Field Notes From Hell

Field Notes From Hell

Weekly dispatch emails from an insipid genre nut.

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'The Exorcist: Believer' & other horrors

David Gordon Green's messy 'Exorcist' "requel" spawns a superfluous, deeply unscary story about the intersectionality of faith.

Oct 8 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'A Haunting in Venice' & other horrors

Kenneth Branagh's third Poirot mystery finds the reluctant sleuth wrestles with deep-seated guilt as he brushes shoulders with the supernatural.

Sep 18 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'The Nun II' & other horrors

Michael Chaves brings visual intrigue to an otherwise entirely bereft occult horror-whoddunit that, like recent 'Conjuring' outings, rests entirely on…

Sep 13 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'Perpetrator' & other horrors

Part feminist horror, and part witchcraft thriller, Jennifer Reeder's new horror-mystery is an ineffable scatter of ideas.

Sep 3 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'Bad Things' happen here

'The Shining' comparisons aside, Stewart Thorndike's suspenseful new film offers little nuance in its ideas about trauma.

Aug 27 •

Armando Dela Cruz

The familial terrors of 'Cobweb'

This week's dispatch briefly tackles Samuel Bodin's twisted fairy tale about a world riddled with nasty tormentors, both young and old.

Aug 19 •

Armando Dela Cruz

'Nocebo' unmasks the real parasites

Lorcan Finnegan's cathartic fable about capitalist parasitism is vivid, red-eyed, and nightmarish. Plus, other frightful features we've caught this…

Jun 4 •

Armando Dela Cruz

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