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48k spectrum game: wizard in a red forest with yellow onscreen scroll

Last night I played Dragontorc of Avalon on the Spectrum 48k for the first time in 40 years and the moment that endless tinny music kicked in I was transported to being an irritated 11 year old. #retrogaming

In a new Exclusive interview for Horror-on-Sea I ask Co-Writer / Director Jake Bebbington a few questions about the film ‘Magenta House’

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In a new Exclusive interview for Horror-on-Sea I ask Producer Bill Ross a few questions about his film ‘Magenta House’

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Exclusive Horror-on-Sea Film Festival interview with Z.G. Taylor Philip Rogers chats with Co-Writer-Director Z.G. Taylor about the segment of Magenta House - Dualitas Hominis

Take a look and another in our series of exclusive Horror-on-Sea Film Festival interviews as @rogersphilip101.bsky.social chats with ‘Magenta House’ Co-Writer-Director Z.G. Taylor. #HoS2026 #BlazingMinds #Interviews

In a new Exclusive interview for Horror-on-Sea I ask Co-Writer / Director Freddie Skeritt a few questions about the film ‘Magenta House’

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In a new Exclusive Horror-on-Sea interview I ask Co-Writer/Directors Alexander Churchyard & Michael Holiday a few questions about the documentary ‘Horror-on-Sea: 13 Bloody Years’

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Had enormous fun with That Bloody Quiz Show at Horror on Sea, with wonderful team captains Cy Henty and @mychoeg.bsky.social Photo by the great @gazdevere.bsky.social

Horror-on-Sea kicks off tomorrow! So many movies! So much horror fun! Come to Southend! Join us! Jooooooin us!! #horror

Enshittification by Cory Doctorow is the best and most depressing book I've read in the last year.

Many thanks - glad you enjoyed it!

"Sale" at the video shop.. About a billion years ago, (1995), I worked in a video shop. It was part of a chain. I won’t mention which chain, obviously, but it’s probably the first one you thought of. Yes, that on…

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I just saw a thread of Blockbuster nostalgia and anecdotes from behind the tills. I wrote a blog entry about my own experiences many, many years ago. I dug it up to refresh my memory (link in next post)

Horror-in-Sea returns for its 13th Bloody Year this Friday with 2 weekends horror 🩸

Friday 16th - 18th January

Friday 23rd - 26th January

You can check out the line up and get individual film, day & weekend passes here:

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#HorrorOnSea #HOS2026

I had it on the C64 and, weirdly, I rather liked it. But then I really dug ET on the Atari 2600 so maybe I'm not the best judge.

Cleaver: Rise of the Killer Clown (2015) d. MJ Dixon
As well as watching horror films I am passionate about supporting independent creatives in the genre. One such person is @mychoeg.bsky.social who has created a whole universe for their films to exist in. Lovely chap as well!
#suppertindiehorror

to live in a world where the Butterfly Baby ending was a financially viable way to conclude a horror movie, and where people would embrace it as strange and mournful and hopeful. I like weird bits in movies. I like the Butterfly Baby. (3/3)

As a teenager, I was vaguely interested in it (having seen photos in CINEFEX long before DVDs/YouTube on which to watch deleted scenes) but didn't think much about it. This morning I woke up struck by what an incredibly sad and beautiful note it would have been to end the movie on. I'd like (2/3)

Stylised butterfly-winged baby on a branch

Butterfly baby flying towards light source in dark space

When I talk about deleted scenes from The Fly (1986), I usually talk about the Monkey Cat. Today, I've woken up obsessing about the Butterfly Baby ending. If you've never seen it, its a dream sequence in which Veronica dreams of a butterfly baby that hatches and flies towards a distant light...

DESCENDING THE STAIRS is my storytelling game of nightlife and nostalgia published in 2021.

The inspiration for this game was the same as for the two novels I birthed in 2008-9 and have been revising and querying ever since - THE LOVELY LONG AGO and LOST ALONG THE WAY.

#BluePitHype #AmQuerying

Really looking forward to this!

I still treasure that Creature From the Black Lagoon. Just a terrific figure.

Let's raise a glass to the ones we love, including the ones that are no longer here to raise one back. There's love and then there's everything else, and everything else really doesn't matter much.
MNIPHAMCIC
xx

My usual sign-off from social media for the holiday season, albeit after a year where I've barely been on social media anyway. Hope you're all doing well, and that you get to spend the holidays with a full belly, good company and a roof over your head.
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MASSIVE recommend for Matinee to Midnight podcast. For anyone who loves cinema, there's genuine appreciation of the classics and some obscure recommendations. Well informed and full of genuine enthusiasm rather than the snark I hear in so many cult movie pods. matineetomidnight.podbean.com

Can't wait for Saturday January 17th at the mighty Horror-on-Sea Film Festival... I'll be presenting THAT BLOODY QUIZ SHOW and it should be great fun... #horror

So the 'abridged' version of It's a Wonderful Life on Prime literally cuts from George meeting the angel Clarence and asking him if he's got $8000 to George cheering in the street happy, making it look like the angel lent him eight grand to conclude the plot.

Thanks so much Jeff!

Life is Short, Coincidences are Ridiculous I try not to believe in ridiculous bullshit, but ridiculous bullshit seems determined to try its hardest to make me believe in it. Just like shooting a movie in a haunted mental hospital and having…

Life is short, coincidences are ridiculous
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So You Want to Start a Boutique Blu-ray Label?

David Hughes (@davidhughesbluey.bsky.social‬), founder of UK-based ‘micro-Blu-ery’ Plumeria, has a few tips.

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