Looking for a beautiful, lyrical haunted house story unlike anything you’ve read before? The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan came out last January and was first on my list most anticipated 2024 reads, but I didn’t get to it until the end of the year. However, I’m glad I waited until I was able to take my time and savor this slow and atmospheric story! Continue reading Review of The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years—Multi-faceted Hauntings
Month: January 2025
Review of Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu
Nosferatu 2024 was a delightful film—as long as you like your Dracula adaptations both as horny and as gory as possible and cloaked in beautiful and atmospheric cinematography. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, the movie-going horror world has been abuzz about this new remake of Murnau’s 1922 silent film. This Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers and starring Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, and Nicholas Hoult, was released on Christmas Day 2024 and caused quite a stir in theaters and online, with many people dressing up for the premier, think pieces aplenty being posted online, and even my favorite clothing brand creating a collaboration line. I saw the film in theaters just before New Years and found it to be a fun and fascinating new twist on the Dracula story. Continue reading Review of Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu