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Showing posts with label 2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2024. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Krell Laboratories Podcast: Rita (2024) and The Devil's Bath (2024)

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My irregular podcast returns with conversations with friends of the blog, Kevin Matthews and Anna Maurya about two historical international ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Said the Spider to the Fly...

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The prologue of Sting (2024, directed by Kiah Roche-Turner) is a concise and entirely satisfying little short story in which a woman suffe...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

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The Damned (2024, directed by Thordur Palsson) is a film that shows the widening influence of Robert Eggers on cinema. Elements of all of ...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Needles and Pins

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The Girl with the Needle (2024, directed by Magnus von Horn) is a film so relentlessly grim that a home viewer might opt out of it before...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know

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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...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

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I don't think more than five minutes had elapsed at the start of Immaculate (2024, directed by Michael Mohan) before I started thinki...
Friday, October 04, 2024

Just After Sunset

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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...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

The Krell Laboratories Podcast: The Substance (2024)

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I'm kicking off this year's October Horror Movie Challenge with a conversation with my friend, Donna K, about The Substance (2024, ...
Friday, July 19, 2024

No Evil Angel

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"Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."--William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I,...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2024

One Damned Thing After Another

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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...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Wait Until Your Father Gets Home

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An audience's response to The Vourdalak (2023, directed by Adrien Beau) will hinge entirely on how it reacts to the title character, ...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

A Retro Prometheus

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Lisa Frankenstein (2024, directed by Zelda Williams). I'm sure the name came first. Surely screenwriter Diablo Cody thought of the pl...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

A Tangled Web

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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...