These movies often employ a combination of suspense, mystery, and outright horror to engage their audience, making extensive use of suspenseful music, dark cinematography, and detailed character development to enhance the eerie atmosphere. The killers in these films are usually characterized by their ...
It’s an unfortunately common trope that the Black character in many horror movies is the first one to die, and that, plus many other racist Hollywood tropes, is what’s being skewered byThe Blackening. There’s a pretty solid pedigree behindThe Blackening; its creative team includesBarbershop...
character. But it was Lon Chaney Jr.’s portrayal of doomed sad sack Lawrence Talbot, who returns to his ancestral home in Wales only to be bitten by a you-know-what, that would help sell these mythical half-man, half-animal creatures as horror-movie staples. Say “werewolf,” and ...
At age nine I was able to focus on the main character’s perspective without irony, especially as he spoke to his dead grandfather, and I even recall thinking that “Nilbog,” being “goblin” spelled backward, was a clever word puzzle. Please believe me, I’ve come a long way. I ...
Some horror movies surprise audiences by killing off every character. While it's always a bold choice, some movies even benefit from this decision. Horror is a genre built on tropes, though horror movies have tried to subvert some of these long-lived formulas by ensuring there are no ...
Pearl. As a young woman in 1918 she dreams of escaping and becoming a silent movie star. Yet her dominant mother cannot contain the passionate darkness within Pearl. I much preferred this stylish period and character horror to the exploitative and nastyX(2022). There remains much gruesome viole...
“The Cask of Amontillado,” it involves a friendship that’s solid on the surface but bubbling beneath with hidden emotions. Sebastian Cabot—whose voice children may recognize as the narrator of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh films and the character Bagheera in Disney’s animatedJungle Book—plays ...
“Suddenly, when I was in the skin of Louis, when I was in this cartoon character—he really was a cartoon vampire with a cape and black clothes and bare white skin—when I slipped into this seemingly unreal thing and looked through his eyes, I could make my whole world real,” says...
In director Paco Plaza’sVeronica, the latest victim of the ghoulish phenomena turns out to be the film’s titular character, a 15-year-old girl who begins experiencing paranormal events after going a round with the infamous ouija.Veronicais an unsettling film for sure, effectively relying on ...
before springing a series of startling traps—of both the narrative and literal variety. In the end, the wolf that torments them throughout the film is revealed to be the lesser of two evils, and it’s here thatHunter Hunterdeviates from traditional survivalist tropes, drifting into the realm...