Mark H
@blackhole.bsky.social
Horror movies, 1970s paperbacks (especially New English Library), building original Lego models, synthesizer music, movie locations, Blade Runner, Lon Chaney, Peter Cushing, Amicus films, David Lynch…
Gay, and in the UK.
Gay, and in the UK.
Dorset has already had all of February’s expected rainfall, but it’s still raining. Local river is swelling up and our town has already flooded in several places.
But, not to worry, the flooding is on the other side of town to us…
But, not to worry, the flooding is on the other side of town to us…
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Dorset has already had all of February’s expected rainfall, but it’s still raining. Local river is swelling up and our town has already flooded in several places.
But, not to worry, the flooding is on the other side of town to us…
But, not to worry, the flooding is on the other side of town to us…
It would only be shocking if a new Star Trek series DIDN’T have a gay couple in it.
February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
It would only be shocking if a new Star Trek series DIDN’T have a gay couple in it.
Last week found books that have been on my wishlist for ages.
Fond of Peter Haining anthologies, as he was my first (blush). But now find that Michel Parry was more adventurous with his choices (and didn’t keep padding them out with Stoker, Poe et al).
Not collecting ALL of Parry’s though.
Fond of Peter Haining anthologies, as he was my first (blush). But now find that Michel Parry was more adventurous with his choices (and didn’t keep padding them out with Stoker, Poe et al).
Not collecting ALL of Parry’s though.
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Last week found books that have been on my wishlist for ages.
Fond of Peter Haining anthologies, as he was my first (blush). But now find that Michel Parry was more adventurous with his choices (and didn’t keep padding them out with Stoker, Poe et al).
Not collecting ALL of Parry’s though.
Fond of Peter Haining anthologies, as he was my first (blush). But now find that Michel Parry was more adventurous with his choices (and didn’t keep padding them out with Stoker, Poe et al).
Not collecting ALL of Parry’s though.
Local pub uses antlers in all of their decorating.
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Local pub uses antlers in all of their decorating.
Martha and the Muffins - ‘Echo Beach’ (1980)
Only just seen the single sleeve (um, I recorded it off the radio).
It shows that Echo Beach is only a few miles away!
Must go down to Echo Beach someday.
Only just seen the single sleeve (um, I recorded it off the radio).
It shows that Echo Beach is only a few miles away!
Must go down to Echo Beach someday.
February 9, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Martha and the Muffins - ‘Echo Beach’ (1980)
Only just seen the single sleeve (um, I recorded it off the radio).
It shows that Echo Beach is only a few miles away!
Must go down to Echo Beach someday.
Only just seen the single sleeve (um, I recorded it off the radio).
It shows that Echo Beach is only a few miles away!
Must go down to Echo Beach someday.
1972 movie tie-in edition.
Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and Britt Ekland.
Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and Britt Ekland.
February 8, 2026 at 6:19 PM
1972 movie tie-in edition.
Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and Britt Ekland.
Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett and Britt Ekland.
Still patiently waiting for Studio Canal to release The Hand of Night (1968). William Sylvester, Diane Clare, Aliza Gur and Terence de Marney star in this unusual Moroccan vampire tale of light and darkness.
Memorable soundtrack by Joan and John Shakespeare.
Memorable soundtrack by Joan and John Shakespeare.
February 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Still patiently waiting for Studio Canal to release The Hand of Night (1968). William Sylvester, Diane Clare, Aliza Gur and Terence de Marney star in this unusual Moroccan vampire tale of light and darkness.
Memorable soundtrack by Joan and John Shakespeare.
Memorable soundtrack by Joan and John Shakespeare.
Updated my dirty copy of Curt Siodmak’s Donovan’s Brain with this, my favourite cover. A Corgi from 1952 that looks like it should be a movie tie-in, but isn’t (there was a US film adaption in 1953).
Still waiting for the Freddie Francis version (Vengeance / The Brain) on home video.
Still waiting for the Freddie Francis version (Vengeance / The Brain) on home video.
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Updated my dirty copy of Curt Siodmak’s Donovan’s Brain with this, my favourite cover. A Corgi from 1952 that looks like it should be a movie tie-in, but isn’t (there was a US film adaption in 1953).
Still waiting for the Freddie Francis version (Vengeance / The Brain) on home video.
Still waiting for the Freddie Francis version (Vengeance / The Brain) on home video.
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Good morning! It’s Sunday February 8th 2026! Another day already? Crikey!
(Dated this very day in 1978, the very first issue of Marvel UK’s Star Wars Weekly, with its cover by Chaykin & Palmer and its free gift of a cut-out “X-fighter”.)
You be careful out there among them English, John Book.
(Dated this very day in 1978, the very first issue of Marvel UK’s Star Wars Weekly, with its cover by Chaykin & Palmer and its free gift of a cut-out “X-fighter”.)
You be careful out there among them English, John Book.
February 8, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Good morning! It’s Sunday February 8th 2026! Another day already? Crikey!
(Dated this very day in 1978, the very first issue of Marvel UK’s Star Wars Weekly, with its cover by Chaykin & Palmer and its free gift of a cut-out “X-fighter”.)
You be careful out there among them English, John Book.
(Dated this very day in 1978, the very first issue of Marvel UK’s Star Wars Weekly, with its cover by Chaykin & Palmer and its free gift of a cut-out “X-fighter”.)
You be careful out there among them English, John Book.
Reposted by Mark H
Dennis Hopper at a shoppers drug mart in Vancouver, 1980
February 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Dennis Hopper at a shoppers drug mart in Vancouver, 1980
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Can anyone help me figure out what this movie is? Someone told me about it quite a while ago and I don't remember who or I'd ask them directly, because I remember the set-up, but not the title and Google has been useless.
February 7, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Can anyone help me figure out what this movie is? Someone told me about it quite a while ago and I don't remember who or I'd ask them directly, because I remember the set-up, but not the title and Google has been useless.
Everyone deserves a holiday…
#NowWatching
Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
dir. Augusto Caminito
#PhysicalMedia #Bluray #SeverinFilms
@severinfilms.bsky.social #FilmSky
#Horror #HorrorSky #Vampire #Italian
Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
dir. Augusto Caminito
#PhysicalMedia #Bluray #SeverinFilms
@severinfilms.bsky.social #FilmSky
#Horror #HorrorSky #Vampire #Italian
February 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Everyone deserves a holiday…
You’d be fine, as long as kept a look out for styracosaurs.
February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
You’d be fine, as long as kept a look out for styracosaurs.
One of the reasons for my building a model of the Dorset Street tenements where Mary Jane Kelly died in 1888, was as a reminder of the conditions of poverty in London at the ‘height’ of the British Empire.
If poverty is now returning to that level again, I’m not sure if that reminder is needed.
If poverty is now returning to that level again, I’m not sure if that reminder is needed.
“Surveying British history since the 20th century for my recent book ‘Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present’, my most shocking discovery was that the extent and causes of poverty were much the same now as in 1900.”
- Professor Patricia Thane
- Professor Patricia Thane
How poverty in modern Britain echoes the past
Professor Pat Thane FBA explores how the extent and causes of poverty are much the same now as they were in 1900.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 7, 2026 at 1:14 PM
One of the reasons for my building a model of the Dorset Street tenements where Mary Jane Kelly died in 1888, was as a reminder of the conditions of poverty in London at the ‘height’ of the British Empire.
If poverty is now returning to that level again, I’m not sure if that reminder is needed.
If poverty is now returning to that level again, I’m not sure if that reminder is needed.
“Surveying British history since the 20th century for my recent book ‘Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present’, my most shocking discovery was that the extent and causes of poverty were much the same now as in 1900.”
- Professor Patricia Thane
- Professor Patricia Thane
How poverty in modern Britain echoes the past
Professor Pat Thane FBA explores how the extent and causes of poverty are much the same now as they were in 1900.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM
“Surveying British history since the 20th century for my recent book ‘Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present’, my most shocking discovery was that the extent and causes of poverty were much the same now as in 1900.”
- Professor Patricia Thane
- Professor Patricia Thane
Working back from the 1960s paperback explosion of countless ‘weird but true’ mysteries, there’s this 1947 compendium by Richard DeWitt Miller.
Reprinted in hardback in 1956.
And an Ace paperback with a change of title - Ace Books only mention inside the copyright year it was first published.
Reprinted in hardback in 1956.
And an Ace paperback with a change of title - Ace Books only mention inside the copyright year it was first published.
February 7, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Working back from the 1960s paperback explosion of countless ‘weird but true’ mysteries, there’s this 1947 compendium by Richard DeWitt Miller.
Reprinted in hardback in 1956.
And an Ace paperback with a change of title - Ace Books only mention inside the copyright year it was first published.
Reprinted in hardback in 1956.
And an Ace paperback with a change of title - Ace Books only mention inside the copyright year it was first published.
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It's Bandcamp Friday and to celebrate, there's 20% off my music if you use the code february (valid today & this weekend). alphaseven.bandcamp.com
Alpha Seven
Alpha Seven is the electronic and sometimes ambient project of Pete Roberts with help from Reg the studio cat. Perhaps best known for releasing Great Lift Journeys of Norwich, Pete was also a member of Norwich synth pioneers Testcard F.
alphaseven.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
It's Bandcamp Friday and to celebrate, there's 20% off my music if you use the code february (valid today & this weekend). alphaseven.bandcamp.com
Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC!
Photoplay magazine visits the set of the Hammer film on Tenerife in 1966.
Jill St John on the cover.
Photoplay magazine visits the set of the Hammer film on Tenerife in 1966.
Jill St John on the cover.
February 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC!
Photoplay magazine visits the set of the Hammer film on Tenerife in 1966.
Jill St John on the cover.
Photoplay magazine visits the set of the Hammer film on Tenerife in 1966.
Jill St John on the cover.
Photoplay (UK) July, 1974.
Set visits to
The Ghoul
Juggernaut
and Murder on the Orient Express!
(Watched Gwen Watford last week in Hammer’s Never Take Sweets From A Stranger. Here she is ‘blacked up’ for The Ghoul).
Set visits to
The Ghoul
Juggernaut
and Murder on the Orient Express!
(Watched Gwen Watford last week in Hammer’s Never Take Sweets From A Stranger. Here she is ‘blacked up’ for The Ghoul).
February 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Photoplay (UK) July, 1974.
Set visits to
The Ghoul
Juggernaut
and Murder on the Orient Express!
(Watched Gwen Watford last week in Hammer’s Never Take Sweets From A Stranger. Here she is ‘blacked up’ for The Ghoul).
Set visits to
The Ghoul
Juggernaut
and Murder on the Orient Express!
(Watched Gwen Watford last week in Hammer’s Never Take Sweets From A Stranger. Here she is ‘blacked up’ for The Ghoul).
BFI are being amazing at the moment. Just announced…
1970, widescreen, London, bonkers, sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton John and Roy Dotrice…
Toomorrow on blu-ray!!!
1970, widescreen, London, bonkers, sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton John and Roy Dotrice…
Toomorrow on blu-ray!!!
February 6, 2026 at 3:22 AM
BFI are being amazing at the moment. Just announced…
1970, widescreen, London, bonkers, sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton John and Roy Dotrice…
Toomorrow on blu-ray!!!
1970, widescreen, London, bonkers, sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton John and Roy Dotrice…
Toomorrow on blu-ray!!!
Think I still have my programme for that.
I’ve watched McKellan’s magisterial Colbert Show performance over & over today. It takes me back to seeing his one man Shakespeare show c.1987. At the time I was so depressed/traumatised that I struggled to survive 5 minutes without tears. But for that afternoon, I was fascinated & happy. Bless him.
February 5, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Think I still have my programme for that.
Question.
Why has Blade Runner, one of the most intricately designed, superbly filmed, influential movies… not got a coffee table book?
Of course, Paul Sammon’s making of, ‘Future Noir’ is a definitive account.
But surely the sets, miniatures, design sketches, matte paintings, production photos…
Why has Blade Runner, one of the most intricately designed, superbly filmed, influential movies… not got a coffee table book?
Of course, Paul Sammon’s making of, ‘Future Noir’ is a definitive account.
But surely the sets, miniatures, design sketches, matte paintings, production photos…
February 5, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Question.
Why has Blade Runner, one of the most intricately designed, superbly filmed, influential movies… not got a coffee table book?
Of course, Paul Sammon’s making of, ‘Future Noir’ is a definitive account.
But surely the sets, miniatures, design sketches, matte paintings, production photos…
Why has Blade Runner, one of the most intricately designed, superbly filmed, influential movies… not got a coffee table book?
Of course, Paul Sammon’s making of, ‘Future Noir’ is a definitive account.
But surely the sets, miniatures, design sketches, matte paintings, production photos…
Reposted by Mark H
After this 1997 documentary (for which I was interviewed) aired repeatedly on The History Channel, people living near this long-forgotten Broken Arrow site began asking questions about the safety of the “irretrievably lost” bomb. In August 2000, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) requested an investigation.
LOST BOMBS: The ATOMIC Truth Behind America's Broken Arrows
YouTube video by Endless Wars
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February 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
After this 1997 documentary (for which I was interviewed) aired repeatedly on The History Channel, people living near this long-forgotten Broken Arrow site began asking questions about the safety of the “irretrievably lost” bomb. In August 2000, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) requested an investigation.
My favourite helicopter movie. Insane flying stunts in this, filmed spectacularly by Jordan (Blade Runner) Cronenweth.
Wanted: more movies that are one looong chase.
Really, really deserves a blu-ray at the very least.
Wanted: more movies that are one looong chase.
Really, really deserves a blu-ray at the very least.
Obscure YT of the day: Great tv movie w/ helicopter stunts, BIRDS OF PREY (1973). Traffic reporter (David Janssen, THE FUGITIVE) goes after robbery suspects who use helicopter getaway. Ralph Meeker costars. Directed by William A. Graham. Played theatrically too!
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February 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
My favourite helicopter movie. Insane flying stunts in this, filmed spectacularly by Jordan (Blade Runner) Cronenweth.
Wanted: more movies that are one looong chase.
Really, really deserves a blu-ray at the very least.
Wanted: more movies that are one looong chase.
Really, really deserves a blu-ray at the very least.
A Clockwork Orange Husband
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
A Clockwork Orange Husband