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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Taking a 500-year-old New Year’s tradition from Switzerland as its subject, 'Silvesterchlausen' harbors a fascination with self-sustaining cultures and the mystique of an unbroken continuum. Oliver O'Sullivan explores Andrew Norman Wilson's 2025 film for New Year's Eve!
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Time Regression: Andrew Norman Wilson’s ‘Silvesterchlausen’ (2025) - Split Tooth Media
'Silvesterchlausen' harbors a fascination with the impenetrable mystique of a 500-year-old New Year's tradition from Switzerland.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Set during the holiday season in Chicago, 'Tiger Tail in Blue' (2012) features writer/director Frank V. Ross starring alongside Rebecca Spence in his most unorthodox narrative yet. Watch and read about the film here: www.splittoothmedia.com/ross-tiger-t...
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Full of creeping dread and frayed family bonds, Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped the Devil’ (2019) is a cracked-mirror portrait of returning home for the holidays.
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Must Be Satan: Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped the Devil’ (2019) - Split Tooth Media
Full of creeping dread and frayed family bonds, Lobo's 2019 film is a cracked-mirror portrait of returning home for the holidays.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The 2025 Split Tooth Holiday Special is available now! Watch the online premiere of Jordan Lisi’s 12 AND MORE OMISSIONS with an exclusive video intro and post-film interview with Lisi: www.splittoothmedia.com/12-and-more-...
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The 2025 Split Tooth Holiday Special is now available! Check out the online premiere of Jordan Lisi’s 12 AND MORE OMISSIONS with an intro by @whitecitycinema.bsky.social and post-film conversation between Lisi and Shaun Seneviratne! www.splittoothmedia.com/12-and-more-...
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The 2025 Split Tooth Holiday Special: '12 And More Omissions' (Jordan Lisi, 2024) Online Premiere - Split Tooth Media
In our first holiday special, we present the online premiere of Lisi's debut feature alongside a video introduction and post-film interview.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Many are the Christmas stories about anxieties of existence, but 'Dead Man’s Letters' (1986) is one of the only truly existential Christmas movies. Oliver O'Sullivan explores the first entry in Konstantin Lopushansky’s decades-spanning Apocalypse Quartet.
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Nuclear Winter Wonderland: Konstantin Lopushansky’s ‘Dead Man’s Letters’ (1986) - Split Tooth Media
Many are the Christmas stories about anxieties of existence, but Dead Man’s Letters is one of the only truly existential Christmas movies.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
On this day in 2021, we lost Michael Nesmith. Breanna McCann wrote a loving tribute to the late great Monkee and cosmic cowboy by looking back on his time with the First National Band.
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Cosmic Cowboy Adrift: Mike Nesmith, The First National Band, And The Enigma Of Identity - Split Tooth Media
After severing ties with his Monkee Mike persona, Michael Nesmith rebuilt his image as a cosmic country troubadour.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Marie Menken’s ‘Lights’ (1966) is a joyous distillation of the beauty that abounds during the holiday season, and the darkness that surrounds it.
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Fairytale of New York: Marie Menken’s ‘Lights’ (1966) - Split Tooth Media
Lights is a joyous distillation of the beauty that abounds during the holiday season, and the darkness that surrounds it.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Before 'Home Alone,' René Manzor created a darker Christmas home invasion film. Craig Wright explores 'Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus,' in which a child’s wish to see Santa turns into a battle to the death.
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The Blood Red Robes of St. Nick: ‘Deadly Games: Dial Code Santa Claus’ (1989) - Split Tooth Media
Before Home Alone, René Manzor created a darker Christmas home invasion film where a child's wish to see Santa turns deadly.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Tyler Taormina’s ‘Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point’ (2024) is full of mirth and melancholy, a sprawling yet intimate instant holiday classic.
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The Point of No Return: 'Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point' (2024) - Split Tooth Media
Tyler Taormina’s latest feature is full of mirth and melancholy, a sprawling yet intimate instant holiday classic.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
An update of 'The McPherson Tape,' ‘Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County’ (1998) similarly duped audiences with home video of aliens arriving on Thanksgiving well before the found-footage boom arrived.
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Pan-and-Scan Thanksgiving: 'Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County' (1998) - Split Tooth Media
An update of 'The McPherson Tape,' 'Alien Abduction' similarly aimed to dupe audiences with found-footage of aliens arriving on Thanksgiving.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Young Fresh Fellows are back with a new version of their new LP 'Loft' for Record Store Day Black Friday! Scott McCaughey (@theeminus5.bsky.social) returns to Split Tooth to discuss the making of the special guest-filled album, recording in Wilco's Loft, and the latest chapter of the band’s career.
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Morphine Drip of Heaven: Scott McCaughey on the Young Fresh Fellows' 'Loft' - Split Tooth Media
Scott McCaughey discusses the making of 'Loft,' the special guest-filled album, and the latest chapter of the band's career.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Read about Paul Morrissey's 'Flesh for Frankenstein' and 'Blood for Dracula,' both starring the late great Udo Kier (1944-2025): www.splittoothmedia.com/flesh-franke...
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The year R.W. Fassbinder died, a group of his collaborators, including Udo Kier, met on an island in the Philippines to make an exploitation film. The production and the resulting movie were anything but what was expected. Read about the making of 'The Island of the Bloody Plantation' (1983) on ST!
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Chaos in the South Pacific: The Making of 'The Island of the Bloody Plantation' (1983) - Split Tooth Media
When R.W. Fassbinder’s collaborators met in the Philippines to make an exploitation film, the production was anything but what was expected.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Happy to officially announce Make More Movies, a new Split Tooth podcast about independent filmmaking where Aaron Bartuska interviews various DIY artists about what keeps them creating. Listen to the first three episodes now, including the latest installment featuring Aidan Cronin!
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Make More Movies: An Independent Film Podcast - Split Tooth Media
A new Split Tooth podcast about independent filmmaking where Aaron Bartuska interviews various DIY filmmakers about what keeps them creating.
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Vincent Albarano @valbarano.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
One of my favorite pieces I’ve done for @splittoothmedia.bsky.social. Check out my look at Antoine Pellissier’s moody, atmospheric super 8 epic
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Filmmaker and illustrator Tyler Rubenfeld explores Michael Almereyda’s 'Happy Here and Now' (2002), a forgotten New Orleans-set mystery produced just before Hurricane Katrina.
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Oh How the Ghost of You Clings: Michael Almereyda's 'Happy Here and Now' (2002) - Split Tooth Media
Filmmaker and illustrator Tyler Rubenfeld explores Almereyda's forgotten New Orleans-set mystery film produced just before Hurricane Katrina.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We recently unleashed the latest edition of our ever-expanding collection of favorite horror films. See which films our staff, friends, and favorite artists selected for their top 10 lists!
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Our Favorite Horror Films: 2025 Edition - Split Tooth Media
Your new favorite horror movie is somewhere on this page. It's up to you to find it and report back. Happy Halloween!
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Explore Split Tooth’s Frank V. Ross video interview series! Episodes on 'Quietly on By,' 'Hohokam,' 'Present Company,' 'Audrey the Trainwreck,' and 'Tiger Tail in Blue' available now!
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Frank V. Ross: The Video Interviews - Split Tooth Media
A new video interview series with Ross looks back on his films from 'Quietly on By,' through to 'Bloomin Mud Shuffle.' Watch them all here.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Radu Jude, Romania’s premier absurdist, turns the tale of Dracula into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence.
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Everything Sucks: Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ (2025) - Split Tooth Media
Romania’s premier absurdist turns the tale of Dracula into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Presented on crumpled and torn paper, ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ is a re-adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers’ that resembles a story being devoured as it passes
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Paperback: Prisoners of the Printed Page and the Frayed Aesthetics of ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ (2021) - Split Tooth Media
Presented on crumpled and torn paper, 'The Timekeepers of Eternity' is a re-adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Langoliers.'
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Our latest Archive Pick is Shane Pfender's 2019 letter to 'Death Bed: The Bed That Eats' director George Barry. Originally published during our first October Horror series, Shane's handwritten letter is as bizarrely poetic as 'Death Bed' itself. www.splittoothmedia.com/death-bed/
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A Letter to George Barry, creator of 'Death Bed: The Bed That Eats,' from Shane Pfender - Split Tooth Media
"I have been your bed. I too am the artist, sealed behind the wall, lazily remarking on the divine evil that animates my every bone."
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Despite its utter obscurity and incomplete status, the mysterious three-hour ‘Les Proies du Mal’ may be Antoine Pellissier’s masterpiece. @valbarano.bsky.social explores the remains of the 1982 underground horror epic.
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Say a Spell: An Incomplete Excavation of Antoine Pellissier’s 'Les Proies du Mal' (1982) - Split Tooth Media
Despite its utter obscurity and incomplete status, the mysterious three-hour epic may be Antoine Pellissier’s masterpiece.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Inspired by old Playboy magazines and classic sexploitation films, Anna Biller's 'Viva' uses period perfect '70s aesthetics to explore its characters’ identities and desires.
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Anna Biller’s 'Viva' (2007): Artificiality, Fulfillment, and the Experience of Looking - Split Tooth Media
Biller's ambitious debut feature demonstrates the filmmaker's talents for exploring sexuality and gender through stylized retro worlds.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Today for October Horror, you can read and listen to a new career-spanning interview with ‘CAMP’ and ‘Honeycomb’ director Avalon Fast, a filmmaker whose work confronts horror in genre-defying fashion.
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Self-Expression Through “Girl Horror”: The Films of Avalon Fast - Split Tooth Media
Read and listen to a career-spanning interview with CAMP and Honeycomb director Avalon Fast, a filmmaker whose work confronts horror in genre-defying fashion Author’s note: Excerpts throughout this pi...
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The final week of October Horror 2025 begins tomorrow. Check out all the writing and podcasts that have been published so far at the link below!
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Split Tooth Media Presents: October Horror 2025 - Split Tooth Media
Split Tooth has evaded the proverbial stake through the heart to bring you year seven (VII) of October Horror!
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Don Dohler's 'Fiend' (1980) strikes a fascinating balance by being the film that brushes most closely to the filmmaker's own life while being the bleakest of his early features. @brettsplittooth.bsky.social explores Dohler's block party dirge for October Horror 2025!
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Baltimore Gothic: Don Dohler’s ‘Fiend’ (1980) - Split Tooth Media
Fiend strikes a fascinating balance by being the film that brushes closest to Dohler's own life and the bleakest of his early features.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Three decades after its premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' (1992) continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.
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Ghost in the Machine: ‘Ghostwatch’ (1992) at 30 - Split Tooth Media
The 'Ghostwatch' premiere swept the UK into a frenzy. It continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Aidan Cronin’s films are in conversation with anxieties that we have all faced, or will face in the future. Aaron Bartuska spoke with the filmmaker about his various artistic endeavors and his latest feature, 'The Birds Tell Me All There Is To Know.'
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Aidan Cronin: The Split Tooth Interview - Split Tooth Media
Cronin's films are in conversation with universal anxieties that we have all faced, or will face in the future.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A film about coercion that is itself coercive, 'In the Dark' (2000) draws on imminent cultural anxieties as a young woman accepts a challenge from an unknown Master of Games. Read the latest October Horror piece from @stephenbroomer.bsky.social!
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'In the Dark' (2000): Temptation and the Willing Victim - Split Tooth Media
A film about coercion that is itself coercive, 'In the Dark' draws on cultural anxieties as a woman accepts a challenge from a Master of Games
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
October might be over, but we've got more horror to share! Shaun Seneviratne, director of 'Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in 4 Parts,' now streaming on Fandor, works through two contemporary horror movies and how they are constructed using vastly different approaches to filmmaking.
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White Elephant Art vs Termite Art in the Context of Horror - Split Tooth Media
Two examples of contemporary horror cinema show how Manny Farber's "white elephant and termite art" allow different approaches to filmmaking.
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Brett Wright @brettsplittooth.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Very happy to share my first contribution to @splittoothmedia.bsky.social's October Horror 2025! I wrote on a favorite, Don Dohler’s FIEND (1980)! You can read it here: splittoothmedia.com/fiend/
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
October Horror 2025 has been one for the books and we hate to see it conclude. But the end of October also means we get to unleash the latest edition of our ever-expanding collection of favorite horror films by our staff, friends, and favorite artists! Happy Halloween!
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Our Favorite Horror Films: 2025 Edition - Split Tooth Media
Your new favorite horror movie is somewhere on this page. It's up to you to find it and report back. Happy Halloween!
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! EVIL PUDDLE, the new disaster epic from Motern Media, starts streaming today on Vimeo! We spoke with Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh about making the film, Ancient Pilgrim Magic, and their elaborate plan for releasing their next movie.
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'Evil Puddle' (2025): An Interview with Matt Farley and Charles Roxburgh of Motern Media - Split Tooth Media
The new disaster epic from Motern Media finds them in conflict with Ancient Pilgrim Magic, time-stopping rocks, and water that freezes people
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Three decades after its premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' (1992) continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.
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Ghost in the Machine: ‘Ghostwatch’ (1992) at 30 - Split Tooth Media
The 'Ghostwatch' premiere swept the UK into a frenzy. It continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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The Silence of Survival: 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' - Split Tooth Media
The corollaries between today’s world and Body Snatchers don’t diminish the film’s horror. It makes reality that much more frightening.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In Radu Jude's 'Dracula' (2025), the filmmaker turns Bram Stoker's tale into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence. Oliver O'Sullivan explores the latest from Romania's premier absurdist for October Horror!
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Everything Sucks: Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ (2025) - Split Tooth Media
Romania’s premier absurdist turns the tale of Dracula into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Three decades after its Halloween night premiere swept the UK into a frenzy, 'Ghostwatch' continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong.
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Ghost in the Machine: ‘Ghostwatch’ (1992) at 30 - Split Tooth Media
The 'Ghostwatch' premiere swept the UK into a frenzy. It continues to terrify audiences with its paranormal investigation gone horribly wrong
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Don Dohler's 'Fiend' (1980) strikes a fascinating balance by being the film that brushes most closely to the filmmaker's own life while being the bleakest of his early features. @brettsplittooth.bsky.social explores Dohler's block party dirge for October Horror 2025!
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Baltimore Gothic: Don Dohler’s ‘Fiend’ (1980) - Split Tooth Media
Fiend strikes a fascinating balance by being the film that brushes closest to Dohler's own life and the bleakest of his early features.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Despite its low budget construction, the Super 8 mad scientist tale 'Doctor Strain the Body Snatcher' (1991) reaches moments of genuine inspiration far beyond its means.
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God Science on a Meager Budget: 'Doctor Strain the Body Snatcher' (1991) - Split Tooth Media
Despite its low budget construction, the Super 8 mad scientist tale reaches moments of genuine inspiration far beyond its means.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In Radu Jude's 'Dracula' (2025), the filmmaker turns Bram Stoker's tale into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence. Oliver O'Sullivan explores the latest from Romania's premier absurdist for October Horror!
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Everything Sucks: Radu Jude’s ‘Dracula’ (2025) - Split Tooth Media
Romania’s premier absurdist turns the tale of Dracula into a volatile combination of asinine nonsense and intimidating intelligence.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
'Serene Velocity' finds the magical and the monstrous in an everyday location and the fundamental materials of filmmaking.
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Avant Horror: Ernie Gehr's 'Serene Velocity' (1970) - Split Tooth Media
Serene Velocity finds the magical and the monstrous in an everyday location and the fundamental materials of filmmaking.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.splittoothmedia.com/invasion-of-...
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The Silence of Survival: 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' - Split Tooth Media
The corollaries between today’s world and Body Snatchers don’t diminish the film’s horror. It makes reality that much more frightening.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Melding the plots of two 1990s films from horror icons, 'Screamwalkers' (2024) makes no attempt to hide its influences. It instead embraces what made those films so much fun to begin with. Aaron Bartuska explores Sean King's supernatural mashup for October Horror!
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The Hybrid Horror of Sean King’s 'Screamwalkers' (2024) - Split Tooth Media
'Screamwalkers' melds the plots of two '90s films from horror icons and embraces what made those films so much fun to begin with.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The final week of October Horror 2025 begins tomorrow. Check out all the writing and podcasts that have been published so far at the link below!
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Split Tooth Media Presents: October Horror 2025 - Split Tooth Media
Split Tooth has evaded the proverbial stake through the heart to bring you year seven (VII) of October Horror!
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Fascinated by the larger, overarching, cacophonous hive of the collective unconscious, Rodney Ascher’s 'The Nightmare' (2015) depicts the terror of sleep paralysis.
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Hypnagogic Non-Fiction: ‘The Nightmare’ (2015) - Split Tooth Media
Fascinated by the larger, overarching, cacophonous hive of the collective unconscious, Ascher's documentary depicts the terror of sleep.
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The slug-paced, staticky madness of 'Sledgehammer' feels like it was beamed in from another dimension. A classic of 1980s shot-on-video horror, 'Sledgehammer' makes for ideal late night viewing.
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‘Sledgehammer’ (1983): Watch the Pot — How It Boils! - Split Tooth Media
The early shot-on-video horror classic creates a sense of insular terror with its unconventional, sludgy style.
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Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Remembering horror film icon Vincent Price on the anniversary of his death. . R.I.P. 1911 - 1993
Pen drawing of Vincent Price smiling and wearing a suit drawn on a torn-out book page.
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Vincent Albarano @valbarano.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Check out my latest October Horror piece delving into the strange, humid world of Florida maverick Matthew Samuel Smith
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Split Tooth Media @splittoothmedia.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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