Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in NO COUNTY FOR OLD MEN (2007) by John Larkin Every Halloween, the conversation turns to the familiar faces of terror: the monsters, slashers, and masked killers who have come to define the genre. But this feature takes a different path. These are performances that unsettle on a deeper level, where fear does not stem from prosthetics, reputation, or myth, but from the raw presence of the human being on screen. It is the way an actor inhabits a

Purchase at MovieZyng.com by clicking the image above. Review by John Larkin I first encountered THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN one crisp autumn night many years ago on Turner Classic Movies. I was struck by how refined it felt for a horror film. The lush production design, candlelit sets, and painterly compositions immediately pulled me in. It wasn’t just an old monster movie; it was something elegant and hypnotic. Over the years it has become inseparable from the Halloween seas

by Victoria Alexander WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! Roberts’ well-deserved 2nd Oscar, smoking is back!, and Guadagnino intentionally irks his audience. ‘Irks his audience’? You’ll know it when you hear it. Alma (Julia Roberts) is a renowned philosophy professor at Yale. She is on track for the hallowed academic state of tenure. Alma and her psychoanalyst husband Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg) are getting ready for a party at their big apartment for colleagues and “special” doc