Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’:Potential, Merciless Potential written by Sophie Swengel When the metaphorical curtain rose on a sea of white Antarctic snow in Guillermo del Toro’s recent screen adaptation of Frankenstein, this filmgoer could not help but smile. Ah, framing device! I thought; indeed, the nesting doll structure of Mary Shelley’s legendary 1818 novel is…
Overkill: An Analysis of The Substance and the Dramatization of Gore in Horror Movies written by Reese Urbach With horror becoming an increasingly popular movie genre, many directors are trying to outdo each other in terms of “fear factor.” The Substance is no exception. Director Coralie Fargeat uses body horror to tell the story of…
There Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Then There is Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights written by Sophie Swengel One of the looming clouds over any writer’s head, however successful, is the allure of having your work adapted. It is an easy allure to succumb to, and as a writer myself, I can’t help but…
Immortalized Through Memory: The Beauty of Aftersun by Peyton Trout This article contains spoilers for the movie. “[S]ometimes at playtime I’ll look up to the sky and if the sun is out, I’ll think about the fact that you can see the same sun. So that even if we aren’t in the same place, we…