Ryan Prows' Night Patrol certainly strives for an ambitious mix of social commentary and vampire thrills, but falls ...

Good horror terrifies you, but great horror makes you think...while you're terrified. Social commentary is often present in the horror genre, forcing us to take a long, hard look at ourselves and the ...

It can be very annoying when movies try to be profound. Sure, cinema has long been a powerful medium for social commentary, ...

This summer, after publishing my article relating King Kong to the male power fantasy, I received three different emails from angry readers. Two of them seemed to be explaining that I had ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...