Ted Geoghegan

@tedgeoghegan.bsky.social

Overly-emotional bi dad who loves cartoons and horror, hosts trivia, and is occasionally lucky enough to make movies // WE ARE STILL HERE. MOHAWK. BROOKLYN 45.

Critic friends: I'm repping SILVER SCREAMERS and you *HAVE TO* see it. It's a doc about a group of seniors who get together to make a short horror film. It's a love letter to independent filmmaking, realizing what horror can do, and the joy and pains of growing old. It's so good it made me cry.

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Nearly 15 years ago, I sat down with Glenn McQuaid to write a vampire version of The Most Dangerous Game, set at the tail end of Prohibition. When we realized the chances of getting our epic adventure turned into a film were slim, the project remained on our laptops and in our hearts. <1/3>

Tom DeSimone (87) passed away on Saturday via medically-assisted euthanasia. A gay porn veteran of the 70s who was hired to direct a number of studio genre films (including the masterful HELL NIGHT, as well as ANGEL III, SAVAGE STREETS, and REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS), he was a quiet icon of queer cinema.

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I've never really clocked it before, but Snipes' pose on the BLADE 2 poster is kinda of hilarious. Who holds a sword in that position? He's not blocking anything. And the other arm casually across the belly? I actually just tried to replicate this pose sans sword and it is VERY uncomfortable.

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Yesterday, La Murga de Austin - the volunteer band that provides the soundtrack to every Austin FC home game - walked out of the stadium and called out the club for its silence around ICE activities in Austin. Amazing.

"On Saturday, La Murga de Austin walked out of Q2.

This was not an easy decision.

The heartbeat of Austin: the drums, the songs, the colors, the carnivals - we bring all of it voluntarily, out of love for this club and this city.

We love this club.
But love is not silent."We are asking Austin FC to speak out - publicly, with conviction - against the injustice ICE is inflicting on the communities of Austin. The same communities the club says it supports. The same communiites whose faces fill your marketing, whose voices fill your stadium, whose hands and hearts make this place what it is."You ask us to grow the legend.

A legend will never grow without the community as its foundation. Foundations are fractured when the people holding everything up are being taken from their homes, their jobs, their families.We hope our silence is heard as loudly as yours has been deafening to our community and harmful to the culture.

We will not be your soundtrack while you look away."

On behalf of all publicists... If you run a film festival, don't send out your press list as a pdf. It doesn't make it any safer, and just makes us have to go through a bunch of dumb steps to turn it into a usable spreadsheet. Thank you. That is all. xo

The meanest thing in any horror movie ever is in HALLOWEEN 4, when those cheerleaders pull over and make a hitchhiking Dr. Loomis think they're going to pick him up and then they drive away just as he reaches them.

We live above a 24-hour bodega on Manhattan's Lower East Side. It's kind of lovely that today of all days marked the first time my son was able to properly say "As-salamu alaykum" to the guys working there and wishing them peace. It was met with a lot of hugs. Interactions like that ARE New York.

I'm not on here much anymore, and trying to limit all social media in favor of family and real-life, but I do hope that everybody here is doing well and that your own world are turning the very best they can. Sending all the love out, friends.

I pulled a muscle in my left scapula on Wednesday morning, right before catching my flight to Montreal and have been in near-sobbing pain since then. I'm praying that it goes away at some point so I can actually go out and enjoy a movie or some socializing! Yay, getting old!

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My father told me to avoid speaking ill of the dead unless they were scumfuck trash. Then you should speak very ill of them when they're alive, even moreso after they die, and forever onward so their shittiness is never, ever forgotten.

I never thought there would be a day in which I'm not amped for a new EVIL DEAD, but the heartless nastiness of the last few have really bummed me out. I get that Ash had to kill his sister in the mostly-humorless original, but the act was never played for sheer agony. These ones are so MEAN! <1/2>