TV: What We Do in the Shadows (Season 5)
At times during its run What We Do in the Shadows has threatened to overplay its bag of tricks, but somehow …
TV: The Haunting of Hill House
Based on the deeply impressive Midnight Mass, I went into Mike Flanagan’s earlier limited series The Haunting of Hill House (2018) …
TV: Dead Ringers
It’s a testament to the draw of Rachel Weisz that Dead Ringers pinged my radar, despite my having long forgotten …
Film: You’re Next
There’s an unrealistic, if eye-catching, hook at the center of slasher film You’re Next (2011): the killers paint those very …
Film: Infinity Pool
Like father, like son, or so one would gather from the unsettling Infinity Pool (2023). Mixing science fiction, horror, and …
Film: Bodies Bodies Bodies
If Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) is a peculiar entry in the “privilege-gets-its-comeuppance” subgrenre of horror-thrillers, it’s because it stealths it …
TV: The Consultant (Season 1)
It may be enough that The Consultant features Christoph Waltz, who brings his inimitable brand of unsettling quirkery to a …
TV: Yellowjackets (Season 1 & 2)
Showtime’s recent content merge with Paramount+ finally afforded me the opportunity to catch up with its hit series Yellowjackets, a …
Film: X
Given promising recent developments in the horror genre, I decided to give low-budget slasher flick X (2022) a look. This …
TV: Black Mirror (Season 6)
Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror is polarizing at the best of times, and since its move to Netflix, reactions to the …
TV – Kolchak: The Night Stalker
It took me a long time to work my way through Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and it may, in fact, be …
Novel: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Chuck Wendig tackles the apocalypse in Wanderers (2019), a massive, multifaceted page turner that mixes broad speculative tropes with the …
Film: Smile
Trailers are usually lost on me—I try to avoid them, since so many telegraph the entire plot—but some previews are …
TV: The Last of Us (Season 1)
I played the PS4 game The Last of Us just long enough to come to two conclusions: one, that its …
Film: The Menu
At the risk of overselling it: holy fucking shit, The Menu (2022) is pretty much perfect. It’s not often I get …
TV: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
If there’s a defining drawback to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, it may be the way it cherishes filmmaking …