Drunk Book Club: The Phantom of Manhattan
AKA Love Never Dies AKA “that Andrew Lloyd Webber musical not even his biggest apologists can forgive.”
Trash & Treasures: Blood & Chocolate
I don’t know if this is a GOOD movie, but it is an absolutely heroic rewrite of the source material and I want a novelization of it.
Fall 2019 Premiere Reviews
It’s that time again. This season doesn’t have many ultra strandouts, aside of the stellar Stars Align, but there are a lot of strong midtier offerings. Like last season, I’m including links to every premiere review, not just mine.
Trash & Treasures: Ginger Snaps
I’m mad that we’ve now watched all the good female werewolf movies.
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 […]
Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories 