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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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Tonight's film is the much maligned on release Disney sci-fi The Black Hole (1979). Has one of the scariest robots ever in the shape of Maximilian and pedigree cast including Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster. Actually quite a dark tale for a Disney film of the time.

A reminder that @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and myself will be doing a live tweetalong to The Stone Tape for this broadcast. All welcome. Just use the hashtag #stonetapelive

Paging the #UncannyCommunity! Intrigued by Stone Tape theory? There's a rare UK TV screening of the drama that gave the theory its name - 10.10pm tonight on Talking Pictures TV. Plus, a few devotees of the piece with be live-tweeting facts throughout using the hashtag #stonetapelive. Do join us!

With the Jaws turning 50 here's a plug for my @wearecultonline.bsky.social article on Action which featured Hookjaw, a comic strip cousin of the infamous cinema shark, as part of its line up of film inspired strips and stories. #Jaws50

My latest piece of writing for we are cult is up, it's the first thing I've published for over a year so be kind, I'm a tad rusty and it's more of a tone poem than in-depth critical analysis! wearecult.rocks/ill-be-your-...

Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/

Our next book, Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene is out next week, an immersive look at the making and themes of David Rudkin's classic TV film, written by @greavesian.bsky.social. Here's a first look at the full cover. Order now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com 👹

Happy anniversary of the Villa Diodati summer, where the Shelleys, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont and Polidori gathered in a house on the shores of Lake Geneva and told ghost stories. Celebrate by taking laudanum and hallucinating horrors, or by watching one of the films inspired by the events:

Mongoose named Gef on the loose on the Isle of Man! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My sons' viewing experiences aren't radically different from my own as a child.

Just when you think these can’t get any weirder, it cranks it up a notch and keeps going…

incredible Brian Wilson self-edit here:

This absolute beast of a box set was waiting for me when I got in from work today.

RIP Mr Wilson. Thank you for all the smiles.

As #Hammer seem to be going a bit #Quatermass crazy recently, our latest Hammer Bites episode sees Smokey turn up with a timely reminder of the man who brought it all into the world: Nigel Kneale... 👉 bit.ly/45SiNWt 👈

Folklore friends, the portal to The Otherworld was discovered this afternoon by my Tiny Son halfway up a tree in the Middle Bailey at Nottingham Castle. Fortunately, we're quite safe as it had iron hinges and latch-fittings.

Space: 1999, "The Exiles". This is Martin Landau when he first received the script.

Oh my giddy aunt! Unexpected release of an obscure 1965 BBC sci-fi series incoming!

Well I knew we were on Fucking Evil Street but apparently Boundless’s offices are at the corner of Fucking Evil Street and How Fucking Stupid Are You I Mean Jesus Christ Matt Hancock?! Boulevard

Can I come over and stare at you like this?

Evidently a cursed mirror left at the bus stop today, waiting for the next unsuspecting victim to take it home...

R.I.P. Prentis Hancock. A brilliant character actor, lighting up the likes of Doctor Who, Colditz, Survivors, and Chocky's Children. But for me, he'll always be Space: 1999's Paul Morrow, one of my favourite Alphans.

Now the Theatre 625 version of 1984 is online (and I actually prefer it to Kneale’s original), here’s a quick nugget of its role in the history of the Ghost Story for Christmas…(1/4)

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So, Doctor Who then... Have to say that I've not been this unexcited about a season finale since Trial of a Timelord.

1/2 Watching obscure Brit haunted house comedy Things Happen at Night (1948). It's based on the 1947 stage play The Poltergeist and stars Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton.

Join me, Spencer Banks and Gareth Evans for a screening of Penda's Fen in the very handsome Cinema 1 on Saturday 6 September from 3pm. Copies of Scene By Scene from @tenacrefilms.bsky.social will be on sale and for signing. Have I not said enough? Buy buy buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...