The Doll That Ate the Anthology: “Amelia,” Memory, and the Killer Image

By contributing writer Adam Page Would you like to try a party trick? Say “Trilogy of Terror” to anybody over, let’s say 50, who grew up with a television in the house and an aerial bent and twisted into some superstitious angle, and watch their face. It’s not exactly recognition, it’s more like a full-body […]

The Mortuary Collection (2019)

The (almost total) demise of the anthology film is a crying shame: despite a minor, if noteworthy comeback with some notable entrants into the genre such as the ABCs of Death or Dead Girls over the past decade or so, it’s still a format which just doesn’t seem to attract the interest it once did, […]

Blood Clots (2018)

Anthology films – often three short tales with a common framework – are nothing new, even if the format isn’t used all that often today. We have, however, seen some interesting variations on the anthology film in recent years, perhaps most notably with The ABCs of Death in 2012, which made a minor stir and […]