Gem Seddon 🏳️🌈
@gemseddon.bsky.social
Teen librarian by day. Writer by night: Regal Cinemas, TechRadar, Digital Spy, Vulture, Certified Forgotten, Fangoria. A Brit. Drummer. Into horror. She/her.
Exploring horror movie locations all over the place: https://highwaytohorror.com
Exploring horror movie locations all over the place: https://highwaytohorror.com
Halloween is our 5 year anniversary and we celebrated with Trick ‘R Treat 🎃
The final shot of Mr Kreeg’s porch, haunted by the undead children, reminded me A HECK of a lot of “Bellingham sends his regards,” from Tales From The Darkside.
Both are quite frightening — love ‘em.
The final shot of Mr Kreeg’s porch, haunted by the undead children, reminded me A HECK of a lot of “Bellingham sends his regards,” from Tales From The Darkside.
Both are quite frightening — love ‘em.
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Halloween is our 5 year anniversary and we celebrated with Trick ‘R Treat 🎃
The final shot of Mr Kreeg’s porch, haunted by the undead children, reminded me A HECK of a lot of “Bellingham sends his regards,” from Tales From The Darkside.
Both are quite frightening — love ‘em.
The final shot of Mr Kreeg’s porch, haunted by the undead children, reminded me A HECK of a lot of “Bellingham sends his regards,” from Tales From The Darkside.
Both are quite frightening — love ‘em.
Buggering about with my best mate Oody visiting the filming locations from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie across the Peak District.
Weathers has been 100% English— chucking it down then gorgeous blue skies two seconds later!!
Will be doing a blog post and video soon!
Weathers has been 100% English— chucking it down then gorgeous blue skies two seconds later!!
Will be doing a blog post and video soon!
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Buggering about with my best mate Oody visiting the filming locations from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie across the Peak District.
Weathers has been 100% English— chucking it down then gorgeous blue skies two seconds later!!
Will be doing a blog post and video soon!
Weathers has been 100% English— chucking it down then gorgeous blue skies two seconds later!!
Will be doing a blog post and video soon!
Currently watching Let Sleeping Corpses Lie with Mum. She’s chuckling already which is a surefire sign it’s a winner!
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Currently watching Let Sleeping Corpses Lie with Mum. She’s chuckling already which is a surefire sign it’s a winner!
First trip to the shops whilst home = success ✅
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
First trip to the shops whilst home = success ✅
This guy skipping down the lane while singing twee rhymes in pursuit of a victim is one of the most chilling moments in cinema
October 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This guy skipping down the lane while singing twee rhymes in pursuit of a victim is one of the most chilling moments in cinema
Back in England, at St Pancras awaiting my train to the Midlands, and have already texted my family group chat several very British observations — and none included the weather (it’s raining, naturally)
It’s good to be home!!!
It’s good to be home!!!
October 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Back in England, at St Pancras awaiting my train to the Midlands, and have already texted my family group chat several very British observations — and none included the weather (it’s raining, naturally)
It’s good to be home!!!
It’s good to be home!!!
Heading on a much-needed trip back home to see family. Got my movies downloaded, and by the… books of things (ahem) it’s gonna be a @talkscaredpod.bsky.social flight too.
Really excited to check out Neil’s debut! His podcast makes me love horror even more 👻 Give it a listen!
Really excited to check out Neil’s debut! His podcast makes me love horror even more 👻 Give it a listen!
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Heading on a much-needed trip back home to see family. Got my movies downloaded, and by the… books of things (ahem) it’s gonna be a @talkscaredpod.bsky.social flight too.
Really excited to check out Neil’s debut! His podcast makes me love horror even more 👻 Give it a listen!
Really excited to check out Neil’s debut! His podcast makes me love horror even more 👻 Give it a listen!
You hear Struzan’s name and immediately you can picture his work. What a legendary artist who made multiple generations excited to see films. What an incredible legacy.
Drew Struzan has passed away at the age of 78
He created many iconic movie posters
He created many iconic movie posters
October 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
You hear Struzan’s name and immediately you can picture his work. What a legendary artist who made multiple generations excited to see films. What an incredible legacy.
The world is going to hell so we are rewatching one of my favourite films tonight.
Drop Dead Gorgeous just landed back on streaming (paramount plus) so I get to relive the entire masterpiece along with this— possibly the funniest moment in the movie?
Drop Dead Gorgeous just landed back on streaming (paramount plus) so I get to relive the entire masterpiece along with this— possibly the funniest moment in the movie?
a woman is holding a knife in front of her face and says i just love saint paul pork products
Alt: a woman is holding a knife in front of her face and says i just love saint paul pork products, from Drop Dead Gorgeous
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October 3, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The world is going to hell so we are rewatching one of my favourite films tonight.
Drop Dead Gorgeous just landed back on streaming (paramount plus) so I get to relive the entire masterpiece along with this— possibly the funniest moment in the movie?
Drop Dead Gorgeous just landed back on streaming (paramount plus) so I get to relive the entire masterpiece along with this— possibly the funniest moment in the movie?
You’ve heard of comfort watches, now I’ve got a comfort pod! Only 20 minutes into the first episode and already delighted— Becky and Kev are terrific hosts whose enthusiasm and love for the topic shines thru! Give it a whirl, horror fans!
This is gonna help me get thru autumn and winter 🔨🍁🍂❄️☃️
This is gonna help me get thru autumn and winter 🔨🍁🍂❄️☃️
Episode 1 of our new podcast HAMMER TIME is out now! My co-host Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I kick things off by looking at what makes a Hammer Horror film 🩸🍿 Tune in wherever you get your podcasts 🎧
October 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
You’ve heard of comfort watches, now I’ve got a comfort pod! Only 20 minutes into the first episode and already delighted— Becky and Kev are terrific hosts whose enthusiasm and love for the topic shines thru! Give it a whirl, horror fans!
This is gonna help me get thru autumn and winter 🔨🍁🍂❄️☃️
This is gonna help me get thru autumn and winter 🔨🍁🍂❄️☃️
Reposted by Gem Seddon 🏳️🌈
Another excellent episode with a delightful guest in @gemseddon.bsky.social Loved the clever intro, giggled evilly like an idiot listening to it. This book and movie was a big part of my early teens. Go give it a listen!!
Join @gemseddon.bsky.social and myself as we discuss Rob Reiner's MISERY (1990) on this month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast.
Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans...
Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com
Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans...
Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Another excellent episode with a delightful guest in @gemseddon.bsky.social Loved the clever intro, giggled evilly like an idiot listening to it. This book and movie was a big part of my early teens. Go give it a listen!!
Sent this to my family chat this AM as I woke in the night, panicked and feeling so lost and untethered from the things that make me feel creativity, joy and humanity.
My incredibly talented sister (@gemseddon.bsky.social) shared this incredibly brilliant letter by Kurt Vonnegut. Important things for us all to practice, remember, and to share with others!
September 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Sent this to my family chat this AM as I woke in the night, panicked and feeling so lost and untethered from the things that make me feel creativity, joy and humanity.
When I got the ARC for this I squealed— a new Sarah Gailey novel is an *event* — I’ve just started and cannot wait to see where this goes… (somewhere dark and brilliant, I suspect). Recommend ordering or placing on hold now!
Just one week until SPREAD ME hits shelves everywhere! You can make the anticipation even sweeter by preordering your copy today from Bookshop.org 👀
Spread Me
Check out Spread Me - <p><b><i>Spread Me </i>is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of<i> Just Like Home</i>. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly w...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
When I got the ARC for this I squealed— a new Sarah Gailey novel is an *event* — I’ve just started and cannot wait to see where this goes… (somewhere dark and brilliant, I suspect). Recommend ordering or placing on hold now!
Reposted by Gem Seddon 🏳️🌈
Once again putting out into the universe that I am a freelance film journalist, with a focus on horror and almost a decade of experience, looking for paid freelance work. Interviews, reviews, essays for physical releases - would love to write something for you! 🎥 #filmsky
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Freelance writer. Columnist at Bloody Disgusting. Bylines at Elements of Madness, Dread Central, and Scream Horror Magazine. Tomatometer-approved critic. VP of North Carolina Film Critics Association.
authory.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Once again putting out into the universe that I am a freelance film journalist, with a focus on horror and almost a decade of experience, looking for paid freelance work. Interviews, reviews, essays for physical releases - would love to write something for you! 🎥 #filmsky
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. The first sip of coffee in the morning
2. Reading a great book in the summer sunshine
3. My gf’s laugh when something REALLY tickles her
4. When the lights go down at the cinema
5. Being surprised by a person’s kindness
1. The first sip of coffee in the morning
2. Reading a great book in the summer sunshine
3. My gf’s laugh when something REALLY tickles her
4. When the lights go down at the cinema
5. Being surprised by a person’s kindness
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. The smell of a home-cooked Italian dinner.
2. The softest, fuzziest rug under your feet.
3. Live baseball and a stadium beer.
4. The shreddiest, thrashiest metal riffs.
5. Hugs.
1. The smell of a home-cooked Italian dinner.
2. The softest, fuzziest rug under your feet.
3. Live baseball and a stadium beer.
4. The shreddiest, thrashiest metal riffs.
5. Hugs.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
September 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. The first sip of coffee in the morning
2. Reading a great book in the summer sunshine
3. My gf’s laugh when something REALLY tickles her
4. When the lights go down at the cinema
5. Being surprised by a person’s kindness
1. The first sip of coffee in the morning
2. Reading a great book in the summer sunshine
3. My gf’s laugh when something REALLY tickles her
4. When the lights go down at the cinema
5. Being surprised by a person’s kindness
Absolutely loved chatting it up with the lovely @johnnyrestall.bsky.social about all-things Misery.
Such a delight to be able to talk about Stephen King on my 4th podcast appearance! 😊
Listen now and subscribe to The Thriller Cabinet!! It’s dead good!
Such a delight to be able to talk about Stephen King on my 4th podcast appearance! 😊
Listen now and subscribe to The Thriller Cabinet!! It’s dead good!
Join @gemseddon.bsky.social and myself as we discuss Rob Reiner's MISERY (1990) on this month's episode of The Thriller Cabinet podcast.
Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans...
Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com
Bates & Caan, Stephen King, hobblings - it's all here just waiting for its Number One Fans...
Available on Spotify, Apple and here: thethrillercabinet.libsyn.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Absolutely loved chatting it up with the lovely @johnnyrestall.bsky.social about all-things Misery.
Such a delight to be able to talk about Stephen King on my 4th podcast appearance! 😊
Listen now and subscribe to The Thriller Cabinet!! It’s dead good!
Such a delight to be able to talk about Stephen King on my 4th podcast appearance! 😊
Listen now and subscribe to The Thriller Cabinet!! It’s dead good!
Whoooooooo boy. Also a time to blatantly self-promote! 🎉
I love writing film criticism and I don’t often get the chance, but I’m always ready! ✍️
I love writing film criticism and I don’t often get the chance, but I’m always ready! ✍️
Went down a rabbit hole this morning: looks like a critic for a paying outlet may have faked a ton of reviews with ChatGPT. No matter how much you feed an LLM, it can’t hide that it, like the critic in question, hasn’t actually seen the film.
August 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Whoooooooo boy. Also a time to blatantly self-promote! 🎉
I love writing film criticism and I don’t often get the chance, but I’m always ready! ✍️
I love writing film criticism and I don’t often get the chance, but I’m always ready! ✍️
Couldn’t have put it better myself
AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read.
Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.
Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Couldn’t have put it better myself
I love @certifiedforgot.bsky.social so damn much. I just signed up today for an annual subscription, as I bloomin forgot when they switched payment models. The two Matts love championing both underseen horror and underheard voices. I always find new movies thanks to their site and podcast!
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August 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I love @certifiedforgot.bsky.social so damn much. I just signed up today for an annual subscription, as I bloomin forgot when they switched payment models. The two Matts love championing both underseen horror and underheard voices. I always find new movies thanks to their site and podcast!
Caught Weapons at our usual time (Saturday morning), and had 18 people in the screening which genuinely is packed for that little theatre. Gotta believe this is down to a phenomenal marketing campaign which betrays little of the meat of the story; I’ll be interested to see how it fares week 2!
Director Zach Cregger's WEAPONS posted a $70 million global opening, making it one of the biggest original horror hits of the year, behind only Ryan Coogler's SINNERS.
Zach Cregger’s WEAPONS Just Murdered The Box Office
Director Zach Cregger's WEAPONS posted a $70 million global opening, making it one of the biggest original horror hits of the year, behind only Ryan Coogler's SINNERS.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Caught Weapons at our usual time (Saturday morning), and had 18 people in the screening which genuinely is packed for that little theatre. Gotta believe this is down to a phenomenal marketing campaign which betrays little of the meat of the story; I’ll be interested to see how it fares week 2!
Reposted by Gem Seddon 🏳️🌈
Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse
August 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Good morning this is all I have to contribute to the discourse
Together let’s goooooooo
August 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Together let’s goooooooo
My lovely friend @readswithdogs.bsky.social kindly snagged me a copy of the new Stephen Graham Jones, and @sgj.bsky.social signed it to me! 😍 Very grateful. (I was librarianing at the time, otherwise I’d have been there!— I will be at the next Seattle book tour stop!)
Can’t wait to dive in 🔪🩸
Can’t wait to dive in 🔪🩸
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My lovely friend @readswithdogs.bsky.social kindly snagged me a copy of the new Stephen Graham Jones, and @sgj.bsky.social signed it to me! 😍 Very grateful. (I was librarianing at the time, otherwise I’d have been there!— I will be at the next Seattle book tour stop!)
Can’t wait to dive in 🔪🩸
Can’t wait to dive in 🔪🩸
Sweetheart, Sweetheart — favourite book of the year so far (after King Sorrow). Late 70s English village life disrupted by a series of mishaps at a cottage. Taylor’s prose reminds me of books I read as a kid, sprawling, hazy delightful England… that’s full of terror. Strong recommend!
Having recently finished the latest Sarah Pinborough, I jumped into a much older horror tome— Bernard Taylor’s Sweetheart, Sweetheart— and they’re such perfect companion reads. English cottages, nefarious goings-on, steeped in atmos! Love when this sort of just happens!
July 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Sweetheart, Sweetheart — favourite book of the year so far (after King Sorrow). Late 70s English village life disrupted by a series of mishaps at a cottage. Taylor’s prose reminds me of books I read as a kid, sprawling, hazy delightful England… that’s full of terror. Strong recommend!
Another great find at our library’s Friends sale— first edition of Christine for a whole dollar
July 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Another great find at our library’s Friends sale— first edition of Christine for a whole dollar