As so many people did over the last month, I set out for my local multiplex to engage in a practice called Barbenheiming. If you’ve been insulated from any sort of news or media this summer (in which case I envy you, friends), this means pairing up a […]
Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil (2022), also called Gæsterne (The Guests) in Danish, easily places among the most disturbing horror movies I’ve ever seen, and not for the usual reasons. There’s no body horror, no stalking, no over-the-top violence. There’s hardly any violence at all for that matter, […]
Wait, was that real? It’s a question I ask myself more and more often as I whirl around in the blender of art, tech, media, propaganda, and sales pitch that beams into my eye and ear holes from all the electronic devices I own. The lines between news […]
Hundreds of Beavers (USA, 2023) had me from the trailer. I knew I loved it from the moment when I saw a pair of rabbits—played by actors dressed in rabbit mascot suits—turn and look back at the camera. This was cinema, pure cinema. And the trailer didn’t lead […]
Even among the wild personalities on offer in professional wrestling, Japan’s Maki Itoh is, in all ways, an aberration.
With a carnival accordion wheeze, woodcut interstitials, and titles in Wicker Man font, Ric Rawlins’ Rewilding announces itself as exactly what it is–a feast of folk horrors rooted deep in green modern pagan dreams of green pre-Christian pagan rites and the conflict when the modern world scuffs up […]
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