Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 21/05/2026It's worth getting a Quietus subscription for this piece of writing alone. Mary Chiney on the Nollywood soundtracks of Stanley Okorie and the VHS culture of Nigeria.thequietus.comLow Culture Essay: Mary Chiney on Stanley Okorie’s Nollywood Soundtracks | The QuietusThe power cuts out. It is a Tuesday evening in Lagos somewhere near the turn of the millennium, and the sudden, suffocating silence of the ceiling fan is immediately replaced by the collective groan o... 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Man, George Eastman, one of the towering presences in Italian exploitation movies, and one of those actors who, when they turn up on screen, you give a little cheer, has died. RIP You absolute gut muncher. 000
Reposted by Mat ColegateThe Peploe Under The Stairs @sarahpeploe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026If you're the yes hahaha yes sort of cinephile, you should check out the Savage Beast podcast from @mindlessones.bsky.social mindlessones.com/2026/02/20/t...mindlessones.comMindless Ones » Blog Archive » THE SAVAGE BEAST PODCAST S2:5 055
Reposted by Mat ColegateFraser Geesin @frasergeesin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026LISTEN THROUGH THE BROWN WINDOW has been written about in Radio Times which is a nice surprise. You too can Listen Through The Brown Window wherever you find your podcasts. 0116
Reposted by Mat ColegateBut Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 19/04/2026Now thinking a lot about those Beach Boys Cruises. They were in many ways tacky, but also the first one in particular was quite profoundly moving in a way something like that shouldn't normally be. 11215
Reposted by Mat ColegateThe Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social · 14/04/2026All the rock bros losing it about Sade being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is fun. Though admittedly she did drop off a bit after The 120 Days Of Sodom. 032
Reposted by Mat Colegatenostikvvvibes.bsky.social @nostikvvvibes.bsky.social · 19/10/2024Every Music Documentary based outside London Narrator: Here there is a 100% unemployment rate, the people are exceptionally ugly and the only factories are used to incinerate old disused smokestacks. How did such beautiful music come from here? Musician: Ahderrwuznuddingtodoinnit? 240362
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Some days only one song is needed to turn a hangover into a triumph. 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 28/02/2026A gloriously silly piece from The Maestro, who appears to have some very odd ideas about cannibals. Such as their being immortal and owning flying horses.youtu.beCannibal (From "I Cannibali" / Cantata II)YouTube video by Ennio Morricone - Topic 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Brett Anderson and David Gedge might be the same person. 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 21/02/2026You don't want olives when you're hungover. Trust me. 360
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 18/02/2026R.I.P. Tom Noonan. One of the all time great 'vibe' actors, the kind who instantly make films better whenever they turn up, and responsible for what might be the best horror villain performance of the 1980s. "I deserve your AWE..." 61459
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 17/02/2026"Well the Cadillac/pulled out of the graveyard/drove up to me and said get in (get in)/then the Cadillac pulled back in to the graveyard/and I got out again" 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I'll probably give 'Wuthering Heights' a miss, to be honest. There's no way that some posho's expensive film is going to be as good as this...youtu.beChina Drum - Wuthering HeightsYouTube video by ChathamPunx 110
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Can someone explain the Dan Reed Network to me please?youtu.beDan Reed Network - Rainbow Child 1990 (Full HD Remastered Video Clip)YouTube video by Vince Distefano's Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Vault 110
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The 'Horror Critical Establishment' completely dropped the ball on pointing out what was obvious to anyone with a functioning braincell: that the Terrifier films are misogynistic garbage in a way that no amount of fig leaf 'final girl' characters can erase.open.substack.comSlasher Semantics: Terrifier, Art the Clown, and Graphic Depictions of Sexual AssaultDavid Howard Thornton says there’s one line Art the Clown will never cross. I say he’s already crossed it. 232
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Evidence of last night's cinematic atrocities. 'Angst' (1983) and 'Zombi 4' AKA 'After Death' (1989). 010
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Finally found photo evidence of Doyle from 'The Professionals' being a Magma man... 53410
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 25/12/2025DEFINITELY a Christmas movie. Hope you're all having a great day. X 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Culinary Class Wars on Netflix is insane. A real-life science fiction martial arts tournament in which a horde of plucky underdogs take on a pantheon of grand masters in the casualty strewn fields of high cuisine. It's Lone Wolf and Cub meets Ready Steady Cook in a fucking planetarium. 020
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 04/12/2025It's all been downhill for the internet since this, hasn't it?youtu.beGhetto Puppets - My Mind Is Playing Tricks On MeYouTube video by dansolo21 010
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 26/11/2025We're all just watching Rick Stein on the off chance he'll burn himself on a pan and start swearing up a storm aren't we? Like watching Formula One and hoping there'll be a crash. 010
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 25/11/2025As sad as I am about the death of Udo Kier I take comfort in the fact that in his back garden he kept a lone carousel horse that he called 'Max Von Sydow'. Rejoice, then. We cannot hope to trap such greatness in our fallen world. 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Much as I enjoy Race Across the World, I can't help but think it would be much better if John Hannah narrated it in character as Batiatus from Spartacus: Blood and Sand. "Now these limp f*cking boy-lovers must make their way across the Gulf of f*cking Mexico..." 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I'm playing New River Studios on the 28th of November as part of this excellent line up. First show in a while, and, to be honest, I play so irregularly nowadays that it may be the last show in a while as well. Hopefully see some of you down there. 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Reading 'Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever' by Nick De Semlyen, and I know it's not a new observation, but my God comedians are the most needy, insecure, desperate people on earth aren't they? Rick Moranis seems alright though. 020
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 07/11/2025You could just WATCH THE FUCKING FILMS. That the horror critical establishment is only now waking up to the fact that The Terrifier films just might be a tiny bit misogynistic is astounding. You're a critic. Don't get distracted by ‘strong female characters’ in angel wings and do your job properly. 120
Reposted by Mat ColegateSimon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Guy Fawkes' signature before and after starring in Panto season with John Barrowman. 27915
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Really chuffed that I got asked to contribute to this. Some great books here, some startling omissions (I feel like I have to personally apologise to Ramsey Campbell, but that's how these sorts of things go) and a huge backlog of stuff I need to get familiar with. Truly, the horror never ends.thequietus.comHere are the 25 best pieces of Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far... | The QuietusWelcome, dear readers to Halloween, when in the UK and US children dress as their favourite fictional horror characters (and some, misguidedly, as serial killers) to walk door-to-door asking neighbour... 0103
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Number one in a series I'm calling "Late Night Pictures of Richard Lynch". 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Watching actors 'being themselves' on light entertainment can be quite something, and Bryan Cranston is delivering a masterclass of the form on Saturday Kitchen this week. A luvvie of stratosphericproportions. 151
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Seeing as this is where everyone hangs out these days: I'm going to be having drinks at New River on Thursday afternoon before checking this lot out, if anyone's around for a bevvy? 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 20/10/2025William Shatner turning to the camera and whispering the word "depravity" is my new spirit animal.youtu.bePonder The Mystery - Official VideoYouTube video by Official William Shatner Page 010
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 17/10/2025What's the deal with that duck face thing that Christian Bale does? 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I'm calling this one "Childhood's End (Hands of the Pink Ripper)" 010
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 15/10/2025This week on The Savage Beast I take a look at James Benning's delve into the world of true crime, 'Landscape Suicide'. A meditation on the environments that spawn murderers, through landscape, experimental film techniques and painstaking reconstruction. thesavagebeast.substack.com/p/landscape-...thesavagebeast.substack.comLandscape Suicide (1986)James Benning's slow paced meditation on American murder is a sobering antidote to Netflix's new Ed Gein show. 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 13/10/2025If someone says they dig 'The Borderlands' then they are someone who knows their shit.youtu.beThe Borderlands TrailerYouTube video by Total Film 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 11/10/2025RIP John Lodge. What a heart swelling-ly fabulous song this is. The Moodys rule.youtu.beNEW * Ride My See Saw - Moody Blues {Stereo} 1968YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine 000
Mat Colegate @matcolegate.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Film idea: a remake of 'Gerald's Game' in which a middle aged man gets stuck trying to pull off a sweat soaked t-shirt and is tormented by his younger self. 010
