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Lindsay Hallam

@lindsayhallam.bsky.social
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Film Lecturer, Horror Scholar, Freelance Writer, Filmmaker, Twin Peaks fanatic, Childless Cat Lady. Co-host of SciFrights podcast rss.com/podcasts/scifrights

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The next time a director says bullshit like this, I want the interviewer to ask: "If AI was around when you made your other films, which artists would you have fired?" I mean it. Name real fucking names. Of all the brilliant people you worked with, who do you think doesn't deserve a job anymore?
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New episode of SciFrights out now with guest @travisjj.bsky.social We talk all things John Carpenter, with a bit of a tangent about some formative childhood viewing experiences.
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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
As advertised on your podcast @lindsayhallam.bsky.social! Managed to find a second hand copy for £7... #ArmchairAcademic 🛋️
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Still can't believe I got to intro Fire Walk with Me to a sold out crowd at the BFI and celebrate my main man, David Lynch.
On the lower right hand side a woman in black stands at a lectern. To her left is a large screen with a blue background with the words "David Lynch: The Dreamer" surrounded by images from his films. On the lower right side of the screen a woman in black stands at a lectern. Behind her is a screen.
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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A new episode awaits so I thought I'd better hurry up and post this from the previous one! What dark forces are lurking within cyberspace? @lindsayhallam.bsky.social and Liam with special guest @broganjmorris.bsky.social cautiously take a peep at our haunted motherboards. rss.com/podcasts/sci...
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Wow Bob Wow! My stomach feels like it's filled with a team of bumblebees at the thought of introducing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at the BFI on Wednesday January 28. It's part of a whole season devoted to the work of my main man David Lynch and I'm beyond honoured to be a part of it.
Screengrab from the BFI brochure advertising a screening of Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me on Wednesday January 28 introduced by Lindsay Hallam
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Brogan Morris @broganjmorris.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thank you to @liamdunn82.bsky.social and @lindsayhallam.bsky.social for having me on the latest episode of @scifrightspod.bsky.social to discuss Colossus: The Forbin Project and Pulse, as well as AI, nuclear panic in the movies and the horror of early digital: open.spotify.com/episode/3vwp...
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Dirty Computers - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) and Pulse (2001)
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New episode out now exploring the malevolent forces lurking in our computers and the dark (possibly haunted?) depths of cyberspace. Joining us is Brogan Morris, writer, journalist and programmer for Distorted Frame, to discuss Colossus: The Forbin Project and Pulse rss.com/podcasts/sci...
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Dirty Computers - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) and Pulse (2001) | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
We continue our current season looking at A.I. and technofear, exploring the malevolent forces lurking in our computers and the dark (possibly haunted?) depths of cyberspace. Joining us this episode i...
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tickets still available for our screening of Pulse at the Castle Cinema on Wednesday October 29 at 9pm, presented along with @distortedframe.bsky.social
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Halloween with Distorted Frame: Pulse (2001) + intro by film critic Jasper Sharp - The Castle Cinema
We are an independent, crowdfunded, community cinema on Chatsworth Road, Hackney. After a successful crowdfunding campaign in 2016, the space originally housing the historic Castle Electric Theatre wa...
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It was a bloody delight getting interviewed about one of my all-time favourites, Re-Animator, and to rhapsodise about the ultimate Scream Queen @barbaracrampton.bsky.social Thank you @geoffreybunting.bsky.social ! Glad this 80s kid was able to help out.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This whole release GIVES ME LIFE!!! I have an essay in here on adapting Lovecraft.
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Films covered: Salt Along the Tongue, Five, Mother of Flies, Serpent's Skin, Dog of God, Transcending Dimensions, Redux Redux, Cogn-AI-tive, The Home, Jimmy & Stiggs, The Red Mask, Bone Lake, Daughters of Darkness, Malpertuis, The Descent, The Toxic Avenger, the Andy Milligan doc, and The Fairy Moon
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
New episode out now reporting from FrightFest! We give you a rundown on what we saw & some of the recurring themes we noticed (our biggest takeaways: beware of demons, witches and shamans, and always check that you don't double book that Airbnb, folks) rss.com/podcasts/sci...
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SciFrights Does Frightfest! | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
We spent our August Bank Holiday weekend at Frightfest, indulging in 5 days of non-stop horror movies. We give you a rundown on what we saw and survey some of the recurring themes we noticed (our bigg...
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Thanks to everyone who came to see Jaws at Genesis Cinema and listened to my intro. I talked about Spielberg's origins in New Hollywood of the 70s, how Jaws led to the rise of the blockbuster and other ways it impacted pop culture. The film on the big screen still plays like gangbusters.
The bar at Genesis Cinema decked out for a Jaws Beach Party. There is an Amity Island sign, to the left is an inflatable shark, underneath the sign is a deck chair Inside a cinema, on the screen on the leftis a poster for Jaws with a mouth of a shark pointing up, to the right on a red background are the words Jaws 50th Anniversary at Genesis, in front of the screen stands a woman in black pants and black jacket holding a microphone I am holding a blue inflatable shark with the the top of my head peering over the top
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thanks so much to @travisjj.bsky.social for being our first guest and talking Terminator with us!
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Woke up this morning with an awful cold, so have to miss the last day of Frightfest. Really gutted. Was so looking forward to seeing the new Adams family film Mother of Flies, Sick Puppy, and the new Alice Maio Mackay film Serpent's Skin. 😩😩😩
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
FrightFest Film #12: Redux Redux. A revenge thriller with a SF premise -what if you could kill the person who wronged you over and over again across the multiverse?- it manages to stay grounded, mostly due to its low tech aesthetic and the excellent perfs of the 2 female leads. The best of the fest.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
FrightFest Film #11 : Bone Lake. A booking mixup sees two couples share the same rental, bringing temptations and trust issues to the surface. A twisty turny erotic thriller that erupts into carnage, this was much better than I was expecting.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
FrightFest Film #10 - The Descent. First time seeing the film on the big screen in a new 4K restoration and it looked incredible. "That shot" still gets me every fucking time.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
FrightFest Film #9: Jimmy & Stiggs A down on his luck filmmaker on a seemingly neverending bender is abducted by aliens & enlists his newly sober friend to help prepare in case they return. The whole film is a loud & unrelenting assault on the senses, drenched in neon lighting & awash in alien blood
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
FrightFest Film #7 The Red Mask. Really enjoyed this meta slasher. Manages to deconstruct horror tropes while also delivering the requisite thrills, taking welcome potshots at toxic horror fandom (sorry dudes, horror has always been woke!)
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
FrightFest Film #6 The Toxic Avenger. Sweet and so much fun. Keeps a lot of the spirit of the original. And nice to see director Macon Blair in a cameo sporting an Ain't Rights t-shirt (which I guess means there is a Toxie/Green Room shared universe?).
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
FrightFest Film #5 Transcending Dimensions. I can't even really begin to describe this film. Sensory, spiritual and totally mind-blowing on the big screen.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
FrightFest Film #4 The Degenerate: The Life & Films of Andy Milligan. I went along to this to learn something and I did: Milligan was a singular filmmaker, fiercely determined but clearly hard to get along with, caught in a trap that allowed him to be prolific but never advance in budget or respect
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
FrightFest Film #3: Dog of God. This fucking RIPS. A Latvian medieval heavy metal pagan hallucinogenic folk horror fairy tale. Full of fluids and phalluses, witches and werewolves, accompanied by a throbbing soundtrack.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
FrightFest Film #2: Cogn-AI-tive. An AI company must contend with its creation taking on a life of its own.The threat of AI taking our lives as well as our livelihoods plays to current anxieties but the film itself feels indebted to the 80s and 90s - think Hackers meets Chopping Mall.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
FrightFest Opening Film - The Home. Pete Davidson stars in a non-comic role as a young man forced into community service at a retirement home, where things soon reveal themselves as 'not quite right'. Very predictable with clichéd scares (and A LOT of dream sequences) derivative of much better films
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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The good folks at @scifrightspod.bsky.social have their first guest! Unfortunately, their options were limited, so it's me. But if you wanna here me, @liamdunn82.bsky.social and @lindsayhallam.bsky.social dig into the entire Terminator franchise, smash that link.
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Judgement Day: Ranking the Terminator Series
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
New episodes of SciFrights Bites is out now! We check out the new film everyone is talking about - Zach Creggar's WEAPONS! We cover the film’s influences, structure, style & scares before getting into spoiler territory, going deep into the film’s villain and the societal implications of its themes.
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SciFrights Bites: Weapons | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
In this episode we discuss Liam’s most anticipated film of the year – and a film that set the box office on fire over the weekend – Zach Cregger’s Weapons. We start with a spoiler-free conversation ab...
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Blue Rose Task Force Podcast @bluerosetaskforce.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🎧✨NEW EPISODE✨🎧 Maya of @mannersandmadness.bsky.social speaks with @americanhysteria.bsky.social @jesspurserart.bsky.social @lindsayhallam.bsky.social & Indigo of Full Blossom of the Evening to discuss Magic in Twin Peaks & David Lynch’s work. bluerosetaskforce.transistor.fm/episodes/wom...
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Blue Rose Task Force: A Twin Peaks Obsessive Podcast | Women Speak About Magic in Twin Peaks
This month’s episode is all about the ways Magic is involved in Twin Peaks, as guest moderator Maya Adkins (Manners & Madness podcast) grows a conversation with Lindsay Hallam (Devils Advocates’ Tw...
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It was such a pleasure to talk about this incredible film on @top100pod.bsky.social podcast. Give it a listen!
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Show us your favourite movie robot!
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a r2d2 robot from star wars is standing in the dirt near a rock .
ALT: a r2d2 robot from star wars is standing in the dirt near a rock .
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I got to talk about something non-horror related for a change - which just happens to also be one of my favourite films of all time. Thanks @fatscoleman.bsky.social for having me on your podcast @top100pod.bsky.social
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our new episode explores how direct relationships develop between humans and A.I. We discuss one woman’s nightmare of A.I. domination in Demon Seed, and Alex Garland’s examination of human/A.I. relations (and possible robot liberation) in Ex Machina. Please check us out & leave a review!
Under the banner with podcast title SCIFRIGHTS is the poster for Demon Seed, which has a woman lying face up, her hair falls down the bottom half, over which there is the tagline "Julie Christie carries the demon seed", then further down it says "Fear for her". Next to it is the poster for Ex Machina, all black with a photo of a robot woman turning to look straight at us.
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Introducing SciFrights Bites, a shorter episode on a new release. First up we discuss 28 Years Later. We explore the legacy of the first 2 films, before delving into how the new film comments on the current times and expands the series mythology.
Across the top is written "SciFrights Bites" underneath is the poster for 28 Years later which features the biohazard symbol in red. Underneath is the tagline "Time didn't heal anything"
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Malpertuis Szamanka Dead Talents Society Companion 28 Years Later (and you can hear my thoughts on it on @scifrightspod.bsky.social )
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Can't get over how we're being asked to pretend "Death, death to the IDF" is some kind of hate crime at the exact same time IDF soldiers are telling the Israeli press they're being ordered to massacre starving civilians at aid sites.
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We begin our new season on AI and technofear by focusing on just one film (which just happens to be Liam's favourite movie) - Stanley Kubrick's monumental masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. There is so much to unpack with this film so consider this the deepest of dives - into the infinite and beyond
At the top is the title of the podcast SciFrights, underneath is a poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey. The poster has a drawing of a circular spacecraft orbiting near the earth, underneath is a small photo of a man in an astronaut helmet next to the title 2001: A Space Odyssey written in yellow font.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
So I just found out about Mubi's investors. Luckily there are great versions of Twin Peaks on physical media that you can enjoy.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
And to celebrate Twin Peaks: The Return on MUBI, here is an article on the show's use of horror in ways that are both stylistic and metaphysical #mubi #davidlynch #twinpeaks #twinpeaksthereturn
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Articles by scholars from around the world on Twin Peaks
Articles by scholars from around the world on Twin Peaks. Scholar Lindsay Hallam writes "Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: The Return." This essay investigates how The Return utilizes ...
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
All of Twin Peaks (aka the greatest TV show of all time) is now on MUBI. If you're interested in David Lynch's role in the evolution of the "television auteur", check out my article for @sensesofcinema.bsky.social #mubi #davidlynch #twinpeaks
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May the Giant Be With You: Twin Peaks Season Two, Episode One and the Television Auteur – Senses of Cinema
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Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thanks to Umbrella Entertainment here is my contributors copy of NEW EXTREMITY ONE. Sharing space on this epic release with @antbit.projectedfigures.com @horrornonna.com @fictionmachine.bsky.social @lindsayhallam.bsky.social continues…
https://shop.umbrellaent.com.au/collections/coming-soon/products/new-extremity-collection-volume-1-2003-2004-2007-2008-blu-rayExtremity Collection Volume 1 Collector's Edition includes:
All movies completely uncut and uncensored
100+ page book with essays by Alexandra West, Grant Watson, Jack Sargeant and Matt Konopka and more
Custom artwork by MELBS
8 artcards
2 x A3 reversible poster
Limited Edition Numbered release
HIGH TENSION (HAUTE TENSION)

Audio Commentary with Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur
NEW! Audio Commentary with Josh Nelson and Alex Heller-Nicholas
Haute Horror: Making of High Tension 2003 Documentary
2003 Interview with Cécile de France
2003 Interview with Maïwenn
2003 Interview with Phillippe Nahon
NEW! Head case: final girls, fabulism and amour fou in Alexandre Aja’s High Tension with Anton Bitel
NEW! Stills Gallery
Trailer

FRONTIER(S) (FRONTIÈRE(S))

Audio Commentary with Director Xavier Gens and Actress Karina Testa
NEW! Audio Commentary with Critic and Writer Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
NEW! Torture Born: Maternal Horror in Frontier(s) - A Video Essay by Josh Nelson
NEW! Work, Family and Country: The Far-Right in France - A Video Essay by Alexandra West
The Making of Frontier(s) featurette
Deleted Scenes with Optional commentary
Storyboards with Optional commentary
NEW! Stills Gallery
Trailer
ANATOMY OF HELL (ANATOMIE DE L'ENFER)

NEW! Audio Commentary by Author and Faculty of Horror host Alexandra West
NEW! Watching the Unwatchable: Kath Dooley on Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell
NEW! The Torment of the Other: Desire and Corporeality in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat - A Video Essay by Nadine Whitney
NEW! The Tortured and Suffering Woman in New French Extremity with Zoe Rose Smith
Interview with director Catherine Breillat
NEW! Stills Gallery
TrailerMARTYRS

Audio commentary by film historian Dr. Lindsay Hallam
BFI at Home - Horror à la Française online panel with Anna Bogutskaya, Alexandra West and Dr. Lindsay Hallam
Organic Chronicles: The Making of Martyrs
Interview with director Pascal Laugier
Make-up interview with Benoit Lestang
New French Extremity trailer reel
Stills gallery
International poster gallery
Theatrical trailer
Teaser trailer
Easter Egg
Disc type: Blu-ray
No. of discs: 4
Running time: 90, 76, 103, 99
Audio format: 5.1 & 2.0 & DTS
Format: 1080P
Colour: COLOUR
Languages: French
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Image ratio: Various
Subtitles: English
Year of Production: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We're concluding our first season of @scifrightspod.bsky.social looking at the different ways Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has influenced horror and sci-fi cinema. Please listen wherever you get your podcasts, leave us a review, let us know what you think of the films, and help us spread the word!
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Some lovely words from one of our listeners, along with some appreciation for the 'contribution' from our cat, Angelo!
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Also listen out for a cameo appearance from our cat, Angelo!
A photo of the most adorable black cat, called Angelo.
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
New episode out now! We go beyond testing the limits of the human body to exploration of the mind. Liam gives us a rundown of the history & representation of mind control, then we discuss Kubrick’s 1971 dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange and the gruesome and disturbing tech thriller Possessor.
Across the top is a banner with the podcast title SciFrights, underneath is the poster for A Clockwork Orange, which has a white background with a triangle,inside which has an illustration of a young man in a black bowler hat and white shirt holding out a knife. Next to that is the poster for Possessor, with a yellow background and a picture of a woman holding her face as it seems to be melting off.
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Graham🐝 @grahamthings.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
More in depth analysis in this episode of @scifrightspod.bsky.social diving deep into two films about getting off your face... well getting your face off anyway! Great to hear Evolution (2015) get some love from @lindsayhallam.bsky.social in the 'honourable mentions' section. Keep up the good work!
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SciFrights Podcast @scifrightspod.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Our film is on Arrow Player! We made a sci-fi horror with a very Frankensteinian story about a child created in a lab, so we practice what we preach.
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Watched Sinners at the BFI IMAX with intro from Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goranson and it's awesome! Kinda like if the first half of From Dusk til Dawn had been O Brother, Where Art Thou. There is a musical sequence in this that almost made me cry it was that good. A must-see in IMAX if you can.
Ludwig Goranson, with long blond hair and a blue jacket speaks into a microphone next to Ryan Coogler, wearing a dark blue tuxedo jacket, introducing their film Sinners at the BFI IMAX The BFI IMAX screen with a poster for the Special Preview of Sinners, whichbis a head and shoulders shot of two men holding each other looking at something terrifying
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Lindsay Hallam @lindsayhallam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
My film THEY CALLED ME DAVID is now available on Arrow Player! Its a sci-fi horror shot on Super 8 made for no money with @liamdunn82.bsky.social We still can't believe the good people @arrowvideo.bsky.social have put us alongside so many films that inspired us www.arrow-player.com/they-called-...
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They Called Me David - ARROW
2021 • United Kingdom • Directed by Lindsay Hallam David was created in a lab, a strange being of immense power. But they are also just a lonely child, searching for their father.
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