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Category: Horror

  • Movie Review: “Crimson Peak” (Guillermo del Toro, USA/Canada 2015)

    You’re probably going to be surprised by my description of what this film is actually about: a young woman attempting to recover from the pain of her mother’s death years earlier by using it to fuel her artistic expression. She says of her novel, “It’s not so much a ghost story as a story with…

  • Movie Review: “Ex Machina” (Alex Garland, UK 2015)

    The title, the art, and the basic plot description of this film made it sound pretty clear what it would be: a straightforward science fiction film about the possible future of robotics and artificial intelligence. More specifically, it sounded like a film about the singularity (a popular topic in the last few years–ask Wally Pfister…

  • Movie Review: “It Follows” (David Robert Mitchell, USA 2014)

    The modern slasher film is one of the more rigid and popular genres in film, and it has spawned no end of parodies and self-aware revisions because of that rigidity and popularity. At its heart, the slasher film is about the dangers of underage and/or premarital sex, with a plot that breaks down simply as:…