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Andrew Screen
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Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.
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Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social · Nov 25
With Xmas fast approaching you might be thinking of what to buy the Nigel Kneale/folk horror/archive TV fan in your life. How about The Book of Beasts? Available from all good bookshops, but if you buy it from headpress.com/product/the-... you can also get the Beastabix stand up figures.
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John Cale has made a record with someone who wasn't even born when he made Songs For Drella, which for most artists would count as a late-career recording, but for him... long may he roll, is what I'm saying.

youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Husker Du, live in 1985, 43 songs to blast the Sunday cobwebs away

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1985: The Miracle Year, by Hüsker Dü
43 track album
huskerdu.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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At least not all the news is doom and gloom today...
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Sad to hear that Lindsey Vickers, director of the now rediscovered Brit horror classic The Appointment (1981), has gone at the age of 85.
Obituary by Vic Pratt here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Tonight's film stars Russell Crown who is Unhinged (2020). First time watching...
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Tonight's washing up music (helping to drown out the sound of fireworks). This is a banger!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Xw...
Confidence Man - First Class Bitch - Raf Rundell's Party Nails Remix
YouTube video by Confidence Man
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November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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✨🪞HAUNTED MIRRORS 🪞✨

A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.
Spooky bearded man in the mirror
November 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Tonight's film is the obscure French horror The Demon is on the Island (1983) which has a fantastic sounding Garth Marenghi plot. Domestic appliances bought from the same shop turn murderous! First (and probably last) time watch.
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I’m staying at my mum’s house. Opened a cupboard to get a spare pillow and WTF
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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One of the things I appreciate most about living in Norfolk is the fact that it induces a near-constant state of bewilderment. 1/3
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Tonight's film is Blazing Magnum (1976) an Italian cop thriller starring Stuart Whitman (and his amazing eyebrows) as a Dirty Harry clone. Has an amazing extended car chase. The film is also known as the more poetic Strange Shadows in an Empty Room. First time watching.
November 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Appearing just in time for Halloween is my new blog looking at the 1980s weekly magazine The Unexplained issue by issue.

Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?

theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social
Appearing just in time for Halloween is my new blog looking at the 1980s weekly magazine The Unexplained issue by issue.

Find out what links the magazine with the band The Smiths. What made the magazine playground contraband? Dare you listen to Breakthrough?

theunexplainedmagazine.blogspot.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Damn Peter Watkins has gone. A pioneer of docudrama with Culloden and The War Game also the sublime Privilege, Punishment Park and biopic Edvard Munch. Vale!
October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Halloween. A good time to launch my new blog...

Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Why the BBC WAC should remain bigger on the inside. An absolutely boffo column from Doctor Who mensch @tobyhadoke.bsky.social about the very silly decision by the BBC to cut off independent and exploratory research at its Written Archives Centre. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: ‘Bigger on the Inside’ Doctor Who Archives by Toby Hadoke
It’s always bloody Doctor Who isn’t it? The show about the police box that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. There is so much in the rich history of BBC drama that requires scrutiny…
cstonline.net
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Work in progress... Cat pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Things I Made Ages Ago That I Just Found Again: 1. Yorkshire TV's foray into making movies.
Film poster for The Taking of Pelham Three Two One, except I've - ha ha - made it Three Two One, with Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin.
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Tonight's film is The Long Walk (2025)...
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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The best Charles Bronson anecdote you will read this year!
scsheil.bsky.social Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 16d
Also, Charles Bronson versus golfers
A few nights later, Bronson and I had dinner together in the barnlike dining room of the motel in La Junta. I thought it might be a good idea if we got to know each other a little better. Across the room from us was a long table with about fourteen men in business suits; the men also were having dinner. They kept glancing over at us, trying to get a glimpse of a real, live movie star feeding in their presence. Eventually the man at the head of the long table got up and strolled over to us. He was a tall, youngish chap with a bland, pasty face and very nervous. Obviously this was one star-struck local boy. He never even glanced at me; his eyes were riveted on Charlie as he hesitantly apologized for interrupting his dinner (not mine). Then he explained that the group he was with were the presidents and officers of several of the local golf clubs in the area. They got to- gether like this every month or so. Anyhow, he said, they couldn't help noticing that Mr. Bronson was here making a movie and that they would like him to know that if he wanted to play golf he would be more than welcome at any of their clubs. They'd be honored, in fact. I thought it was a very nice gesture and looked to Charlie for his reply. So did the shy, smiling young man. And Charlie did reply. "You know," he said, "where I live in Los Angeles the back lawn of my house is part of a golf course.' "Really? That's wonderful." "And you know what I do with that golf course?" "Why, no, I don't, Mr. Bronson." "I let my dogs shit on it," he informed the young man and returned to eating his steak. As I said, there's only one way to describe Charles Bronson: Mr. Charm.
October 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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BTD - Don Siegel - Riot in Cell Block 11 - 1954 - Belgian release poster
Leo Gordon and Neville Brand in profile, behind them Brand and gang face off with prison guards
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Who is Graham Crackers (see recommendation on the lid) and why are they sure he will enjoy this atrocity?
nicmiller.bsky.social Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 16d
New contender for Worst Food in the World: pumpkin pie hummus
A circular plastic tub filled with orange paste
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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...
Jester wooden marionette looks over an occult tome by candlelight Faust attempts to summon Mephisto Marionette stage scene showing the King's castle aflame and his entire court drowning Mephisto flanked by two demons enter a flaming room.
October 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM