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Looking Glass

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A psycho- sexual thriller following a couple that buys an old motel in the desert looking for a new beginning, but what seemed at first as an escape is soon a thrilling ride through a mysterious world when Ray discovers a two way mirror and witnesses a horrifying murder. In a twisted game of cat and mouse, Ray must race to save his wife and himself from a gruesome secret connected to the motel and the strange people… From TMDB

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  • Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    (🎶) EXCLUSIVE: For Bluesky *only*—because you all have been so supportive of Hounds from the jump!—here’s an unlisted, full-track preview of the 45-minute-plus Hounds musical PSEUDODISNEY, which drops late next month. It unfolds a “Through-the-Looking-Glass” version of the archetypal animated film.

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  • ⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.comBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Not a guy but: The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson Experimental Film, Gemma Files Headlights, CJ Leede Looking Glass Sound, Catriona Ward Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez The Day of the Door, Laurel Hightower The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw

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  • Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2026

    THE LOOKING GLASS WAR is my favourite Le Carre book and film adaptation. I wrote about why on my Substack a while ago andrewnette.substack.com/p/violent-ro...

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  • I. L. Prentiss @forginganewpath.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    Missed two of the goal movies for August (Dog Stars and Alice Through the Looking Glass). I'm doing some traveling in September, so let's see how many of these i can get to. Pleasantville is the monthly movie night feature. #film #moviesky #filmsky #movies #septembermovies

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  • Tracey @2300.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    In morose mood, I'm watching the film 'Countdown to Looking Glass' made in 1984. It's about the lead up to a fictitious nuclear war, in which the Straits of Hormuz have been blockaded by Oman, threatening tolls for ships to pass thru, & the US is sending aircraft carriers there! Spookily prophetic.

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  • ilikeplaidalot.bsky.social @ilikeplaidalot.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    I feel like i wanna do a little introduction post inspired by @33wonderland.bsky.social: i am a huge fan of Alice In Wonderland and Alice’s Adventures Through The Looking Glass. The 1951 film is one of my favourite aesthetics of all time. The books are among my faves. I love everything Alice!

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  • Eustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    Still my favorite nukes movie. General Darth Vader and Major Doctor Kelso on the Looking Glass go a long way, but the guy that plays Harpoon is the GOAT.

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  • Lydia's Spooky Season @hackedmotionart.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    A few more. There's also a Through the Looking Glass movie with Kate Beckinsale where she changes her outfit each time she moves to a new square so that also stuck with me (I'm still working on hatter lol rn he feels very gavis betsy 😅)

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  • The Rori Horror Picture Show @missrori.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    It says a lot that Disney effectively tossed this aside in favor of hyping up Alice Through the Looking Glass and Finding Dory that summer; even in 2016 they no longer understood the idea of a children’s film that wasn’t going to spin off a franchise.

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  • Darci Meadows, Published Author @saintwalker98.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    oo this brings up the natural successor to the '70s disaster movie was the '80s tv nuclear special: World War 3, Threads, The Day After, Special Bulletin, Countdown to Looking Glass,

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  • subgirl @inkygeek.comBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    I have wanted a Holga for multiple decades now (even before the Lomo resurgence) but the 120mm medium format has always put me off. I'm sure I'll find another excuse to go to Looking Glass so if it's still there I'll get it. And film.

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  • Alexander @xandersthoughts.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    Ten non horror movies to get to know me Terminator 2 Clerks Trainspotting Ernest Saves Christmas Dogma The End of Evangelion The Adventures of Robin Hood Mallrats Spaceballs Inuyasha The Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass

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  • Jason Ginsburg @jasonginsburg.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    In the 1984 movie COUNTDOWN TO LOOKING GLASS, an Omani blockade of the Strait of Hormuz leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and Soviet Union. #iran #israel

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  • Christopher @tspoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    The Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass used to believe up to 6 impossible things before breakfast. This films asks you to believe about 250! Read my full review and follow me on #Letterboxd #MovieReview #TombRaider boxd.it/asSzXn

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  • Jeb 🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ AT PAX AUS @jebdarsh.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2025

    Name: Jeb Nickname: Jebby Age: 37 Sign: Leo Currently: Logistics planner, author (ig?) Fav colour: Pastel mint green Fav book: Ghost Story (Toby Litt), Alice Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Caroll) Fav movie: Designing Woman (1957) Fav show: Fringe, DBZ Fav genre: just, real weird shit Post a gif!

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  • Spooky McSkellington @gooberzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2024

    I have a lot of time for him in Bringing Out the Dead (1999), but I can't say I've ever watched a Nic Cage film where he wasn't at least entertaining, even in goofier stuff like The Wicker Man remake, Willie's Wonderland, or Mandy. He was also really good in Looking Glass (2018).

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  • reaux @reaux.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    The jabberwocky in Alice Through The Looking Glass, the 1985 made for TV movie. I used to crawl behind the couch and cry. I still watched that movie a bunch though

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  • Big Mike @michael-dagreat.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    Watched another faux news broadcast styled movie called Countdown To Looking Glass. This one however at some points drops the format for a standard drama one. Still an interesting watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQzg...

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  • Bewitched History Book @bewitchedbook.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    3/3…Century City, California Bob Mackie won his first Emmy for the whimsical costumes done for the 1966 TV movie “Alice Through the Looking Glass” where #AgnesMoorehead played the Red Queen. RIP Bob Mackie #Bewitched

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  • Grue - Halloween Edition @illwinds.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2026

    So: my dad would always talk about this nuclear war film from the 1980s - "Countdown to Looking Glass" - and how it haunted him.

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  • 🏳️‍🌈🎃Brendan Agnew🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @blcagnew.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    198. INUYASHA THE MOVIE 2: THE CASTLE BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS (2002)

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  • Disorderly Borderline 🇨🇦 @disorderlybrdrline.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    In 1984 there was a movie called Countdown to Looking Glass which focused on a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz & one of the countries there charging a toll for every tanker going through. The movie has at least one nuclear exchange before it's ambiguous ending. A little too realistic for me

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  • Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2026

    For the best guest appearance by the Strait of Hormuz in a feature-length nightmare, check out Scott Glenn's performance as reporter Mick Boyle covering a nuclear exchange in the Strait live on network TV in the 1984 Cdn-HBO flick, 'Countdown to Looking Glass.' youtu.be/GQzgHBjQzf4?...

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  • David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

    So A House of Dynamite has sent me down a leeeetle bit of a nuclear war movie rabbit hole, and I just watched one that I not only had never seen but had never even heard of: an early HBO original movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984)

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  • CyKoore @cykoore.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    In the movie Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), the USSR backs a coup in Oman. The Omani regime begins demanding a $10,000 toll for each oil tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. The US sends assets, including the USS Nimitz, to try to protect oil tankers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSS...

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  • Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2025

    Refle-x-périmental #18 : Through the Looking Glass: The London Film-Makers’ Co-op ‘66-75. May 15th, 20:30h - Le Reflet Médicis, Paris expcinema.org/site/en/even...

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  • 𝒓𝒖𝒃𝒚✨🌙 @fairyfrequencies.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Inuyasha the 2 film ~ The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass is one of my favorites (but also I can’t watch the 2nd one without wanting to watch the 3rd one as well) 🫶🏻

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  • Lil Lamia Kaikai Twins @lamiaprincesskairi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    We were gonna joke about this movie canonizing “Hatta” from Through the Looking Glass as his Christian Glup Shitto Name and doing a Solo…Han Solo type Earning The Name Mad Hatter moment but then we remembered that 2010s live action one earnestly did give everyone Glup Shitto Names

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  • Michael R. @batquinn5801.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    Happy 75th anniversary to Alice in Wonderland (1951), based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. The movie took five years to complete but was in development for over ten years before it entered production.

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  • Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 12, 2026

    I have not seen a video or photo of the Strait of Hormuz since Countdown to Looking Glass a Canadian made-for-tv movie on October 14, 1984.

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  • Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2026

    Yeah, I rewatched this a few weeks ago. A Gulf crisis leading to the Strait closing and an escalation of tensions, culminating most likely in a nuclear exchange not shown in the film. But it had one detail wrong: Looking Glass was the airborne SAC command plane, not the Presidential "Doomsday" plane

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  • BonnieBlonde @steelworkergal65.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2026

    I just re-watched "Countdown to Looking Glass." It's a 1984 tv movie akin to "The Day After" miniseries. Us Cold War kids saw it comin'.

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  • Basileous @basileous.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    Watched "InuYasha The Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass" via AppleTV #Inuyasha #Anime #AppleTV

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  • Mona @mona2.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 4, 2026

    I have an autistic special interest in all things nuclear catastrophes, so I've sat down and watched Countdown to Looking Glass in the past. Given what's going on with that strait I've been thinkin about it a lot lately

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  • Jason Ginsburg @jasonginsburg.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    The 1984 TV movie COUNTDOWN TO LOOKING GLASS depicts a nuclear confrontation between the US and Soviet Union. It's triggered by Soviet allies blockading the Strait of Hormuz. #iran #iranwar #israel

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  • Erin Mills @shallow15.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2026

    I do not care for this real world remake of "Countdown to Looking Glass." youtu.be/GQzgHBjQzf4?...

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  • Embassy of the Society Of The Cat People Founded 886 CS @scpembassy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2025

    202510181214 NICOLE KIDMAN IS CASSANDRA OVECHKIN IN LOOKING GLASS (2011) 🎬 Movie characters resembling real life persons. 🎬 #MovieDeepFakes

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  • Mark Cote @markcruiser64.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    ♫ Inspired in 2016 by the new Alice In Wonderland movie... " Through The Looking Glass" markcote.bandcamp.com/track/throug...

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  • 🦇River Lycoris🦇 @nyxi-styx.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 12/30 Film: Alice Through the Looking Glass Director: James Bobin Ugh. I’m late again. #Filmsky🎥 #MovieSky #directorchallenge #filmsky

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  • Lex @punkasauruslex.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    The jabberwocky in the 1985 tv movie Alice Through the Looking Glass

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  • BookReadingDiva54 @bookreadingdiva54.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    We are living the real life version of that 1980’s nuclear war film “Countdown to Looking Glass”.

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  • Bruce Grem-boo-ski @bruce.grembowski.comBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Film photography The history of (pre-AI) computing BBSes and early networking Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

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  • Evil John 2: John By Dawn @johnryanwrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    This is how the 80s nuclear war film "Countdown to Looking Glass" ended.

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  • AyCaramba! @aycarambabookscom.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    Alice Through the Looking Glass: Red Queen Vinimate Vinyl Figure A Diamond Select release! Off with their heads! The newest movie to join the Vinimates revolution is Alice Through the Looking Glass! tinyurl.com/6bnawdc5 www.AyCarambaBooks.com #AliceInWonderland #Vinimate #RedQueen #AyCarambaBooks

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  • G&C Podcast Studios! @gandcstudios.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    On this episode of Geek Addicts Bill and Matt return to Inuyasha to discuss the second film based on the series The Castle Beyond The Looking Glass! #superpodnetwork superpodnetwork.com/podcast/geek...

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  • Spooky Fang in Spooky Month 🎃 @xfangheartx.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    Quote with 5 MOVIES to get to know you 1. One Piece Film: Gold 2. Inuyasha Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass 3. Fairy Tail: Phoenix Priestess 4. The Land Before Time 5. The Lion King

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  • LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 4, 2026

    "Countdown To Looking Glass" (1984) Cold-War USSR Nuclear Attack Film youtu.be/GQzgHBjQzf4?...

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  • Black Unity Over Disagreement (he/him) @audubonballroom.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    An unbirthday (originally written un-birthday) is an event celebrated on all days of the year which are not a person's birthday. It is a neologism which first appeared in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. In the Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland, 1/4

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  • Pumpkin Spice Amateur Historian @riceandsalt97.bsky.socialBluesky · May 16, 2026

    So I’m reading The Looking Glass War right now. The murder that kicks off the plot is when an agent carrying reconnaissance film is run over by a yellow Citroën. I looked up what Citroën cars looked like in the mid-1960s and my god…this is somehow high comedy now.

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  • Writers' Guild of Great Britain @writersguildgb.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    This Mental Health Awareness Week @filmtvcharity.bsky.social is asking the screen industry to speak up The 2026 Looking Glass Survey is now live + it’s the UK’s only long‑running study tracking mental health across film, TV + cinema Take the survey 🔽 filmtvcharity.org.uk/research-imp...

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  • OpenCV @opencvMastodon · Apr 13, 2026

    The holographic future isn't coming. It's here. We're thrilled to welcome Shawn Frayne, CEO of Looking Glass Factory, to OSCCA on May 4 in LA. Find out more: https://opencv.org/the-holographic-future-is-here-see-it-at-oscca/ #LookingGlass #OSCCA

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  • Majomaru 🎶 @majomaru.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2026

    This is a real uncomfy time to be familiar with the movie “Countdown to Looking Glass”. 🧍🏻‍♀️💀

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    The (movie) Alice Through the Looking Glass 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Family) (iMDB) 6.1 Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rhys Ifans

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  • Cigarette🚬 @smokecigarettes.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    Watching the news these days is getting a little too eerily similar to the movie "Countdown To Looking Glass" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdo...

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  • Andrew Smith 🇨🇦 @gr8fuldad.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2026

    There's a movie made in the 1980s called 'Countdown to Looking Glass', where a conflict begins in the Straits of Hormuz.

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  • Rain 🌧️ @karabita.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    Love being reminded of how Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) is the worst movie I have ever watched in my life and the day I declared this proudly to the two friends I went to the cinema to to watch it with, who seconds later awkwardly revealed that they loved it

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  • Littol Wizard ✨🍄🌿 @ghostlypotion.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    also the other day I rewatched Alice Through the Looking Glass bcus I didn't remember much from that movie and omg... my love for Tarrant sparked again 💕💕💕 I love that silly man so much <333 he's my silly!!

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  • zoᴅo ⟢📍🗺️ unmoored isle @rosodos.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    Looking Glass is on the same level as the movie Your Name for me, i've read/seen it One Single Time and idt i have the emotional bandwidth to ever read/watch it again

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  • Creative UK @creativeuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2025

    Film and TV Charity, has shared its first Looking Glass 2024: Deep Dive - Class and Mental Wellbeing. This explores how class affects access and career growth, the toll of inequality on mental health, and how class overlaps with other identities. Read more 👉 filmtvcharity.org.uk/research-imp...

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  • Chris Chapman @[email protected]Mastodon · May 24, 2025

    Filmed by Mike Chrzanowski, here’s 39 minutes of footage of that last day, 24 May 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPFbA8Qmths #videogamehistory #lookingglass

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