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)…
more bad news: RIP my uncle, John Benton-Harris (update: the Guardian ran an obit)
My year of hell continues…
daily scream: flesh and blood… so much blood
2017’s Raw is on Apple TV and YouTube on both sides of the Atlantic (and other services, too).
Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: blood for oil (London Film Festival 2023)
A great American filmmaker on a memory-holed chapter of American history at the intersection of colonialism and toxic masculinity. Massive, epic, and essential. Scorches the earth of our complacency.
daily scream: hell is full, 21st-century style
2004’s Dawn of the Dead is on Starz in the US, Netflix in the UK (and lots of other services too!).
