Who will (and who should) win at the Oscars
The Oscars are finally happening. It’s been a long, strange trip, and the resultant group of nominees is the most diverse in the history of the Academy, not to mention….
Author: T. Dawson
Trevor Dawson is the Executive Editor of GAMbIT Magazine. He is a musician, an award-winning short story author, and a big fan of scotch. His work has appeared in Statement, Levels Below, Robbed of Sleep vols. 3 and 4, Amygdala, Mosaic, and Mangrove. Trevor lives in Denver, CO.
GAMbIT’s Oscar Nomination Predictions
Boy, those Golden Globe nominations sure were dire, huh? In a year with several excellent films about being Black in America, the HFPA decided they’d rather take selfies with Sia….
31 Days of Fright: Child’s Play
“Hi, I’m Chucky! Wanna play?” Full disclosure: I put Child’s Play on this year’s lineup mainly to dunk on it. There are a few reasons for this: 1, Chucky is….
31 Days of Fright: The Wicker Man
“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.” Folk horror really is its own beast. Some new entries like The Ritual and Apostle are a little….
31 Days of Fright: Veronica
“Whatever you don’t say goodbye to, stays with you.” Oh man, here’s a good one. When Veronica hit Netflix, articles abounded proclaiming it one of the best horror movies in….
31 Days of Fright: Sometimes They Come Back
“Everything burns.” Adapting Stephen King is like a land grab in the gold rush days: everything is available, and everybody wants it all. Ever since Brian de Palma’s Carrie, King….
31 Days of Fright: Mandy
“I’m your god now.” Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy is not like other horror films, and boy does it want you to know it. It operates in a lurid music-video dreamscape that….
31 Days of Fright: Tales from the Hood
“But you are responsible for the lives you’ve taken…for the dreams you’ve turned into nightmares.” I want to get this out of the way first thing: I am in no….
31 Days of Fright: Train to Busan
“Those on board must survive!” Don’t you love it when a movie lives up to the hype? I’ve had people recommend Train to Busan to me for years, to the….
31 Days of Fright: Noroi: The Curse
“No matter how terrifying, I want the truth.” The best found-footage movies make you feel as though you’re watching something you should not be seeing. That’s the point of the….
31 Days of Fright: Dog Soldiers
“You know what lives in the shadows now. You may never get another night’s sleep as long as you live.” It seems like the werewolf movie is dead as a….
31 Days of Fright: Triangle
“Bad dreams make you think you’re seeing things that you haven’t.” Why isn’t Melissa George a bigger star? One might blame the glut of horror movies in the mid-00s; perhaps….