Part I — LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY
Okay, let’s get this out of the way first off: Before this entry to the franchise, there have been precisely 2.75 good Hellraiser films. That’s it.
It’s by sheer happenstance that I know Maya Deane. We met through a mutual friend, and I want to be clear and upfront with everyone, as a matter of professional ethics…
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!! Why this movie? No, seriously. Why am I, of all the universe’s hopefully quintillions of sentient…
I want to tell you some stories about myself. All but one is a lie. I want you to…
Part I — Introduction to Destruction
Another week, another “I feel like I’m cheating” article. Now, to be clear, this isn’t a queer movie. But it does have at least one queer couple and several queer-coded characters. The Old…
Part I — In Which a Weird Literary Crush Is Revealed, to the Surprise of No One
Okay, so I have two literary crushes in this world, and if you know of them, they won’t surprise you: The first is…
Part I — The Film, The Structure, Its Themes, and Their Intertextuality
The 2020 French-language film La Terre et Le Sang (Earth and Blood) can be called many things. Moody. Violent. Wet. 3-Act Structure for People who…