“In Pop Culture, ‘The Babadook’ Is An Invasive Species”

You really, genuinely, legitimately cannot get rid of the Babadook, not as long as SNL and “The Magicians” keep making jokes about it. Continue reading →

Review: The Babadook, 2014, dir. Jennifer Kent

“Classifying Jennifer Kent’s feature debut, The Babadook, is tricky. Ostensibly this is a horror film—freaky stuff happens on an escalating scale, so qualifying Kent’s tale of a single mother’s fractious relationship with her young son with genre tags seems like a perfectly logical move. But The Babadook is so layered, so complex and just so … Continue reading →

“‘Come Play’: Gillian Jacobs Stars In A ‘Babadook’ Cousin With ‘Conjuring’ Aesthetics”

Man, social media horror shorts are a real breeding ground for future feature-length adaptations, eh? Continue reading →

“The New Wave Of Horror Movies Suggest We Should Embrace Our Terrifying Reality”

The new wave, but also the old wave, because horror’s told us for years that it’s sometimes better to learn to love the monster. Continue reading →

“Richard Stanley Un-Cages Lovecraftian Weirdness in ‘Color Out of Space'”

Unspeakable horror! Mutant nightmares! Eldritch evil! Alexandrian witchcraft! Nicolas Cage gleefully picking tomatoes and peaches off of the vine! Continue reading →

“The Best Horror Movies of the 2010s”

The decade ain’t over ’til the ball drops, but eh, close enough in Internet years; let’s all get the pants scared off our persons. Continue reading →

Review: The Hole in the Ground, 2019, dir. Lee Cronin

Sometimes you pay (literally, you, not me) to see a movie, and you get exactly what the title promises. Take “The Hole in the Ground.” It’s about a hole. In the ground. Boom, value. Continue reading →

The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time

Picking 100 movies to represent the all-timers of their category is a thankless and impossible task; even if you hit all the major titles needed to give the list gravitas, you’re going to end up leaving out titles that one person might think are essential, or another person will take exception to the ordering, or … Continue reading →

Review: Baskin, 2016, dir. Can Evrenol

Horror fans, of late, have been spoiled by a wealth of sophisticated, smartly made films that explore deep-rooted emotional themes and human issues, ranging from parental fears to teenage anxieties. (See: The Babadook, It Follows, The Witch, We Are What We Are, Spring, Let the Right One In.) These are all, for the most part, great movies, and those that aren’t great are … Continue reading →

Review: The Witch, 2016, dir. Robert Eggers

There’s not a lot that I have to say about Roger Eggers’ The Witch that isn’t perfectly encapsulated by a single line from Drew McWeeny’s review out of Sundance 2015. “I’m not sure how you explain what you want in scenes like these to kids,” he wrote of one specific and electrifying moment midway through the … Continue reading →

Crump’s Top Ten Of 2014

It’s December 31st, the last day of the year, and that means it’s time for me to finally weigh in on my top ten movies of 2014, even though I have already done so twice in critics voting. Top ten lists are always a tricky thing. They’re alive. They breathe, they grow, they evolve; I … Continue reading →

Review: The Nightingale, 2019, dir. Jennifer Kent

A movie about the most vengeful bird of all! Also, genocide and sexual violence. Continue reading →

“5 Movies to See at IFFBoston 2019”

Andy likes an Alex Ross Perry movie, and it’s all thanks to Independent Film Festival Boston! (Well: Also, it’s thanks to Alex Ross Perry.) Continue reading →