Tag: Horror
Suspiria Haunts the Arthouse
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** “A mother is a woman who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” Suspiria is an ambitious re-imagining of Dario Argento’s 1977 cult classic horror film of…
Read More »Why Suspiria is an Enduring Horror Cult Classic
Suspiria is the 1977 cult classic Eurohorror film made by legendary director Dario Argento. In the film we follow Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) an aspiring ballerina who travels to Germany from the United States to attend the best…
Read More »Through Deliberate Storytelling and Tense Scares, Hereditary Firmly Sticks in Audiences’ Heads
Hereditary follows the Graham family, father Steve (Gabriel Byrne), mother Annie (Toni Collette), son Peter (Alex Wolff), and daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro) in the wake of the death of the family’s matriarch, their grandmother Ellen. As the family…
Read More »A Quiet Place Puts on a Clinic in Tension Building While Displaying the Power of a Parent’s Love
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** In the year 2020, the world has been besieged by a horde of blind, indestructible creatures with extremely sensitive senses of sound that hunt and kill anything that makes noise. A Quiet Place follows…
Read More »The Transfiguration Studies Trauma and Abandonment Through Horror
“But I mean, if you can only exist to hurt people, and you know better, then maybe it’s better to decide not to exist at all.” The Transfiguration follows a troubled, impoverished orphan teen from the projects of…
Read More »It Comes at Night Continues Horror’s Modern Renaissance
As the world is gripped with the spread of a deadly sickness with no cure, former history teacher Paul (Joel Edgerton) establishes a remote home deep in the woods in order to secure his family, wife Sarah (Carmen…
Read More »Life is the Latest Quality Entry into the Sci-Fi Genre
Life follows the crew on the International Space Station that have just made the incredible, world changing discovery of life on Mars. The crew, led by Dr. Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) brings the tiny specimen aboard the space…
Read More »Get Out: A Transcendent Film
Get Out follows Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams) as they travel to upstate New York to meet her parents Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). The movie serves as an examination of racism…
Read More »The Witch: Performances Outpace Plot
The Witch is a horror period piece that follows a religious family that has been exiled from their puritan community and into the woods to survive on their own. As they struggle to find food and resources, the…
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Uniquely Shot and Constructed with a Dose of Social Commentary, Mandy is Why We Love Film
Mandy follows couple Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) and Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough) who live in the remote wilderness of the Pacific Northwest in 1983. Their tranquil existence is upended when cult leader Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache) drives past…
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