Category: Read-outs
It’s time to reread… everything.
Early ’60s Horror (3)
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The boundary between uncanny and uncanny-fantastic is a difficult one.
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Spoiler Alert: The Last Picture Show
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The enigma of the old western wrapped in the mystery of the new.
Read This PostBewildered in Boston
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“This stage was really hell — the fracas of an el / to downtown Boston”
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Spoiler Alert: They Live
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We don’t need sunglasses. We need to take the blinders off.
Read This PostEarly ’60s Horror (2)
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Liminal Horror movies — between the supernatural and the everyday.
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Spoiler Alert: Grizzly Man
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Herzog’s portrait of a sincere man on a sincerely troubled quest.
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Idler Q&A (3)
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The Beatles fail to do their duties in an instructive, glorious, larger-than-life manner.
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Early ’60s Horror (1)
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Why are horror movies from 1960-63 so resistant to critical analysis?
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