Pablo Larraín’s ‘El Conde’ Dilutes the Real Horror of Pinochet
Pablo Larraín’s fascist vampire analogy El Conde somehow trivializes the Pinochet monstrosity at its core.
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Prepare to Get Slayed and Played by ‘Vampire Survivors’
Vampire Survivors‘ time-sucking qualities reveal the insidious aspects of the best video games and what players want from them.
Argentine Noir ‘El Vampiro Negro’ Will Have You Swooning
Argentine noir El Vampiro Negro is a visual mastery of Expressionist nightmare with a bravura style that makes film buffs of the high studio era swoon.
Director Jonathan Cuartas on America’s Marginalized in ‘My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To’
Director Jonathan Cuartas talks with PopMatters about his debut feature film My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, which looks at victims America doesn’t care about.
‘American Horror Story and Philosophy: Life Is but a Nightmare’
Blood, guts, and identity theories about the popular FX horror anthology series.
George A. Romero’s ‘Martin’: On Lasting Intimacy with a Cult Cinema Vampire
Why do horror fans take Romero's 1978 indie masterpiece so personally? A close look at the film, its novelization, its soundtrack, the Soft Cell pop song it inspired, and other pop culture obsessions.
It All Began the Day ‘Blade’ Sliced Through the Silver Screen
How Blade found success out of the rubble of comic book films and Marvel's bankruptcy.
Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch
Blood Bitch invites listeners with its conceptual bite, controlling them effortlessly through Jenny Hval's journey along lonely spaces.
In ‘We Are the Night’ Even Lesbian Vampire Love Is Untenable in a Man’s World
Vampiro-lesbo-culture is shown to be titillating yet untenable in this male-made movie that proves even men can’t make a bad lesbian vampire movie.
Glen Duncan’s Existential Horror Is So Good, It’s a Curse
These characters navigate a constellation of theological ruins and failed rationalizations, wherein existential nausea must do battle with the hunger of the werewolf Curse.