Dybbuk (2021) explained: hoax, horror and hokum
From true-life tale to the big screen, but backstory is key to Indian horror Dybbuk
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Symbolism in The Birds (1963): story as sexual landscape
Birds as punctuation, punishment, and symbols of the unsayable
Sphere (1998) explained: the abyss gazes back
Scientists find an alien sphere at the bottom of the ocean, but it opens a Pandora’s box of misery
Flatliners (1990) explained: hell and hallucination
How Flatliners draws on our fears of hell and isolation to weave its Gothic-inspired horror
Nope (2022) explained: karma written in the skies
Nope’s bombastic sci-fi horror stylings mask a subtler tale of family, grief … and storytelling.
The Omen (1976) and horror’s malevolent mirror
How The Omen uses inversions to unsettle us – and why that makes for effective horror