Doug Dillaman

"You've never seen anything like it - but you should." - Graeme Tuckett "A one-of-a-kind, epic, eye-popping experiment." - Terror-Fi Film Festival "A true labour of archival love." - Ant Timpson "I should NOT have had the edible before this." - David (Letterboxd user) GUT INSTINCT. Out now.

Tomorrow night! Auckland! We have such sights to show you!

FAMILY GO TO THE BAD HOUSE (2026) trailer drop A feature length horror supercut about a family of three who move into a haunted house. releasing 1st October 2026 email familygotothebadhouse at gmail dot com for auto-reply link to the film

Brazil and GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA II come to the same conclusion.

Thrilled to hear the Wellington premiere went well. Auckland, come out Wednesday night to Reading Cinemas New Lynn for your first chance to discover the goopy fun of BLACK SHEEPS, with @jonathanking.bsky.social in attendance for Q&A! readingcinemas.co.nz/cinemas/Lynn...

Excited (and nervous) to be sharing BLACK SHEEPS with our first NZ audiences tonight! Premiere screening, followed by actual paying customers for the opening of TERROR-FI Film Fest. We’re so proud of this bonkers film and can’t wait for people to see it! Opens NZ nationwide November 12.

Just saw DRILLER KILLER for the first time and it wasn't really my bag (it aggressively captures a level of irritation that would drive a person insane) but I would gladly own a shirt with the opening frames

If you like good cinema reading and don't subscribe to @msicism.bsky.social 's Patreon, you should probably change that. He's on a particularly hot tear at the moment. www.patreon.com/msicism?utm_...

We’re still buzzing about Audition by pip adam winning the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, and we will be for quite a while. Take it as a sign to read or re-read pip's work!! To help with that, for a limited time you can buy Audition together with pip’s latest novel, Kluge, for $50 on our website.

They're baaaaaaaack! And now that they've premiered at Sitges, they're coming home! BLACK SHEEPS hits Aotearoa screens soon: * Terror-Fi festival hosts premieres in Wgtn, Chch, AK - info @ terrorfifest.com * Halloween weekend sneaks in cinemas across the motu * General release from 12 November

For your weekend reading!

Kiwi institution/music site Under the Radar is ending its ticketing service because it thinks its technical side isn't up to the increased hacking threats of 2026. Which is probably accurate, but incredibly dispiriting.

Attention NZ media (still no coverage??) – you'll definitely want to pop your heads out from under that #nzpol rock for this one!

Anyone know what NZ features are due in 2027? GOD BLESS YOU MR. KOPU (already screened at fests), THE DOG SHOW, WHEN DARKNESS LOVES US and GOLLUM (if that counts) are the only ones on my radar

It's absolutely impossible to express how much this means and how unbelievable it seems.

I usually take part of October to check out horror movies I've never seen before for The Reveal. I did not expect this one to hit so hard:

Right in the middle of a big discussion about the porous boundaries of truth and fiction in cinema, Sacha Baron Cohen shows up as an actor interacting with real people and Lee Chang-Dong releases a fiction film about documentary ethics. I feel like the simulation is doing a film seminar for us all.

THE DEVILS: the film that proves being as sexy as Oliver Reed was in 1971 is indeed a crime

Great software, great price. I cut GUT INSTINCT and BLACK SHEEPS on Resolve!

Went on a side quest investigating the software that makes AI menu illustrations (one of just many things it does, it transpires) and found this testimonial and something is very wrong with humanity

Great software, great price. I cut GUT INSTINCT and BLACK SHEEPS on Resolve!

My profile of some of the notable Australian and/or art-centric films at the Adelaide Film Festival. The new Richard Tuohy, um, rocks. (Sorry.) artcollector.net.au/six-standout...

[Indistinct murmuring]

The remakes of HIGH AND LOW will continue until morale improves

you can set your watch to either

Every time I listen to a Valentina Magaletti project, I get the feeling I need to listen to every single record Valentina Magaletti has ever played on. 6 minutes into track 1 and this is a fucking journey. tidal.com/album/551409...

Does anyone know what the phrase "MOR director" means? Ken Russell drops it in his book DIRECTING FILM when referring to more desirable (to Hollywood) directors.

Unconvinced that Bluesky can hold its tongue about YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING until it premieres in NZ on 12 Nov, to the point where I'm wondering what the collateral damage of muting "everything" is.