Hidden Horror
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Hidden Horror: Philip Ridley’s The Reflecting Skin
The following essay appears in the new horror-film anthology, Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks. Click here for an interview with the book’s editor, Dr. AC as well as for links to four other essays published at Filmmaker. “It’s all so horrible, isn’t it? The nightmare of childhood. And it only gets worse.” The prairie is a paradox: a place of bounty and scarcity, virility and decay, the sublime and the surreal. You can see this in the juxtaposition of lush landscape paintings depicting thick wheat fields, warm sunsets and quaint farmhouses, with black-and-white photos […]
by Dave Alexander on Jan 16, 2014 -
Hidden Horror: Wallace Worsely’s The Penalty
The following essay appears in the new horror-film anthology, Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks. Click here for an interview with the book’s editor, Dr. AC as well as for links to four other essays published at Filmmaker. “Laughter burns a cripple like acid.” Having kids is hell for your hobbies. After adopting my son, Nicholas, I returned home to discover my father-in-law had boxed up all my DVDs and stored them in the garage to make room for a crib, mobiles, and large, brightly-colored pieces of plastic that light up and buzz. It was […]
by David Lee White on Jan 15, 2014 -
Hidden Horror: Larry Fessenden’s Habit
The following essay appears in the new horror-film anthology, Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks. Click here for an interview with the book’s editor, Dr. AC as well as for links to four other essays published at Filmmaker. “I suspect that the less you know about me, the longer you’ll stay interested.” Habit: [hab-it] noun, 1) an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary; 2) a dominant or regular disposition or tendency; prevailing character or quality; 3) addiction, especially to alcohol or narcotics The vampire of legend is eternal, and its […]
by Aaron Christensen on Jan 14, 2014 -
Hidden Horror: Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
The following essay appears in the new horror-film anthology, Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks. Click here for an interview with the book’s editor, Dr. AC as well as for links to four other essays published at Filmmaker. “I’ve come to tell you what I see. There are great darknesses. Farther than time itself. And beyond the darkness, a light that glows, changes…and in the center of the universe…the eye that sees us all.” I sometimes think I learned everything I know about horror movies from Stephen King. I have an old copy of Danse […]
by Christianne Benedict on Jan 13, 2014 -
Hidden Horror: The Signal
The following essay appears in the new horror-film anthology, Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks. Click here for an interview with the book’s editor, Dr. AC as well as for links to four other essays published at Filmmaker. “Do you have the crazy?” Expectations, when great, are seldom met and tend to leave an impression of disappointment. I often find the opposite to also be true; the fewer expectations, the more gratifying when something turns out to be a jewel amidst detritus. With this in mind, it fills me with quiet dread that by cresting […]
by Aaron Gillot on Jan 12, 2014
