On a quiet country road somewhere in rural Delaware, a quartet of friends speed towards a party, not being aware that their reckless actions will ultimately lead to their demise. It’s a premise that could be plucked from just about any slasher horror film made in the past thirty years, but in this instance, it…
Tag: horror
Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
At some point in the past, Thomas Pynchon expressed his desire to write a story that was centered on the insurance brokers sent to Tokyo to assess the damage caused by Godzilla after one of his many rampages. As a culture, we have a tendency to latch onto certain stories, repeating them time and again,…
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Whenever I travel, my father undoubtedly (and mostly as a joke) states “stay out of the woods”, a warning to steer clear of those untrodden parts of any country in which evil normally tends to lurk, whether it is of our world or supernatural. Art has always been fascinated with the unknown, and I’ve often…
The Monkey (2025)
It seems like everyone has their own unique encounter with the work of Osgood Perkins, whose directorial career has been the very definition of a slow-burn, gradual rise to acclaim. Most filmmakers working in the proverbial field of “elevated horror” (a vulgar term if there ever was one) tend to emerge as major voices right…
The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
Some satire tends to be quite subtle, while others veer towards presenting their intentions and themes so aggressively, we have to admire the gall. In the case of The Werewolf of Washington, we find that the latter is the preferred modus operandi of director Milton Moses Ginsberg (a little-known editor whose only other endeavour into…
Fancy Dance (2024)
For many of us, family and culture are amongst the most vital aspects of our identity, since without them we would likely be adrift in a confusing world without any clear direction. However, life tends to be quite unpredictable, and challenges are bound to emerge at the most inopportune moments, when fate begins to encroach…
Flowers in the Attic (1987)
As has often been said, blood is thicker than water – but it’s certainly equally true that it’s usually your family that can do the most harrowing damage to one’s psyche. Hopefully, very few of us felt the betrayal and abandonment of an unloving domestic situation, but unfortunately, they do exist and can heavily influence…
Presence (2025)
There was some discourse recently about the best filmmakers who don’t have a single masterpiece to their name, a sign of someone being technically gifted and a solid authorial voice but who has struggled to establish themselves as having at least one work that carries their legacy. One of the names that came up in…
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Horror is a genre that is constantly changing. If we arrange its development in as much of a linear form as we can, it is possible to see the ebb and flow of certain concepts and styles in terms of popularity and how artistic innovation influenced so many different phases of a genre that has…
Handling the Undead (2024)
Saying goodbye to a loved one is never easy, and we often find that it is made more difficult when we feel that sense of deep regret for all that we didn’t say and do when they were alive, knowing that we are going to be burdened with that remorse for the rest of our…
The Postmodern Pelican 