ghost story

The Others, Alejandro Amenábar’s supernatural masterpiece, is classic enough in its stylings to appear as from out of time. What we have is a haunting, a particular set of arcane rules, conspiratorial outsiders, and things unseen in the…

About two years ago the critic and writer Sean T. Collins wrote an article called ‘The Monumental Horror Image’. The nature of these images and how they scare viewers does not come down to gore or a jump scare but rather to framing and…

Henry James' novella Turn of the Screw is a hugely influential piece of beloved literature and one that’s been adapted numerous times for the big screen. When Chad and Carey Hayes (screenwriters for both The Conjuring movies) teamed up for…