Christine Kelley

I rarely love Guillermo del Toro movies, but I'm always glad when they come out. The man is a cinnamon roll who makes pretty films about how monsters deserve love too. They're not always good, but they're almost always endearing. Frankenstein is closer to the Crimson Peak end of the GDT spectrum tha

Hammer's five-pictures-per-year deal with Columbia seems to have worn everybody down. By the early 1960s, Terence Fisher has gone from shooting classics like The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula to misfires like The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll and The Brides of Dracula. But Jekyll and Brides were Fishe

The Brides of Dracula sees Hammer once again taking a page from Universal, in this case doing a Dracula sequel without the Count, focusing instead on female characters. Instead of hampering the movie, Dracula’s absence liberates Brides of Dracula, at least for a little while. In Brides of Dracula, D

For spooky season, here’s a miniseries of essays on Hammer Studio’s classic Gothic horror movies. Hammer’s movies live in the ruins of their source material and the Universal films — cheap post-war B-pictures produced with the conviction of masterpieces. And they’re pretty much bloody perfect. Hamme

Sometimes life and art sit down together for an intense meeting that quickly devolves into a tense, long-awaited hate fuck. They will agree on exactly one matter, which they will force onto the world stage, drawing out the most agonizing, subconscious fears of the public. They will force the public