Frazer Lee, Brunel University of London The horror genre rose from the grave to win big at this year’s Oscars, with four films featuring prominently in the awards. Ryan Coogler’s period vampire...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is bound like a demon behind the screen, expressionistic but held hostage to misfortune just the same. She could be possessed by Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of...
Jacques Tourneur's Cat People (1942) is a supernatural horror film about a young Serbian woman, Irena (Simone Simon), who believes, based on the lore of the area she grew up in, that she'll turn into...
October always brings shadows, and this year cinema has employed them with surgical precision. From reinterpretations of classics to contemporary nightmares, the genre has proven that it continues to...
Centuries pass, faces change, screens multiply, but Frankenstein remains; breathing between lightning bolts and questions. Now, the monster comes back to life once more with Guillermo del Toro, who...
Found footage horror has been with us since the Blair Witch began stalking three unlucky documentary filmmakers in the Maryland woods - and unlike the movie that started it all, most of it is not...
I must begin this column by pointing out that I like superheroes. Their story arcs give me that soaring feeling, and I like the overarching American narrative embedded in our most popular superhero...
At what age should you put aside your childish ambitions, your youthful dreams, your hopes of stardom? When should you admit defeat, admit failure, submit to adulthood? Mid 20s? Early 30s? Never? In...
Mitchell Lichtenstein's 2007 horror-comedy Teeth is transgressive and it’s hilarious. It's kind of terrible, but as part of that brilliant cinematic genre of good-terrible, resulting in a feminist...
2024 was a good year for horror television. Series such as The Fall of the House of Usher, Teacup, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Evil, Chucky and Interview with the Vampire proved that the...
