Winchester: “The House Built by Spirits”
To understand the Winchester Mystery House (located in San Jose, California) is to understand its owner, protector and overseer – Sarah…
Year: 2016
The Witch and The Folktale
(Spoiler alert.) Prior to watching The Witch (2015), the word “folktale” in its subtitle made me skeptical. I was afraid that…
Life Expectancy of the ‘Zombie’
Zombies. They’ve been likened to dinosaurs in that they seem to have been around forever yet no one’s ever…
The Side-Effect of Special Effects in Horror
If you haven’t seen the 1993 Docudrama Fire in the Sky, arguably a true story, I suggest you put aside…
The Horror in “It Can Happen to You”
(Spoiler Alert) When Netflix’s crime documentary ‘Making a Murderer’ hit our devices and television screens in 2015, we were glued. We watched,…
Audience Appeal: A Case Study of The Babadook
(Spoiler alert) A.O. Scott of the New York Times wrote, “You will be scared. And also, perhaps even more…