Nov 19, 20253 min readRian Johnson on the Gothic Horror Mystery Influences Behind ‘Wake Up Dead Man’Whipsmart detective Benoit Blanc embarks on his darkest case yet when Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery arrives in theaters later next week. The locked room murder-mystery, which opens in select theaters on November 26 before streaming on Netflix December 12, draws inspiration from the darker literary corners of the mystery world. “[Edgar Allan] […] The post Rian Johnson on the Gothic Horror Mystery Influences Behind ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Nov 17, 20252 min read‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Trailer – A Perfectly Impossible Crime Unfolds in New ‘Knives Out’ MysteryThere’s “some Scooby-Doo shit going on” in the trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, the murder-mystery opens in select theaters on November 26 before streaming on Netflix December 12. Daniel Craig is back on the case as Benoit Blanc, incapable of not solving a crime […] The post ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Trailer – A Perfectly Impossible Crime Unfolds in New ‘Knives Out’ Mystery appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Sep 12, 20224 min read‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ TIFF Review – Benoit Blanc Is Back in Bigger and Funnier WhodunnitMurder is afoot once more in the latest Knives Out mystery from writer/director Rian Johnson. So is the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who’d grown bored during the pandemic and needed a new case to crack. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sticks to sequel conventions in that it goes bigger than its predecessor. Still, it also switches […] The post ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ TIFF Review – Benoit Blanc Is Back in Bigger and Funnier Whodunnit appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
Dec 13, 20212 min readExploring Rape Revenge in David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ [Horror Queers Podcast]Tic for Tac. After spending our 150th episode extravaganza with The Lost Boys and closing out November with some Satanists in The Seventh Victim , we kicked off December with the queer-coded antichrist in Fear No Evil. Now, we’re getting into the winter season with David Fincher‘s 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson‘s novel that set the world […]