Throughout my childhood, I was plagued by a recurring nightmare in which I found myself in the local shopping centre, where I spent many weekends of my life. However, instead of venturing into the usual stores that I would frequent, I found myself walking through one of those mysterious black doors used only by employees….
Tag: horror
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
If a stranger approached you and requested that you follow him to a cemetery to discover your supposed birthright, just about any level-headed individual would reject such an offer and choose to prioritise their safety in such a clearly dangerous situation. However, this is not the case for Buffy Summers, who sets aside her hesitations…
I’ll Do Anything (1994)
By the time it reached the mid-1990s, James L. Brooks was in a good place in Hollywood – he had directed some of the most notable films of the 1980s in the form of Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News, had radical successes with shows such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Simpsons…
eXistenZ (1999)
There are few artists whose minds I’d love to enter and just explore for a couple of horrors more than David Cronenberg, who has built an entire career out of being a beloved menace to the art of filmmaking, a medium that he has both celebrated and dismantled with his unique and offbeat approach to…
You’ll Like My Mother (1972)
One of the great joys of exploring cinema is that sometimes you come across a film that had previously never been on your radar, but once it catches your attention, it feels like a revelatory moment. Whether through a recommendation from a trusted voice or simply stumbling upon a film by accident, it can be…
The Shout (1978)
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…
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…
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024)
“Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character” – these evocative words were written by Bruno Schulz in the late 1930s, and while the concept may not have existed in its entirety at the time, many scholars of postmodernism cite this as one of the most notable examples…
The Wasp Woman (1959)
When the history of cinema has been set in stone, and it comes to choosing the people who had the most substantial input on the medium, there are going to be various names floated as the defining filmmakers of their generation, with additional credit being given to those who transcended generational boundaries and made an…
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…
The Postmodern Pelican 