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.
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'
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
Eyes in the Dark | Watcher
Through windows and cameras.
Chloe Okuno's Watcher is one of my favorite horror releases of recent years. An
Stone | Enys Men
Haunted, living, sacred.
I caught up late to Mark Jenkin's hypnotic Enys Men, right before I took a
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
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
Rapture | Arrebato
Escaping to cinema, surrendering entirely.
I linked an article about Arrebato in my second newsletter, impulse-bought the Blu-ray, watched it,
Space 🪐 | Event Horizon, Pandorum, Sunshine, & Life
Floating free, trapped inside.
I’d been thinking about a film that terrified me as a kid—Event Horizon—and
Sisters | The Seventh Victim
Setting out, shuffling off.
I’ve been rather obsessed with Val Lewton’s movies for a long time, and The