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Michelle Kisner

@michellekisner.bsky.social
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Freelancer/critic. Physical media enthusiast and essayist. Member of the Michigan Movie Critics Guild. Contributor: Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Error_4444, Severin, Umbrella, Second Sight, BFI, Kino Lorber, 88 Films, Imprint, Terror Vision

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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do ittt
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Horror & Coffee @foundfootagefan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Near Dark (1987) By Frederick Cooper
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Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
mood #filmsky
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In a Miike mood.
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There's No Love in Your Violence: Ichi the Killer (2001)
Ichi the Killer is arguably Takashi Miike's most infamous film due to its graphic depictions of horrific gore.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sad boy Hideaki Anno core.
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Ritual (2000)
“The human heart is fragile and is easily captured.”
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Playing a video game yourself and watching someone else play a video game are not interchangeable for review/analysis purposes and I will never be convinced otherwise.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oooh I have not, thank you!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Since fall is here, I thought I would share my piece on the film adaptations of The Crow! It’s one of my all time favorite graphic novels, but it’s been a bumpy road with the movie versions.
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And I Say, I’m Dead and I Move: A Journey Through the Film Adaptations of The Crow
An examination of four film adaptations of The Crow.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 18/09/2026
Bluesky cuties, consider this a good old fashioned call-out for work! I've landed safely thanks to your support, but financially things are still a little struggletown. This thread is really to remind commissioning type folks, producers and editors of the kind of work I do. Signal boosts welcome! 🧵
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this alternative poster for Resident Evil, it’s an homage to the original box art for the PS1 game!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Finally had a chance to start up Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Only an hour or so in, but it’s fantastic so far. I love how expressive Mifune’s face is!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I hope you dig it!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil fucks. Here’s my review:
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The Notes They Left Behind: Resident Evil (2026) and the Terror of Being Ordinary
Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Loved Resident Evil. It’s more faithful to the games than it lets on in the marketing, but in a subtle thematic way. As a film critic and someone who has played all the mainline games, it satisfied me on both fronts, which is rare for video game adaptations.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My review for Hope! I had a mixed reaction to it, but overall I dug it. One of the most uneven films I have seen this year.
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Fear of the Other: Hope (2026) Turns the Creature Feature Inside Out
In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature.
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Gutter's own Gore Queen @michellekisner.bsky.social on three Jôji Iida films! Goop! Gore! Battle Heater Kotatsu! culturalgutter.com/2026/09/10/g...
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Goopy Gore, Killer Kotatsu, and the End of the World: Three Films from Jôji Iida
Cyclops (1987) Japan made a good number of direct-to-video horror shorts in the ’80s, and Cyclops is one of the better ones, even though the story is almost incomprehensible. Takamori (Kazuhi…
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Colony (2026) Dir. Yeon Sang-ho
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have a written essay in the booklet for this upcoming release! Wild ass movie!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Buddy (2026)
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columbologist @columbologist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
91.8% of players, having waited nearly 20 years for MGS4 to be playable on anything other than PS3, booted the game and immediately made a beeline for a statue's dick
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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Double Feature idea: Fairytale Femininity of the 1980s
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I absolutely adored this film.
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Flesh & Fluids: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Gutter's own @michellekisner.bsky.social on the apocalyptic late stage capitalist horror/satire, Buffet Infinity! culturalgutter.com/2026/08/18/t...
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“The Apocalyptic Late Stage Capitalism of ‘Buffet Infinity'”
The Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner reviews Buffet Infinity at The Movie Sleuth! “Instead of interrupting the narrative with advertisements, Buffet Infinity (2025) uses ads to tell the sto…
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just had to trim my left thumbnail so I could use my Sega Genesis controller D-pad if you were wondering how my Saturday is going.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I adore this movie while simultaneously admitting it was a bad idea.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Marquis (1989)
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“It’s like a door being slammed in the depths of hell.” The War Game (1966)
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If you use Steam/PC, FF9 with the Moguri Mod is essentially a remaster! I replayed it this way fairly recently and it felt like a new game!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My review for Spider-Man: Brand New Day!
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Brand New Day, Same Old MCU: Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
People are saying NWR copied Euphoria with Her Private Hell as if Euphoria wasn’t eating his table scraps from movies he made 15 years ago. Please.
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Scream, Cultura, Scream! @culturalgutter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Gutter's own Michelle Kisner shares her thoughts on The Odyssey! culturalgutter.com/2026/07/23/f...
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From Homer to Nolan: How The Odyssey Survives Through Reinvention
The Odyssey is one of the most influential works of literature ever created, and yet its origins remain ambiguous and widely debated. It started as an oral tradition, passed along by aoidos, or sin…
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So can I eat lettuce or not what the fuck
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I had no idea that so many people were low-key Greek scholars
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patrick 🦓 loveland @pmloveland.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
#DarkArt #WeirdArt #StayStrangeArt
Two clothskinstonecrete creatures(?) Intertwined, one (half?) sending piercing tendrils into the other's mouth and down its throat as its glassy eye gazes at the viewer (or just in our direction, its vision clouded by agony(ecstacy?)(both?)
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I’m in Michigan and we have a thick blanket of wildfire smog right now, and I just watched my coworker go out into it and smoke a cigarette. Bro is speed running lung cancer.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We don’t fuck around with food here that’s for sure haha
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Gotta say, I’m thoroughly enjoying my Steam Machine! Is it too expensive? Yes. Does it do everything that I want it to do? Also yes.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I recently modded my Dreamcast and I’m gonna give Veronica a replay on there, I don’t remember anything from it honestly!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
R.I.P. to Akihiro Miwa
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International Cinema: Crime is Like a Magic Box: Black Lizard (1968) - Reviewed
A detective (Isao Kimura) tries to outwit a jewel thief (Akihiro Maruyama) who has kidnapped the daughter (Kikko Matsuoka) of a jeweler.
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Chapter 5 of Deltarune is fantastic so far, I’m constantly amazed at how creative Toby Fox is (and unapologetically Millennial).
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I have a booklet essay on this release! Great flick.
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GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 25/06/2026
THE END OF EVANGELION in theatres July 22 only. Tickets on sale now. brnw.ch/21x3yqd
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 19/06/2026
there’s this idea that critics are stuck up and discriminating about taste, but in my experience critics tend to be far more open to different kinds of art, and it’s actually mainstream audiences who are extraordinarily discriminating, far more than they used to be, but in a bad way
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I was sad to hear when Yoshihiro Nishimura passed away recently, he was one of my favorite directors! Here’s a piece about his work I wrote from The Cultural Gutter!
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Blood Geysers and Biopunk: The Gory Films of Yoshihiro Nishimura
Yoshihiro Nishimura started out as a special effects guru, providing gruesome make-up and props for films such as Suicide Club (2001), Meatball Machine (2005), and The Machine Girl (2008). His brea…
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Anthony Taylor @goanthonytaylor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Here's a great review for JACKsploitation! The Films of #JackHill from Pop Cult! popcultblog.com/read-this-bo... #headpress #spiderbaby #RogerCorman #foxybrown #coffy @phoefsutton.bsky.social @lucashardwick.bsky.social @kellyrobinson.bsky.social @lisamorton.bsky.social @michellekisner.bsky.social
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Read This Book And You Can Know Jack…Hill
The PopCult Bookshelf JACKsploitation! The Films of Jack Hill Edited by Anthony Taylor, Preface by Beverly Washburn Introduction by Jack Hill Headpress Books ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1915316561 $24.95 JAC…
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If you love The Raid films you need to go out and see The Furious IMMEDIATELY. The fighting styles use a lot of momentum and inertia in a creative way, it feels a little like wrestling, but there’s a bit a fighting game style over-the-top stuff too. Yayan Ruhian is a fucking menace yet again!
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Michelle Kisner @michellekisner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Had a great time chatting about Obsession!
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