“Parenting Is a Horror Story in ‘There’s Something Wrong with the Children'”

But, on the “good news” front, there’s nothing wrong with “There’s Something Wrong with the Children.” Continue reading →

Review: Body at Brighton Rock, 2019, dir. Roxanne Benjamin

An instructional film about what to do when you’re alone on a mountain overlook and there’s a corpse and possibly also a ghost or a bear. Continue reading →

Films by Women: Five* Movies to Watch from April (2019)

In which we take a trip to the unicorn store before hiking up a rock to live the high life and also there’s a dead body. Continue reading →

Why Female-Driven Horror Movies Are More Timely Than Ever

Gang: It’s been a gross, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. It’s been a gross, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for a slew of reasons, but I’m here today to talk about the Harvey Weinstein scandal (which isn’t quite a “scandal,” because sexual abuse isn’t scandalous; it’s criminal). Because I am me, … Continue reading →

Review: XX, 2017, dir. Roxanne Benjamin, Annie Clark, Karyn Kusama, Jovanka Vuckovic, & Sofia Carrillo

I love a good horror movie anthology, and XX is a good horror movie anthology. It’s also a necessary film if you’re bothering with that whole #52FilmsByWomen hashtag, an endeavor I can neither recommend nor condemn; it’s important to seek out movies by women and watch them, but if half of the 52 films by women … Continue reading →

Review: Southbound, 2016, dir. Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath, Radio Silence

“Every omnibus film and anthology flick, regardless of genre, has to figure out its framing device as if it’s painstakingly assembling a puzzle: How best to successively link a series of interconnected yet mostly unrelated micro-narratives? What makes an effective plotting glue? Horror anthologies show that you can use just about anything to achieve that … Continue reading →