and folks wandering off alone. The inclusion of so many blatant tropes would be fine if the film then countered with either some brazen self-awareness (like inYou’re Next), or at the very least a handful of genuine scares. But it’s not scary, in part because the camera contorts too...
Then we see portraits, all of which depict serious people, perhaps a bit sad, but haunting in a way that we’ve seen before from images of residents of the “Third World.” Muddy ground, gnarled trees, cars ensnared by growing vines. The artist also weaves in just a few black and whi...
There’s nothing like a good Gothic to put a chill in a sultry summer. Rachel Donohue’s atmosphericThe Temple House Vanishing(Algonquin, digital galley) owes a lot to one of my favorite books and movies,Picnic at Hanging Rock, but stands on its own in its haunting depiction of obsession...
“in 1960 jean cocteau—the sui generis artist, poet, and filmmaker who cast a long shadow across the worlds of culture and style in 20th century france—used these quarries as a setting for his hauntingly beautiful movie the testament of orpheus, ” wrote hamish bowles. “it’s ‘so ...
and I just grew tired of being inside Sophie’s head. Every page is packed with repetitive emotional descriptions of fear and dread, causing my eyes to glaze over. I get the feeling this author was trying to channel Eleanor fromThe Haunting of Hill House, yet the execution was all wrong....
“I give myself up to this tropical caress, to childhood, a road back to myself,” the narration says over nighttime shots of Benin. These lonely frames, enveloped by the artifact’s narration, have the power to linger in the mind for days, haunting us long after we leave the theater...
The music is as gorgeous as ever, venturing from the delicate haunting vocals in the ballads to the big rush of guitars in the epics.Slowdive, at the Crystal BallroomWe’re not sure if we’ll look back in ten years and definitively say we made the right choice on the number one album...
Or at least, it’s haunting when Flanaganwantsit to be. WithHill House, he’s playing with the core tropes and expectations of the haunted house subgenre, and in the name of advancing the family drama, the show often leaves huge questions about the property’s backstory or the ...
Plagued by haunting visions of her husband inside their home, she grapples with the blurred lines between reality and nightmare.The cast is rounded out by newcomers Laird Lacoste and Corinne Sweeney alongside Kea Ho (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), Eric Lutes (Caroline in the City), Tom ...
Their early recordings often documented performances at various art centres around Belarus, but in recent years Fantastic Swimmers have increasingly spent more time in the studio. Bonaventura (2022), for example, was recorded at Warsaw’s Quality Studio. Gosia Zagajewska’s haunting vocals ride atop...