Who are the new horror film icons?
We all remember Marion Crane's (Janet Leigh) scream in the shower in Psycho. With Hitchcock, she marked an era of horror that raised applause at awards shows and froze viewers in their seats with...
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Halloween: the 9 best Korean horror dramas to watch this spooky season
Whether you're looking for spooky, apocalyptic, ghostly, supernatural, or progressive horror stories, now that Halloween season is in full swing, it's the perfect time of year to have a scary series...
WATCH: Something Special #13
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
40 years of The Terminator: 6 things you might not know about the most iconic cyborg in film history
This Saturday, October 26, marks four decades since cinema's most iconic cyborg made his debut on the Hollywood scene and conquered the global movie box office. It's hard to believe it's been out...
“Equal parts hilarious and intriguing”: Who Shat on the Floor at My Wedding? review
Like many of my demographic, I've listened to my fair share of true crime podcasts, occasionally venturing into the "comedy true crime" space. It's an odd space, where my ethical values mean most of...
Great Adaptations: Wuthering Heights on screen
This month over at Five Books For, we're discussing gothic-ish classics, given that it's October. I know lots of us go in for reading or watching something spooky around this time of year in honour...
An effective but flawed grief drama: His Three Daughters review
Chamber pieces are films with a small cast and they are primarily set in a singular location, generally, with limited budgets. Often times those limitations can be felt in the repetitiveness of...
“The illusion of immortality”: A Photographic Memory
Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s A Photographic Memory is a very intimate investigation into the life of a globetrotting journalist (and photographer and filmmaker) whose interviews with legendary lensers...
World Mental Health Day: 5 reasons movies are good for our emotional wellbeing – according to science
Since 1992, World Mental Health Day has been commemorated on October 10 every year. It is an initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), supported by the World Health Organization...
“I was prepared to be extra horrified, and I was not disappointed”: Love is Blind
Love Is Blind is horrifying. Of course I can’t stop watching it. If you’re familiar with my writing, you know I often like to point out that certain shows coded as “guilty pleasures” are...