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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 15h

As queer themed body horrors about demon possession go, it ain’t half bad…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 17h

Continuing the #hooptober run with this haunted house (kind of) classic…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Okay then… in the words of interplanetary gambling man Lando Calrissian … ‘Here goes nothing…’

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As ripe as a year old grapefruit, this straight to video TV movie, which plays as an alternative, goth horror adjacent, adult reimagining of the classic Grimm fairy tale is a melodramatic medieval misfire. That said, Sam Neil dons some fun costumes in it. So there’s that in its favour.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Final film of the weekend… a funny, big hearted time loop flick to finish the day.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

3rd movie of the day. Finally caught up with this un and I have to say it is an absolute cracker. I did wonder a couple of times though what Dr Ian Kelson’s desert island discs might feature given the wild eclecticism of his post-apocalyptic play list…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No expectations going into this but I am always up for a slightly higher budget toxic fungus infection b movie styled splatter comedy so yeah. Enjoyed.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watched this last night and as films featuring a sinister talking pig head and Heather Graham go, it was alright…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Early morning viewing… not exactly a classic, though entirely pleasant for a Sunday morning…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I liked it a lot. Lots didn’t. Ah, the magic of cinema.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finished the day off with this pre code melodrama about a bigamist, a blackmailer, a detective and a rich old sugar daddy. Not half bad.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another day, another Resident Evil movie… only this one is way better than all the others. Welcome to Raccoon City was good fun though, in its defence…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nothing like an early morning underwater creature feature to kickstart your day…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aka Jason Takes Vancouver, since most of it was shot there….

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aka Carrie Vs Jason, which is nowhere near as much fun as that alternative title would suggest.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spent this birthday evening with Gothic horror favourite from my youth. The sets and costumes had me, the score, the hair, the rampant melodrama, the sneaky dark humour, all of it. Still plenty to like here…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy birthday to me. Not sure what this evening’s film viewing will entail. Probably something messy. Or I might just have a read…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Plugging a massive Wes Craven shaped hole in my film viewing history with a home viewing of this rural slasher gem for #hooptober Ernest Borgnine stealing the show from under everyone…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meant to watch this however many years ago and finally watched it and having spent ten minutes picking my brain up off the floor I can honestly say, hand on heart ‘WTAF was that?’ Loved it though. #hooptober

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you are feeling tired of all the hard right wing anti this and that sentiment in the world today or if maybe you want to add a splash of colour to the weekend, why not indulge in a home screening of La Cage aux Folles… Tres bien indeed.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hilarious, full of warmth and smarts and invention and creativity. Way better than the last film I watched.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A spiralling, alcoholic, morally bankrupt, violent, bleak and depressing nightmare of a road movie… Warren Oates is great though…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A recent folk horror double bill… one of these films contains a strange imp like creature puking green milk and suckling on leg nipples. The other doesn’t…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Having mentioned Psycho on 4k just want to say…Psycho on 4k. Masterful.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Friday’s folksy frightener, after watching Psycho on 4k earlier was this relatively short effort. Features a creepy witch with bluish skin riding a coffin through the air like an undead sky surfer and the maddest final five or ten minutes I’ve seen in quite some time.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, it’s a slasher game changing classic. That said… I still can’t figure out how Nancy was able to rig up all those booby traps in under twenty minutes and have a chat to her mum before going to sleep and capturing Krueger. Takes me half an hour just to find my tools!

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Right then… here we go. Sort of #hooptober ing if I can manage it… not got my full list together but this and last night’s viewing will feature. Maybe.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Makes The Witchfinder General look like an episode of The Tweenies… a must see.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Having filled my boots up with hauntological maritime folksy wyrdness this evening I am now off to crack open a jar of Ovaltine… highly recommended. Both the film, and the Ovaltine…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Screwball noir? Why yes, I think I will thanks.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Abandoning anything remotely like seriousness, this here Jason frolic was a bit of a tonic this evening…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Needed a bit of a re-set, and so no slashy-slashy teenaged terrors tonight thank you very much. Tonight, we watch Ernst Lubitsch’s subtly subversive put down of unbridled capitalism dressed as Xmas romantic comedy… The Shop Around the Corner.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pretty bland this one, but the scene with the redneck racing round on a bike shrieking wildly did briefly feel kind of relevant…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As killer bot movies go, this one is pretty way out there…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mars Attacks. In 4k. All I have to say about that really is Ack Ack Ack. Also, the why can’t we all just get along speech. As relevant now as it ever was and as poignant in its own unique way as any grandstanding cinematic oratory. Enjoy.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The mythical story of a man, a horse, a dog, a bunch of swine, and the worst commute home in employee history… Loved it. #theodyssey

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Had my doubts about this as I have a lot of comic book stuff lately but have to say, enjoying no it immensely.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Film containing a cheese omelette #2

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Film containing a cheese omelette #1

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sunday viewing courtesy of @snipsmovies.bsky.social … cause #physicalmedia is more important now than it ever was…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Watched Clue for the I don’t know how many’th time with the youngest Ayling in the house, with the multiple endings and still laughed my ass off all the way through. The breakneck final act reveal with Tim Curry is one of the best ever…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not exactly Austin Powers, but somewhere in the vicinity…

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Up on Rough Tor on Bodmin Moor today. Lovely.

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Mark Ayling @markayling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

At the wonderful Eden Project today and all I could think about was Silent Running for bloody ages…

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