Alex A. Pagliuca

@alexpagliuca.bsky.social

Writer. Film lover. Horror evangelist. Anti-fascist. Night owl. Misfit toy. Pragmatic idealist, and skeptic at the same time. Autistic. AI is for suckers. All I want is to be an honest man and a good writer.

Mutant is selling a set of VHS sleeves for all fourteen movies in the fictional CAMP MIASMA franchise, featured in Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Teenage Sex & Death is in theaters this weekend. See the full set: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/396241...

'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' - Retro VHS Sleeves and Trading Cards Now Available

Jane Schoenbrun's (I Saw the TV Glow) new movie Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is headed to theaters on August 7, and a killer lineup of merch is

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I good long while back, in a discussion here about Night of the Hunter, someone here referred to it as “the most American horror film,” and I can’t remember who. If that was you, let me know. You deserve the credit, since I’m using the idea.

Talia Ryder will star alongside Michael Shannon in DOCTOR CALIGARI'S CABINET OF WONDERS, a new take on horror classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. John Erick Dowdle (As Above, So Below) directs. Michael Shannon plays Dr. Caligari.

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If you step back, and look at the behavior, minues explanations or justification, there is really no choice in American life, but to worship money, and by extension, power. If you consider worship an action, not an idea, the effort and time required in rituals of submission are non-negotiable.

EXCLUSIVE - VICTORIAN PSYCHO starring Maika Monroe has received a new release date. Originally set for September 25, the film will now release in theaters November 13. Maika Monroe stars as Winifred Notty, who arrives at a gothic manor where suspicion stirs that she’s not what she seems.

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I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

🧵1) There is a type of book. A theme, but it's more than that. The two immediate examples that come to mind are Red Rising, and Wool (which I just finished). Deep world-bulding, horrifying generational betrayal. Deep detail and characters you absolutely connect with. And resistance. I love these.

I find myself burning with incandescent rage at the way all the civics and constitutional rules and laws I learned my whole life are actually just suggestions if the ppl in congress have a deficiency in courage "A gentleman's agreement only works if the ppl involved are gentlemen "

Thinking about the time I was sitting in the stands of a Hudson Valley Renegades (high-A) game and this woman next to me said that the new shortstop was overhyped and wasn’t going to make it. That was George Lombard Jr, who just hit a homer in his first game for the Yankees.