Imagine you’re on a date with a beautiful woman. Things are going…
Month: September 2020
“The Remains of the Day”: How Corpse Bride (2005) and Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Make Death More Reasonable
The concept of death was completely foreign to me as a child.…
“The Guy Sure Looks Like Plant Food to Me!”: Eating the Poor in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Updated September 26, 2022 “On the Twenty-Third Day of the Month of…
“Life Isn’t A Musical” But Death Certainly Is: How Hazbin Hotel (2019) and Helluva Boss (2019) Make Music In Hell
Many of the horror musicals I have highlighted in recent weeks were…
“The Hardest Thing in This World is To Live in It” and Sometimes to Sing in It Too: Innovation and Buffy’s “Once More, With Feeling” Episode
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a revolutionary show, one which continues to…
“Our Lives Are One Masked Ball”: Monsters, Masks, and the Art of Imitation in The Phantom of the Opera Franchise
“If I am the phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made…
Damnation as Infection: Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil’s Carnival
Repo! the Genetic Opera (2008) was arguably my first horror musical, or…
“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…
“Wake Up”: Questioning Reality and Absurdity in the Musical Bang Bang Baby (2014)
“Hardly seems real from here, like it’s so strange and evil. It…
“That’s the Hell of It!”: Allegory, Satire, and Musical Horror in Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Revised June 2021, Phantom of the Opera month. We see a stage…