horror

Book Review: Bora Chung’s “Your Utopia” — A Deep, Rich Well of Imagination

February 22, 2024
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The stories in this collection are uneven, although to my mind the beauty and brilliance of the best outweigh the others.

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Film Review: “Talk to Me” — Hand of Glory

July 30, 2023
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Despite the lack of background or explanation for the occult item at the center of “Talk to Me,” I found it relatively easy to suspend my disbelief and become caught up in the story’s momentum.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Red Rose” is Teen Social Media Horror

March 9, 2023
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Technology-driven horror narratives are ubiquitous these days: Red Rose has an authentic look that makes its creepiness distressingly plausible.

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Film Review: “Spiral” — One More Spin of the “Saw”

May 14, 2021
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Spiral is content to be a satisfying thriller that mechanically delivers as its murderous pace picks up.

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Film Review: “In the Earth” — Nature is Squealing

April 30, 2021
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Director Ben Wheatley has a knack for creating characters whose anti-social behavior is shocking.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “Marianne” — Pure, Artful Evil

November 23, 2019
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Marianne is one of the slickest horror series I’ve seen on Netflix.

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Film Review: “Luz” — Strangely Compelling Retro Horror

August 3, 2019
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A genre debut as self-assured as Luz is always exciting.

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Film Review: “Border” — Memorable Swedish Gothicism

October 28, 2018
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Border memorably skims the border between reality and the supernatural, examining the irreconcilable division between the civilized and the perverse.

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WATCH CLOSELY: Netflix’s “Dark” — Childhood Horrors, Revisited

August 20, 2018
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Dark is not a German version of Stranger Things; its historical vision is distinctive.

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Film Commentary: October — A Month of Horror, Multiplying

October 16, 2017
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I love subtlety, and beauty, and trash, and terror, in equal measure.

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