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Richard Wells
@slipperyjack.bsky.social
Well, what's new at the Dracula factory?
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Oh hi there, #portfolioday

I'm a guy who does

👁️Spooky Blu ray covers for Arrow Video
👁️Spooky props for spooky movies
👁️Spooky album covers
👁️Spooky lino prints

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On closer inspection the second shot is actually the Koningsbrug in Bruges. It's the same spot where Stefan and Valerie dock their boat and watch the corpse being carried out of the house in Kümel's DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS...
I'm a simple guy, open your film with the protagonist wandering the gloomy deserted streets of an old European city (here it's Ghent) and I'm immediately on board and leaning forward in my seat...
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I'm a simple guy, open your film with the protagonist wandering the gloomy deserted streets of an old European city (here it's Ghent) and I'm immediately on board and leaning forward in my seat...
December 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Film Time!
Watched Harry Kümel's lush Gothic melodrama MALPERTUIS (1971). With its fisheye lens eccentricity, familial schemeing and actors in multiple roles, it would pair nicely with Juraj Herz's MORGIANA. I was less convinced by the belaboured double twist ending, but good stuff on the whole...
December 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Weird influx of new followers this morning, think it must be that photo of the bangin' leftover turkey toastie I made the other day...
December 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Just read that David Pinner, author of RITUAL, died on Christmas Eve. RITUAL famously inspired THE WICKER MAN.
December 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Expecting to see selfies from half my bluesky feed from here...
Anyone would think there was a David Lynch season about to start at the BFI.
December 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Talking of films with a surprising cultural footprint, it's wild how often I continue to be asked if I'm selling the tarot cards from the motion picture Tarot (2024)*. Two emails today!

*(I'M NOT)...
December 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Standard antiques shop taxidermy mouse...
December 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water getting desperate in his methods...
December 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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I was curious to see if the Milka foil-wrapped Krampus I got from the Spar at Salzburg train station was just a repurposed Santa figure. Happy to report it's a custom chololate mould, though I'm disturbed by his 'sack'. Looks like he's cosplaying Samantha Eggar from The Brood...
December 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I was curious to see if the Milka foil-wrapped Krampus I got from the Spar at Salzburg train station was just a repurposed Santa figure. Happy to report it's a custom chololate mould, though I'm disturbed by his 'sack'. Looks like he's cosplaying Samantha Eggar from The Brood...
December 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
With it being Wren Day, or Lá an Dreoilín in Ireland, I've been doodling in front of the telly and professionally defaced another copy of Tales Accursed with a costumed Wren Boy, which I've made available in the shoppe...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say...
I love this set so much, how the baroque detail of the illusory city makes it feel More unreal, a Borgesian vibe, a glittering city that looks alive but vanishes when you look away, a city of facades, a city built for the spiritual torment of one man (beginning to sound more Calvino-esque).
Resvisting EYES WIDE SHUT and luxuriating in those Manhattan Christmastime set builds on the Pinewood studio backlot, man oh man. Production Designer Roy Walker had THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY out the same year, damn...
December 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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We stopped at Brewood Church and once again did NOT touch the 16th/17th century alabaster tombs of the Giffard family, we've all read the E. Nesbit story...
December 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Boxing Day chilly jaunt along the Brewood Canal circular path...
December 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Good afternoon from the leftover turkey, stuffing, bacon, brie, cranberry & hot maple mayonnaise sourdough toastie (with festive chutney & crispy onions) I just constructed and consumed...
#ChristmasGourmand
December 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Resvisting EYES WIDE SHUT and luxuriating in those Manhattan Christmastime set builds on the Pinewood studio backlot, man oh man. Production Designer Roy Walker had THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY out the same year, damn...
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Reminds me of Rob Bottin's work on The Thing...
Mesmerised by this Iranian nougat maker www.instagram.com/shahkargaz.o...
December 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Brass yule goat from my brother...
December 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Merry Christmas from Max. With the cat years conversion he's about 92 years old. Still has a fine set of teeth...
December 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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He's been..!
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
He's been..!
December 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The evening off to a fine spooking with a candlelit screening of @kierlajanisse.bsky.social's wonderfully atmospheric Algernon Blackwood adaptation THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM followed by @nunkie.bsky.social's performance of M.R. James' tale of satyr shenanigans, An Episode of Cathedral History 👌...
December 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The Retrial...
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Yule tidings, Lunglings. We’re logging off for the rest of the year but we’ll be back in the studio NEXT MONTH and we look forward to sharing new music with you in 2026. In the meantime, eat, drink, be merry and don’t forget to let the devil in 👹🎄
December 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM