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Paul Farrell 🎃
@paulisgreat2000.bsky.social
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Bylines: Bloody Disgusting, HorrorHound Magazine, Dead Ringers, Scriptophobics
Podcasts: Dead Ringers, Scream Addicts: Hammer Pub

You know, I like horror movies and stuff.

Stuff I’ve written! : https://bloody-disgusting.com/author/paul-farrell/
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Criterion sale struck again!
Criterion Collection 4K blu ray of FLOW, depicting a wary cat afloat amongst a school of fish Criterion collection 4k blu ray of ALTERED STATES, depicting a sleeping man amidst the endless possibility of time and space Criterion collection 4k blu ray of THIS IS SPINAL TAP, featuring the authorial voices behind SMELL THE GLOVE.
November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This year we’re also introducing a fundraising component, raising money for cancer research.

If you’re so inclined, here’s the QR code to contribute to an incredible cause!
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Today marks the 18th anniversary of my homegrown short horror film festival OctHorror Fest!

To date, friends/family have made 200+ shorts and I am so pumped for the new crop!
A cauldron with pamphlets featuring the lineup for OctHorror Fest 18 beside a pumpkin brimming with candy The list of past OctHorror Fest movies and winners along with the plaque chronicling best picture winners over the years A view of the living room adorned with OctHorror posters A view from the stairs featuring OctHorror posters from past year’s movies
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Tis the season! 🎃
Last 4 watched on LETTERBOXD: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DEEAM WARRIORS, THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD, MONSTER HOUSE, and HALLOWEEN KILLS
October 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Seated for Joe Hill!
My wife and I waiting to hear a talk from the great Joe Hill! A pamphlet about the Joe Hill event at the public library
October 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Fun announcement!

I was lucky enough to get to contribute essays to these two gorgeous Hammer releases for THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN and SCARS OF DRACULA for StudioCanal— Hammer has been a love/obsession of mine for quite sometime and this is an absolute dream come true!
StudioCanal 4K release of THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN featuring red and green artwork of the monster as it looms amidst the brush. StudioCanal 4K release of SCARS OF DRACULA featuring red-hued artwork of Dracula descending on his unsuspecting prey.
October 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Because it’s time to find out why rock’s chosen warriors will rule the apocalypse 🎸 🔥 🎃 🔥 🎸

Now watching:
Poster for 1986’s heavy metal horror masterpiece TRICK OR TREAT, featuring a man thrashing on a guitar amidst the image of a burning, grinning Jack ‘o lantern face
October 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Treated myself to a Halloween present 🎃
4K NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET steelbook collection The spines of the NIGHTMARE series in the steelbook set All of the 4K steelbooks featuring the original artwork for the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET steelbook collection
October 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Halloween season means it’s time for a new V/H/S 🎃

Now watching:
Poster for VHS HALLOWEEN showing a view through craggy tree branches that looks like a skull with the moon as one eye against a red skyline
October 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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We’ve arrived 🎃
Halloween decor amidst a hazy orange glow
October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Stephen King just crushing it in CREEPSHOW
Stephen King as Jordy Verrill reacting incredulously toward the meteor he found Stephen King as Jordy Verrill realizing that the meteor he found is acting as a catalyst for vegetation to spring forth from his body Stephen King as Jordy Verrill succumbing to the inevitability that the meteor he found will in fact fully transform him into a plant man
September 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Very little in this world makes me happier than the first handful of TREEHOUSE OF HORROR episodes.
Homer casts an accusatory finger at the raven perched ever watchful above Homer contemplates his monkey paw wish, desiring a turkey sandwich where the turkey is not, in fact, a little dry Bart’s new Krusty the Clown doll (set to “Evil”) climbs onto the couch with a butcher’s knife in pursuit of Homer Homer’s hand is jammed in the toaster… again
September 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Sometimes, when I’m at my lowest, I watch KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE and remember that there is joy in this world.
The Killer Klowns prepare for a feast in KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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September 1st, 12:01am
Empty road in Haddonfield, IL displaying the word “Halloween” in white letters; a frame from John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978).
September 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Time to go full throttle

Now watching:
Poster for HALLOWEEN: H20
September 1, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Sometimes you find a VHS of BODY BAGS at a used book store for 3 dollars and you just know… you were meant to be together 🖤
A VHS copy of BODY BAGS (1993) featuring a delightfully ghoulish John Carpenter tearing his way hungrily out of— you guessed it— a body bag. The tagline? “Zip yourself in tight!” The film features three shorts directed by John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, delivered via a wrap-around featuring John Carpenter as the mortician host. Stacy Keach is in this— the VHS makes sure to remind readers in the back-of-rape copy that Keach stars in FALSE IDENTITY. It’s just really great.
August 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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But what happens when one knows too *little*…? (A 4K blu-ray, that’s what)
Poster for THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE, featuring not one, but three different Bill Murrays posing like a spy-person
August 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Well, I mean, I think we both know what needs the 4K treatment next…
Poster for the incredible, staggering genius of AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME
August 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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After Part 2, CASPER is easily my favorite GHOSTBUSTERS sequel
Dan Aykroyd dressed in full Ghostbusters gear, sporting the nametag STANZ (and a mustache), hurries out of Whipstaff Manor after attempting to rid it of its ghostly inhabitants, saying nervously, “Who you gonna call? Someone else.”
August 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Now that @kinolorber.com has graced us with 1990’s spoof REPOSSESSED on Blu-ray, I think it’s finally time that SPY HARD is afforded the all too deserved boutique label treatment.
Poster for 1996’s underrated spoof comedy classic, SPY HARD— starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan with an incredible opening title sequence (and song) by the inimitable Weird Al Yankovic. The poster depicts Nielsen in a James Bond-like pose as Sheridan clings to his tuxedo clad chest wearing a stunning red dress and casting a sultry stare. There is an otherworldly element to the number of hands which pepper Nielsen’s upper body. The title “SPY HARD” floats beside him in large, red letters (atop which sits the seasoned performer’s own name in black lettering), the “D” in disrepair as it appears to have been shot twice in the lower-D and once near its peak. Its hanging also calls attention to the fact that Nielsen’s pants are, in fact, down below his knees, revealing that he is wearing white boxer shorts that are covered in red hearts. A tagline hangs in gray above the title, in the empty, white space surrounding our hero. It reads: “All the action. All the women. Half the intelligence.” The expression on Nielsen’s face is smug. Pleased with himself. So goddamn pleased. This is the poster for SPY HARD.
August 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Finally got a chance to check out THE DEADLY SPAWN, courtesy of @synapsefilms.bsky.social new release!

Some of the best, home-grown creature effects this side of the mid-80’s, the flick is a mean-as-Hell, grass roots monster kid & co. fight back flick that delivers an incredible finale. A must-own!
A boy cowers in the presence of THE DEADLY SPAWN Synapse Films 4K release of THE DEADLY SPAWN The contents of Syanpse’s 4K release of THE DEADLY SPAWN
August 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Always a good day for new arrivals from @arrowvideo.bsky.social 🎥 🍿 🖤
Copies of ARROW Video’s 4K releases of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, TBE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING, POSEIDON and THE HEATHERS sitting in my move room in front of a shelf and a bust of Sam from TRICK ‘R TREAT.
August 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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They came to my blu-ray shelf to feed on human flesh!
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Synapse 4K release of THE DEADLY SPAWN displayed proudly on a shelf
August 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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My favorite aesthetic is signed-by-Tim-Jacobus-Goosebumps-stuff 💚
A VHS copy of GOOSEBUMPS: WELCOME TO DEAD HOUSE, signed by artist Tim Jacobus A sketch of the cover of the GOOSEBUMPS book THE HAUNTED MASK, drawn and signed by Tim Jacobus A print of the cover art from the GOOSEBUMPS book THE WEREWOLF OF FEVER SWAMP signed by Tim Jacobus
August 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Always a treat to find old Fangos in the wild (5 bucks each!)!
Fangoria issue 98 featuring a gleefully devilish Chucky from CHILD’S PLAY 2 and Fangoria issue 95 featuring a soon to be exploding head from TOTAL RECALL
August 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM