Sam Dubois
@surveillancesam.bsky.social
They/them. PhD researcher at Birmingham City University. Writes about the fun stuff: surveillance, torture, and depressingly 2000s horror films.
🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. For more, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk
Earlier this year, I stated that I was working on something comprehensive about CAMP MIASMA. This is a video essay on the history of trans psycho killers and how CAMP MIASMA uses that history for subversion and reclamation. I hope you enjoy it. mubi.com/en/program-n...
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Had a very lovely time remotely presenting a paper at the @hauntedfutures.bsky.social conference today! Featuring sexy goatmen, surrealist painting, and the how movies tell story about the ending of national cinema.
"I am not complicit," "why would I deceive you," big couple weeks for really non-suspicious ways to phrase things
Hoot hoot! We're delighted to announce Furry Studies 2027. Location: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia / Online Streaming Date: July 2027 The Call for Papers is now live! Submissions close 8 January 2027. For more info, the theme, and how to submit, go to furrystudies.org.
Call for Proposals – Furry Studies 2027
Furry Studies 2027 CFP: “How do furries use fursuits, fursonas, and the feeling of ‘fur’ to navigate identity, belonging, and collective creativity?”
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Still a few days left to send me your films for a screening in Sheffield in October! If your film has a connection with transness and with the North of England, send along :)
we need a literary rhetorical term for when the novel-within-the-novel or film-within-the-film is aesthetically superior to the actual novel or film containing it, something something matryoshka metalepsis something something
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
Really loved The Odyssey but it bugs me a little how they felt the need to change the language for modern audiences
Have not read it (yet) but that's a handsome book by a talented person!
Horror Lex®@horrorlex.bsky.social · 2mo agoL'horreur, c'est notre nationalité. Reece Goodall's tome on "French Horror: Industry, Society and Media" tackles the country's 21st century knives in the belly, shots in the spine, and hordes in the banlieu. New from @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
An all time great freak. What an actor. Tremendously sad 💔
More than anything, I appreciate the commitment of our trans filmmakers to absolutely banger film titles.
Vera Drew@veradrew22.bsky.social · 3mo agothe cat's outta the bag. i'm making a new movie. it's a found footage horror film called TRANDEMIC. thanks TFC, Mark Duplass, and Patrick Brice for the support!!!! deadline.com/2026/07/vera...
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Call for Interviews: Fan Boycott Experiences
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Viggo didn't break his toe when he kicked that orc helmet so you could me that AI is "inevitable"
I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 4mo agoSam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
One thing I'm kind of hoping is that some day we could get an indie boutique video company doing some collected bundles on indie trans shorts- like imagine how fun and cool that would be? It's an idea that absolutely has the juice. I'm consistently packing a venue for this stuff! People want it!
Was very happy to present at Edinburgh Uni's Monster Media conference today on one of my favourite film, the very weird, very Canadian "Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary". Also, like a dunce, forgot to show the bibliography slide, so if you were there and wanted to see it, here it is:
Out now! 'Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature', edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, is the first collection dedicated to analysing horror audiovisual media and literature produced in the Baltic region. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/baltic-... @xaldanareyes.bsky.social
this was such a great panel, i am so looking forward to following all three of these scholars’ ongoing projects on trans horror
Sam Dubois@surveillancesam.bsky.social · 4mo agoHad an absolutely lovely time at the Horror Studies Now! conference this year - thanks to @horrorstudies.bsky.social for a great event and to my fantastic co-panelists @marsnicoli.bsky.social and Patrick Poulin for a lovely time charting the contours of the emergent field of trans horror.
Had an absolutely lovely time at the Horror Studies Now! conference this year - thanks to @horrorstudies.bsky.social for a great event and to my fantastic co-panelists @marsnicoli.bsky.social and Patrick Poulin for a lovely time charting the contours of the emergent field of trans horror.
🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2026, LEGENDS NEVER DIE, is now LIVE. Guests include Rob Schmidt, director of Wrong Turn (2003); Michael Berryman & Janus Blythe, stars of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (1977); and Prof Aviva Briefel, this year’s keynote. To access the full CfP, visit www.cine-excess.co.uk
The Horror Studies Research Group are hosting the Horror Studies Now conference next week. Want to dig up more from the world of horror studies? Check out reading list MI6022: The Modern Horror Film. northumbria.rl.talis.com/index.html #NorthumbriaLibrary @horrorstudies.bsky.social
Have you seen the termite version of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY? It stars Clint Eatswood.
We're baaaaaaack! The fourth annual Haunted Futures Conference will take place on September 29th and 30th @ucc.ie. This year we propose to explore the theme of 'Spaces in Crisis' and will be accepting abstracts until July 24th
Hi all, I’m very proud to announce the forthcoming release of the sequel you’ve all been waiting for: Style and Form in the Slasher Film II: Beyond Hollywood While I don’t advise buying from Amazon, this at least has the cover posted. amzn.eu/d/0ecdCQuL
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay