Today I learned about the passing of Richard Adams, the author of the novel Watership Down, a book to which I owe so much. We had the cartoon adaptation from 1978 on VHS and I watched it repeatedly throughout my childhood, at least a few times a week for several years and then a couple… Continue reading My Heart Has Joined The Thousand
After the popularity of my last Instagram series, The Witches & Wraiths of Instagram, I decided to start Intriguing Instas, a new, regular series with a broader focus. Funnily enough though, this first post is dedicated to witchcraft...what are the chances of that happening?! Since watching The VVitch last month, my senses have been turned… Continue reading Intriguing Instas : The VVitch
Mere moments after I've posted a gift list dedicated to The VVitch, something verging on the line of perfection comes into view on Etsy. Eventhough I don't touch whisky (don't ask why, I don't want to remember...) I feel compelled to snatch one of these vinyl wrapped stainless steel hip flasks honouring Black Phillip. Not… Continue reading Live Deliciously
My boyfriend has an undying love for John Carpenter's Halloween, and I can honestly say that I've never met someone so fiery passionate about a movie before - and the time for us to watch it together arrived last night. It felt somewhat ritualistic as he dimmed the lights and I put a candle in… Continue reading Re-watching Halloween
My boyfriend and I recently finished the first series of Bloodline, one of the most depressing and brilliant TV shows ever made. I was besotted with the soundtrack from the word go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHtbDKPCe0
The first half of the 2012 horror Sinister was so fucking rich with solid, nightmarish content - even the soundtrack was blood chilling - that when I went to bed I was genuinely scared to turn the lights off, I mean like I was literally running the few feet from the kitchen to the bedroom.… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : Sinister
I have been an avid follower of Penny Dreadful since the very beginning. I can remember dreading the end of the series coming, even before the first episode was over. The quality of the writing, the exquisite costumes, the unforgettable dialogue, the ambience of the locations, the stirring music...everything was stitched together so perfectly, so perfectly that… Continue reading Penny Dreadful : The End
Mesmerizing video from Sophi Reatpress and HvntrGvtherer, featuring the sublime music of the Goddess of the dark Chelsea Wolfe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNnwfixpQ8Y
I don't know how Orphan slipped my attention for so long - it was released way back in 2009 - but the other night I finally got around to sitting down and watching it. Usually I'm quite good when it comes to figuring out what's going out in psychological horror movies, but Orphan had me… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : Orphan
I'm a big fan of the work of M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village) so was expecting something memorable from his 2015 horror The Visit. And I wasn't disappointed. This found footage movie about two youngsters who go and visit their maternal grandparents for the first time had me screaming. Actually screaming.… Continue reading Wyrd Watching : The Visit
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 