Automata Is Less Than Meets the Eye
Automata, a bit of Spanish-Bulgarian science fiction from 2014, begins in familiar territory. A post-apocalyptic world. A monolithic city […]
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Stan Against Evil Season 3 Still Charms
Stan Against Evil came back for a third season on Halloween night, and boy, am I glad. The enthusiastically […]
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Dark City: Landscape and Memory
Dark City, Alex Proyas’s 1998 follow-up to his legendary The Crow, is an ambitious, overfull classic in its own […]
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Ghost Stories Knows What’s Really Scary
Ghost Stories is a low-key movie that blends the supernatural and the mundane into a genuinely eerie episodic tale. […]
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Re-Read This: The Year’s Best Horror Stories
The Year’s Best Horror Stories was a twenty-two volume annual anthology series that ran from 1971 through 1994. Christopher Lee himself wrote the introduction to 1972’s Volume II.
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Read This: M.R. James’s Complete Ghost Stories
M.R. James is perhaps the most reliably frightening author I can think of. Although Montague Rhodes James only published […]
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Mandy: Love, Loss, and Nicholas Cage on a Rampage
Mandy isn’t the kind of movie that can be ranked on a scale of good to bad. It it […]
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The Dragon Prince Soars
The Dragon Prince is quite simply wonderful. Netflix’s new epic fantasy is intended for kids, but like all great […]
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Ghoul: Folklore, Fascists, and Fear
Ghoul, the new three-episode miniseries from Netflix, generates its chills with a blend of tried-and-true tropes borrowed from multiple […]
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Read This: The Maiden Voyage and Other Departures
The Maiden Voyage and Other Departures by Jessica McHugh is a collection of six loosely related stories that hinge […]
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