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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...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

Not Fade Away

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I'm sure I saw The Invisible Man Returns (1940, directed by Joe May) when I was a kid, but I didn't remember much except some of ...
Friday, September 05, 2025

The Grant Mystique: Dream Wife (1953)

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Some years ago I complained that once World War II ended, Cary Grant was content to settle into inane sitcoms rather than the kind of spar...
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...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Revisiting Dead Of Night at Horror 101

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I was invited back to Dr. AC's Horror 101 podcast to talk about Dead of Night (1945). It's a film I wrote about for his book, Horr...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Hide Me Among the Graves

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"And mother, when the big tears fall, (And fall, God knows, they may) Tell him I died of my great love And my dying heart was gay....
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 ...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Stars in B-Movies Blogathon 2025: Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel and Eating Raoul

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"I knew what was art and what was shit. But sometimes the shit was more interesting." -- Mary Woronov The first film I ever ...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

True/False 2025: Silent Movies

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I dimly remember the events at Gallaudet University covered in Deaf President Now! (2025, directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim), ...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

True/False 2025: True Crime

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Director Charlie Shackelton was careful to note that The Zodiac Killer Project (2025) isn't really about the Zodiac Killer when he to...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

True/False 2025: Women in STEM

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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-...
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 ...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Stupid Cupid

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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...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Horror 101: The Psycho Legacy and the Politics of Images

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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...
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, February 02, 2025

A First-Person Haunting

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Director Steven Soderbergh "retired" from movies in 2013, more than a decade ago at this point. Since then, he has continued to ...
Saturday, February 01, 2025

The Grant Mystique: She Done Him Wrong (1933)

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Mae West claimed all her life that she had discovered Cary Grant. "He had only done a few screen tests" before she plucked him ...
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, January 06, 2025

Revisiting Horror 101: Onibaba and Kwaidan

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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...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

The Grant Mystique: Suzy (1936)

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