El DIA DE LA BESTIA (1995)
For the most part, the genre of Christmas Horror is made up of stalkers. Killer Santas…
The Letter and the Spirit: HPLHS’s THE CALL OF CTHULHU and THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS
After a meeting with a movie industry insider regarding a possible sale of his fiction…
A SERBIAN FILM is a temper tantrum posing as cultural critique
Warning: Triggers and spoilers When an artist throws a temper tantrum, sometimes the results can…
Genre short takes: The Signal and At the Devil’s Door
The Signal (dir. William Eubank) As Aristotle said, “Nature abhors a vacuum and also hamfisted stories…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 1: Marathon Man
Films that explore trauma interest me greatly. Not just because they, of course, expand the…
Dead Ends: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET to WES CRAVEN’S NEW NIGHTMARE
The Franchise is Dead! Long live the Franchise! What killed Freddy Krueger? Remarkably, it was…
Zombieland: De-fanging the Film Zombie
Trying to define what qualifies as a horror movie is an impossible task, so naturally…
Barriers To Enjoyment In ERASERHEAD
We likely all know this film’s iconic, bizarre, tone-setting nightmare of an opening: Henry Spencer…
The Unoriginal Thrills of YOU’RE NEXT
How does one review a movie that you can’t decide whether it’s a tease, a…
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991): My Relationship with Hannibal Lecter
My relationship to The Silence of the Lambs is strange. I first read the novel…