WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Jacob’s Ladder and Return to Silent Hill. On the surface, Jacob’s Ladder and the world of Silent Hill have very little in common. One is a psychological horror film about a Vietnam veteran struggling to adjust to life after war, while another is a post-apocalyptic survival horror video […]
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In John Carpenter’s horror classic The Thing, R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) somberly explains to his tape recorder, “Nobody trusts anybody now, and we’re all very tired.” The now iconic quote summarizes the exhaustive state of sustained paranoia induced by the shape-shifting, extraterrestrial threat that has infiltrated the ranks of an isolated Antarctic research station, seamlessly […]
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When promoting Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg claimed that every war movie is an anti-war movie. I think this is doubly true when it comes to genre cinema. After all, what better way to immerse audiences in the horrors of war than by telling a story specifically designed to scare them? Hell, sometimes the war […]
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You can only tell the same old slasher story so many times before it gets stale, and that’s why so many horror franchises eventually find the need to escape the confines of their original small-town settings and have their villains invade larger urban centers. And if you’re going to set your story in a big […]
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War films are horror films, aren’t they? Both genres explore inevitable death intertwined with moral quandaries and are full of suspense. Come and See is often hailed as one of the scariest films and Son of Saul almost plays like a found footage in Auschwitz. There is a thin line between the two, but military […]
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One quick way for a horror movie to unsettle its audience is to disorient the senses completely. Few things capture the slipping of one’s sanity like immersing the viewer in psychedelic visuals and mind-bending narratives. This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to trippy horror movies that distort reality and assault your senses. As always, here’s […]
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Conspiracy theories can be dangerous when taken at face value, especially now that the internet has made it hard for some folks to tell the difference between legitimate information and paranoid rambling. However, when used as a storytelling tool, conspiratorial thinking can also serve as a reminder about the merits of questioning authority and fighting […]