31 Days of Fright: Verotika
“Hello, my darklings.” It’s hard to know where to start when discussing Verotika. This film is so astoundingly bad, so astonishingly inept in every single direction, so unintentionally hilarious, that….
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31 Days of Fright: The Bad Seed
“Children can be nasty, don’t you think?” I’m not sure if The Bad Seed was the first creepy kid movie, but it was certainly the most popular. The 1956 film….
31 Days of Fright: The Changeling
“That house is not fit to live in. No one’s been able to live in it. It doesn’t want people.” Death is a big part of horror as a genre…..
31 Days of Fright: Session 9
“It’s going to get ugly.” If I were to describe Session 9 to you, it would sound like the most insipid montage of cliches: a horror movie set in a….
31 Days of Fright: Castle Freak
“There’s somebody in the castle!” Even for a Stuart Gordon film, Castle Freak is a tough watch. Gordon was a director renowned for his unhinged excess – look no further….
31 Days of Fright: Emelie
“Sometimes it’s okay to destroy something for fun.” Emelie, like its title character, is a nasty, insidious thing. At its best, Michael Thelin’s film is unsettling and deeply uncomfortable, producing….
31 Days of Fright: Suspiria (2018)
“I am she.” There are some movies that are generally considered too sacrosanct to remake. This is why we’re never getting a Casablanca with Zac Efron, and why The Social….
31 Days of Fright: Suspiria
“Hell is behind that door!” A few years back, when reviewing the wretched, incompetent Friday the 13th, I wondered if a movie can be considered a classic if it isn’t….
31 Days of Fright: Phantasm
“You play a good game, boy, but the game is over. Now you die.” Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm is a lot of things. It’s incoherently plotted, poorly edited, the acting is….
The Quarantine Playlist: Apocalypto
Every criticism of Mel Gibson as a person is valid. He’s racist, homophobic, sexist, and anti-Semitic. By any conceivable metric, he is a piece of shit. This isn’t the place….
The Quarantine Playlist: Anatomy of a Murder
There’s something so inherently American about the legal drama. It’s the idea that our institutions work the way they’re supposed to, the idea that fairness and right will win out….
The Quarantine Playlist: Amistad
When you found your own film studio, you can do whatever the hell you want. It’s common knowledge. That’s not quite what Steven Spielberg did after co-founding Dreamworks, but it’s….