As we wrap up 2023, we look back on the stories that you, the readers, read the most and helped send the furthest this year.
Full StoryYear: 2023
Discomfort and Joy: Joe Swanberg’s ‘Happy Christmas’ (2014)
Swanberg's 2014 holiday-set film is a nuanced, modern affirmation of love and finding your place in the world.
Full StorySplit Picks: ‘Whistle And I’ll Come To You’ Vs. ‘The Treasure of Abbot Thomas’
Split Picks finds the holiday spirit with a look at two episodes from the BBC's A Ghost Story For Christmas tradition.
Full StoryMust Be Satan: Josh Lobo’s ‘I Trapped the Devil’ (2019)
Full of creeping dread and frayed family bonds, Lobo's 2019 film is a cracked-mirror portrait of returning home for the holidays.
Full StorySnow’s Season’s Bleedings: Roberta Findlay’s ‘Prime Evil’ (1988)
Snow Lietta's special creepy Christmas podcast continues with Roberta Findlay's 1988 cult favorite 'Prime Evil.'
Full StoryAll Hearts Come Home at Christmas: Todd Jason Cook’s Holiday Frightmare
In the shot-on-video holiday short "Silent Night Evil Night," not all gifts from the heart are equally festive.
Full StorySnow’s Season’s Bleedings: ‘Rare Exports’ and ‘Krampus’
To ring in the holidays, Snow Lietta hosts a new series about Christmas horror films with a look at two contemporary films about demon Santas.
Full StoryOnline Premiere: ‘Paper Planes’ (Alyssa Thordarson and Michael Glover Smith, 2023)
Just in time for the holidays, Alyssa Thordarson discusses her directorial debut, 'Paper Planes,' which is now streaming.
Full StoryThings Dreamt Of: ‘Whistle and I’ll Come to You’ (1968), the First BBC Ghost Story for Christmas
Jonathan Miller’s precursor to the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas cycle proves unsettling all year round
Full StoryPan-and-Scan Thanksgiving: ‘Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County’ (1998)
An update of 'The McPherson Tape,' 'Alien Abduction' similarly aimed to dupe audiences with found-footage of aliens arriving on Thanksgiving.
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