“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air” Macbeth Frightful tales told around a campfire connect people with a more primitive form of horror, the kind that hearkened back to our oral culture. In The Fog, the Exemplar of Elocution John Houseman plays Mr. Machen, who is regaling localContinue reading “The Fog”
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The Seamstress
The Seamstress commits a cardinal sin off the bat: an entirely useless definition of the commonplace English word, “revenge,” when the film could’ve easily launched with a pithy quote. Or a dirty limerick. Or a factoid. Or lyrics by Tupac. Anything. An unnecessarily talky exposition fest, aided with bad newspaper visuals — the made up Baltimore DailyContinue reading “The Seamstress”