“It’s the thing that comes for your kid when you’re not paying attention.” At the heart of The Boogeyman (2023) lies an iteration of the lack of the comfortable shapes and contours…
The Woman in the Wall (Season 1), Episode 1: BBC’s latest mystery drama series ‘The Woman in the Wall’ is a reminder of the horrors of the Magdalene Laundries of Ireland lest…
The film Toxic (original title: Gonggisalin) closely borrows from and furthers the ecological disaster genre of South Korean films. While films like Okja and The Host concern themselves with human-made ecological monsters,…
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line”, wrote W.E.B. DuBois in 1903 in his ‘The Souls of Black Folk’. The Pixar presentation Elemental (Peter Sohn, 2023)…
“We did what people always do. Discover and then destroy”. The Meg is a monster movie that perpetuates the debate around science versus nature. Wrapped with a thin blanket of spectacle, the…
Fear (2023) tries its hand at the long-established trope of fear being psychologically exploited in horror films. There is nothing that is unique about the film and its use of horror tropes.…