I published an article about Mariama Diallo’s Master (2022) in an awesome folk horror dossier in the journal Monstrum. Here’s the opening paragraph: Released in 2022, Master was written and directed by Mariama Diallo and follows three Black women at… Continue Reading →
Osgood Perkins is emerging as one of the most significant directors of horror in the 21st century. His films are wildly diverse and have elicited an equally wild diversity of response from viewers and critics. Perkins has thought a lot… Continue Reading →
Steeped in the primal discomfort of the uncanny, dolls and the houses they inhabit are an especially fluid and perennially creepy motif within popular culture. Revealing historical and on-going tensions between what it means to be human and what it… Continue Reading →
I wrote about M3GAN 2.0 both as a horror film – and as one of the more interesting contemplations of AI in cinematic form in 2025. Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN 2.0 (2025) has mostly not been identified as a horror… Continue Reading →
My review of Kier-La Janisse’s adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s “The Occupant of the Room.” It’s the holiday season – and Severin Films has released a new episode of The Haunted Season entitled The Occupant of the Room (an adaptation of… Continue Reading →
I had the great good fortune to be able to screen Rupert Russell’s new documentary, The Last Sacrifice, recently. Here’s my review of a truly engrossing film. “Rupert Russell’s new documentary, The Last Sacrifice (2024), explores the infamous murder on… Continue Reading →
I’m co-editing a new book series from Bloomsbury Academic with Rob Edgar and Adam Smith. Check out the flyer here – and please contact any or all of us with ideas!
Oz Perkins’ 2024 film, Longlegs, is at first glance a serial killer film, with references abounding to Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991) and, to a lesser extent, David Fincher’s Seven (1995). Perkins has been quite explicit in interviews, however, that he lures viewers… Continue Reading →
The result of my mission to discover the church that formed such a large part of Red Shift (1978), the BBC Play for Today adaptation directed by John Mackenzie and written by Alan Garner (based on his 1973 novel). I… Continue Reading →
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