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Jonathan Wroot @jlwroot.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

If you've seen a lot of Japanese cinema, and you think you've seen it all, think again. Keep a close eye on Third Window Films for the latest titles from independent and low budget Japanese filmmakers.

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russhunter.bsky.social @russhunter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Offscreen Film Festival's cult cinema symposium is back! Join Iain Smith, @kte75.bsky.social, Ernest Mathijs, @cine-excess.bsky.social for a series of talks reflecting upon what cult means in 2026. Brussels, Nova Cinema, 21 March, 1pm 🎬 #horrorNU #CultureCreativityNU www.offscreen.be/en/offscreen...

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SYMPOSIUM ON CULT FILM | Offscreen

The world of cult cinema is simultaneously subversive, strange and wonderful. It is a popular film culture that blurs genres, crosses boundaries and is not easily categorised. Offscreen’s tagline has ...

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Steve Jones @drstevejones.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Grab yourself a half price copy of my books - The Metamodern Slasher Film shorturl.at/wOga0 - The Postmodern Slasher Film shorturl.at/j43ry or any of the excellent books by my fellow members of @horrorstudies.bsky.social @profsaabbott.bsky.social @kte75.bsky.social @russhunter.bsky.social

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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Reminder - Call for papers: HORROR STUDIES NOW, May 28/29 2026, Northumbria University t.co/QK7DDTdeNb

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

'TIME TO WATCH!' Genre Short Film form doesn't get much better than this. Especially when we receive a BRAND NEW #35mm print to screen! Experience @mike-williamson.bsky.social Mike Williamson’s MR STATIC in #35mm 5.1 Dolby Digital audio at GRINDFEST! Screening ahead of XTRO.

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

GRINDFEST #35mm print checking and assembly continues! #3D #demimoore

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Abertoir Horror Festival @abertoirfest.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

New on @letterboxd.social! Nia reflects on the rise of 'women in horror' in the past 15 years ahead of an appearance at @dirtinthegate.bsky.social's Grindfest VII: letterboxd.com/abertoir/sto...

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Reflecting on the rise of 'women in horror'

A story on Letterboxd.

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Coming to the end of day one and reflecting on what great work @kte75.bsky.social and @cinefeline.bsky.social have done to put together a conference that is wide ranging in terms of discipline, cultures, and periods covered while also designing panels that are coherent and compelling. Great day one!

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K a t a r í í n a @spooky-kat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Youth X Horror conference was amazing - the inspiring talks, the meaningful conversations with great people! Thank you @cinefeline.bsky.social and @kte75.bsky.social for the absolutely marvellous work you did to make this happen! ❤️✨💀👻 #youthxhorror #horrorresearch #musicresearch #birmingham

Youth X Horror conference; text showing on the screen and two people talking in front of the conference room, people sitting in the room listening to them

Stuffed animals: a green mallard with Dracula clothes, a creepy but cute orange cat with a Walkman and headphones and Count Von Count with 3D glasses, along with horror comics, other horror-esque toys and video cassettes on a table. Behind the table posters with text about Youth and Horror.

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This was the best academic conference I have ever attended. Well done to @kte75.bsky.social and @cinefeline.bsky.social and all who presented/chaired.

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

[posted on behalf of researcher Chloe Gibson] Are You a Horror Film Fan? I am looking for horror fans who are willing to take part in a 30min (max) interview regarding the Halloween film series and requels. If interested, please contact me at chloe6.gibson@northumbria.ac.uk #horrorNU

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Very chuffed to have written the obituary, for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, of the inspiring, multi-talented (and, in my view, underappreciated) British Queen of Horror, Barbara Shelley. RIP Barbara.

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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

There's one week left to register for mine and @kte75.bsky.social's conference all about Youth & Horror! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

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Youth and Horror: An International Conference

The Youth and Horror Research Network is delighted to invite submissions for its international conference.

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

For anyone in the Birmingham area over the next week, come and see the Fear in the Bedroom exhibition, curated by @cinefeline.bsky.social Simon Brown and I! #horrorNU

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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Check out this article about an excellent horror exhibition by @cinefeline.bsky.social and our own @kte75.bsky.social #horrorNU

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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Registration is now open for Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) For information on how to register and to see the line-up, visit: research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie... #horrorNU

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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Mine and @kte75.bsky.social's exhibition 'Fear on the Bedroom' opens in just over 2 weeks! If you are in the Birmingham area please come along and revisit horror ephemera of the past through the eyes of a child flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...

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Fear in the Bedroom

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

JOIN US! Experience new and classic #35mm cinema. We have such sights to show you! -->https://linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i... So chuffed to be overseeing - with the brilliant Cat Lester and Simon Brown - this exhibition, Fear in the Bedroom in May at the Parkside Gallery, Birmingham as part of the wonderful Flatpack Festival. #horrorNU

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Fear in the Bedroom

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Twin Peaks 35mm print ready to whisk you away to the surreal world of David Lynch tomorrow night with special introduction from Associate Professor Steve Jones.🍒 Link to tickets in bio☝️ . . #twinpeaks #35mmfilm #davidlynch #dirtinthegatemovies

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Unspooling THIS Sunday! Don’t miss your chance to see this ultra rare #35mm event at The Regent. Last remaining tickets -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

All our live 35mm events can be found here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate Thanks for keeping film alive!

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We're thrilled to welcome back the Horror Studies Research Group from Northumbria University! Assistant Professor in Media and FIlm, Steve Jones will be introducing our David Lynch tribute 35mm screening of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME

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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Our own @kte75.bsky.social will be presenting her research on Ghostwatch at @miskatonicihs.bsky.social tomorrow #horrorNU

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“You ever have that feeling where you’re not sure if you’re awake or still dreaming?” Tickets on sale soon!

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Can’t wait for this! And thank you so much @miskatonicihs.bsky.social for inviting me. It’s an honour and a pleasure! 🙏❤️👻

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Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I have just submitted an abstract for the excellent Horror Studies Now Conference 2025. I would highly encourage anybody with an interest in the genre to submit an abstract. It’s a fantastic opportunity to share ideas and meet some really cool people 😁 #HorrorSky

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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Our own @profsaabbott.bsky.social presenting her inaugural lecture "'It's Alive!': Materiality, Excess and the Nightmare Visions of Horror Animation" #horrorNU

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

THE LOST BOYS unspools tomorrow night! -> linktr.ee/dirtintuhegate

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Initiation’s over, Michael. Time to join the club!” THIS SUNDAY - Joel Schumacher’s classic 1987 vampire tale comes to Christchurch in blood sucking #35mm! Only a few tickets left -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Call and submissions info here: shorturl.at/XmTjU #horrorNU

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Join us for our fangtastic #35mm screening of THE LOST BOYS Feb 16th! Tix here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The deadline for mine and @kte75.bsky.social's conference on youth and horror is this Monday! See below for the full CFP.

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

We’re kicking off 2025 and our 10th anniversary with Sergio Leone’s epic classic desert adventure from an original #35mm IB Technicolor print! Cinema in its purest form! Draw for those tickets here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

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Dirt In The Gate Movies @dirtinthegate.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

This January 11th 2025. Experience Sergio Leone’s epic classic desert adventure from an original #35mm IB Technicolor print. Cinema in its purest form! Chase those tickets here -> linktr.ee/dirtinthegate

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"Transnational #Horror Media Now" is the new issue of NRFTS: spooky Oz kids' TV, heavy breathing in MIDSOMMAR, William Castle's THE TINGLER & the fanbase of BATTLE ROYALE. Last two #openaccess! @kte75.bsky.social @jamesrendell.bsky.social @drdantils.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/c...

On the left, a standard cover of the journal New Review of Film & Television Studies, black background with a colorful pixelated design on the left and plain white text. On the right, a still from the film BATTLE ROYALE (2000) in which a preteen Japanese girl in braces, clutching a bloodied doll, smiles in triumph, having won a battle.

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James Rendell @jamesrendell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thrilled to see published the special dossier on Horror Fans and Audiences (that I co-edited with @kte75.bsky.social) as part of the New Review of Film and Television Studies' new issue on Transnational Horror Media. You can read our introduction here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Special dossier introduction: horror fans and audiences

This introduction to the New Review of Film and Television’s special dossier on horror fans and audiences discusses how the study of horror viewership has frequently been limited to certain US cult...

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So chuffed to see this special dossier, on Horror Fans and Audiences (edited by James Rendell and I) published as part of the New Review of Film and Television Studies' new issue focused on Transnational Horror Media www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/2...

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New Review of Film and Television Studies

Transnational Horror Media Now. Volume 22, Issue 3 of New Review of Film and Television Studies

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@cinefeline and I would like to share the CFP for our upcoming conference on Youth & Horror. Hope it’s of interest! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac... Youth and Horror: An International Conference, 1-2 July, 2025, University of Birmingham, UK

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Youth and Horror: An International Conference

The Youth and Horror Research Network is delighted to invite submissions for its international conference.

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Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

One of my favourite things to do!

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✿ Dr Laura J Minor ✿ @lrjdmnr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

hello! gonna introduce my research: - ecr at salford uni / feminist tv & media studies scholar - wrote a book on women & UK TV comedy and co-writing the book "Television Goes Back to the Future: Rethinking TV's Streaming Revolution" - Co-Pi on "What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry"

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Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

🩸PARTICIPANTS NEEDED🩸 Are you a parent of a child who loves #horror? Based in the UK or Ireland? Seeking child interviewees & filmmakers aged 9-15 for a University of Birmingham UK study on children’s opinions of the horror genre! ✨ Please share ✨ & see flyer for details:

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