Think about Western culture’s metaphors for romance, attraction, and sex. A lot of them pivot around the idea of losing control, of going cr...

It’s useful to talk about narratives in terms of motion and travel - a story progresses from one point to another, action rises and falls, e...

You know who routinely gets a raw deal from horror film? People who live in the country. Going all the way back to The Texas Chainsaw Massac...

Demonic possession stories go hand-in-hand with disease narratives. They’re the more spiritual cousin of body horror, where in both instanc...

People sometimes talk about horror films being “chilling,” which is a nice way to somaticize the experience of being frightened. There’s a s...

One of my least favorite things in horror film is over-explaining. A big part of what makes things scary is mystery, and often the more we k...

The whole idea behind me spending October looking at the horror of non-horror movies is, on some level, about tapping into broader things t...