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The Ghoul’s Gaze: Horror and Anime reviews by a Woman Who Loves Fear
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Passenger: A Mild Ride
Passenger could have been a good movie. The bones are there, especially after a pretty great opening sequence. But there’s no meat on them. In fact, Passenger is as “unelevated” as a ghost story can get. The good news is that there are some sequences that totally work for it. The bad news is it feels like this…
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Backrooms : Liminal Horror
The Backrooms takes place in 1990, or a vague approximation of what someone too young to have experienced it thinks it looks like. This is completely irrelevant to the plot or anything that happens, other than it irritated me. I’m not familiar with the source material for The Backrooms, other than it’s a menacing liminal space that…
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Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oval Portrait
I’ve never reviewed a Poe adaptation, so The Oval Portrait seemed like a good fit for a quiet Sunday afternoon. I’ll be honest, I think it’s challenging to do modern gothic horror correctly. Many of the stylistic elements, the crumbling moody houses and castles, and the oppressive gloomy, isolated environments are made challenging by the intrusion of…
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In The Mouth Of Madness : The Insanity of Reality
In The Mouth of Madness may be one of John Carpenter’s more overlooked movies. It’s a Lovecraftian-inspired story about the blending of fiction and reality. Carpenter made three movies focusing on the end of the world: The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and ending with In the Mouth of Madness. They’re not connected narratively, but each deal with our lack of understanding…