I would pretty much always prefer to watch shows where nothing bad happens to the folks who are minding their own business. I get enough reality in the world without having random terrible things happen in my entertainment to bring home to me how easy it is for […]
That darkness is a part of me. Living in a world without streetlights allows you to understand the true meaning of utter darkness. White indicates a lack of matter, while black shows an abundance. It makes you think that something is lurking just beyond, hidden in the blackness. […]
Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation (2015) is the kind of film that almost resists genre as its genre; that is to say, its mutability makes for part of its substance. As an impressively sustained exercise in ambiguous dread, it tries on the skins of awards-season drama, psychological thriller, a […]
Like George Costanza, I’ve often wanted to pretend to be an architect, and an offshoot of this dream is to do some kind of major study of the architecture of evil spaces in Hindi movies. The most distinctive visual marker—physical manifestation, even—of evil in Bollywood is the villain […]
We people of Earth are experiencing a renaissance in horror on TV like we’ve never enjoyed before, as traditional gatekeepers are dispersed in the wild hunt for content, any content that is compelling or innovative or just plain outré enough to collect people at watercoolers, where presumably advertisers can […]
While reading other people’s articles as a way of procrastinating writing my own, I started to add a comment on comics editor Carol Borden’s A Very Modern Coyote, and two paragraphs in I realized I was actually writing my article. Brains are sneaky that way. I’d kind of […]
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