.”

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The Geek Show @thegeekshow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Uncut has been off a longer than planned, but join us in a brand new strand for the podcast. Uncut Presents... up first is British FX icon, @danmartin.bsky.social #horror #PodernFamily Join @uncutrobcast.bsky.social & @knowhereandy.bsky.social and Listen Here: open.spotify.com/episode/2l7o...

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Uncut Presents: FX Maestro Dan Martin on Bad Taste, Parents & F – Practical Effects, Horror Classics & Creative Influences

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Let me tell you something about Cuba. US officials are constantly saying "socialism in Cuba is a failure". But in fact Cuba's achievements with socialism are extremely impressive:

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Kat Hughes @kathughes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Absolutely love this @filmstories.bsky.social cover. I have a piece in this issue talking to @danmartin.bsky.social about all things FX. Order your copy now: store.filmstories.co.uk/products/iss...

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Orwell must feel pretty smug right about now.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

First peek at the creature we built for the upcoming Hungry!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Yay, first Nancy the hippo and now our Dolly is getting seen! Terrific!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Good morning! Here are a few torn fingernails, some of the appliances I designed and sculpted for the movie The Man in my Basement, directed by Nadia Latif. The pieces were beautifully applied by Elly Suggit.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Did you know that Lionel Richie is the patron saint of poorly-maintained digital signage and will appear, like Jesus on burnt toast, to point out areas requiring attention…

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Filth Wizard @tinyweasel.eurosky.social · 16/01/2026

fuckers. switch to Deezer or Tidal

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is very exciting, also it looks like it was made very specifically for me!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The way you can remember the difference is that INteriception is the ability to tell what is going on IN your body, whereas whereas PROprioception is thus made because is is viewed as PROfessional to not keep dropping stuff and bumping into shit.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I feel like I’ve just had an epiphany: Needing to know and speak aloud the name of a Demon in order to exercise it is a one-to-one parallel with identifying and working through trauma… Has this been blindingly obvious to everyone the entire time and I’m just very late to the party?

A painting by Francisco de Goya of Saint Francis Borgia performing an exorcism. St Francis stands on the right wielding a crucifix, an emaciated man lies in bed, partially covered by sheets While distinct and shadowy Demons loom over him. But I’ve added a speech bubble so Saint Francis is saying “ childhood abandonment, I cast thee out!“

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A sausage elemental and his son have been slain.

A social media post by BBC News, bearing the headline “large pile of raw sausages found in Bristol”. But there are two piles, and one is bigger than the other.
There is only one logical conclusion…

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Stopping for a snack at work and biting a block of surprisingly firm Manchego with such vigour that I damage my gum and now it’s got a bit of blood on it like when my dog can’t control his excitement and tears apart a stuffed toy. I resolve to judge him less.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I have a 65” computer monitor in my office for big spreadsheets but goddamn if it doesn’t look great with the screensaver that’s just an endless scroll posters for the films I’ve worked on.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I think I’ve just written a Christmas joke, which is odd, because I hate Christmas. Maybe I didn’t, maybe it’s an old one and I just suppressed it. Why can you contractually never win a game of hide and seek with Father Christmas? Because of the hidden Clause.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

what if we all watched possessor again

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I’ve found another seller. I’m loving the photos from this listing, they lets me know he’s / hard worker, chill company and has his own friend group (they’re just like him). What is his name, though??

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My two biggest regrets are that I didn’t know about this guy 20 hallowe’ens ago and that he is no longer available to purchase.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

You know how Apple Watches are kind of ugly? Wait ‘til you get a load of this absolute fucking monstrosity.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It’s a nice rush of festival screenings for us at the moment. A great, varied spread of titles too! Very pleased to have been involved in all three of these (first two played at LFF and Dolly will be at Frightfest!)

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

A while ago I was asked to design and make a mask for a new slasher, based on a pretty well set concept… If you’re at Sitges tonight you can see them on the big screen in the European premiere of Dolly!

The titular “Dolly”, wearing the mask we made. A battered, cracked, oversized porcelain doll head the jagged neck shards of which tear to the flesh of the wearer!

Fabianne Therece having an entirely proportionate reaction to the events of the film: screaming, running, blood covered through a forest full of suspended baby dolls.

Sean William Scott showing perhaps too much restraint in the face of what May well before him…

Information regarding the screening.

Part of the Midnight X-treme all-nighter with Karmadonna, Death Red, Rough Cut and Meat Kills! Starting at 01:00am!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I strongly recommend a a lemon pathos near a small corbel with a lava lamp on a smart switch in your kitchen. It’s a nice vibe.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Shout out to FX maestro @danmartin.bsky.social for DOLLY’s mask design and to Ashley Thomas for the implementation and gore fx… Seann William Scott gets absolutely f-d up in this movie.

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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The jaw-dropping DOLLY delivers grimy 16mm grindhouse style & visceral gore in a folk-horror nightmare of grotesquerie. Raw, loud & scuffed at the edges, it’s built for midnight audiences to gasp, scream & laugh together. My usual credo is to “protect the dolls.” BUT NOT HER!! ★★★★ @ Fantastic Fest

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Dolly – Fantastic Fest review

Rod Blackhurst’s Dolly, premiering at Fantastic Fest, is a grindhouse folk-horror about a couple’s woodland proposal derailed by Babydoll, a porcelain-masked captor. Shot on 16mm, it mixes grotesqu…

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I have been singing the praises of this film since I caught a pre-release screening at a festival many years ago. It’s criminally under seen, an absolutely fantastic body horror!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I have eaten many almonds in my life but only today have I had one that tasted like marzipan and let me tell you, I am shook!

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Do I know anyone who knows anyone who makes their own procreate brushes? I’m trying to make a dynamic brush and I’m so close but it’s not doing what I feel it should be doing. Anyone I could talk to out there?

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nervechannel sound system @nervechannel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Went to see INFINITY POOL with @hexadecibelle.fyi at a special screening with @danmartin.bsky.social doing a Q&A Just after the psychedelic orgy scene, someone 5 rows behind us had a seizure

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🧵1/3 In excited anticipation of @manmademoon.bsky.social Rogue Trooper movie, i thought I’d share a short script I wrote for an ultimately never-to-be, proof of concept Rogue Trooper origin movie. Still pretty pleased with it tbh.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Absolute chaos over at Apple Music. Great curation, guys.

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13FingerFX @danmartin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Great job, Chitubox, I’m sure that’ll do!

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