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Into the Woods: ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ & the Nature of Horror

Just Another Horror Movie Viewing Guide, Week 6 (10/26 – 10/31): Classic Terrors

Just Another Horror Movie Viewing Guide, Week 5 (10/21 – 10/25): Fate

Ghosted: Reconstructing the Haunted House in ‘The Old Dark House’

Just Another Horror Movie Viewing Guide, Week 4 (10/16 – 10/20): Unique Horror

Just Another Horror Movie Viewing Guide, Week 3 (10/11 – 10/15): Scary Places

Once Upon a Time: ‘Bandits’ & the Suggestive Power of Storytelling

Just Another Horror Movie Viewing Guide, Week 2 (10/6 – 10/10): Family & Friends

Just Another Horror Movie Viewing Guide, Week 1 (10/1 – 10/5): Origin Stories

Love Is in the Air: Pain & Purpose in Brian Duffield’s ‘Spontaneous’

Do Not Pass Go: Rebirth in David Fincher’s ‘The Game’

Home Sweet Home: Love’s Labors Lost in ‘The Strangers’

Xenophobia is America’s Deadly Specter in Image Comics’ ‘Infidel’

I Ain’t Got Time to Screen: ‘The Predator’ Franchise, Hunted & Ranked

The Bright Side: The Futile Yet Necessary Need for Hope in ‘The Florida Project’

Of Pie-Eating Contests & Pizza Bagels: ‘Superbad’ is the ‘Stand By Me’ of the 21st Century

Unmasked: Identity & Self-Deception in Ti West’s ‘Pearl’

Film

Unmasked: Identity & Self-Deception in Ti West’s ‘Pearl’

Of Pie-Eating Contests & Pizza Bagels: ‘Superbad’ is the ‘Stand By Me’ of the 21st Century

The Bright Side: The Futile Yet Necessary Need for Hope in ‘The Florida Project’

I Ain’t Got Time to Screen: ‘The Predator’ Franchise, Hunted & Ranked

Home Sweet Home: Love’s Labors Lost in ‘The Strangers’

Do Not Pass Go: Rebirth in David Fincher’s ‘The Game’

Love Is in the Air: Pain & Purpose in Brian Duffield’s ‘Spontaneous’

Just Another Horror Movie Viewing Guide, Week 1 (10/1 – 10/5): Origin Stories

Literature

Xenophobia is America’s Deadly Specter in Image Comics’ ‘Infidel’

TV

Levinson’s ‘The Bay’ forecasts the horror of environmental pollution

by Justin Query *** The spooky season may have come to an end, but there are aspects of horror that continue to mutate under the thin skin of terror that has no expiration date. To that end, director Barry Levinson’s film The Bay stakes claim on the ecology of horror, suggesting that the monsters that…

Into the Woods: ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ & the Nature of Horror

by Justin Query *** The spooky season prepares to take its final breath, and there are so many ways in which film fans can enjoy cinematic scares before the sun rises on November 1st. So — for some — that final scary movie in October should represent something special, whether a classic slasher like Halloween…