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Dracula (or Horror of Dracula depending on who you ask) released in 1958 and it was the first of what would be many times (10!) the great Christopher Lee played the iconic titular vampire — there’s a reason Hammer Films had Lee play the character in seven of their films; he was just that good. […]
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Three years later and I’m still in complete awe of Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!, a film that set the genre on fire and was legitimately shocking in many ways — how did he get a studio to back this movie? The insanity. I had a hard time back in 2017 formulating any kind of writing that […]
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I’ve featured Mike Saputo’s work on TMR a couple of times (here and here) because his stuff is so damn good. This piece he did for A Quiet Place is just… holy shit. The art plays right into the film’s theme of silence and the peacefulness that comes along with it — a peacefulness that […]
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“The man who made a monster” says it all. Here’s a film and a monster that needs no introduction (especially for you guys), so we’re going to instead stare (and drool) at how ridiculously cool this piece by artist Anthony Petrie is. What I love about this one is that it gives us a look […]
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So much of Ari Aster’s Hereditary relies on its terrifying imagery — much of the film’s scariest moments are in its stillness and its ability to create dread out of it — and perhaps the scariest image of them all comes in the film’s final moments (you know the one). That final, maddening ascent into […]
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Endlessly quotable, brain-melting visuals, and unforgettably weird is really the only way that I know how to describe Robert Eggers’ somber masterpiece The Lighthouse. A gull-smashing period piece wrapped in stormy terror and deranged banter between two cracked lighthouse keepers is extremely my shit, so I’m excited to share with you some wonderful art by […]
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