The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 23hIf Lost Highway is playing somewhere in LA my ears perk up like a cartoon dog spotting a cat walking by. You know I’ll be at this. I’d like to go to a couple more in the Barry Gifford retrospective but our dance card is filling up. Gotta save that time and money for other cool shit.americancinematheque.comLOST HIGHWAY - American Cinematheque 020
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 23hTook some visiting friends to Yang Chow in Chinatown last night, got lots of leftovers today. Their spicy Szechuan wonton soup is indescribably delicious, we often order extra at the end of the night to bring home. This time I just mixed it straight into my rice. So good. 000
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Felt like something a little classy and atmospheric today. #NowWatching Scared Shitless (2024) #Filmsky #Horrorsky 131
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I ended up really enjoying Kinki, but kinda wish it hadn’t been sold as ‘the scariest movie of the fest.’ It was good, it was creepy, but it was also kinda corny and cheap (not necessarily a complaint). In other words, pretty standard fare for Koji Shiraishi. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 131
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#NowWatching Kinki (2026) New one from Koji Shiraishi, and organizers are saying this is the scariest movie of this years Beyond Fest. Shiraishi is often decidedly goofy but I’m a fan and looking forward to this. A surprise screening for me thanks to some open RSVPs. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 132
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Was gonna post a thread about Look Back, the new Hirokazu Kore-eda, but it got too long so I made it a Letterboxd review. I loved it, I have thoughts. #Filmskyboxd.itA ★★★★½ review of Look Back (2026)Kore-eda’s films are warm, gentle, full of life, humane, and typically lacking an out-and-out villain. At their best they feel like live-action Ghiibli films, and that is certainly how I would describ... 010
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just got out of a screening of Look Back, the US Premiere of the newest from one of my favorite living directors, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and now I’m sitting in my car to collect myself after sobbing in the dark with a bunch of strangers. #Filmsky 020
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Got a screening or two later today but you can never have enough movies! #NowWatching The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) I really enjoyed this when it came out. It’s got a really clever premise for a sequel/remake. Been wanting to revisit for awhile. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 4151
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Holy cow guys Drag was a blast. When it rolls out you need to see it in a theatre: this is an audience movie, best seen with a crowd. We had a packed house and half the fun was being in a crowd that was all laughing, screaming, and squirming in their seats. It’s a wild one. #Filmsky 121
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’ll have Rogue Trooper thoughts later (it was great) but for now we’re seated for another Beyond Fest flick. #NowWatching Drag (2026) Know next to nothing about this but excited nonetheless. #Filmsky 020
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Now seated at The Egyptian for Rogue Trooper. Super excited for the film and to be fully diving into Beyond Fest. #Filmsky 1132
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My ratings system is esoteric and opaque even to me. There’s actually a lot of variance in all those 3.5 stars. But generally, pretty good run of movies. #Filmsky #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday 0120
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Watching Harvest Brood last week put me in the mood to watch another independent regional horror about a series of killings set decades earlier, and filmed in a partial-documentary style. #NowWatching The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) #Filmsky #Horrorsky 151
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#NowWatching Is God Is (2026) I was gonna try for horror after the last one, but I’ve been looking forward to this one for awhile. #Filmsky 060
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026House to myself again for a little bit, gonna watch a couple movies. #NowWatching After Hours (1985) Starting off with another in my Scorcese (re)watch. Finally cracking open my Criterion 4K. #Filmsky 060
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just reading about The Last Bookstore here in LA, about how they’re pro-AI and anti-LGBT. The only thing TLB had going for it was instagrammable decor & architecture. Plenty of better options around (and the central library down the street which is massive and gorgeous), spend your money better. 051
Reposted by The Working DeadThe Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The subtitles here are intense. had to transcribe them. God meows God cries God creaks God croaks God cries God creaks God tears God cries God croaks God tears God croaks God cries God squelches God cries God croaks God cries God squelches God cries God croaks God creaks God pops God snaps 102
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had the day off but spent it mostly doing errands. Gonna try and get one movie out of the day at least. #NowWatching Spider Labyrinth (1988) Had this on my watchlist for a few years, way overdue to check it out. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 2161
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of the best of last year. If you want moody SOV horror with gallons of blood, strange creature designed, and slimy practical effects, you need to get on the Joe Meredith train. 010
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Wait wait wait, it’s possible to like the city you’re mayor of? It’s possible to be excited about the unique things your city has to offer and make them accessible to everyone? Meanwhile our mayor wants to get rid of taco trucks. In Los Angeles. 020
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My youngest, slightly insulted at her friends shock that she didn’t know who Imagine Dragons are: “I know bands! I know David Byrne, the Mountain Goats. I know LP, Heartworms, the Beatles. Oh! The Aquabats!” My kid has no time for that shit. 120
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was already enjoying Batman Superman Weird Al: World’s Weirdest, but then I gasped at the reveal of the villain. My beloved Mr. Nobody! Spoilers, I guess. #Comicsky 010
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ok time for one more short one while I fold laundry, before I make dinner. #NowWatching Hostile Dimensions (2023) I’m generally not thrilled with Dark Sky Pictures, but I checked out the trailer and this looked like it could be pretty fun. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 161
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I messed up! I did my #SOVSunday on Friday, and now I’m doing my #FolkHorrorFriday on Sunday! #NowWatching A Field in England I think my favorite Ben Wheatley film. Rewatching it as part of the All The Haunts Be Ours box set. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 032
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I missed Batman Day but I’m still gonna post Batman for a second. The first actual Batman comic I started collection was Legends of the Dark Knight, and I absolutely loved the covers for the first arc. #Batman #Comicsky 110
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Just back from the Hollywood Bowl, where @ambergir.bsky.social and I, and our youngest, saw English Beat, Adam Ant, and Squeeze! We’ve seen all of them before and they’re all great so this was a big night. #Musicsky 110
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Back home after our Resident Evil Screening. That. Movie. Is. A. Blast. Everything I started to say about it sounded like ad copy hyperbole but trust me this movie hits the gas immediately and never lets up. It’s wild, gory, funny, scary, and every frame of it is fun. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 171
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Final one for today. #NowWatching Ataraxia (2025) I can’t find Teratomorph, the sequel to South Mill District, so this will be the last little dose of Joe Meredith’s fallen world. These are really gross and fun and I’ll definitely be coming back to visit in the future. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 041
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026*DJ Khaled voice* Another one! #NowWatching South Mill District (2018) Now that I know a lot of these are following the effects of the same alien infestation, I feel like I should have been going chronologically. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 021
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well let’s keep this train rolling. #NowWatching Variant II (2022) I thought these films were all geographically linked due to the filmmaker filming where he lives, but apparently there is connective narrative tissue between all of these films. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 351
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Got the day off again, and the house to myself, so I’ve programmed a little marathon of Joe Meredith’s scuzzy SOV nightmares. #NowWatching Variant (2020) about an alien infestation and the mutagenic virus they bring with them. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 141
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I was off this week so I had a pretty good time watching some movies. Watching a lot of horror but also trying to balance the diet a *little* bit. #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched #Filmsky 0150
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I remember waiting months or years for word on when a movie would come to home video. Often used rental tapes were the only way to get them for a long time. Now you can preorder a movie the day it hits theaters. #BackInMyDay 110
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ok I have to watch at least *ONE* horror movie today. #NowWatching Harvest Brood (2025) I saw an early, incomplete cut of this last year & it kinda sorta blew me away, the atmosphere and scope of what it was attempting on a dollar store budget. Been meaning to catch up with the completed version. 110
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#NowWatching Redux Redux (2025) Dimension hopping revenge film. I’m in. Don’t know much about this but I’ve heard good things. #Filmsky 010
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#NowWatching The King of Comedy Another Scorsese movie I haven’t seen since my teens, but I loved this movie back then. Been wanting to revisit it for a long while. #Filmsky 010
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I’m a plasterer, and Every day we’re dealing with carcinogenic dust. Jobs are required to provide masks and enforce that they’re being worn, but frequently I’m the only one wearing a mask on the job and I get mocked for it. Guys out there huffing silica dust all day to own the libs. 020
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh! Another one I always thought was funny. In Mystery Men the Not So Goodie Mob is played by The Goodie Mob. 110
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026what's the *best* musician cameo in a tv show or film? Not the best, but the one I find most confusing. Tim Booth (frontman for the band James) as serial killer Victor Zsasz briefly in Batman Begins. Like… how did that happen? 210
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#NowWatching Mermaid (2025) Another one that I had no knowledge of until it popped up on streaming and I watched the trailer. Looks kinda scuzzy, kinda funny, very bizarre. And that suppprting cast is wild. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 171
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is the best posting I’ve ever done. #Filmsky #Ick #Horrorsky 021
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026BREAKING: The Misfits have signed on to open for Ed Sheeran. 020
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Looking for some light entertainment this morning. #NowWatching Ick (2024)  The trailer looked fun, with good goopy effects. And I find Brandon Routh a very likable screen presence. Hoping for mild fun at least. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 131
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Made this after watching Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. #Filmsky #Horrorsky 051
The Working Dead @theworkingdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#NowWatching War of the Worlds (1953) As a kid I loved these old horror/sci-fi pictures because I was too scared for modern horror. None loomed larger in my imagination than War of the Worlds. Maybe the Blob. #Filmsky 120
