For many Christians, the perennial temptation to immanentize the eschaton has become so familiar it is often invisible. In Midnight Mass, the trope of vampirism splashes that invisible temptation with vivid blood, and we are reminded that chiliastic labor only builds kingdoms of hell. Continue Reading »
The common, everyday, petty baseness of people is far more frightening than the most horrific fictional characters. Continue Reading »
“Hollywood Movie Posters is the oldest memorabilia store in the world located in the same location with the same proprietor.”—KABC, March 19, 2020 All through the first great war to end all wars,the siren-addled nights of its successor,up till last week, the sunbaked, time-warped doorsof . . . . Continue Reading »
The protagonists of Hard Labor never go beyond the bounds of ordinary capitalist morality. Continue Reading »
Persons ripe for possession lack a proper telos. Continue Reading »
Religious films rarely receive critical acclaim these days, but a recent exception is Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Continue Reading »
Descent into Hell is a complex portrait of the relationship between the living and the dead. It's a book of apologetics written in the style of horror. And it's a book about acceptance. Continue Reading »
Netflix’s Stranger Things is a nostalgic horror remix. But it belongs more to our time than to the time it obsessively depicts. Continue Reading »
Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015 slasher parody about mourning. It's charming, touching, and mostly successful—and a great example of the reasons 2015 specifically and the '10s generally have been such great years for horror fans.2015 was just a cornucopia of . . . . Continue Reading »
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