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Johnny Restall

@johnnyrestall.bsky.social

Writes and podcasts about films, usually cult thrillers and horror. Likes movies, music, reading, drawing. My work can be found at: https://linktr.ee/JohnnyRestall

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Johnny Restall@johnnyrestall.bsky.social · 3d ago

IT LIVES! The Thriller Cabinet podcast is rising from its tomb, returning to excite your ears with a whole new season of dark cinematic delights! Covering all kinds of classic thrillers from the world of film! Coming soon...

An inky black and white illustration of a woman's face, turning towards the viewer as if in alarm. Her face is partly in heavy shadow, her dark hair flowing out around her like a shroud. At the bottom of the picture, it says The Thriller Cabinet in stylised orange font.
Rob Tyers@thexclaim6.bsky.social · 6d ago

JG Ballard on Graham Greene “His fiction is generated by his experience of the world outside England. He couldn't be further apart from someone like Kingsley Amis or Anthony Powell, whose fiction is entirely generated by the closed world not just of England but of a very small part of” #booksky

PRINGLE: I think it was Graham Greene who compared The Crystal World with Heart of Darkness. Was there any influence there? BALLARD: I don't know whether I'd read Heart of Darkness at the time I wrote The Crystal World. I honestly don't think I was influenced by Conrad. I don't mind being influenced - after all, we're all influenced to some extent - but if you're talking about conscious imitation: certainly not. PRINGLE: Were you influenced by Graham Greene - because he was influenced by Conrad? BALLARD: Probably, yes. There's something about Greene's handling of solitary characters, externalizing the character's mind in terms of the situation in which he finds himself, the particular landscape. He does this so brilliantly. He can have a solitary figure standing by a jetty in the Far East, looking at some sanpans, and he brings in a few things like the local police chief scratching his neck and so on, and within a paragraph one has a marvellous evocation of the psychology of the hero, and of what the hero and of what the book is about. Yes, I probably was influenced by Greene, but I never consciously imitated him. PRINGLE: Were you attracted to Greene because of your Far East background? BALLARD: What I liked about Greene, and still do, is that although he's snared by the English literary 'thing', he's very much a twentieth century man, and his fiction is generated by his experience of the world outside England. He couldn't be further apart from someone like Kingsley Amis or Anthony Powell, whose fiction is entirely generated by the closed world not just of England but of a very small part of England. In Greene's fiction one can breathe the smells, see the sights and hear the sounds of the whole world. Not having spent my childhood and adolescence in England, I received a very big shock when I got here in 1946 and found it was a closed little island, containing a whole lot of lesser islands - the world of English professional life. Professional middle-class life of …
Finnsane in the Membrane™@feeblecretin.bsky.social · last mo.

Excellent film. So haunting and eerie. Angela Pleasence is a revelation. It's often overshadowed by the other, more well-known horrors of the era, but I honestly think it's among the best and should be talked about more I highly recommend it if you're looking for a slow burn with truly evil vibes!

@horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · last mo.

The official British entry for the Cannes Palme d'Or and slow burning spiral into insanity from Larraz with an absolutely remarkable Angela Pleasence. 1974. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · last mo.

6/26/73: The Friends of Eddie Coyle D Yates/DP Kemper w/Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan More: From Us, via '70s Movie Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7mpv... @splicedpersonality.bsky.social: www.wbur.org/news/2017/08... @johnnyrestall.bsky.social: wearethemutants.com/2023/03/20/i...

“It’s A Great Life If You Don’t Weaken”: ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ at 50

American cinema of the 1970s has long been recognized for its downbeat, character-led crime dramas. From Alan J. Pakula’s Klute (1971) to Arthur Penn’s Night Moves (1975) and Ulu Grosbard’s Straight T...

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Steve Hunt@mrstevehunt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am extremely proud to say that have been involved in curating the boxing noir strand for this year's #FilmNoirFest. I basically got to pick my favourite #boxing noir movies and now will get to see them on the big screen! Get your tickets and come and join me! #moviesky #filmsky #filmnoir

Film Noir UK@filmnoiruk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#FilmNoirFest returns this autumn with even more classic #FilmNoir titles than ever before. Below are the main strands for the 2026 edition with a few more to be announced. A few early bird festival passes are still available: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Jamie@vanjpes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On this World Dracula Day, let us remember Jeremy Brett and Raúl Juliá in their stage Count costumes, with Edward Gorey-designed scenery

Jeremy Brett in full seventies/thirties crossover costume as Dracula in front of an Edward Gorey painted library and fireplace setRaúl Juliá in a similar costume, arms spread wide making his cape look like bat wings, on another Gorey stage, this one an old Gothic building
Johnny Restall@johnnyrestall.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I recently made a guest appearance on the Modern Horror Podcast to discuss Prano Bailey-Bond's excellent 2021 film CENSOR (with a bit of general Video Nasty chat too). You can find it here, and probably wherever else you like to get your podcasts from, too: open.spotify.com/episode/1nUg...

Poster for the film 2021 Censor. The image shows a troubled-looking youngish woman standing looking out into the distance past the viewer. Her appearance is quite severe, with hair pulled back, drably respectable clothing, and old-fashioned glasses on a chain. However, halfway down the poster a line of video interference seems to infect the picture, discolouring the lower section of the image and revealing that she is carrying a large axe in a distinctly menacing way...
Modern Horror Podcast@modernhorrorpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW EPISODE! Timed nicely to coincide with the launch of @nastycastpod.bsky.social, @ajblack.bsky.social @angryscotsman81.bsky.social & guest @johnnyrestall.bsky.social chat 2021’s chilling CENSOR. 🎧 wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/1nUg...

Johnny Restall@johnnyrestall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

50 years ago today, Nicolas Roeg's remarkable, haunting film of 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' was released in the UK. While Bowie inevitably gains the most attention with an iconic performance, he has absolutely terrific support from Rip Torn, Buck Henry, and a fantastic Candy Clark.

Illustrated poster for The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976). Against a deep blue background, a white illustration shows an enlarged drawing of David Bowie's face, looking grave and dapper in an old-fashioned hat. He seems to be fading into a view of mountains and a lake, his head at the top of an inverted triangle, the point of which leads to a small, tottering figure at the bottom of the image. Bowie's name and the film title are in yellow, with the rest of the cast and crew listed in white.
Johnny Restall@johnnyrestall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

50 years ago today, Nicolas Roeg's remarkable, haunting film of 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' was released in the UK. While Bowie inevitably gains the most attention with an iconic performance, he has absolutely terrific support from Rip Torn, Buck Henry, and a fantastic Candy Clark.

Illustrated poster for The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976). Against a deep blue background, a white illustration shows an enlarged drawing of David Bowie's face, looking grave and dapper in an old-fashioned hat. He seems to be fading into a view of mountains and a lake, his head at the top of an inverted triangle, the point of which leads to a small, tottering figure at the bottom of the image. Bowie's name and the film title are in yellow, with the rest of the cast and crew listed in white.
Johnny Restall@johnnyrestall.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Incredible work from the Prince Charles Cinema - extremely strongly seconding that these are among the best thrillers ever made. They really reward attentive viewings and are endlessly brilliant.

Prince Charles Cinema@princecharlescinema.com · 5mo ago

On Sat 21st March, enter a world of 1970s political paranoia with our back-to-back screenings of director Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy. Three of the greatest thrillers ever made - KLUTE, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE PARALLAX VIEW! 🎟️: buff.ly/lucIbzc