Three Japanese Horror Classics Haunted by Women’s Agony
If there’s an undercurrent throughout the Japanese horror in Daiei Gothic Vol. 2, it’s how women’s suffering is so embedded in Japanese folklore.
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12 Horror Movies That Burrow Into Our Psyches
These 12 psyche-burrowing, Halloween-perfect horror movies indulge our damned desire to explore the dark inner recesses of our selves and society.
Why Found Footage Horror Movies Keep Creeping Back
In an era when cameras dictate and distort our perception, found-footage horror movies keep creeping back into our never-wholly-real, uncanny world.
‘Friday the 13th: Part III’ and the Third Dimension of the Incel
In Friday the 13th: Part III, Jason Voorhees’ evolving behavior hints at disturbing autonomy and sexual aggression that, in today’s parlance, we deem “incel”.
‘The Shining’ and the Power of Murderous Narratives
The Shining endures because it conveys all horror, real and imagined: Stephen King’s horror of the collapse of Man, and Stanley Kubrick’s collapse of History.
The Best 1970s Horror Movies for Halloween
The fears 1970s horror movies face are no less so now, but they create just enough distance from our reality this Halloween that we can at least peer through our fingers to watch them.
One Battle After Another’s Appealing Radical Heart
One Battle After Another‘s sympathetic portrayals of left-wing radicalized groups seems an impossible-to-resist target of the pearl-clutching, but it’s been less of a lightning rod than expected on that front.
‘RachelOrmont’ Is Peter Vack’s Candy-Colored Feel Bad Shock Cinema
Peter Vack’s candy-colored RachelOrmont dares the squeamish to reckon with the schizoid darkness happening on cellphones all around them.
Diane Keaton Was All Loveliness and Light
The incredible power in Diane Keaton’s genius is that she was all loveliness and light. She didn’t need a comedy bit to be funny or appealing. She was enough.
One Battle After Another’s 1960s Politics Make for a Good Show and a Dead End
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark comedy One Battle After Another, the liberationist politics of the 1960s make for a good show and a dead end.
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‘Israel Palestine on Swedish TV’ Is an Urgent History/Not History Lesson
Despite its flaws, Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is a meticulously detailed study of conflict and hauntingly foreshadows the current moment.
A Serbian Film’s Dark Comedy
As political allegory, A Serbian Film dares viewers to laugh not because it’s funny, but because the scream is too loud to hear the subtext otherwise.