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“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
“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
“The Peculiar Horrors of New England”
New England is indeed a peculiar place, but your place would be peculiar, too, if it was built on some of the oldest bones buried in this country we call the United States of the Americas. Continue reading
“Robert Eggers Is Ready to Do Worse Than The Lighthouse”
Note: “Worse” as in “worse for the people who make movies with him,” because “The Lighthouse” owns very, very hard. Continue reading
“How ‘The Witch’ Accidentally Launched a Horror Movement”
Andy absolutely will not shut up about how bad “Hereditary” is until you agree that “Hereditary” is bad. Continue reading
“Giving the Devil His Due: Satan’s 25 Best Appearances in Film”
Hail Satan, not “Hail Satan?” Continue reading
Review: Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse, 2019, dir. Lukas Feigelfeld
Let’s go back to an oldie but a goodie by discussing a newbie that is also a goodie! And also a grossie! Continue reading
“How ‘Hereditary’ Skips the Horror Until Its Final Minutes”
Look: I fucking despised Ari Aster’s Hereditary. I don’t care whose movie it’s supposed to be, or whose perspective we’re supposed to take*, or how the movie sets up its climactic reveals. It’s never what a movie is about that’s a problem. It’s how it’s about it. Hereditary, one of the most misleadingly named movies … Continue reading
The Definitive 10 Best Films Of 2016, Period
Well, you all know what this post is about. A brief intro: Most years, I agonize over my top ten list to the bitter end, and then for a while after, too. This largely has to do with volume. I don’t tend to see all of the movies that I want or need to in a … 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
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
Interview: Robert Eggers & Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Witch”
As promised: my interview with Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy, respectively the director and lead actress on The Witch, that one film I won’t shut up about. I can’t say that this posting means I will shut up about the film for forever – I will be shocked if I don’t circle back around to it … Continue reading
The Real Life Horrors That Inform The Witch
In case you don’t already know: I really liked Robert Eggers’ The Witch. A lot, in fact! So much that apart from that there review I just linked, I also wrote this nifty little piece about some of the film’s historical and cultural foregrounding. The long and short of it is that 17th century New England … 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
A Constant Visual Feast 