A meditation on horror cinema and its tributaries.

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Oct
28

🎃 Halloween 🎃 Special 🎃 Featuring 🎃 Michael 🎃 Myers 🔪

It's Halloween week (!) and I'm getting to the heart of things by thinking about John Carpenter
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Oct
21

Fog / Frankenstein / Family

As we approach the molten core of Halloween season, we're thinking about John Carpenter, Frankenstein, and haunted houses/
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Oct
14

Erotic Demonic / Eighties Crazies / Drowned Sounds

This week we’re thinking about a metaphysical horror classic and a 1980s-set slasher—then I’m recommending one of
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Oct
07

Pumpkin / Monster / Secret Past

This week we're mainlining Halloween vibes, thinking about dangerous rabbits, and meeting a long lost slasher . . . From the
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Sep
30

Glamour, Gore, & Goblin Too

It's almost Halloween season, and this week we're chasing visions in Venice, excavating nostalgic memories, and
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Sep
23

Image, Secret, & Hated Friend

For me, it's been a great week in film. Movies I watched that are not making the newsletter
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Sep
16

Stamp, Toy, & Photograph

Terence Stamp passed away last month, and this week we’re beginning with one of his signature roles, his third
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Sep
09

Mr. Sophistication, Hell, & Rothko

We’re heading into fall, Halloween’s just visible on the horizon, and I can feel things beginning to get
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Sep
02

Twin, Fisherman, & Ghost

As a twin, I’ve always appreciated the suggestion in Brian De Palma’s 1972 Sisters (spoilers below) that—instead
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Aug
26

Jester, Vamp, & Bus Creep

It's been two weeks focusing on the higher brow end of horror cinema, so we're turning
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