“The Best Folk Horror Films You Need To Know”

You may have a ritualistic human sacrifice to a pagan god, as a treat. Continue reading →

“The Biggest Sin You Can Commit In Horror Movies Is Being Serious”

There are so, so many things you should not do if you are in a horror movie, but above all else don’t look at the thing you shouldn’t look at. 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 →

Paste Magazine’s 15 Best Horror Movies of 2016

If I had to count down the best films in a specific genre, that genre might as well be horror, so that’s what I did: I, in tandem with a handful of my esteemed colleagues as Paste Magazine, put together a list of the fifteen horror movies in 2016 that most deserve your time and … Continue reading →

The Playlist’s 25 Best Films Of 2016

As though you need to be reminded that it’s that time of year, I have, in addition to my BOFCA voting, been contributing to year-end lists, the first of which is The Playlist’s 25 Best Films Of 2016 list. I didn’t say much, just around 200 words or so about Anna Rose Holmer’s excellent fiction … Continue reading →

“Film is Far from Dead: The Blockbuster’s Health in Summer ’16”

If you ask most critics and movie nerds, the summer of 2016 is the worst summer for movies of all time, ever. At first blush, you get where they’re coming from, too: There were a lot of shit films this summer, from Suicide Squad to Warcraft to The Legend of Tarzan, and that’s just naming a few out of many. … Continue reading →

Peer Pressure Is Real: My Favorite Films Of 2016 (So Far)

It is July. We have already celebrated our nation’s independence. We have launched our fireworks into the night sky and gorged to the point of shame spiraling, our self-loathing winding and weaving through our subconsciousness as surely as wisps of smoke curl in the wake of celebratory ordnance. It is six months until the time … Continue reading →

Review: The Wailing, 2016, dir. Na Hong-jin

It’s a quantifiable fact that I love the cinema of South Korea, thanks largely to the work of Park Chan-wook, whose magnum opus Oldboy remains one of my favorite movies of all time (of all time). But a decade and change after getting into Korean film, I have come to see Park as a gateway filmmaker, … Continue reading →