On the Femme Fatale: Where did She Come from & Where is She Going?

It is incredibly amazing how something as simple as a basic psychological archetype in a short piece of art (a thirteen minute short film) can implant the seed of an idea in one’s head that takes root and becomes a…

“Based Upon A True Story”: Leopold & Loeb & Hitchcock’s ROPE (‘48)

PSYCHO (‘60), Ed Gein, and the Marketing of a Horror Classic

REAR WINDOW (‘54): A Tension-Filled Study in Voyeurism

Lust Murder, “Sequence Killers,” and Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ (2017)

Sensory Ambiguity, Gothicism, and ‘The Shining’ (1980)

For K.D.

Hieronymus Bosch and Work done in his Style:

A Exhaustive Study of Two Works

The Villisca Axe Murders at 105 Years

We artists owe the victims historical accuracy without undue…

VERTIGO (‘58): Icy Blondes, Doppelgangers, & Human Psychology

Marilyn Monroe & Film Noir Pt. II: “Don’t Bother to Knock” (1952)