Streaming Weekly March 2017 1.0
The month of March is finally upon us and the 2017 movie calendar is stacking up. With so many highly anticipated movies starting to make their way into theaters this month, you might need a break from the choice of…
Stay Woke and Don’t Scream: Get Out’s Subversion of White Horror Narratives
*There are spoilers ahead* “Finally, much of horror’s history has been about the removal of Blacks from the genre. Blacks have been rendered invisible by way of Whites in blackface, through a deprecation of Black culture without (and absent a…
Oh! The Horror… | of Deconstructing the Heart of the Slasher Genre
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — John 15:13 (ESVUK) I just thought what was so clever about the conceit of the movie is that it really is the story…
Reviewing the Classics | The Innocents (1961) and the Madness of the Past
Henry James’ 1898 novella, “The Turn of the Screw,” is either the greatest ghost story ever written or it is the greatest ghost story without actual ghosts ever written. Critics throughout the years have passionately debated the true nature of…
Oh! The Horror… | of Destroying the Cure
Richard Matheson is a name few people probably know—outside of horror and science fiction fanatics—but he has written stories that have received many film and television adaptations throughout the years, not to mention writing the screenplays for many of them.…
Oh! The Horror… | of ‘Split’ & Misrepresentation
One massive spoiler ahead. If you haven’t seen the movie (and are interested in seeing it), hold off on reading this until you do. 2015’s The Visit was M. Night Shyamalan’s first bid for a return to form for a…
Oh! The Horror… | of Our Grief-Stricken Thoughts
Reader, be warned, there be spoilers ahead… There are all sorts of monsters that lurk in dark recesses. Some are fictional—lingering between the pages of a book and the flickering celluloid of films—while others are imaginary but are given psychical…
Oh! The Horror… | of a Very Scary ‘Black Christmas’
Before ‘The Shape’ ever stepped foot back in Haddonfield, Illinois and Jill Johnson was warned that the terrifying phone calls were coming from inside the house, there was ‘Billy,’ the perverted killer in the sorority house attic who wreaked terror…
Oh! The Horror… | of ‘Scariness’ and Horror Cinema
Towards the beginning of 2016, in their discussion of this year’s indie horror darling, The Witch, within the context of 1973’s cult classic, The Wicker Man, The Next Picture Show podcast (hosted & produced by former writers for, the now defunct, The Dissolve) considered…
#114 – The Witch and The Subtlety of the Devil
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: It’s time again for our Halloween Episode! We have had a lot of great horror films to choose from this year, but the one that has stuck with us the most…