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Robert Freese

@robfreese.bsky.social
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Writer for The Phantom of the Movies’ Videoscope and It Came From Hollywood. I also write novels, movie tie-ins and screenplays.

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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The proofs for It Came From Hollywood Book 7 look good…this is our biggest book yet! 365 full color pages! Colossal:1986! The Commander U.S.A. Groovie Movie Guide! The Galaxy Vue Double Feature novelization with 10-page Intermission! Coming in October ‘26!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
For Fathom Press’s upcoming rerelease of Joyride!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Video Town is finally available! It’s Halloween 1987 and Video Town battle the corporate thugs at the “Slimetime” Video across the street for rental supremacy! My tribute to all the 80’s underdog comedies from the ‘80s. 1st run limited to 250 copies. Available ONLY from lunchmeatVHS.com!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My tribute book to Joe Kane, aka The Phantom of the Movies, is available now from Amazon!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My interview with Ron Bonk is available now at rue-morgue.com.
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Recollections from a Rotting Brain: An Exclusive Interview with SRS Cinema’s Ron Bonk - Rue Morgue
RUE MORGUE columnist Rob Freese compiles the ultimate guide to the literary work of a horror movie legend.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fawesome Horror categorizes Spandexorcist as “Campy Goofy, Bizarre.” Accurate. Come for the Camp, stay for the Bizarre!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Spandexorcist is out on Blu-ray, DVD and streaming today! 6.9.2026
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
My new blog about writer John A. Russo is up now on Rue Morgue online.
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Recollections from a Rotting Brain: John Russo in Print – The Ultimate Bibliography - Rue Morgue
RUE MORGUE columnist Rob Freese compiles the ultimate guide to the literary work of a horror movie legend.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My new novel is available for pre-order!
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VIDEO TOWN NOVEL
NOTE: THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. BOOKS PROJECTED TO SHIP IN JULY 2026.   Lunchmeat is uncontrollably VHStoked to announce we are publishing our first original novel entitled VIDEO TOWN!    Authored by longt...
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Spandexorcist, featuring Michelle Bauer, Cindy Hinds, Ellen Mildred, Trevor Payer and Abbey Flockton is streaming now on Full Moon Features! Directed by Brett Kelly! Written by yours truly! Let’s get sweaty!!!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
What an absolute blast it was to watch Spandexorcist with a crowd. I had such a great night. I also wonder if the iguanas were fed…
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Congratulations, Amanda! Well deserved!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
My chat with author Nick Cato about his new book Dark Dreams: An ObsessiveLook at Romano Scavolini’s Nightmare is available now on Rue Morgue.
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Recollections From A Rotting Brain: Author Nick Cato Talks "DARK DREAMS: AN OBSESSIVE LOOK AT ROMANO SCAVOLINI'S 'NIGHTMARE'" - Rue Morgue
Experience the 1981 cult favorite slasher through the eyes of its most dedicated fan in the new book from Headpress.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I watched Spandexorcist and had the best time with it. (I knew all the jokes and I still laughed.) It is quite the experience seeing the words you wrote brought to life for the first time. Kudos to all the folks who helped put this picture together. (The cast was amazing!) weird girls rule!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
My copies of Spandexorcist arrived today! I wrote a movie…and Michelle Bauer is in it! I’m pretty excited!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The new issue of Medusa Fanzine just arrived from France! It includes a combination of my two interviews with filmmaker J.D. Feigelson (Dark Night of the Scarecrow) and covers his entire career. The layout is amazing! 20 oversized pages bursting with color. Thank you, Didier!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Thank you.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My first post of 2026 is up on rue-morgue.com now- my friend, the late, great Sam Sherman. rue-morgue.com/recollection...
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Recollections From A Rotting Brain: Remembering Drive-In Great Sam Sherman - Rue Morgue
The legendary producer, writer and distributor behind Al Adamson's off-kilter horror classics was a true maverick of independent cinema and a devoted movie fan.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The “Coward’s Corner” is ready for tonight’s screening of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). No matter what the storm brings this weekend, it’ll be a cake walk compared to what the boys at Outpost 31 had to deal with back in the winter of ‘82.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I knew I watched a lot of Carry On last year, but I’m surprised my most watched actor wasn’t Kenneth Williams or Sid James.
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Hysteria Lives! @jakerswell.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
New Review: DR GIGGLES (1992) "An escapee from a lunatic asylum, convinced he's a doctor, returns to his hometown and begins killing teenagers. It isn’t hard to see why this potential franchise was given a do-not-resuscitate order." www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/Dr-Giggles.h...
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I remember being horribly disappointed by this one. It was the movie that made me realize the fun of the eighties was really over. (I’ve watched it a couple times since to see if it’s any better. It will always just be a “meh” flick for me.)
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I hope everyone enjoys Christmas as much as Vincent enjoys getting into the tree! Happy Holidays!
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Hysteria Lives! @jakerswell.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
THE SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT CONTROVERSY! "Protesting Elves, a killer Santa, & the shadowy potential role of a soft drink giant in the downfall of the most controversial holiday horror film ever made. A sometimes surreal true-life tale of festive fear ..." www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/silent_night...
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I actually wanted to do the video with Vincent in the tree behind me, but he refused to climb in it. He’s been jumping in and out of it all month.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
That time Vincent said he wanted to be in one of my videos. (He was a good sport!)
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70’s & 80’s is now $11.95 for a limited time!
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The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's
examines how the slasher film searched for its identity in the 1970s, until maturing into what we consider a "slasher movie" today in the 1980s. After countless hours consuming knife-kill flicks, Rob ...
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One of the more bizarre slashers, definitely influenced more by H.G. Lewis than John Carpenter. Why does the main cop scream all his lines? Brad Carter wrote an excellent novelization that’s a must read for fans of the flick.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What a great flick! This was my birthday movie that year and we saw it the weekend after we saw Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving. It was so much fun and one of the better time travel slashers.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A new review for the slasher book. Thank you!
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Multi-Genre Music, Sound & Film Webzine
<p><em>The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70’s & 80’s</em> is a glorious dive back into the golden age of slash ‘n’ stalk films. Instead of an in-depth/ definitive guide to the genre/ period, this is...
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
All the It Came From Hollywood books are 40% off this weekend at Makeflix! Includes the Salute to Slashers (Book 2), our giant Arch Hall Jr. book (Book 5) and our look at the year 1984 (Book 6). All the novelizations and Colossals are also in the sale and signed copies of my slasher book!
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More Black Friday Weekend Deals
Sale prices valid 12AM EST 11/28/25 thru 12AM EST 12/02/25. Quantities limited.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
My new blog for Rue Morgue- looking at film fandom past and present in Italy with cinema scholars, Fabio and Luna Chimenti!!!
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Recollections from a Rotting Brain: International Fandom with Fabio and Luna Chimenti - Rue Morgue
The husband-and-wife film journalists from Italy's "NOCTURNO" reveal the state of the genre in the country that gave us Argento, Bava and Fulci.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I’ve seen Body Chemistry, but I need to find Lower Level.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I believe director Kristine Peterson got Body Chemistry after directing the slasher Deadly Dreams (with Juliette Cummins) for a direct to video movie package Corman put together. She worked in a lot of great movies in the 80’s and 90’s like Chopping Mall and Tremors.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I remember really enjoying The Pool when it came out, but it has been a long time since I’ve seen it. I need to give it a rewatch to see if it still holds up. (The “blade in the slide tunnel” they did here was taken to the next level in 2019’s Aquaslash.)
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
My interview with the Scholars of Slash at The Hysteria Continues (Justin, Erik, Joseph and Nathan) is available now on Rue Morgue. rue-morgue.com/slasher-flic...
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Recollections from a Rotting Brain: Talking Slasher Flicks with "The Hysteria Continues!" Podcast - Rue Morgue
Rob Freese sits down with the popular podcasters to look back at the masked killers and maniacs who painted the 1980s red!
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Author Armando Muñoz @armandomunoz.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
From the producers of the original Silent Night, Deadly Night and Anthony Masi, the producer of my novelization, here comes an all new movie this December. youtu.be/wIi7YOvQe7s?...
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SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 🎅🏼🪓🩸 | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 12
YouTube video by Bloody Disgusting Horror
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My new blog is up on Rue Morgue. I finally caught up with the author of the Halloween novelization, Richard Curtis! (Did you know a fully illustrated version of the novel was rereleased a couple years ago? I didn’t either!)
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The Curious Case Of The "HALLOWEEN" Novelization – A Conversation With Author Richard Curtis - Rue Morgue
Published months after the release of John Carpenter's groundbreaking film, the 1979 novelization expanded Michael Myers' backstory with Celtic folklore.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Two different vibes that would make an enjoyable double feature.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I have to ask- do you watch the movies as they play or do you read between reels?
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I have to find this now!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
There are quite a few, but Eviltown is throwing me off. I’m not familiar with that one.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I was on this episode! I had so much fun! Thank you, Hysterical Continues!!!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Film producer Sam Sherman passed away on Monday. Sam was great. He called me out of the blue one day, “Rob Freese? This is Sam Sherman, president of I-IP.” I always loved talking to him. I was on the editorial team who helped put his book, “When Dracula Met Frankenstein” together. Rest now, sir.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
“Why is my back wet?”
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“Rob, what exactly do you do at the library?” Well, I show awesome movies and remind people how much fun you can have going to movies. I also concoct cheap gimmicks for the movies I show. Tomorrow is Dana Cannon’s Moving Violations scratch off game. 27% accurate- if you drive a puppet stage.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Olivia/Prozzie is another horror movie about the London Bridge in Arizona. From Ulli Lommel.
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
That’s a great review!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy belated bloody birthday! Here’s to 27 more!
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Robert Freese @robfreese.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I just showed this at my library last night. Everyone really enjoyed it.
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