Brian Fanelli
Freelance Contributor at Freelance
Writer. Bylines: @SignalHorizon, @horrorhomeroom, @Horror_Buzz, @blfj, @svjlit, @1428_Elm, more. Ph.D. Associate Professor of English. #HWA member.
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1 week ago |
1428elm.com | Brian Fanelli
Ethan Embry is known best for his roles in the 90s cult film Empire Records and teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait. However, he's not a total stranger to horror, starring in the underrated Devil's Candy from 2015. That film, in which Embry plays an artist who slowly loses his mind after moving into a rural home, feels like a template for his lead role in Alma and the Wolf. Despite its flaws, Alma and the Wolf has some strong performances and its share of unsettling sequences.
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2 weeks ago |
1428elm.com | Brian Fanelli
While Jason Voorhees is the most famous character of the Friday the 13th franchise, the series boasts several memorable final girls that were able to go toe-to-toe with the hockey masked big bad and ultimately defeat him, be it in space or at Camp Crystal Lake. In honor of this month's Friday the 13th, here is a list of our five favorite final girls from the iconic 80s slasher series.
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3 weeks ago |
1428elm.com | Brian Fanelli
Break out the studded baseball cap and prepare to obey the house rules. Octavia Spencer will reprise her role as the deeply unsettling Sue Ann from the 2019 surprise hit Ma.Blumhouse Productions announced this week at their Business of Fear symposium that a sequel to Ma is indeed happening, and the Oscar winner plans to return. Though the sequel is in its very early stages, with no plot details released yet, Blumhouse's founder/CEO Jason Blum did comment on the film.
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3 weeks ago |
1428elm.com | Brian Fanelli
Horror has a long and storied association with queer history. Some of the genre's earliest filmmakers, most notably James Whale, an openly gay man, dealt with issues of Otherness and identity, especially inFrankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Meanwhile, the pioneers of Gothic literature, specifically Mary Shelley and her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, had fluid sexualities. In honor of Pride Month, here are five must-see horror films by queer directors.
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2 months ago |
brightlightsfilm.com | Brian Fanelli
Instead of a shape-shifting alien that overtakes its human hosts, capitalism is represented in Romero’s film by the military and to a lesser extent, the zombies. Zombies have long been associated with capitalism. They literally consume and devour, to the point that by the beginning of Day of the Dead, they’ve reduced the world to military rule and few survivors.
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