From Danish metal to bargain-bin slashers, the Bell Witch legend keeps getting adapted by people who seem profoundly uninterested in what made it weird in the first place.
#BellWitch #Folklore #Horror #Movies #Metal #MercyfulFate #KingDiamond #TheBellKeeper #Legend #FolkHorror #MetalCriticism #HorrorCriticism #MovieReview #SlasherFilms #AmericanFolklore #Adaptation
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/the-folklore-of-the-bell-witch-a-comparative-analysis-of-nineteenth-century-narrative-and-modern-media-commodification/

Werner Herzog is a great filmmaker — but everything he could get wrong about Nosferatu, he did.
Murnau’s Nosferatu understood horror’s need for myth and closure. Herzog’s 1979 remake traded shadowplay for color, archetype for irony — and bled the story dry.
A horror film isn’t over until the evil is vanquished and the natural order reset. Herzog killed the heroine and the point.
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https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/the-wrong-kind-of-darkness-werner-herzogs-mishandling-of-nosferatu/

Angela Bettis plays a woman unraveling in May (2002), a film that poses as a character study but dodges psychological truth in favor of blood-soaked fantasy. What begins as empathy ends as vindication — and not in a good way. #May2002 #HorrorCriticism #TraumaInFilm #FilmCriticism #HorrorCinema #MentalHealthInMedia #PsychologicalHorror #FemaleProtagonists #FrankensteinTrope
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/save-me-trauma-vindication-and-the-uncritical-gaze-of-may/