How the pre-code musical Gold Diggers of 1933 uses contrasting narrative structures.

Exploring the 19th century optical toys that laid the groundwork for cinematic animation.

Personal reflections on first viewing the 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis and its surprisingly emotional impact.

The claim that Netflix's subscription model is unprecedented ignores film industry history, particularly pre-1948 block booking practices.

Sacred sites in folk horror serve as conduits between past and present, often becoming focal points for supernatural occurrences.

Witchcraft, shamanism, and folk magic traditions form a core element of folk horror across cultures.

Culturally-specific vengeful ghosts in folk horror often represent historical trauma and unresolved injustice.

Folk horror's vampires draw more from local folkloric traditions than the urbane Dracula archetype.

The outsider perspective is a key narrative device in folk horror, often through academics, tourists, or skeptics.

Human sacrifice in folk horror represents the ultimate expression of a community's devotion to traditional beliefs.

Isolated religious communities with extreme beliefs are a central component of many folk horror narratives.

Transformation into animals represents the blurring of boundaries between the human and natural worlds in folk horror.

Exploring how rural isolation forms the backbone of folk horror narratives.

An exploration of folk horror as a film genre, its international manifestations, and common tropes.

Villages in folk horror represent sites of communal tradition and lost commons, offering both safety and peril as they maintain practices that urban society has abandoned.

This 1991 Playboy anthology film reminds us what mainstream cinema has lost—sensuality, feminine pleasure, and yes, titties.

A review of Frances Marion's 1921 directorial debut, a Fannie Hurst adaptation about working-class women in New York City.