Tina’s Death in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
ANALOG NIGHTMARES
The first time I watched Wes Craven’s seminal masterpiece, I was huddled around a 22’’ tube TV sitting on the shaggy carpeted floor of a friend’s spare bedroom. The room was full of...
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...
Paranoia, Marginalization, and Race in Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam (1999)
In the summer of 1977, New York City was suffering after a year of young people being murdered. An unknown man - a human monster - prowled the night, looking for couples alone in...
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...
Scream Writing Questions with B. Harrison Smith
Write, write, write. Scream Writer Harrison Smith boils down his advice until there's no fat left on the bone – just like if it were a screenplay! Today, the writer/director joins Scriptophobic to talk about...
Looking for Silver: Keep Digging, Keep Writing
When we begin writing a story, we’re in love with an idea. The idea may be bold, maybe it’s weird, could be it’s a love letter to our favorite thing. Whatever it is, the...
The Terror-ibleness of Tentacles (1977)
Tentacles (1977) is truly terrible. The kind of terrible that only comes from attempting to shamelessly ripoff another more popular movie. The movie in question here is clearly trying to ripoff Jaws (1975). Now the...
One Missed Pod 004: GUILTY OF ROMANCE (2011)
You can tell this week was a Zack pick by the dark subject matter in Guilty of Romance (2011). This film by legendary director Sion Sono is based on a real crime that rocked...
HALLOWEEN 3 (1982) and the Appeal of the Standalone Sequel
The first time my young, horror adverse mind even considered the Halloween franchise was over a decade before I would ever see even a frame of it.
I was with a friend at a video...
One Missed Pod #29: DRACULA: SOVEREIGN OF THE DAMNED (1980) with guest Brett the...
On today’s episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly are joined by Brett der Wiese, who had previously guested on the Wicked City and Monster of Frankenstein episodes. They're back together to talk about...
Fact Versus Fiction: Trusting a Killer in Happy Face Killer (2014)
In 1990, Keith Hunter Jesperson would turn thirty-five years old. He had recently received two major blows to an already dangerously fragile ego. The first disappointment was getting rejected by the Royal Canadian Mounted...
Art Imitates Life in Scream (1996)
Sometimes art imitates life. Other times, life imitates art. Suddenly there’s no line between what is fiction and what constitutes reality. In August of 1990, life and the art of horror collided when five...
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,...
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...
A Congregation of Werewolves in Silver Bullet (1985)
There’s this place in horror that exists somewhere in between the innocent and wholesome and the brutal and disturbing. A place that feels so familiar, so welcoming and yet… quietly dangerous. It’s the sort...
Kaiju Con-Line
The virus is for now here to stay and with that all of the common summer hobbies we’ve all grown to love have been completely altered. One of the biggest life changes for us...
One Missed Pod 22: UZUMAKI (2000) with guest Danielle Ryan
Junji Ito is a decisive figure in the horror community, though each year finds more and more fans devoting themselves to his work. On this episode of One Missed Pod, Zack Long is joined...
Psychopathy and Sociopathy in Zero Day (2003)
Let me preface this piece with a warning - the topic and film discussed here are very sensitive and disturbing. These issues have grown exponentially over the last 20 years, and to bring awareness...
Protecting the “Magic”: The Sanctity of the Idea
Writing is a private ordeal. We sit at the computer and will a world into existence with words. It’s a Herculean task. The loneliness which comes with writing isn’t often fun. But some of...
Scream Writing Questions with Adam Marcus
We're talked to a lot of great people on Scream Writing Questions but this is the first time that I've been so excited to talk to someone that I'm at a loss for words. Adam...
Untreated Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Takashi Miike’s Audition (1999)
I know that by now I have written a lot on PTSD and its portrayal in film. In Gerald’s Game (2017) and Strange Circus (2005), I explored the themes that resonated with me on...
Blue Caprice (2013) and the Child Soldiers of America
Societal shock gripped the Washington, D.C. area in October of 2002. Over the course of twenty days, ten people were shot and killed by a seemingly invisible sniper who emerged to murder randomly. It...
Desires of Blood in the Folktale Horror of The Witch (2015)
There are some movies that just feel dangerous. As if they’re capable of anything. Movies that seem to be constructed more of dread than plot. Nightmarish windows into a different world, foreign to us...
One Missed Pod 013: WICKED CITY (1987) with special guest host Brett the Wiese
Brettro Culture's Brett the Wiese joins host Zack Long to talk about the 1987 anime-horror OVA Wicked City while Kelly Warner is away. A mix of body horror and kink, the film isn't everything...
Ode to the Giant Praying Mantis
One of the few creatures on this earth that terrifies and mystifies me in equal measure is that of the Praying Mantis. They are fearsome looking, especially when they strike out at lightning speed....