Quinn Bailey
@qjtbailey
Horror filmmaker/composer/writer; they/them. Editor of KNIFEMAN (in festivals now), director of EXCLUSION (2027). No fascists, no AI. 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️
Just the ones that come to mind but if I ever get in there I’m cleaning the place top to bottom
The cost of living is about to go up. Submitted for your approval, EXCLUSION - a sci-fi horror comedy written and directed by yours truly. Finalist for best short screenplay, Frights! Camera! Action! Horror Screenplay Contest 2026. Entering orbit 2027.
My hand may have just been forced on a big announcement. Stand by for transmission.
Rest in peace to one of the best actors of his generation. Godspeed, Sam.
it’s a beautiful day for 6 hours of Johnny Knoxville-induced bodily trauma
hell with it, current Spielberg rankings. will fully cop to not having seen AI, Empire of the Sun, Amistad, 1941, Always, or Disclosure Day yet; Murder by the Book should be on here (and would rank somewhere around Last Crusade/Fabelmans/CMIYC imo)
Going back through my drive and getting VERY mad at myself for not sticking to my guns on how I wanted to edit parts of my senior thesis
Getting back to work. No, you don't get to know what this is about yet, wait and see
8. The Spirit is an astonishing work of art as long as you put it on mute and pretend the plot doesn't exist. One of the coolest-looking pieces of digital backlot cinema; sadly, also made by the specific version of Frank Miller who wrote Holy Terror.
7. Sadly way too much to work with for Doctor Who, so let's start with this: "Vengeance on Varos" is an all-time great episode, a fantastically mean piece of anti-Thatcherite satire that lands in the middle of the show's most notorious creative slump
6. Lynch fans, forgive me; I kinda like Kenneth Welsh's performance as Windom Earle. A masterclass in committing to the bit, even when that bit winds up tanking one of the best TV shows ever made.
5. There is a universe somewhere out there where The Book of Henry genuinely works. Really admire its swing-for-the-fences twist; just wish it had committed to its swerve into darkness rather than spiking the whole thing with sickly-sweet sentimentality
4. I genuinely love a lot of Final Fantasy II: it's where the series starts to develop its own identity, art direction and music are way stronger than the first, and the "word memory" system kinda works for me. Shame about the actual act of playing it, but eh, you gotta start somewhere
2. This is a lifeless nightmare of a reboot, but I'll give it this: Colin Stetson's score might be the best soundtrack of the whole series
never thought I would ever see this one in a theater; first time for everything
been working on something a little different from usual lately. just a taste of it here:
seated for Hangover Square at the Egyptian, a bucket list screening if ever there was one
been seeing a lot of How to Blow Up a Pipeline discussion recently, and while I’m not complaining, it’s also a good excuse to recommend Cam, one of the only movies that saw the current AI psychosis grift coming