daily scream: the movie that made a screening room full of critics whimper
2005’s The Descent is on Max in the US and Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Alien
The Creator movie review: meat versus metal
Looks great, but the plot falls apart if you poke it and makes no attempt to grapple with AI’s potential. Instead it renders its robot people as a racialized Other in a clunky metaphor for bigotry.
daily stream: a taboo-smashing feminist horror black comedy about pregnancy
2017’s Prevenge is streaming on Shudder in the US, Prime in the UK.
daily stream: meet the most extreme tourists on Earth
2020’s Stalking Chernobyl is streaming free worldwide on YouTube.
loaded question: what movie characters’ bad experiences make you feel better about your own life?
Inspired by TV writer JP Larocque noting that from Ripley’s perspective, Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3 took place over about six weeks.
movie-related flash-fiction freebie: “Disney Dystopia”
“Hey, so you wanna go to the disneys tonight?”
at the 20th anniversary of ‘Titanic,’ where are all the knockoffs?
We should be absolutely sick to death of all the cash-ins, pseudo-remakes and imitators. Where are they?
Alien: Covenant movie review: game over, man
A rote disappointment. There is nothing shocking or even mildly unexpected here. But there is an ironic weakening of the power of the xenomorphs to terrify.
The Void movie review: retro monsters, alien mystery
It’s Lovecraft by way of The Thing and Alien in this satisfyingly schlocky 80s throwback, complete with practical FX. A genuinely eerie experience.
Prevenge movie review: baby bump off
Fresh feminist horror of a very welcome taboo-smashing kind. Nasty, hilarious, outraged and outrageous, and as poignant as it is blackly funny.
