A housewife has a breakdown in the midst of her chaotic home, paralleling the increasing entropy inherent in a closed system. By turns hilarious and horrifying, poignant and satirical; the battle against…
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“Seven Kinds of Baked Goods” by Maria Haskins
A Dwarven smith-turned-baker teams up with a tea shop owner to mete out justice through deadly pastries. This was a fun story with a dark edge to it; it reminded me very…
“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
A race of pneumatically-powered androids must come to terms with the fact that their very consciousness is built upon the variation in air pressure in their universe, and that the inevitable equilibrium…
“Tiptoe” by Laird Barron
After an unsettling experience, a man reflects on some strange events from his childhood and suspects that there was something much darker about his father than he realized at the time. This…
Love, Death, and Robots
“Love, Death, and Robots” consists of 18 unrelated short science fiction and fantasy films, all under 20 minutes and most animated rather than live action. Their quality varies wildly, from sublime to…
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
A beautiful, mysterious corpse is discovered half-buried in the basement at the scene of a horrific crime. A father and son team of coroners unravel her history as they disassemble her body,…
City of Ash and Red by Hye-young Pyun (translated by Sora Kim-Russell)
An unnamed man travels to an unnamed country to take on an unspecified role at his employer’s home office. The foreign country is in the midst of political and social upheaval, spurred…
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Charlie Manx prowls the secret roads between our world and an evil Christmasland of the mind in his Rolls-Royce Wraith, searching for children to “rescue.” Vic McQueen, psychically damaged by both her…
Icelandic Horror Movie: Grafir og Bein (Graves and Bones)
On the weekend before he’s to be sentenced for financial fraud, Gunnar goes with his wife Sonja to a remote house where Gunnar’s niece Perla is staying after the apparent suicide of…