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Switching things up. Again.
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Halloween Home Video: TV’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’
The AMC+ original horror series shows how even the undead make shrines to love.
 • Isabella
What About the Children: The Horror of Childhood
Bring Her Back and Weapons forces us to sit with children's pain and asks if we will allow it to continue.
 • Annaya
Mother, Monster, Hag: The Monstrous Old Woman’s Return
In films like 'Barbarian' (2022), 'X' (2022), and 'Weapons '(2025), the inhuman hag archetype emerges not as a relic of stardom but as a figure…
 • Juahl
Bay of Blood: How Platinum Dunes Rewired 21st Century Horror
Rather than presenting slasher villains as unknowable forces of evil, 21st-century horror films sought to make men of monsters.
 • Juahl A. Ganaway
2025’s Scariest Monster: Lonely White Men
'Friendship,' 'Lurker,' and 'Twinless' serve as cautionary tales for what white men are willing to do when their manifest destiny of unlimited success…
 • Annaya
Dirty Work: Black Women and Their Reproductive Labor in 'One Battle After Another'
'One Battle After Another' fails to honor the invaluable role that Black women's reproductive labor plays in the revolution.
 • Kaycee Hailey
TIFF 2025: You Need to See 'Mārama'
'Mārama' is a story of reclamation — taking back culture and ghosts from hungry and fetishistic colonizers, and giving them the life and place in time…
 • Alisha Mughal
TIFF 2025: 'There Are No Words' Puts Words To A Weighty Sadness
'There Are No Words' is gutting and sharp even as it is soft and tender.
 • Alisha Mughal
TIFF 2025: 'Wasteman' Review
'Wasteman' works best when considered as an addition to the prison thriller canon, not when it’s trying to give us a genuine representation of life…
 • veronica phillips
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