LAURA WYNNE

is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn.

The first inkling I ever had of The Howling was hearing the opening notes of Pino Donaggio’s score sampled in the Primal Scream song “Pills”...

November 5, 2024

“On the rare occasion, a special child appears…” I first watched The Lords of Salem in an empty multiplex in Easton, PA, in 2013.

October 26, 2024

Directors love Magritte. William Friedkin modeled the iconic Exorcist streetlight image after the painting Empire of Light.

October 17, 2024

“Because you were home.” That’s it. The best home-invasion movie ever made is built on a foundation of senselessness.

May 22, 2024

Mario Bava was a living embodiment of Italian genre cinema, working credited and uncredited on nearly a hundred films.

April 5, 2024

Roman Polanski’s The Tenant as a phantom trans text.

March 8, 2024

Katie Small

is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.