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[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Hadestown is a brilliant reinterpretation of the Greek myth of...

Recently, I read an exquisitely curated collection of jisei—Japanese death poetry. It was a thoroughly engrossing volume, offering unique...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Modern blockbusters—especially those belonging to the increasingly...

From Max Schreck’s ghoulishly feral Count Orlok to Lon Chaney’s grotesquely disfigured Phantom of the Opera, the movie monsters of the...

[The following essay exaggerates my opinions for comedic effect; please don’t take it too seriously.] Back in high school, I wrote a...

Under certain circumstances, even the most familiar of spaces can seem utterly terrifying. When you’re trapped in your own home for weeks...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] How does a totalitarian regime solidify its reign? Through fear and...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Traditionally, adaptations of Pinocchio revolve around naughty...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.] Early on in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Angela...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Junji Ito’s Uzumaki begins unassumingly enough. The protagonist, Kirie...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When questioned about the underlying themes of Gyo, author Junji Ito...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] From their very inception, Marvel’s spandex-clad vigilantes have shared a...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Evil is a virus. As glimpsed in 2021’s Halloween Kills, its...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The narrative structure of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is unconventional,...

[The following essay contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] You either lose your mind or die. No in between. That quote is Cyberpunk:...

[The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] [Seriously, I LITERALLY GIVE AWAY THE ENDING IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH;...

Fate. Karma. Luck. Do such intangible forces truly govern the trajectory of human existence? Or is our suffering simply the result of...

There was no other way. It’s no hyperbole to claim that Doctor Strange played an instrumental role in thwarting Thanos’ genocidal...