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Back to the Movies: An Ode to Watching Horror on the Big Screen
| Film School Rejects
Saw’s
Best Torture Scene Is Practically Bloodless
| The Gist
'Babe' is an Award-Worthy Tale About the Underpig
| Film School Rejects
Bittersweet Goodbyes: 40 Years Ago,
Ms .45
Complicated the Modern Rape-Revenge Film
| Paste Magazine
Navigating Sexuality and Utility in 'Ghost in the Shell'
| Film School Rejects
When Forgiveness Isn’t An Option:
M.F.A.
(2017)
| Bright Wall/Dark Room
When Catharsis Doesn’t Cut It
| RogerEbert.com
Shin Godzilla
Captured the Terror of the Original, Six Decades Later
| Paste Magazine
Changing Horror's Sexual Paradigm in 'Crone Wood'
| Certified Forgotten
Robots, Cars and AI - Oh My!
Jumbo
Progresses Our Onscreen History of Wanting to Have Sex with Machines
| Paste Magazine
'Cloverfield,' 'Trollhunter,' and the Birth of the Found Footage Monster Movie
| Film School Rejects
Female Filmmakers: Reclaiming An Exploitative Genre
| Shudder's The Bite
How ‘Hell House LLC’ Gives Life to the Abaddon Hotel
| Certified Forgotten
The Wanting Mare
Reminds Us “Epic” Is Not the Only Path for Fantasy Storytelling
| Paste Magazine
Bryan Bertino and 21st-Century Nihilism
| Film School Rejects
PVT Chat
and Masturbation in the Digital Age
| Paste Magazine
On the Disempowerment of Promising Young Woman
| RogerEbert.com
Horror TikTok Solidifies Found Footage's Evolution into Digitally Discovered Horror
| Paste Magazine
2020 Was the Year of Found Footage and Creative DIY Filmmaking
| Film School Rejects
The 20 Best Animated Series of 2020
| Film School Rejects
The 10 Best Christmas Horror Films: Let Those Slay Bells Ring
| Zavvi
The Portrayal of OCD in 'Black Swan'
| Film School Rejects
Make the Yuletide Gay: Why We Need More Queer Christmas Movies
| Film School Rejects
How 2011 Found Footage Horror
Megan Is Missing
Brought TikTok Together in 2020
| Paste Magazine
Video Nasties, Censorship And A Celebration Of The Extreme
| Zavvi
The Ending of 'Possessor' Explained
| Film School Rejects
Paul W.S. Anderson Is The King Of Video Game Adaptions
| Thrillist
The Ending of 'The Matrix' Explained
| Film School Rejects
The Evolution of Male Nudity in Rape-Revenge Films
| Certified Forgotten
The Ending of ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ Explained
| Film School Rejects
'Webcast': A Movie Marriage Of Found Footage And Folk Horror
| Certified Forgotten
The Timeless Nihilism of ‘Se7en’
| Film School Rejects
Realizing You're Just a Fantasy in I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
| RogerEbert.com
The Honest and Complex Portrayal of Immigration in ‘Lingua Franca’
| Film School Rejects
How One Shot from ‘Host’ Encapsulates the Film’s Horror
| Film School Rejects
Host
And The Cultural Relevance Of Found Footage
| Shudder's The Bite
The Multifaceted Career of Brendan Fraser
| Film School Rejects
A Journey Down Elm Street: Reflections On The Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise
| Zavvi
The Many Faces of Peter Stormare
| Film School Rejects
Chicken Run At 20: Ginger, Female Empowerment And Revolutionary Spirit
| Zavvi
DOGTOOTH, Yorgos Lanthimos' Strange Reflection On Control, Celebrates 10 Years
| Nightmare On Film Street
Diary Of A Teenage Girl: On The Wry Optimism And Weird Girl In Juno
| READ ME: Girls On Tops
Thank You
| Haw Creek Horror
When A Prank Backfires: Revenge In Brian De Palma’s Carrie
| Zavvi
The Trouble With Memory and Control in The Works of Alex Garland
| Film School Rejects
Femininity and OCD in
Swallow
| RogerEbert.com
[Editorial] Battling for Control in the Face of Trauma in ‘Swallow’
| Bloody Disgusting
Woman as Alien in Dorothy Arzner's 'Christopher Strong'
| Film School Rejects
Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft
| theQuietu
s
Sins of the Father: How Horror Can Break The Ties That Bind
| Haw Creek Horror
An Apple a Day Does Not Keep the Creepy Men Away in ‘Revenge’
| Film School Rejects
Horror Movies, They’ve Always Been Political
| Zavvi
Dancing Aliens And A Screaming Christopher Walken: COMMUNION As A Camp Masterpiece
| Nightmare On Film Street
10 Years of Blending Truth and Fiction in 'Lake Mungo'
| Daily Grindhouse
Trouble At Sea: Maritime Superstition In The Lighthouse, Sea Fever And Harpoon
| theQuietus
The Dread Lurking In The Shadows Of ‘The Strangers’
| Film School Rejects
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Is A Horror Movie. Here's Why
| Nightmare On Film Street
15 Years Later, CONSTANTINE Still Serves As A Unique and Fascinating Vision Of Hell
| Nightmare On Film Street
Recognizing the Predatory Gaze in ‘Mandy’
| Film School Rejects
10 Of The Best Horror Soundtracks To Own On Vinyl
| Zavvi
After 10 Years, DAYBREAKERS Serves As A Story About Surviving Trauma
| Nightmare On Film Street
The Scariest Scene in ‘Hereditary’ Is Its Simplest
| Film School Rejects
A Bird’s Eye View of Fear in ‘30 Days Of Night’
| Film School Rejects
[Invisible Week 2020] THE X-FILES ‘Je Souhaite' is a Comic Change of Pace
| Daily Grindhouse
The Surprising Body Horror in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
| Film School Rejects
[New Year's Eve of Destruction 2019] THE END OF EVANGELION (1997)
| Daily Grindhouse
Creating Fear Using the POV Shot
| Film School Rejects
The Many Romances and One True Love of Dr. Manhattan
| Film School Rejects
Leather As Power In Turn-Of-The-Millennium Genre Film
| Film School Rejects
Zavvi’s Best Movies Of The Decade: Hereditary
| Zavvi
99 Percent Savior: In Contemporary Horror, It’s the Final Girl versus the Rich
| Bitch Mag
Monster Mash: Televisual and Vaginal Body Horror in ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘Videodrome’
| Much Ado About Cinema
When The Party’s Over: How Women Reclaim The Rape-Revenge Story
| READ ME: Girls On Tops
The Complicated Power of Princess Mononoke’s Villain, Lady Eboshi
| Film School Rejects
The Arrow Video Titles You Need To Watch This Halloween
| Zavvi
The History and Transformation of the Final Girl
| Film School Rejects
In ‘Alien,’ Horror Comes In The Form of Labor Exploitation
| Film School Rejects
Cinema’s Deadliest And Most Terrifying Horror Games
| Zavvi
The gut-wrenching predictions of Satoshi Kon’s masterpiece 'Perfect Blue' came true
| Polygon
Navigating Male Fantasy in Charlie Says and Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
| READ ME: Girls On Tops
15 Years Ago, M. Night Shymalan's THE VILLAGE Gave Me A Role Model
| Nightmare On Film Street
[Editorial] The Emotional Rise of Cosmic Horror
| Bloody Disgusting
From Page To Screen: Examining 30 Days of Night's Trek From Graphic Novel To Film
| Nightmare On Film Street
'Midsommar' takes a step forward and a step back in its portrayal of mental illness
| Polygon
Queen of the Hill: 7 Films That Wouldn't Exist Without Legendary Producer Debra Hill
| Nightmare On Film Street
Horror, OCD, and Me
| Much Ado About Cinema
Using Animation to Imagine Terrifying, Glorious, and Queer Futures in ‘Love, Death, and Robots’
| Much Ado About Cinema
“Who The Fuck Is On Top Their First Time?” Demystifying Virginity in Lady Bird and Beyond
| READ ME: Girls On Tops
Female Director Spotlight: The Radical, Feminist, and Czech Filmmaking of Věra Chytilová
| Much Ado About Cinema
10 Rising Female Horror Directors to Watch
| Nightmare On Film Street
Badass Women, Stunning Visuals, and Subverting Expectations: Looking Back at This Year in Horror
| Much Ado About Cinema
The Horrifying Soundscape of ‘Hereditary’
| Much Ado About Cinema
Female Director Spotlight: Dorothy Arzner and Making Films for Women in the 1930s
| Much Ado About Cinema
God? No God: Returning to 30 DAYS OF NIGHT
| Nightmare On Film Street
Get Seduced by the Ghostly Eroticism of ‘Kuroneko’
| Much Ado About Cinema
A Gory Reimagining of the Slasher Film in ‘High Tension’
| Much Ado About Cinema
Coming of Age and Little Monsters in ‘Der Nachtmahr’
| Much Ado About Cinema
The Psychosexual Terror of ‘The Untamed’
| Much Ado About Cinema
Seeing Double In David Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS
| Nightmare On Film Street
The Unexpected Body Horror of ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
| Much Ado About Cinema
The lesbian slasher What Keeps You Alive challenges the horror genre
| Polygon
Criterion Month: The Wild and Traumatized ‘Godzilla’ Universe
| Much Ado About Cinema
Criterion Throwback Review: George A. Romero’s Taboo-Breaking ‘Night of the Living Dead’
| Much Ado About Cinema
The 5 Biggest Scares In M. Night Shymalan's SIGNS
| Nightmare On Film Street
Horror Film’s Terrifyingly Harmful Use of Queer Tropes
| Much Ado About Cinema
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