Skinamarink is every bit the experimental horror film you've heard, for good and for ill. This can, depending on your disposition, go one of two ways: either a tedious exercise in shooting the crown molding of your parent's upstairs hallway where special effects amount to a goofy camera angle or a hard jump cut and a "Ka-zink!" noise... or a 100 minute waking nightmare that conveys primal fears of darkness and the unknown and abandonment and isolation through dream logic.…

Werewolf By Night at once shows the breadth and limits of the MCU's particular brand of filmmaking.

On one hand, it's a bold departure from standard cape and cowl superheroics: Werewolf by Night is a black and white ode to Hammer films and Universal Classic Monsters. Deaths in this short shower the scenery in blood. There are monster busts of beasts and demons felled by hunters, and every implication is that the MCU is - unbeknownst to The Avengers -…

It's hard to talk about films that I feel are important and that I liked but are decidedly not "for me." And Malignant definitely falls into that category.

The film feels like it's James Wan trying to create his own unique aesthetic of horror/action/comedy in the vein of Sam Rami. That is to say: He's not aping Rami's style, here (there's no POV shots or snap zooms or three stooges comedy cast against a horrific backdrop for absurdism). Instead, Wan…