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Depictions of Trauma in ‘When a Stranger Calls Back’
When a Stranger Calls Back is a stalker-slasher that stands apart from other films in the genre, giving fans a more rounded, nuanced vision into how trauma might be dealt with in a horror film, without sacrificing the scares.
The Shining’s Final Girl: Wendy Torrance & Vulnerability
The real horror behind The Shining is the emotional labor of Wendy Torrance. Wendy Torrance is the ultimate Final Girl and the heroine we didn’t know we needed.
Movie Review: Haunt (2019)
An incredibly fun Halloween horror watch, Haunt captures the thrills and chills of the season and the extremes we’ll push ourselves to for the sake of October. but also reveals some genre sore spots.
AHS 1984: Season Finale
The energy of the pressing episodes might as well have been like any ’80s hair band song—it was fast, loud and heavy.
AHS 1984: Episode One
Through the grainy effects used, I was tricked and transformed straight into the cliché horror-movie sex scene—you know, where everyone is obviously going to die.
A resurgence of Folk-Horror - Round Table Discussion of “Midsommar”
Largely billed as horror that takes place in broad daylight, Midsommar was director and screenwriter Ari Aster’s first heavy-hitting film following Hereditary. In this collaborative review, we hear from all three founding writers on their perspectives in the resurgence of folk-horror.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Even by today’s standards, we can unfortunately predict that such a polite, attractive and considerate person isn’t easy to come by. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile never delivers that fear-for-your-life expectation, not until the very end.