Andrew Lyall - horror writer 🐸

Today's a great day to buy one of my books: 🐸TOADHEAD grave robbing, murder & madness 🐙17 STORIES OF DEATH & DESIRE a selection of horror, from chills to gore via the truly weird 🏜️THE WELL AT THE END OF THE WORLD post-apocalyptic stories of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell

@buffaloduke_ If you watch the perfume commercial Refn shot around the same time (I think) they're basically the same. I genuinely think Neon Demon is one long troll and I love it for that.

Is this a brilliant statement about amateurs? Everything about this is either not enough or a little too much. The acting, the characters, the story… It even looks like a 5 gum commercial most of the time This has to be a dupe and if it IS then it might be a perfect movie

@NYGIANTFAN1976 It's on a VHS tape (if it is even real)

Hope this is real. Unedited kills in this movie would be amazing. This is already my guilty pleasure, and best looking Jason add in great kills and im all in

@paulychilds Definitely

@grumpyandrew I've said it before... By 1984 when the first wave of slashers films was waning, some filmmakers gave their slasher a "thing" that made them different (e.g. Freddie is a knifey ghost). He might be a robot, but the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 is a slasher in my book.

Just rude to leave out the goat

@AndrewGrevas @IsabellaEm1 and mine is that it was the first actively bad Scream film but I'm glad there are folks who enjoy it.

@IsabellaEm1 @grumpyandrew My stance on Scream 7 remains the same: It was fine. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great. It was decent.

A few things: 1) There’s a good chance Neve doesn’t run her own social media account. Most don’t. 2) The studio is going to offer her what she’s worth after the killing Scream 7 made at the box office. If she’s not coming back, it’s because she didn’t like the script. 3) I still haven’t recovered from the last round of Scream drama. It’s too early for all this.

@AndrewGrevas I can't agree with that at all, but you know what they say about opinions 😆

@grumpyandrew Compared to Scream 4 it was A Tale of Two Cities haha

Who should have been the Final Girl or Final Boy in their movie but wasn’t?

I'm so sorry, I have to retweet this. Once again, I'm sorry.

@BCambridgeEdit @sadjazzwxtch Thanks, man. That's very kind of you. I'd like to send good vibes to the OP as well. It's heavy when those clouds roll in; I wish you sunshine and moonlight.

@sadjazzwxtch I hope your doing ok lady. Comfort Horrors: The Fog The Thing Friday 13th franchise Phantasm franchise Books: Dugeon Crawler Carl Richard Layman Stephen Kings - The Dark Half Toadhead by @grumpyandrew (Short but good fun, and a new favorite)

Feeling a depressive episode coming for me 🥲 What is everyone’s comfort horror movies and books? I’m gonna need them, me thinks 🙈🖤

@NYGIANTFAN1976 Yeah I pretty much agree

@grumpyandrew Evil Dead is awesome. It is my favorite of franchise. Friday is watchable. Pretty much a soft porn about a serial killer protecting his weed NOES is pretty bad... Acting is awful. The effects are much worse then original.. The story of pedophile and maybe innocent is bad

This isn't even close. I wouldn't put Evil Dead in the same breath as the Platinum Dunes flicks, let alone the same category.

@DKemeridou Fantastic! I hope you enjoy 😁

@grumpyandrew Oh, that sounds cool! I'll check it out!

Reminder that you're allowed to be the person who puts someone else's book in front of people. It's the one bit of this that costs nothing and actually works. So: drop a book below that you finished and can't shut up about. I read every reply on these. 🫶🏻

@buffaloduke_ That's good!

@grumpyandrew I thought it was fantastic 😅 I definitely see the hodgepodge criticism but it didn’t hold me back from enjoying it

Alright I need to figure out what this thing is because the reviews are all over the place #NowWatching for the first time

@TimmyMallett Timmy, please help! I remember the game Michael Wackson on Wacaday but can find no evidence of it. I recall it involved trays of porridge & a rubber Michael Jackson doll, parodying the pavement squares of the Billie Jean video. Please tell me this really happened! @TimmyMallett

Happy birthday Malletts Mallet! Started on Wacaday summer 1986 timmymallett.co.uk/shop/

@HorrorPaperback The original concept is a squintillion times more interesting. Julia is a fascinating character and it keeps the cenobites fresh and mysterious. Explorers in the outer realms of experience are so much more interesting than mortality police boogeymen.

Julia. Queen of Hell. Bride of Leviathan. Did you know the Hell Priest (AKA Pinhead) was never meant to be the central villain of the Hellraiser narrative? According to interviews with Hellraiser creator Clive Barker and sequels scribe Peter Atkins, the story was supposed to follow Julia Cotton from frustrated housewife through nervous accomplice to tentative murderer. Then, in the sequels, we'd witness her continued fall from grace but rise in power. This would culminate in her becoming the Bride of Leviathan and the Queen of Hell (or certainly the aspect of Hell represented by the Labyrinth). Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), Pinhead rapidly developed the kind of fanatical following experienced by Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger and Chucky, and it was decided that he should be the figurehead for the 'franchise'. As a direct result of this shift in emphasis, not only did we lose Julia as Queen of Hell, the rationale for the Cenobites was also corrupted. Instead of them being amoral guides into the realms of extreme experience, with an almost bureaucratic insistence upon the rules of their Order, they became supernatural slashers, dispatching victims willy-nilly. Don't get me wrong, I love Pinhead and his crew of infernal psychos but I can't helping thinking of what might have been.

@rollins_green Oh my god I'd forgotten about Pillowpants!!!

Christ I'm old I saw this in the theater. Laughed so hard and so long at one scene, I nearly blacked out hand to God. Which scene? Pillow pants