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Twit Follows - @RiversofGrue

January 01, 2018 by Varya Clark in Twit Follows

I don’t follow @riversofgrue for his tweets exactly. I follow him for what his tweets click through to - words.

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January 01, 2018 /Varya Clark
Twit Follows

Guts Reaction: League of Gentlemen Christmas Special

December 30, 2017 by Varya Clark in TV, Guts Reaction, Video

My off the cuff thoughts on The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special.

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December 30, 2017 /Varya Clark
TV, Guts Reaction, Video

Guts Reaction: The Autopsy of Jane Doe

December 20, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film, Guts Reaction, Video

Takes the people we trust to look violent death in the eye – forensic pathologists – and strips them down…

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December 20, 2017 /Varya Clark
The autopsy of jane doe, new on netflix, Brian cox, Andre Ovredal
Film, Guts Reaction, Video

The Haunting of Hill House

December 19, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

It was as if Shirley Jackson's classic novel had been haunting me from the future…

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December 19, 2017 /Varya Clark
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King, Eleanor, Carrie, #amwriting, horror, haunted house
Books

Maynard's House by Herman Raucher

December 15, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

A beautifully-written haunted house story which plumbs incredible depths of creepiness.

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December 15, 2017 /Varya Clark
Maynard's House, haunted house, Herman Raucher
Books

Twit Follows: @AChrisHeathMD

December 13, 2017 by Varya Clark in Twit Follows

@AChrisHeathMD  is... um... interesting <strokes beard, jots notes>

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December 13, 2017 /Varya Clark
psychoanalysis, twitter, youtube, Chris Heath MD, Freudalicious Mind
Twit Follows

Title Fright - Train to Busan versus World War Z

December 11, 2017 by Varya Clark in Title Fright, Film, Video, Zombies

I initially intended to pair Train to Busan with La Horde, but Twitter said no.

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December 11, 2017 /Varya Clark
World War Z, Train to Busan, zombie, horror, film, titlefright, Title Fright, #titlefright
Title Fright, Film, Video, Zombies
3 Comments

The Core S1 E2: Butchery of the blenders

December 09, 2017 by Varya Clark in TV

To illustrate the point, they stuck their hands in blenders and played Russian Roulette with the plugs…

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December 09, 2017 /Varya Clark
TV

Twit Follows: @GraveyardSister

December 08, 2017 by Varya Clark in Twit Follows

Opened my eyes to the experience of black women, and to new layers of the horror genre…

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December 08, 2017 /Varya Clark
Graveyard Shift Sisters, Black women in horror
Twit Follows

The Core episode 1 - FlyLo and Freaks

December 07, 2017 by Varya Clark in TV

Shudder's new talkshow feels a bit like a warm hug. If loving horror is an orientation, then here is a place to identify and relate.

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December 07, 2017 /Varya Clark
Shudder, FlyLo, flying lotus, Steve Ellison, Kuso, Venice Beach Freak Show, horror community
TV

Twit Follows: @PsychToday

December 05, 2017 by Varya Clark in Twit Follows

Psychology Today's twitter feed is great for everybody - horror fans, writers, couples, single people, parents, depressives, manics, Donald Trump.... everybody…

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December 05, 2017 /Varya Clark
psychology, indie author, writing, #amwriting
Twit Follows

Mindhunter

December 04, 2017 by Varya Clark in TV

Like drinking fine wine - it doesn't stun you with sadistic murders, it lets the subtle undertones of the psychopathic rise up slowly on your palette…

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December 04, 2017 /Varya Clark
David Fincher, Mindhunter, serial killers, psychopaths
TV

Introducing Twit Follows

December 03, 2017 by Varya Clark in Twit Follows

I'm going to start following twitter accounts in an ominious new way by reviewing them. Feeling creeped? Fabulous. Look behind you!

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December 03, 2017 /Varya Clark
twitter, It Follows, horror, David Robert Mitchell
Twit Follows

Hell House LLC

December 01, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Never mind how Hell House LLC compares with other found footage films. It's a nearly perfect horror movie, period.

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December 01, 2017 /Varya Clark
Stephen Cognetti, Hell House LLC, found footage, horror, horror film
Film

A Cure for Wellness

November 24, 2017 by Varya Clark in Film

Self-indulgent, far too long and wildly overblown, but I still liked it a great deal…

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November 24, 2017 /Varya Clark
A Cure for Wellness, horror, Gore Verbinksi, Mia Goth, Dane DeHaan
Film
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Why is Stranger Things so good?

November 21, 2017 by Varya Clark in TV

We’ve seen all the elements before – it’s saturated with cultural references – and there’s a lot of other good stuff out there. Why has it taken Breaking Bad’s crown as king of our small screens?

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November 21, 2017 /Varya Clark
Stranger things
TV

I went to see Stewart Lee last night.

November 19, 2017 by Varya Clark in Comedy

Lee is a controversial UK stand-up, very left-wing with a cantankerous on-stage persona.

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November 19, 2017 /Varya Clark
Stewart Lee, Content provider, digital age, indie author
Comedy

Title Fright: Alien vs Predator

November 16, 2017 by Varya Clark in Title Fright, Film

My husband was quite disgusted by my Deadgirl v The Corpse of Anna Fritz blog, and asked why I didn’t do Alien versus Predator like ‘a normal woman’…

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November 16, 2017 /Varya Clark
Alien, predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ripley, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, action-horror, space horror, Alien vs. Predator, xenomorph, John McTiernan
Title Fright, Film
1 Comment

Digital edition of original 1990s Splits leaflet

November 14, 2017 by Varya Clark in Zombies, Comedy, The Splits

A higher quality version from a friend's digital archive. A big improvement on the one I found down the back of the couch and scanned in. Please share.

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November 14, 2017 /Varya Clark
Zombies, Comedy, The Splits
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