Black Christmas has earned its reputation as a seminal horror film, with Bob Clark’s directorial choices and effective subversion of the Christmas holiday season establishing its influence for decades to come (especially in 2020, when this reviewer will be heavily inspired...
There are, by my count, three perfect superhero movies. I don’t mean to say that they are my favorite superhero movies. I save those slots for personal, idiosyncratic flights of inspiration like Tim Burton’s Batman Returns. No, when I say...
It’s pretty much impossible to pinpoint any singular origin of the slasher movie as a genre or subgenre. Its anatomy has been assembled from very nearly the beginning of cinema. It seems, though, that the formula as we now define...
