A24
Horror writer and video game narrative designer Cameron Suey stops by to discuss The Blackcoat's Daughter, the debut feature film of Osgood Perkins. Set at a Catholic girls' boarding school during a snowbound winter break, it's a harrowing story of possession and violence that makes The Exorcist look positively cheerful by comparison. We also delve into an oddly grounded short film of cosmic horror and a chilling blog series whose previously anonymous author has a surprising identity.
The Blackcoat's Daughter can be streamed on Shudder or rented on YouTube.
Cameron's short horror fiction can be found at The Josef K. Stories.
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STORY: The Dionaea House
A24
In the early 17th century, a Puritan family, recently exiled from their colony in Massachusetts, build their home at the edge of the wild, unwittingly trespassing on the territory of a witch. The wood's resident crone is less your Margaret Hamilton, "I'll get you my pretty" type and more a nightmarish servant of literal Satan. Yet the witch herself is only the catalyst for the actual conflict, which is the paranoia and zealous fervour that starts to rip the family apart. Tuck yourself in for Robert Eggers' The Witch.
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STORY: Ted's Caving Page
Theme music is "Deep Blue" by Bensound, found at https://www.bensound.com/
Entertainment One
For the inaugural episode of Outside of a Dream, my new podcast discussing new horror cinema, I take a look at Jennifer Kent's unnerving 2014 feature debut, The Babadook. In reading a disturbing children's book at bedtime, beleagured widow Amelia and her troublesome boy Samuel inadvertently invite an unwanted guest into their home, upturning their lives and relationship.
