Dancing Macabre with the Faint

Q&A with the Nebraskan quartet's singer Todd Fink

"...growing up than the Faint. Its 2001 masterpiece, Danse Macabre, recently got the reissue treatment via label Saddle Creek,..."

Nov. 28, 2012 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Fantastic Fest: Macabre

Indonesian horror hits a deep vein of social commentary

"...history of stripped-down and cheerfully gonzo horror and exploitation. Macabre may put the Southeast Asian nation on some gore..."

Sept. 29, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Danse Macabre

Our national preparations for war follow a choreography that has predetermined steps.

"...it is sure to win." Shirer documented the danse macabre that, for a century or more, seems a set..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Kosovo's Danse Macabre

"...so we turn in circles, as though in a macabre waltz. The record of realizations reads like a casualty..."

May 14, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Friend Request

A curse follows a woman on social media

"...unable to delete the post, and soon, as other macabre (if your idea of macabre is spooky woods and..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Little Vampire

"...the Giant Peach) shows few signs of the genially macabre humor they brought to these previous projects. A subplot..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Innkeepers

With slow-burn shudders, Ti West's haunted-inn story provides a stellar model for creeping dread.

"...to get under our skin and make us danse macabre. Over the course of his young career, he's almost..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Academy Award-Nominated Animated Shorts 2009

The Academy gets animated.

"...Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes of England) is a macabre and funny story about the bizarre difficulties a couple..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coraline

An unparalleled master of the phantasmagoric image returns with this children's film.

"...missing children enter the picture, Coraline may prove unsuitably macabre for the youngest viewers. Yet your children and you..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Abandoned

Creepy Eastern European atmospherics encase this horror film, which nevertheless suffers from an anemic script.

"...sympathy for its two doomed protagonists instead of the macabre but muddled mess it is. After a mildly bloody..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Very Long Engagement

The director of Amélie reunites with that film's star, Audrey Tautou, for this World War One love story.

"...of his Nineties collaborations with Marc Caro, the deliciously macabre Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children. After those..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Suspect Zero

There's a reason why this FBI agent who's chasing a serial killer has constant headaches: He's in the middle of a murky movie that mixes arch style with police procedural.

"...is communicating with Mackelway. Suspect Zero is replete with macabre, half-seen imagery in the form of drawings and flashbacks,..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The boy wizard rides again and this outing proves zippier and spookier than the previous two.

"...and the resulting kids yarn is zippier and more macabre than Chris Columbus’ two previous plodding productions...."

June 4, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Holes

Adapted from the children’s book by Austin author Louis Sachar, the film features LaBeouf as a teen stuck at a Texas camp for juvenile delinquents.

"...but maybe Disney, too, saw past the material’s deliciously macabre bent to find also a thrilling little essay on..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Buddy

"...The Addams Family, The Nightmare Before Christmas) drops the macabre good cheer (and witty expertise) of her previous work..."

June 6, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mystery of Rampo

"...Hada, Mikijiro Hira and Masahiro Motoki. An affectionate, if macabre, love letter to the works of the famous and..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Twenty-Fourth International Tournee of Animation

"...but slightly less grim, is Gahan Wilson's “Diner,” a macabre, futuristic tale of an evil restaurant and the young..."

April 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Red Rock West

"...keeps this dark film farily light with touches of macabre humor and Cage's goofy, bewildered expressions (his face carries..."

March 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Addams Family

"...the remainder of the film with dozens of delightfully macabre touches. As Morticia and Gomez Addams, Huston and Julia..."

Nov. 29, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ethos' :Humpty

Melissa Vogt and Chad Salvata's musical takes the childhood rhyme into adult territory, balancing lighthearted elements with macabre darkness

"...Bonnie Cullum strikes between lighthearted fairy-tale elements and the macabre. This separation of the fantastic and grotesque is perhaps..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Arts Review by Trey Gutierrez

Day Trips: Ruth Paine House Museum, Irving

At first it might seem rather macabre to visit the house where the accused Lee Harvey Oswald spent his last night of freedom

"...At first it might seem rather macabre to visit the house where the accused Lee Harvey..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Queen of Black Magic

Grisly Indonesian horror remake knows when to go gonzo

"...global horror map for Indonesia with their unrelentingly blood-soaked Macabre (a Fantastic Fest fave in 2009). After taking a..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fear Knows No Limits

Steve Niles' cross-platform experiments in terror

"...the wise-cracking, pill-popping gumshoe Cal McDonald of his Criminal Macabre has helped resurrect a glorious dark age of four-color..."

April 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

What's in Steve Niles' Head?

World Horror Con star signing at Austin Books today

"...franchises: 30 Days of Night, the Cal McDonald Criminal Macabre series, and his new pulp horror adventures with legendary..."

April 27, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

The Stunt Man

William Castle's Gimmick Flicks Live Again!

"...London insurance firm -- the gimmick he employed for Macabre, his first film in 1958. But it was through..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

The Bloodhound

Poe adaptation relishes tone over text

"...closely translated is the New England master of the macabre's sense of unhinged doom and inescapable isolation. As Roderick..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

It Cuts Deep

Guess who's coming to dinner in this macabre comedy

"...foreseeable villain of It Cuts Deep, a quirky and macabre comedy about a couple trying (and failing) to get..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Queen of Black Magic

Indonesian horror is stomach-churning and gut-wrenching

"...global horror map for Indonesia with their unrelentingly blood-soaked Macabre (a Fantastic Fest fave in 2009). After taking a..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life Revealed at Austin Film Festival

Kasi Lemmons' Harriet Tubman biopic also joins lineup

"...Jr., Janelle Monáe, Joe Alwyn, Jennifer Nettles, Clarke Peters.) Macabre D: Marcos Prado Writer: Lucas Paraizo and Rita Gloria..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Greta

Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert play cat-and-mouse in this glorious potboiler

"...predicting how deliciously enjoyable it is to witness the macabre dance performed by Moretz and Huppert, two of the..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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