stuff by paige

American Horror Story has been running for a long time now, and with time, each season has progressively been disappointing. However, after finally getting to watching Season 9, I reignited a little bit of my love for the series. I feel this series really nailed the camp themes of an 80's slasher with an overload of jazzercize, synth pop, 80's fashion and over the top stabbing, whilst maintaining some stereotypical AHS horror tropes - asylums, serial killers on the loose, supernatural happenings. And, of course, cast with many familiar AHS faces, including Lily Rabe, Emma Roberts, Dylan McDermott and Finn Wittrock to name a few, along with a few fresher faces and new cast members from more recent seasons. There were some really fun parts of this series, alongside scenes which genuinely made me wince or cringe, and I did find myself stuck to the screen with the amount of plot twists and crazy character revelations which took place. Now, don't get me wrong; AHS: 1984 is fa...

I sadly never got around to seeing Pet Sematary when it was first released in cinema, so I was more than pleased when it popped up on my Netflix home page. Adapted from Stephen King's 1983 novel by the same title, Pet Sematary is a horror film which follows a doctor and his family as they move away from their busy lifestyle and towards what they hope to be a calmer one in a rural woodland area.  The film takes a sinister turn quite near the start, including the family's cat is being found dead and the father having to bury it in the "Pet Sematary" in the woodlands, only for the cat to turn up alive and seemingly well the next day. Things take on a domino effect from here as the reality of what the Pet Sematary is and the forces which brought the cat back, leading for the film to get progressively more spooky and distressing, intertwining the family's past demons with their present and leading to a horrific ending. This film did not fail to give me shivers and hav...

 I feel as though I haven't heard people speaking about Jordan Peele's multi-award winning film Us  in a long time, so I decided that it was my job to do so. Starring Lupita Nyongo and Winston Duke, (both incredible actors), the film takes a psychological approach to the horror genre. The story follows a family of four on holiday as they return to the location in which the mother, played by Nyongo, endured a traumatic experience as a child. The secrets of her trauma and the events of the past begin to unravel and reveal as the family are tormented by homicidal versions of themselves (the title of the film is quite literal). The film is visually stunning the whole way through, shot with a vibrant and vintage feel which ties in well with the theme of personal reflection and reminiscence throughout. There are many clever parallels within the movie, one which I really liked being the ballet comparisons between the tethered and their surface selves as they went about their identica...