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Adrian Torres

@yoadriantorres.bsky.social
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President of Kansas City Film Critics Circle. Critic & Writer of words at The Pitch, Neon Splatter, Boom Howdy & others. Some time host of Horrorversary. Sometimes human.

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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's the start of SHOCKtober at Screenland Armour and there might not be a better way to start this month, than with @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS as they are leading a sold out showing of NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS!!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's SO MANY films that play Fantastic Fest that sometimes movies that don't get 4 1/2 - 5 stars, get lost in the mix. So I decided to highlight 5 films from this year's fest, that people should put on their radar!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gotta love the American Healthcare System, where you go for a knee consultation, get told you ARE going to need knee surgery, but they want to push it off for a few months, have you take the shot that hasn't worked before & then do a follow-up...why is it a cycle & not a flat line to help/recovery?
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I cannot begin to express the overwhelming relief that hit me upon seeing a movie in a theater, and for the first time in over a week not having to sit through a HELLRAISER: REVIVAL teaser... #IYKYK #FantasticFest
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sleep is for the weak! (said before I hibernate for the weekend) #FantasticFest may be over, but I'm back in a theater, at Screenland Armour in KC for @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS showing of the incomparable FLASH GORDON on the big screen!
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Brad McHargue | Your Best Friend @bradmchargue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GWAR with @yoadriantorres.bsky.social.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I will be good as the rest of #FantasticFest goes on, but this makes a good starting point. Seen several good films so far but still have special spots for both THE SPIRAL and INTO THE SKY. One hit me on a funny & dark level I needed & the other is a "curse" film I very much needed in my life.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Really glad the KC weather had finally become manageable, by going from 100+ heat index, to 70's & rainy. I also hate that, as it's messed with my arthritis and fucked with my back & neck days before I go out of town...where it's 100+ with the heat index...
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Michael Che's Sarcastic 'Yaaay' on SNL
ALT: Michael Che's Sarcastic 'Yaaay' on SNL
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romulus - 🛸METROID RAVENOUS🍽️ @romulusofficial.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
it must be so difficult to act with a character who you can’t even see. thankfully, Foghorn is just that talented
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Friday night and I'm back at Screenland Armour for another round of @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHT. And this week is special, as I get to see one of my favorite films on the big screen, because it's the PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE!!!! 🎶That's what life is all about🎶
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You just KNEW Ospreay was walking out as champion, just weren't sure exactly in what fashion it would transpire. And while it did go the route of least resistance, it still told and wove a story/battle worthy of the giddy nerds in the middle of the ring. Well done, Ospreay. Well done, Omega. #allin
Will Ospreay is handed the AEW World Championship belt after defeating Kenny Omega at AEW All In 2026
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The "Press Play" icon. The "New" name. Coming out to Ferg & Future. Gotta say I love The New Level. Sooo on the nose. But then again "goofy wrestling for life". I knew it was coming and still made for a good time.
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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"NOT PENNY'S BOAT"
Kirk and Spock in that big scene in Wrath of Khan with Spock's hand pressed against the glass
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sometimes the best way to revisit a film you haven't seen in a while, is to see it the way it was MEANT to be seen. So, not only am I getting to see @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's Friday Night Frights series at Screenland show HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II, but I'm getting to see it in 35mm!
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title above the first two panels reads, "Dog Toys".
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a bone shaped dog toy. She says, "Look!"
The second panel shows a dog wagging its tail. There is a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It squeaks!"
The title above the last two panels reads, "Cat Toys".
In panel three we see Sarah again. She says "Come, child."
Panel four shows a cat raising its paws in glee. We see Sarah's hands holding cat nip. We see a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It is time to do drugs".
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
basically sums up my feelings on 2026 to this point
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I won't believe that this is anything but definitive proof that C.H.U.D.s exist. Anything else is just spin trying to throw us off the scent.
Photo of a New York headline about NYPD looking into people seen leaving the sewers near Penn Station
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
like you've got to be kidding me with this!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I say this rarely, but there were times during this movie I felt sick. BOWELS OF HELL is a wild film I need people to see. Its cold open has beats of THE COFFEE TABLE, while the rest of it feels like the demonic love child of John Waters, Frank Henenlotter & Lloyd Kaufman. Disgusting and hilarious.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Mentally & physically have been broken by an entire month of mandatory overtime & extreme heat, but thankfully movies have kept me going. Remember, while big budgets & high concepts get a lots of mainstream attention, nothing beats a simple & efficient film done right. Simply put: WATCH EVERYTHING
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SCARE-oline 🎃🧙🏻‍♀️💀☘️ @discovision.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
KANSAS CITY
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Criticizes Nolan's casting choices, but video he links to starts by showing a white guy looking like he was a cast-off from CLASH OF THE TITANS and says he'll make sure a work of fiction featuring mythological creatures & figures will be "historically accurate" In case anyone wanted a good laugh...
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
TFW work is so busy & chaotic they ask office people to come help out on the warehouse floor:
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I'll be mulling over my feelings on THE ODYSSEY for a bit, but I think it's a good movie. A very good movie, in fact. I'm just not sure if it's great. The whole time a line from a screener I saw last night was in my head: "Your performance reminded us dance isn't just about skill. Passion is vital"
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
After working another 50-hr week & having to miss the press screening due to joint pain, I'm making the smart decision & seeing THE ODYSSEY in 7mm @ 8:30am today...because it's the only free time I have between watching FANTASIA screeners & other engagements. 🎶NO SLEEP *bwamp bwamp* TILL ITHACA 🎶
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You know you're a special kind of dork when you play POWERWASH SIMULATOR 2: STAR WARS DLC and you start yelling "CAD BANE!!" when you spot a little easter egg out in the open of the Mos Eisley level....
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
KC Film Fans: yes, this is coming a little late, but I didn't think I'd end up sick this week & missing a movie screening, yet it did lead me to find out the IMAX in Branson is the closest place showing THE ODYSSEY in true 1.43:1, as the film was shot in. It's not 70MM IMAX but the closest to it.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's a very special version of @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's Friday Night Frights at Screenland Armour tonight. Not only is friend Dustin Pryor co-hosting the film, but it's my wife's first time seeing PREDATOR (a fact that Dustin, who has seen the film over 1000 times, never lets her live down)!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I know it's a basic or stupid take, but personally I feel like NETFLIX should stop trying to buy anything it can (based on the news they wanna buy Letterboxd) and focus on making some really good content, instead of vomiting anything & everything it can mass dump out, all the time.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you've spent any time discussing movies with me over the last six years, *counts on fingers*. Six years? Then you've heard me discuss my love for FANTASIA & it's time for that wild film festival again to unleash an amazing slate of films upon everyone!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Make a movie about the CABO VERDE MEN'S NATIONAL FÚTBOL TEAM, YOU COWARDS!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Had to take a week off due to being sick, BUT it's another Friday Night at Screenland Armour, where @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social is having a fantastic Friday Night Frights, where everyone is heading to where the monsters dwell, as it's time for Clive Barker's NIGHTBREED the director's cut!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My wife & I got a bird feeder for our place recently and today was the 1st day I'd seen birds show up. Of course when I told my wife the birds were gone and a squirrel was in their place. She knocked on the window & told the squirrel to get lost. The squirrel then laid down...while looking at her.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Very glad, very happy that at least 1 thing isn't CURSED in is 2027. Congrats to the Knicks for winning the finals & breaking their drought. As a Chiefs fan, I totally understand how that feels. Now to the big questions. Does Danhausen get to lead the parade or only get a championship ring?
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Amazing. A Variety writer, who ONLY writes about AI, wrote a piece about an AI movie that screened at Cannes marketplace (since the actual festival has banned AI movies), and not only misrepresents the headline, but the whole piece reads like an ad for the company behind the movie. This is baffling.
Screengrab of a Twitter/X post from entertainment news outlet Variety whose headline mentions how an AI-generated movie was made for $500K, in computing cost, and screened at Cannes and Tribeca. Only that's a lie as it didn't play those festivals, just their marketplaces that name, but is kind of the wild west in the movie world, just so they can steer people wrong. As does the author of the article, who only has bylines devoted to AI, and this piece about the movie "Hell Grind" reads like an advertisement for the makers behind the film, as it keeps on saying that the movie is nonsensical and bad, but that it "looks good and realistic. The head behind the AI company is quoted throughout. It doesn't come across as a genuine article, and more like some weird and terrible investment pitch.

It's just a bad and sad piece.
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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
i hope all the world cup visitors are enjoying kansas city’s local flavor ie: tornado sirens
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Had a very Midwesterner moment tonight. While recording a podcast w/ @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social a big storm hits & we think we hear tornado sirens. Jenius waves it off. So we keep recording. Power goes out. We keep recording. Tornado sirens get louder & we keep recording for another half hour.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The very next day:
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Everyday Ripley will put her face down into whatever she is laying on, once she wants to go to sleep. Doesn't matter the place or surface. Unfortunately for her, it always looks like she's knee-deep in an existential crisis when she does so
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It's Friday night and Screenland Armour is showing a special edition of @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS. They're firing up the old timey projector & doing a 35mm screening of ALIEN³! Yes, it's divisive, but it's ALIEN on FILM on the BIG SCREEN! You can't beat that!
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is wild to type but a German & an American just put on an insane barn burner of a match down in Mexico's AAA in a Mask vs Mask match that had everything. Run-ins. Mystery guests. Fire extinguishers. Exploding guitars. Bloodied faces. Blood on the mat. Dozens of weapons And. It. Was. Awesome.
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Meagan Navarro @hauntedmeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I just had the most delicious piece of ube cheesecake and folks, heed Agent Dale Cooper's wise words.
Dale Cooper tells the sheriff, hand on shoulder, "Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it. Just let it happen."
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Another Friday night. Another Screenland @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social Friday Night Frights showing. Yet, while others are checking out BACKROOMS, I'm basking in the gorgeous 4k B&W goodness that is GOJIRA (1954). Movies are magical. Seeing them in a theater is even more special.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Friday. Screenland Armour. @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS screening of VIRTUOSITY. A movie that both Greg & Jenius have never seen before. A movie that I have a soft spot for, regardless of how dumb or nonsensical it may be at times.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I don't always share stuff I write, b/c I forget or imposter syndrome, but I really dig EYE FOR AN EYE 2, as well as THE FURIOUS & they're both highlighted in this piece (along w/ several other films you need to watch). Go read it or better yet watch the movie! www.neonsplatter.com/added-to-wat...
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Added To Watchlist: EYE FOR AN EYE 2: BLIND VENGEANCE (2024) — Neon Splatter
A time-sensitive entry that discusses a great DTV action film with ties to THE FURIOUS and other excellent actioners.
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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Is this Grogu?
It's Grogu, I think.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Friday night at Screenland for @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS showing of KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. We even got a short (10 mins is short to this man) introduction from the one and only @thejoelynch.bsky.social ! I love practical effects, so-so on Klowns. This movie rules
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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Today, THE BURNING celebrates its 45th anniversary. Obviously the Weinstein connection sucks, but it’s a movie I like more and more every time I give it a rewatch and Savini’s work rules. from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/shear-terror... Shares and/or subs would be appreciated! Cheers!
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Shear Terror: 45 Years of The Burning
Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.
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Adrian Torres @yoadriantorres.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Another Friday and I'm here at Screenland Armour for @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social's Friday Night Frights screening of UNDER THE SKIN...which, will be a first time viewing for me (I know, I'm allowed a blind spot here & there) and I'm very excited to see how it sits with me!
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