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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

True Blood was such a show for me.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pledge and get to read my new essay on Strange Brew (1983)! www.kickstarter.com/.../cinemati....

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A pretty good discussion of a pretty bad film. bsky.app/profile/vamp...

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I saw the Rabid remake in the theatre a week or two before the COVID lockdowns began. Strangely, Ron Jeremy IS in Ghostbusters (as an extra -- I gather he wasn't yet very recognizable).

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Love this film! Technically it's not the first film with Dracula in a contemporary U.S. setting (Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein did this in a decade earlier), but it's the first that really does anything with it as a premise.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There’s an old line: liberals and conservatives may both quote from the Bible, but it’s rarely the same verses.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

That was the bonus track on the movie soundtrack.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It also has the coolest hidden track I can recall, requiring you to start at the first track and go backwards.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It is explained in-narrative. Such an odd film…

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slighty diminish a book The Irritating Lightness of Being

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

On Sunday, I'll be on a panel discussion of All the President's Men (1976) and Network (1976). I have some free passes if anyone in Edmonton is interested. www.northwestfest.ca/latest-news/...

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First Wave of 2026 Films Announced — NorthwestFest

2026 is upon us, and though January may be dark and chilly, our first wave of film announcements is a reminder of the times to come!

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Great episode; I've long thought this was the most significat vampire film you've not yet covered (is that now Blood and Roses?). I too had a copy where the box warned of those moments of solarization.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"As long as the Arctic stays cold." -- the last line of The Blob (1958)

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In fairness, it had its critics even at the time. In the original Nitpicker's Guide, published in 1993, Phil Farrand is quite negative about its anti-religious stance.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I Was a Communist for the FBI

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

New, and basically useless.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The Traveling Wilburys song "She's My Baby" inverts it to "She's got a body for business/Got a head for sin."

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Duvall is so great that it takes you a while to realize that Tom Hagen does little more than deliver exposition.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I do think it’s often better to show films they’ll hate than those they’ll find dull and uninteresting (there goes all my favourites!).

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

At first year, I try to show a few challenging experimental films like Lemon and I usually preface it with a joke like “You may well hate it and by extension me.” But it’s useful to show them that such things exist, at least.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

In The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Professor Barnhard (Not-Einstein) is treated as the world's "greatest living person" and the guy whom the alien should definitely consult when he finds he can't work with governments directly. If Klaatu showed up today, who would he want to talk to?

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Everyone wave your severed limbs! The Refocus series has a new volume on the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis. Ed @brassupnorth.bsky.social w/ @serialmummy.bsky.social @mleeder.bsky.social @drdantils.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...

The cover of the book "ReFocus: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis" featuring a behind-the-scenes photo of the director gesturing toward a blonde actress sitting on a kitchen counter; he appears to be directing her in a scene.

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𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 @vampirevideos.co.uk · 02/02/2026

⚰️ COUNT DRACULA (1970) Did you know Christopher Lee played the master vampire for a Spanish adaptation of Stoker’s novel, in-between those Hammer sequels? Horror academic @mleeder.bsky.social joined us to discuss the result! www.vampirevideos.co.uk/135-count-dr...

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Canadian here -- I became aware of him via a kind of process of cultural diffusion (e.g. it being a big moment on The West Wing when Charlie was given silverware smithed by him). Not formal instruction, though (I remember absolutely nothing on the curriculum about the U.S. Revolution).

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I never fully understood Muppet lore until AI Overview stepped in. Thanks Google!

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The Ax Fight was always a hit with students.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I've done units on this in documentary classes, and included The Ax Fight and Pomo Shaman, among others.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

What's more virgin than a computer? A virgin.

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Consider contributing to this great project, featuring my new essay on The Monolith Monsters (1957). www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

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Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution

More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Support this great project and hear what I have to say about The Monolith Monsters! The movie, not the monsters. Well, technically both... www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

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Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution

More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules

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Murray Leeder @mleeder.bsky.social · 22/10/2025