As a media scholar, I remain interested in the duality of media, the kind of symbiotic relationship shared between creator and audience. Movies, after all, are both stable artifacts and living works ...

Over the weekend, I rewatched Noroi: The Curse. Kōji Shiraishi’s film ranks among my favorites of all time (seriously, it’s on Shudder), and after the credits rolled, I was desperate to watch ...

Few things unsettle the imagination like a story woven in shadows, where beasts wear human faces and monsters slip through the cracks of reason. The Cursed crackles with the tension of folklore and ...