Tag: Tragedy

Tragedy is the oldest story shape: watching someone fall and understanding exactly why. These reviews and essays cover tragedy in film and fiction, and what the form still teaches about consequence and character.

1970s

Nosferatu 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.

1970s

Blacula (1972)

June 6, 2026

William Marshall plays a tragic vampire prince with Shakespearean dignity in this landmark Black-led horror film. Is Blacula as silly as its title?

1970s

Blood for Dracula (1974)

June 6, 2026

Paul Morrissey reimagines Dracula as a dying aristocrat starving for virgin blood in a changed world. The film's central joke is also its central tragedy.

1980s

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

May 19, 2026

John Landis' 1981 horror-comedy. Rick Baker transformation effects won first Best Makeup Oscar.

1950s

Scrooge (1951)

May 19, 2026

Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge. Sim's Scrooge is the definitive screen version of the character.

1980s

A Christmas Carol (1984)

May 19, 2026

Scott plays Scrooge in a faithful television adaptation that became a holiday staple after theatrical release. A Christmas Carol is Clive Donner's 1984 American television adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, depicting the Christmas Eve transformation of Victorian London miser…

1980s

The Fly (1986)

May 19, 2026

David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…

1930s

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

May 19, 2026

James Whale's sequel where the resurrected creature demands a mate, leading the doctor back to his laboratory. Bride of Frankenstein is James Whale's 1935 American horror film, sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein, depicting the resurrected Monster's demand that Dr. Henry…

1930s

Frankenstein (1931)

May 19, 2026

Boris Karloff plays the creature stitched together from corpses and animated by a scientist who quickly loses control of his creation. Frankenstein is James Whale's 1931 American horror film adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and the 1927 Peggy Webling…

1940s

The Wolf Man (1941)

May 19, 2026

The Wolf Man is George Waggner's 1941 American horror film depicting Larry Talbot, an American returning to his ancestral Welsh village, who is bitten by a werewolf in the local woods and discovers he has been infected with the curse…