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alexwest.bsky.social
Genre film critic and author. Co-host of the Faculty of Horror podcast. She/her.
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Calling it now - the news is the scariest horror movie of the year!

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Another Oscars another year of some truly devastating pronunciations of “Villeneuve.”

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Cat shows are just as weird as you think.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Our publisher has made a sample of our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TRANSNESS IN CINEMA available to read. This section covers WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR. repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/im-going-i...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The one special character in my password.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Gooble, gobble!!! Our new episode on Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) is now live! pod.link/591499834

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Watched Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) a few nights ago and am still deeply creeped out and unsettled.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

SHF8 is honored to announce the opening night keynote speaker: Professor @tananarivedue.bsky.social (exec producer of "Horror Noire" & author of "The Reformatory"). Professor Due also joins @girlthatsscary.bsky.social for a live podcast & is on our Book Talk author panel. Tix available in March!

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

So very, very excited for this!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I have a few pieces across this New French Extremity volume from Umbrella. Honoured to be part of the talented crew who contributed.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Oh good, it’s snowing again.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Check that you’re registered to vote in the upcoming Ontario election! vreg.registertovoteon.ca/en/home

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So excited this film is getting a proper release and honoured to be part of it.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

I love the movie and loved doing the commentary but it doesn’t get much better than this image in the box set.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

This 1991 TV movie is available to watch for free on YouTube and is worth every second of its hour and twenty minute runtime.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

My Super Bowl.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

[Ron Burgundy voice] it was a delight!

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

I love an audiobook read by the author and hit play on Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk as soon as it became available through the Libby app (thanks Toronto Public Library system!). 🙏🏻

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Moon is also frustrated with the news these days.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

I can’t believe America fucked up so badly that it got Quebec to embrace Canadian identity.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Full artwork reveal for Salem Horror Fest 8: The Horror Within Art by @the-haunted-david.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

THE WRONG 78 YEAR OLDS KEEP DYING.

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

Paying for It was one of my faves at TIFF last year. Highly recommend checking it out this Canadian indie when it comes your way.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

It’s our annual year in review episode! Tune in to hear our faves from last year, what we’re looking forward to this year and a battle for Fack supremacy. Oh and bloopers too. pod.link/591499834

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

If you see this post a fictional artist/band that you would love to see live

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Oh wow, Pierre Poilievres are on sale at No Frills this week.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Glad to no longer be the only one with an NFE collection!

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

What this week has felt like as a Canadian.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Things I do to briefly quiet feelings of despair brought on by the outside world: 1. Listen to Mandika by Sinéad O’Connor 2. Watch Spinal Tap or Drop Dead Gorgeous 3. Watch the YouTube video of Kelsey Grammar falling off a stage youtu.be/Eu-BqOsvj00?...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

So much far-right rhetoric and ideology serves not only to divide us but make us turn inwards, suppressing what makes us unique out of fear. They don’t understand kindness, compassion and community. I think our power lies here.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Church has no idea the richest man in the world gave a Nazi salute in public and I love that for her.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments