Matt Glasby
@mattglasby.bsky.social
Film journalist (Radio Times, Flicks, SCMP, Empire), horror lover, author. Critics’ Circle. HWA. Repped by Sara Langham at DHA. mattglasby.com
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Matt Glasby
@mattglasby.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi everyone, nice to be here. I’m a film journalist, horror lover and the author of three books, like this one. More here mattglasby.com/work/books/
Looking for some cool Halloween decorations? Try these super-fun horror posters by my old pal @andytuohydesign
www.andytuohy.co.uk/a/linkshop
www.andytuohy.co.uk/a/linkshop
September 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Looking for some cool Halloween decorations? Try these super-fun horror posters by my old pal @andytuohydesign
www.andytuohy.co.uk/a/linkshop
www.andytuohy.co.uk/a/linkshop
The beautiful Book of Horror 2025 was released last week. 150 of the scariest films ever made, plus charts, graphs and bespoke illustrations by Barney Bodoano. Couldn’t be prouder. But it where you buy books #horror #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #horrorbooks
September 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The beautiful Book of Horror 2025 was released last week. 150 of the scariest films ever made, plus charts, graphs and bespoke illustrations by Barney Bodoano. Couldn’t be prouder. But it where you buy books #horror #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #horrorbooks
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Summer has gone & darkness arrives earlier each evening, the perfect time for ghost stories. Tomorrow at 10pm BBC4 is showing the 1970’s adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Here’s an unpublished illustration I made a couple of years back. I love this story, I’d love to illustrate it.
September 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Summer has gone & darkness arrives earlier each evening, the perfect time for ghost stories. Tomorrow at 10pm BBC4 is showing the 1970’s adaptation of The Signalman by Charles Dickens. Here’s an unpublished illustration I made a couple of years back. I love this story, I’d love to illustrate it.
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Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Any other lyrics— don’t even try chronic town murmur or reckoning btw— just form vowels and syllables, and mean it
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Please welcome @mattglasby.bsky.social to GNoH with his entry in our The Horror of My Life series, where he discusses the films and books that shaped him into the horror fan that he is today.
Then check out his fascinating book at the end of the article
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Then check out his fascinating book at the end of the article
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Matt Glasby: The Horror Of My Life - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Matt Glasby shares his personal horror journey, from childhood scares to modern frights. Find your favorites.
gnofhorror.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Please welcome @mattglasby.bsky.social to GNoH with his entry in our The Horror of My Life series, where he discusses the films and books that shaped him into the horror fan that he is today.
Then check out his fascinating book at the end of the article
gnofhorror.com/matt-glasby-...
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Then check out his fascinating book at the end of the article
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The first time our intrepid correspondent watched Abel Ferrara's #BadLieutenant, he turned it off after 30 excruciating minutes.
20-something years later, @mattglasby.bsky.social tries again...
20-something years later, @mattglasby.bsky.social tries again...
Finally watching Bad Lieutenant, decades after giving up at its grimness
Our brave correspondent revisits a gruelling long dark night of the soul (and modern classic?).
go.weareflicks.co
August 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The first time our intrepid correspondent watched Abel Ferrara's #BadLieutenant, he turned it off after 30 excruciating minutes.
20-something years later, @mattglasby.bsky.social tries again...
20-something years later, @mattglasby.bsky.social tries again...
Celebrating 20 years of The Descent via @flicks.bsky.social with an extract from the forthcoming The Book of Horror 2025 out 4 Sept
"Down there it’s pitch black. You can get dehydration, disorientation, claustrophobia, panic attacks, paranoia, hallucinations, visual and aural deterioration."
#TheDescent is 20, dig deep in this extract from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (2025 edition) by @mattglasby.bsky.social
#TheDescent is 20, dig deep in this extract from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (2025 edition) by @mattglasby.bsky.social
Epically gory and deeply claustrophobic: The Descent turns 20
We revisit a tense, surprising, and imaginatively disgusting modern classic in this excerpt from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film.
go.weareflicks.co
August 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Celebrating 20 years of The Descent via @flicks.bsky.social with an extract from the forthcoming The Book of Horror 2025 out 4 Sept
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"Down there it’s pitch black. You can get dehydration, disorientation, claustrophobia, panic attacks, paranoia, hallucinations, visual and aural deterioration."
#TheDescent is 20, dig deep in this extract from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (2025 edition) by @mattglasby.bsky.social
#TheDescent is 20, dig deep in this extract from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (2025 edition) by @mattglasby.bsky.social
Epically gory and deeply claustrophobic: The Descent turns 20
We revisit a tense, surprising, and imaginatively disgusting modern classic in this excerpt from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film.
go.weareflicks.co
August 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Down there it’s pitch black. You can get dehydration, disorientation, claustrophobia, panic attacks, paranoia, hallucinations, visual and aural deterioration."
#TheDescent is 20, dig deep in this extract from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (2025 edition) by @mattglasby.bsky.social
#TheDescent is 20, dig deep in this extract from The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film (2025 edition) by @mattglasby.bsky.social
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“The baddie is an unwieldy, unfrightening opponent.”
90s horror I Know What You Did Last Summer gets the legacy sequel treatment — in UK cinemas now.
Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...
90s horror I Know What You Did Last Summer gets the legacy sequel treatment — in UK cinemas now.
Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...
July 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“The baddie is an unwieldy, unfrightening opponent.”
90s horror I Know What You Did Last Summer gets the legacy sequel treatment — in UK cinemas now.
Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...
90s horror I Know What You Did Last Summer gets the legacy sequel treatment — in UK cinemas now.
Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...
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September and October have a suitably terrifying batch of horrors on the way - from big franchises to intriguing new voices.
@mattglasby.bsky.social highlights what to watch in the lead-up to Halloween – and what to watch out for.
@mattglasby.bsky.social highlights what to watch in the lead-up to Halloween – and what to watch out for.
Horrors on the horizon: Paranormal, paranoia, psychos and phones
A lot of scares are coming to cinemas in coming months – original freak outs alongside some franchise faves.
go.weareflicks.co
August 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
September and October have a suitably terrifying batch of horrors on the way - from big franchises to intriguing new voices.
@mattglasby.bsky.social highlights what to watch in the lead-up to Halloween – and what to watch out for.
@mattglasby.bsky.social highlights what to watch in the lead-up to Halloween – and what to watch out for.
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In monthly column The A-to-Z of Trash, bad movie lover Eliza Janssen takes us on an alphabetically-ordered trip through the best bits of the worst films ever.
This month, early fave #Troll2 gets its green, gloopy just desserts, featuring some of the worst-delivered dialogue of all time...
This month, early fave #Troll2 gets its green, gloopy just desserts, featuring some of the worst-delivered dialogue of all time...
T is for Troll 2: goblins, green gloop and an all-time great “OMG”
Featuring no trolls but plenty of unconvincing goblins, it’s the platonic ideal of a bad movie – perfect to add to our pantheon of The A to Z of Trash.
go.weareflicks.co
July 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In monthly column The A-to-Z of Trash, bad movie lover Eliza Janssen takes us on an alphabetically-ordered trip through the best bits of the worst films ever.
This month, early fave #Troll2 gets its green, gloopy just desserts, featuring some of the worst-delivered dialogue of all time...
This month, early fave #Troll2 gets its green, gloopy just desserts, featuring some of the worst-delivered dialogue of all time...
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Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hello! It's no doubt partly due to my spectacularly poor marketing skillz, but sales of prints have been pretty woeful of late. So if you are after a gloomy antidote to all this pesky fine weather and sunshine etc, do have a gander. Reposts also much appreciated. sarahcoomershop.etsy.com
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Drawing on decades of experience as he explores different facets of the movie biz, @mattglasby.bsky.social poses the question: “When was the last great action movie you saw?”
Exactly. Here’s how to fix that in six not-so-easy steps.
Exactly. Here’s how to fix that in six not-so-easy steps.
How to… make an action movie
When was the last great action movie you saw? Exactly. Here’s how to fix that.
go.weareflicks.co
July 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Drawing on decades of experience as he explores different facets of the movie biz, @mattglasby.bsky.social poses the question: “When was the last great action movie you saw?”
Exactly. Here’s how to fix that in six not-so-easy steps.
Exactly. Here’s how to fix that in six not-so-easy steps.
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With 20 years’ experience behind him - and almost as many failed publications - @mattglasby.bsky.social offers some self-described "three-star advice" for aspiring critics.
Criticism might feel less valued then ever, but these heartfelt and honest thoughts on sharing our passion for film ring true.
Criticism might feel less valued then ever, but these heartfelt and honest thoughts on sharing our passion for film ring true.
How to… be a film critic
Sure, everyone’s a critic… But here’s some good-natured, three-star advice drawn from decades of experience.
go.weareflicks.co
June 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
With 20 years’ experience behind him - and almost as many failed publications - @mattglasby.bsky.social offers some self-described "three-star advice" for aspiring critics.
Criticism might feel less valued then ever, but these heartfelt and honest thoughts on sharing our passion for film ring true.
Criticism might feel less valued then ever, but these heartfelt and honest thoughts on sharing our passion for film ring true.
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Dear writers,
Raymond Chandler was 51 when he published his first novel. 9 years later he’d completed 7 novels which would change their genre and contribute boldly to international literature and culture. He died when he was on his 8th book.
You’ve got time. Except me. I’m 52.
Raymond Chandler was 51 when he published his first novel. 9 years later he’d completed 7 novels which would change their genre and contribute boldly to international literature and culture. He died when he was on his 8th book.
You’ve got time. Except me. I’m 52.
June 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Dear writers,
Raymond Chandler was 51 when he published his first novel. 9 years later he’d completed 7 novels which would change their genre and contribute boldly to international literature and culture. He died when he was on his 8th book.
You’ve got time. Except me. I’m 52.
Raymond Chandler was 51 when he published his first novel. 9 years later he’d completed 7 novels which would change their genre and contribute boldly to international literature and culture. He died when he was on his 8th book.
You’ve got time. Except me. I’m 52.
In praise of Bryan Adams discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/review/at-65...
At 65, Bryan Adams is a master of crowd pleasers
Backed by a three-piece band and an army of hits, at his Glasgow OVO show, the Canadian rocker makes sure everyone leaves happy
discover.ticketmaster.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In praise of Bryan Adams discover.ticketmaster.co.uk/review/at-65...
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My novel is 99p on Kindle for a limited time! Less than a Mr Whippy. Take it to the park this Bank Holiday weekend and buy it an ice cream. 🍦
Don't Make Me Laugh
Don't Make Me Laugh eBook : Raeside, Julia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
My novel is 99p on Kindle for a limited time! Less than a Mr Whippy. Take it to the park this Bank Holiday weekend and buy it an ice cream. 🍦
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Every sentence forward is a sentence closer to done. No one cares how long a thing takes to write. No one ever asks. What matters is whether or not it is finished.
Celebrate every word you got on the page and don't worry about how your speed compares to others.
Just. Keep. Writing.
Celebrate every word you got on the page and don't worry about how your speed compares to others.
Just. Keep. Writing.
May 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Every sentence forward is a sentence closer to done. No one cares how long a thing takes to write. No one ever asks. What matters is whether or not it is finished.
Celebrate every word you got on the page and don't worry about how your speed compares to others.
Just. Keep. Writing.
Celebrate every word you got on the page and don't worry about how your speed compares to others.
Just. Keep. Writing.
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Let Glasgow Flourish, featuring the Moon and Jupiter.
April 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Let Glasgow Flourish, featuring the Moon and Jupiter.
Coming your way in September 2025
April 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Coming your way in September 2025
In the UK too?
My debut feature Cannibal Mukbang is on Blu-ray now 🥹 SO grateful for the journey this film has taken me on. Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way & of course, thank you to Jackrabbit Media & @wellgousa.bsky.social for putting my baby out into the world! a.co/d/67Sjc8B
April 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In the UK too?
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The director is also a lovely guy and he got his dad to make all the interdimensional doorways that feature in the movie (there are quite a few)
Hostile Dimensions, a UK film made with what must have been a budget of a few hundred pounds, is a lot of fun. Currently on Shudder and a breezy 78 minutes long.
April 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The director is also a lovely guy and he got his dad to make all the interdimensional doorways that feature in the movie (there are quite a few)
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Hostile Dimensions, a UK film made with what must have been a budget of a few hundred pounds, is a lot of fun. Currently on Shudder and a breezy 78 minutes long.
April 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hostile Dimensions, a UK film made with what must have been a budget of a few hundred pounds, is a lot of fun. Currently on Shudder and a breezy 78 minutes long.
How to… stop getting Bond wrong www.flicks.com.au/features/how...
How to… make a Bond film
From “cast a Bond who can act” to “go nuts with the directors” we have tips for 007’s new owners.
www.flicks.com.au
April 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
How to… stop getting Bond wrong www.flicks.com.au/features/how...
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Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Theft is not a valid alternative.
April 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Theft is not a valid alternative.