If you've seen Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky's previous scary non-horror movie, then you know you're in for a wild ride with Black Swan. As with Requiem, we are permanently stuck with a character in the midst of a downward spiral - with no escape until the end...
If you've seen Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky's previous scary non-horror movie, then you know you're in for a wild ride with Black Swan. As with Requiem, we are permanently stuck with a character in the midst of a downward spiral - with no escape until the end ...
The Iranian-born Anvari wrote and directed this brilliant interplay of horror tropes and commentary on how war and violence can shatter the world more than a ghost could ever consider. A mother and daughter are haunted in 1980s Tehran during the historical War of the Cities. If the falling ...
While director Matt Reeves may have described the most recent Batman movie,The Batman(2022), as “almost a horror film,”horror as an aesthetic mood or idiom pervades representations of the character and his world across cinematic history. The stylistically and tonally diverse cinematic projects of...
The 2007 movie is great for countless reasons: Not only does it feature performances from Anna Paquin and Brian Cox, but the closest thing you’d call a main character — Sam, a silent burlap sack-wearing being with a marked protectiveness over his favorite holiday — has risen to adorable...
The movie’s crisp black-and-white photography and terrifying character dynamics create a chill that’s hard to forget.—RL Read IndieWire’s full review. Photo : Netflix ‘His House’ (Streaming on Netflix) Remi Weekes’ thrilling feature directorial debut ‘His House’ filters the immigrant...
Take practically any other horror movie from the 1960s, and a character like Catherine Deneuve’s Carol — absent-minded, blond, a foreign-born manicurist living alone in London — would be dead meat. In Roman Polanski’s second feature, however, she’s not a disposable victim, but the fi...
With its intentional destruction of this barrier, we now can’t say that a character got killed for not knowing the tropes that exist in the genre. They might know the rules, but they still get “got.” If that realization isn’t chilling in itself, read it again. Download the script!
as the classic character Ann Darrow, an actress who comes to realize that the humans who traveled with her to Kong Island to enslave “the monster” are–in fact–the true monsters. Let’s not overlook the movie Funny Games, either. If you haven’t seen it, please do, but brace yourse...
Critics Consensus: Smart, original, and horrifically funny, Teeth puts a fresh feminist spin on horror movie tropes. Synopsis: Dawn (Jess Weixler) is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey (Hale Appleman), nature [More]" . " Starring: Jess Weixler ...