Evil Dead

Our buddy Chris Alexander warned against nostalgia when reviewing Evil Dead (2013), a film which could very well be a younger generation’s touchstone for horror, especially given Hollywood’s propensity to “churn out pedestrian PG-13 horror like a sausage factory.” When Alexander discussed this film, his qualifiers had qualifiers and his comments were specifically in relation to the bêteContinue reading “Evil Dead”

The Nightmare

The Simpsons’ resident legal counsel Lionel Hutz once approached the bench saying, “we’ve got plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.” The Nightmare is a purportedly some kind of documentary. However, it focuses exclusively on anecdotal accounts of a phenomenon called “sleep paralysis,” or “the transient inability to move or speak during the transition between sleep and wakefulness…” As documentary filmContinue reading “The Nightmare”