In the summer of 2015, someone made the mistake of giving me…
Category: 100th Anniversary Event
“Do You Have to Undermine Everything I Do?”: The Important Legacy of Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Jennifer’s Body is about exactly that: Jennifer’s body and the brutal way…
“Kill the Brain”: Partial Information and the Partially Devoured in Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The term ‘zombie’ is never spoken in what many consider the first…
“NAILED IT”: (Un)Intentional Parody, Redemption, and the Musical Stage Fright (2014)
If horror movies have taught me anything, it’s that summer camp is…
“That’s the Hell of It!”Allegory, Satire, and Musical Horror in Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
“My music is for Phoenix. Only she can sing it. Anyone else…
The Hills Are Alive [!]: Singing, Mayhem, and Horror Musical
I’m a sucker for a horror musical. I truly believe that the…
“Our Lady of the Upside Down”: Persephone’s Rebirth in Hadestown (2019)
Hadestown makes old material relevant and suggests that act of storytelling is…
“You Can’t Stop a Story Being Told”: Why the Story Counts in Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Right now, someone is telling a story. Someone is always telling a…
“She Had to Eat Rabbit, Raw and Bloody”: Us (2019) and the World of Wonderland
In the final confrontation between Red and Adelaide in film Us, Red…
The Unread Library: John Waters and the Art of Reference
John Waters’ films incorporate my favourite kind of intertextuality: parody. His films…