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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. For more, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Earlier this year, I stated that I was working on something comprehensive about CAMP MIASMA. This is a video essay on the history of trans psycho killers and how CAMP MIASMA uses that history for subversion and reclamation. I hope you enjoy it. mubi.com/en/program-n...

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Loving the Monster

Watch truly great cinema. Wherever you are. From iconic, award-winning directors to emerging auteurs. Transformative films from all over the world. Stream Now. Download to watch Offline. Start your fr...

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had a very lovely time remotely presenting a paper at the @hauntedfutures.bsky.social conference today! Featuring sexy goatmen, surrealist painting, and the how movies tell story about the ending of national cinema.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I am not complicit," "why would I deceive you," big couple weeks for really non-suspicious ways to phrase things

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 12/09/2026

Hoot hoot! We're delighted to announce Furry Studies 2027. Location: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia / Online Streaming Date: July 2027 The Call for Papers is now live! Submissions close 8 January 2027. For more info, the theme, and how to submit, go to furrystudies.org.

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Call for Proposals – Furry Studies 2027

Furry Studies 2027 CFP: “How do furries use fursuits, fursonas, and the feeling of ‘fur’ to navigate identity, belonging, and collective creativity?”

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Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Still a few days left to send me your films for a screening in Sheffield in October! If your film has a connection with transness and with the North of England, send along :)

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

we need a literary rhetorical term for when the novel-within-the-novel or film-within-the-film is aesthetically superior to the actual novel or film containing it, something something matryoshka metalepsis something something

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Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My talk from Saturday is now out on YouTube!! :)

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Scare-ed Skullnick @jaredskolnick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Really loved The Odyssey but it bugs me a little how they felt the need to change the language for modern audiences

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Our Age of Bronze is collapsing, Liz Lemon

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Have not read it (yet) but that's a handsome book by a talented person!

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Brandon Streussnig 📽️ @brndnstrssng.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

An all time great freak. What an actor. Tremendously sad 💔

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

More than anything, I appreciate the commitment of our trans filmmakers to absolutely banger film titles.

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Dr Rukmini Pande @rukminipande.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hello everyone, I'm currently writing about fan experiences with collective protest actions against media companies such as boycotts, letter campaigns etc. If you are above 18 and would like to participate please get in touch! More details in the form: forms.gle/FbgMDV1SfqkC...

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Call for Interviews: Fan Boycott Experiences

Fan boycotts of media companies are undertaken as an act of collective protest aimed at using fan consumer power to bring attention to diverse issues. These include but are not limited to political, e...

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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Viggo didn't break his toe when he kicked that orc helmet so you could me that AI is "inevitable"

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Dobes Crusher @dobescrusher.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

One thing I'm kind of hoping is that some day we could get an indie boutique video company doing some collected bundles on indie trans shorts- like imagine how fun and cool that would be? It's an idea that absolutely has the juice. I'm consistently packing a venue for this stuff! People want it!

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Was very happy to present at Edinburgh Uni's Monster Media conference today on one of my favourite film, the very weird, very Canadian "Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary". Also, like a dunce, forgot to show the bibliography slide, so if you were there and wanted to see it, here it is:

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Out now! 'Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature', edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, is the first collection dedicated to analysing horror audiovisual media and literature produced in the Baltic region. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/baltic-... @xaldanareyes.bsky.social

‘This volume offers a rich and comprehensive exploration of an understudied region. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns has curated an impressive range of interdisciplinary essays that reveal how Baltic horror reflects cultural anxieties, histories and identities. This highly original collection is valuable for both horror scholars and readers curious about overlooked cinematic and literary traditions.’

Professor Robert Edgar, York St John University

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Louise Weard @weard.moe · 01/06/2026

Use the code PRIDE26 to get Castration Movie for 50% off at digital.louiseweard.com

Henri Gillespi and Avalon Fast smoke cigarettes on a stoop

ivy wolk facepalms with dialogue “I like Bushwicked too close to the fucking sun a little.”

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Sid Fiore Branca @sidbranca.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

this was such a great panel, i am so looking forward to following all three of these scholars’ ongoing projects on trans horror

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Had an absolutely lovely time at the Horror Studies Now! conference this year - thanks to @horrorstudies.bsky.social for a great event and to my fantastic co-panelists @marsnicoli.bsky.social and Patrick Poulin for a lovely time charting the contours of the emergent field of trans horror.

A slide from a PowerPoint presentation - left, a screengrab from the Alice Maio Mackay film "T Blockers", where a trans woman, bathed in yellow light, is howling in rage or anguish. Right, text presenting the title of the paper: "Hoping things are gonna be okay - I just don't understand it': Horror and the Representation of Violence in Independant Transgender Cinema", by Sam Dubois from Birmingham City University.

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Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. To access the full CfP, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk

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Northumbria University Library @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Horror Studies Research Group are hosting the Horror Studies Now conference next week. Want to dig up more from the world of horror studies? Check out reading list MI6022: The Modern Horror Film. northumbria.rl.talis.com/index.html #NorthumbriaLibrary @horrorstudies.bsky.social

Book cover of "Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film" by Craig Ian Mann, featuring illustrated werewolf heads howling before a full moon.

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Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Have you seen the termite version of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY? It stars Clint Eatswood.

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Haunted Futures @hauntedfutures.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We're baaaaaaack! The fourth annual Haunted Futures Conference will take place on September 29th and 30th @ucc.ie. This year we propose to explore the theme of 'Spaces in Crisis' and will be accepting abstracts until July 24th

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Wickham Clayton @wick85c.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hi all, I’m very proud to announce the forthcoming release of the sequel you’ve all been waiting for: Style and Form in the Slasher Film II: Beyond Hollywood While I don’t advise buying from Amazon, this at least has the cover posted. amzn.eu/d/0ecdCQuL

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 31/03/2026

I am loath to do this, but I need your help. My 20+ year marriage has unexpectedly imploded. There's a kid involved. Aside from Lupus, Autism and a shitty 2009 Mazda, I have nothing. Things are fairly desperate right now, so if you can help out now in any way at all I'd be really grateful ❤️

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

dr. robby: we have a patient in er room 1. health is at 1%. ideas, people me: 1 dose of the correct kind of medicine, stat! dr. mohan: oh my god. patient’s health is now 100% dr. robby: do you want to ride motorcycles with me me: no. i have to go home and post on bluesky — the world’s #1 site

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

you are not prepared for the soundtrack

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I highly recommend Tom Noonan's film WHAT HAPPENED WAS. He was a fantastic writer and director in addition to being one of the great character actors his generation. WHAT HAPPENED WAS is a romance for people who have been worn down by life and themselves and who don't trust love, but still want it.

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My Silent Hill series concludes with RETURN TO SILENT HILL. I loved this movie, and I hope it finds its audience someday. www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

a still image from RETURN TO SILENT HILL of James Sunderland clasping his face in front of a mirror caked in mildew

The quiet elegance of the inviting fog, and Carol Spier’s equally entrancing Francis Bacon-inspired set designs of rust and blood from director Chrtistophe Gans’s Silent Hill (2006) are absent in his follow-up picture in the series. Return to Silent Hill is only vaguely similar to the fantastical, and Clive Barker-leaning style of the first film. It’s as if the mise-en-scene has been tossed into a wood chipper, and the results are crude and ugly, and obvious, with the tag-line for the film clearly spelling everything out for the would be viewer. “Guilt is a place you can never leave.”. There is not an ounce of beauty in that sentence. It’s phonetically clumsy, and born of a bad idiom, but Gans operates well within the proposed metaphor. Horror doesn’t have to be scary in order for it to be proactive, and it’s actually quite limiting to expect that from every film in the genre. Gans has never really been interested in delivering a movie of immediate fright. Return to Silent Hill ignores the conventions of ghost stories, and the action thrills of survival horror. Gans opts for an observant and curious eye at sickness, traumatic abuse, and death. He consistently finds disquieting images that are repulsive. Images that are honest about the frailty of the spirit, and the possibilities of disgust that are capable of manifesting with the unwanted appearance of a slow burning necrosis in the body of a beloved, romantic partner.

Gans’s Return to Silent Hill presents the story of grieving boyfriend James Sunderland (Jeremy Irvine), and his psychological transformation in processing the loss of his girlfriend Mary (Hannah Emily Anderson). He has made a film whose repeated notes of despair accumulate, and he layers James’s inability to move on into those of the damned he meets as he strides further into Silent Hill. There’s graveyard loomer Angela, who has a knife sheathed in her boot, and keeps her distance from everyone, and eight year old Laura, who carries a ratty teddy bear, and claims to know Mary. Most beguiling of all is Maria, who looks a lot like Mary, and teases James about his grief. Hannah Emily Anderson plays Maria and Angela, and Gans’s boldest differentiation from the source material (Silent Hill 2) is his choice to indicate that Angela, Laura and Maria are all Mary. By doing so, he not only made James’s grief more palpable with a Dickensian approach of visiting spirits, but elaborated on the wounded feminine element that was usually only subtextually resonant in the series. Suffice to say, Return to Silent Hill is the most melodramatic, but emotionally intelligent Silent Hill film to date. I found it unusually, and viscerally moving, and I felt opened up, and exposed by what it showed me. I walked out of the theater having felt that rare, but wonderful disorientation, and delusion that cinema can offer when it feels like a movie is speaking directly to parts of myself that I like to keep hidden.

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Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Wes Craven’s #Scream academic conference alert 🔪 on 16 Dec 2026 at Bangor University UK. Deadline for is 1 Jun. Information attached. This looks like it will be a grand time. If the conference dinner isn’t a murder mystery featuring Ghostface, that’ll be a missed opportunity…

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Been watching through some Tobe Hooper movies I haven't seen in the first few days of the new year and I'm fond of MORTUARY. A horror movie for kids about the horrible creeping rot of small town America. SALEM'S LOT is about the same thing & so is POLTERGEIST & TEXAS CHAINSAW & oh you get the idea

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Al Ewing Writes Comics @al-ewing.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My New Year’s resolution is to be even more of a hater to “A.I.” A soul-murdering scam to create a generation of dead-inside drones - if you use it on the reg you’re a clown at best and if you promote it you’re lower than the shit on Satan’s hoof, sorry I don’t make the rules etc.

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Arbitrary as the exercise is, did enjoy compiling a lil' list of my favourite first-time watches from last year and another one of my favourite films of 2025. Here's to more.

A list of the user's favourite repertoire films of 2025.

A list of the user's favourite films of 2025.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

You can’t even lure children into your gingerbread house to eat them any more without being cooked in your own oven. I blame Hansel culture

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Francis Fukuyama ...? Francis "The End of History" Fukuyama ...?! Historic run of terrible ideas with that one man, damn.

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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

RIP Rosa von Praunheim, truly one of the best to ever do it. A brilliant provocateur, an artist of the highest order, forever eager to mash genres, someone who wanted more and better for queer people, someone not afraid to stand against the tide and be proven right again and again. Thank you. ♥️

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

A stellar read, and one whose concepts around the idea of trans "film images" over trans "representation" are stuff that I'd love to see disseminated and used in criticism/academia.

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Had a great time talking about transgender haunted houses at @hauntedfutures.bsky.social today! Thank you for having me, and to my excellent co-panelists :)

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Spaxe Austral ⚡ @spaxe.space · 28/06/2025

How furry research is spread

Three panel comic meme. First panel has a cartoon dog furry captioned "that one furry academic you know". Second panel has a generic person with two eyes captioned "you just existing". Third panel has both cartoon dogs looking at each other captioned "suddenly you are also furry academic".

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Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

For @bcmcr.bsky.social - wrote about the our university's reading group's thoughts on a book about populist feminism, resistance against anti-gender thought, and affect-based politics. It was a fun conversation! bcmcr.org/research/cul...

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Cultural Activism & Alternative Politics Reading Group: “Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment” (Graff & Korolczuk, 2022) – BCMCR

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