A decade or so ago, I was very into horror and genre film. I wanted "the classics," or films that felt like them. I didn't want schlock, I didn't want so-bad-it's-good. I wanted to see the things that people had been watching for 20, 30, 50 years that
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Junji Ito is perhaps the best horror manga writer known in the west. He's like...the Stephen King of horror manga writers. In his 30 years in the game, he's been incredibly prolific, producing dozens of short stories as well as longer running plots following recurring characters. His art has
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(this article was co-authored with Miramay) I came into the theater expecting a superhero movie. I got one. In the age of movies like Deadpool and Logan, superhero expectations are changing. Audiences are tired of the slog that is the superhero story arc. Yes, DC is behind the curve. Yes,
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*Before I get started with my almost blatant fangirl gushing, I'm going to state that for the record, no one's paying me for anything here, and all opinions are my own. * There's a very particular feeling around fall. Part of it is, of course, Halloween - the spooky decorations going
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Even as a fan of horror, there are films that slip under my radar for years. While a disappointment to have missed out for so long, with the snail's pace of good horror films, it's wonderful to pick up a good title that counters so many of the worn tropes
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