Mike Thorn
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Film critic | Author (Shelter for the Damned + Darkest Hours + Peel Back and See) | Cohost @craftworkpod w/ @miriamricher | Rep. @TRFNews (lit: @StaceyKondla )
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"[A] horror writer to watch."
- Jeffrey Reddick, creator of FINAL DESTINATION
"Thorn is the real deal."
- Jamie Blanks, director of URBAN LEGEND
SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED:
DARKEST HOURS:
PEEL BACK AND SEE:
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Happy birthday, king.
One of my favorite actors in the universe.
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Richard Stanley's Hardware floored me: a debut feature that folds prophetic ecological/social commentary into a wild but well-handled mixture of industrial metal aesthetics, cyberpunk, and body horror. Masterful direction, cinematography, and editing.
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'Tis the season... 🎃👻💀
A list of horror/dark fiction reading recommendations for this fall (one title per artist).
@PromoteHorror
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I have some VERY exciting news.
I have been admitted into the University of New Brunswick's PhD program in Creative Writing for fall 2021!!!
UNB offers one of only two Creative Writing PhD programs in Canada -- I am beyond thrilled.
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I can’t wait to unleash my debut novel, Shelter for the Damned, into the world. Coming 02/26/21: my grisly, pessimistic, supernatural contribution to the great tradition of suburban horror.
Preorder from JournalStone:
B & N:
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Now that the cover has been revealed...
DARKEST HOURS: EXPANDED EDITION drops June 11. This definitive edition includes:
•A new foreword by
@SadieHartmann
•Author notes for all 16 stories
•17 essays on horror cinema
Pre-order now:
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It is always, ALWAYS exciting to open up a new box of author copies!!!
Coming June 11 😈💀👻🔪🖤
With a foreword by the great great great
@SadieHartmann
.
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The excitement is real... My author copies have arrived!!!
Pre-order yours now: (also available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart)
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This is always a bit awkward ...
Podcasters, bloggers, journalists, reviewers: my debut novel comes out on Feb. 26, and I'd *love* to get some advance reviews / interviews / guest posts.
DM or email me (mikethorn
@live
.com) if you're interested. Retweets are much appreciated!
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It has become so fashionable to call Ridley Scott overrated that I actually now think he's *under*rated.
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"A startlingly talented author with an imagination H.P. Lovecraft would have envied."
-
@BlanksJamie
, director of Urban Legend and Valentine
SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED
DARKEST HOURS
@SadieHartmann
@slimyswampghost
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So I can finally share my big news... On February 26, 2021,
@journalstonepub
will release my debut novel, SHELTER FOR THE DAMNED. I'm excited to bring this bleak and crazy book into the world. More updates as they come!
@PromoteHorror
#horror
#fiction
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Johnnie To on some whole other plane.
How do you pull off the incredible single-take shoot-out in Three? Easy, you have everyone take "slow motion" training for a month and then deploy an army of stage hands. Simple, right?
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IT LIVES!!! Shelter for the Damned is now available. Get your copy!
Journalstone:
B&N:
Walmart:
Amazon:
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Contributor copy arrived! Thrilled to be included alongside so many brilliant creators.
Cover art by the brilliant
@slimyswampghost
.
#FulciRules
@astridannerose
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HUGE news!
JournalStone is releasing a reissue of DARKEST HOURS (with bonus content!) + my next short story collection PEEL BACK AND SEE. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
More details soon... 💀🖤💀
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Holy shit
The 3 1/2 hour black and white “directors cut” of George A. Romero’s MARTIN has been found!
#georgeromero
#horror
@kinky_horror
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On October 29, I encourage you to PEEL BACK AND SEE.
My latest collection of short stories is probably my darkest, rawest, and most personal book yet.
Pre-order link and other info below 👇👇💀💀
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THE SCARLET EMPRESS (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
One of the greatest films I've ever seen, without a doubt.
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Okay, this is the last one. Jumping ahead a century: a favorite film for every year of the 2010s.
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R.I.P. to William Friedkin, one of American cinema's most eccentric visionaries. A major loss. His body of work is rich, varied, full of mysteries.
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So,
@Comrade_Yui
asked me for post-WWII literary fiction recommendations.
I collaborated with
@MiriamRicher
to assemble this list (yes, we went a bit overboard).
Personal choices, chronological, one per author.
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Done.
#1
horror film for every decade:
10s: Dante's Inferno
20s: Nosferatu
30s: The Black Cat
40s: The Body Snatcher
50s: The Curse of Frankenstein
60s: The Haunted Palace
70s: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
80s: Prince of Darkness
90s: Cure
00s: Loft
2010s: The Lords of Salem
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Serious question: has any American screen actor since Marlon Brando revolutionized the craft as much as Nicolas Cage? I certainly can't think of anyone.
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Taking inspiration from
@trillmoregirls
's Shmight & Shmound project, I'm starting a new poll for horror films. Respond, retweet or DM with your top 10! I will aggregate results based on number of votes and post the final list in October!!
#horror
#horrorfilms
🎃🎃🎃
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The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020)
Procedural-slasher infected with occultism and cosmic Schopenhauerian philosophy. Weird, slippery, and vast. I already want to rewatch it.
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So, it looks like I passed my doctoral field exams.
Just letting Twitter know.
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Continuing the annual tradition: my 100 favorite films, as of 1/4 through the year. The ranking is kind of arbitrary.
100. Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
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I just submitted my list of top 10 films for 2023 to
@InRO
. I still need to see the new Michael Mann, Catherine Breillat, Lisandro Alonso, Takashi Shimizu, Harmony Korine, Zack Snyder, and Takashi Miike.
Going off global premiere dates. Thread:
10. In Water (Hong Sang-soo)
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Very disturbed to see petitions aiming to prevent Blonde's release. I don't have any personal investments in the film at all, but censorship of art is a reactionary and dangerous impulse.
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Somehow, we are nearing the end of the overwhelming year that was 2021.
To that end, I have consolidated a list of my award-eligible releases. Consideration and shares would be much appreciated.
2021 AWARDS ELIGIBILITY:
@slimyswampghost
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To all the horror enthusiasts giving well-deserved praise to The Exorcist - Friedkin made three other excellent entries in the genre that are very much worth your time: The Guardian, Cruising, and Bug.
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Immaculate is one of the best American horror movies to get wide theatrical distribution in a while. It traces a literary Gothic thread from Matthew Lewis to Ira Levin and arrives somewhere in the neighborhood of Verbinski's Cure for Wellness. Sweeney rules.
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Exciting news: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper: The American Twilight (editors Kristopher Woofter & Will Dodson) will be released by the University of Texas Press in early 2021. This volume, the first exhaustive academic study on Hooper, features my essay on Eaten Alive and Crocodile.
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I'm still consistently shocked by how soft and gentle mainstream American horror movies have become. I don't think the genre has ever been less confrontational than it is now.
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@Night_Worms
Shelter for the Damned drops February 26th (JournalStone). Art by
@slimyswampghost
Pre-order links:
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Big news! I am now represented by literary agent
@StaceyKondla
through
@TRFNews
! This is a *huge* deal for me. I'm extremely grateful and excited to have such a skilled, enthusiastic pro championing my work.
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Rereading Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House for an upcoming lecture, and is this not one of the greatest opening paragraphs in dark fiction?
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Shyamalan's OLD demonstrates how the cinematic medium, in specific, can explicate the universal fear of mortality (condensing of time, audiovisual grammar, etc.). It also showcases the strongest camera direction from any of his collaborations with Gioulakis to date. Loved it.
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PEEL BACK AND SEE lives! Get your copy now. Give one away—disturb a friend, spread the pessimism.
JournalStone:
Barnes & Noble:
Amazon:
#horror
#2021horror
#darkfiction
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My 10 favorite films of the 1990s.
My top 10 of the 1990s (in no particular order). Probably my favourite decade for animation
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R.I.P. to the visionary Michael Snow, a titan of avant-garde cinema.
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I'm *extremely* excited about this: my new realist horror story "The Events" will be included in the charity anthology Shattered & Splintered, alongside the likes of
@GwendolynKiste
,
@SGJ72
,
@hystericteeth
,
@HaileyPiperSays
,
@cinapelayo
& more!
Pre-order:
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Selling signed copies (limited)! DM or email mikethorn
@live
.com. Prices 👇
PEEL
Canada: 25 CAD/20 USD
US: 30 CAD/25 USD
Int: 35 CAD/30 USD
SHELTER
Canada: 26 CAD/21 USD
US: 31 CAD/26 USD
Int: 36 CAD/31 USD
DARKEST
Canada: 27 CAD/22 USD
US: 32 CAD/27 USD
Int: 37 CAD/32 USD
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Happy birthday to
@SophyRomvari
, my love & inspiration.
Your kindness, wisdom, humour, art and vision make this scary world a better place 🖤🖤🖤🖤
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An annual tradition. Here's a list of horror/dark poetry & fiction I recommend for the month of October (one per author).
Happy Hallowe'en 🎃💀
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My favorite 2016 performances: Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper, Isabelle Huppert in Elle. Nobody else comes close, from what I've seen
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Throw them all in the trash.
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Happy birthday to the greatest actor in the history of horror cinema, not to mention one of the most badass celebrity leftists of his day.
All hail Bela Lugosi!
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Imagine living in 1955 and potentially having the chance to see new films by Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Douglas Sirk, Satyajit Ray, Richard Fleischer, Edgar G. Ulmer, Max Ophüls, or Carl Th. Dreyer in a single year.
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10 fav films:
Fantômas (1913-14)
Intolerance (1916)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
The Crowd (1928)
Dracula (1931)
White Zombie (1932)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Star Wars: The Complete Saga (1977-2005)
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RIP to the giant Roger Corman, whose Poe adaptations rank among the very best horror cinema.
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Here it goes: my annual 100 favorite films list. This time around, I've decided to stick to features (no short films). Starting from 100:
100. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
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With October nearing, I've decided to share a list of my top 20 horror films from every decade, reverse chronologically. Here are my picks for the 2010s (one per director).
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My second novel, Cloven Hoof, is now in my agent's hands.
Something wicked this way comes.
😈🤘😈
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Hit me with your top 20 lists for what might be the greatest decade in the history of the cinematic medium, the 1950s.
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Carrying on with a new seasonal tradition: my 20 favorite horror films of the 1990s (one film per director).
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Top 20 horror films of the 21st century (10 is impossible, sorry). 1 per director, chronological.
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