Oculus, or, Antiques Creepshow
Oculus is Mike Flanagan doing his thing in a story about interior decorating and intense trauma
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Members Only
Two tangentially-related tunes for all the international nasty girls
Good Boy, or, Every Dog Has His Day of the Dead
Good Boy is a fairly scary and upsetting haunted house movie about a very good dog
Know Thyself
Integrity vs ego, and how the ancient Greeks might help us navigate the 21st century
Bone Lake, or, The Odd Couple
I can tell that Bone Lake is doing something right, because it does as much with social anxiety as with violence and gore, but it was still pretty fun
The Paradox of the Thirst Trap
A random observation about how a culture that gets more liberal also gets more prudish, because if everything is sexy, nothing is
Dream Warriors, or, One, Two, Eighties Coming For You
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 might’ve been a somewhat cool movie if not for its franchise and its decade
Under the Skin, or, Black Widow
A striking and unsettling science fiction horror story that makes the most out of a black void and Scarlett Johansson
Dracula, or, There’s Some Horrors in This House
Some quick thoughts about Hammer’s 1958 classic Horror of Dracula. (Spoilers for a movie from almost 70 years ago)
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Sooner or Later
Two tangentially-related tunes for two dozen other dirty lovers
The Innocents and the surprising rarity of satisfying ghost stories
My thoughts on the 1961 film The Innocents and how hard it is to find a good old-fashioned haunting
Reaction Heroes
A simple yet shockingly insightful observation about super-hero inflation and bringing the stakes back into action movies