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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's a shame it's not Pie Week on Bake-Off tonight. Anyway, I'm watching Tod Slaughter in Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)

Title card reads: George King presents Tod Slaughter in Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Frederick Hayward

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Next up in the Conjuringverse is The Curse of La Llorona (2019). I know nothing about this...

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It really is brutal. Here's a nice moment where a couple admire a poster of Olivia Newton John on the wall of an abandoned cafe.

A couple listen to the radio and admire a poster of Olivia Newton John.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Starting this over lunch as I've heard it's intense and I might not want to watch it before bed. Nightmare City (1980). First violent scenes ten mins in and, well I lost count of the "killings"...

Rooftops of a city viewed from above with Italian text that translates to "Nightmare City".

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Obligatory shot of the wolfman makeup. It's a goodun!

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The next Paul Naschy Hombre Lobo film on my list is Night of the Werewolf (1981). #SHOCKtober

Caption - Night of the Werewolf. Behind the text is a man wearing a metal helmet.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

... and so does Michael Smiley!!

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting annoyed by films that don't show the title until the end. Anyway, continuing The Conjuringverse, next up is The Nun (2018) #SHOCKtober

Title card: The Nun. An inverted crucifix sits in the middle.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Because I've never seen the first sequel, I'm watching The Amityville Horror (1979) first. #SHOCKtober

Silhouette of a house with two attic windows like eyes. Text reads: The Amityville Horror

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nilssen plays "Son of Dracula", Count Downe (!), Freddie Francis is Dr Frankenstein and it all looks like it was shot on a long, drunken weekend by accident. Here's Nilssen!

Nilssen, with long ginger hair and beard, looking hung over.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quite accidentally I've gone for a Freddie Francis double bill tonight. Er... Son of Dracula (1973) starring Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson.

Title card - Son of Dracula, displayed over a car.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Peter Cushing, Ron Moody and Roy Castle star in a 1975 Tyburn horror that feels like Hammer - Legend of the Werewolf (1975). #SHOCKtober

Title card - Legend of the Werewolf, text shown over a blood-red forest

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starting#SHOCKtober early with Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Coming to Doctor Who Literature's YouTube channel next Saturday morning, 26 September 2026!

Caption: A Target Doctor Who Prologue - London Alert!
Image: A man holds his hands up in shock as a dinosaur roars.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Coming soon to Doctor Who Literature's YouTube - Shughie's story from Target's The Dinosaur Invasion ANIMATED!

A man holds his hands up in panic as a dinosaur roars. Behind them, the sun sets.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Halfway through s2 of Lou Grant. The boom operator clearly loved the acting as he makes his presence known repeatedly through every episode.

As two men visit an old lady in hospital, a boom microphone bobs into the top of the frame.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Spanish scifi comedy Operacion Mantis (1984, starring Paul Naschy, made liberal use of the Doctor Who Sound effects album.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Watching an ep of The Bill, "Pressure" from 1989, featuring appearances by Ahmed Khalil (Black Orchid) and Joseph Marcell (Remembrance of the Daleks).

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wondering if this is a common thing. I knew about the Queen Victoria statue in Liverpool where it looks like she has a knob, but I recently found another in Bradford. Do any readers know of other knob-endowed Queen Vic statues? #torchwood #willies

Queen Victoria statue in Liverpool. The end of the sceptre makes it look like she has a penis

Queen Victoria statue in Bradford. The end of the sceptre makes it look like she has a penis

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Just finished reading Solace House, the latest novel from my old chum Will Maclean. Beautifully crafted, genuinely unsettling in places. There's a revelation late on that made me gasp and chuckle and marvel at Will's mind.

A painting of a house that ripples away at the bottom.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The new Vue ident is, frankly, disgusting. So much wrongness.

The letters V U and E made out of monstrous misshapen monsters - the V is a corn snack with eyes, covered in cheese. The U is a hotdog with a face at each end. The E is a startled alien.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Happy to see there are fans of Eric Saward in the neighbourhood.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Watched a 1976 ep of Shadows last night, Dark Encounter. Spent the whole thing trying to remember where I'd seen this actress before. Perhaps if her hotel had served blue milk I'd have recognised her sooner ..

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Going on an adventure to Chester.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Randomly decided to watch a Dramarama last night, The Secret of Croftmore from 1988. It featured Shug from Still Game, along with this 17-year-old lad called David making his TV debut. Whatever happened to him, I wonder?

A young David Tennant in a denim jacket, with Kate Sandison, standing in front of an old stone wall.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Well this is cool. I just ran this through an image search and the house they used was 30A Acacia Road, St Johns Wood, London NW8

A man in a turban leaves a large house in London

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

They've gone to great lengths to put up English signs (for a stop with a Welsh name) but surely that's a Spanish station, train and car?! Also - actual night filming!!

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Okay... I don't know a thing about this, but entirely coincidentally there's a killer dressed as Guy Fawkes. Wow!

A figure in a rubber mask of an ugly old man.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

A kind of late #SHOCKtober - or should it be #WOEvember - the stage production of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein comes to the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A final #SHOCKtober - animated mash-up Mad Monster Party? (1967) stars Boris Karloff as Dr F, with special guest star Phyllis Fuller.

Frankenstein's monster is zapped with electricity with the title card Mad Monster Party

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#SHOCKtober Stepping back into giallo with an Italian thriller with a crazy title - The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970).

A woman smoking in the bath with the caption The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#SHOCKtober Another Paul Naschy, and a very mid-70s theme Exorcismo (1975). Apparently Naschy had the idea for the film before the glut of exorcism movies, but I'm assuming that's why it got made?

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This is a bit like the Rathbone Sherlock films, shifting the Victorian vampire to present day, so the film is rooted in the London blitz and other WWII matters. Refs to a characters escaping a concentration camp. And look at this set!

A London street is torn apart by a German bomb.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Lunchtime #SHOCKtober and Columbia try to pull a Universal by doing The Return of the Vampire (1943) with Bela Lugosi and a wolfman.

Text over a foggy woodland: The Return of the Vampire

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The wolf make up is the best so far though.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It's an odd trope, but it seems every Naschy film has a scene where he'd propped up in bed and bandaged.

Paul Naschy in bed, his chest is bandaged.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

#SHOCKtober The title card says Curse of the Devil but it's El Retorno de Walpurgis (1973), the next of Paul Naschy's Daninsky werewolf films.

Title card Curse of the Devil over a scene of two knights in battle

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#SHOCKtover Rondo Hatton stars as The Brute (1946). There's something sad about this because, unlike the other Universal "Monsters", that's Hatton's actual face

Producers Releasing Corporation present The Brute Man

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#SHOCKtober - David Cronenberg is a bit of a blind spot for me, so I'm giving this a go: Scanners (1981)

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

#SHOCKtober I know nothing about Manos: the Hand of Fate (1966) but @ohsinnerman.bsky.social suggested it. So far, the dialogue seems to have been written after the film was shot, like The Flashing Blade.

Manos: the Hand of Fate - text across burning flames

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Mini #SHOCKtober - a short film on YouTube called Sweet Revenge (2025). Another one I've been saving for tonight. youtu.be/O_dEbWGRXsg?...

Title card Sweet Revenge - woodlands next to a lake on a sunny day.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

#SHOCKtober I've been saving this one for the last Saturday night of the month... Sinners (2025)

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

#SHOCKtober - and I might regret this but Billy the Kid versus Dracula (1966) is calling.

Text Billy the Kid versus Dracula (shown over a cloudy night sky)

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

#SHOCKtober An odd one, as the copy I have is the US reissue with the title The Horrible House on the Hill, but this is actually Devil Times Five (1974).

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#SHOCKtober what a credits list - Carl Laemmle presents Karloff (surname only!) and Bela Lugosi in an Edgar Allan Poe story, The Black Cat (1934). Perfect hissy late-night hokum.

Carl Laemmle presents Karloff and Bela Lugosi in...

Title card The Black Cat, suggested by the immortal Edgar Allan Poe.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Film #32 for my #SHOCKtober is The Vampires Night Orgy (1973). No apostrophe - burn it!!!!

A dead body covered in maggots and worms with the caption The Vampires Night Orgy

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Tonight's #SHOCKtober is another Paul Naschy, not the Wolfman - it's Count Dracula's Great Love (1973).

As a man falls slowly down a flight of stairs with a hatchet embedded in his skull, the caption reads Count Dracula's Great Love.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Lunchtime #SHOCKtober - The Man in Black (1950) with Valentine Dyall recreating his role of narrator from the radio series.

Caption card The BBC Sensation The Man in Black - your storyteller Valentine Dyall. Caption appears over the silhouette of Dyall in a wide brimmed hat.

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

New addition to my Redbubble shop - El Hombre Lobo! www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/El...

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Monstermaker @monstermaker.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I've never seen a Tod Slaughter film before and this is the closest he did to a horror - The Face at the Window (1939) begins by telling us there's a "wolf Man" loose in Paris. It also says the name of the film twice in the first minute. Hurrah! #SHOCKtober

Title card over an image of an old street. Tod Slaughter in Brooke Warren's famous melodrama The Face at the Window with Marjorie Taylor & John Warwick

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