#NoSpoilers
listed in alphabetical order by name of film
Scary Because It’s Possible: The Bad Seed, the Film
#NoSpoilers It's October, and that means it's time for scary movies. When I was young, vampires and ghosts and werewolves usually did the trick. As ...
To Make Cynics of Us All: Devil, the Horror Film
#NoSpoilers There is a long history of stories about humans being influenced or tempted to commit evil by some outside being rather than by their ...
The Tragedy Doomed to Repeat Itself: The Devil’s Backbone, the Film
What is a ghost? A tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and time again? An instant of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to ...
If You Dance with the Devil: 8MM (Eight Millimeter), the Film
#NoSpoilers Crime films, frequently inspired by crime fiction, concentrates on criminals, their crimes, and (sometimes) on the detection of those crimes. The famed Noir films ...
The First Award-Winning Horror Film: The Exorcist
#NoSpoilers Though the word "horror" was not used to describe a film genre until the 1930s, films including supernatural or frightening elements, usually adapted from ...
Setting the World On Fire: The Girl With All the Gifts, the Film
#NoSpoilers Pandora, whose name means either "all-gifted" or "all-giving," was ostensibly the first human female created by the Greek gods. Each of the gods helps ...
Killing Others To Survive: Identity, the Film
#NoSpoilers The 2003 psychological horror film Identity is not a direct adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1939 mystery novel And Then There Were None, though the plot of Identity is ...
The Demons Within Us: The Innocents, the Film
#NoSpoilers I first read The Turn of the Screw when I was ten years old after I learned it was about ghosts, and much of ...
Coming-of-Age with a Vampire: Let Me In, the Film
#NoSpoilers The concept of vampires or vampire-like beings — undead who return from the grave and exist by stealing the "life essence" (flesh or blood) ...
The Plague That Cast the World Into Darkness: Open Grave, the Film
#NoSpoilers I'm going to be honest with you: I don't think much of post-apocalyptic dramas that include zombies. I mean, who's going to root for ...
When Children Scare You to Death: Orphan, the Film
#NoSpoilers This story has been recycled a few times: parents who are longing for another child and also to do good in the world -- ...
Not For Children: The Horror Film The Orphanage
#NoSpoilers Of all the horror films I have ever watched or blogged about, The Orphanage (2007) -- written by Sergio G. Sánchez, directed by JA Bayona, and ...
The World of the Dead and the World of the Living: The Others, the Film
#NoSpoilers Okay, so the lit-tra-chure purists complain that this film, which some say was inspired by Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw, isn't ...
Slasher-Horror as Art Film: Psycho, the Classic
#NoSpoilers Based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, which was itself loosely based on the story of Wisconsin serial killer ...
Suspense via Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven, the 2012 Film
No Spoilers I'm not sure why the 2012 film The Raven doesn't have at least 9 out of 10 stars on popular reviewing sites because ...
The World Breaks Everyone: Horror Film Classic Rosemary’s Baby
#NoSpoilers The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong in the broken places. Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms It all seems so ordinary ...
Shutter Island, the Film, Is Shuddery Good
No Spoilers You probably recognize American Film Noir when you see it. Shot in black-and-white with stark lighting and dramatic shadowing, the films explore morality in ...
You Are Now Entering the Cruel World: Texas Killing Fields, the Film
No Spoilers You are now entering the cruel world bridge sign near The Killing Fields Since the 1970s, at least 30 young women and girls ...
Hansel & Gretel With A Video Camera: The Visit, 2015 Film
No Spoilers (okay, there's a couple, but they're not about plot) When I first saw the description for the 2015 film The Visit, written, directed, and produced ...
