In Alejandro Amenabar’s film The Others (2001), a mother, Grace, strives to protect her children from the evils of the world while also struggling with the disappearance of their father during World War II. The film is set in post-World War II, where Grace and her two children (Anne and Nicholas) live in a large, …
Don’t Breathe Film Critique
Film Review: Sinister
Sinister is a paranormal horror movie about a has-been true crime writer, Ellison Oswalt, and his attempts at reclaiming his fame and fortune. The poster for this film features a young girl smearing blood across a wall, giving rise to an inhuman and menacing face. Across the top is the line “From the producer of …
Movie Review 1: Paranormal Activity
I first watched Paranormal Activity shortly after it was released in 2009. As I was just a kid then, my opinions may have been skewed by my young mind and lack of experience with the horror genre, but I genuinely hated the film. I disliked the characters, and basically the whole premise of the …
Movie Review 2: Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th, the 1980’s slasher surprised me, as much as a slasher film can. I knew little going into the film other than the name Jason Voorhees, therefore, and I will not spoil anything here, the ending took me by surprise. I enjoyed this film more than I initially expected, and I can understand …
Carnival of Souls: The Last Few Moments
Directed by Herk Harvey in 1962, Carnival Of Souls is an interesting horror film due to the vagueness in plot and the ending which is left up to the interpretation of the audience. Mary and her two friends, drag race a car against a few men, and end up falling off of the bridge. Mary …
The Eyes of My Mother Film Review
The Eyes of My Mother directed and written by Nicolas Pesce accomplishes a macabre horror nightmare in which the killer is a woman – and that’s a gender issue rare enough in horror to deserve pointing out. His 2016 debut film utilizes terror of isolation by creating a remote location where gruesome things can happen …
Raw (2017) *Spoiler Alert*
Raw is a 2017 French horror film directed by Julia Ducournau that explores a young woman’s coming of age story as she goes off to college. This is no typical coming of age story however, as the main character, Justine, who is a strict vegetarian, gets her first taste of meat and slowly transforms into …
Unlikeable Characters
Unlikeable characters The Babadook, though a progressive film raved for its depiction of depression and discussion on single mothers, is almost unbearable to finish. This is not a cinematic defect, a horror defect but a character defect. Amilia our main character, is just impossible to like. A unlikeable character that stands against meaning. One aim …
“The Conjuring” Film Review
The Conjuring (2013) is a horror film that claims to be based on true events investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren. It is first split between the lives of Ed and Lorraine Warren, who work in the field of demonology, and the home life of the Perron family. The film later combines these two groups …
Rhetoric of Horror 