When Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) breathlessly whispers, “It was perfect,” in the final moments of Black Swan, it feels as much like a comment on her performance in Swan Lake as it does about the ...

While Satoshi Kon may be a famous name now in anime, back when he directed Perfect Blue, he was mostly unknown, but this anime certainly changed all that. This was famously based on a manga of Otomo’s ...

Horror anime hits differently because it can make the impossible feel casual. Anime can go hard on psychological horror, especially when it uses limited information and unreliable perception. It can ...

There have been many exceptional horror films released in the past 5 years, including the likes of Barbarian, Nosferatu, and Sinners.

War-horror gets remembered. Jump-scare horror gets replayed. Perfect horror is rarer, because it has to hold up when you already know what happens. The best ones still make you tense anyway, still ...