daily scream: how to fill the gaping hole inside now that Halloween is over
1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is on Disney+ on both sides of the Atlantic (and a few other services, too).
Month: October 2023
loaded question: what’s the scariest scene ever in a movie that isn’t considered horror?
My pick: the alien-examination scene in 1993’s UFO-abduction flick Fire in the Sky, in which D.B. Sweeney’s abductee is treated by ET doctors like the biological specimen he is to them.
daily scream: the dread of a future you can’t see
2001’s Donnie Darko is on Kanopy in the US, Curzon Home Cinema in the UK (and lots of other services).
daily scream: meta horror about how scary movies infect us
2021’s Censor on Kanopy in the US, 4 in the UK (and lots of other services, too).
daily scream: when the silence of the lamb is horrifying
2021’s Lamb is on Paramount+ in the US, Mubi in the UK.
When Evil Lurks (Cuando acecha la maldad) movie review: what rough beast…
The visceral meatiness of this demonic-possession–infectious-zombie combo hits like a blow. The social and political context for the grotesquerie is even more appalling, and so very pertinent.
daily scream: sexy scary vampire? hell yes!
2011’s Fright Night is on Prime in the US, Disney+ in the UK.
daily scream: haunted, and haunting…
2001’s The Others is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic (and a few other services as well).
daily scream: coldly elegant postapocalyptic misery
2017’s It Comes at Night is on Kanopy in the US, Prime in the UK.
loaded question: what’s a music album that you fear not enough people realize is perfect?
Expanding the entertainment conversation beyond movies (though obviously you can pick a film score or compilation soundtrack if you like)…
