Tony
@orlovsky.bsky.social
Horror geek (lapsed), intermittent film bore and zombie purist. Pathetic creature of meat & bone.
Paid to do things with multitudes of big computers, and to help others do similar.
Cats, coffee, music, movies, etc.
he/him/ally
https://boxd.it/cEt
Paid to do things with multitudes of big computers, and to help others do similar.
Cats, coffee, music, movies, etc.
he/him/ally
https://boxd.it/cEt
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@alisonborealis.bsky.social I can't reply to your teen vogue thread, but this might be helpful if they decide to delete the articles as well:
web.archive.org/web/20251115...
web.archive.org/web/20251115...
Alice Wong
Alice Wong is the founder of the Disability Visibility Project and author of Year of the Tiger. Follow her on Twitter.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
@alisonborealis.bsky.social I can't reply to your teen vogue thread, but this might be helpful if they decide to delete the articles as well:
web.archive.org/web/20251115...
web.archive.org/web/20251115...
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Xtra staff members recommend their favourite queer horror films that deliver plenty of scares
5 queer horror films to watch this Halloween | Xtra Magazine
Xtra staff members recommend their favourite queer horror films that deliver plenty of scares
xtramagazine.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Xtra staff members recommend their favourite queer horror films that deliver plenty of scares
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🚨Public Service Announcement
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚨Public Service Announcement
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...
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And if you missed it back then, you can make amends for your sinful oversight, tonight, at 00:10 on BBC2.
"Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there walked alone."
'The Haunting' (1963) is on BBC2 at 00.05 tonight. Beautiful, unsettling & one of my all-time favourite movies. Highly recommended.
'The Haunting' (1963) is on BBC2 at 00.05 tonight. Beautiful, unsettling & one of my all-time favourite movies. Highly recommended.
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
And if you missed it back then, you can make amends for your sinful oversight, tonight, at 00:10 on BBC2.
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New letter on:
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
New letter on:
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
- genre slippage in Jacob’s Ladder
- the casual 80s setting in Night of the Reaper
- Mica Levi’s wild score for Under The Skin
www.deadofnightletter.com/erotic-demon... #filmsky #horrorsky #horror #cinema
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Halloween radio: The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
Terrific BBC adaptation of the Robert Westall creepy novella about a steeplejack's encounter with supernatural evil.
First broadcast: Aug 10, 1996.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDie...
You can buy the book here:
www.valancourtbooks.com/the-stones-o...
Terrific BBC adaptation of the Robert Westall creepy novella about a steeplejack's encounter with supernatural evil.
First broadcast: Aug 10, 1996.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDie...
You can buy the book here:
www.valancourtbooks.com/the-stones-o...
The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral (1991)
BOOK DETAILS Case laminate hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1954321434 List Price: $29.99 U.S. Pages: 140 Published: 2015
www.valancourtbooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Halloween radio: The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
Terrific BBC adaptation of the Robert Westall creepy novella about a steeplejack's encounter with supernatural evil.
First broadcast: Aug 10, 1996.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDie...
You can buy the book here:
www.valancourtbooks.com/the-stones-o...
Terrific BBC adaptation of the Robert Westall creepy novella about a steeplejack's encounter with supernatural evil.
First broadcast: Aug 10, 1996.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDie...
You can buy the book here:
www.valancourtbooks.com/the-stones-o...
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POSSESSION: LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD & BLU-RAY released Dec 8, preorder now! Featuring new audio commentaries, new interview with @realgdt.bsky.social and a lot more! Plus 220-page hardback book, original shooting script book & art cards! Std Eds also available. bit.ly/PossessionLt...
October 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
POSSESSION: LIMITED EDITION 4K UHD & BLU-RAY released Dec 8, preorder now! Featuring new audio commentaries, new interview with @realgdt.bsky.social and a lot more! Plus 220-page hardback book, original shooting script book & art cards! Std Eds also available. bit.ly/PossessionLt...
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Nitzer Ebb 5 Questions and 3 Live tracks 1988
YouTube video by Vortexeyes
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October 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it.
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
bookshop.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it.
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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Are you tired of watching the same popular horror films over and over again for the Halloween season?
What if I gave you a list of cult horror films to watch this year instead?
A thread.
What if I gave you a list of cult horror films to watch this year instead?
A thread.
October 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Are you tired of watching the same popular horror films over and over again for the Halloween season?
What if I gave you a list of cult horror films to watch this year instead?
A thread.
What if I gave you a list of cult horror films to watch this year instead?
A thread.
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Now on pre-order! The UK blu-ray of Alexandre Philippe's Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS is live. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it features Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama + your girl right here!
www.amazon.co.uk/Chain-Reacti...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chain-Reacti...
October 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Now on pre-order! The UK blu-ray of Alexandre Philippe's Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS is live. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, it features Stephen King, Takashi Miike, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama + your girl right here!
www.amazon.co.uk/Chain-Reacti...
www.amazon.co.uk/Chain-Reacti...
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Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago
October 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago
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‘Lost in Translation’ at 22: Sofia Coppola’s Poetic Exhibition of Love, Humor and Understanding
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#Filmsky
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#Filmsky
October 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
‘Lost in Translation’ at 22: Sofia Coppola’s Poetic Exhibition of Love, Humor and Understanding
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cinephiliabeyond.org/lost-transla...
#Filmsky
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cinephiliabeyond.org/lost-transla...
#Filmsky
@horrornonna.com on a very similar topic to Police Truck www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzBm...
X-Cops - You Have The Right To Remain Silent (Full Album)
YouTube video by BeefPuke
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@horrornonna.com on a very similar topic to Police Truck www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzBm...
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44 years ago, Das Boot submerged audiences in terror, isolation, and the cold truth of war. Tim Pelan’s “Ballad for an Iron Coffin” dives into how Wolfgang Petersen’s masterpiece still resonates.
cinephiliabeyond.org/ballad-iron-...
cinephiliabeyond.org/ballad-iron-...
Ballad for an Iron Coffin: Wolfgang Petersen’s ‘Das Boot’ at 44 • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Tim Pelan You never see the enemy. Like Christopher Nolan's triptych timeline suspenser Dunkirk, both quarry and hunter/guardians of the Allied Atlantic convoys our unterseeboot protagonists wrestl...
cinephiliabeyond.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
44 years ago, Das Boot submerged audiences in terror, isolation, and the cold truth of war. Tim Pelan’s “Ballad for an Iron Coffin” dives into how Wolfgang Petersen’s masterpiece still resonates.
cinephiliabeyond.org/ballad-iron-...
cinephiliabeyond.org/ballad-iron-...
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‘After Hours’ at 40: Celebrating Scorsese’s Kafka-Inspired New York Odyssey
cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/
cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/
September 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
‘After Hours’ at 40: Celebrating Scorsese’s Kafka-Inspired New York Odyssey
cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/
cinephiliabeyond.org/after-hours/
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Newsflash: our new SCALA!!! legacy project distributes classic and cult movies to all for absolutely free, while supporting mental health charities to boot. Here's our updated report, which we'd be delighted if you could share, and thank you!
September 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Newsflash: our new SCALA!!! legacy project distributes classic and cult movies to all for absolutely free, while supporting mental health charities to boot. Here's our updated report, which we'd be delighted if you could share, and thank you!
This is exactly my sort of thing:
I never knew there was a video for this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi-6...
Erasure's "I Love to Hate You" sung in Czech by the late Peter Muk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi-6...
Erasure's "I Love to Hate You" sung in Czech by the late Peter Muk
Petr Muk - Láska tě spoutá (Official video)
YouTube video by Warner Music Gold
www.youtube.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is exactly my sort of thing:
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Anyone recognise this book? I really want to read it now too.
Every now and then I ask this. Does anyone remember the name of a 1970s British children’s book (for 8-12yo) in which a girl lives in a house surrounded by Bronze Age barrows?
Think like Alan Garner, but not him. Almost definitely a Puffin book.
Think like Alan Garner, but not him. Almost definitely a Puffin book.
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Anyone recognise this book? I really want to read it now too.
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Remembering a mistake I made fifteen years ago
August 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Remembering a mistake I made fifteen years ago
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Frankly, I don't what possessed me, but I decided to recreate 1970s cinema intermission screens as vector graphics with the rule that everything had to be 100% vector. No raster graphics, no photographs, no post-vector treatments.
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#graphics #vectorgraphics #cinema #1970s #illustration
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#graphics #vectorgraphics #cinema #1970s #illustration
August 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Frankly, I don't what possessed me, but I decided to recreate 1970s cinema intermission screens as vector graphics with the rule that everything had to be 100% vector. No raster graphics, no photographs, no post-vector treatments.
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#graphics #vectorgraphics #cinema #1970s #illustration
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#graphics #vectorgraphics #cinema #1970s #illustration