Aug
26
Jester, Vamp, & Bus Creep
It's been two weeks focusing on the higher brow end of horror cinema, so we're turning
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Aug
19
Faces, Sharks, & Dreams
This week we’re beginning with Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux sans visage), Georges Franju’s 1960 horror classic,
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Aug
12
New Format, Silent Lambs
Welcome to a new version of this newsletter. I've been writing essays and other long-form projects elsewhere, so
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Jul
10
The Horror of Osgood Perkins | The Blackcoat's Daughter & I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
. . . a surprising one-two punch from a filmmaker coming onto the scene: one an intricate puzzle of a possession story, the other a minimalist ghost story uninterested in twists and turns.
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May
02
Pearl and the Tone of Genre
The release of the irresistible MaXXXine trailer a few weeks ago prompted me to catch up on Ti West'
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Apr
17
Public Dread and Gakuryū Ishii’s Angel Dust
I stumbled across Angel Dust, a film I'd never heard of, only a couple of weeks ago while
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Dec
05
Eyes in the Dark | Watcher
Through windows and cameras.
Chloe Okuno's Watcher is one of my favorite horror releases of recent years. An
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May
24
Stone | Enys Men
Haunted, living, sacred.
I caught up late to Mark Jenkin's hypnotic Enys Men, right before I took a
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Apr
19
Beauty, Beast, Virgin, Monster | Panna a Netvor & La Belle et la Bete
Violence and subjectivity.
The discovery for me in my last letter's overview of the horror films of Juraj
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Apr
05
WATCHLIST: The Distinctive, Uninhibited Horror Films of Juraj Herz
After a year of figuring out this newsletter thing, I’ve spent a spell looking back and thinking about where
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