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Mo Moshaty

@momoshaty.bsky.social
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Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER NY-er in London nighttidemag.com momoshaty.com

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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I love film and most (heavy emphasis on most) filmmakers. So, I write about directors a lot as a freelancer and make a lot of lists. Here’s some of those lists now to help some people find directors and avoid drowning in a sea of white guys. Hope this helps 🌚
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Adoring my contributor copy of DEAD PRETTY: 25 Illustrated Essays Exploring Beauty in Horror. This book is GORGEOUS and filled to the brim with essays from the most prolific voices in horror academia. I spoke about Onibaba, Sante Sangre & The Baby of Macôn. I implore you to pick this up! 🖤🖤🖤
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Sonora Taylor @sonorataylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New on Fright Girl Summer: @vlatinalondon.bsky.social and I have compiled some recommended reading for Latine Heritage Month, which continues through October 15! What are you reading by #Latinx authors this month (and beyond)?
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Latine Heritage Month 2026: Recommended Reading
Happy Latine Heritage Month! We have a great list of recommended reads for September 15-October 15, and beyond. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself by Davi…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As an author, producer & lecturer, I'm available for panels, guest lectures, festivals, interviews & literary events, particularly around horror, trauma, psychology, folklore, representation & criticism. International & Virtual. If you're putting together a programme, let's talk. 👻 momoshaty.com
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very proud to say my essay on Vampire in Brooklyn resides between the pages of this lovely new tome coming from Crystal Lake Publishing! Absolutely cannot wait for this! 👻📚
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sibling road trips are hell. Bloody hell. @sharai.bsky.social swung by TIFF and has the deets on this revenge horror for #NightTideMag 👻🦇📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/10/05/f...
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HALF THE SIBLINGS ARE FIGHTING (TIFF 2026 REVIEW)
Sibling road trips are hell. Being half-vampire makes them bloodier. Half turns one very bad encounter into a vicious, gleeful revenge spree as Ethan and Ivy remind a gang of scavengers that they p…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Bunny Lake Is Missing and Safe, women know something is wrong, but their testimony becomes evidence of their instability. Thirty years apart, both films expose the horror of a woman telling the truth and being disbelieved. nighttidemag.com/2026/10/05/s...
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HONEY, YOU’RE BECOMING HYSTERICAL: THE HORROR OF FEMALE TESTIMONY
In Bunny Lake Is Missing and Safe, women know something is wrong, but their testimony becomes evidence of their instability. Thirty years apart, both films expose the horror of a woman telling the …
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, dread arrives before proof. Through women’s intuition and Gothic tradition, Emily Pille explores the terror of knowing something is wrong when nothing has happened yet to prove you right. nighttidemag.com/2026/10/05/s...
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WOMEN KNOW WHEN SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN
In the female Gothic, women have long sensed the danger before they could prove it. From Jane Eyre and “Man-Size in Marble” to Crimson Peak and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, intuition beco…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sibling road trips are hell. Bloody hell. @sharai.bsky.social swung by TIFF and has the deets on this revenge horror for #NightTideMag 👻🦇📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/10/05/f...
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HALF THE SIBLINGS ARE FIGHTING (TIFF 2026 REVIEW)
Sibling road trips are hell. Being half-vampire makes them bloodier. Half turns one very bad encounter into a vicious, gleeful revenge spree as Ethan and Ivy remind a gang of scavengers that they p…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Bunny Lake Is Missing and Safe, women know something is wrong, but their testimony becomes evidence of their instability. Thirty years apart, both films expose the horror of a woman telling the truth and being disbelieved. nighttidemag.com/2026/10/05/s...
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HONEY, YOU’RE BECOMING HYSTERICAL: THE HORROR OF FEMALE TESTIMONY
In Bunny Lake Is Missing and Safe, women know something is wrong, but their testimony becomes evidence of their instability. Thirty years apart, both films expose the horror of a woman telling the …
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, dread arrives before proof. Through women’s intuition and Gothic tradition, Emily Pille explores the terror of knowing something is wrong when nothing has happened yet to prove you right. nighttidemag.com/2026/10/05/s...
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WOMEN KNOW WHEN SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN
In the female Gothic, women have long sensed the danger before they could prove it. From Jane Eyre and “Man-Size in Marble” to Crimson Peak and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, intuition beco…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In bed with a stomach blerrghh and looking back at some of my fave Halloween costumes over the years. What should Mo be this year?
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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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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There is no better person for the job. Angel is ABSOLUTELY going to kill it!!
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Another cat out of the bag! Yours truly will be featured in Diane Morgan’s new CUNK ON CINEMA as the resident horror specialist! THE coolest experience of ever! Hope I don’t look like a jackass….love me anyway! 🖤🖤🖤
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ouija Boards, gore gardens, haunted Hollywood, and vamps aplenty feature in this month's BIPOC and Dark Fiction for September, curated by @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social nighttidemag.com/2026/09/01/s... 👻📚
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BIPOC & DARK FICTION – SEPTEMBER 2026
A recurring column spotlighting the best horror, thriller, crime, and dark fiction by BIPOC authors by Nailah King.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
❤️ @horrorgirlprobs.bsky.social. I can’t thank you enough for the incredible amounts of support you’ve given me, @nighttidemag.bsky.social and NYX Horror. I’m so grateful for your wit, your strength and acceptance. You’re a testament to the goodness in this industry and to the genre at large. 🖤🚀🖤
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Don't dream it, be it. Tim Curry, 1946-2026
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Frank-N-Furter, it's all over Your mission is a failure Your lifestyle's too extreme I'm your new commander You now are my prisoner We return to Transylvania Prepare the Trans-it beam
Tim Curry RIP
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🚨Who should direct a new A Nightmare on Elm Street? @sharai.bsky.social has got ten filmmakers who could take Freddy somewhere gloriously terrifying. From J-horror and body horror to psychological and Black cult cinema, there's so much spice to add! 😶‍🌫️👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/08/20/s...
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10 DIRECTORS WHO WOULD MAKE THIS NEW A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET MOVIE COOL
Ten filmmakers who could bring wildly different nightmares, from J-horror and body horror to psychological terror and Black cult cinema, to a new A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What do The Gift and The Devil’s Advocate have in common? Two very different films, one deliciously devilish question: what would you do with the power to change your fate? @editrixemma.bsky.social explores for #NightTideMag 👻📽️👹 nighttidemag.com/2026/08/20/s...
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BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE: GIFTS AND DEALS WITH THE DEVIL
Emma Cole explores the seductive dangers of otherworldly temptation, and what happens when we’re given the power to change our fate through The Gift (2000) and The Devil’s Advocate (1997).
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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In the name of Varrati and Christ. Amen.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sleepaway Camp icon Felissa Rose joined Peaches Christ and Michael Varrati for a very Chicago stop on the Midnight Mass live tour, celebrating the cult classic she made at just 12 years old. @sharai.bsky.social has the lowdown for #NightTideMag 👻📽️🥳 nighttidemag.com/2026/08/20/f...
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MUBI FEST CHICAGO WAS THE LAST STOP FOR THIS LEG OF SLEEPAWAY CAMP: THE MIDNIGHT MASS EXPERIENCE’S TOUR
Peaches Christ, Michael Varrati, and Sleepaway Camp icon Felissa Rose brought the Midnight Mass live tour to Chicago for an intimate night of horror fandom, memories, and cult-classic celebration.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Backrooms has created new perspectives and analysis, and at #NightTideMag, WE❤️IT!! The film transforms the labyrinth into a portrait of modern alienation, late capitalism, & the existential terror of a world with no center…and no way out. J. Simpson explores. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/08/15/m...
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THE BACKROOMS AND THE MALIGNANT ARCHITECTURE OF MODERNITY REVISION
Kane Parsons’ Backrooms transforms the labyrinth into a haunting portrait of modern alienation, exploring liminal spaces, late capitalism, and the existential terror of a world with no center&#8230…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Authors, indie presses & publishers: what does your book taste like? 👀📚☕️ Mourning Manor Apothecary is brewing bespoke teas for book launches, press mailers, events & more, and our collaboration book is officially OPEN. 🖤 Follow us on instagram! Launching late Sept 26! www.mourningmanorapothecary.com
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tomorrow is the last day to submit abstracts to our next virtual symposium: THE HORROR OF CONTROL! 👻📽️📚💻
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🚨This upcoming four-day weekend @nighttidemag.bsky.social is reopening its abstract window for THE HORROR OF CONTROL, our 2nd annual virtual horror symposium. 👻💻 Submission details here: nighttidemag.com/2026/03/31/h...
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
From Moby-Dick to House of Leaves and the endless corridors of the Backrooms, Peyton Mills explores how existential horror has evolved alongside humanity's deepest anxieties, transforming the unknown from the natural world into the digital spaces we now inhabit. 👻📽️📚💻 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/29/m...
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FORM DOESN’T FOLLOW FUNCTION: HOW THE BACKROOMS UPDATE AN ANCIENT EXISTENTIALISM FOR A DIGITAL AUDIENCE
From Moby-Dick to House of Leaves and the endless corridors of the Backrooms, Peyton Mills explores how existential horror has evolved alongside humanity’s deepest anxieties, transforming the…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
By comparing two radically different interpretations of The Turn of the Screw, Ava DeVries explores how unreliable narration shapes horror, and why what we can’t trust is often far more frightening than what we can see. 👻 📺 📽️
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“SOMETIMES ONE CAN’T HELP IMAGINING THINGS”: AMBIGUITY AND THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR IN TWO ADAPTATIONS OF THE TURN OF THE SCREW
What is lost when an adaptation chooses certainty over ambiguity? By comparing two radically different interpretations of The Turn of the Screw, Ava DeVries explores how unreliable narration shapes…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From indifferent gods to humanity’s fragile place in the cosmos, Muse’s newest album proves that cosmic horror isn’t confined to literature or film, it can be heard just as powerfully through music. @leannareneehieber.bsky.social has the details. 👻 👾🎶 horror-breaking-down-muses-the-wow-signal/
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MUSING ON COSMIC HORROR: BREAKING DOWN MUSE’S “THE WOW SIGNAL”
From indifferent gods to humanity’s fragile place in the cosmos, Muse’s newest album proves that cosmic horror isn’t confined to literature or film, it can be heard just as powerf…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🚨 @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social has another release roster for you in the BIPOC and Dark Fiction categories for August! We may have just found your favorite new reads for the summer! 👻📚 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/29/s...
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BIPOC & Dark Fiction Releases — August 2026
A recurring column spotlighting the best horror, thriller, crime, and dark fiction by BIPOC authors by Nailah King.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The 1% be wilin'. @sharai.bsky.social looks into Rosebush Pruning and its bloody, skeevy, and shameless plot. nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/r... 👻📽️
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ROSEBUSH PRUNING (2026) A FILM WHERE THE RICH EAT THEIR OWN (MUBI FESTIVAL CHICAGO)
The first in Saltburn’s shadow of rifling through the 1%’s evil drawers, Rosebush Pruning is not for the weak. Sharai Bohannon has the news.
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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I fucking love this movie and I fucking love that this is the best piece I have written on it. Now no one has to give the bad place clicks to see me gush over my favorite Grampa Gooey film.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Believe it or not, The Fly is an ooey-gooey love story. @sharai.bsky.social dives in for its 40th anniversary. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...
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MUBI FEST CHICAGO SCREENED THE FLY ON 35MM FOR ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
MUBI Fest honors the 40th anniversary of David Cronenberg’s The Fly and Sharai Bohannon reminds us the putrid journey where love just isn’t enough.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Greenpoint Film Festival hits 15 and @micheleschultz.bsky.social chats with the filmmakers of its UNBOUND selections. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...
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CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FACES OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL GREENPOINT FILM FEST HORROR LINEUP
Michele Schultz gets the deets on Greenpoint Film Festival’s ‘Unbound’ selections.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Before I Know What You Did Last Summer was a slasher franchise; it was Lois Duncan’s novel. @sharai.bsky.social explores the space between fiction & reality, adaptation & authorship, & why Duncan’s legacy deserves to be remembered alongside the films it inspired. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/s...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LOIS DUNCAN AND I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
Before I Know What You Did Last Summer became a slasher franchise, it was Lois Duncan’s novel; and behind its success was a mother navigating an unimaginable personal tragedy. Sharai Bohannon…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Though its leisurely pace and romanticized vision of the South occasionally dull its edge, Carolina Caroline finds its strength in subverting expectations rather than reinventing them. @sharai.bsky.social has thoughts. 👻📽️🎬 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/c...
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CAROLINA CAROLINE (2025): A MOVIE FOR THE CON ARTISTS AND THE ROMANTICS
Though its leisurely pace and romanticized vision of the South occasionally dull its edge, Carolina Caroline finds its strength in subverting expectations rather than reinventing them.
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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
... @optiluiz.bsky.social finds a possible backstory for the new Crystal Lake series @bloody-disgusting.com, @momoshaty.bsky.social reflects on the career of the late Sam Neill @nighttidemag.bsky.social, and Kim Fu & Claire Fuller talk about writing hauntings @reactorsff.bsky.social! Happy reading!👻
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Jeff C. Carter @carterwroteit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
187 – Horror Non-Fiction Panel Fermented Fiction & We Bleed Orange & Black bring you a panel of essayists to discuss the craft and challenges of Horror Non-Fiction writing with Patrick Barb and Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social @patrickbarb.bsky.social @fermentedfiction.bsky.social
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I kept trying to write a celebration of Sam Neill's horror career, but every draft felt distant. Then I realized I'd been writing about the films instead of why they've stayed with me and about the person I've become since I first watched him. 👻📽️🖤 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/16/s...
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THE MANY FACES OF SAM NEILL: FEAR AND FUTILITY IN HORROR
Across Possession, Event Horizon, and In the Mouth of Madness, Sam Neill’s greatest horror performances reveal not the terror of monsters, but the devastating horror of losing the person we b…
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Congrats to all the very deserving Shirley Jackson Award winners! But our hearts will always be with one of our favorites—the 2x-Shirley nominated, Wonderland Award-winning CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT & TORMENT, by @momoshaty.bsky.social🖤☠️ Get it here: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/cla...
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨@sharai.bsky.social has the Deadite deets on Sébastien Vaniček's take on the franchise. nighttidemag.com/2026/07/10/w... 👻📽️🍿
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EVIL DEAD BURN (2026) IS A RELENTLESS AND TWISTED LITTLE ADDITION TO THE FRANCHISE
Dysfuntional family gets the deadite treatment in Sébastien Vaniček’s spin on the franchise. Sharai Bohannon reports.
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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Boosting because we’re heading into festival season and you should believe women and do everything in your power to not put WOC in the same spaces with this clown. If you have a festival, think about that before you program his alleged movies.
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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
P.S. If I know one of the women harassed spoke to you about this man and you still program him, your fest is dead to me. I don’t care if it’s just a tiny blog, an indie podcast, or over drinks. I don’t boost fests that don’t believe women in 2026. Prayers down!
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The horror community often asks for more diverse voices & more stories that challenge the boundaries of the genre. This month, the Forbidden Planet Megastore will welcome internationally acclaimed author Silvia Moreno-Garcia for an intimate in-conversation event. 👻📚 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/01/s...
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STEP INSIDE THE INTRIGUE: SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA HEADS TO FORBIDDEN PLANET LONDON
The horror community often asks for more diverse voices, more women in horror, and more stories that challenge the boundaries of the genre. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is heading to Forbidden Planet&#8217…
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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My very first @nighttidemag.bsky.social turned two this year and I missed the anniversary. However, Lacey should be on your radar if you like watching awkward Black women kick ass. nighttidemag.com/2024/02/29/t...
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SHE NEVER DIED: The Most Promising Movie We Don’t Talk About Enough
In She Never Died, an awkward loner, Lacey (Olunike Adeliyi), saves a girl, Suzzie (Kiana Madeira), from being murdered on the dark web. Lacey then decides to put an end to the criminals behind the…
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's all Tribeca, all day! @micheleschultz.bsky.social brings us WTF to Monstrous with Escape from Tribeca 2026 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/01/f... 👻📽️
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Escape From Tribeca: WTF to the Monstrous Celebrated 25th Annual Tribeca Fest
Body Horror abundance at Tribeca Film Festival 2026 proves horror never shys away from reproductive nightmares.
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Sharai Bohannon (She/Her) @sharai.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Honored to be writing in the right places now and humbled by how many of y’all still read my work. 😭 Thanks for making this an awesome little Monday!
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
BIPOC authors get less spotlight than others, and if you're looking to expand your TBR, @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social begins her monthly column at #NightTideMag to help you out! nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/s... 👻📚
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BIPOC & Dark Fiction Releases — July 2026
A recurring column spotlighting the best horror, thriller, crime, and dark fiction by BIPOC authors by Nailah King.
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A Nightmare On Fierce Street @nightmarefierce.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Let’s go
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