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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 21h

Kids today don’t understand— simply couldn’t understand— the heartbreaking experience of being in a street dance squad, and getting “served.”

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This piece makes an interesting and pretty persuasive case for speaking and conversation as important for thinking and learning AND ALSO needlessly and unconvincingly denigrates and underestimates writing for the same. Ugh. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eight books to become a better film critic (according to me) afilmdiary.substack.com/p/eight-book...

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Eight Books to Become a Better Film Critic

It’s just like my opinion, man

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Verity Vagary @verityvagary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Training my replacement AI to watch one minute videos while making sad posts

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All these random, generically titled film festivals following me are scams of some sort I guess?

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At LAX—the original liminal space horror.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is my 52nd edition of the weekly newsletter! this week: - The Changeling and haunted houses - Resident Evil and the stubborn physical world - Recommending @casskhaw.bsky.social's Nothing but Blackened Teeth www.deadofnightletter.com/haunted-hous... #filmsky #horrorsky

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Haunted Houses

On The Changeling, dir. Peter Medak, 1980; Resident Evil, dir. Zach Cregger, 2026; and Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw, 2021.

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bog cryptid @karloffiancryptid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ghostlore: Unveiling 50 Phantoms That Have Haunted History by Icy Sedgwick, and illustrated by Mabel Esteban García. This book is amazing. I'll be sharing some of the supernatural creatures included (probably from Central/South America and the Caribbean because I'm biased).

Picture of the book "Ghostlore: Unveiling 50 phantoms that have haunted history" by Icy Sedgwick, and illustrator Mabel Esteban García on a textured surface.

The book has a bright yellow cover with black gothic text and a large illustration of a woman with long dark hair, glowing green eyes, and green markings on her white dress.

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow is #FolkHorrorFriday and we are watching one of my favorites: MESSIAH OF EVIL. I will be wearing my T-shirt and watching my brand new Bluray, but the movie is also free to stream on Tubi. We press play at 9pm ET.

Poster for Messiah of Evil. A woman with black hair and pale skin cries a single tear of blood. A bloodted moon is in the background. A sinister group of people dressed in black threaten with knives and grasping hands

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Haunted Houses

On The Changeling, dir. Peter Medak, 1980; Resident Evil, dir. Zach Cregger, 2026; and Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw, 2021.

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Brian W. @pyynk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Changeling is one of my favorite haunted house movies. And yes, the movie absolutely revels in its atmosphere of neglect and emptiness.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

dropping soon … why giant houses are always haunted

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I liked Resident Evil a lot but I thought the ending was kinda dumb and empty.

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rather lovely dreamy image by the great illustrator of Russian Fairytales, Ivan Biliban (1871-1942)

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On style, substance, and Onslaught: Onslaught is the kind of movie that gets us chatting about "style" ... #filmsky #horrorsky

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tomorrow at Dead of Night, a haunted house… get it in your inbox here: www.deadofnightletter.com

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The weirdest thing about the Lucas Museum is that the head curator is Salacious B. Crumb.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The good thing about media consolidation is that … uh … hmmm … some assholes get richer while the culture gets worse?

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Khaw, Wise, Ha ... Undertow serving banger after banger ... buy their stuff!

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just watched She-Wolf of London and never before have I seen so resolutely fog-shrouded a city park.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“This is not a world of clear solutions or the power of Christ compelling anything at all.” On Mother Joan of the Angels— www.deadofnightletter.com/bleak-week-d... #filmsky #horrorsky

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New letter out on, among other things, the "high-strung, disorganized, anti-maternal force" of Nicole Kidman's Evelyn in Stoker. www.deadofnightletter.com/morbid-energy/ #filmsky #horrorsky

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 18/09/2026

My PhD was adapted to one of my favourite of my books, this on masks in horror cinema. There is weirdly very little else out there on this subject, and this remains the only full book dedicated to a proper critical deep dive into one of the genre's most pervasive motifs. Bring me your mask projects!

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Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas introduces her book Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces. Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces is available in paperback and ebook formats. In 2019…

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Los Angeles still claiming it's going to convert its largest gas plants to green hydrogen, even though it has no idea where the hydrogen will come from. Supposedly SoCalGas was going to pipe in hydrogen, but now that project is dead: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @hayleysmith.bsky.social

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L.A. says it will clean up its biggest gas power plant. Environmentalists aren’t buying it

A plan to convert L.A.’s largest natural-gas-fired power plant to a purported cleaner-burning fuel has drawn the ire of an unlikely opponent: environmentalists.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

please note: I have replaced the black-and-white headshot avatar with a picture of me with a stuffy avocado on a Santa Monica Pier rollercoaster.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s Subscribe Sunday (a thing I made up) Subscribe to Dead of Night (free) for weekly short-form writing about the horror archive, a new release, and a recommendation. The image below depicts the subscriber experience. www.deadofnightletter.com #filmsky

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Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

George Moorse's West German telefilm VAMPIRA (1971) strings its folk horror vignettes in the style of silent film serials together with documentarian-like narration—seamed & soundscaped by Tangerine Dream—benumbing the senses like a timeless transmission from some bizarre alter-dimensional vortex.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(my way of saying that Onslaught is good, the critical consensus is wrong, and you should go see it in (in theaters!))

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On style, substance, and Onslaught: Onslaught is the kind of movie that gets us chatting about "style" ... #filmsky #horrorsky

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Highway Horror 👀👀👀👀

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New from me: A Spectre is Haunting Utah! - Carnival of Souls as virtuosic minimalism - The substance of style in Wingard's Onslaught - & I recommend the twisty, shadowy dream of @catvalente.bsky.social's Comfort Me with Apples www.deadofnightletter.com/carnival/ #filmsky #horrorsky #booksky

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If I were tasked with interviewing Tom Cruise, I would simply refuse to tell him my name, so he couldn't keep saying it back to me.

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am against genre boundary policing but I can't figure out why anyone would label Carnival of Souls "neo-noir."

from Wikipedia: "Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American neo-noir psychological horror film ..."

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chris quixote @chrisquixote.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How long before Ed Sheeran announces he can no longer in good conscience play with Ed Sheeran?

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On folk horror and Children of the Corn: For its central couple, Children of the Corn is pure folk horror. Outsiders who find themselves in Gatlin on a road trip through Nebraska ... #filmsky #horrorsky

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

pouring gas on the fire—just astonishingly stupid and cruel

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

reposting for the spooky nighttime crowd

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My Bloody Valentine (Mihalka, 1981)

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Matt Simon @mattsimon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New this week at Dead of Night: - Children of the Corn as folk horror (or not) - Buddy as missed opportunity (but a good time) - Sara Gran's demonic possession abyss dive #filmsky #booksky #horrorsky www.deadofnightletter.com/old-ways-new...

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Old Ways, New Religion

On Children of the Corn, dir. Fritz Kiersch, 1984; Buddy, dir. Casper Kelly, 2026; and Come Closer by Sara Gran.

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