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Jonathan Hatfull

@jonathanhatfull.bsky.social
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Former professional writer on film/TV/books, now just talking about them and my cat whenever someone lets me. Horror person. Half of Dundee’s Bizarro Video Club, Minnesota Wild fan, writing things. He/him

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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
31 movies that scared me silly! 6. Messiah of Evil. That scene in the cinema…good lord.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 57. In 1986, he was Fenn on an episode of Edward Woodward tv show The Equalizer, finding out that maybe helping out your ex-con buddy isn’t smart if they want to murder people.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 56. Offering Marlon Wayans’ ambitious college student an experimental senses-enhancing drug as Dr Thomas Wheedon in 1998 comedy flop Senseless. Co-written by Craig Mazin!
A man in glasses and a lab coat holds up a syringe to a worried looking young manA man in glasses and a lab coat looks up from a microscope
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
31 movies that scared the silly out of me! 5. A Tale of Two Sisters. I know everyone goes on about that scare but Jesus: that scare.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 55. Penitent bad dad Ed Harris’ sweetheart of a brother Clyde Winston in based on a true story sports drama Touching Home.
A young man on crutches, an older man in a red shirt a Santa hat, and another younger man stand outside
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
31 movies that really effing scared me! 4. [REC] scares me silly. Absolutely terrifying and holds up very well
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 54. How did Criminal Minds go eight years before casting Brad Dourif as a serial killer who’s trying to turn people into living puppets? He’s Adam Rain.
A man in braces behind some big stringsA man in a waistcoat and bow tie and stage makeup looks proud in front of a curtain
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
31 movies that really effing scared me! 3. Dead of Night, specifically the final segment with Michael Redgrave and Hugo.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
31 movies that properly frightened me! 2. David Lynch’s Lost Highway. The trailer on a Blockbuster rental gave me nightmares as a kid. “As a matter of fact, I’m there right now.”
A worried looking man at a party.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 53. Rocking his Blue Velvet haircut as Leo Nova in the 1987 Whoopi Goldberg - Sam Elliott movie Fatal Beauty. Directed by Tom Holland!
A man looks nervously out of a window while holding a gun A man looks well seedy while walking past racks of clothes, followed by a very big manA man holds a gun with his back against a wall, looking scared
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
31 movies that properly frightened me! Yay spooky season! 1. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse (Kairo). Absolutely terrifying. It’s messier than Cure but this just scares the crap out of me. Such dread.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 52. Popping up as “Zealot” in The Prophecy 3: The Ascent. Not a good film, but Walken is still having fun.
A man with sunglasses fires a gunA man with long hair plays a trumpet while driving a convertible
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 51. Leslie, one half of the senior partners at Wesley Snipes’s architectural firm in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shout out to everyone else who cried “No! Why?” from the other side of the road to the bus that always comes two minutes late but came one minute early as it sailed past them this morning.
A man (tiny Norwegian angel Mats Zuccarello) looking tired and frustrated at sports press conference
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whoops, that was 50th Daily Brad Dourif character! Please enjoy him looking hot in Toto’s video for A Stranger in Town!
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif! 47. Crewman Lon Suder in Star Trek: Voyager. A man who’s very good at violence but wishes he wasn’t.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! (Has very much not been daily but hey) 49. Fingerless in Werner Herzog’s mountain climbing movie Scream of Stone
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ain’t no shit-eating grin like a 90s Tim Roth shit-eating grin.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watched Bill Duke’s Hoodlum yesterday and very much enjoyed. Laurence Fishburne is superb as Bumpy Johnson, backed by an awesome supporting cast (Chi McBride, Loretta Devine, Cicely Tyson, Clarence Williams III, Queen Latifah). Tim Roth goes BIG, Andy Garcia is hilarious. Big Untouchables vibes.
Hoodlum film posterTwo men in suits and fedoras on the street at nightA man stares intently at a spoonful of banana splitA man examines a pickaxe in his office
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
See it on the big screen with an audience, this was a goddamn hoot at DCA with the Dundead crowd.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am obsessed with Hope. A delirious, hilarious, gripping batshit epic with incredible cinematography and action, it has so many ideas it can’t sensibly fit them all into a 2.5 hour running time that flies by. I didn’t want it to end. Big swing brilliance that’s not afraid to fall on its face.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Had an absolute blast with Resident Evil. Giggled for 90 minutes in the best way. Lovely gooey surprises and, as a terrible gamer, it spoke to me. Were people really upset that it wasn’t about freaking Leon? A panicking dingus who’s bad at guns is the perfect lead for this, loads of fun.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dundee! This Sunday, join us at Bizarro Video Club for a screening of John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness from VHS at Canvas from 6pm! God’s not supposed to be a hack horror writer but Sam Neill is gonna find that reality is not what it used to be!
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
May your morning start as mine has, remembering the cover for Reaper Man in the group chat.
The paperback cover for Terry Pratchett’s Reaper Man. Death wears overalls and. Straw hat, sitting next to a little girl against a tree in a bucolic rural scene.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 48. Sweet Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II. He’s wonderful in these, a real highlight and a rare horror movie giant sweetheart character for him.
Brad Dourif as a sheriff on the phone at nightBrad Dourif in a sheriff’s uniform on a suburban street Brad Dourif telling a fun story to his teenage daughter at the dinner tableBrad Dourif looking horrified in a cop’s uniform in the street at night
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 47. Father McDonovan in Moonlighting season 3 episode ‘All Creatures Great…and Not So Great.’
Brad Dourif as a catholic priest looking forlorn, or maybe bored, in a confessional
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character is back after an unplanned hiatus! 46. Farley in Western anthology horror Grim Prairie Tales. I have not seen it but the tagline is “Hit the trail…to terror.”
Brad Dourif riding a horse in old west get up Grim Prairie Tales posterBrad Dourif looks spooked by firelight
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you’re like me and say “ooh!” to the idea of a French horror movie with a dash of social commentary set in the mid-20th C about a team of miners who are told to dig dangerously deep by a rich dingus and find an ancient practical effects monster, then you may, like me, enjoy The Deep Dark.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 45. Tech whizz kid and AI pioneer (and David Warner’s son!) Chickie in wild cyberpunky miniseries Wild Palms, created by Bruce Wagner (Maps to the Stars).
A collapsed Brad Dourif getting a hug from a worried David Warner outsideBrad Dourif in a hospital bed thinking about something on a computer screen Brad Dourif wearing sci fi vr glasses in a hospital bed, gesturing like he’s dancing
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 44. He’s Dr Warren Overman in the Murder, She Wrote episode ‘Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble.’ Hell yeah, he was on Murder, She Wrote!
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! It’s a double Dourif day as I spaced on this yesterday, so let’s start with… 43. A colourful cameo in a film drained of colour, he’s Salesman in Priest (2011). Who else would be dealing with vampires in a post apocalyptic world run by the warrior clergy?
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 42. The wonderfully named Al Bert in Critters 4!
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 41. Saavedro in the video game Myst III: Exile. He was a fan of the first game and made that role his own! We respect a video game cut scene actor icon!
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 40. Bookie Ned Schoenholtz, who is owed a lot of money by Nic Cage, in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 39. A personal favourite: greasy Vietnam vet turned exterminator Tucker Cleveland in Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift, a guiltless pleasure.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 38. Hemingway the Restaurant Manager in Hanif Kureishi’s London Kills Me
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I watched 1974’s Madhouse last night, which is no Theatre of Blood, but did lead to these delightful bts pictures of Vincent Price and Peter Cushing. And a scene where they’re on a sofa having a crap time at a party.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! Since I missed yesterday, two Law and Order characters! 36. Dr David Lingard, assisted dying doc or murderer? (Law and Order) 37. Dr Iggy Drexel , arson and fire consultant dude.
Brad Dourif on the stand in Law & OrderBrad Dourif in a lab in SVUBrad Dourif and Sharon Stone assessing a dark room in SVUBrad Dourif in a reconstructed crime scene in SVU
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 35. Physics expert, pot farmer, peaceful old hippie Jack in 2008 “lost young man” indie Humboldt County, mentoring angsty young Jeremy Strong and angry young Chris Messina

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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 34. He’s the hitch-hiker in Tales of the Unexpected episode ‘Number Eight.’ But is he also a serial killer?
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 33. Dr Lloyd swaggers into Dario Argento’s Trauma looking like Chris Kattan to scream “LEAVE ME THE F*** ALONE!” at the male lead before getting one of the best neck meets lift scenes in cinema.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 32. Younger Brother in Milos Forman’s Ragtime.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 31. Chucky week! Old Charles Lee Ray, along with Fiona Dourif’s young Charles Lee Ray, in the Chucky TV series.
Brad Dourif and Fiona Dourif as the old and young versions of Charles Lee RayThe young and old Charles Lee Ray arguing The old Charles Lee Ray talks to the Chucky doll Brad Dourif and Fiona Dourif pose for the camera dressed as Charles Lee Ray
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif! 30. The voice of young Charles Lee Ray, played by Fiona Dourif! “Hey, doll…”
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I did not do my daily Brad Dourif character yesterday so will be double dipping today! First! 29: Multiple Chuckies! From Curse onwards, we’ve got a whole mess of Chucky. The Colonel Kurtz Chucky is my fave.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 28. Chucky week continues with “Hey maybe it’s a reboot…nah, all the backstory is still there, everything is still canon!” Chucky, as seen in Curse of Chucky and beyond!
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 27. Chucky week continues with his bad partner/bad dad era (technically still ongoing tbf)
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 26. Chucky week continues with the voice of Chucky, Andy Barclay era.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 25. It’s Chucky week! That’s right! Let’s start off with Charles Lee Ray in Child’s Play. Criminal, loudmouth, snappy dresser, semi-confident voodoo practitioner.
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Jonathan Hatfull @jonathanhatfull.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Daily Brad Dourif character! 24. As DCA is doing a Lord of the Rings all-day marathon today, it’s time for Grima Wormtongue! When you need a whispering creep, get an actor who is willing to shave his eyebrows and doesn’t mind getting greasy!
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