I talk a lot about “atmosphere” on this thing. Usually I’m talking about some kind of intersection of mood, tone, and aesthetic that evokes ...

I have sort of a love-hate relationship with remakes. They reek of creative bankruptcy, of filmmaking at its most mercenary. But it’s also r...

 (This one’s probably going to be pretty spoilery for The Blair Witch Project , so if you haven’t seen that and are planning on it - and I w...

In the course of writing this thing, I’ve run across a fair number of films that don’t land as well as they could because their ambitions ou...

It’s a time-honored technique: If you want to really freak people out, bring children into the picture. Put them in danger, put them in pai...

Psychological horror does a good line in blurring the line between reality and delusion, in featuring protagonists who aren’t sure if what t...

(Just as a heads-up, I’m probably gonna spoil both The Shining and this over the course of this one, so if you have somehow never seen The ...