Category Archives: Mystery

MURDER DEATH KOREATOWN: Exploitation & Ignorant Whiteness in True Crime

The line between found footage fiction and non-fiction blurs in this horrific true crime mystery.

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“You don’t like me cookin’?”: Queer Struggle(s), Othered Bodies, & Work in THE LIGHTHOUSE

“Nothing good happens when two men are trapped in a giant phallus” — director Robert Eggers

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[Fantasia 2019] DREADOUT: Video Game Creeps Confront a Gothic Indonesian Past

Kimo Stamboel’s video game adaptation is a creepy thrill ride, just as much as it is a confrontation of the present and a Gothic Indonesian past.

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“Didn’t Think About Your Family?”: The Evil That Men Do in THE NIGHTSHIFTER

Take a ride into the chilling heart of the wounded male ego.

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True Detective – Season 3, Episode 8: “Now Am Found”

Wayne and Roland figure out the truth. Is it as dark as it appears?

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“We should have never come to this house”: Freud’s Uncanny & the Modern Gothic in SINISTER

Scott Derrickson’s SINISTER is more than creepy, it’s an unsettling collision of the Gothic past and a modern world.

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True Detective – Season 3, Episode 7: “The Final Country”

In ’90, Wayne and Roland make an unimaginable mistake that will irreparably alter them, as well as their relationship.

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True Detective – Season 3, Episode 6: “Hunters in the Dark”

In 1990, Tom Purcell searches for info about his missing daughter, while Wayne and Roland start to fall out.

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The Existential Miseries & Mysteries of Class in BURNING

Lee Chang-dong’s latest film is an existential mystery. Be prepared!

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CAM: This (Postmodern) Woman’s Work

CAM tells the story of a woman divided against other women, divided against herself.

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“Broad is the Road That Leads to Death”: Christianity & Cults Are All Alike in APOSTLE

The new Gareth Evans film takes on Christianity, cults, and more with its dark fantasy + folk horror.

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