Taco Break: 24 Hours of Horror
It has roots both in the most ancient and unknown of rituals and the most…
Identity and Visual Expression in GOODNIGHT MOMMY
All around us, women are tied to their looks. Women are told, through direct and…
Film on the Television (09/14/15): SEVEN on SyFy
According to David Fincher, filming Alien³ was such a nightmare that he couldn’t look at…
Cub
The plot for Cub couldn’t be more basic: A troop of boy scouts go into the woods; horror…
Enlightenment Gothic: Reason and Imagination in Goya’s Los Caprichos
The Spanish painter Francisco de Goya lived and worked in the middle of a shift…
ALLÉLUIA
Way back in the 1940s, Martha Beck, a once-divorced mother of two children from two…
Film on the Television (7/20/15): NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD on TMC
George Romero’s first film fits firmly into the tradition of horror and science fiction, notably The…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: THE SHINING (1980)
Horror is a genre made for formalists. (Noel Murray) Coming back to the The Shining…
CREEP: Rolling with it
Patrick Brice’s directorial debut Creep (it’s been on the festival circuit for a year and a…
Soundtracking #9: Horror scores
The occasional podcast on music in movies. SPOILERS abound. Timings (thanks to BNF for the suggestion here):…