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June 2018

June 18, 2018

Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your…: I review “Hereditary”

(and beat up a bit on The Babadook) There are deaths that liberate a family....

April 2018

April 28, 2018

God and Other Strangers: Short movie reviews

Best one first! Ushpizin: A poor, childless Orthodox Jewish couple in Jerusalem have no idea...

April 14, 2018

“Mom Was Always Home”: Oculus

Oculus is a time-bending, hallucination-filled tale of an old and evil mirror that destroys a...

March 2018

March 21, 2018

http://witches.gov.zm: I review “I Am Not a Witch”

at First Things: I Am Not a Witch, the brilliant feature debut of Zambian-Welsh writer...

March 19, 2018

Against Competence: Short movie reviews

Clash: On paper, this is a fairly formulaic movie. During the 2013 conflict between supporters...

March 05, 2018

“Is Fun Evil?”: Short movie reviews

Extremely '70s rural vampires, a black neorealist classic of work and childhood, and South African...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned. It’s Been Two Hundred Years Since My Last Confession…

I stayed up 'til 1:30 this morning to finish Gabriel Blanchard's Victorian vampire novel, Death's...

February 04, 2018

I Pay Tribute to John Bellairs, The Mackerel-Snapping Master of Moppet Macabre

at the University Bookman: Children fell in love with the tales of John Bellairs (1938–1991)...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

Only Loved at Night: Short movie reviews + one book

Scarface: Slinky, sleazy Paul Muni. I guess it's ok to totally glamorize murder if you...

November 2017

November 12, 2017

You Cannot Serve Both Audrey and Audrey II

Halloween season means spooky movie revivals! AFI showed a whole mess of films by the...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Catholic Horror and the Two Theologies of “The Witch”

A couple notes of Halloweenery for you. First, I did a piece for a Scottish...

October 02, 2017

Talks from Doxacon 2017–Christian Sci-Fi/Fantasy Con

If you all missed Doxacon this past summer, you can still hear the presentations here....

September 2017

September 07, 2017

Abnormal Beauties: Short horror reviews (films and book)

I recently got to live out a childhood dream. My best friend sent me to...

August 2017

August 14, 2017

Pretty Girls Make Graves: Short movie and book reviews

Films first. Poltergeist: The last movie I saw before my (successful, thank you St Lucy)...

July 2017

July 05, 2017

Between the Promise and the Payoff Falls the Shadow: Movie and music reviews

It Comes at Night: This film is incredibly effective at creating tension and dread, and...

June 2017

June 05, 2017

Post-Demon Stress Syndrome: Some horror-flick reviews

Stake Land: A teenage boy and his grizzled mentor travel north through a vampire-ridden, devastated...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

What If We Remade “I Confess”… But Sleazy?: And more movie notes

Wow, guys, this is a lot. Strap in. A Cottage on Dartmoor: British silent revenge...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Moving Pictures from an Institution: Movie notes

Four films linked by a really depressing theme! Scum: Our institution: a 1970s Borstal (juvenile...

March 11, 2017

The Viscerally Satisfying “Get Out”: My review

for America magazine: Rarely have I seen a movie audience as viscerally satisfied as the...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids: Three short horror movie reviews

A little of everything here. Left Bank: Artsy Belgian psychological suspense flick about an injured...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Country Darkness: I read “‘Salem’s Lot”

After I finished Alan Moore's hulking tome Jerusalem (of which more presently) I picked up...

January 11, 2017

No Horror But the Class Horror: Short movie reviews with an unexpected theme

Compulsion: The other, other Leopold and Loeb flick (after Rope and Swoon, although idk, maybe...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Calendar of Blood: “Holidays”

So since I'm me, I took the time during this Octave of Christmas to watch...

December 02, 2016

“Spirits, What Have You to Say?”: I watch “Ouija: Origin of Evil”

If you're interested in present-day portrayals of Vatican II-era Catholicism, it's pretty fascinating. If you're...

October 2016

October 08, 2016

The Long Halloween: Some quick movie reviews

The House at the End of Time: Twisty Venezuelan family/haunted-house horror about an older woman...

September 2016

September 09, 2016

“Escape from Detroit”: I watch “Don’t Breathe”

for AmCon, and end up ranting about the sacred Victim, obviously: Don’t Breathe, the new...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

A Long Summer: Movie notes

In the order I saw them. Saving the best for last. Hush: Home-invasion horror centering...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

The Only Song in the World: Short movie notes

In order of when I saw them, so this will get whiplashy. Me Without You:...

July 18, 2016

The Cathedral-Builders: Movie notes

In chronological order of when I saw them. The cathedrals are toward the end. Vic...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Laughing for No Reason: Some short movie notes

Under the Shadow: Iranian horror set during the Iran-Iraq War. The movie opens with Shideh...