There are many qualities about the work of Jerzy Skolimowski that capture our attention, but none of them is as notable as the fact that he seems impossible to pin down to a particular style, and over the course of a career that has lasted over half a century, he has seemingly evaded making the…
Category: Horror
Undertone (2026)
There are many ways to look at horror and why it is arguably one of the most successful genres when it comes to fiction, regardless of the medium you are looking at it through. Whether a visual medium like film or television, or in the written form, there have been some incredibly influential works constructed…
Cold Storage (2026)
The nature of cinema (or any artistic medium) is that it is divided into periods, and in each of these, certain genres and movements wax and wane, peaking in popularity and then declining. It’s the way the industry works, especially since they base their work on audience expectations and desires. As a result, certain genres…
Primate (2026)
What is it that separates humans from animals? Is it sentience or our ability to form complex language systems, or the fact that we’ve essentially conquered the world and become an apex predator that is feared by all other creatures walking our planet? The reality is that there is very little that divides us from…
Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)
If given the opportunity to give our loved ones the best chance of success and eternal protection, the vast majority of us would not even consider hesitating. The idea of being able to ensure those closest to us achieve everything they desire is very tempting, even if we know it isn’t within our power to…
Good Boy (2025)
Recently, acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher commented on silent cinema, calling it “a completely different medium of expression”, which can be interpreted in a few different ways. However, something that does become very relevant when we look at it as a medium in isolation from sound cinema is that words are not always necessary, since…
The Bride! (2026)
As far as horror cinema goes, there are few works quite as iconic and important as The Bride of Frankenstein, which could legitimately lay claim to being the greatest entry in the genre’s history. This film has remained as compelling and intriguing to this day as it was when it was released over ninety years…
Alpha (2025)
There are countless ways to explore grief in art, which reflects the fact that there isn’t any singular guide to grieving, and that we all process loss differently. Some of the most compelling and intriguing works have been produced by those who attempt to explore the world through the eyes of someone who is mourning,…
The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
When speaking about what precisely drew her to build a career out of revising classic fairytales by rewriting them as more challenging, mature works (as evident by her timeless masterpiece The Bloody Chamber), Angela Carter essentially described her process as being one of taking these stories shared across generational and geographical boundaries, and underlining that…
The Toxic Avenger (2025)
When it comes to independent horror, you cannot ignore the enormous effect Troma had on the industry. Despite being populated by filmmakers and producers who were considered vulgarians on the best of days, and lacking any real support, leading to many artists being forced to make their films on nothing but spare change and their…
The Postmodern Pelican 