In the summer of 2015, someone made the mistake of giving me…
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“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 it…
“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)
Revised June 2021, Phantom of the Opera month. We see a stage…
“The Hills Are Alive [!]”: Singing, Mayhem, and Horror Musicals
I think horror films don’t include enough singing. I’m a sucker for…
“Our Lady of the Upside Down”: Persephone’s Rebirth in Hadestown (2019)
Part III of III Hadestown makes old material insistent and relevant while…
“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 Wonderland
Updated July 31, 2022 During the final confrontation between Red and Adelaide…
The Unread Library: John Waters and the Art of Reference
John Waters’ films incorporate my favourite kind of intertextuality: parody. His films…