Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

I had first experienced Murata’s work after reading Dwight Garner’s great review and Motoko Rich’s work in the New York … More

#885 Man Bites Dog (C’est arrivé près de chez vous / It Happened in Your Neighborhood) (1992)

With a $33,000 budget (or as the creators in the Criterion interviews indicate, zero budget that they supplemented by asking … More

#4 Les Vampires (1915)

Les Vampires is a ten-part French serial that, clocking in at 440 minutes total, took me about 20 nights to … More

#500 Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Clocking in at the exact halfway point of Schneider’s original 1001, Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby is the French-Polish director’s first … More

#673 Alien (1979)

Alien’s visceral, distinctive design are at the forefront of Ridley Scott’s serious sendoff to the monster shockers of the 1950s. … More

Movie Posters By Me #17: The Fall of the House of Usher

Movie Posters By Me Episode Seventeen: The Fall of the House of Usher http://www.beforewediefilms.com An eight-year-old is given the title of … More

#61 Frankenstein (1931)

Coined in Schneider as “the single most important horror film ever made,” Frankenstein showcases a classic Boris Karloff in iconic … More

Movie Posters By Me #16: Children of the Corn

Movie Posters By Me Episode Sixteen: Children of the Corn http://www.beforewediefilms.com An eight-year-old is given the title of a film he … More

Movie Posters By Me #15: Misery

Movie Posters By Me Episode Fifteen: Misery http://www.beforewediefilms.com An eight-year-old is given the title of a film he has never … More

#414 The Birds (1963)

An enigma of a story that is probably Hitchcock’s only true horror movie, The Birds may perhaps be categorized as … More