Evy hosts a podcast on eerie paranormal subjects. She's the skeptic; her co-host Justin, based in London, is the believer, a la Scully and Mulder. She's currently hosting from the house of her mother, who is unconscious in her deathbed upstairs, and for whom Evy is the sole caregiver.
Valentine’s Day has had a long and fruitful collaboration with movie horror. Back in 1931, for instance, the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula, arguably the original American horror movie, was nationally released on February 14, as “the story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!” Later came the 1981 slasher movie My Bloody Valentine and its 2009 remake, and the 1982 X-Ray with Barbie Benton (originally titled Be My Valentine, or Else), the 2000 Lover’s Lane and Valentine in 2001. All of these exercises...
The initial scenes of Nickel Boys are somehow both vivid and vague, like one’s own earliest childhood memories. We’re seeing the point of view of Elwood, a bright, impressionable African-American kid in 1960s Florida. The warm imagery and the overheard conversations and broadcasts evoke a potent sense of the remembrance of things past, but also suggest a small child’s grasp of them. Then we see Elwood’s point of view years later as a teenager, when he accepts...
The scariest aspect of the sci-fi-horror comedy Y2K, for me, is that it’s a period piece, set on the last day of 1999 and the first day of 2000. Almost twenty-five years ago. When I was 38. Nostalgia has moved into periods when I was already hitting middle age. Directed by Saturday Night Live alumnus Kyle Mooney, from a script he wrote with Evan Winter, the film starts like a standard teen comedy. Nerdy Eli...
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