Phantom of the Opera might be the most adapted horror story this side of Dracula.
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Phantom of the Opera might be the most adapted horror story this side of Dracula.
It has become a tradition for me to put off writing these Annual Recaps approximately half the following year.
I spent most of 2013 listening to Bruce Springsteen albums, and one thing I noticed is that his earliest records are confessional and immediate even when he’s inventing stories.
Clarence Brown is one of Hollywood’s great success stories you’ve probably never heard of:
The year 2025 was not a particular shining beacon for cinema in my eyes
Has it really been a whole year?
“The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919
I was a senior in college and a devotee of NBC’s Thursday night programming in September 2009 when Community premiered.
Hey film friends!
In his famous essay “An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” critic Robin Wood defined the genre