I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024 How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?
Maybe They Should Save Themselves: Maxxxine (2024) as Middle Finger By Orrin Grey • November 6th, 2024 I think that Maxxxine really believes that it has something to say in all those theme-heavy monologues
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.
Exploits Feature Horror and Human Frailty By Michael Caruso • October 1st, 2024 Accept the reality of your mortality, for better or for worse.
“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.
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.