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The Horror of Human Error in The Orphanage
It’s easy to forget how inherently melancholic the concept of ghosts are. Trapped souls forced to inhabit the scenes ofContinue Reading
The Films of Bong Joon-ho
With Bong‘s Palme d’Or-winning Parasite in theaters this month, we figured October is as good a time as any to lookContinue Reading
Not The Wicker Man with the Bees!
The fear of the unknown is a driving force behind many horror films but, where many find that fear inContinue Reading
Fractured ★★
Brad Anderson’s eclectic career as a director is mostly due to his ability to avert strict genre conventions. Whether it’sContinue Reading
How Color Adds to the Horror in Suspiria (1977)
Dario Argento’s 1977 horror masterpiece Suspiria is remembered for a few key things: its gratuitous gory violence, its hauntingly pulsatingContinue Reading
(The Influence of) The Spiral Staircase Never Ends
The opening scene of The Spiral Staircase immediately establishes the duality between appearance and interiority that will persist throughout thisContinue Reading
Hour of the Wolf: Ingmar Bergman on the Tortured Artist
Among the movies in his 45-film-plus oeuvre, legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman‘s Hour of the Wolf stands out of theContinue Reading
In the Mouth of Madness: The Apocalypse as a Novel
The great thing about John Carpenter films is that they offer a unique experience unlike any other film. Even whenContinue Reading
In The Tall Grass ★★½
Whilst driving across the country, a very-pregnant Becky (Laysla De Oliveira) and her brother Cal (Avery Whitted) hear a youngContinue Reading
Horror is for The Birds
Birds petrify me. I know there’s not much of a reason for that fear but the screeches they make, theContinue Reading
