When Faith Fails: FAITH: The Unholy Trinity
Autumn evenings feel incomplete without a cup of warm tea, a comforting blanket, and a dose of horror. This distinct autumnal mood gets better when it is raining–the darkness beyond the window, when paired with a dreadful story, creates a perfect atmosphere of unease. While the obvious pick for such evening would be a horror […]
Beautiful Creature: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
This review contains spoilers The gothic event of the season, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein bears the unmistakable imprint of a filmmaker with a spectacular imagination. A film of lavish beauty, with the sets and costumes so polished that they look deliberately artificial, it reveals as much about its creator as the Creature reveals about Baron […]
Cracow Gothic
Let me start with a market-based point of view: perhaps the success of the Witcher franchise (books, RPG, and series) encouraged the producers to create Cracow Monsters, the new Polish Netflix series directed by Kasia Adamik and Olga Chajdas. Sapkowski’s prose makes use of or makes reference to Slavic mythology; many of the monsters that […]