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…
“Eyesight to the Blind”: The Cult of Monroe and the Musical Tommy (1975)
Marilyn Monroe’s cult status has steadily grown since her death in 1962.…
“I’ve Just Come to Tell You How Fabulous I Am”: The Shock in Shock Treatment (1981)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is perhaps the most beloved horror musical…
“The Hills Are Alive [!]”: Singing, Mayhem, and Horror Musicals
I think horror films don’t include enough singing. I’m a sucker for…
“Entering The Town of Twin Peaks”: Introducing the Here and Gone in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (1990)
Updated November 22, 2022 We are used to seeing frightening things appear…
“Bang Bang”: Performance and Trope in Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
There is one absolute certainty in Quentin Tarantino’s two volume Kill Bill…
“It’s Time I Look Them Up, Before I’m in a Box Myself”: Objects and Disruption in Amélie (2001)
Amélie finds beauty in witnessing the way objects impact people. She is…
“The Tyranny of an Object”: Technology and Representation in Blade Runner (1982) and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”
“The tyranny of an object… it doesn’t know I exist”…