For the first time in my life, last week I did something weird: I went to see a movie in Japanese. And no, before you get ideas, I do not understand Japanese: it had subtitles. Anyway, the movie was Miyazaki’s last effort, The Boy and the Heron, and I had been hearing a lot of […]
I haven’t done a movie review in ages, but… what is wrong with you people? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? The Marvels is a perfectly regular piece of superhero fiction: it’s a light-hearted story with cosmic fights, a villain that could have been better, good sidekicks and a good dose of both […]
I really liked season 1 of Carnival Row, starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevigne, and this is the music that plays in the end credits. The artist calls herself Patty Gurdy and plays the hurdy-gurdy, a weird hand-crank string instrument with a keyboard that sounds a bit like a cornemuse and is typical of Galician […]
Do you want something spooky that’s not Gothic and yet manages to be deeply unsettling? This 2006 mini-series starring Peter Krause and Julianna Margulies is an absolute gem. After coming across several objects that hide incredibly weird powers behind an absolutely ordinary appearance, detective Joe Miller finds himself tangled up in a paranormal investigation revolving […]
It’s an obligation for me to watch this 2005 movie at least one time a year, preferably during the spooky season, as it’s one of the finest features from Nick Park and his Aardman Animations. Co-produced with Dreamworks, it reprises the inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit as the main characters and, as usual, it […]
The show is a new and much anticipated one since it marks the return of Mike Flanagan, author and director of the acclaimed Midnight Mass. Loosely based on the homonymous short story by Edgar Allan Poe and taking inspiration from other stories as well, it brings the plot to a contemporary setting and shows us […]
Do you want a movie featuring fog in the moor, gruesome deaths, haunted war veterans and Edgar Allan Poe? Well, look no more: The Pale Blue Eye is the movie for you. Shown in a limited selection of cinemas before being released on Netflix, the movie is written and directed by Scott Cooper (Black Mass, […]
There’s a high chance you will hate me for this recommendation, so let me warn you in advance: the show was never finished and the “ending” will leave you standing like an idiot. Regardless of that, this 8-episode 2010 tv series really does the trick for the spooky season as it features: a cursed Minnesota […]
It’s a weird movie, and I like the story behind it as it was spanning from a broader worldbuilding project and it was basically croudfunded. Autumn Vine is a fixer for his brethren demons and what he provides is misery. By slowly influencing humans around them, demons have sustained themselves for centuries, living in close […]
One of my favourite tv shows when it comes to the Gothic, with a stunning Eva Green as the mysterious and haunted Vanessa Ives, and a hauntingly intense Rory Kinnear as the Frankenstein Monster (though he would resent the definition). Vanessa’s stance and demeanour has been greatly influential in shaping how the Lady of my […]