Edition 19 — Week of September 19, 2026 (Archived)
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
An enchanted village. A wonderful friendship. Star-crossed lovers. And the magic of the movies.
2016
A god incarnate. A city doomed.
The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
While all of it is gripping, it doesn't come together until the final scene, which is jolting, transcendent, unexpected yet inevitable.
— John Hartl, Seattle Times
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.
After a young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident, they soon realize they did not leave the crash scene alone, as a demonic presence called the Passenger that won't stop until it claims them both turns their van life adventure into a nightmare.
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
1991
Romance... In a most unlikely place.
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Ari Aster’s hyper-aware movie builds a scary mousetrap with Swedish bait, but it has more virtuosity than vision.
— Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
After a while, an unproductive restlessness sets in as you wait for the characters to matter as much as the silky moves and painstaking details. Horror
— Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
1976
Television will never be the same.
"It’s a statement about my stupidity, your stupidity, everybody’s stupidity…There is a decadence in America. I see it all around me.”I wrote about why Nashville is the best American film:"
"You don't really get the sense from our current crop of prominent filmmakers that even if they had 120 mill to make whatever they wanted, that they'd make something so unabashedly unhinged and ponderous."
""The guilt and exhilaration of walking the same path with two men is why I made this movie, to see the two experiences side by side. … Things repeat themselves with differences I can't understand."
"the Romilly character being stuck in that spaceship alone for twenty three years and then being like "so what's next guys:D" when they return. surely that man would've made a nest and scratched numbers into the walls,…"
"I'm just watching the title sequence thinking man that is a beautiful serif."
"Fantastic performances from Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron, dreamy editing, and an understated yet potent sensuality. Every time I watch Black Narcissus I love it more."
""Making love was sad that day. Even years later, she still remembered it."
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