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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...