Movie cults are born, not made. A youthful audience discovered Donnie Darko on its own, even as another demographic transformed The Sound of Music into sing-along karaoke — to name two of the 21st ...

Celebrated writer Staci Layne Wilson goes behind the scenes into the dark and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera like never before, revealing the development and making of the movie, its ...

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A helpful shortcut for negotiating the heaps of texts in this modern world: all attempts to give something familiar or antique a self-consciously edgy, gritty makeover can be, de facto, written off as ...

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It was a shock when Saw co-creator James Wan didn’t return to direct the sequel and instead opted to helm the Gothic horror Dead Silence. This was great news for a young Darren Lynn Bousman, who had ...

Everyone, whether they show it or not, goes through a goth phase. Movies are no exception. Every few years, there’s a new wave of dark, Gothic-with-a-capital-G movies about the aesthetics of heavy ...