Fiona Watson
@monsterfromid66.bsky.social
Edinburgh based screenwriter/video essayist. Masters Of Cinema. Arrow. Criterion. Owner of an ADHD/AuDHD brain. Manual not included.
Alan Whicker delves into the unknown with #ChristopherLee and #BarbaraSteele. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5wi...
1968: Whicker's World of Horror | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
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November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Alan Whicker delves into the unknown with #ChristopherLee and #BarbaraSteele. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5wi...
Direct from Sawney Bean's cave, #NeilInnes has been #Frankenstein ed up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxi...
Humanoid Boogie - Neil Innes (HD)
YouTube video by Adrian Loone
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November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Direct from Sawney Bean's cave, #NeilInnes has been #Frankenstein ed up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxi...
RIP Gilson Lavis www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens
Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
RIP Gilson Lavis www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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The first all-Black horror movie? DRUMS O' VOODOO (1934) dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/v...
Voodoo You
DRUMS O’ VOODOO (1934), AKA LOUISIANA, is claimed to be the first all-black horror movie. I’m not sure if it can be called a horror movie, but it did give me the creeps a little at the …
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November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The first all-Black horror movie? DRUMS O' VOODOO (1934) dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/v...
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#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 14: Film Noir Mt. Rushmore—the directors (h/t @dwayneadd.bsky.social).
John Huston
Billy Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
I'd argue these 4 had the truest Noir sensibility: people are awful; life is a trap; fate is absurd. Their amused cruelty slaps you wide awake.
Day 14: Film Noir Mt. Rushmore—the directors (h/t @dwayneadd.bsky.social).
John Huston
Billy Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
I'd argue these 4 had the truest Noir sensibility: people are awful; life is a trap; fate is absurd. Their amused cruelty slaps you wide awake.
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge
Day 14: Film Noir Mt. Rushmore—the directors (h/t @dwayneadd.bsky.social).
John Huston
Billy Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
I'd argue these 4 had the truest Noir sensibility: people are awful; life is a trap; fate is absurd. Their amused cruelty slaps you wide awake.
Day 14: Film Noir Mt. Rushmore—the directors (h/t @dwayneadd.bsky.social).
John Huston
Billy Wilder
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
I'd argue these 4 had the truest Noir sensibility: people are awful; life is a trap; fate is absurd. Their amused cruelty slaps you wide awake.
Woops! This is nightmare fuel from the #pre-code era. One of the characters actually turns into Frederick March from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931). www.youtube.com/watch?v=21I1...
Homosexuality in Pre-Codes: Cartoons
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November 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Woops! This is nightmare fuel from the #pre-code era. One of the characters actually turns into Frederick March from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931). www.youtube.com/watch?v=21I1...
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Leila Hyams on the cover of The New Movie Magazine, August 1930
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Leila Hyams on the cover of The New Movie Magazine, August 1930
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The new Hounds song about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein drops on all streaming services at midnight.
Here’s a full-length preview.
R-rated title and content.
Here’s a full-length preview.
R-rated title and content.
Hounds, “Two-Inch Erection”
YouTube video by Seth Abramson
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November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The new Hounds song about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein drops on all streaming services at midnight.
Here’s a full-length preview.
R-rated title and content.
Here’s a full-length preview.
R-rated title and content.
#NigelKneale memories - The Woman In Black 1989. D and I had seen it before but had perhaps forgotten its original impact. It's the early to mid 1990s. We're round at at D's mum and dads dog sitting. It's the middle of the day and the height of summer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hu...
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
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November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
#NigelKneale memories - The Woman In Black 1989. D and I had seen it before but had perhaps forgotten its original impact. It's the early to mid 1990s. We're round at at D's mum and dads dog sitting. It's the middle of the day and the height of summer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hu...
Serious question to anyone out there who reads my posts - How much do you know about Autism, ADHD or any other neurodivergent condition.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Serious question to anyone out there who reads my posts - How much do you know about Autism, ADHD or any other neurodivergent condition.
A #neurotypical person asks #neurodivergent #adhd people what having poor impulse control is like. If we could have complete control of this, we wouldn't mess up as much. But our brains are different. www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comme...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A #neurotypical person asks #neurodivergent #adhd people what having poor impulse control is like. If we could have complete control of this, we wouldn't mess up as much. But our brains are different. www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comme...
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THE BEATLES GET BACK. In which Peter Jackson swallows Michael Lindsay-Hogg and tries to digest him. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/c...
Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf-Aids
No, we’re not doing noirs all month, that might get monotonous. I do love a good noir, though. By way of a change, I just finished watching THE BEATLES GET BACK which I’d have to admit …
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November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
THE BEATLES GET BACK. In which Peter Jackson swallows Michael Lindsay-Hogg and tries to digest him. dcairns.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/c...
Flashback to 2017. What WOULD #NigelKneale do?
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Flashback to 2017. What WOULD #NigelKneale do?
Oh Jesus Christ! 14 years ago #Fenton the dog made a break for freedom and ran into the internet's loving arms. His owner...not so much.
OMG its true!
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bsky.app/profile/robm...
Made me wonder if the owner was ever tracked down and answer is, yes, but well, you watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wdq...
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Oh Jesus Christ! 14 years ago #Fenton the dog made a break for freedom and ran into the internet's loving arms. His owner...not so much.
Should I get this blanket so I can be swaddled by #HammerFilms for eternity? (I like the feet sticking out at the bottom)
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Should I get this blanket so I can be swaddled by #HammerFilms for eternity? (I like the feet sticking out at the bottom)
#RayHarryhausen animated soil during The Children Of The Hydra's Teeth sequence in #JasonAndTheArgonauts. I was always fascinated by that. The insane detail in his work is incredible.
This is a marvellous pick-me-up. Unusually detailed on stop-motion technique. Includes the phrase "animatable soil".
I wish I'd gone this direction in my life, though no doubt I'd be still moaning to my partner that "the animated toilet paper shot is beyond me"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5i...
I wish I'd gone this direction in my life, though no doubt I'd be still moaning to my partner that "the animated toilet paper shot is beyond me"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5i...
Rigging and Practical Effects in ParaNorman | LAIKA Archives
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November 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#RayHarryhausen animated soil during The Children Of The Hydra's Teeth sequence in #JasonAndTheArgonauts. I was always fascinated by that. The insane detail in his work is incredible.
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
MISSION IMPROBABLE. #BusterKeaton www.youtube.com/watch?v=92mF...
Buster Keaton Stunts - Mission: Impossible
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November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
MISSION IMPROBABLE. #BusterKeaton www.youtube.com/watch?v=92mF...
Don't let this very poor original trailer fool you, Remember The Night is one of the great #christmasmovies. #mitchellleisen #prestonsturges www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcL...
Remember The Night 1940 Trailer
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November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Don't let this very poor original trailer fool you, Remember The Night is one of the great #christmasmovies. #mitchellleisen #prestonsturges www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKcL...
Look! It's one of my favourite little guys. #KenRussell #AlteredStates www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPo3...
Caveman on the Loose | Altered States (1980)
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November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Look! It's one of my favourite little guys. #KenRussell #AlteredStates www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPo3...