‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Delivers a Fatal Dose of Poe
Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher delivers a fatal potion of Poe-haunted, nightmarish doom that brings us to our knees before the conqueror worm.
Hector DeJean
Hector DeJean writes extensively about crime shows, comics, vintage sci-fi, and other pop-cultural debris. He is also a fictional character in Olen Steinhauer's TV series Berlin Station.
‘The Flash’ and Its Disposable Heroes of Multiversity
The story that takes up most of The Flash’s running time is about something that never happened, and worse, the film skips over the hard part of multiversity storytelling.
‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Looks Upon the Poe You Didn’t Know
Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye has Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) making an unconventional partner to Christian Bale’s 1830s sleuth.
The Death Labyrinth in ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio gives lessons in mortality from death creatures possibly more unsettling than those in Hellboy II and Pan’s Labyrinth.
The Revulsion Should Not Be Televised: On ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’
H.P. Lovecraft’s masterful method of telling a horror story eludes “Pickman’s Model” and “The Dreams in the Witch House” from Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
‘Miss Sherlock’ Homages Sherlock Holmes with an Androgynous Twist
The television show Miss Sherlock bends and twists the conventional Japanese character into something that fills the world of Sherlock Holmes.