Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’ – Digging Up the 1996 TV Adaptation Starring Keri Russell

When The New Yorker first published Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” in June of 1948, the short story was met with confusion and disgust. To this day, apparently the magazine still hasn’t received that much mail over a work of fiction. Regardless of those early negative reviews, though, this shock tale has since gone on to […]

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[Review] ‘Antlers’ Sleepwalks Through Somber Folkloric Family Nightmare

Everything about Antlers, on paper, ticks off the boxes that mark it as one of the year’s most highly anticipated horror movies. Or rather, last year, where it was initially scheduled before the pandemic bounced it off the calendar and stretched out anticipation further. Based on the short story “The Quiet Boy” by Nick Antosca, produced […]

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Remember ‘Antlers’? It’s Still Coming This Halloween and We’ve Got Some New Images!

Director Scott Cooper‘s Antlers, produced by Guillermo del Toro, had been set for release in April 2020 via Disney’s Searchlight, but that date was of course bumped back indefinitely due to the ongoing pandemic. A new date of February 2021 was subsequently announced but then also ditched, with the most recent announcement shifting the date to October 29, 2021. […]

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