‘Hostel: Part II’ and the Monster of Neoliberal Late-Capitalism
10 years later, we look at the sequel that acts both as an inversion and a political expansion of its predecessor....
Mike Thorn
‘Diary of the Dead’ and George A. Romero’s Formal Self-Awareness
For spanning half a century and six films to date, George A. Romero’s Dead series could reasonably be labeled the most ambitious single-auteur franchise in horror....
Mike Thorn
Mike Thorn is the author of Darkest Hours and Dreams of Lake Drukka & Exhumation. His fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies and podcasts, including Dark Moon Digest, The NoSleep Podcast, and Tales to Terrify. His film criticism has also been published in MUBI Notebook, Seventh Row, Vague Visages and In Review Online. He completed his M.A. with a major in English literature at the University of Calgary, where he wrote a thesis on epistemophobia in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness.