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...
Nosferatu wants to know where our prayers go when they have been cast into the ether. Do they rise before whatever gods we worship to join that vast and everlasting memorial, the eternal inbox, some...
It feels strange to start a new year off with a paean to a horror movie, but one of my resolutions for 2025 is to honor that which has, in my mind, been drastically overlooked. Just kidding, I...
Heretic, directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, is a genre-bending film that draws viewers into a dark, thought-provoking thriller, packed with tension and laced with questions about faith,...
