Tag: Mise en scène
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...
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...
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,...