Matt Simon

. . . 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.

The release of the irresistible MaXXXine trailer a few weeks ago prompted me to catch up on Ti West'

I stumbled across Angel Dust, a film I'd never heard of, only a couple of weeks ago while

Through windows and cameras. Chloe Okuno's Watcher is one of my favorite horror releases of recent years. An

Haunted, living, sacred. I caught up late to Mark Jenkin's hypnotic Enys Men, right before I took a

Violence and subjectivity. The discovery for me in my last letter's overview of the horror films of Juraj

After a year of figuring out this newsletter thing, I’ve spent a spell looking back and thinking about where

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

Floating free, trapped inside. I’d been thinking about a film that terrified me as a kid—Event Horizon—and

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