What movies will you find on this list of the best Black woman films? Literature fans might vote The Color Purple to the top. Based on Alice Walker's book of the same name, this Steven Spielberg film tells the tale of Celie Harris and the horrifying oppression Black women faced in the ...
The Tell Tale Heart, etc…), but I wanted to have Poe fresh in my mind before watching Mike Flanagan’sThe Fall of the House of UsherNetflix series, so I picked up the Penguin Classics collection (which is not comprehensive, but good enough for ...
Not always. But often enough. Mainly because of the frequent amalgamation of classic monster literature and the romantic Byronic Hero of the Brontë persuasion – what I like to call theByronic Monster(Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, etc.). RELATED POST:Top 20 Bad Boys – The Best Byronic He...
This film, based on the E.A. Poe tale of the same name, is set in Medieval Europe, and is ostensibly about the cruel Prince Prospero who terrorizes a plague-ridden peasantry while merrymaking in a lonely castle with his jaded courtiers. But really, it’s about the joys of satanic cults...
By: Sean On: October 19, 2024 In: Fantasy, Horror, Movie Review, Thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter is based on a single chapter of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. The novel that has spawned hundreds of spinoffs of its own in film, literature, and popular culture didn’t ...
The perverse “Innocents” leaves that door open while preserving the ambiguity of James’ story, which has haunted literature lecture halls for more than a century. —RL 40. “Nosferatu” (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922) Patton Oswalt maybe has the definitive take on “Nosferatu” (or at ...
Posted inUncategorizedand taggedbooks,Edgar Allan Poe as science reporter,horror,John Tresch,literature,Poe as idealist,poetry,The Reason for the Darkness of the Night,writing.3 Comments Coppola’s Protopian Messterpiece I come to praise Cesar (Catalina), not bury him. For many, “Megalopolis”...
Three years after Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi became horror's biggest stars in 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula,' respectively, they teamed up for the first of eight movies they made together. Unlike those two earlier classics, 'The Black Cat' (loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe story) is ...
Heavenly Creatures(1994)– Peter Jackson brings the fantasy world of two teenaged murderesses to life in this crime drama based on a real-life case Hedwig and the Angry Inch(2001)– Hedwig, a punk band leader and victim of a botched sex change operation, chases the rock star who stole ...
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