Vrai Watches Jupiter Ascending
A shoujo isekai classic for the ages.
Trash & Treasures: The Howling (w/ Jourdain Searles)
The theme for this year’s spooky season can be summed up as “WHERE ARE ALL THE LADY WEREWOLF MOVIES.”
Let the Right One In is a Queer Vampire Love Story
As VRV Blog appears to be somewhat of a defunct site at this point, I’m going to be migrating the pieces I wrote there over here in full for preservation purposes. 2008’s Let the Right One In was the counterweight to the Twilight fever of the 2000s: a vampire love story that […]
Trash & Treasures: Manhunter
For our anniversary I got myself an excuse to talk about Hannibal. And Hannibal.
Marketing a Murderer: Behind the Mask and True Crime Fandom
As VRV Blog appears to be somewhat of a defunct site at this point, I’m going to be migrating the pieces I wrote there over here in full for preservation purposes. Self-aware slasher movies are nothing new—Wes Craven defined the modern sensibility of the subgenre with New Nightmare and later […]
The Nearly Destroyed History of 1973’s Horror Masterpiece, The Wicker Man
As VRV Blog appears to be somewhat of a defunct site at this point, I’m going to be migrating the pieces I wrote there over here in full for preservation purposes. These days The Wicker Man is best known for its ridiculous 2006 remake, the centerpiece being walking meme Nicolas […]
Drunk Book Club: Sphere
Things I learned from this episode: the bad science that you can shrug off in a Crichton movie is so much more agonizing when you’re trapped on the page with it for CHAPTERS. Also, something something “identity politics.”
