Josephine Decker’s dreamy film reimagines details from the life of author Shirley Jackson and explores the tumultuous months spent writing her second novel HANGSAMAN. Both HANGSAMAN and SHIRLEY follow writers who use witchcraft to find their voices in communities with rigid social hierarchies.
Leigh Janiak's overlooked 2014 body horror film is a brilliant and brutal exploration of intimacy.
THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE is ostensibly a story about death. André Øvredal’s terrifying film follows Austin (Emile Hirsch) and Tommy (Brian Cox), a father-son team of coroners tasked with examining a body found partially buried beneath a brutal crime scene. Rather than discover and report her tragic story, they inadvertently awaken a powerful witch hellbent on reclaiming her own autonomy.
Film scholar Michael Brown brings his "Archival Horror" series to an end with a look at one of Netflix's most underrated horror offerings.
In Aneesh Chaganty’s SEARCHING (2018), the desktop itself becomes a source of anxiety and fear, and the brightly lit screen holds some dark and disturbing secrets.
