90s Teen Slashers: ‘Scream’
In 1996, Scream entered the failing horror scene with an established horror director but completely new everything else. It paid off then–how does it hold up now?
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90s Teen Slashers: ‘Urban Legend’
Unlike its peers, ‘Urban Legend’ isn’t trying too hard. One might say it isn’t trying at all. The only ‘challenging’ aspect is keeping track of its internal urban myth bingo.
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90s Teen Slashers: ‘Final Destination’
A great movie to emphasize ‘fuck death!’ Originally a draft X-Files script, Final Destination was supposed to be an ‘anti-slasher’ movie. It’s an anti-something, all right. It gets crazy, it gets dumb. Let’s die-ve into Death’s Die-sign!
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90s Teen Slashers: ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’
I Know What You Did Last Summer is ‘prime’ teen slasher horror. Our cast is quintessentially 90s. The villain cloaked in an improbable, vaguely menacing costume. The script has the depth of a puddle. It is not a good product. But it is entertainingly mock-able.
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Why The Lodge Offers Cold Comfort
The Lodge has offerings that any horror fan can appreciate—creepy dolls, 80s home-videos, cults, clips from The Thing, etc. But it is a bleak jaunt to the cinema.
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Why Gretel & Hansel gets Lost
“Let me tell you something about these tattoos, okay? That is Wiccan, that is Icelandic, that is Jewish, that’s just gibberish. They are completely conflicting ideologies, and that does not make you a wicked witch, it makes you full of shit!”
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Why It ’s A Classic: Psycho
‘Psycho’ captures a portrait of America at a particular point in time, but also speaks to universal themes in American fiction.
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Why Doctor Sleep should Take Its Medicine
The Overlook could be a great horror monster that returns with familiar schtick and inventive ways to terrify you. That is not what ‘Doctor Sleep’ chooses to do.
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Why ‘The Lighthouse’ Darkly Shines
Two men to tend a lighthouse. One is a haggard seadog, another is wet behind the ears. One may be a murderer when they arrive. One may be a murderer at the end.
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Why Thrillers Should Consider the Source
‘The Stepfather’ had plenty of material to work off of for this character. He’s clearly based on a real person: John List, one of the most notorious family annihilators in history.
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