Krell Laboratories

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

"I knew what was art and what was shit. But sometimes the shit was more interesting." -- Mary Woronov The first film I ever ...

I dimly remember the events at Gallaudet University covered in Deaf President Now! (2025, directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim), ...

Director Charlie Shackelton was careful to note that The Zodiac Killer Project (2025) isn't really about the Zodiac Killer when he to...

The annual True/False film festival has arrived in my fair city once again this past weekend, and I have once again been knee-deep in non-...

"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 ...

Christopher Landon is having a ball these days making pop horror movie mash-ups. His new film Heart Eyes (2025), which he wrote and produ...

I was on Dr. AC's podcast again this week, talking about Psycho (1960) and its progeny. I had a particular ax to grind with the politics...

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! ...

Director Steven Soderbergh "retired" from movies in 2013, more than a decade ago at this point. Since then, he has continued to ...

Mae West claimed all her life that she had discovered Cary Grant. "He had only done a few screen tests" before she plucked him ...

"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...

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

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

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...

My friend Aaron Christensen had me on his vid cast again this month to talk about two landmarks of Japanese horror cinema, Onibaba and Kwai...

During the years-long production of Howard Hughes's World War I epic, Hell's Angels , Hughes shot 250 feet of aviation footage for...

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...