Steven Sheil

@scsheil.bsky.social

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Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil Creator of @adrianchills.bsky.social

SOMETHING PECULIAR XI -edited by Steve J Shaw-Available September Something Peculiar from J S Breukelaar Liliana Carstea Clay McLeod Chapman Joanna Corrance Tracy Fahey Matt Hill Ralph Robert Moore Rosic Seymour Steven Sheil Kaaron Warren David Watkins edited by Steve J Shaw
Seven paperback books with manly black covers. Each one has a variation of the sale illustration - an impossibly rugged unsmiling man with one red eye holding up some variety of weapon - gun, knife, scalpel, grappling hook - in front of his face
“The Dance of Being” Prompt: Write a ~1,000 word short story in a style that would be published in a short story collection that is about a man observing a woman dancing naked that emphasizes how both feel weak when looking at themselves but make the other feel stronger and loved, written from a third person point of view Generated by ChatGPT 4.0 mini, on December 2, 2024 at 2:35 pm
A shot from the film. A widescreen image of Charles Dance, in a white suit holding up a knife, ready to throw.
A black and white poster. Oppenheimer's face is mixed with an atomic bomb blast, but it makes him look like he's wearing a kind of mushroom hat.
A shot from the film. James Marsden as a cop with a moustache. Jessica Biel, presumably with a nail in her head somewhere.
A vintage yellow Gollancz hardback. The cover reads, in read, The Ribs of Death, then in black Of her ist The Silence of Herondale "Unmistakable whiff of success" (Violet Grant, Daily Telegraph', Of her 2nd: Trouble withe Product X "A Certain Winner" (James Dillon White), Of her 3rd: Hate Begins At Home "Genuine button-holder all the way" (Maurice Richardson, Observer), then This is her 4th thriller. And at the bottom, again in read, Joan Aiken.
À paperback book. The cover reads: Counterspy Rod Damon - The Coxeman - gets into his hottest adventure in The Billion Dollar Snatch an adult novel by Troy Conway The illustration shows a Bond-esque man holding a gun in one hand while the other opens the towel wrapped around the waist of a naked blonde woman with her neck to us.
Roger Hathaway died just after having crossed the Third Circle. His leg was in bad shape. It had begun to swell and a foul green line had begun to climb up toward his groin. Hathaway had tried to find something, even a cement shard, to cut open the wound but there was nothing in the corridor. He was forced to use his nails, his eyes shrinking to pinpoints with the pain as he slashed open the flesh of his thigh. He had made it through the icy horror of the Second Circle, dragging himself across the floor of an enormous wind tunnel, bending under the force of the 150-mile-an-hour winds blowing over them. Time and again he was thrown against the wind tunnel's walls. A large thermometer announced that the temperature was - 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Hathaway held on, trying to cross the tunnel floor. Finally, his strength failing him, he was blown against the rear wall grille. It burned like dry ice, tearing strips
A hardback comic book. TNT: Octobre. A man stands shadowy and naked in a spotlight.
The cover of the first TNT book by 'Doug Masters'. It features a Schwarzenegger-esque illustration of TNT himself, with a gun in front of his face.
Pierre Rey. A good looking man in his 50s with grey hair and a smile. A small yellow parakeet is sat on his shoulder
A French paperback books: Les cobras de lilliput by Michael Borgia with an illustrated cover featuring a naked woman, a small soldier and a cobra.
A series of seven paperback books, all with black covers, all with varying illustration of the same man’s face - holding a gun, a knife, a hook etc. He is extraordinarily chiselled and rugged.
A shot of a man with a (blurred) pipe in his mouth. The pip becomes unblurred once he takes it out of his mouth.
A paperback copie of 'Eight Tales Of Hoffmann'. It's an old, slightly battered Pan copy.
A hardback book - The Heat Of The Day by Elizabeth Bowen.
Two orange Penguin paperbacks - The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen with a cover featuring an illustration of a young woman with dark hair, her hands up in the hair; and Invitation To The Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann, featuring an illustration of ayoung woman in a pink dress standing in front of a group of people dancing.
A handwritten sign on a shop window sayin’HAND FANS sold here HAND FANS’
A screengrab of a Letterboxed Recent Activity screen. It shows the films They Will Kill You, Is God Is, Over Your Dead Body and The Sheep Detectives.
I offered the leading role of Zed to Burt Reynolds. He accepted, but fell ill and had to back out. Fox wanted me to consider Richard Harris, since they had had a success with him in A Man Called Horse. I felt he lacked the bulk and muscle for the part, but I agreed to meet him. His house in London was mock-medieval, decorated with props from Camelot. It was chaotic. Children were playing, dazed friends wandered in and out, there were people demanding money. It was impossible to talk. Richard said he would be in Dublin on Saturday for a rugby match. We could meet there. I said come to Sunday lunch in Annamoe. He agreed. One o'clock came and went. We waited. At three o'clock we finally ate without him. There was no word nor sign of the man.
Zed eventually destroys the Vortex, giving the Immortals the gift of death. He survives with Charlotte Rampling and they have a child together. The final sequence is done in a single shot with a fixed camera. Sean and Charlotte are sitting side by side in a cave with the baby. The baby becomes a child, the child becomes a youth, gets up and leaves them without looking back; they get older, then become ancient, and finally just their skeletons remain, which eventually crumble to dust. Only then does the camera move. It tracks in to a handprint on the wall of the empty cave, like the cave painting of primitive man in Lescaux, suggesting that this future world could have been in the past, and that as that civilisation ended, ours began. This shot took an entire day to shoot. The actors had to be removed and make-up applied incrementally to add the years. Sean has a delicate skin and hates make-up. He had to endure it all day. He became more and more irascible. This was the last day of shooting. We had the wrap party that night. Sean had a golf tournament to go to the next day. I had to hold him until the morning for the laboratory report. The call came at 6 a.m. There was a fault in the film stock. It would have to be redone. Sean was apoplectic. He stormed and raged, but it had to be done. We reassembled with our hangovers and started again. A long day, hours of make-up, Sean smarting from his suffering skin. Finally it was done. The clapper-loader took the magazine from the camera to prepare
A stock photo of Bob Hoskins in a big chunky cardie, sat at desk holding a small black dog.
A headline: Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM. Beneath it is a picture of Andy Burnham with both fist grasped together as though holding onto invisible bars.
A shot from early in Les Diabolique of Vera Clouzot and Simone S’ignorer
A packet of creme egg oreos and a packet of cherry bakewell jaffa cakes.
A line from the Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey. It reads '"Poor man! Why does Posiedon create an odyssey of pain for you?'
A gif from Manhunter
A screengrab of an Marks and Spencer website with the slogan 'This Is Not Just Food - It's Never Just Food'
Minerva Fisher said, "I don't care for profanity or for coarseness and vulgarity in women, Mrs. Cool." "I don't see anyone holding you here, either," Bertha said. "T can stand a hell of a lot of vulgarity. I adore profanity and I love violence.
A stone plant pot on the street with a wispy dry grass fringe hanging over the end, looking like the Magic Roundabout dog
A close-up shot of Marlene Dietrich in Shanghai Express. It's in black and white and shows her with her head tilted back a little, eyes looking up, a hand holding a lit cigarette next to her head.
A screengrab of commentators Steve Wilson and Danny Murphy looking at the camera. Behind them, the pitch and the stadium. In the middle, what looks like a person with a completely hairy face with sunglasses.
A photo of a paperback book - Centre Door Fancy, by Joan Blondell. The cover is green, with an illustration of a young showgirl from the 1920s sat in a spotlight.
A clip from a TV show featuring a singer Raffaella Carrà in black surrounded by multiple pink-clad dancers and their video dopplegangers.
A CLIP FROM THE FILM SURVIVE STYLE 5
A poster outside a Boyes store advertising the launch of Armageddon on 20th June. The Warhammer logo is quite dark in the corner
Three paperback books. On the left, The Cold Room by Jeffery Caine (cover - a spooky illustration of a shrouded figure in a room, with a ghostyl girl's face behind), in the middle The Gorgeous Ghoul Murder Case by Dwight V Babcock (cover: an illustration of a blond woman in a purple dress reclining and looking over her shoulder where there is a bandaged face with no eyes or mouth) and Frighteners edited by Mary Danby (cover, a photo of a shadowy hand reaching for a door lit in ghostly green).
'This man is so pathetic. Yeah, he's corrupt as hell, but what a weak and pathetic man he is. It's embarrassing to watch."
A black and white photo of Ian Carmichael
From the Wikipedia page "The setting for the music video is Bodiam Castle and features Adam wearing a suit of armour in the style of the movie Excalibur (released the same year, and made by the same armourer, Terry English), then a blue American football uniform with the number 57 on the front. While in his American football strip, he crashes through a door, revealing Marco Pirroni sitting at a grand piano dressed as Liberace. Adam then does a Bruce Lee impersonation while rescuing the princess (played by Lulu) before being seen again in his armour. The video ends with Adam jumping from the top of the castle into the moat (the jump is actually performed by a stuntman). He throws his sword in the moat only to see an armoured hand lift it again from the water.[2]"
A reporter looking at camera saying 'That's a Goal!'
Black and White trailer for the film The Ride Back
A Letterboxed Recent Activity box showing from right to left, Deep Water (2026), Clash Of The Titans (1981), Virginia Woolf's Night And Day and The Ride Back.
The first part of the product's name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning "pertaining to an ox".[3] Johnston took the -vril suffix from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular novel, The Coming Race (1871), the plot of which revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.[4]
On the stage, a male shirtless dancer holds a female dancer over his head, she his standing on his hands, with the legs doing a split. In the background fountains are going off.
At the back of a stage studded with red lights, a giant image of Leona Lewis projected onto water.
A wide shot of the venue. On the left of frame, the stage, which is structured like a wheel with walkway spokes over blue water. On the right, the audience in evening dress. There are a large array of lights behind them.
A photo of a terrapin skeleton, brightly lit in a dark box. It's sat up on its shell, underside facing the camera, arms in the air and head thrown back as though in cinematic ecstacy.
A screengrab of a man in a colourful shirt holding a microphone to his mouth and about to speak, while another man in a purple shirt next to him is turned around and pointing into the distance at at TV screen. The subtitle over the top says THAT'S A GOAL.
A chunk of text from a book including the word 'rhadamanthine' (adj. rigorously strict or just)
Count Binface, Andy Burnham and a person in a fox suit at the Makerfield count.
“Poor man! Why does enraged Poseidon create an odyssey of pain for you?
A photo of a Daily Mail front page with a quote from Andrew Windsor - “You’ll call me Sir or The Duke until they send a vampire to suck out every drop of blood on my royal veins”
The marke shows a circle with a large letter M inside it. In the crook of the M is a young girl in a dress and bonnet, as though sitting in a swing. beneath it, in capital letters it says 'Marjgold Ritter-Von-Bek'
Seven paperback books by James Branch Cabell - Jurgen, The Silver Stallin, Figures of Earth, Domnei, The High Place, Something About Eve and The Cream Of The Jest.
The header and bio for the Adrian Chills Bluesky account.
Two boxes of aftershave called ‘Edge Of Darkness’
A close-up of Carole Lombard's eyes, shadowed on the left with the pupil bright, lighter on the right with the pupil darker.
A shot from the Jarmusch film FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, showing two characters in a car, shot through the windscreen. They are in focus. The windscreen and back windscreen are out of focus. The background is in focus.