In his famous essay “An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” critic Robin Wood defined the genre
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Psycho (1960)
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
When one hears the title Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, the mind naturally wanders to a more macabre and grotesque image than what the film actually offers.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is maybe the most VHS-core movie of all time, an early ‘90s family movie night staple.
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Them! (1954)
Them! begins as a ghost story in the desert: a mute little girl ambles down the dusty road in shock, haunted by some frightening sight she can’t even speak of.
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Happer’s Comet (2022)
Is it the end of the world, or just a weeknight?
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Weapons (2025)
Out of all the films I’ve reviewed for The Goods, I’m not sure there’s a single one where my watching was more compromised than Barbarian.
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I Used to Be Funny (2023)
SXSW has, over the last decade, attracted a very specific kind of film
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Oh, Hi! (2025)
2025 has been the year of tonal whiplash, and I’m not even talking about the news cycle.
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Together (2025)
Here’s my rule of thumb: don’t trust a critically acclaimed horror debut.
I will indulge the metaphor that repeatedly clanked around my head as I watched F1