Resistance and Compromise: The Phantom Lover (1995)
The Phantom Lover is a melodrama between Danping Song (Leslie Cheung) and Yunyan Du (Jacqueline Wu). Nov 7, 2022
Category: Issue 6: Halloween
Short Review for The Wicker Man (1973)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) was an offbeat horror film. Nov 7, 2022
Death and the Present World – Coco (2017)
Coco (2017) offers the illusion of a link between the real world and the return of dead souls, through the memories and thoughts of the living, personified in photographs, which the souls are able to return to on the annual El Día de los Muertos. Nov 7, 2022
Short Review for The Addams Family (1991)
The Addams Family is a black humour films with a fun, playful and macabre tone. Its idea can be traced back to Charles Addams comic and the adaptation of cartoon in TV featuring the life of gothic family from 1912 to 1988 when its ideas of weird but funny monster …
The Legacy of a Horror Icon: Halloween (1978) to Halloween Ends (2022)
In an era of media dominated by the sequel and reboots, no one was surprised to see that the horror icon Michael Myers was coming back to the big screen. Hollywood’s attempts at revitalising a franchise appear to have one question in common: how is what we—the modern audience—think and …
Short Review for Coraline (2009)
Directed by Henry Selick, Coraline (2009) is a stop-motion animated film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name, featuring a gothic-style horror and adventurous story of our leading little girl Coraline. Her name, differing from a much more common name “Caroline”, clearly grants her a discernable scent of …
Interview with the Vampire (2022): the Beginning of An Immortal Universe…
After 28 years, Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice has once again been adapted for theatrical release. With Rice’s passing, her son’s involvement in the production, actors of color in the lead roles, this artwork has once again evoked the imagination of audiences. Nov 7, 2022
Titane (2021) Review: Who’s Afraid of a Big Bad Genre Expansion?
Julia Ducournau’s 2021 horror-drama fuses the scaffold of horror with shifting senses of gender, belonging, the body, sex, and technology. The product is a redefinition of the genre in which the object of fear isn’t what threatens to harm our bodies but the body itself. Nov 7, 2022
