Andrew Screen
@andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social
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.
At least not all the news is doom and gloom today...
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
At least not all the news is doom and gloom today...
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...
Obituary by Vic Pratt here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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...
Obituary by Vic Pratt here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...
Tonight's film stars Russell Crown who is Unhinged (2020). First time watching...
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight's film stars Russell Crown who is Unhinged (2020). First time watching...
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Halloween. A good time to launch my new blog...
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Halloween. A good time to launch my new blog...
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
Coming later today, just in time for the spooky season.
Work in progress... Cat pumpkin.
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Work in progress... Cat pumpkin.
Tonight's film is The Long Walk (2025)...
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Tonight's film is The Long Walk (2025)...
Five minutes in. A psycho Charlie Chaplin has just turned up and stabbed someone to death. Cue titles with a swelling string led romantic score.
October 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Five minutes in. A psycho Charlie Chaplin has just turned up and stabbed someone to death. Cue titles with a swelling string led romantic score.
Tonight's film is The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973). A Spanish psychological horror starring Jean Seberg and Marisol. First time watching...
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tonight's film is The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973). A Spanish psychological horror starring Jean Seberg and Marisol. First time watching...
Farewell to the actor John Woodbine who died today. He was ubiquitous in the film and TV of my childhood appearing in everything from Z Cars, Dr Who and the films The Devils and An American Werewolf in London.
October 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Farewell to the actor John Woodbine who died today. He was ubiquitous in the film and TV of my childhood appearing in everything from Z Cars, Dr Who and the films The Devils and An American Werewolf in London.
Richard Rankin... It could be?
October 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Richard Rankin... It could be?
Tonight's film is Hannibal Brooks (1969) directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed and Michael J Pollard. A childhood favourite I've not seen for decades...
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tonight's film is Hannibal Brooks (1969) directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed and Michael J Pollard. A childhood favourite I've not seen for decades...
The Sunday afternoon matinee is Flesh and Fantasy (1943). A trio of supernatural tales directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Edward G Robinson and Barbara Stanwyck. Superbly crafted and evocatively dreamlike.
September 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Sunday afternoon matinee is Flesh and Fantasy (1943). A trio of supernatural tales directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Edward G Robinson and Barbara Stanwyck. Superbly crafted and evocatively dreamlike.
Tonight's film is The Possessed (1965) an Italian proto-giallo / mystery thriller. First time watching...
September 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Tonight's film is The Possessed (1965) an Italian proto-giallo / mystery thriller. First time watching...
Tonight's film is Italian horror The Horrible Dr Hitchcock (1962) directed by Ricardo Freda and starring Barbara Steele. First time watching.
September 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Tonight's film is Italian horror The Horrible Dr Hitchcock (1962) directed by Ricardo Freda and starring Barbara Steele. First time watching.
Somehow I've ended up at a late night jazz festival...
September 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Somehow I've ended up at a late night jazz festival...
Watching the Netflix Devo documentary about the Dadaist art rock band of the same name. Reveals much about one of the most misunderstood American bands of the era, showing there was so much more to them than just their hit track Whip It.
August 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Watching the Netflix Devo documentary about the Dadaist art rock band of the same name. Reveals much about one of the most misunderstood American bands of the era, showing there was so much more to them than just their hit track Whip It.
Tonight's film is Demonoid (1981), a Mexican creeping hand movie starring Samantha Edgar and Stuart (massive eyebrows) Whitman. He channels Dave Allen whilst playing a priest. Daft fun!
August 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Tonight's film is Demonoid (1981), a Mexican creeping hand movie starring Samantha Edgar and Stuart (massive eyebrows) Whitman. He channels Dave Allen whilst playing a priest. Daft fun!