A Film Odyssey

“They’re coming to get you, Barbra,” taunts the belligerent Johnny, well aware of his sisters’ innate fear of cemeteries – nighttime encroac...

Long before the days of flesh-eating ghouls (and even longer before the days that said ghouls could vigorously cover far distances by means ...

James Whale’s homoerotic subversions aside, the Universal monster films, by their very nature, weren’t exactly open to the greatest range of...

Thank (or blame - you decide) David Cronenberg’s 1986 masterpiece remake of The Fly for the existence of the 1988 remake of The Blob , a bo...

If artists use lies to tell the truth, then movies often use the impossible to expose the realities of the world (or do they?). Such is the ...

Bride of Frankenstein represents director James Whale at the top of his form, as well as what is arguably the best film to emerge from Univ...

Horror in The Wicker Man comes equally from those qualities that forsake genre conventions as it does those that emulate them. Exposed here...

Through a hallucinatory combination of desaturated images and muffled audio (as if implying that the viewer themselves is in the state of a...