[Essay] Why I Love Vampires, A Monster Thoughts Introspective
2020-11-18
I’ve discussed this in plenty of interviews in the past, and the answers, the quick ones at least, are that they’re enrapturing, sexy, scary, and they can be stand-ins for one’s depression, grief, otherness, addiction…etc. The list goes on.
[Analysis] Shudder’s HOST (2020): Getting to the Heart of Social Distancing
2020-07-30
With heart-pounding jump scares, and just-on-the-camera demon reveals before the characters meet their deaths, HOST is an excellent catharsis to deal with our new world. We’re locked inside (some of us), but we’re no safer from the threat outside our walls if we absentmindedly let it in.
Grief and the No-End House: The Monster Within Us
2019-11-25
If you’ve ever experienced grief, you know its a hopeless, all-consuming thing that changes you fundamentally as a person, depending on how close you were to the individual that died.
For Channel Zero’s The No-End House (2017), the main character Margot, played by Amy Forsyth, is reeling from the death of her father, played by the amazing John Carroll Lynch, a year prior from when we open on the second season of the horror anthology series.
A Different Cinematic Monster: The Cult of Midsommar
2019-11-23
The monsters at the heart of Midsommar are the traditions of the Swedish society the American travelers are subjected to as they try to maintain sanity amidst what may be a murderous cult.