The Hell House LLC Trilogy and the Power of Continuity
Happy Holidays and Happy End of 2019! If you’ve been reading Everything But Bone for a while, you know I am a sucker for found footage films (FFF). And this time we are going...
Deep Red (1975), a Bloody Good Mystery
Here in Everything But Bone, we’re heading back to the horror subgenre giallo, or Italian horror-thriller-slashers. It’s been awhile, last time I wrote about one was Zombie 2 last summer. I believe a return...
Teeth (2007) is a Morality Tale Wrapped in a B-Movie
Content Warning for discussion of sexual assault.
This time in Everything But Bone we will be talking about an actual bone, teeth! Not the ones in your mouth, but the vagina dentata. Yes, our film...
Make it so! Star Trek: First Contact (1996) is a Horror Movie
Hello again! Welcome to the latest edition of Everything But Bone. This article is a little different from my previous ones, because we are finding horror in one of the biggest science fiction franchises...
Found Footage Gets Religious in The Devil’s Doorway (2018)
Welcome back to Everything But Bone, and today we are delving into an oft maligned genre, the found footage film. Never has a horror sub-genre been so debated, with fans either hating or loving...
The Villain Does Not Appear: The Invisible Power of Rebecca
Welcome to the first Everything But Bone of 2019. It’s been a hectic year so far for me, so I hope it’s been treating you better than I. For this week’s article, I thought...
After a 100 Years, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Still Scares
Horror movies are in the middle of a renaissance. Sure, us fans know they have always been valued forms of entertainment, now horror is being taken a little more seriously. But let’s...
Green Room (2015) Cannot Escape the Real World
Hello! After a short and much needed hiatus, Everything But Bone is back. Today I’m directing the column in a different direction, writing about a movie I don’t like. And to be honest, I...
Gross Camp Meets Awesome in Zombi 2 (1979)
Zombie stories are everywhere. The undead walk in our tv shows, books, and of course, movies. Now for a horror fan, I don’t actually like zombies that much. They are just kinda one note...
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) Finds Beauty in a Gory Dystopia
If you were a gothy/emo/nerd teen in the mid to late 2000’s like me, chances are you were obsessed with a horror musical. If might have been The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), or Tim...
How Setting Provides Context in The Village (2004)
In the world of horror movies, there is scarcely a name that produces more derision than M. Night Shyamalan’s. Now some of this is deserved. He did make that movie were Marky Mark fights...
Rear Window, or the World’s Scariest Bottle Episode
In today’s Everything But Bone, we are going to be examining for the first time a film by none other than the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. Rear Window (1954) is one of the...
From Mundane to Amazing: The Editing of Hot Fuzz
We are moving in a different direction for Everything But Bone this week as we journey into Edgar Wright’s masterpiece Hot Fuzz (2007). While it can be categorized as an action film, I believe...
Dracula (1992), the Ultimate Hot Mess.
In today’s Everything But Bone, we are entering bold new territory, writing about a film that’s bad. But why do that, you might say. Because, while the plot, characters, and acting isn’t the best,...
What’s Real When Everything’s Constructed in Perfect Blue
And now for something completely different, I’m going to be writing about an animated movie this time: Satoshi Kon’s 1997 masterpiece Perfect Blue. Writing about visual storytelling in animated films is different on a...
The Neon Demon: Where Visuals are More Important than Script
Welcome back to Everything but Bone! This week we are going to be examining one of the most polarizing horror films of 2016, Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon. It’s one of those love it...
Ambiguous Horror in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
Hello and welcome back to Everything but Bone. Today we are going back to 1980 with Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a classic film that has recently spawned countless memes and reactions gifs. But I...
Victorian Fashion and the Colour Coded Undead in Crimson Peak (2015)
This week on Everything But Bone, we are examining a film from the celebrated, and now Oscar winning, Guillermo del Toro. No fishman love making here, this time we are visiting 2015's Crimson Peak....
How Setting Makes the Story in Richard Loncraine’s Richard III
Welcome back to Everything But Bone. This time we are looking at something other than a horror movie - we’re going into Shakespeare territory. Now before you run away, the adaptation I’m talking about...
How Setting and Soundtrack Make It Follows a Standout Horror Film
Welcome to the very first Everything But Bone, a column about storytelling in film that looks at everything BUT dialogue. I’m talking sets, costumes, editing, cinematography soundtrack, and all the other aspects that make...