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"They're all going to laugh at you!" Matthew Eng revisits lonely girl Carrie White as inhabited by Sissy Spacek as part of the Museum of the Moving Image's summer DePalma restrospective. @reverseshot.bsky.social reverseshot.org/features/347...
The Loneliest Girl: Sissy Spacek in CarrieGoings-on at Museum of the Moving Imagereverseshot.org
Over at Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com, MANOR Resident and Holy Terrors co-host Brian Keiper @brianwaves42.bsky.social wrote a piece about THE OMEN to celebrate its recent 50th anniversary. LOOK AT IT DEAR READER! IT’S ALL FOR YOU! 😈 bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3... 1/3
I wrote about HOUSE OF WAX (2005) and the millennial crash out of the mid-2000s when reality hit that we inherited a broken, rundown system from Boomers 😩 professorhorror.com/Deep-Cuts-HO...
HOUSE OF WAX (2005) & the Millennial Crash Out of the Mid-2000sHOUSE OF WAX (2005) wasn't just a slasher remake. Bee Delores' Deep Cuts essay explores how Jaume Collet-Serra's horror film eerily foreshadowed millennial economic anxiety.professorhorror.com
I fucking love this movie and I fucking love that this is the best piece I have written on it. Now no one has to give the bad place clicks to see me gush over my favorite Grampa Gooey film.
NightTide MagazineBelieve it or not, The Fly is an ooey-gooey love story. @sharai.bsky.social dives in for its 40th anniversary. 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/07/23/f...
Every year, Film at Lincoln Center celebrates the best in genre filmmaking with their annual Scary Movies series. Running since 2002, the film series offers moviegoers the best in suspense, gore, and terror of all kinds, and FANGORIA is excited to exclusively present the trailer for this year’s…
Watch The Trailer For This Year’s SCARY MOVIES Series At Lincoln CenterEvery year, Film at Lincoln Center celebrates the best in genre filmmaking with their annual Scary Movies series. Running since 2002, the film series offers moviegoers the best in suspense, gore, and terror of all kinds, and FANGORIA is excited to exclusively present the trailer for this year’s series, which begins on August 12 in...dlvr.it"I found something … I found a place." Andrew Kolarik gets trapped in the maze in his new essay, "Narrative Rigor in the Nightmare Labyrinth of Backrooms." #openaccess at #FilmInternational filmint.nu/narrative-ri...
Narrative Rigor in the Nightmare Labyrinth of Backrooms - FilmInt.nuBy Andrew Kolarik. Something that has grown organically over the last few years from quiet beginnings rooted in internet memes and computer gaming…and is startlingly effective at evoking a kind of nam...filmint.nu
Check out an excerpt from Robert Guffey's Hollywood Haunts the World, over at Film International: filmint.nu/cronus-devou... #cultfilm #winterkills #jfk
Cronus Devouring His Children: William Richert’s Winter Kills (1979) - FilmInt.nuBy Robert Guffey. For no matter who eats who first, the grave swallows both father and son in time….” What follows is a brief excerpt from my latest book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation ...filmint.nu
From Yul Brynner's terrifying Gunslinger and the themes of technological hubris and corporate greed to its use of digital effects, 1973's Westworld has had an indelible impact on pop culture–let's discuss Michael Crichton's unsettling sci fi Western!
Westworld: It’s All Fun and Games Until the Robots Start Shooting - ReactorSaddle up for a deep dive into the making of an iconic sci fi Western and its intriguing cinematic legacy...reactormag.com