Abominable Advent Calendar Day 1: Countdown of Craptacular Cinema
One craptastic movie to unwrap each day, culminating on Christmas with one of my personal favorite Christmas-themed crapsterpieces.
Join Me for an Online Witchy Film Class October 28
Join me on Thursday, October 28 at 7:00 p.m. Pacific for Our Bodies, Our Spells: Witches’ Bodies in Film, a virtual film appreciation class in the Seattle International Film Festival’s ongoing What the Femme class series. In folklore and film, witches have many…
The Joy of Bad Witchy Film
I am a film nut. I’m obsessed, really. Which isn’t to say that I am a fan of every type of film—far from it. I find romantic comedies and any film with Will Ferrell in it intolerable. But one subject that I’ve been…
Spooky Movies: Kwaidan
The name Kwaidan means “ghost stories,” and this 1964 Japanese film contains four of them: a man who divorces his wife and returns to find her quite changed; a man who makes a promise to a strange woman in the snow who spares…
Spooky Movies: The Devil’s Backbone
Many people know Guillermo del Toro from Pacific Rim, Hellboy, or Pan’s Labyrinth, but his less well-known stuff—especially The Devil’s Backbone—is well worth a look. The story takes place at a dusty, run-down orphanage in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish…
Spooky Movies: Trick R Treat
If you judge Trick R Treat by its cover, you’ll probably guess that it’s another boring, cliché-ridden slasher film. Although there is a fair amount of blood spilled, this isn’t your run-of-the mill b-grade horror flick. The film contains five interwoven stories about…
