Mothers’ Days is just around the corner and that means that it is time for another horror movie list, but this time it’s “(kill her) Mommy” themed. They say nothing is quite like a mother’s love and we certainly all feel safe in the arms of our beloved mothers. So, it only makes sense that a genre all about making…
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Watching ‘Pet Sematary’ (2019) at the Gloria Palast
After battling my way through the horror that is Stachus, I finally made it to my first premium cinema experience at Munich’s Gloria Palast cinema; and while I was there, I got to catch the latest version of Pet Sematary. Yes, friends, the Creed family is back, and they’ve just moved from Boston to Maine where a secluded cemetery and a…
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‘The Girl with all the Gifts’: Triumph of the Other in Modern Zombie Horror
The general breadth of zombie–themed horror films out in this world is both overwhelming in quantity and underwhelming in quality. Nonetheless, the world of storytelling is full of surprises, and a well-presented idea can add new dimensions to even the stalest motif. This is where The Girl with all the Gifts (2016) comes in. Directed by Colm McCarthy and written by M.R.…
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‘You’: ‘Gossip Girl’ meets ‘Fatal Attraction’
When I was a teenager, Thursdays were reserved for summarizing the plot of Wednesday night’s Gossip Girl dramatics to my poor, obliging, older brother. If I didn’t promptly call to update him on Lonely Boy’s adventures in his new series, You, it was only because I knew my brother to be more Team Chuck than Team Dan. Yet, despite a clear lack of…
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‘Blood Fest’: Is Horror Really Dead?
Every few months since the invention of leisure, some “enlightened” individual or other has grandiosely declared, “horror, my friends, is dead.” In flocks, we assemble to mourn our lost companion, trading drinks for stories of heroes and heroines, of visionaries and heretics. But mourn not my friends, for the truth is that horror will never die. So long as we…
