Jessica Scott / Contributor 30/04/2022 Jessica Scott / Contributor 30/04/2022

[Film Review] Vampyr (1932)

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful Vampyr (1932) straddles the line between silent and sound pictures…

Jessica Scott / Contributor 19/12/2021 Jessica Scott / Contributor 19/12/2021

[Editorial] 12 Ghouls of Christmas: Christmas Evil (1980): Finding Santa’s Tune

There are only so many Christmas songs in the world. You don’t realize how many different versions there are of each one until you’re forced to listen to Christmas music all day…

Jessica Scott / Contributor 22/10/2021 Jessica Scott / Contributor 22/10/2021

[Film Review] Meander (2020)

Meander had me at “claustrophobic death traps.” The poster and synopsis for the film promised horror reminiscent of Cube-meets-Saw…

Jessica Scott / Contributor 25/08/2021 Jessica Scott / Contributor 25/08/2021

[Editorial] You Can Hear Me: Navigating the Aural Gaze in Carnival of Souls (1962)

When engaging critically with a film, we often talk about its gaze. Film is, after all, a visual medium, and how we look at the objects and characters on the screen shapes our relationship with the story…

Jessica Scott / Contributor 16/07/2021 Jessica Scott / Contributor 16/07/2021

[Film Review] The Toll (2020)

“Do you like blood, violence, and freaks of nature? Well, then, come on down!”

Jessica Scott / Contributor 04/05/2021 Jessica Scott / Contributor 04/05/2021

[Film Review] A Ghost Waits (2020)

Boy meets girl. Girl tries to scare boy into fleeing home in terror. Boy stays and falls in love with girl instead….

Jessica Scott / Contributor 08/04/2021 Jessica Scott / Contributor 08/04/2021

[Film Review] As Above, So Below (2014)

Not only does director John Erick Dowdle’s ambitious found footage film explore physical claustrophobia; it explores spiritual claustrophobia as well…