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fromAnOther
3 days ago

Five Groundbreaking Dream Sequences From Silent Cinema

Film is like that. It developed from [the silent era] into Fellini and Bergman, Buñuel and David Lynch. [They] took these ideas and created a film that was really like a dream.
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Typography
fromOpen Culture
2 weeks ago

Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919-1921)

Gothic horror and fantasy genres have evolved since the 18th century, with 'weird fiction' emerging in the early 20th century.
History
fromMedievalists.net
3 weeks ago

Medieval Goths and Goth Music: The Surprising Connection - Medievalists.net

The Goths influenced modern goth music, linking a historical Germanic tribe to contemporary cultural styles.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis': The future is now

Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, set in 2026, prophetically depicted AI and automation concerns that mirror modern anxieties about technological displacement and social inequality.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Why Frankenstein should win the best picture Oscar

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein adaptation transforms Shelley's novel into a story about generational trauma and forgiveness, featuring meticulous craftsmanship and visual splendor despite fantasy genre's historical Oscar disadvantage.
Film
fromQueerty
1 month ago

Why iconic horror 'Bride Of Frankenstein' is an electrifying queer classic - Queerty

Bride of Frankenstein (1935) is a seminal queer horror classic exploring otherness through the monster's perspective, resonating with LGBTQ+ audiences who identify with societal outsiders.
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fromInverse
2 months ago
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90 Years Later, A Horror Legend's Most Overlooked Sci-Fi Thriller Deserves To Be Remembered

fromInverse
2 months ago
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90 Years Later, A Horror Legend's Most Overlooked Sci-Fi Thriller Deserves To Be Remembered

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fromInverse
1 month ago

Universal's Most Troubled Franchise Is Getting A YA Reboot From A Horror Icon

Netflix and Universal were very kind to let me go direct Scream VII and put some projects on hold. Now I'm focused on those. The first is a TV show based in the Universal monster land. It won't skimp on Williamson's penchant for melodrama, either: he compared the project to an adult Vampire Diaries, which we've not really gotten from him before.
Independent films
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

91 Years Ago, The Original 'Bride' Electrified The 'Frankenstein' Myth

James Whale's 1935 Bride of Frankenstein smuggled complex ideas about gender and sexuality into a sequel whose reluctant director transformed a cash-grab project into a revisionist masterpiece.
Film
fromKqed
2 months ago

'Dracula' Finds New Life in a Sexy Reimagining by Luc Besson

Luc Besson's Paris-set reimagining of Dracula injects humor, color, period detail, and fresh panache into a familiar tale, starring Caleb Landry Jones.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

One Of The Most Iconic Horror Movies Ever Triumphed Over An Obvious Shortcoming

The 1931 Universal film Dracula redefined the vampire as a suave anti-hero and helped establish the Universal Monsters image despite lacking an original musical score.
Film
fromThe Washington Post
2 months ago

Review | A famous director, a talented cast and a 'Dracula' that is endlessly bad

Hollywood increasingly remakes Gothic horror classics as tentpole films, with major directors recycling old stories into often disappointing, confounding new versions.
Film
fromArtforum
2 months ago

I too can love: On Luc Besson's Dracula

Luc Besson's 2025 Dracula reproduces and refines Francis Ford Coppola's romantic, eroticized portrayal of Dracula, prioritizing cinematic spectacle and homage over novel fidelity.
Film
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

The vampire figure personifies societal anxieties and mirrors social and racial violence, sustaining enduring cultural relevance across myth, literature, and film.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Blood Countess review Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia

Isabelle Huppert plays Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a vampire-like serial killer returned to contemporary Vienna, embodying aristocratic coldness and eerie glamour.
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

How Fritz Lang's Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)

A vast, miserable proletariat squanders its days in meaningless toil. Society is under the control of ultra-wealthy business magnates. In order to pacify the underclass, the ruling class pins its hopes on a technological solution: artificial intelligence. Welcome to the year 2026, as envisioned in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
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fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

An undying trend: How vampires hold a mirror to society

Vampires in storytelling symbolize societal fears and reflect historical social and racial violence, as shown by a 1930s-set horror about community-targeted vampires.
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

10 Years, A Cult Director Kickstarted Their Career With A Terrifying Folk Horror

The Witch's success revitalized mainstream interest in folk horror, inspiring Hollywood, indie, and international films while highlighting pagan iconography and rural dread.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

Guillermo Del Toro's Best New Monster Movie Is Getting A Huge Upgrade

An extended "all the stitches" cut of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is in development and may appear on the film's physical release or return to theaters.
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