*some restrictions apply By now, I’ve annoyed everyone and their mama with my love of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. I’ve deconstructed it in group chats, Bluesky threads, and podcast episodes. After two viewings, I cannot shake the aching longing that runs under its narrative. Vampires thirst for blood because it grants them life. They hunger to […]
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“Why isn’t there more eco-horror?” I asked my podcast co-host recently as we set up to record. Of course, there are plenty of films exploring the existentialist terror inherent in the fact plants grow without us and the Earth will continue long after we’re gone. The subgenre already has some of my favorites – specifically
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The subgenre of “Good For Her” horror is a trope at this point. Whether it’s Amy Dunne slitting throats or Pearl screaming that she’s a star, we’ve meme’d the moments of women in film having (deserved) breakdowns to the point of parody. However, the current crop of revenge films that are popping up feel much
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Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Note: This column contains a frank discussion on suicide ideation. Vampires often represent the repression of forbidden desire in film and literature. The dark allure of them has been present since Bram Stoker first released Dracula. In every adaption since, bloodsucking feels inherently
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Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Self-abandonment is death by one thousand small betrayals. Abandoning yourself can come in many forms – compromising on something that will make you deeply unhappy, over-committing, and not keeping promises you made to yourself like, “I will stop scrolling my phone and go
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Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Do you remember the first time you saw a movie with a twist ending? That feeling of awe as you realized it had all been spelled out the whole runtime if you’d kept your wits about you. The moments of “I knew it!”
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Candy? Eaten. Costumes? Worn. Ensemble characters? Slashed. Now what? Now we get to hunker down for November and the slide into an increasingly mild (sometimes even balmy) holiday season and prepare ourselves to see family we may or may not enjoy. This time
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