Essential Viewing

To celebrate Friday the 13th, I thought I’d look at a genre classic that directly influenced the film with the title of today’s date. The slasher film is a subgenre of horror that is built…

Two hundred and fifty years prior to the release of George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal,” a vicious satire that advocated the idea that Ireland’s impoverished class would…