Category: Feature Articles

FEAR OF THE WORKING MAN: CLASS CONFLICT AND MASCUL...

Posted by Martyn Conterio | May 13, 2021 | Feature Articles, Slider | 1

Primetime Phantoms: William Friedkin’s Television Horrors

by Tom Clark | Sep 1, 2022 | 0

William Friedkin’s television works are more than brief detours, being highlights for their respective series while sharing enough DNA with his feature genre films to be included in the conversation.

By Demons Be Driven: William Friedkin’s The Devil and Father Amorth (2018)

by Tom Clark | Jul 28, 2022 | 0

Despite its brisk 68-minute run time, The Devil and Father Amorth does offer quite a bit for skeptics, true believers and the still undecided to work out.

Brief History of Aquatic Horror, 5: In the Deep, No One Can Hear You Scream

by Niina Doherty | Jul 28, 2022 | 0

1989 was a busy year for underwater adventures. Bringing the raddest decade in history to a close...

Outlook and Existential Dread: The Seventh Seal (1957)

by Jerome Reuter | Jul 26, 2022 | 0

The challenge for any writer of film criticism is figuring out how to properly dissect and...

Aping the Original: Peter Jackson’s Homage to King Kong

by Craig Martin | Jul 22, 2022 | 0

Peter Jackson’s 2005 King Kong remake opens on the homeless Depression-era denizens of New...

Ghastly Funeral Theatre: Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body and Demon Pond

by Tom Clark | Jul 11, 2022 | 0

While an exciting new name for many outside of Japan when Audition (オーディション; Ōdishon, 1999)...

A Conversation with the Legendary L.Q. Jones (1927-2022)

by Andrew J. Rausch | Jul 10, 2022 | 0

Legendary actor L.Q. Jones died yesterday at the age of 94. He appeared in some of the greatest...

Malignant: More Than the Sum of Its Parts

by William O’Donnell | Jun 29, 2022 | 1

One of the most polarizing horror films released in 2021 is James Wan’s Malignant. Love it or hate...

Brief History of Aquatic Horror, Part 4: Man-Made Monsters

by Niina Doherty | Jun 10, 2022 | 0

The 1960’s and 1970’s were shadowed by numerous ecological catastrophes that made people stop and...

Hollow (Formerly Known as Wyvern Hill) (2022): Revisiting the Grande Dame Guignol

by Miranda Corcoran | May 30, 2022 | 1

Elderly women have long been central figures in the horror genre. Although the image of the...

Brief History of Aquatic Horror, Part 3: Children of Jaws

by Niina Doherty | May 26, 2022 | 0

The success of Jaws not only spawned a streak of ever worsening sequels, but also inspired other filmmakers to have a stab at the killer shark genre, creating an array of cheap rip offs that shamelessly rode on the coattails of its colossal success.