Zach Cregger’s second feature Weapons has been one of the year’s most impactful horror movies. We take a look at what makes this alternately serious and silly movie tick, and why it’s been received with so much enthusiasm. What can we make of the loaded, potentially subversive symbolism at play in the film, and how does it tie […]
Episode 96: Mummies
The mummy has carved out an interesting place in pop culture that reveals some odd quirks when you peel off the bandages. We investigate the exoticism and neo-colonialism that colours the image of the mummy in horror literature and film. How did this shambling corpse become so iconic and yet so divorced from its origins? […]