Abominable Advent Calendar Day 2: Message from Space (1978)
There's a Japanese-American Star Wars ripoff with disco, druids, and drag queens waiting for you behind Abominable Advent Calendar Door 2.
Join Me for an Online Witchy Film Class October 28
Join me on Thursday, October 28 at 7:00 p.m. Pacific for Our Bodies, Our Spells: Witches’ Bodies in Film, a virtual film appreciation class in the Seattle International Film Festival’s ongoing What the Femme class series. In folklore and film, witches have many…
The Joy of Bad Witchy Film
I am a film nut. I’m obsessed, really. Which isn’t to say that I am a fan of every type of film—far from it. I find romantic comedies and any film with Will Ferrell in it intolerable. But one subject that I’ve been…
Spooky Movies: Kwaidan
The name Kwaidan means “ghost stories,” and this 1964 Japanese film contains four of them: a man who divorces his wife and returns to find her quite changed; a man who makes a promise to a strange woman in the snow who spares…
Spooky Movies: The Devil’s Backbone
Many people know Guillermo del Toro from Pacific Rim, Hellboy, or Pan’s Labyrinth, but his less well-known stuff—especially The Devil’s Backbone—is well worth a look. The story takes place at a dusty, run-down orphanage in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish…
Spooky Movies: Trick R Treat
If you judge Trick R Treat by its cover, you’ll probably guess that it’s another boring, cliché-ridden slasher film. Although there is a fair amount of blood spilled, this isn’t your run-of-the mill b-grade horror flick. The film contains five interwoven stories about…
