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Tag: Horror musical
“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…
“The Hills Are Alive [!]”: Singing, Mayhem, and Horror Musicals
I think horror films don’t include enough singing. I’m a sucker for…