Travis Stevens’ A Wounded Fawn (USA, 2022) is entirely my thing. It’s a nice mix of art house and genre, which is one of my favorite things. It blends fine art—in this case the art of Surrealists (and friends) Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna—1970s horror/giallo, Classical Greek tragedy, themes involving snakes and dogs, glorious art and costuming design, saturated colors, and excellent cinematography. … Continue reading A Wounded Fawn (USA, 2022)
More insects, well, arachnids; more ill-advised creeping through holes in basement walls; draculas; the past creeping into the present; old dark houses containing terrifying secrets; 1970s-ness; women’s latent terror; angry ghosts; the Ramsay Brothers; destructive passions and dangerous sex; young travelers and young lovers on their honeymoon; really spoiled honeymoons; mad science; Carmillas; desecrated cemeteries; questionable psychiatry; vengeance from beyond the grave and adding viruses … Continue reading Spookoween 2016: 31 Days of Horror, Part IV
It seems like when people think of comics, they think of superheroes, but there was a long time when crime and comics were synonymous. And now it seems like some of the best comics around are crime books. There’s a new golden age, a new crimewave in comics. I’ve been meaning to write about it, but I’ve been stuck because of my desire to do … Continue reading Crimewave!
Monstrous Industry 