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Halloween Horror: Longlegs (2024)

Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs is an inconsistent mishmash of The Silence of the Lambs and Cure.

Aren's Reviews, Halloween Horror, Reviews, The Current: At HomeAren BergstromOctober 31, 2024Osgood Perkins, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka, Longlegs, Halloween Horror, horrorComment

Halloween Horror: House on Haunted Hill (1959)

William Castle’s carnivalesque fright house movie is a very fun time.

Halloween Horror, Flash Back, ReviewsAnton BergstromOctober 31, 2024House on Haunted Hill, Vincent Price, William Castle, Robb White, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook, Julie Mitchum, horror, haunted house, carnival, Ennis HouseComment

Roundtable: Halloween Horror: Island of Lost Souls (1932)

The Brothers discuss Erle C. Kenton’s pre-Code horror adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Halloween Horror: Ranking the Films of the Final Destination Series

Anders ranks the films of the Final Destination series, one of the first horror franchises of the twenty-first century.

Halloween Horror, FeaturesAnders BergstromOctober 31, 2023Halloween Horror, horror, slasher, Final Destination, Devon Sawa, Ali LarterComment

Halloween Horror: The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)

Even more than Poe’s story, Corman’s version highlights familiar features of the Gothic.

Reviews, Halloween HorrorAnton BergstromOctober 6, 2023Roger Corman, The Fall of the House of Usher, horror, Halloween Horror, Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Gothic, Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard MathesonComment

Review: Talk to Me (2022)

Talk to Me hides some clever commentary on the dissociation of Gen Z in its creepy seance scenario.

Review: Skinamarink (2022)

Kyle Edward Ball’s low-budget experimental horror film is a dissociative nightmare.

Aren's Reviews, The Current: In Theatres, ReviewsAren BergstromJanuary 31, 2023Skinamarink, Kyle Edward Ball, Heck, Lucas Paul, Dali Rose Tetreault, Ross Paul, Jaime Hill, horror, experimental, found-footage horrorComment

Halloween Horror: Spectres of Plague and Death in Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

In Nosferatu, the corrupting power of the vampire is linked to that most symbolically potent infectious disease, the Black Death.

Halloween Horror: The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death is more effective as a late-night Gothic thriller than as an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story.

Halloween Horror, Overlooked and Under-Appreciated, ReviewsAnton BergstromOctober 21, 2022Halloween Horror, Roger Corman, Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, horror, Gothic horror, plague, voyeurismComment

Roundtable: Halloween Horror: "What scares you?": Debating the Horror Genre

The Brothers discuss, among other things, the merits of “elevated horror,” schlock, gore, silly ideas, and the nature of the horror genre.

Roundtables, Halloween HorrorAnders BergstromOctober 14, 2022Halloween Horror, John Carpenter, Ari Aster, horror, Prince of Darkness, Hereditary, Midsommar, The Ninth Gate, The Ninth Configuration, The City of the DeadComment

Halloween Horror: Last Night in Soho (2021)

Last Night in Soho has an incredible premise and many excellent features, which makes it especially disappointing when the film goes off the rails.

Roundtable: The 100th Anniversary of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

The Brothers discuss F. W. Murnau’s iconic adaptation of Dracula on the occasion of its 100th Anniversary.

RoundtablesAnton BergstromMarch 4, 2022Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, silent film, horror, Gothic horror, 100th anniversary, F.W. MurnauComment

Halloween Horror: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

The Most Dangerous Game is a layered, atmospheric pre-Code Hollywood horror-adventure.

Zack Snyder: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Zack Snyder’s explosive debut is arguably the finest zombie movie ever made.

Zack Snyder, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromMarch 18, 2021Zack Snyder, zombie, horror, post-apocalyptic, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Kevin Zegers, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth, War on TerrorComment

Thursday Rethink: Halloween Horror: Who’s Afraid of Ari Aster's Elevated Horror?

Digging deep into the thematic implications and cultural discourse around Ari Aster’s two works of elevated horror, Hereditary and Midsommar.

Features, Thursday Rethink, Halloween Horror IIAnton BergstromOctober 29, 2020Halloween Horror, Hereditary, Midsommar, Ari Aster, evil, horror, trauma, paganism, neopaganism, demons, cultural horror, elevated horrorComment

Halloween Horror: Dark Water (2002)

Dark Water is a creepy and water-logged entry in the J-horror genre, but its human drama is what makes it particularly memorable and disturbing.

Reviews, Halloween Horror IIAnders BergstromOctober 28, 2020horror, J-horror, Japan, water, ghost story, Hideo Nakata, Koji Suzuki Comment

TIFF20: Shadow in the Cloud

WWII horror thriller set on a B-17 Flying Fortress ultimately crash lands.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnton BergstromSeptember 25, 2020TIFF20, Shadow in the Cloud, Chloe Grace Moretz, Roseanne Liang, horror, WWII Comment

Halloween Horror: Halloween (2018)

David Gordon Green revives the Halloween films with this satisfying horror sequel that returns to the original’s strengths.

Reviews, Halloween Horror, The Current: At HomeAnders BergstromOctober 10, 2019Halloween, Halloween Horror, horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Michael Myers, John Carpenter, slasher, diegetic reboot, David Gordon GreenComment

Halloween Horror: It Chapter Two (2019)

It Chapter Two is effective and scary if a bit muddled.

Halloween Horror: Lake Placid (1999)

A feeble monster movie and a flaccid horror comedy.