Personal Items Work Best: Oddity (2024) By Orrin Grey • October 31st, 2024 Oddity is an extremely slow burn, though it keeps elements of eeriness and dread close at hand.
Feature Story Nothing But Respect for My President Whipped Crème By Orrin Grey • October 25th, 2024 Does each peak hold beautifully from kitchen to plate, as the can promises? Is it sure to impress? Will it make my family love me?
I Played It, Like, Twice... Midnight in the Garden of Goo: Going Haunting with Bump in the Night By Orrin Grey • October 22nd, 2024 There’s an odd sense that, somehow, what we’re pulling from are more weirdo Italian movies like Ghosthouse than more standard haunted house fare.
I Played It, Like, Twice Everyone’s Heard the Stories: Dungeon Crawling in the Haunted Heartland with The Ghosts Betwixt By Orrin Grey • October 8th, 2024 The Ghosts Betwixt takes a cue from Stranger Things to tell a story set in the “1990s haunted heartland”
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.
