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March 2026

March 20, 2026

Undertone: Scary, Scary Sound

I finally got back to the theater this week and caught undertone (2025), a Canadian...

October 2025

October 19, 2025

I Walked with a Zombie: Guilt in the Antilles

“Put the planter on a horse, and he’ll ride to his own death.” So says...

October 13, 2025

Altered States: Nutshell 20th Century

I’ve taken the Ken Russell plunge. First, The Devils (1971), the writer-director’s valediction to Catholicism,...

December 2024

December 06, 2024

Mr. Vampire: Give Me Goofy or Give Me Death!

I’m late to the party. Ricky Lau’s Mr. Vampire (1985) spawned several sequels and seems...

August 2024

August 26, 2024

Lesser Bergman?

After a week of travel and sickness, this will be more an exhortation than a...

October 2023

October 05, 2023

Screeches in the Night, What Music They Make

Most mornings my wife and I walk our dogs early in the morning. I mean,...

October 05, 2023

Blankly Staring at the Past

I don’t like saying movies age poorly. It feels impolite like asking a lady her...

September 2023

September 12, 2023

Show Me an Honest Man (High School Student)

Massacre at Central High (1976) has that peculiar quality by which something that anticipates a...

August 2023

August 08, 2023

Talk to the Hand (Sorry)

There’s an episode from one of my favorite childhood cartoons, Recess (1997-2001), called “The Game.”...

June 2023

June 21, 2023

Teach It Phenomenology!

It may come as a surprise to some Halloween (1978) fans that John Carpenter’s debut...

June 16, 2023

The Found Footage Curse

Found footage movies face a fundamental problem: editing. For a film to be “found” its...

June 09, 2023

Not Another Social Media Movie!

Influencer (2022) is the sort of movie in which a ruddy, sopping-wet Englishman sidles up...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

Vats and Vats of Bloody Alfredo Sauce

Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round (2022) is a work of décollage. But of what? Romantic...

April 17, 2023

Now That’s What I Call a Horror Movie!

I caught some flak for trashing Barbarian (2022). I’m not surprised. I hated the pilot...

April 11, 2023

Please Stop Trying to Make “Smart” Horror Movies. Please, God. Please

You can rip his pair of striped pants off and slash away his mustache, but...

February 2023

February 21, 2023

Flesh, Suburbia, and Agent Orange

Bob Balaban. The name’s enough really. If I had seen it on a page before...

October 2022

October 22, 2022

The Total Stranger: Your Best Friend

It might be Sweeney Todd’s (2007) fault. When I hear about a barber-serial killer, I...

October 08, 2022

How Bravo (Nearly) Ruined (Lots of) Horror Movies for Me (a Vulnerable Child)

When I was a kid, two pieces of media ruined a plethora of movie endings...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

Share a Can of Wine with Me?

Mark Proksch is great. So great, in fact, that I, jealous man that I am,...

September 06, 2022

Fact, Fiction, or Just the Way Things Are?

1998’s The Last Broadcast is a movie made for me. I am a staunch New...

August 2022

August 26, 2022

Wake Me Up When I’m Rock Hudson, then Kill Me

Reincarnation always seemed worse than Hell to me. Never mind that I feel pretty bound...

July 2022

July 22, 2022

Murdered on the Fourth of July

A disfigured corpse sits in a burnt-out helicopter somewhere in the Kuwaiti desert. The officer...

July 18, 2022

Tammy Does T-Rex

Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) is a B-movie done well and under immense pressure. Maybe...

June 2022

June 20, 2022

If Ray Liotta’s Her Ex, Get Out of Dodge

It’s a little late to eulogize Ray Liotta. He died three weeks ago. And yet...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

All Your Teachers Are Belong to Us

1998’s The Faculty (dir. Robert Rodriguez) breaks the golden rule: never mention a better work...

April 2022

April 04, 2022

Old-Fashioned Ghoulish Fun

A few weeks ago I chanced upon a video interview with a real, live Appalachian...

February 2022

February 26, 2022

Body-Swap Slasher Fails to Freak

When Bo Burnham’s Netflix special, Inside (2021), lamented a year at home and a society...

March 2016

March 06, 2016

The Witch: The Fruits of Desire

(The following contains spoilers. And while I hope to keep them mild, if you haven’t...