If a cinema screen had eyes, all that it would see during a film’s run is faces staring at it from the shadows, and a bright flickering light above them to guide their gaze towards the dreamy images projected on its otherwise blank surface. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu opens with a perspective something like this, as…
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
The Pale Blue Eye first published by Little White Lies You wait ages for one fictionalised detective story featuring Edgar Allan Poe during his cadetship years at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and then two come along. Yet where Christopher Hatton’s Raven’s Hollow (2022) was so deeply engaged with the…

