Krell Laboratories

One of the least heralded tropes in the horror toolbox is the idea of wrong geometry, the idea that the shape of the world is just a littl...

I don't think more than five minutes had elapsed at the start of Immaculate (2024, directed by Michael Mohan) before I started thinki...

I did a podcast a while back discussing Kier-la Janisse's massive folk horror documentary, Woodland's Dark and Days Bewitched , i...

Although The Fury (1978, directed by Brian De Palma) is the director's dumbest film--which is saying something--it has its compensati...

It never occurred to me that Jerusalem's Lot was a sundown town until two of the central characters in the story were racebent. If yo...

I'm kicking off this year's October Horror Movie Challenge with a conversation with my friend, Donna K, about The Substance (2024, ...

It's been a while since I spun the Netflix Roulette wheel. Back in the day, it was a good way to generate ideas for blogging. The down...

"Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."--William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I,...

You don't have to squint very hard to see the provenance of Cold Blows the Wind (2023, directed by Eric Williford). It's part Sho...

An audience's response to The Vourdalak (2023, directed by Adrien Beau) will hinge entirely on how it reacts to the title character, ...

If Cary Grant was the king of the screwball comedy, then the queen was Carole Lombard. Grant and Lombard appeared in the same film three t...

My friend, Aaron Christensen, invited me back on his video podcast to talk about one the horror movies that made the biggest impact on the y...

Lisa Frankenstein (2024, directed by Zelda Williams). I'm sure the name came first. Surely screenwriter Diablo Cody thought of the pl...

It is easy in film critic land to ascribe the shape and form of most films to an overriding artistic impulse on the part of the filmmakers...

It takes real effort to make a movie as breathtakingly awful as Madame Web (2024, directed by S. J. Clarkson), a film that can stand with...

Thirty-Day Princess (1934, directed by Marion Gering) finds Cary Grant fading into the scenery a bit. This isn't the only case of thi...

It seems absurd at this late date to be rediscovering the depth of metaphor in Ishiro Honda's Godzilla . Godzilla has been an icon of ...

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, directed by Frank Capra) is probably the most divisive film in Cary Grant's filmography. It is perenniall...

It's a shame that they're killers, because cigarettes used to be the most valuable prop in movies. There are whole films from the ...

"I got ants in my pants and I need to dance!" -- James Brown It's been a while since I've seen Them! (1954, directe...

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the...

My first impression of Suitable Flesh (2023, directed by Joe Lynch) during its first act was that it didn't feel like a horror movie ...

The Vampire Bat (1933, directed by Frank R. Strayer) is filmmaking opportunism at its finest. Its studio, Majestic Pictures, had a reputa...

Here's another edition of my friend, Aaron's, Scare-a-thon. I'm on the panel here. It's for a good cause. There are a co...

"Stiff." That's the word for most films from the dawn of talkies. "Stilted" is a good one, too. The Thirteenth Cha...

Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) is a pivotal movie in the history of horror movies. It is the first major horror film of the sound era....

Here's another roundtable discussion with my friend and former erstwhile editor, Dr. AC about one of my favorite filmmakers. I need to t...

According to one of my old spiral-bound movie notebooks, I saw Doctor X (1932, directed by Michael Curtiz) some time during my time as a ...

My partner and I were speculating in the course of a long drive last week about favorite authors we would like to have met. We've met ...

I was eight years old the first time I saw The Thing from Another World (1951, directed by Christian Nyby). It played in the middle of a ...