Matt Simon

Matt Simon

Los Angeles
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.
11 min read
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'
5 min read
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
5 min read
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
9 min read
May
24

Stone | Enys Men

Haunted, living, sacred. I caught up late to Mark Jenkin's hypnotic Enys Men, right before I took a
5 min read
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
8 min read
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
6 min read
Oct
12

Rapture | Arrebato

Escaping to cinema, surrendering entirely. I linked an article about Arrebato in my second newsletter, impulse-bought the Blu-ray, watched it,
11 min read
Jun
29

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
9 min read
Jun
05

Sisters | The Seventh Victim

Setting out, shuffling off. I’ve been rather obsessed with Val Lewton’s movies for a long time, and The
8 min read