FILM ANALYSIS


Mind Over Body: Looking Back at the Original Sleepaway Camp Trilogy

Crooked Marquee, Jul 6 2020

all steadicam and no play: movement in the shining

Crooked Marquee, May 22 2020

friday the 13th at 40: how to steal and sell a movie

Crooked Marquee, May 8 2020

in praise of roxanne benjamin, patron saint of flawed femme leads

Crooked Marquee, Feb 28 2020

who gives a shit if the oscars don’t respect horror?

Birth Movies Death, Jan 27 2020

emilio p. miraglia and the high gothic giallo

Vague Visages, Oct 18 2019

losing my religion: unhallowed irreverence in alice, sweet alice

Vague Visages, Oct 11 2019

the skeleton dance and the history of the danse macabre

Shudder’s The Bite, Oct 22 2019

the strange history of charles manson’s failed music career

Birth Movies Death, Jul 24 2019

with friends like these: altman’s 3 women

Birth Movies Death, May 30 2019

doppleganger horror: a brief film history

Birth Movies Death, Mar 20 2019

choros mania: climax and the cinema of kinetic madness

Dread Central, Mar 11 2019

Serial killer films do more than entertain

Birth. Movies. Death., Jan 29 2019

the shared trauma of 2018’s halloween and halloween:h20

Collider, Oct 24 2018

not just any toon: judge doom in who framed roger rabbit

Birth. Movies. Death. Jun 27 2018

moral ambiguity in the killing of a sacred deer

Birth. Movies. Death. Oct. 29 2017

book vs. film: three pivotal scenes from gerald's game

Dread Central,  Oct 13 2017

the night of the hunter: a depression-era folktale

Birth.Movies.Death. Aug 6 2017

ten overlooked horror films that deserve your love

Blumhouse, Jul 27 2017

crew expendable: the consequences of empathy in alien

Birth. Movies. Death. May 16 2017

NOT YOUR TROPHY: DEER IMAGERY IN GET OUT

Vague Visages, Mar 22 2017

DUMPLINGS: FRUIT CHAN'S MORSEL OF SATIRE

Birth.Movies.Death. Mar 14 2017

A woman's touch: the trinity of the body in american mary

Vague Visages, Feb 6 2017

WHY green room's amber is the horror heroine we need

52 Weeks of Horror, Jan 2 2017

in defense of the cult of thorn

Daily Grindhouse, Oct 24 2016

cosmic beasts: lovecraftian elements in gojira

Daily Grindhouse, Oct 13 2016


in defense of’s

During his editing days at BMD, Phil Nobile, Jr. was generous enough to occasionally humor my impassioned defenses of maligned films in his former column Say Something Nice:

Graveyard Shift

Creepshow 2

The Wicker Man (2006)

The Happening

Dreamcatcher

Hollow Man

Halloween (2007)


Crosstalks/collaborations

Devious Dialogues: On The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise   Vague Visages, 28 Aug 2017

Devious Dialogues: On Stephen King's "It" (Book and 1990 Film)   Vague Visages, 27 Jul 2017

Devious Dialogues: On The Exorcist TV Series   Vague Visages, 22 Jun 2017

Devious Dialogues: On The Alien Franchise     Vague Visages, 10 May 2017

Devious Dialogues: On The Exorcist Franchise   Vague Visages, 28 Apr 2017

Looking Back At Camp Crystal Lake: On The Friday The 13th Series  Vague Visages, 14 Mar 2017

I See A Darkness: Debating The Ending Of "Get Out"     Daily Grindhouse, 28 Feb 2017

Looking Back And Forward: On The Halloween Franchise     Vague Visages, 17 Feb 2017