horror movies

Reading Time: 2 minutes If there’s a through-line to some of the best movies of 2022 thus far, it’s a fixation on the body’s inexorable march toward decay and a perverse, giddy freedom in embracing it. Or, as Léa Seydoux declares in Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg’s squirm-inducing return to body horror, “Let us create a map that […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes As a child, Katerina was the sole survivor of a mysterious plane crash that left her motherless. She grows up to become a psychologist specializing in fear management (played by Svetlana Ivanova), and, as proof of mastery over her past, now embarks on a commercial flight with a moppet of her own in tow to […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ti West is good at silence. There’s a great sequence in his satanic panic flick The House of the Devil in which broke college student Samantha (Jocelin Donahue), having taken a suspicious “babysitting” job watching a very old woman upstairs, don’t even worry about it, dances around the living room of this not-empty house as […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In 1764, a series of brutal killings occurred in the Southern French region formerly known as Gévaudan. Sensationalist newspapers picked up the story, describing partially-eaten victims, predominantly women and children, whose throats had been torn out. A large animal was suspected, possibly supernatural in nature, but no perpetrator was ever found or definitively determined (popular […]