It was always gonna be hard after PAN’S LABYRINTH. Guillermo de Toro made his major market entrance with such rich visual language and a fabulist storyteller’s gift for imbuing the fairy tale with the mundane grit of human history. Since then some things have worked (THE SHAPE OF WATER) while others felt like that visual…
Tag: horror
ABIGAIL and NOSFERATU
At long last saw both Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s ABIGAIL, and Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU. The former is as fun as horror movies get. Nodding to everything from THE BAD SEED to FRIGHT NIGHT, PANIC ROOM to FROM DUSK TIL DAWN it’s a clown car of horror silliness. Occasionally super-scary and DEAD ALIVE levels of…
Corruption.
There is now, of course, a third notable NOSFERATU in the collective unconscious, which I haven’t yet gotten around to hate-watching. The plan, on Christmas, was to get up early, and begin with Murnau’s 1922 silent, in bed (which I did), then stay put and revisit Herzog’s 1979 remake (which I also did). Finally, I…
Chrysleriana 