Sign up for the Film Comment Letter today to get original film writing delivered to your inbox every week! >>

Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Scare Tactics

Step Right Up!

By Maitland McDonagh
June 1, 2021
George Romero’s empathetic "The Amusement Park" confronts the horrors of the world through the eyes of the elderly

Future Shock: Amy Seimetz

By Nicolas Rapold
May 1, 2020
In She Dies Tomorrow, writer-director Amy Seimetz orchestrates a small symphony of anxiety through uncanny contagion horror

Scare Tactics: Just Business

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
September 4, 2019
Hyped hitmaker Blumhouse steadily continues to invest in black creators

Scare Tactics: Cruel to Be Kind

By Laura Kern
September 13, 2018
In Hold the Dark, menace maven Jeremy Saulnier sends another hapless soul to hell and back

Scare Tactics: Senseless Violence

By Laura Kern
May 2, 2018
The loss of hearing or sight (or more) can trigger the ever-potent drama of survival against the odds

Scare Tactics: House of Pain

By Laura Kern
September 6, 2016
Fede Alvarez’s home-invasion film Don’t Breathe is driven by pulse-pounding shocks—and serious talent