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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 1h

Watching haunted house movies to admire the real estate.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 8h

Not that anyone's asking, but give me those three and I'll give you an EVENT film.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 8h

I still think it’s Danielle Harris’ turn for a divergent timeline HALLOWEEN trilogy.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 11h

I'm with you. I'll be ready to provide citations, pie-graphs, and eye rolls!

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 11h

It seems like every four months or so there's some new ill-conceived piece posing a baffled, "...why are horror movies so popular?" Why do we keep doing this? The only response to the mainstream's puzzlement over "strange cinema" should be to make stranger cinema.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 13h

BOSS: it has come to my attention that one of you is a cannibal BILL: oh no AMY: oh no JOE: ME: *sipping a cup of joe* oh no

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Remember when motion-activated witches and ghosts were like “eeEEEOOOOoooOo,” but now they’re like “ahhahahahahaackack“? Time really does pass us by, huh?

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Living Dead Girl is AMAZING. More Rollin on the big screen, please and thanks!

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

FINE. I'LL WATCH JERSEY SHORE SHARK ATTACK.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mink Stole's reactions make the moment.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pussywillows, Dottie! On this week's @midnightmasspod.bsky.social, Peaches and I are celebrating 1994's SERIAL MOM! We're joined by author Gabrielle Moss and producer Brian Nolan to talk Kathleen Turner, John Waters, Suzanne Somers, true crime, & more! midnightmass.buzzsprout.com/1796691/epis...

A still from the finale of SERIAL MOM, featuring Kathleen Turner and Suzanne Sommers looking backward in alarm.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The rumors are true! @midnightmasspod.bsky.social returns to the road as @peacheschrist.com, Felissa Rose, and I bring our SLEEPAWAY CAMP: THE MIDNIGHT MASS EXPERIENCE tour to 14 new cities this January...with more dates to be added! Join us! Line-up & ticket info: www.fangoria.com/sleepaway-ca...

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Pack Your Bags: Felissa Rose And Midnight Mass Are Bringing SLEEPAWAY CAMP Back On Tour

Grab your crop tops and join us for the ultimate celebration of a slasher classic. Get all the details (and dates) right here.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This upcoming EXORCIST movie is the seventh in the franchise. I just hope they make two more so the tagline can be "possession is 9/10ths of the law."

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Honestly, The Criminologist in Rocky Horror has the ideal job. What do you mean I get to tell you a scary story, only to further reveal that it gets hella gay?

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Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan · 06/10/2026

My text adventure style prose piece with an unrealiable parser and liminal hell setting has been published at Videodame! "A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis" is here! Please reskeet. I'd like the maximum number of readers possible.

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A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis

By Steve Horton

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Don't think it wasn't discussed! Maybe we'll save that one for NEXT Italian-American Heritage month. Or maybe I'll write about it. Or who knows. G.T.L.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, in truth, I think that's a lot of scenes in this movie.

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Stacked Deck Press @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is now a Project We Love on @kickstarter.com! Find out what has them all atwitter! Back it today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta... #projectwelove #kickstarter #lgbtqcomics #horror #horrorcomics #lgbtq

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Disclaimer: The circumstances leading to this viewing involve a lot of hijinks, comedic speculation, and amusement over the fact that we could (but probably shouldn't) do this for Italoween.

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Beware Boiúnato @donatobomb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now (re)watching, in honor of Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month (@michaelvarrati.bsky.social made me do it).

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, speaking of sitcoms going slasher, the SQUARE PEGS Halloween episode is also top-notch.

A still from the SQUARE PEGS episode "Halloween XIII" featuring the teacher and two students in costume. One student is dressed as a ghost with a fedora and sunglasses, while the other is dressed as one of the lead characters from STRANGE BREW.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've mentioned this in the past, but the oft-forgotten and culturally neglected CLUELESS TV series did a two-part episode parodying SCREAM titled "Scream, Murray, Scream" that is not only top-tier Halloween programming, but might be one of the best unsung slasher parodies ever done.

The CLUELESS version of Ghostface from the TV episode "Scream, Murray, Scream" and its second part, "Scream Again, Murray, Scream Again."

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me and @ryehickman.bsky.social get all sorts of gay and creepy with this one! You're gonna want it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

Panels from "Who By Hunger" by Jadzia Axelrod and Rye Hickman from the SEASONS OF FEAR anthology.

In the first panel, teenagers Barbie and Esther get hot and heavy in Barbie's bedroom. Their blouses are off, and Barbie is close to getting Esther's bra off.
ESTHER: Do you hear that?
RUTH: Hear what?

In the second panel, the closet door is slightly ajar and we can see glowing teeth of Lie Demons in sliver of darkness that is all we see of the closet’s interior.

Barbie (off panel): I don’t hear anything.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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Midnight Mass @midnightmasspod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Get ready! At midnight, we're releasing an all-new episode celebrating a movie that highlights a place where real horror lives: The suburbs.

A film still featuring a foot wearing a white high heel...and a cartoonish drip of blood down the heel.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Personally, I love that Clive Barker and Donald Pleasence share a birthday, because one is a leading figure in queer horror and the other is a master class in the flamboyance of fright.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Forever remembering the time many moon ago when a co-worker who historically disliked scary movies asked me for a recommendation for her and her husband on Halloween night. I suggested AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON b/c of the levity...and then she came back pissed because it was "too funny."

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Exactly! Sax don’t got time for no dry walk.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I miss that era of movies where nighttime in the city meant a solo saxophone signaling a full range of the human condition.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Absolutely love seeing THE MAXX on your shelf.

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Peaches Christ @peacheschrist.com · 04/10/2026

So incredibly proud. This SF Chronicle rave means so much, but I’m even prouder of the ridiculously talented, hardworking people who poured themselves into SLASHED. Terror Vault is a massive labor of love. My dark little heart is very full. 🖤 #TerrorVault #SLASHED www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

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Americana at Brand Memes @americanamemes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How a 100°+ October Day in LA feels like:

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There are 31 days in October, but only 13 films in the HALLOWEEN franchise, which means someone has work to do.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bruno Mattei is also a total boss. Their team-ups were the stuff of late-night movie legend.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today is the birthday of Claudio Fragrasso, Italian screenwriter of numerous exploitation flicks and filmmaker of such horror fare as NIGHT KILLER and BEYOND DARKNESS, as well as the iconic TROLL 2. Let his work be a reminder to do you, b/c unapologetic boldness will always find its audience.

A still from TROLL 2, featuring the goblins as they capture main character Joshua.

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're oscillating in this together.

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Stacked Deck Press @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Comadres y Comics talks to @michaelvarrati.bsky.social and @taramavery.bsky.social to talk about Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror! The ever-insightful Comadres discuss comics and the queer perspective on horror! Check it out then back the book on @kickstarter.com! (Link in comments.)

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Ep.293: Las Pláticas- Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror

YouTube video by Comadres y Comics Podcast

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