The box office weekend in question is July 21, 2000. The number one movie in the country was the Robert Zemeckis-directed, Clark Gregg-scripted, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer-starring supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath. The number three movie was the second Pokémon feature film, ...
ascribing all sorts of origin myths to the dancing lights. One North American Inuitlegendsuggests that the northern lights are spirits playing ball with a walrus head, while the Vikings thought the phenomenon was light reflecting off the armor of the Valkyrie, the supernatural maidens who brought...
and the 2019-2020 revival narrated and executive-produced by Jordan Peele. The Peele version features a star-studded carousel of guest cast members appearing across 20 haunting modern-day stories about the supernatural, racism, alien invasions,...
2021. Supernatural agents and prosociality in historical China: micro-modeling the cultural evolution of gods and morality in textual corpora. Religion, Brain & Behavior 11:1 ► pp. 46 ff. Rout, Matthew, John Reid, K.J. Wallace, Monique Mae Hall & Jay Whitehead 2021. Voicing stak...
Gowland, for example, argues that a burgeoning tendency in the seventeenth century to ascribe seemingly supernatural powers (such as those of witches) to the effects of melancholia relied in part on 'the common assumption that devils were analogically attracted to interfere with complexionate ...
Two inseparable sister's visit to a remote mine town turns into a mind-bending fight for survival against menaces both human and supernatural. Brother Bear (2003) When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub...
Suffice it to say that when ancient cultures perceived ill- ness as the manifestation of supernatural forces, they also felt that little in the way of either personal or collective action was possible. For many centuries, disease was synonymous with epidemic. Diseases, including horrific epidemics ...
Are there supernatural elements in grimdark fiction? Sure! Stephen King writes speculative fiction, some may call it horror. But, whether there are ghosts or other deliciously creepy fiction elements in his stories, Stephen King’s novels could be argued to have a grim and dark tone that we ...
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family’s ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave. Starring Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hai-jin ...
“You can believe or not believe the supernatural part of this, but there’s this human connection that is undeniably going on.” — British comedian Nick Frost (“Hot Fuzz”) wrote and stars in the comedic horror “Get Away,” about a family on a vacation to an unwelcoming island ...