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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

1000%. Don't let the robots win!

John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Teams (as per usual) wants to sap all joy from our lives, so it deliberately froze when it detected the shift from frowns to heartily excited reactions!!!

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Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Aca-Christmas-Horror-Colleagues I’ve an emergency for an essay on eco-horror and Christmas involving supernatural or magical creatures, pointing to a pagan/folk horror past. Can’t involve ghosts but can be in any media. If interested drop me a message to: baconetti@gmail.com

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Thanks! It's done and edited now... until I decide to do the second draft!

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's been a rough week of burning the candle at both ends, but I've finished writing a feature length script - the first piece of creative writing I've attempted since the end of my undergrad. I've got a first draft and I'm determined to make the thing after all it's put me through!

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Opening Final Draft for the first time in nearly a decade and I'm completely lost. I need to sit through a pile of YouTube tutorials before developing my notes. What a way to kill the momentum, technology...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Renovating my room (making it livable after years of being entombed by media) has led to me finding and finally sorting my old comic collection. The sickness is back. I may currently be addicted to filling in the decade-long gap via Ebay...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Tickets can be reserved at: www.eventbrite.com/e/future-scr... . If you can't make it but want to know more, don't hestitate to get in touch!

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Future Screens NI Information Day

Future Screens NI are excited to welcome any creative individuals/businesses in the North West area to our information day

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We're doing an information event at The Playhouse in Derry on the 30/04! If you are working in the creative industries in the North West region and want to learn more about our funding process/opportunities, come along and hear all about it. Make sure to reserve a ticket through eventbrite

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'm editing a chapter on Santa Slashers and I completely forgot that I wrote a lengthy diatribe about how Santa doesnt exist. It should probably be taken for granted but its also too depressing to chop up. Good editing practice and what amuses me have come into conflict once more

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I don't think this subtitle is as enlightening as it could be

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

damn if that ain't some bars

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

When a pipe bursts at midnight and you try to investigate:

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My card access was revoked about halfway through last semester, about six weeks into my new teaching contract. Universities love to play it cool and make us feel unwelcome 😅

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Today I learned that Muscular Christianity has made a theory-based comeback. It's one of the funnier concepts i discovered during my PhD, but I can only imagine how dangerous its resurgence probably is

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

After sleeping off the Christmas/Boxing Day flu, I'm finally ready to get stuck into the 50th anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five. No matter how many times you read it, you get something new. So it goes.

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

One thing I hate about reporting/research into the manosphere is that they rarely examine the influence of the mythopoetic movement. New media misogyny is a very successful rebrand of the nonsense spewed by Bly and his fellow Jungians, but is discussed as if it popped up out of nowhere

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

It turns out that my VPN, ad blocker, and all the paranoid tools were blocking it. I'll definitely forget about this the next time I go to watch something

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The films won't play. The play button doesn't seen to work. When I click it, nothing happens, but the rest of the browser page is responsive. I've done the usual stuff like disable the vpn, clear the cache, and all that but nothing has worked

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It's always fun find out that a service doesn't work after you've started paying for it. The BFI Player got me excited, only to let me down

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I don't know why everyone thinks that Oz adaptation is a musical? Ariana Grande hasn't shown up once, but there's been a shit load of Nazis and violence

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I've watched it before, so no worries about spoilers, but it's been years so it all feels fresh. I've a feeling I might only remember the first few seasons

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I'm watching Oz! It's a violent prison drama that eventually descends into a hyperviolent soap opera!

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My research contract ended today and the last lecture of my teaching contract is in half a week. I've already started watching a boxset and destroying my fragile sleeping pattern. Welcome back to my new annual tradition in academia: unemployed in time for Christmas

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We've reached that point of the night where my writing feels like it's genius, but will turn out to be over-tired and over-confident nonsense. This would be fine if it wasn't for an official report...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I hope he's not speaking from experience. Being hunted for sport is bad enough, but imagine thinking that you're in the clear and Iron Mike pops up out of nowhere...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Honestly, I didn't buzz off of The Way of the Dragon as much as I thought I would. As great of a performer as Bruce Lee was, I can't compliment his directing much. This could have been stronger in more experienced hands, but the loose narrative is still fun!

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Seven Samurai is as fantastic as always. I've seen it many times, but never on a cinema screen. The village defence in the third act becomes much more brutal and chaotic on the big screen, but the first act feels much more hopeful. It really doesn't need to be recommended at this point...

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Frewaka was a sneak preview. It's releasing in cinemas next year and shudder shortly after that. Check this out if you get a chance! It's a fascinating slice of Irish folk horror that deserves to do well. We need as much Irish language cinema as possible!

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Foyle Film Festival has been interesting this year so far. I haven't been able to go see everything I've wanted, but I've caught the highlights: Seven Samurai, The Way of the Dragon, and Frewaka. Unfortunately, I had to ditch Old Boy tonight as I've a pile of marking to get through

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

There's no way that this module doesn't become a global horror class by next year. The students will suffer due to the lack of English language key texts, but I'll be happy

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm watching Viy (1967) for the second time this semester to prep for tomorrow's Euro horror lecture and I'm just realising that I have to somehow jam together my loves of post-fascist Western horror and Soviet/Warsaw Pact horror in a two horror slot. It was pure hubris to think I could do it

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I never know how to feel about Lifeforce. It's an absolutely unhinged classic. What did you think of it?

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Okay, so trying to find online versions of Belarusian horror films seems to be a no go. The amount of viruses I might have just infected my laptop with will certainly be a shock in a few months

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Noooo, my opinion of it raised massively this week, don't make me remember specifics!!! 😅

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This needs a disclaimer: This is complete revisionist history. I didn't like Totally Killer when it was released, but my opinion of it spiked massively (and retroactively) by how little Time Cut dedicates to the Back to the Future premise. I might watch it again tonight to see how I actually feel!

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's genuinely hilarious that the creative team behind The Boys believe they're making punk rock art... while being bankrolled by one of the single most powerful corporations to ever exist.

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Sisters sits right up there with Carrie as alternating best De Palma pics for me. It really depends on which one I've seen most recently! Glad to hear you found some treasures in New York 😅

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I wasn't much of a fan of 2023' autumnal and hibernal slasher releases, but 2024's bunch are making me reevaluate them (at least on an aesthetic level)

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Totally Killer deserves the title of Back to the Future as a slasher, Time Cut feels uninspired and churned out... almost as if they'd heard of another film with an interesting premise to be mimicked. So I'd bet that we don't have a case of parallel productions, more like derivative productions

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

After a chat about parallel releases at the Elm Street conference, I've finally done the research. Time Cut lethargically uses time travel to establish an aesthetic and literally nothing else, whereas Totally Killer dedicates to letting it bleed into every aspect of the text.

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I always respected Cobra Kai's dedication to using younger actors that looked nothing like their counterparts, but acted the roles so compellingly that it just worked. Miyagi's double here is quite effective until he shifts into a ghoul. Pretty offputting, folks

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John Kavanagh @jfkav.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Seriously, I have chickenpox, a massive fever, and pain all over. Despite that, I still felt strongly enough to do some video editing and compression to show you all this 11th hour digital necromancy. Let the dead man rest in peace, his back is near broke from carrying this 40 year narrative

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