horror

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Visual Arts: “It’s Alive!” — Undying Terror

October 7, 2017
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A terrifically fun — when not spine-tingling — exhibition of horror and sci-fi memorabilia.

Film Review: “The Devil’s Candy” — Wouldst Thou Like to Die, Deliciously?

March 24, 2017
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Horror fans in search of a smarter-than-average thriller that will make their viscera quiver should not miss this one.

Film Review: “At the Devil’s Door” — Satan Never Naps

September 18, 2014
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The highest praise for the way the great cinematographer Bridger Nielson has lit the film’s haunted house..

Film Round-up: Halloween Scarefests on the Silver Screen

October 11, 2011
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In the coming week there will be screenings of a variety of horror films from over the decades — you choose how you want your spine tingled. And don’t forget to dress up

Movie Review: Beware the Tire From Hell

May 3, 2011
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That Rubber fails to accomplish much of interest is really a shame. Call it a waste of potential: this film is, perhaps in spite of itself, sharply current—an ideal cinematic concept of the Internet age, self-consciousness gone a muck. Rubber. Directed by Quentin Dupieux. At Kendall Square Cinema. By Taylor Adams French director Quentin Dupieux’s…

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