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Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Revisiting The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Its Progeny at Horror 101

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Seeing the original 1956 version of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers when I was nine years old was a formative experience for me, which...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Revisiting Duel (1971) at Horror 101

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My friend, Dr. AC, had me back on his Horror 101 cast again to talk about Duel (1971), the TV movie that put Steven Spielberg on the map....
Sunday, November 23, 2025

The Krell Laboratories Podcast: The Movies and Mr. King

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I had a long conversation with besties, Anna Maurya and Jenni Shwaner, about this year's crop of Stephen King adaptations, including ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The Pendulum Swings

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“And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.” ― Edgar Allan...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Shakin' All Over

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I originally saw Tremors (1990, directed by Ron Underwood) when it was in theaters and then never afterwards. I may have seen bits of it ...
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Saturday, October 04, 2025

Look Into My Eyes

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H (2002, directed by Jong-Hyuk Lee) appeared right at the crest of the K-horror boom of the early aughts, so it found its way into relati...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Waiting on the Worms

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For some incomprehensible reason, my local Pride celebration was held this year on the first weekend of October. The organizers and the lo...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Looking Back at Peeping Tom at Horror 101

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I was invited to the panel at Horror 101 with Dr. AC again to talk about one of my very favorite horror movies, Michael Powell's Peepin...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Eye of the Beholder

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The plot of The Ugly Stepsister is Cinderella as seen from the point of view of Elvira, the elder stepsister. As the film opens, Elvir...
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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 ...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

A Monkey on Your Back

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"I was in New York on business about four years ago. I was walking back to my hotel after visiting my people at New American Library ...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

No Strings Attached

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I've got no strings So I have fun I'm not tied up to anyone They've got strings But you can see There are no strings on me! ...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

The Tameness of a Wolf

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"He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath." --Willia...
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...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Once Upon a Time

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I did a podcast a while back discussing Kier-la Janisse's massive folk horror documentary, Woodland's Dark and Days Bewitched , i...
Monday, October 07, 2024

Veterans of the Psychic Wars

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