Horror Studies

I love a folk hero deconstructed, especially in a prestige period drama. I also love hot grizzled old dudes fighting dirty. I love awesome costume, set, and sound design. And, above all this, I love folk horror. But be warned: like the movie poster states, Robin Hood was no hero. He was a murderous brigand.

My main questions when I wondered whether to see Disclosure Day:

1. What is Disclosure Day trying to say about aliens?

2. How alien-forward is this gonna be?

3. Will I be too terrified to sleep after this?

Torture devices used to procure confessions from accused witches in 17th century Scotland.

If you’re interested in the concept of the One Wish Willow, it’s not just a one-off novelty gift from a New Age crystal shop. The concept of granting one wish with invariably miserable consequences goes back millennia. Here are some of those tales, explained.

I’m MOTHER MARY’s target demographic, the Gothic lover infatuated with high fashion and art history, and yet the only part of this film I adored was the divine costumes, which are shown in such rapid succession that I couldn’t even appreciate them.

The film’s synopsis makes Jorma Taconne’s Over Your Dead Body sound as if it will be a thriller/comedy, but this movie goes into slasher territory.

Widow’s Bay island is forty miles off New England. It’s quaint and beautiful, but its industry is dwindling. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) tries to revive the economy by pitching Widow’s Bay as a perfect tourist destination. The locals are against it—but not for the reason you’d expect.

In order to explain the movie’s ending, I have to dissect the plot where it unravels, and to do that, I (creative writing MFA) ended up more-or-less workshopping the script. Here are my suggestions on how the plot might have been adjusted so that the ending might have delivered.

Why The Bride of Frankenstein Is So Much Better than Frankenstein