Deadly Doses

05/12/2023

Happy Krampusnacht to all you bad little boys and girls out there 🖤

02/12/2023

I do believe the the start of December is a respectable time to hand over the festivities in expectation of Krampus.

21/11/2023

Unlocking those milestones like a boss.
Baby's first Beetlejuice.

19/11/2023

On this day 30 years in 1993 Barry Sonnenfeld's follow up sequel ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES was released. And since then, as my desert island movie- it has been informing most aspects of my life from interior design, to wedding aesthetics,to child care.
The perfect comfort film.

14/11/2023

"Hi, I'm Teddy, Brody, Patrick,
Wanna Play?"

5 days old and ruling the gaff.

08/11/2023

Happy birthday to one of Ireland's most prolific sons Bram Stoker who like his creation mastered the art of immortality.

07/11/2023

Birth plan👶

01/11/2023

Late to Demian Rugna Terrified, I didn't want to make the same mistake w/ . W/ folksy undertones, strong sociopolitical subtexts, unforgiving brutality untempered by the usual black comedy, this film grabs your face w/both hands & forces u to look. An absolute gem

31/10/2023

Day 31 of Deadly Doses 31Days of Halloween.
For the night that's in it... a double bill. A classic Halloween staple with Michael Dougherty's 2007 TRICK OR TREAT and a new entrant with Demián Rugna's 2023 WHEN EVIL LURKS.

Happy Halloween 🎃

31/10/2023

While it's pretty much Halloween every day in our home- it's always extra special on the 31st of October to be a horror fan.
Oíche Shamhna shona duit and a Happy Halloween to all. May your devil's be playful and your demons look after you.

29/10/2023

Day 29 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween. Reminding us all that your mom was hot in the 80s and being a clichéd teen was a professional occupation in Nahnatchka Khan's meta comedy slasher TOTALLY KILLER.
A lot of fun.

28/10/2023

Day 28 of 31 Days of Halloween
Sitting in the audience at one of the greatest films on earth.

Directed by Jim Sharman, and written by Richard O'Brien it's the 1975 Rocky Horror Picture Show

27/10/2023

Day 27 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
Sometimes DEAD is indeed better in Mary Lambert's 1989 Stephen King adaption of PET SEMATARY.
As comfort films go to rewatch again and again ... it's certainly a keeper.

25/10/2023

Day 25 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween. With one of the most inventive s*x scenes in horror history... tonight's let's revel in the gore of Peter Jackson's 1992 splatter zombie comedy Braindead (Dead Alive)

24/10/2023

Day 24 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween. With all this Poe talk I just had to take a nostalgic stroll down to the very first SIMPSONS TREEHOUSE OF HORROR from 1990 in which Bart plays a rather mischievousness Raven.

22/10/2023

Day 22 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
As the original turns 50 and the recent reboot, is well...ammm.. doing its thing, tonight it's William Peter Blatty's rather surprisingly good sequel The Exorcist III

20/10/2023

Day 20 of Deadly Doses
As if waking up in a morgue wasn't bad enough. Tonight's it's Hèctor Hernández Vicens 2015 innovative r**e revenge The Co**se of Anna Fritz.

19/10/2023

Day 19 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
Tonight a genuine comfort horror straight from 1987. Bat s**t in all the best possible ways it's Ethan Wiley's House II: The Second Story.

18/10/2023

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17/10/2023

Day 17 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.

Sticking it to the MAN and living the anti-
Corporate fantasy in yet another infected "are they or are they not zombies" film with Joe Lynch's 2017 most excellent Mayhem.

16/10/2023

Day 16 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.

Dividing fans for years as to whether the infected are zombies or not tonight it's a late night watch of Danny Boyle's 2002 28 Days Later.

15/10/2023

Day 15 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
Halfway point with the TV adaptation calls for a comfy Sunday afternoon screening of Roger Corman' 1960 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER written by I AM LEGEND's Richard Matheson and starring the iconic Vincent Price.

14/10/2023

Day 14 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween
Hot off the press it's a binge watch of Edgar Allan Poes dark Gothic masterpiece THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER adapted for Netflix by Mike Flanagan

13/10/2023

Just remember the rules!!!!!
Happy Jason Day 🔪🔪🔪🔪

12/10/2023

Day 12 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.

Staying with the King dynasty tonight with a Joe Hill short story which was adapted for cinema by Scott Derrickson into the 2021 BLACK PHONE

12/10/2023

What a great night recently at the launch of Anne Doyle's TALES OF THE OTHER WORLD. So much fun catching up with some of Ireland's leading writers of horror while honouring those that have gone on before us. 👻

11/10/2023

Day 11 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
High school can be hell in Brian De Palma's 1976 classic adaptation of Stephen King's CARRIE.

10/10/2023

Day 10 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
As if I needed an excuse to revel in the glory of Barry Sonnenfeld's 1991 ADDAMS FAMILY.

09/10/2023

Day 9 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
As comedy horrors go, Frank Marshall's 1990 Arachnophobia is one to surely get under your skin.

08/10/2023

Day 8 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
As most of the South East Coast of Ireland tonight hides under a thick hazy blanket- there is only one film I could think of that fits the bill- John Carpenter's 1980 THE FOG

07/10/2023

Day 7 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
A fan favourite and absolute classic tonight with Tobe Hooper's 1982 Poltergeist

06/10/2023

Day 6 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween. Not everybody's cup of tea but I do love a good psychological horror and tonight's it's Lars von Trier 2018 The House That Jack Built.

05/10/2023

Day 5 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween
Enough is never enough in Larry Cohen's 1985 satirical science fiction horror film THE STUFF

05/10/2023

04/10/2023

Day 4 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween and staying with the bone chillingly creepy vibe, a film that will leave you checking under the bed and hiding under the covers, it's Jaume Balagueró 2011 SLEEP TIGHT

03/10/2023

Day 3 of Deadly Doses 31 Days of Halloween.
A genuinely scary found footage offering tonight in the guise of Joel Anderson's 2008 Lake Mungo.