is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn.
Lars von Trier has always been quietly obsessed with genre trash that his audience would find distasteful. Antichrist is more in the tradition of...
February 19, 2025
Jean Rollin’s debut, The Rape of the Vampire, was the only film to premiere in Paris during the May 1968 riots, and Rollin’s destiny as a director...
February 15, 2025
It’s so strange that Dario Argento’s 1996 movie called The Stendhal Syndrome is really about post-traumatic stress disorder when nearly all...
December 27, 2024
While it predates the entire Italian zombie phenomenon, the Spanish/Italian co-production The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue feels like...
November 16, 2024
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
Mario Bava was a living embodiment of Italian genre cinema, working credited and uncredited on nearly a hundred films.
April 5, 2024
is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.
