The Welcome To The Blumhouse double-feature series has officially begun, kicking off with Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr’s Black Box and Veena Sud’s The...
Will Wernick’s No Escape is the latest in a line of movies that exploits concerns hanging over social media. Unlike...
Hear me out: every musical genre has a vampire film to match it. Bela Lugosi’s OG Dracula pairs with something classical, Schumacher’s The Lost Boys with glam rock, and Joe Begos’s brilliant Bliss with some acid-laced EDM. That’s not to say that these movies are literally scored with this music...
Impetigore is one of those words that sounds scary, seems intriguing, and might be meaningful in all of its 10-letter...
When analyzing the meaning of the word “relic”, one will find descriptions such as “object surviving from an earlier time”,...
The Oak Room (2020) is a love letter to the gothic thrillers of the past, which is fitting, since the theme of the film is about the past catching up with you. In a cross between No Country For Old Men (2007) and Frailty (2001), the seedy bar stools of...
We are safe and sound so long as we are in our own homes—this longstanding, unspoken notion has been challenged...
Pregnancy and motherhood can be a blessing for many, but for some it can be a curse as explored in...
I could spend hours talking about why I love 1941’s The Wolf Man. There’s the makeup, the cast (Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Bela Lugosi?!), and the movie’s importance to werewolf lore (silver-as-kryptonite and full-moon-transformations come from this film). But what will always get me about this movie is the ending....
The atmosphere surrounding Locke & Key‘s infamous Keyhouse exudes mystery, darkness and wonder. It boasts endless possibilities and bottomless secrets...
The Invisible Man is an iconic image. (Yes, that’s kind of an ironic statement, but it’s true.) One that hasn’t...
“Pleasant surprise” is the best way to describe The Boy. Although fated to be another January casualty back in 2016, the film surpassed expectations. Director William Brent Bell and writer Stacey Menear pulled a wonderful bait-and-switch on audiences. They indulged everyone’s assumptions before turning the tables in the best way...