What is the point of creating art? What is there to do when something you love so much doesn’t love you back? It’s an ever-pressing question, especially now when art is progressively devalued and commodified between generative AI, garbage working conditions for animators, and the churn-and-burn pacing of the anime and manga industries. And yet, despite it all, humans continue to create art because it’s an innately human thing to do. Even in times of tragedy or isolation, people still want to con...

After ending the twentieth century with a brief slasher revival, sparked by the 1996 release of Scream,  the horror genre, in Hollywood, at least, was in a slump. The juggernauts that dominated the last third of the twentieth century– Michael, Jason, Leatherface, and Freddy–were presumed dead, Ghostface just wrapped up a pretty open-and-shut trilogy, and none of their derivatives seemed to make as much of a splash. No new horror icons seemed to be on the horizon. That was, until, a first-time di...

The horror genre kicked 2024 off with an anomaly: two films, made by two completely different studios, with similar premises, released mere weeks from each other. Immaculate and The First Omen ushered in horror with a bang of demonic babies, corrupt nunneries, and fears of unwanted parenthood. Then, after much anticipation, Longlegs was released. Beyond its absolutely fantastic marketing campaign was a story of demonic children, false nuns, and fears of parenting.The double-hitter of Immaculate...