The home invasion subgenre can be such a potent horror vehicle because there’s something inherently terrifying about having one’s personal space invaded. This experience is frightening in whatever form it takes, yet these intrusive horror stories have still found ways to become more subversive with where they take their audience. Darren Lynn Bousman’s Twisted definitely […]
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Gimme dat baby. After wrapping up November with a look at cryptids in The Mothman Prophecies (listen), we kicked off December with a journey back into the land of giallo in Sergio Martino’s Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (listen). Now we’re heading to France to discuss everyone’s favorite […]
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Silly Americans… After concluding spooky season with a reappraisal of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (the Director’s Cut), we’re moving into November by kicking off a new theme of episodes on toxic masculinity. First up is Michael Haneke‘s fourth wall-breaking film Funny Games! In Funny Games, Anna (Susanne Lothar) and Georg (Ulrich Mühe) and their son Georgie (Stefan […]
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“American Horror Stories” riffs on home invasion horror with a tech-based morality tale that’s sweeter than it is scary. “It can see what your eyes can’t.” The world is a scary place, even without the myriad of monsters and supernatural creatures that have filled the episodes of American Horror Story. It’s increasingly easy to empathize […]
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