For nearly a century, horror films have told us a story—one of terror, of survival, of the inevitable confrontation between innocence and brutality. But there’s one story, in particular, that has evolved in ways both subtle and seismic: the story of the Final Girl.
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Long-lost Kyle Olson is back and he leads us on a journey to the deep looking at the monsters that plague deep-sea miners everywhere!
House on Haunted Hill and House of Wax are classics of the Vincent Price collection. But what happens when they’re given the 90s remake treatment? We’re talking about the Hill ’99 and Wax ’05 with Pete, Ray, and Tommy this month!
What happens when the symbols of our holidays themselves turn against us? What if we find ourselves running not from Frankenstein or Dracula or some other manifestation of desire and technology run amok, but we’re running from murderous Saint Nick himself? What happens when the things we celebrate in song are recontextualized as explicit symbols of fear? This month, Pete, Tommy, and Ray are talking all about holiday horrors!
On this episode of Sitting in the Dark, host Tommy Metz III is joined by Pete Wright and Andy Nelson for an exploration of found footage and epistolary films. As Tommy explains, the goal is to examine how certain horror movies have upheld the literary epistolary tradition on screen through the use of found footage techniques.