Nosferatu (1922)
June 6, 2026
Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu invented vampire cinema and still frightens a century later. The estate sued anyway and won, and a court ordered every copy destroyed.
Tag: Plague
Plague stories are pressure tests for civilization, and fiction ran the scenarios long before the headlines did. This tag collects reviews of plague and outbreak stories in film and fiction, and what they get right about people.
1970sNosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
June 6, 2026
Werner Herzog remakes Murnau as a tragedy, and Klaus Kinski's Dracula is the genre's saddest monster. The vampire here is not merely frightening.
2020sNosferatu (2024)
June 6, 2026
Robert Eggers brings obsessive period craft to the third great Nosferatu, with a ferocious Lily-Rose Depp at its center. Nosferatu earns its 8 as the most beautiful and uncompromising vampire film in years, Robert Eggers bringing his obsessive period craft…
Memory and IdentityInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978, 1993, 2007)
May 16, 2026
Invasion of the Body Snatchers exists in four major film versions across fifty-one years, each of which reflects the political anxieties of its era while. Don Siegel directed the 1956 original.
1960sThe Day of the Triffids (1962)
May 16, 2026
The Day of the Triffids is the British apocalypse film about ambulatory carnivorous plants invading a world that has been blinded by a comet. Steve Sekely directed most of the film, with Freddie Francis uncredited for the lighthouse subplot.
1950sThem! (1954)
May 16, 2026
Ted Sherdeman wrote, from a story by George Worthing Yates. The film made approximately two million dollars at initial release on a two hundred thousand dollar budget.
2010sBlack Death (2010)
May 15, 2026
Black Death is a small British medieval horror film that wants to be a serious meditation on faith and plague and mostly succeeds. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a knight commissioned by the church to investigate a village in the marshes…
1950sThe Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
May 15, 2026
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is the film that invented the modern atomic-age monster movie. The third act involves the rhedosaurus, a fictional dinosaur, attacking lower Manhattan and eventually being killed at Coney Island.
1970sInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Review
March 20, 2026
The 1978 Body Snatchers remake improves on the 1956 original in one key respect: it doesn't flinch at its own ending. Philip Kaufman follows the premi.