Some Thoughts on a Film that Disappeared: Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer
Sometimes you encounter a movie late at night. A movie you didn’t even know existed. And you discover that the movie had basically disappeared for 30 years. Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer was supposed to be the first in a series of low budget art house horror movies. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program in 1997. It was picked up by … Continue reading Some Thoughts on a Film that Disappeared: Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer
“I Would Save and I Would Be Saved”: Folk Horror, Masculinity, and a Sensible Heroine in Eye Of The Devil
“Whoso danceth not, knoweth not what cometh to pass.” I reveal secrets about both the Gothic folk horror film, Eye of the Devil, and the novel it’s based on in this essay. If you would like to continue to knoweth not, continueth no further for now. ~~~ Eye of the Devil (UK/USA, 1966) opens with with a train hurtling down the track like an arrow … Continue reading “I Would Save and I Would Be Saved”: Folk Horror, Masculinity, and a Sensible Heroine in Eye Of The Devil
“And All Shall Be Well”: Revelations of Divine Love (USA, 2025)
It is not unusual for a low or zero budget film to be dedicated to the memory of Roger Corman. It is very unusual for a film about a Christian mystic to acknowledge him and Caroline Golum’s Revelations Of Divine Love does. It makes sense, though. Revelations of Divine Love is an act of love itself. Both of Julian of Norwich and her vision of … Continue reading “And All Shall Be Well”: Revelations of Divine Love (USA, 2025)
Dead By Dawn (Poland, 2026): The First Polish Giallo
In 2023, an acting company arrives at the Heissenhoff Theater at the request of a famed, reclusive playwright. Heissenhoff has written his first new play in 30 years expressly for these actors to perform at the theater his great-great grandfather built on a foundation dating back to the 15th Century. The theater itself has curious occult touches everywhere, leading to Olke, personal assistant to the … Continue reading Dead By Dawn (Poland, 2026): The First Polish Giallo
“Remember Quick that Life is Death”: Mother of Flies (2025)
Content Warning: cancer treatment and the loss of a child ~~~ She can trick death, even her own. There is a house in the woods—a house made from the woods. And a witch lives there. She might have lived there since the first Europeans arrived. She offers healing, but, as is always the way, she is feared. There is a young woman looking for a … Continue reading “Remember Quick that Life is Death”: Mother of Flies (2025)
Monstrous Industry 