“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” -Stephen King ’ve never been all that interested...
This is the power of ghosts, after all: they echo a moment, a whisper, an absence.
In The Hunger, the dissonance between Deneuve’s line readings and her lines is irrelevant. Unlike her early films, she is not portrayed as exiled from reality—rather, the human world falters in her sight. To look at her is to be enchanted.
I end up crying on the flight home from Colorado. Stars blur. The hazy grunge rock of the Only Lovers...
There’s a recurring image in Heavy Metal of bodies dissolving, the arc of human life reduced to nothing but eyes and bones draped senselessly in fathoms of goo.
My brother and his wife returned from the haunted house. It had been named something ridiculous like The Retribution or...
From the beginning, I’m rooting for the monsters.
John Carpenter is considered a master of horror, and for good reason: his films are gorgeously constructed, often featuring elegantly...
After just a few minutes, Return to Oz quickly begins to feel like a fever dream.
1. The one where the gorgeous short-haired girl is pregnant and lives in a very nice condominium in New York...
