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Exquisite Terror

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Exquisite Terror is a once-in-a-blue-moon indie horror film journal with an accessible-academic approach to the genre. Posts by boss lady Naila. www.exquisiteterror.com

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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 8h
Had the genuine thought that you need to have done the right drugs to really *get* Tool, and thus, I have completed my transformation into That Guy.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My absolute favourite thing as a migraine-prone person is when my flat smells of smoke, because some fucker I don't know is leaning out of their window to smoke, so their flat doesn't smell of smoke.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Terror: Devil in Silver is available via Acorn on digital on 28 September and then DVD and Blu-ray on 5 October.
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WIN: The Terror – Devil in Silver Blu
The Terror: Devil in Silver is available via Acorn on digital on 28 September and then DVD and Blu-ray on 5 October.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oasis fans generally look like people who don't listen to any other bands. Like, ever. I'm not sure they even listen to Oasis.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fleeting brilliance and beautifully choreographed fight scenes arguably make for a Gonzo masterstroke in this convoluted world. Crazy Lips and Gore From Outer Space are available via @thirdwindowfilms.com tomorrow. www.exquisiteterror.com/crazy-lips-g...
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Crazy Lips // Gore From Outer Space — Exquisite Terror
Fleeting brilliance and beautifully choreographed fight scenes arguably make for a Gonzo masterstroke in this convoluted world.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Absolutely loved Late Fame. Going to have to read the book now.
Poster for Late Fame. Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee smile, facing each other on a New York street. Dafoe holds his book of poetry.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The silly stuff you forget about in your collection. Clearly I need to get back on with a Knockout Workout. Cat unsure.
DVD cover for Scream Queens Illustrated. Features an unidentified woman in a bikini, wielding a bloody axe. Orange cat in background is sniffing the case.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Had fun with The Scaring at Soho Theatre. Excellent comedy timing and direction, not a wasted moment.
Promo image for Crybabies: The Scaring. Features a haunted hotel and three men: one brandishing a knife; a priest holding a crucifix; another in a dressing gown with a mug.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Erm, how is it I've only just learned there was an animated series of Napoleon Dynamite?!
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Shady. Another interesting one from the catch-up pile. Captures the uniqueness of the teenage-loner-girl experience very well. Pretty impressive for that, given this was a debut for the director/writer and the lead actors.
Poster for Shady.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Melancholic. Another great one from my catch-up tower.
Poster for Melancholic, the Japanese movie.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's adorable how cats want to join in when you're trying to meditate. Distracting, but adorable.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I wonder whose events they've tried to shut down this year... If you know, you know.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Colony's expert choreography and unique spins on the zombie demonstrate they’re the most adaptive of all screen monsters. www.exquisiteterror.com/colony-yeon-...
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Colony — Exquisite Terror
Expert choreography and a series of unique spins on the zombie demonstrate they’re the most adaptive of all screen monsters.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When an incredible film sleeps in your taller-than-you to-watch pile for embarrassingly long... Blown away by Bedevilled. Whew.
Poster for Bedevilled, the South Korean film.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hellcat is an inventive film that reconciles horror’s present and past, providing proof that some of the genre’s oldest monsters still have more to offer.
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Hellcat — Exquisite Terror
An inventive film that reconciles horror’s present and past; proof that some of the genre’s oldest monsters still have more to offer.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ros Watt's Edinburgh Fringe show, Trans People Are Awful, points to a creatively liberated future in which the monsters write the scripts and take centre stage.
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Becoming the Monster: Ros Watt, Horror, and the Politics of Making Transness Abject — Exquisite Terror
In Trans People Are Awful, show creator Ros Watt argues that true equality also means the freedom to be abject and grotesque.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Memory Tree toys with expectations, plunging through multiple layers of enigma to leave us with a claustrophobic inability to discern intentions. @heatherdaveyauthor.bsky.social www.exquisiteterror.com/the-memory-t...
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The Memory Tree — Exquisite Terror
Toys with expectations, plunging through multiple layers of enigma to leave us with a claustrophobic inability to discern intentions.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's about time I see The Room, isn’t it? Probably the only PCC member who hasn't.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Shudder Original The Mortuary Assistant is available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital from Acorn Media International on 20 July. Enter the draw for a Blu.
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WIN: The Mortuary Assistant Blu
Based on the critically-acclaimed videogame of the same name, director Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) dials up the chills as he delves deeper into the lore of Brian Clarke’s cult first-person horror simulation. The film follows Rebecca Owens (Willa Holland – The O.C., Arrow), a newly certified mortician with a troubled past. After being hired at River Fields Mortuary, she takes over the night shift, but what starts out as your run-of-the-mill embalming takes an unnerving turn… As the cold, clinical lights begin to flicker, bodies begin to move on their own and Rebecca realises she is not alone.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Erik Hofstatter dips in and out of spectacular horrors, walking on the surface of a sea of blood slicking every vivid moment.
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Pain Is a Chain. Move, and I'll Hear You — Exquisite Terror
Erik Hofstatter's story dips in and out of spectacular horrors, walking on the surface of a sea of blood slicking every vivid moment.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Never noticed the thanking of filmmakers' pets in the credits before. Aww. (Film: House of Ashes.)
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In conversation with Sébastien Vaniček, director and co-writer of Evil Dead Burn, the sixth entry in the beloved horror franchise.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Saw The Invite. Had fun with it. But why can't costumers sort out bras that fit? Yet to see a band that isn't at least two inches too big. That shit's uncomfortable. Look after your boobed people.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Serves what audiences expect, yet the underlying theme of trauma makes Evil Dead Burn resonate with unexpected depth. www.exquisiteterror.com/evil-dead-bu...
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Evil Dead Burn — Exquisite Terror
Serves what audiences expect, yet the underlying theme of trauma makes Evil Dead Burn resonate with unexpected depth.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Erik Hofstatter's Pain Is a Chain. Move, and I’ll Hear You is a lyrical exploration of ghost autopsy, available from Aqueduct Press as part of their Conversation Pieces series on 15 July.
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WIN: Pain Is a Chain. Move, and I’ll Hear You
Erik Hofstatter's Pain Is a Chain. Move, and I’ll Hear You is available from Aqueduct Press on 15 July.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Despite a refreshing medley of Japanese-Taiwanese folklore and an unhinged antagonist, The Curse is mostly forgettable.
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The Curse — Exquisite Terror
Despite a refreshing medley of Japanese-Taiwanese folklore and an unhinged antagonist, The Curse is mostly forgettable.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
WIN: Cold Prey Trilogy The Cold Prey trilogy is available on limited edition Blu-ray from Second Sight on 6 July. Enter the draw for a copy here.
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WIN: Cold Prey Trilogy
The Cold Prey trilogy is available on limited edition Blu-ray from Second Sight on 6 July. Enter the draw for a copy here.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Feels a bit weird wearing an ATR T-shirt these days, what with Alec Empire's views. Oh well.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Spoke to someone about AI and writing on Saturday and I'm *still* flabbergasted at them saying they use ellipses instead of dashes now. What the hell? My gobshite self was stunned into silence, which never happens. Anyway, you will take my beloved em-dash from my cold, dead hands.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Fashioning Hitchcock is effortlessly readable and textured with beautiful turns of phrase, like the finishing touch on an elegant evening outfit. www.exquisiteterror.com/fashioning-h...
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Fashioning Hitchcock: Stories Behind the Costumes from The Lodger to Marnie — Exquisite Terror
Effortlessly readable and textured with beautiful turns of phrase, like the finishing touch on an elegant evening outfit.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Affection is a debut feature that demonstrates remarkable restraint, despite the literary allusions and scope of writer-director BT Meza’s ideas.
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Affection — Exquisite Terror
Affection is a debut that demonstrates remarkable restraint, despite the literary allusions and scope of writer-director BT Meza’s ideas.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Creep Tapes Season Two is available from Acorn Media International on 1 June. Enter the draw for a Blu-ray.
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WIN: The Creep Tapes S2
The Creep Tapes Season Two is available from Acorn Media International on 1 June. Enter the draw for a Blu-ray.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Who came up with the Curzon membership options? One gets you five free tickets a year; the next is seven free tickets a week. No in-between. The new bundles option doesn't make it much better. Silly.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hex House is a fine story, doubly horrific in the way it makes the basic indignities, stresses and awfulness of real lives pulse with foreboding. Amy Jane Stewart's debut novel is out now.
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Hex House — Exquisite Terror
A fine story, made doubly horrific in the way it makes the basic indignities, stresses and awfulness of real lives pulse with foreboding.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Exit 8 nihilistically cautions that it might already be too late to wrest ourselves from the societal structures which dictate us.
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Exit 8 — Exquisite Terror
Nihilistically cautions that it might already be too late to wrest ourselves from the societal structures which dictate us.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The true horror of The Plague doesn’t arise from its titular affliction, but rather the creeping spectre of toxic masculinity which slowly bares its teeth.
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The Plague — Exquisite Terror
A slow sense of dread, of moving towards violence, is fully realised by a score that draws out the horror lurking beneath the surface.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is incredible.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I never thought I'd say this: I kind of miss Twitter. Oh well. It was good while it lasted, and I'm grateful for the connections I made.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Despite flaws, Undertone features a soundscape so effective, you’ll find yourself conjuring your own spectres in the shadowy corridors.
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Undertone — Exquisite Terror
Despite flaws, Undertone features a soundscape so effective, you’ll find yourself conjuring your own spectres.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sharply written and expertly directed, Ghost Killer offers a one, two, three, four punch that’ll satisfy and likely leave you wanting more. www.exquisiteterror.com/ghost-killer...
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Ghost Killer — Exquisite Terror
Sharply written and expertly directed, Ghost Killer offers a one, two, three, four punch that’ll satisfy and likely leave you wanting more.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
So this new (?) 'POV' trend where people are just doing selfies is quite irritating, huh?
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Dead Lover is truly endearing and grotesquely funny; a reminder that cinema can be a beautifully communal experience when joy supersedes budget. www.exquisiteterror.com/dead-lover-g...
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Dead Lover — Exquisite Terror
Truly endearing and grotesquely funny, Dead Lover reminds us that cinema can be a beautifully communal experience when joy supersedes budget.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Whimsical, expressionist depictions of terror in a surreal, dreamlike unreality prove that body horror can transcend the gratuitous. Else is on digital next week.
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Else — Exquisite Terror
Whimsical, expressionist depictions of terror in a surreal, dreamlike unreality prove that body horror can transcend the gratuitous.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A tactile reminder of the human hand in an AI age; painstaking attention makes ILYA's Romo the Wolfboy appear like an artefact from the late 1800s.
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Romo the Wolfboy — Exquisite Terror
A tactile reminder of the human hand; painstaking attention makes Romo the Wolfboy appear like an artefact from the late 1800s.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Jimmy and Stiggs is a sensorial delight that rollicks in its shoestring budget; this psychedelic nightmare feels dear to the heart of a true horror fan.
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Jimmy and Stiggs — Exquisite Terror
Jimmy and Stiggs sucks you into a psychedelic nightmare with a vision that feels dear to the heart of a true horror fan.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
WIN: V/H/S Halloween V/H/S Halloween is available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 9 February, courtesy of Acorn Media International.
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WIN: V/H/S Halloween
V/H/S Halloween is available on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 9 February, courtesy of Acorn Media International.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Dress codes for multimedias now? Really?
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This Wretched Beauty is filled with lines so astute and true, you’ll want to stitch them straight onto your heart. @elleoftheball.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social #gothic #horror #queer #supernatural #trans
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This Wretched Beauty - Exquisite Terror
The very existence of this book is an act of resistance as surely as being queer in Victorian times or openly trans in the 21st century.
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Exquisite Terror @exquisiteterror.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Damn you, Trent Reznor!
Comic strip showing Trent Reznor crashing a family scene with his keyboard, to tell them Christmas is a terrible lie.
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