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Excision
Stories about outsiders and loners are popular, often because there’s something deep down that we can relate to in the characters represented. In horror, it often plays into our fears of rejection and social ostracization. In some cases, we also are allowed to feel their anger vicariously through them, and even cheer them on as…
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Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps not only frames the werewolf narrative around the life of a young woman, it takes the logical step of connecting her traumatic transformation to the traumatic onset of puberty.
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White: The Melody of the Curse
When I found out that there’s a horror film with a premise centered around an all-girl Korean pop group, I was pretty ecstatic. As far as I was concerned, it could go one of two ways: it could be fantastic, or it could be terrible in the most wonderful of ways. It was win/win for…
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Tomie
We all like a good love story. You know the kind: boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy becomes girl’s mind slave, boy murders girl in a jealous rage, girl respawns to spread her evil enslavement powers across the world. You know, the usual.
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Lake Mungo
Grief is a constant process for those who have lost someone in their lives. You may be able to move forward, but you will never quite be the same, and the presence of that grief can follow you around like a haunting.
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House
Imagine, if you will, taking the striking visuals of Suspiria, the musical stylings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the innate weirdness of Evil Dead, and putting it all into a blender, operated by David Lynch. Then, take the contents of that blender, and spill it somewhere in 1970s Japan.
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Dumplings
There are some films that push the boundaries of taste. There are other films that whiz past the boundaries of taste, waving maniacally as they barrel through. That’s Dumplings; a film that is so audacious in its concept and execution that you can’t help but enjoy the ride.
