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Title card for Silent Running, with a beaming sun visible just over the top of a spiked geodesic dome floating through space

Everyone Has a Job: The Future of Silent Running (1972)

By Orrin Grey • December 13th, 2022

Anyone who complains that modern movies are too didactic probably shouldn’t watch Silent Running, which puts all its theses into the mouth of Bruce Dern’s space-bound ecologist.

Rookie of the Year
A still Gerald's Game shows a woman crying on the floor of a bedroom. The bedclothes are bloodied and she is handcuffed to the body of her dead husband.

Your Post-Halloween Horror Movie Questions Answered!

By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2022

Streaming random horror movies, especially without checking Rotten Tomatoes before you start them, can lead to a lot of unanswered questions concerning plot holes or peculiar character motivations.

A crop of the cover for No Escape, featuring Vincent's brother looking concerned, a gangster staring down the scope of a rifle launcher, and the reasonable Ghostbuster with a very fierce expression on his face

Not in the World: The Unlikely Precognition of No Escape (1994)

By Orrin Grey • December 8th, 2022

In fact, to the extent that No Escape has anything more novel to say than “prisons are bad” – which they are, and it’s great when movies say so, but like “war is hell” it may be true but it’s also a bit of a cliché in pictures like this – it’s probably something to do with its many meditations on guilt, and what guilt should cost us.

Mind Palaces
A still from the movie Barbarian shows a woman with long curly hair standing on a porch gazing off into the night.

Go In Blind

By Maddi Chilton • December 6th, 2022

There’s a very simple reason why you have to go into Barbarian blind: because the big twist makes no sense.

Exploits Feature

My Least Favorite C-Word

By M. Shaw • December 1st, 2022

Every brush I’ve had with actually celebrating Christmas has been a complete horror show.

Run It Back
A black and white photograph of several Black Americans rioting in the street in the 1970s.

1973

By Oluwatayo Adewole • November 29th, 2022

A poetic embodiment of the fever-dream feelings within The Spook Who Sat By The Door and Ganja & Hess.

Self-Insert
A still from Breaking Dawn shows a close-up of Bella Swan at the end of her pregnancy. Her face is gaunt and skeletal.

Monstrous Pregnancy

By Amanda Hudgins • October 28th, 2022

Birth is one of the few acts of love that can kill you, a messy, bloody affair that demands everything of the birthing partner.

Run It Back

1943

By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 26th, 2022

How do you see that the world is bigger and more full of mystery than you had ever imagined and yet still your purest impulse continues to be to subjugate?

Eyeing Elsewhere
Hellraiser's Female Cenobite, Pinhead, and Butterball stand in front of starkly back-lit binds.

On Monsters and Ourselves

By Phillip Russell • October 25th, 2022

Hell in the Hellraiser universe reflects back to others what they struggle with the most. It’s a fluid space that changes as our own sense of self does.

Feature Story
A painting of the many-headed King Ghidorah surrounded by a hazy orange glow. The three heads are roaring into the sky.

Monstrous

By David Shimomura • October 22nd, 2022

Monsters, necessarily, cannot be “bad.” Instead, like many horrors, the true monsters are dark reflections of our anxieties and stresses.

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