Andrew McRae
@andrewmcrae.bsky.social
Writer. For Cracked.com, GameRant, and others. Likes dinosaurs, crime novels, horror, and collecting tiki mugs.
Pinned
Andrew McRae
@andrewmcrae.bsky.social
· Jun 12
NoSleep Podcast Summer Hiatus 2025 #1 - The NoSleep Podcast
The NoSleep Podcast finds darkness in the sunlight as we take a break between seasons. Enjoy some stories from our premium episodes. "Dead Man's Hands" written by Andrew McRae (Story starts around 00:...
www.thenosleeppodcast.com
My story Dead Man's Hands is now free to listen to on the @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social summer hiatus episode. Give it a listen if you like Weird Westerns, old timey carnivals and freak shows, and a heaping helping of a gory good time:
Book Pennywise: one time I became The Wolfman
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Book Pennywise: one time I became The Wolfman
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
Welcome to Derry Pennywise: once I became a station wagon complete with a crazy family including a raw liver-eating daughter and a mom who gave live birth to a flying demon baby
Book Pennywise: thats...that's cool. Another time I became a Dracula
Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Salò are interesting choices
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Salò are interesting choices
WEAPONS reminded me a bit of BARBARIAN so I was pleasantly surprised to see they were by the same guy. Two for two. A modern day take on Hansel and Gretel wrapped in a Twin Peaks-style mystery skin, it's a great take on old white monsters destroying everything embodied by Amy Madigan's Aunt Gladys.
a woman with red hair and glasses is sitting on a couch next to a lamp
Alt: Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
WEAPONS reminded me a bit of BARBARIAN so I was pleasantly surprised to see they were by the same guy. Two for two. A modern day take on Hansel and Gretel wrapped in a Twin Peaks-style mystery skin, it's a great take on old white monsters destroying everything embodied by Amy Madigan's Aunt Gladys.
Bizarre seeing all the interviews with Guillermo del Toro about FRANKENSTEIN asking for his take on AI as if the film doesn't have Christoph Waltz as the 1850s equivalent of a tech billionaire trying to fund a plan to make his syphilitic self immortal
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Bizarre seeing all the interviews with Guillermo del Toro about FRANKENSTEIN asking for his take on AI as if the film doesn't have Christoph Waltz as the 1850s equivalent of a tech billionaire trying to fund a plan to make his syphilitic self immortal
Reposted by Andrew McRae
democrats winning would cut into their fundraising
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
democrats winning would cut into their fundraising
Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN is up there with Coppola's DRACULA, THE WOLFMAN, Egger's NOSFERATU as a sumptuous, gothic, and definitive take on the material. Just enough Hammer Frankenstein to stay fun, it's a tragic, horrific, gory monsterpiece of a film. Solid cast, costumes, effects. See it.
a man wearing a hood and a mask looks at the camera
Alt: Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein's Monster trudges inexorably through the arctic
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN is up there with Coppola's DRACULA, THE WOLFMAN, Egger's NOSFERATU as a sumptuous, gothic, and definitive take on the material. Just enough Hammer Frankenstein to stay fun, it's a tragic, horrific, gory monsterpiece of a film. Solid cast, costumes, effects. See it.
When you find a stranger's hair and realize the prostitute you're sleeping with has been seeing other people
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When you find a stranger's hair and realize the prostitute you're sleeping with has been seeing other people
Aww, she's retiring to spend more time with her insider trading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Aww, she's retiring to spend more time with her insider trading
Aside from the lazy idea of ignoring the unfairly maligned third one, this is a pretty solid team
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Aside from the lazy idea of ignoring the unfairly maligned third one, this is a pretty solid team
Dick Cheney got a memorial library:
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Dick Cheney got a memorial library:
Roseanne fit the bill until she ruined her own image
note that there is basically no such thing as a widely-accepted and culturally-revered American image of a blue collar *woman*
I mean, can anyone else even *be* blue collar? When was the last time we had a blue collar woman in the public eye?
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Roseanne fit the bill until she ruined her own image
Pennywise is one elaborate motherfucker in Welcome to Derry
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Pennywise is one elaborate motherfucker in Welcome to Derry
Guillermo del Toro is working his way towards an Abbott and Costello orgy of sexy Universal monsters
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Guillermo del Toro is working his way towards an Abbott and Costello orgy of sexy Universal monsters
HONEY DON'T! is, to put it mildly, a honey boo boo of a film. More frustrating than DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS because Margaret Qualley's character has so much more oomph and panache in this that the meandering nothing of a story feels more wasteful of her. Like a bad Tarantino-wannabe retread of BLOOD SIMPLE
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
HONEY DON'T! is, to put it mildly, a honey boo boo of a film. More frustrating than DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS because Margaret Qualley's character has so much more oomph and panache in this that the meandering nothing of a story feels more wasteful of her. Like a bad Tarantino-wannabe retread of BLOOD SIMPLE
He plays the real monster, Jared
For a second I thought the middle poster in the series was for Subway.
(The Jacob Elordi poster is so dark that the reflection of the restaurant across the street is the most prominent festure 🤣)
(The Jacob Elordi poster is so dark that the reflection of the restaurant across the street is the most prominent festure 🤣)
I saw #Frankenstein by @realgdt.bsky.social on Sunday and I’m still going over just how beautiful this film was. Superb acting, a fantastic script, and a phenomenal look to the film. If you are able, see it in theaters. If you can’t, watch it the moment it comes out on Netflix.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
He plays the real monster, Jared
When you watch THE WIZARD OF OZ for the umpteenth time and realize that Munchkins lay hardshell eggs and the size of those eggs mean Munchkins each have a size 19 cloaca
October 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
When you watch THE WIZARD OF OZ for the umpteenth time and realize that Munchkins lay hardshell eggs and the size of those eggs mean Munchkins each have a size 19 cloaca
Ranchers so happy you could call them jolly
Trump: "The ranchers are so happy for what I've done. I saved them. I don't think you'd have any beef in this country if I didn't do that. So we're very proud of that."
October 23, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Ranchers so happy you could call them jolly
Pitch: A slasher movie where the killer's motivation is finding out if people are cake or not
Trailer soundtrack with haunted kids slowly chanting the pat-a-cake rhyme
Title: The Baker Man
Trailer soundtrack with haunted kids slowly chanting the pat-a-cake rhyme
Title: The Baker Man
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Pitch: A slasher movie where the killer's motivation is finding out if people are cake or not
Trailer soundtrack with haunted kids slowly chanting the pat-a-cake rhyme
Title: The Baker Man
Trailer soundtrack with haunted kids slowly chanting the pat-a-cake rhyme
Title: The Baker Man
Of course this administration is spending big in Argentina
Like other historical figures, they'll need somewhere to go once they're done
Like other historical figures, they'll need somewhere to go once they're done
lol, great, so we're now subsidizing Argentine ranchers at the expense of American ranchers. Seems politically sustainable, no questions from me.
*US SEEKS TO QUADRUPLE BEEF PURCHASES FROM ARGENTINA: POLITICO
*US SEEKS TO QUADRUPLE BEEF PURCHASES FROM ARGENTINA: POLITICO
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Of course this administration is spending big in Argentina
Like other historical figures, they'll need somewhere to go once they're done
Like other historical figures, they'll need somewhere to go once they're done
Trying to figure out how the folks defending the Nazi tattoo candidate think him *saying* progressive sounding guff is more indicative of who he is than *having a fucking Nazi tattoo*
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Trying to figure out how the folks defending the Nazi tattoo candidate think him *saying* progressive sounding guff is more indicative of who he is than *having a fucking Nazi tattoo*
How everyday feels:
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
How everyday feels:
trump's team couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for their boss than "guy who leaves shit wherever he goes"
October 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
trump's team couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for their boss than "guy who leaves shit wherever he goes"
Hoping Ron Perlman gets to play a gruff guy who smokes stogies at least once in his career
October 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Hoping Ron Perlman gets to play a gruff guy who smokes stogies at least once in his career
The alternate reality from Peacemaker is our actual one
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The alternate reality from Peacemaker is our actual one