One of the more annoying narrative devices to show up a lot in horror film is the opening flashback. It’s usually a short, tense scene that ...

(Just as a prefatory note, this one’s a little spoilery) Okay, it looks like I’m going to have to say it again. I tried to be nice, I trie...

I’m not a huge fan of horror comedies, or maybe I just think of them more as comedies than horror. Mostly it’s because so many of them seem ...

Okay, so that’s enough winter vacation/hibernation/seasonal affective disorder for awhile, let’s get back to the business of saying words a...

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...