You Can’t Escape from Yourself: The Substance (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 3rd, 2024 One of my pet peeves in modern horror films is when the central premise works only as metaphor, not as actual text.
Funeral Rites Getting Lost in the Melodious World of the Ballads of Oræd By Orrin Grey • September 27th, 2024 On the table next to the candle is a book that you don’t remember seeing before. The book itself feels at once familiar and strange, as though you have read it before, perhaps in a dream. The title is Ballads of Oræd.
No Gods, No Masters: When Titans Ruled Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • September 20th, 2024 Clash of the Titans came out during the baffling moment when Sam Worthington was being cast as the lead in everything.
“Abigail, Don’t You Think I Know What You’ve Done?” By Orrin Grey • September 9th, 2024 Even without its marketing campaign sweeping any legs it might ever have possessed out from under it, however, Abigail was never destined to be any great shakes.
Cover Reveal: Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark! By Orrin Grey • September 4th, 2024 Peel your skin off and have a seat!
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Chimeras and Changelings in Cuckoo (2024) and Longlegs (2024) By Orrin Grey • August 26th, 2024 Perhaps there’s something going on here; a thematic resonance, a moment in the zeitgeist, that will be teased out with the passage of time, subsequent viewings, and the work of other scholars.
I Played It, Like, Twice... The Monster Race: Simple Times with the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2024 When it comes to comparing the Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Game to any of the other Scooby-Doo games we’ve covered here, there’s really no comparison at all.
Uninvited and Unseen: Two Chilly Classics of the 1940s on Blu-ray Together By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2024 The success of The Uninvited hangs in the air around Lewis Allen’s 1945 follow-up, The Unseen.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Space is the Place: Starcadia Quest and the Mystery of Aesthetics By Orrin Grey • July 16th, 2024 It may be unsurprising to learn that Starcadia Quest is pretty much the exact same game as Arcadia Quest but in spaaaaaaaaaace!
626 Day This is Your Badness Level: Lilo & Stitch and Mental Health By Orrin Grey • June 26th, 2024 As a weird kid myself, who grew up into a weird adult, it’s easy to see aspects of myself in both Lilo and Stitch – and I’m not alone.
