“Everything’s Gone Jackanory”: After 28 Days Later
Trying to write about the 28 movies—that most blitzed-out and body-baggy horror franchise measured in days, weeks, years—I turned, like a good hauntologist, to half-remembered popular music.
No Michael Myers Necessary
The way horror film series typically work is that the first entry is notable, for whatever reason—it’s a great movie, it’s popular, it infiltrates the news cycle/culture—and then subsequent entries get worse and worse and worse, until there are no more.
Devil May Care
David Gordon Green continues his assault on beloved horror franchises with a new Exorcist that only heightens the glory of Friedkin’s original.
The Evolution of Predator
After four canonical films and two offshoots, the indomitable series returns to glory with Prey.
Entering The Further
A deep dive into the world of Insidious, one of the more complex, mystically minded horror franchises, which 13 years in closes on an unexpected high note.