Noé’s latest film is perhaps his greatest, and it’s a fascinating Gothic portrait of an ageing couple nearing the end of their lives.
Tag Archives: Gothic
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities 1×08: “The Murmuring”
Two married ornithologists, still grieving a dead child, immerse themselves in work, but ghosts won’t let them work in peace.
[Video Essay]: HOTEL POSEIDON’s Gothic Freudian Nightmare
A video essay on the weird, wild, and surreally wonderful HOTEL POSEIDON.
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2022): A Brutal, Queer Return of the Repressed
Leatherface rears his head again to make sure we remember he’s here, he’s queer, and nobody invading his home is safe.
The Queer Spirituality of Paul Verhoeven’s BENEDETTA
Verhoeven’s film depicts a queer sexuality that coexists with religion while also portraying the Roman Catholic Church’s oppression of queerness in the 17th century.
[31 Days of Halloween – Day 10] Gothic Memories of Slavery in LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH
Day 10 in the 31 Days of Halloween drives down to Connecticut, where the protagonists are unreliable & the vampires are white as hell.
[31 Days of Halloween – Day 9] Not Another Mommy Trauma Slasher: DR. GIGGLES
Day 9 in the 31 Days of Halloween goes over DR. GIGGLES and the Freudian trauma, as well as the misogyny, at its core.
Midnight Mass FINALE – “Book VII: Revelation”
Chaos ensues on Crockett Island. Who will survive? And what will be left of them?
Midnight Mass – “Book IV: Lamentations”
Things get trickier with Father Paul’s strange condition.
Midnight Mass – “Book I: Genesis”
Riley Flynn is released from prison and heads home to Crockett Island for the first time in many years.
Chapelwaite Ep. 1: “Blood Calls Blood”
In the 1850s, Charles Boone inherits land and moves his children to a town where his very family name carries suspicion.
[Fantasia 2021] Short Films: INHERITANCE / UNA NUOVA PROSPETTIVA
Two short films about the different layers of time and psychogeography.